May 21, 2009

Tomorrow is ascension day. For those of us looking for our Lord's return day in and day out, tomorrow is another one of those great days to be looking up. Ascension is a word closely associated with being caught up in the air to be with Jesus forever. Its a word that points our attention toward the heavens where the open door will be located (rev 4:1).

Tomorrow would be a great day for the Lord to quietly slip down from the highest heavens into the atmosphere of our Earth and say "come up hither." People are running to and fro concerned with this and that, filled with the anxieties of life, buying and selling, planting and building, marrying and giving in marriage. Its on a day like today or tomorrow that the Lord will come back. Those ready and watching will hear something like what the wise virgins heard "the bridegroom cometh!"

The Lord has made it clear to me over the past months that watching what satan is doing is meaningless. Satan wants at this earth and its people, thats a "no brainer." He's sending out signals left and right that he wants to get down to business with this earth, but his desire and our Lord's timing are two entirely different things. The restrainer being removed has nothing to do with what Satan wants or signal or intends etc. We are told to keep our eyes on our Lord because its what he is doing that matters, everything else is meaningless drivel.

The Lord gave us signs to look for to know when the time of the end would be near. We see them all around us so many of us agree, the time draws close. The Lord has had "time is short" on my heart for YEARS now. This calls for patient endurance. What happens when people get all jacked up about the Lord showing up today or tomorrow that when he waits, they give up in frustration? They are in trouble is what happens. This is a marathon not a sprint.

Its for this reason I believe the Lord has had it on my heart to remind people of all the warnings. He has laid it on my heart to call anyone who will listen back to the fundamentals of the faith. Prayer, faith, belief, staying in the Word, warning, encouraging, these are fundamentals. All those fundamentals can be further boiled down to an even simpler statement: maintain your "first love (rev 2)" Maintaining our first love means keeping the Son of God front and center in our minds, hearts and spirits at all times, above all else. If you put first things first, everything else will take care of itself. With the Lord of creation centered in your heart and mind how can you not pray? How can you ignore his word? How can you not warn and encourage? He is the key. The knowledge of the Holy One IS THE KEY to wisdom and knowledge of the Word of God, because he is the word of God.

Proverbs 9:10
... The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

These so called christians running around telling everyone "I'm not into fear man, we have'nt been given a spirit of fear so if I hear or see or think of the word fear I just turn off to it!" Those people are fools. The FEAR of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, so if you want to remain a fool for life then "turn off" everything that has to do with "fear."

Our God is a multi-dimensional (in many ways) God. He is not the cotton candied sugar daddy in the sky that todays babylonian priests and teachers portray him to be. People need a wake up call desperately and unfortunately we know from Matt 7:21 that many will find out too late that their love of lies has cost them dearly. Our God is loving and tenderhearted and merciful but he will also cut you off from the vine, throw you out to be burned (John 15). Fear him who is able to destroy the body AND cast the soul into hell. If you do not fear him, then you will NEVER have any wisdom that is real wisdom. The fear of the Lord is where is starts.

This world needs a military boot in the rear end, ice cold water on the face, slaps across the head, electro shock or whatever else it might take to wake them up before its too late. We know from the book of revelation that even with all the seals, trumpets, vials etc that the Lord pours out many will still not repent.

Take a moment now before ascension day to ask yourself if you would be ready to meet the Lord tomorrow. What if he does show up? These are the days of Noah and Lot. These are the days before the 7 years of JACOB'S trouble. These are days to get our act together and keep it together. The fact that you are reading this right now means that you have been warned. The Lord hasn't shown up quite yet so do what you can do today to be a wise virgin/wise servant who put his talents (faith) to work in the Lord's service. Pray, maintain your first love first, believe. Your prayers in faith have real impact and the people around you today may have their eternal destiny decided by what you do or do not believe. The stakes are monumental. You are salt and light in a world fading to black. Act like salt, act like light BELIEVE.

Be patient but also be ready for the Lord to show up any second now. We are dearly loved. grace and peace

The Powerful Delusion

2 Thessalonians 2:11 For this reason God will send upon them a ...
... For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.

Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. ...
... He has put a sense of eternity in people's minds. Yet, mortals still can't graspwhat God is doing from the beginning to the end [of time].

Our God knows the end from the beginning. I believe the Lord expressed to me over the past days how some of this great delusion lays itself out. Have you heard/read the arguments by people that their are all kinds of "sun of God" figures with mothers (Mary types) that predate Christianity? The film "zeitgeist" and many others make this argument and they use it to claim that Christianity is just the "johnny come lately" of God/sun of God/mother of God religions.

Our God knows the end from the beginning. The great delusion that will be completed in its presentation to man in the near future was started long ago. Does it surprise anyone that an all knowing all powerful God who knows the end from the beginning lays groundwork for his future acts far in advance?

Were'nt the prophets and figures like John the baptist sent in advance to lay the groundwork for the coming of messiah? Do you think this coming great delusion has had no groundwork already laid for it? Whatever this coming delusion is, it will be multi-faceted and overwhelming in its presentation to mankind. The lawless one and his servants will reach back into history and lay hold of all kinds of "history" to make his case to receive the world's worship and praise.

We are not privvy to the conversations and dealings between our God and Satan, but it appears that groundwork has been laid in the case of the presentations like "zeitgeist" to tie into the new age/age of aquarius/lawless one manifesting himself. We are told the delusion will be so powerful that if it were possible, even the elect would be deceived. Our Lord does not use words lightly, if he meant it was going to be a powerful delusion capable of fooling even the elect, then it must be a whopper.

My point in saying all this comes back to the topic you've read here for weeks now: FAITH. The time to build your faith is not when you hear "the bridegroom is coming" or when you are staring face to face with the great delusion. The time to get on your knees and remember your "first love" (Rev 2:4) is now.

Satan is going to do what he's going to do, you need to do what you need to do today. We don't have a timeline that will tell us exactly when our Lord will show up for us, but we do have his word that tells us to be watching and ready today. We have his word that tells us to pray to be counted worthy to escape all thats about to happen and stand before him. Many are those who toss aside the Lord's commands. As if men's pet doctrines somehow trump God's own commands?

Don't be caught like the foolish virgins, or Lot's wife, or the worthless servant who hid his talent in the dirt. Warnings are an act of love. People say "I don't like to motivate with fear" but I can assure you the Lord does.

Psalm 147:11 The LORD favors those who fear Him, Those who wait
... The LORD favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness. ... The LORDtaketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

Luke 12:5 "But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the
... "But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed,has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him! ...

Psalm 34:9 O fear the LORD, you His saints; For to those
... O fear the LORD, you His saints; For to those who fear Him there is no want.

Men are constantly trying to outsmart God almighty. Bad decision. Be watching, be ready, pray for the brothers, keep the shield of faith UP. Grace and peace

Faith

We don't know exactly what the days ahead of us hold in store, but we have some ideas that get us pretty close. What's coming is a storm. This will be no ordinary rainshower, it will be a supernatural storm coming separately from our Lord (wrath/judgement) and the devil ( attempting his satanic playground on earth).

We know that the Lord is going to send a great delusion to this world so that those who did not love the truth will believe a lie instead. They live by lies and they will die by them. What about us who live by faith, what should we expect and how should we deal with it?

What we should expect. If the coming of the Son of man is going to be just like the days of Noah and Lot, I guess we could ask how much "hell on earth" they dealt with before going into the ark/leaving Sodom. It appears from the bible that their "trial" before physically departing the destruction zones was to be vexed in their spirits at the wickedness and vile living around them.

2 Peter 2:5 and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly; 7 and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds): 9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

We've heard warnings about terrible times coming to this world and I do not doubt that there will be incredibly bad days in the future. Question is, if Noah and Lot did'nt go through some gauntlet to get out of Sodom or go into the Ark, should we expect to? We will have tribulation, its always been here and will always be here except in the future it will be on steroids, but tribulation Jesus promised to us all is a far cry from the time of JACOB's trouble to come. Speaking of Jacob's trouble, I find it interesting how its specifically the JEWS who are the most vocal opponents of the pre-flood, pre-fire and brimstone, pre-Jacob's trouble escape of the church. Guess who invented the satanic "pre-wrath" rapture concept where (according to them) Jesus actually does Satan's work for him (opens the seals="satan's wrath"???) a Jew came up with that, his name is Marvin Rosenthal. Basically that view is that we get bodyslammed, hunted and executed through most of the 70th week of Daniel (<--the pre-wrath version of "blessed hope"?)then when its all about done, we escape nothing (most of its over) and go to heaven. Now there's another jewish guy named "Michael Rood" running around in some costume fresh out of paul and jan crouch's "holy land" theme park, telling us the same thing. Modern day jewish guys running around telling christians there will be no escape from all-classic, just classic. Perhaps they failed to read Luke 21:36, Rev 3:10, the stories of Noah and Lot, the redeemed rewarded men in heaven pre-Rev 6 etc etc etc etc or they decided these were "inconvenient truths" and decided to skip their rocks over those pieces of the bible.

Don't get me wrong, the true Israelites who have the heart of our Father in heaven I embrace as brothers. But Jews who are jews in name only, who are actually a synagogue of satan, they are an entirely different cup of tea. Do you find it interesting that the same church promised to be kept from the hour of trial (philadelphia) was ALSO told that the jews in name only would be forced down on their knees to worship before the church's feet?

Rev 3: 9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10 Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth

For Jesus to force these so called jews down on their knees to worship at our feet he must be REALLY upset with them for what they've tried to do us (rob steal kill destroy like their father the devil). So called christianity panders and drools all over anything called "jewish" today. Was it not the Jews who rejected and crucified our Lord? They had our Lord right in front of them, they watched him heal the sick and raise the dead and they still did'nt believe. But somehow today anything called "jewish" must be worshipped? The jews will eventually come around, after the Lord drops a furnace of affliction on their heads and destroys most of them in the process, a remnant (as always) will come out believing.

Can you imagine what the anti-defamation league would do to Jesus today for saying that these so called jews will come and worship before our feet? Its a fact, its going to happen, Jesus said it, not me. There is a synagogue of satan mentioned the VERSE BEFORE we are told we will be kept from the hour of trial. It must really get under the skin of the so called jews that those of us found worthy will escape all that's about to happen while they enter THEIR (Jacob's) time of trouble. My Lord was a jew, but he gave us a NEW covenant written in his blood. When he said he came to fulfill the requirements of the old covenant he meant it and HE DID fulfill the requirements. He never told us to obey the Torah, NOWHERE can you find that in our blood bought covenant. The synagogue of satan today is still trying to drag people back into the same legalistic system they themselves could not obey.

The synagogue of satan is just one of many adversaries facing the church today in our pre-flood days. Regardless of what we face in the days ahead we must remember how our Lord told us to stand. How is that?

Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

We stand armored with truth, righteousness, the gospel, and above all the SHIELD OF FAITH.

Did you read that "above all" part? FAITH. It's the shield of FAITH that allows us to quench how many of the fiery darts of the enemy? ALL OF THEM.

In the days ahead, whatever the enemy throws at this world, remember how you are to stand. Remember what your armor is and how you slice through the lies and deception of the enemy with the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.

grace and peace

In Everything Give Thanks

1 Thessalonians 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Notice again at the end of this statement "in Christ Jesus" is sitting there. "In Christ" the two most important words in the Bible. Speaking of "in Christ" what is it our Lord wants us to do today "in Christ?" Give thanks. Yea, in everything give thanks. All the time be giving thanks. Notice the bold statement our Lord makes when he says "this IS God's will for you."

During dark days like today, most people are walking around in their own doom and gloom chambers between the ears, but what are we commanded to do? Give thanks. For some of us, the list is long and it takes awhile to go through all the things we are thankful for. Others are so focused on their problems in life that they give no thought to giving thanks, this makes their problems worse.

What is it about giving thanks that you need to know today? Why even bring this up? I don't know how much longer we have here before the escape takes place. In the hours and days we may have left it is imperitive that we ALIGN OURSELVES with our Lord and master. We must "center" ourselves smack dab in the middle of the Lord's will for our lives. His kingdom come, his will be done, remember? His will? Yea, what is his will for us? "In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."

If you are not giving thanks today then you need to find a way to do it. Be thankful you are alive, be thankful for your last meal and the roof over your head. If you lack, then ask in faith for what you need. Believe you have received it and do not doubt. Begin thanking him for everything He has done in your life up through and including right now.

We must be found as the wise virgins and wise servants that are both listed in Matt 25. Matt 25 is a warning to the church. Its a warning to those who today claim to be serving the master. When our master comes back and it could be soon, we must be found doing what he said to do. One of those things is being thankful.

Giving thanks is like many other things written in the Word its not a suggestion to give thanks, its a command. We are told it is God's will for us, are you doing it?

I've had people argue with me before asking me "are you keeping all the commands?" They ask me if I'm keeping them as a way to deflect the fact that they are not. How do we keep all the commands of God? First and foremost we have the Spirit of truth within us that leads us and reminds us of all truth. A key word in their is "reminds us." How can you be reminded of something you've never seen or heard? Which brings us to part two of keeping his commands which is staying in the Word of God.

Prov 4:20
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Proverbs 3

1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

I do not think this is some great big "gotcha" game the Lord plays where if you miss something you are up the creek. Where is your heart? Are you even trying to keep all the commands by first knowing the commands? Do you "go to church" expecting the hired hands to spoon feed you the entire counsel of God or are you seeking out the Lord's counsel on your own? The vast majority of so called churches in the world today hop skip and jump through the word of God treading very lightly or not at all on the warnings and focusing exclusively on the dessert tray.

Taking a lifelong hired hand "guided tour" through the word of God is what's going to lead so many here:

Matt 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

In the days we have left, its up to each one of us as individuals to seek the Lord's face. Its up to us to align ourselves with his word. We live in a day and age when the deception in the world is greater than it ever has been yet men still "play church" as they always have because they've been told that's what "good people"do, they "go to church."

What happens when the servants of Satan run your "church?" Does it matter whether or not your "pastor" thinks he's deceived? The very nature of deception is that you do not realized you yourself are deceived! The traditions of man greatly enahance the unquestioned passing along of these satanic doctrines and deceptions. The point is, you need to take complete 100% accountability for your own spiritual state. It's between you and the Lord today, just like its going to be you and the Lord on "that day." Your spiritual hired hands will NOT be there to answer for you on that day, you will answer for you.

The Word of God contains everything we need for a life of godliness, everything. Get in it today, give thanks for what you've been given and for what the Lord promised he will do soon. Pray for all the brothers. No we are not islands but we are accountable for ourselves and if we do not get ourselves right how do we expect to help the brothers? Changing the world starts with changing yourself, a job that nobody seems to want. Keep the faith, grace and peace

Faith is the Substance

Hebrews 11:1 ... Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

Substance: that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance. that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.

What is the Spirit saying to the churches today? I can tell you what he's been saying to me..FAITH is everything, faith, belief, patience, prayer. In a time of lack, fear and depression our Father calls us back to his word and tells us "stop praying like a beggar." I'm sure some people reading this blog in the past may have thought "who does he think he is?" I know who I am, A CHILD OF THE KING OF ETERNITY. That enough for ya? I'm a child of the royal household, I sit at the king's table. Not just me, but all of those "in Christ" share this standing. If we are children of the king, why do people pray like beggars? Do they not believe what our Father has said? If he made promises to us, he meant them and he delivers on them.

The top level promise and object of our faith must be salvation. We must be in right standing with our Lord, we must be "in Christ." Getting into the body and remaining there are two different things. The wolves in sheeps clothing teach that all you have to do is "make a decision" for Jesus and its "game over, you're in forever!" The bible I read teaches getting in and ABIDING "in Christ." Abiding is not a one time event, its an every day event.

John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

Did you count how many times the word "abide" is used there? Think the Lord might be trying to get some kind of point across?

Abide 1: to wait for : await2 a: to endure without yielding : withstand b: to bear patiently

Contrast "abide" with the "make a decision and you're all done" lie the priests of babylon teach today. Why are people so amazed that the Lord requires ongoing day by day committment to him? Is that so shocking?

These are days of warning and encouragement. We are told to hope in the Lord, to have faith, to believe, but also to fear the Lord. Fear of the Lord includes taking his warnings VERY seriously, it means trembling at his word. We have eternal life and eternal death laid out before us every day. What do you believe and WHY do you believe it? Do you hold your beliefs because some babylonian priest told you what to believe or because the Spirit spoke to your spirit? Big difference. Do you really know the Son of God or have you farmed out your spiritual "heavy lifting" to some hired hand (pastor)?

MANY will say to Jesus on that day-paraphrasing from Matt 7:21 "did'nt I do all kinds of great things for you?" and he'll tell them "away from me you evildoers I never knew you."

Why do you need to hear this again today? What if the escape is only days or hours away? What if the time of Jacob's trouble starts today? What if you die today? You need to know Jesus and he needs to know you. You need faith to please our God. If you do not really believe you cannot please him. You can pray until you are blue in the face and get nothing from our God unless you pray in faith.

Hebrews 11:6
... Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever comes to him mustbelieve that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently search for him.

Return to the fundamentals of the faith. Ask, seek, knock, beleive, pray, have faith. Time may be short. People ask "what can I do" when the world is spinning out of control? You can seek the face of your God and conform yourself to his will, that's what you can do. Keep the faith, think and act like a child of the King, not in arrogance but in faith.

grace and peace

June 23rd, 2009

In 7 days we will be at ascension day, May 21, 2009.

What is Ascension Day?
Ascension Day marks the last appearance of Jesus to the disciples after his resurrection.
Why is it called Ascension Day?
The name 'ascension' comes from the accounts in the Bible in Mark's Gospel and Luke's Gospel that tell of Jesus being taken up into heaven - he ascended.

May 31, 2009 is pentecost

WHAT IS PENTECOST?
Pentecost is the great festival that marks the birth of the Christian church by the power of the Holy Spirit.

WHAT HAPPENED ON PENTECOST?
Ten days after Jesus ascended into heaven, the twelve apostles, Jesus' mother and family, and many other of His disciples gathered together in Jerusalem for the Jewish harvest festival that was celebrated on the fiftieth day of Passover. While they were indoors praying, a sound like that of a rushing wind filled the house and tongues of fire descended and rested over each of their heads. This was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on human flesh promised by God through the prophet Joel (Joel 2:28-29). The disciples were suddenly empowered to proclaim the gospel of the risen Christ. They went out into the streets of Jerusalem and began preaching to the crowds gathered for the festival. Not only did the disciples preach with boldness and vigor, but by a miracle of the Holy Spirit they spoke in the native languages of the people present, many who had come from all corners of the Roman Empire. This created a sensation. The apostle Peter seized the moment and addressed the crowd, preaching to them about Jesus' death and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins. The result was that about three thousand converts were baptized that day. (You can read the Biblical account of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-41).

When we consider what is going to happen at the time of the escape, that we will go through an open door in heaven( rev4:1)..in the air, aeros (luke 17:37)...those in flight to be where the body is (rev 5) occuring as part of the removal of the restrainer 2Thess 2:7 (light restrains darkness.. the church is salt and light)..the days ahead of us take on increased significance.

Does "ascension" parallel being caught up in the air on our way to heaven? Sure it does. Does the day of pentecost when the church was infused bodily by the Holy Spirit have significance when we see a day coming when the removal of the church, the true body will be kind of a reversal of what happened on the day of pentecost, that is, a turning back to the days before pentecost to pick up where the Lord left off with Israel? Read the book of revelation for yourself. The true church was "sealed" with the promised Holy Spirit when he entered into the church bodily: 1 Cor 1: 21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. With that said, are you wondering why the Lord "seals" the servants of God AGAIN differently during the time of Jacob's trouble? Revelation 7:3 Saying, ... 'Do not injure the land, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we may seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'

Do you see that? The true church is sealed TODAY and yet another "sealing" will take place right after the time of Jacob's trouble begins in Rev 6. Why? Those who were sealed are no longer here, otherwise there would be no need to "seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads."

This "other" sealing of our Lord's servants is another proof that we the true church will have already escaped before the time of Jacob's trouble. We are sealed today. The removal of todays "sealed" servants will require another "sealing" and that is what we see in Rev 7.

So we have "ascension" day combined with pentecost just before June 23, 2009 which is exactly 3.5 years from the Dec 21, 2012 day that everyone expects to really big, really bad day or general period of time.

I have been reading about groups of people expected to be "disappearing" in the near future. I have read comments like this from Gerald Celente of the trends research institute:

"At this time we are not forecasting a war. However, the trends in play are ominous," Celente concluded. "While we cannot pinpoint precisely when the 'Bailout Bubble' will burst, we are certain it will. When it does, it should be understood that a major war could follow."

What does this all add up to? Disappearances? War? Ascension day? Penecost? All words that have something or other to do with the next month or two. 30-60 days. With that said, let me remind you that we who are watching and ready every day have no need to pinpoint any particular day, we are always watching and ready. I bring these things to your attention today to encourage you to be doing what you already know you should be doing. Be a wise virgin, be watching and ready. Part of our readiness is remembering Lot's wife, don't make the mistake she made. Why is it that the Lord brought that particular warning to my mind just here recently? Well, if the Lord does come back for us in the very near future, we'd need to remember that warning along with every other warning our Lord gave to his servants concerning these very days.

The Lord always warns first, always. We just covered over the past days how we know both Noah and Lot were given a "heads up" just before they went into the ark and out of Sodom. We are told that on the day "one is taken one is left" don't look back like Lot's wife did, don't go back to your house to get anything, don't return from the field when you hear that cry "the bridegroom is coming."

Every word from the Lords mouth is to be taken seriously. The warnings were not given to be taken lightly. We are to hang onto every word of the Lord with every fiber of muscle we have, with every ounce of strength. Tremble at the word of God, that means take it VERY seriously.

Isaiah 66:2 ... into being," declares the LORD. I will pay attention to those who are humble and sorry [for their sins] and who tremble at my word.

Forget what men taught you, remember what the Lord is speaking to you today by reading and heeding every word written in your bibles. Let the Holy Spirit in, listen to his voice. Repent, humble yourselves and GET READY because we might get the call today.

Endlessly debating with skeptics and naysayers in chat rooms and forums will not move you one inch closer to the open door that's about to appear in heaven. Your intimate "first love" of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the word of God will get you there. Seek his face today. I don't know how much time we have left. Be ready, be watching..TODAY and everyday till our Lord shows up.

grace and peace

The Servants of the Lord

I have always been amazed at how todays babylonian form of 'christianity' whitewashes or doesn't mention at all the warnings of our God. We know there are punishments and judgements for the heathen, but what about the servants of the Lord? What about those who claim to serve Jesus? Did they get some kind of "backstage pass" that allows them to sidestep all the warnings specifically for the church? Did a 'decision' they made 15 years ago exclude them from the page after page full of warnings aimed right at their foreheads? You would think so from what the babylonian priests (pastors) say and selectively skip over.

We know that our God is one of mercy and kindness and love, but is that all he is? You'd think from listening to babylonianity that we have some kind of one dimensional God. In fact, this is at the heart of the problem with the babylonian form of 'christianity' found in the world today. The God they preach is not the God in the bible. There are many different Jesus' in the wolrd, there are many different 'gods' in the world and there's only one God in heaven, the Father of Jesus Christ our Lord and savior. So what happens when a religious system is based upon a 'god' that is not really the true God? You'd get the powerless form of so called christianity we have today.

When the 'god' preached is all cherries cream and sugarpuffs, he is NOT the God of the bible. Consider this insight into our God's character:

Matt 25 :24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. 28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. 30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Does that ^^ sound like the frosting covered sugardaddy in the sky 'god' preached in todays babylonian temples ('churches')? Notice who he is talking to, HIS servants, not the ungodly.

WHERE are the people standing up today and WARNING the people who call themselves by the name of Christ.."christians"? Where? Where are the servants reminding people of the FULL counsel of God, not just the frosting on the cake? Yes, our God is a God of love and tender mercy but he is also a God of fierce wrath and judgement. He's not one or the other, he's both.

The parable of the virgins is the same thing as the parable of the talents, all the virgins were engaged to be married and went out to meet the bridegroom, just like all the servants received talents from the same master, but there were wise and foolish in both cases. Today's satanically inspired priests would tell you "don't worry about it! The only thing it will cost you is a downgrade from a mercedes to a toyota in heaven!" Really? Is that the cost we read in our bibles?

Does this sound like a servant getting a 'downgerade in rewards' in heaven to you?

30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

^^ if you think outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth is heaven then I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...

Does it look like these foolish virgins ever get into heaven to you?

10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

How do you get into heaven when the door is shut? How do you get into heaven when the Savior of the world says "uhhh, I DON'T KNOW YOU?" Re-read Matt 7:14-28 for more details on that subject.

Why so many warnings in the word of God? Our Father warns us because he loves us. Satan sends his servants to make you forget the warning, our God sends his servants to MAKE YOU REMEMBER the warnings. This is serious. It's as serious as you think your eternal destiny is serious. Only our God knows when he is going to show up, I don't know, he knows. Until he does show up, we are to read and understand what has been written in the bible. You don't need me to tell you these things, you need the Spirit to tell you these things through the word. I am the least of our Father's servants but one with a task to accomplish..warning those who will listen.

Warn those who will listen, keep your first love first. Being in love and staying in love with Jesus Christ is priority number one. Everything else is a distant second. If we love him, we will do what he commands. This is not rocket science. Enjoy basking in his love and mercy, but maintain that healthy fear that we know is the "fear of the Lord." He is not playing games, neither should we.

grace and peace

The Day of the Escape

According to the bible and a hebrew lunar equivalent translator, today is the anniversary day of Noah entering the ark. Today is a great day to pray for all the brothers, your family and yourself, that we may be counted worthy to escape all thats about to happen and stand before the Son of man.

I think the Lord laid a doozy on me this morning regarding the day of the escape. We know that those found not watching when Jesus arrives will be caught by the Lord's coming as a thief in the night. They will not be ready for it.

Revelation 3:3 'So remember what you have received and heard; and ...
... and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief,and you shall not know what hour I will come on you.

notice also that Rev 3 is the place we find being kept from the hour of temptation to come on the entire earth...If you are not watching there will be a price for it.

On the day of the escape we will know when the escape is about to happen. That's the "doozy" laid on me this morning. A quick look at the word of God confirms this is many places.

The coming of the Son of man will be just like what? The days of Noah and Lot:

Lot

Gen 19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: 13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. 14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

What happened there^^? The night before, angels showed up and told Lot "we're going to destroy this place" then the next morning they all got up and left. That's both notification and time before the escape and destruction took place..

Noah


Genesis 7

1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

What happened here^^? The Lord told Noah to go into the Ark, but they did'nt just load up in 5 minutes, what did Noah have to do? He had to load a sample of all the animals on the earth into that ark. You still wondering why the Lord gave Noah 7 days to get it loaded? People try to spiritualize the 7 days saying "7 days=7 years" of tribulation then it rained. To that I say "way to overlook the obvious and insert a meaning that's not there." We are told what the purpose of the 7 days was..TO LOAD the ark. Bottom line here? The Lord said to Noah (paraphrasing) 'you have 7 days to load the Ark, then I'm bringing the flood.' Know what that is? Prior notification..in this case 7 days, that the flood was in the near future. Before I leave this let me throw out something else to debunk the whole "7days=7 years of tribulation" idea. The period of destruction..the rain was 40 DAYS, not 7....The 7 days of loading the ark were untroubled days of getting into the ark..period, so people please stop 'spiritualizing' straightforward statements of fact in the bible.

^^ That's two proofs of prior notification of imminent escape and destruction.

The parable of the virgins:

Matt 25 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

What happened there^^ ? At midnight the cry went out, the bridgegroom is coming! That's as "in your face" of a direct "here's how it plays out" as you can get. They were told "he's coming..now." Then what happened? The foolish virgins went to buy more oil.....time elapsed.... If Jesus showed up right away after the annoucement "the bridegroom cometh" then the foolish virgins would'nt have had time to attempt to go buy more oil. While the foolish went to attempt to buy oil, the Lord came, left and shut the door. What's this all add up to?

Another, third proof of prior notification of imminent escape and destruction.

We are'nt finished yet:

Luke 17

26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. 34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

Here we see the same thing. Stuff in the house, don't go down and attempt to get it. You in the field? Don't think about returning from the field. What would make those on the rooftop or in the field think to go down to the house or return from the field? Notification of escape and destruction..in advance....Remember Lot's wife.....

That's number 4^^

This is another proof of prior notification of imminent escape and destruction.

The text in Matt 24 mirrors Luke 17, again, confirming the pattern.

We are told to remember Lot's wife. Closely allied with this warning is the warning of from the parable of the virgins. The virgins who were not ready, did'nt have time to get ready. At the time of the advance warning, stay put and say goodbye to this world in your heart and mind, GOODBYE. All strings, all attachments severed. That's the lesson of Lot's wife..she looked back.

A note on both Noah and Lot, they both left with their families. I think the Lord knows that saying goodbye to the world is one thing, family is another.

Why did the Lord bring this to my attention this morning? Who knows. Why is that the subject of todays posting? Today is the anniversary of Noah going into the ark. Remember the warnings guys....remember Lot's wife, remember how the foolish virgins screwed up and don't put yourself in their place. Warnings are a blessing not a burden. Forewarned is forearmed, ever heard that before? Warnings are an act of love and mercy. We have been warned in so many different ways in the bible but men choose to blow all the warnings off and live their babylonian form of manmade tradition instead. No warnings are needed for these people since they all approve of each others traditions and practices. Who cares if the Lord HATES what they are doing, they love it.

We have been warned. Take the word of God very very seriously. On that day and it may be today, when you hear his voice, do not turn back, remember Lots wife. Grace and peace

May 11th

May 11 is the anniversary day of Noah going into the ark. We are told that the coming of the Son of man will be just like the days of Noah and Lot. Do I think the Lord will show up on Monday? I'm not waiting for Monday or any other day to be watching and ready for the return of our Lord, I am looking for him today.

The purpose days like May 11 and the feast days of the Lord serve is to remind us of what has been written, that's all. Men tend to forget and we are commanded to remember. Whatever you have to do to put a sticky note on your forehead or whatever else in order to remember what our God has said, thats what you need to do. I will take any and every opportunity to seize upon days I see within the words of the bible to remind myself and you that our God IS coming soon.

We were told that an escape from all is coming. We were told to remember Lot's wife. We were told to remember Noah. Noah went into the ark ON THE DAY it started raining. Who cares if he sat in the ark for 7 days or 40 days or 100 days after he went in? The fact that he WENT IN FIRST is the entire point. From inside the ark, he escaped the flood, and that was done FIRST. Lot walked out of Sodom BEFORE the fire and brimstone fell. We were given the stories of Noah AND Lot, not just one or the other, both have to fit the coming scenario. Noah escaped all the flood, Lot escaped all the fire and brimstone, and we WILL escape ALL the coming destruction as well.

That said, Jesus said we will have tribulation here on earth. Not "the" tribulation but general tribulation..trouble, trials, testing. Look back through history and that fact is not hard to see. Any of us with more than a few years under our belts understand that saying from our Lord well.

A look at what has been going on in the world gives me the strong impression that Satan has been trying to get out of his cage. I think the pig flu was intended to kill billions of us off but time after time Satan and his servants have been thwarted. The economy is in terminal decline. At this point nothing but the very hand of God could save this nations economy. We are basically floating on an economic cloud right now, there is no substance to it whatsoever, but due to all the hot air pumped into the cloud lately we still stay afloat..for today. The reason we have not seen utter and complete collapse yet, with all the destruction and hell on earth that will follow it, is because our God, not Satan, controls the timing of things...down to the second.

Our God has determined that satan cannot come out of his cage yet, the restrainer has not been taken out of the way yet, the days of Noah and Lot continue. Question is, for how long? We don't know, we don't really need to know. We are watching and ready daily. This is the only wise position to take. Those who are not watching and ready for the Lord to return today are fools. Do you remember the parable of the wise and foolish virgins? The wise were ready when their Lord showed up, the foolish ones were not. Anything complex about that? Its stated quite plainly yet we have legions of scoffers coming out of the woodwork telling us "Jesus can't return today!"

Well, we know that there are some pre-requisites to Jesus coming back and setting his feet down on the Mount of Olives, but the coming IN THE CLOUDS is not a return to earth, its a slight descent in the HEAVENS and therefore can happen NOW. The foolish virgins need to wake up...now. Jesus meant every word he said, there are no idle words in the bible. We were warned to remember lots wife. That's a warning for the wise virgins who are on their way out of "ground zero" for all hell to break loose.

We are warned, one will be taken , one will be left. "Where Lord" the disciples asked? "Where the body is." Where's the body? In heaven, specifically Rev 5. Who is being assembled/gathered to the body? The "aeros/eagles/etc" in other words, those who are "in the air" not on earth....1 Thessalonians 4:17... Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

Paul specifically said that this harpazo/rapture event is A MYSTERY which is why so many people today don't "get it."

1 Corinthians 15:51 ... Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed

Combine that with the fact that the knowledge of the Holy One..ie really knowing the Lord is another must for understanding the word of God (because he IS the word) and you have all the misconceptions in the world today.

Men have their own agendas, they want to do things their way, and you wonder why people don't understand the Word? Men love their idols, their man made teachings, the love to love each other, to praise each other and tell one another how "smart" and educated they are. If degrees and seminary study could move you 1 inch closer to the truth mankind would have the bible all figured out by now, but they don't and there are "experts" with degrees all over their walls, calling themselves "scholars" and they are on opposing sides of every argument you could name relating to the bible.

We were told that the Holy Spirit, not some man made institution, or scholar, or "pastor" would lead us into all truth.

John 16:13
... Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. ... When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth.
John 14:17
... He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. ... That helper is the Spirit of Truth.

The sometime within the balance of this year, we could see the Lord return for us. We have been commanded to be watching and ready...daily, not sometime later..NOW. Many are the fools who disregard this command to watch and be ready today. Many are the willfully disobedient who refuse to pray to be counted worthy to escape all. How foolish, thats the Lords word, not mine from the parable of the virgins.

One last comment then I'm done. The largest and scariest problem that the foolish virgins have today is not the fact that they did'nt go in to the marriage at the appointed time, their real problem is this:

Matt 25:10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

I've said this before, people treat this whole escape/rapture thing as if its some minor division, minor disagreement and like everything else, they have miscalculated. I would say to you that if you are found outside the door, being told by Jesus "I know you not" then you have very very VERY big problems.

Matt 7: Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Yea, I'd say that hearing from Jesus' own mouth that he does'nt know you is a big problem...

Be watching and ready daily, hourly, by the minute. If you hear a voice asking you "are you ready" or you find yourself hurlting through the air toward heaven, remember the warning, remember Lot's wife. Grace and peace

A Timely Warning

It was posted earlier today that we can be certain that "those taken" in both Luke 17 and Matt 24 are the righteous, and yes, the event pictured is "the escape." We know this with certainty because we are told to "remember Lot's wife." What happened with Lot's wife? She was on the way out of Sodom and she looked back.

The righteous were on their way out of Sodom, and Lot's wife looked back. If you are'nt going anywhere, what is there to look back on?

I'm posting again today because that warning to remember Lot's wife is still playing in my mind. The warning to remember Lot's wife is a very unique warning, its not a warning to everyone, just to those who are on their way out of here. Think about that. If you are counted worthy of the escape from all that's coming, thank God for it but remember that this specific warning is for you.

On a day just like today, a day before the flood, you may hear a voice that asks you "are you ready?" If you are in the field or on a rooftop or wherever, you have been given specific instructions what to do, don't return to the house for anything, don't hustle here or there to do anything, either you are ready, or you are not. This brings me to the next point, today you need to untangle yourself from this world. Get the spiritual scalpel out if you are emotionally or spiritually tied to this world in any way. The warning to remember Lot's wife is a warning to be ready to leave when its time to leave. It's a warning to not look back. Remember this warning, please remember it.

On May 11, monday of next week, it will be the anniversary of Noah going into the ark. For us who are watching and waiting everyday, no one day should catch us off guard, but there are certain days we should put a star on our calendars for. This day, Monday should be one such day. The probability that it will be the day we escape all is low, but so is every other day. Low probability means nothing. One day, we know for certain our Lord is going to give us our Noah and Lot experience. One day the escape from all WILL happen, thats a fact.

If the Lord came knocking on your door on Monday, or sent an angel to ask you "are you ready?" Would you make the mistake of Lot's wife? Untangle yourself, in your mind and heart today. Tremble at the word of God and take it VERY seriously, because it is very serious. What heartbreak would there be, if you were counted worthy of this escape, you were on the way out of here, then you replicated the mistake of Lot's wife. Not good...not good.

People have a way of blowing off all the warning our Lord has given. They are just sure that a decision they made 30 years ago is all they'll ever need so let's tune back into the hockey playoffs and babylonian idol and forget the rest! How foolish.

Driving home today I had a strong impression that the day we see around us today has "days of Noah and Lot" stamped all over it. That may seem like an obvious observation but I'm saying I was "impressed" or "moved" by it somehow. I also think I caught a momentary hint, kind of like smelling sweet perfume for just a millisecond then its gone, that time might be up for this world. None of this was overpowering, it never is. It's ultra-gentle nudging, a still quiet voice. Something you just can't put your finger on but its there.

My point today is not when the escape takes place, its WHAT to do when it does take place. Yes, theres still something to do....REMEMBER the warning..remember Lot's wife. Time may be shorter than we think.

grace and peace

One Taken, One Left

The Lord continues to amaze me with things I've read over and over again, but never "got it." There's an ongoing debate by those who deny the "escape from all" aka pre-trib rapture. Many say that when we see "one taken, the other left" both in Luke 17, and Matt 24, its not talking about the rapture. They argue that the wicked are taken and the righteous are left here on earth. These people have huge problems with that argument and the Lord dropped into my lap just now, the uppercut that provides the TKO to their argument.

Notice something with me here from Luke 17, what you are reading about here IS the escape from all:

26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. 34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

Pay close attention here, this is absolute, 100% PROOF that this is the escape/rapture, and that its NOT the wicked who are "paralambano'd" taken here, its the righteous.

It the text we read above we see the Lord describing to us "one taken, one left." We are told specifically to "remember Lot's wife." HUGEEEEEEEE We are told if we are on the rooftop,don't go down to get our stuff, we are told if we are in the field not to turn back. Stay with me on this: We know for a 100% FACT that in the story of Lot, the righteous Lot and his family were the ones who were "taken" out of the city, the wicked remained. That's a fact. Here in Luke 17 we are told to remember Lot's wife, why? Because Lot's wife looked back when she was being taken out of the city. If the wicked were the ones being "taken" then why are WE told to remember Lot's wife? Lot's wife left and on the way out looked back. WE will be the ones TAKEN this time and we are warned not to look back. Why would the righteous be warned not to look back if they are'nt going anywhere?

This is irrefutable proof that the righteous are the ones taken here. Why would we be told not to look back, not to go back to the house or return from the field if we (the righteous) are'nt going anywhere? Consider the theory that we stay here while the wicked are taken to hereby be officially DEBUNKED. Remember Lot's wife, a warning to the righteous who ARE the ones taken, any argument to the contrary can hereby be considered insane.

Of course it does'nt stop there. In the same text we are given a second piece of the puzzle that confirms the same point. Those who claim we will be left here while the wicked are "taken" have no explanation for this:

Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

How do the "righteous are left behind" crowd make any sense of that at all to support their argument? That statement is NONSENSE to those who say the wicked are taken and we are left on earth. We who have completely debunked their argument have a stilletto to add to a rapier through the heart of their argument with the text above. We are told that where the body is, there will "those in flight/aeros" be. That "body" is a reference to a corpse, something that has been slain. The "we are left behind" argument has no explanation for that whatsoever. We have a great explanation for that dead body. In Rev 5 we have a SLAIN body and REDEEEMED MEN.

Rev 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. 8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

The apostles asked Jesus where the peope "taken" were going to go. Jesus answered that where this "slain body" is, that's where "those in flight/eagles/aetos " will be taken. We are told "those in flight/aeros" go where the body is...Those in flight? Yea, you know, like things IN THE AIR...1 Thessalonians 4:17 ... then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall ... and that my friends puts us in heaven in Rev 5, just after we see a door in heaven open (Rev 4:1) and JUST BEFORE THE TRIBULATION STARTS in Rev 6.

The evidence is piling up, the arguments against the escape from all promised in Luke 21:36 are falling into the scrap heap faster than I can keep track of them. Remember Lot's wife is a warning to those who are leaving. YOU were given that warning, not the wicked.

Case closed, court is dismissed. grace and peace

The Road Ahead

We need to keep our eyes to the skies in the days ahead. May 11 is the anniversary of Noah entering the ark. This summer puts us exactly 3.5 years away from the 2012 date which is being scientifically proven to be a very significant date (earth's magnetic field, sunspots, polar reversals, ice melting, sea levels rising etc etc). The pig/bird/whatever flu has dropped back down under the radar for many, but this thing is modeled/created by men to be exactly like the spanish flu of 1918 which did little in the spring in killed tens of millions in the fall.

We must keep watch for our Lord's return daily. With that said, I beleive the Lord is working something in me now to feed the hungry in the future and why would he give me the faith to believe for something he never planned to bring to fruition? That personal reason is the only reason I can think of that would be any indicator that we have a little more time left. The word of God specifically commands us to be watching and ready for him continually. We are to always pray for the escape from all that is coming.

This vision the Lord has given me is something special and when the time is right I will tell you more about it but for now I can tell you that he loves all of his children. The people who will believe after the escape occurs are just as dearly loved as those who go in the escape. I believe this thing he has made me "pregnant with" by faith, will be part of some kind of food provision for those who end up here after the escape occurs. I believe the Lord has given me a hint relating to what happened with Joesph in Egypt where 7 years of grain were stored before the famine hit the land. Its something like that, but its not exactly that. Suffice it to say, the Lord is active and busy, he has not thrown his hands up in despair at what is happening in this world. He is at work! He is building his kingdom, he is moving his chess pieces on the board so that once again when satan thinks he has the game won, he will be one step away from being checkmated.

In these last days our God is not sitting by idly. I believe he has spoken to you, return to faith hope and love. Return to a pure religion that consists of keeping yourself unspotted by the world and do what you can for the poor and helpless. Focus on your first love, maintain it at all costs. If you lose your faith when you need it the most, what a tragedy that would be. Stand up, straighten your back, LOOK UP, we struggle against a defeated enemy. Greater is he who lives within us than him who is in the world. Seek the face of the Lord today, should a people not inquire of their God?

You do not need hired hands to mediate for you with God, that was done away with on the cross. Today we have one mediator between God and man and his name is Jesus Christ, not your "pastor." If you have a family and two of you in the house are believers, then you can say with pride that there is a church in your house, permanently assembled. If your family does not believe, then start praying. Jesus has really opened my eyes lately. When he said that if we had faith the size of a mustard seed we could command trees to be uprooted and cast into the sea or we could move mountains, HE WAS NOT KIDDING. He was not being dramatic or overly verbose, he was stating fact like he always does, he cannot lie. Faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains. It is time today to start taking our God at his word. Everything that was written is there for a reason and it is fact.

There is an escape from all coming, your faith can move mountains, it can also move people. Ask, seek, knock, and when you do ask DO NOT DOUBT. Do not be doubleminded. I think we are on the home stretch headed straight for the finish line. How far away that is only our God knows. The balance of this year could hold some very unpleasant surprises for mankind. Today is the time to believe that the pig flu cannot touch you when it comes back to kill millions this fall. Today is the day to excercise your faith, to believe to read and heed the words that were written to men by God Almighty.

This is no joke. The faith you use, or don't use today will be recorded (I believe) as what you did or did not do for the kingdom of God while you were on earth. Read the parable of the talents again (Matt 25). The master gave you something to use, what is it? Are you using it?

Today is a pre-flood day. People are planting and building, buying and selling, marrying and giving in marriage. This will continue, right up until the very day we enter our Ark, the day of the escape which will see a door open in heaven, the Son of God will have the key of David in his hand. We will see rewarded and redeemed people in heaven (rev 4-5). On that same day, all hell breaks loose here on earth.

We cannot say we have not been warned.

grace and peace

If You Lack Wisdom

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Here we are walking in faith, day by day during the last "pre-flood" days this earth will see for a long time. It's becoming more obvious to people that what calls itself christianity today is not true christianity. The bible predicted what's happening today:

2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

We do indeed see the "way of truth" being spoken of as evil, but why? "There shall be false teachers among you" <---that's why. The apostles asked Jesus what would be the sign of his coming and he started out by saying "be not deceived." Deception, deception is everywhere, its the defining characteristic of our days. This entire world is based on lies and deceit including what calls itself christianity today.

Throwing the name of Jesus around and opening bibles does'nt mean you've been somehow magically spared the lies and deceit. We are told there shall be false teachers among you. That means you shouls expect the lies and deceit to be right there among all the "christian" jargon and open bibles in todays monument to men babylonian temples that pass for "churches."

With all the deceit and lies, what can a person do? Well, you can start with maintaining your "first love" above all else:

Rev 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. 6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.

We have to keep first things first, and our love affair with the Son of God is primary, it is first above all else. Loving Jesus means loving his word, because he is the word of God. Loving God's word will provide you with the things you need during these days of lies and deceit. What are we told here:

James 1 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

If mankind ever needed wisdom, they need it now. Where are men to get this wisdom, from their "pastor?" Hardly...we are told to ask GOD for wisdom. Another cut string of dependance on the babylonian system of churchianty right there..

What else are we told about seeking the truth? 1 John 2: 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

And ye need not that any man teach you...I suppose that means your "pastor" is on the outside of that as well. He who has an ear to hear, let them hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches today. From the very beginning our God has wanted the love affair to be a one on one thing between him and you, but men love their idols, the love their spiritually adulterous affairs with each other more than their desire for time with the Creator of all things.

He himself will teach you, that's what the bible says in plain english, question is, can you receive that promise? Do you believe he will do what he said he will do? Righteousness is imputed to those men and women who throughout history have believed what God said, its that simple.

Simplicity is really the key to all of this, but the men who serve this world and its master HATE simplicity, because with simplicity they lose their control over the masses. Men make things oh so complex so they can sell you the lie that a doctorate degree in Theology is needed to "really" know God and do his will. You need to attend seminary for X number of years to really "know God." You need "pastors" who "really know God" to teach you about God because its all SOOOOOOO complex that you peon members, you "laypeople" could neeeeever understand God on your own. No, you need laity conquerers, also known as the clergy to mediate for you with God. Never mind the fact that God himself, Jesus Christ did away with that system when he died on the cross, its convenient for the religious powers of this world to continue to lord over you their position through the idolatrous system of priests/pastors to keep you conquered/controlled/powerless.

Judgement begins with the church. We are told clearly that in the last days there would be apostasy but every "church" points their fingers out the doors and say "the apostasy is out there!" It's never in their "church," its always somewhere else..how convenient.

The simplicity of a simple childlike faith in Christ is horrific to today's babylonian priests because with a simple faith in Jesus Christ, they are out of a job...Todays so called christianty has elaborate doctrines, pages and pages, books upon books, "apologetics" as far as the eye can see but what did our Lord tell us about the way of truth/real Christianity?

James 1If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Help the poor and needy, keep from being spotted by the world, boy, I sure need a "degree" to understand that!! Thrown in thousands of "pastors" while we're at it because this is soooo hard for us "laypeople" to understand.

There's a reason the Spirit has been on this topic of returning to fundamentals. You don't need hired hands to teach you, God himself said he would teach you but most people prefer to be taught by men who oppress them. It's always been that way. When I say the clergy oppress you realize that the oppression, the theft, the deceit is always subtle. The serpent is not stupid, he's perfected his lies and his satanic systems for enslaving men over thousands of years and he was one of the brightest of the angels.

The deceit and lies we see in todays babylonian form of "christianity" are snake oil smooth. The lies have been passed down over generations now so people say "it's always been this way" so it must be right! A lie perpetrated for generations is still a lie....

In these last days, I believe we are called back to the fundamentals of the faith. We are called to a simple, childlike faith in Jesus Christ. We are called to love, faith, hope. We are called out of the spider web babylonian control system created to snare then spiritually bleed men to death. We are called to keep our first love first. Jesus Christ is first everything else is a distant second or less. Put him first, keep the fire burning for him, be a wise servant who knows his master could be back any second now. Be ready, be watching, he could be right at the door...

grace and peace

The Restrainer

Well, it just keeps coming today. I think the Lord has done some clarification for me that once again (surprise!) points to the escape from all, pre-flood, pre-fire and brimstone, pre-trib rapture.

We know there is a restrainer at work today. This restrainer holds back the man of sin and what comes with the arrival of the man of sin..wrath (rev 6..the seals):

2 Thess 2:6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; 9 that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, 10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

To say that the lawless one is being restrained also says that everything that appears with the lawless one is being restrained along with the lawless one. We know there is a restainer, and we are told "you know what restrains him now." We know what restrains him now?

We are told that the coming of the Son of man will be just like the days of Noah and the days of Lot. We see a restraining of the evil one AND what comes with the evil one when he is revealed...destruction...the rider on the white horse shows up first, then wrath-sword famine pestilence etc.. Lets look a little closer at the days of Lot and see what we find relating to this topic of "what restrains..."

Gen 19:15 And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, 'Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.' 16 And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of Jehovah unto him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest without the city. 17 And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, 'Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.' 18 And Lot saith unto them, 'Not so, I pray thee, my lord; 19 lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave to me, and I have died; 20 lo, I pray thee, this city is near to flee thither, and it is little; let me escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth live.' 21 And he saith unto him, 'Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city for which thou hast spoken; 22 haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.

First of all, you see any familiar words up there? How about that word ESCAPE, where have we seen that before? 36 watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

Now, here we tie together the escape and "what restrains" in the story of Lot which the bible specifically refers us to in order to understand the coming of the Son of man.

escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither

What did the angel explain to Lot? Destruction could not fall on Sodom until he, Lot (the righteous) were removed.

How could Paul tell us that "we know what restrains?" He knew we have the story of Lot, we know the Lord referenced both Noah and Lot, we know that it was explained to Lot that destruction COULD NOT FALL until the righteous (Lot) were removed....for I am not able to do anything (restrained) till thine entering thither..(till Lot enetered the safe city (Zoar)).

Lot's physical presence in the vicinity of the place that was about to face destruction restrained the destruction. Do we have any other cases of this? Glad you asked :-)

Gen 18 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. 29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. 30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. 32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. 33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

^^this story leaves off with the Lord agreeing with Abraham not to destroy the city for tens sake. We know that only one was found righteous, that was Lot. Destruction happened, but Lot was removed first.

I've seen it debated that the Holy Spirit is the restrainer, then I've seen people argue that the church is the restrainer. I would argue based on the stories of Noah and Lot (bible interprets the bible) that the presence of the righteous is the restrainer. Both camps are right in a way, the righteous are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, so they are one entity. The Holy Spirit won't leave the earth because he is everywhere all the time, but what happened on pentecost could indeed be reversed to put the floodlight back on the Lord's dealings with the people of Israel. The Holy Spirit worked with believers in a different way before pentecost than after pentecost.

The righteous who still exist on the face of the earth today "restrain" the coming destruction. We also know that our presence here restrains the unveiling of the man of sin. Does it make sense to you that light must be removed in order to allow darkness to roam freely? If you turn on a light in your house the darkness in the room does'nt get the option of whether it wants to leave or not, it MUST leave. Even a little light drives away much darkness. A little salt prevents much rotting. When the light and salt of the world are removed, darkness and rot will take their place. This "flood..hint hint" of darkness will bring forth the wrath of our God. The sword is wrath, famine is wrath, pestilence is wrath.....you can find that in your bibles.

Ezekiel 6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath upon them.

Sword pestilence and famine is what I see in Rev 6:1+ cpincidentally AFTER we see a door open in heaven then we see rewarded/redeemed men in heaven in Rev 4-5. How did rewarded/redeemed men get into heaven in Rev 4-5 if the escape has not happened yet? Doors open for a reason. Rev 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

A key? I wonder what that key does? Oh look, theres verse 8!

8 ‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name

Gosh, a key, an open door? Hmm, I wonder what comes next?

10 ‘Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

A key, an open door, kept from something that will come upon the WHOLE WORLD. How exactly would we be kept from something that's coming upon the whole world? Well, I suppose we can look for an answer by determining where that door is....Do you think where the door is tells us anything about where the philadelphia church will be "kept" at? Where is the door?

Rev 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things

Well, there goes that whole argument that we'll somehow be "kept" on earth! The door is in heaven, not on earth.

The Lord has been heavy on this topic lately. Pay attention, be alert, be watching...BE READY.