Introduction to Action Journal

7/8/09

Our God is God. He is the only one who has formed and there will be none after Him. God created the universe and everything in it, and he breathed life into man so that man might seek Him and know Him and be His friend. Thousands of years ago He planned out the days to come that are known to us as the end times, and His plans will be accomplished. 

Unknown to Body of Christ they begin these last days at enmity with their Heavenly Father because the deceiver has slowly and quietly stolen the Truth of the Bible from their hearts and replaced with tolerance for the lies, pop culture entertainment, and the wonders of modern technology. No longer are they the salt and light of the world and a testimony of God's Love and His Righteousness but instead they have become lukewarm not wanting to rock the boat or to tell anyone else that anything may be either right or wrong.  Two thousand of years ago God told the Apostle John exactly how God would find His church in these last days. Revelation 3: 17 - "You say, I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked." In the passage God goes on to say that if the Church does not come back to the truth and earnestly repent then the Lord was going to come with a rebuke and with painful discipline.

Two thousand years ago the Lord told John what form that this rebuke and discipline would take. It would be left to the oppressor to discipline God's children in the form of the four horsemen of Revelation 6 war, famine, disease, and chaos. This is the curse that the Lord will allow out of His love for us to bring us back to the truth. Shrewdly, as the oppressor made his plans he gave the Christians a sleeping pill so that they would not be concerned about the coming days. "Don't worry about these end times," the crafty one says. "There is going to be this thing called the rapture and you will just fly away to Heaven at the first sign of trouble". So now the Body of Christ lives blinded in a powerful delusion (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12) believing that we are all that God wants us to be and more when we are about to get kicked squarely in the head by our own God's rebuke. 

But God loves His children and He wants to give us a chance to repent before He needs to curse us, so He will send to us the prophet Elijah before this curse comes. Malachi 4 : 5-6 - "See, I will send you the Prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the Fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or I will come and strike the land with a curse." But who is looking for the Elijah and how would you know him if you saw him? For that matter who is listening for the Watchman and how would you recognize his voice if you heard it? No one is looking for them because if we are going to get raptured then what do we need them for? 

This is the world that we find ourselves in. If you read this journal you will see that I've asked the Lord to testify to my alarm as the Watchman by sending worldwide healing miracles and I later discovered that worldwide healing miracles are predicted in Malachi 4 : 2 for right around the end times. "But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall."

Whether before, during, or after the rebuke when the body of Christ repents and returns to their first love the Lord will come to our aid against the forces of the evil oppressor. Then we will be empowered by the Holy Spirit of Power, for a time, to go and reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If God has testified to His Near Presence with healing miracles then I encourage you to read the articles in this journal and see if the Lord speaks to you through them. 

Press On 

Your Brother

Tom 

Next to knowing Jesus as my Lord, this is the Best News I've Ever Heard

We Still Have Hope

Hebrews 3:7-8 - "So, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion......"

7/8/09

If you have ever played a game in real time you know that both players make their moves at the same time; one may attack while another defends, or they both may attack at the same time, but the game, like life, is very fluid. Since I received what I can only describe as a second filling of the Holy Spirit, in early March, I believe that the Lord has opened my eyes to our evil enemy's plans in real time. Then as the enemy made his moves I wrote about them in this journal, and I also tried to relate how I could see these moves relating to the Bible.  

There was just one thing.  I would make an observation in real time that I believed was accurate, and the enemy would almost right away change his tactics to prove my observation false. Truth be told, my original observations were that the 4 horseman plan was going to go off around Easter Time so I wrote about it. Then after much hype North Korea fired their first rocket, children began dying of bird flu in Egypt, and then nothing happened.  Then I thought that the enemy was going to target Christian Law Enforcement with the growing anger that was bubbling up in America's Cities, but as soon as I wrote about it the cop killings stopped.  I then thought that the evil powers were going to use the Iranian/American female journalist taken prisoner in Iran to start the war, and I wrote about it, and she was released, and everyone I talked to said, "See you were wrong.  You are not hearing from God. Why should anyone listen to you?"  

Then it hit me, that's the point.  From our perspective this is a back and forth contest yet to happen, not a story that's already been told.  There are guideposts written in the Bible, but within those guidelines we are still in a battle of faith, and we don't have to lose. If you are reading this, after the Father has testified to this message and His End Times Presence with worldwide healing miracles, then you know that there is nothing that our Father can't do. (Jeremiah 32:27) If you are reading this believing that the rapture is going to save you from what is about to come then think twice and don't count on it.  I'm pretty sure that the first rapture occurs just around Revelation 11 when we see the two witnesses killed, rise again, and then they are raptured. I also think that they may not be the only ones raptured around this time, but how many more will experience this event, I'm not sure.  

God says that when He comes to lead His flock, He will come in judgement and destroy the strong and the sleek. (Ezekiel 34:16) That is His plan, but God doesn't have to destroy us if we will all repent and become weak and humble before God.  James 4:7-10 -"Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  Come near to God and he will come near to you.  Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.  Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will lift you up."

God told Jonah that He was going to destroy Nineveh, but then when the people humbled themselves before God, He relented. There was also a time with Moses where God was going to kill all of the children of Jacob and start over with just Moses, and Moses asked the Lord to relent and He did. I know that you do not think that you need to repent and humble yourself before your God, but if you ask Him to open your eyes to the truth then you will see just how far you have fallen from His Standards of Righteousness and not even known it. Weeks ago, on the radio, I heard that a ministry sent a shipment of Bibles to Afghanistan for the Afghan people, and our army ordered it burned. The word of God was burned by our Christian Army so that we don't offend those who keep their people in bondage, and no one sees the need to repent and turn to Jesus? How blind are we? 2 Thessalonians 2 : 11 - "For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness"  Ask God to open up your eyes and the eyes of God's people to break the delusion of our false reality that the devil has artfully crafted before us.  Although you don't know it, your foundation of truth has been chipped away by a life time of the false words, the false miracles, and the false wonders of TV, Movies, Media, Music, and the evil images that are splashed all over the Internet. 

The devil has quietly and slowly led you down the path of rebellion against God's Truth and His Very Nature through the false prophets of Celebrity, Academic Institutions, Public Schools, Political Correctness, and Moral Relativism. Though at the time you could see some of it happening, instead of purposing in your heart to stand up to the lies in solidarity with God, you caved into them wishing to stand with the world instead of the Truth so that more people would like you. Some of you take your last stand and say that abortion is wrong and that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but how do you feel about divorce? You see divorce as an acceptable normal thing and even some Pastors of the Church are on their second and third wives; even though the Bible says that they are openly committing adultery. Unmarried Christians have all varieties of sex with each other, and instead of feeling shame and remorse for their sin, they don't feel anything at all. Some Christians spend hours indulging in news, sports, and entertainment everyday, and we don't know what shelf we've placed our Bibles on. We view vile images on the internet corrupting our minds and then walk away believing that our hearts were untouched by it's stain.  There once was a time when Christians knew that an out of wedlock pregnancy was wrong, but now they are accepted, sought after, and even celebrated. It has gotten so bad that if anyone does stand up for the truth and says that wrong is wrong, they are dismissed and disdained by everyone around them, even those in the Family of God. Thus in our effort to present ourselves to the world as accepting tolerant loving people, God has become utterly intolerant of us.  

Furthermore, you have been slowly blinded, patiently taught, and mentally conditioned by the devil's media and pop culture to believe the lies that now separate you from God's Truth. Lies like your sin is really no big deal, that people on all paths to God are going to Heaven, that I'm OK you're OK, that hell is not a real place, and that everybody does it. You say, "Hey, lets make our church more like the world so we won't be so offensive and more people will come, and besides, God is an all loving God who's not going to hold a Christian to account. Isn't that what the Blood of Christ is for?" Ironically, in the process of becoming more like the world and less offensive to the people that you want to try to help you have become totally offensive to God; just like the children of Israel of old who rejected God's Standards of Righteousness choosing instead the standards of the evil cultures around them to their own destruction. What we don't understand is that although we excuse our sin, to God it is all still completely offensive, and now our offenses are justly worthy of His Terrible Righteous Discipline. You judge yourself by man's ever lowering standards and feel fine, but if you could see man's standards through God's Eyes you would not feel so good about yourself.  You are so blind and so asleep that you need for God, in His love for you, to send a horrible curse upon you to wake you up, and you don't even know it. Hopefully, since God's real life healing miracles will be outside the box from what you have been conditioned to think, you will have a chance to hear His testimony of the truth of just how far your beloved evil pop culture has taken you from the very heart of God. 

Pastors of the flock be warned. The sword of the Lord is hanging over your Church and it is about to strike with a terrible curse, or it will relent if you call your church as a community to humility, repentance, and truth.  Ezekiel 34: 9 - 10 - says that God is against the Pastors and that soon when He comes He is going to call them into account for every lamb.  I don't know of anything that should drive you to your knees quicker, earnestly seeking God's face, then for God to threaten to bring a horrible curse on your entire congregation knowing that He is going to hold you personally responsible for why it had to come.  

I'm not writing this to condemn you but to help you to see the distance that you have been lured from the Righteous Heart of God. Clearly, we must not sit in judgement of one another because we all need God's Love, Forgiveness, and Perspective; that's the point. Even those faithful few who have held to the truth should ask the Lord to deeply examine their hearts and shine the Light of His Truth into every dark corner of their lives, leaving nothing untouched. Then everyone whose heart is open and soft to our Father will know in all humility that they should be the examples of love, forgiveness, and kindness to us all. What we have done under the delusion is done and if we open our eyes to the truth, God will lead us on. Your family now is your family so love them as unto the Lord. We are suppose to be ambassadors of God's Love and His Righteousness, but if we do not immediately repent we will speak for Him no more.   

God writing to the church of our generation: Revelation 3: 15-20 - "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are Lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you our of my mouth. 17  You say, I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so that you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.  Here I am! I stand at the door and knock.  If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."  

It takes faith to read this verse and ask God to tell you how it applies to you.  God says you are blind, do you believe Him? How would you know if you are blind or not, if you are blind? You may think, "Oh this can't be true because it sounds to much like a movie I've seen.", and in thinking that you show yourself just how well you've been programed. This warning by God's foreknowledge of our end times spiritual condition has been around a lot longer then the movie that spiritually dulls you, but the question to our whole generation really is where are you going to find your truth, in the Bible or at the movies? God says that though you see yourself as well off, He sees you as wretched, pitiful, poor, and naked. Do you believe that? Once again how would you know if you were blind? God says change or His terrible discipline and rebuke are coming, but what can you change if you are blind to what needs to be changed? By faith ask God for the eye salve, listen for the Lord to knock, be earnest to know what you lack and when you find it, repent and be broken before the Lord. God says that He's right here, right now, right at the door, and if you've seen His healing miracles then you know that this verse is true. Will you, Right Now, turn off the computer, turn away from all of the distractions of life and take some time to open the door for Him, let Him open your eyes, and then let Him break your heart that you are not all that you thought you were in Christ?  

I'm happy to report that this is still a fluid situation. If you read further in my blog you'll see some of the terrible things that I believe are about to happen if we don't open our eyes, repent, humble ourselves, and call upon the Lord. The good news is that although the enemy has his plans, and they are already in motion, they don't have to succeed. If God can heal someone, then God could send His Promised Holy Spirit of Power to someone the moment the anti-Christ is released, striking the match to light the fire; that is if we are ready to receive it. Joel 2:28 - 30 -"And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke." Of course the answer is always in God's hands, but the Father is so close that I really think that He wants us to get this. 

Revelation 6 says that God has given the 4 horsemen power over a forth of the earth to kill. When the fire of the real life actual mountain moving Holy Spirit of Power is lit, it could move very quickly around the world, even to our troops in the field who will soon be fighting the enemies hoards; that is if God has opened their eyes, and they have humbled themselves and they have the hearts ready to receive it. This is something that we should pray for, hope for, and definately contact them about.  

In the near future God has a lot of people that He wants us to reach with His Love and His Truth, in a very short time, so we should purpose in our hearts to follow Him to whatever end and then by faith let Him choose the time, place, and method by which we will receive His Glad Welcome into Glory.  Always remember that it is incomparably better to die in Christ then it is to take the mark of or in any way worship the evil one. Revelation 12:11 - "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death." The Soldiers of the Army of God will fight for the final lost souls of men before Jesus comes to live among us, but we don't have to fight as Gideon's tiny army.  If our heart's are ready and are made right before the Lord, we can go out in force and fight like Joshua's mighty army, that is if we wake up to the truth so that we will not need the rebuke and terrible discipline of the Refiner's Fire. 

That's the really good news. We are all asleep, and we can be like the wise virgins who wake up ready with repentant humble hearts of faith, or we could suddenly wake up to the reality that we fall way far short of where we thought that we were. God gives grace to the humble. Ask Him why He brought these miracles to us at this time. Perhaps He will open your eyes with the salve that only He can provide. The healing miracles should begin soon Malachi 4: 2 - "But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall." and the first end times battle should begin shortly after that. As the body of Christ we have the chance to wake up and get this right where other generations have failed, and it's my prayer that everyone who calls on the name of Jesus Christ as their Lord will be found as one united community that is good and pleasing to our King. The anti-Christ will soon be coming after us all no matter what Christian Tradition we hold to. His name says it all, he is the anti Christ.   

I'm asking God to turn His heart to you to heal you, and I'm asking you to turn your heart to God and be healed.  Malachi 4:5 - "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."

The key to this verse is the "or". The curse is set to go, but if we will turn our hearts to God as the Father is turning His heart to us, God will be on our side, and He will not spit us out of His mouth. Tell everyone you know, and e-mail this to everyone you can and ask them to ask God if it's true, and He will open up their eyes. The whole house of God, all around the world, needs to act now or receive the curse of God. 

Up until early March I was right there with you, blind as to how far away I was from the heart of God.  Psalm 73:21 - "When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant, I was a brute beast before you." As God has opened my eyes, He can open yours. I am a voice crying out to you, please I beg you, humble yourself and make your heart ready to listen to the Lord. He's here. 

May God's Will Be Done. 

The Church is Sound Asleep 

I'm Calling on God to Send the Miracles

7/8/09

Note: I placed the main points of this entry into the comments section of this posting.  Although I have gone back and edited many of the entries as the Lord has guided me, the finished message will be those dated 7/8/09. I thought it was going to be 6/5/09, but the Lord had me do a few last edits. Also I don't think that you can change the dates or contents of a comment.  This will testify that this entry was written before the Lord sent His Sign of Healing Miracles. (Also, Please cut and paste these entries and read them off line, so you will have your own copy, and also to save bandwidth so that everyone else can get a copy.)

As of 7/8/09 of all the people I know, I have only 3 friends who can see only some of what I can see. The enemy is at the gate, the alarm is being sounded, but somehow the evil one is hiding from the Church in plain sight. 

In Matthew 11: 4-5, when John the Baptist's disciples asked Jesus if he was the one to come, or if they should expect someone else? Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you see:  The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor."   These (were and are) the signs that the Spirit of God is near. These (were and are) the signs that God brings forth when He is going to do something special in a generation. Signs not to the lost, but signs to His children in their Communities of Faith. 

Today, we find that the Church is asleep as the enemy prepares to strike, and as the Spirit of God also draws near. These are perilous times and if the Lord is going to wake His Church to action, He's going to have to show them that He's near.  Although of course the answer to this prayer is completely in God's hands, I'm asking God to bring these same signs to our generation, all across the world.  Not just for one or two people, but for tens, hundreds, thousands and perhaps even for tens or hundreds of millions; wherever a sick or lame person is found who is willing to turn to Jesus to heal them. 

Truly, I'm asking the Lord in His Kindness to bring His Love and His Favor to any and all people, either alone or in the company of others, who can muster up a mustard seed's worth of faith to believe that Jesus can heal them. Not just feeling better from a cold, but wheel chair bound people rising up to leap for joy, blind people receiving their sight, cancer and AIDS patients completely healed, the deaf hearing, swine flu sufferers cured, mentally handicapped and autistic people being freed from their limitations by the prayers of faith of their family and friends, people growing back lost or deformed limbs, people freed from prisons of addictions, and any and all of the types of healing made in Jesus name, so that those who believe in him will be made mentally and physically whole and strong. (Note: It's my hope that when the healing begins, that Christians all around the world will drop what they are doing after work, pack the kids in the car, and lead the charge in going through hospitals, care facilities, veterans rehab centers, and nursing homes announcing this time of God's Favor and our deep need turn our hearts back to Him.) 

If God decides to answer my prayer, I believe that the Spirit will start, in of all places, Hollywood and soon move to San Fransisco and Indiana.  Then He will travel to places like Orlando and Michigan and Ohio and North Dakota, and soon He will be all over the United States and then all over the World.  Then, as God shows His Power, there will be much rejoicing for those wonderful people who have followed God, for all these years, with their handicaps, sicknesses, and deformities.  

Although I will totally rejoice with them, it's my prayer that the Church will then be in tune enough with God to see these miraculous events as wake up calls and as calls to arms. In these miracles God is making his physically and mentally weak children, who have hearts of faith like young lions, physically strong, ready, and fit for spiritual battle.  

Clearly, after the miracles begin, if anyone tells you that the beginning of the end times are not just days away, that the anti-Christ is not alive and well, and that the ride of the four horsemen is not eminent or if someone tells you that you can count on the rapture to snatch you away from having to stand up for Christ, then they are respectfully just wrong. If the Body of Christ does not wake up, the refiners fire is soon to come, and God wants us to stand firm to the end of our testing with love in our hearts for our Christian Family and for those who can still be redeemed as well. If we have to endure it, now or in the future, God will have a special purpose for those whose faith is tested and found true.  

Once the miracles begin, read this journal as God's message to you. Then as you read down please pay special attention to the Marching Orders for they will make all the difference as to how fast the Holy Spirit of Power will be able to spread. If we have to explain everything to everyone after the outpouring we will lose so much valuable time while our enemy is marching against us. My blog entires should explain the main things that I see coming, and with this information, God will lead you in what you should do. (Note: God has used me to pen this Revelation, but I'm just His servant. Rest assured, I've had more then enough sin in my life to know that I am not the one who is accomplishing His Miracles. I am only the one who asked for them as a wake up call to the sleeping Body of Christ.) (Obvious Note: Make sure that you refute anyone who tries to take credit for the healing that is to come by claiming that they are the Jesus in whose name people are being healed. Jesus does not come back in physical form until the end of Revelations, and we are just at the beginning.)  

Special Note: Don't look to the pictures to have any special meaning.  I just took them along the way of my life's journey. Also, don't let anyone tell you that they are me; I won't be making any public appearances. Those who know me know me, but in the confusing times ahead I'm pretty sure that there will be at least one member of the national media who will, if they accept this calling, herald this message of hope. However, anyone who receives this message should become a herald and send out the call however they can.  Also if you don't know me please don't look to seek me out personally unless you have received the Holy Spirit of Power and the Lord guides you to do so; because any believer who has the Holy Spirit of Power can pass it on to you, and once you are connected to the Holy Spirit of Power you will have the same connection to daily guidance from the Lord as I do. 

Also the enemy will still be able to attack you through your thoughts even with the Holy Spirit of Power so be very careful discerning the spirits. Trust me at first this will be very very confusing.  The key is to take everything back to the Scripture.  If you feel frightened or anxious go back to verses like Philippians 4: 4-8, and thank God with thanksgiving for whatever situation is troubling you. Then ask God to help you to think about what is true, nobel, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, or praiseworthy.  If a thought makes you feel proud, or jealous, or hateful, or selfish, or humiliated, or causes any sort of division between you and the ones that you are commanded to love, your brothers and sisters in Christ, (John 13:34-35) then these thoughts are from Satan.  Many of his attacks will cause you to feel a strong negative emotion that is usually connected to the thoughts that you are either greater then you are, or that God loves you far less then you thought He did. Whenever you feel a strong negative emotion don't act on it. Wait on the Lord and let Him minister the truth of His Love to you. (Isaiah 30:18)  

The enemies plan is as always to divide and conquer in theater of your mind, and he is powerful, crafty, and really good at it.  He will try to divide you from God, and he will try to divide you from the ones you love the most. He is the accuser of the brethren so don't be tricked by his accusations towards another believer, and since I am writing all this stuff down he will probably make accusations against me as well. Are we perfect?, no, far from it, so please do not judge God's message to you by the lack of perfection of His messenger or you will miss what God has to say to you when you find me wanting. Know that Jesus is my Lord and as Christians we love God and we love people, it's what we do, and we would never outwardly harm innocent life especially our brothers and sisters in Christ. If a Christian would fight to save the unborn, then can't we assume that they would fight to save the born as well.  What does darkness have in common with light, absolutely nothing.  Who do you think wants to harm the body of Christ, a part of the body who will feel the pain of the hurt or the devil who wants to destroy the body all together. If he can trick us into hating each then he it will make him happy, because like Jesus said, "No Kingdom divided against itself can stand." Taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ is the rule of thumb. Take every thought that triggers a negative emotion back to Jesus and he will bring your mind back to peace.

For those who stand firm in their faith, and do not believe the lies of the father of lies, our true Christian love for one another will be our greatest evangelism witness when we bring in the final harvest, but remember the life witness goes hand in hand with the Gospel Message.   

Finally, if you hear the Holy Spirit speaking to you through this message, you should print off these pages for yourself, and e-mail them to all of your friends. (Note: I turned off the ability to leave comments as of 6/2/09 to save bandwidth.) I'm confident that God wants this message to be distributed widely and freely to His People all around the world in every language, and if anyone tries to change it, or stop it's distribution then they will have to answer to God. 

Observations of a Watchman (Part 2)

The Story so Far - The International Thread

7/8/09

This blog has not always been dedicated to the analysis of current geopolitical events and where I see them leading, but since early 2009 a story has been unfolding to me that is so compelling, so unthinkable, so critically important, and yet so obvious, perhaps only to me, that it's a story that I feel compelled to tell.  The underlying premise of this story is that the anti-Christ, or as the Muslims call him, the Mahdi, is alive and well and is preparing to ride forth in an attempt to take over the world. 

There are two interwoven threads that make up this story; what is happening on American soil to overthrow "Christian" America and what is happening in the rest of the world.  The Bible in Revelation 6 says that in his coming attempted conquest, the anti-Christ will have the ability to kill people in a 1/4th of the world.   

Now since he's called the anti-Christ, and since he, as the Mahdi, has promised a great military victory to the Communist and Muslim Worlds over Israel and the Christian World, then who do you think are the people that he's going to want to remove from the planet?  Here's a hint, Once again he's called the anti-_____.  Any ideas?  That's right he is going to go after the Christians and the Jews.

In the International Thread - Here is the Story so far. 

If you read part 1 of this series you will see that I believe that the anti-Christ is going to try to kill millions of Americans with a phony pandemic that will scare people into taking a deadly "vaccine".  As far fetched as this sounds, know that there are many in the world's financial elite, and scientific communities who believe that overpopulation is that greatest threat to all life on the planet, and they believe that something must be done soon to drastically thin the human herd.  

The Bible in Revelation 6 explains that there are 4 tools of death in the Mahdi's toolbox. The first is his conquest of the world, the second is the chaos and riots that will follow, the third is famine, and the forth is the plague.  There are many countries already in the anti-Christ's control including the obvious ones like Russia, China, Radical Islam, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba to name a few, but there are also several countries that might surprise you.  Currently the President of United States, the Prime Minister of the UK, and for that matter the leaders of much if not all of Western Europe are all solidly on the Mahdi's team.  

Soon when the anti-Christ rides forth it will be very clear who is on his side and who is against him.  Every nation who dares to oppose the anti-Christ's rule will be pounded into submission while every nation who is already on his team will either join in on the slaughter or sit on the sidelines.  Since the American Military has a high concentration of the anti-Christ's enemies, Christians, it is about to be betrayed and then butchered all around the world. Then because of our losses, it will appear that America was on the side of freedom's last stand, but if any country's leader is not replaced by the anti-Christ's new puppet leader, then you will know that the leader left in power was the anti-Christ's puppet all along.  

Although the Mahdi is moving all of his pieces into place, his whole battle plan hinges on the actions of Israel and the United States.  In order to galvanize the Muslim world against the Jews and Christians, the Mahdi wants his enemies or his "enemies" to make the first strike, and so the trap is set. With zero regard for the consensus of the free world, Iran began it's nuclear program with the express public purpose of taking Israel off of the map.  Every month, for at least the last 2 years, the world has been treated to status updates on how close Iran is to being able to make a bomb, and how dangerous this is for the planet.

Every other country who has attempted to build a bomb, with the exception of North Korea who has similar motives, has done so in secret with the intent of finishing it before their enemies could find out, but not Iran.  Iran puts it out there for all to see. Also, for at least a year, Iran has been talking about buying an advanced air defense missile system from Russia that has to date yet to be delivered. Can you hear Iran saying, "You better attack us soon Israel or we are going to have this deadly missile system in place." Why would anyone ever announce when they are going to have their defenses ready? Clearly, Iran has no real desire to nuke Israel, especially Jerusalem. Israel is the home of Islam's third most holy shrine, The Dome of the Rock, and the nuclear fall out from such an attack would spread all over the Middle East. Let alone the fact that Israel would rise from the ashes and nuke Iran back to the stone age.  So how are they going to get Israel to attack?  

Although there have been several strategies to pressure the Israeli leadership to act, the most recent had President Obama playing nice with all of Israel's enemies in a move to force Israel to attack, in order to put a fresh wedge between America and the Iranian Russian alliance. Although it made sense to me, Israel erred on the side of caution and their President Shimon Peres announced that Israel would not go it alone and that they would not attack Iran unless they knew that America was on their side.     

Suddenly Obama needed a reason to reverse course and convince Israel that he was really on their side all along.  Within days of the Peres announcement, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian American Journalist was taken to a back room and sentenced to 8 years in one of the worst prisons in Iran.  Why? Because she didn't have a press pass?  No, she was sentenced to start the war.  Sadly, I fear that she will soon die, either from her own hunger strike or because she was tortured and killed, but either way she would be the face of all that's wrong with Iran, and why President Obama should give Israel his blessing for their air attack.  Clearly, they could not have found a better victim for their crime; not only is she young, beautiful, highly educated, and caring to a fault, but she is a reporter so there will be hours and hours of stock footage of her to fill every hour of the 24 hour news cycle. (Update: Roxana Saberi won her appeal in Iranian court, was released, and thankfully she's back on American Soil) (Update -At this point it's inevitable that the Mahdi will come up with some plausible reason to sell to the world as to why Obama either orders America to attack or lets Israel attack Iran. The Mahdi is in control of both Iran and America so this will not be a difficult process. It's also inevitable that no matter who attacks Iran, the powder keg of emotions which is the Middle East will explode.) (I read recently that Israel may make a deal with Saudi Arabia to fly over their country to bomb Iran, and why not since the Mahdi most likely controls the Saudi's as well.) 

Very soon, after Iran is attacked, I believe that events will progress quickly.  There's a good chance that America will be literally in the dark, on shut down mode, while the anti-Christ conquers the rest of the world, since our media has already told us that our electrical grid has been hacked by unknown hackers, and that we are also vulnerable to an EMP power grid destroying attack. Whether we will be able to watch the carnage or not, when the Mahdi gives the signal, Obama will order the shut down of the Free World's Battle Computers leaving our Christian Soldiers out gunned, and without hope of rescue or resupply. Then when it's clear that America has been betrayed from within, Pakistan, our false friend, will quickly join in the call for Jihad completing the trap of our Christian Soldiers in Afghanistan, while they deliver their own savage blow to their long hated enemy India.  At the same time, North Korea and China will rape South Korea, and if Japan is still a free country they will probably once again get nuked. (Side Note: Why do you think that Obama insisted so strongly on being allowed by the Secret Service to carry around a blackberry?  It is so he can stay in constant private contact with his boss the anti-Christ.)

Since the anti-Christ will not stop until he is defeated or he literally has control over the whole world it will be very telling who will stand and fight, who will surrender, who will be slaughtered, and who will be on the sidelines having already made their deal with the devil. Most likely every country who bought into the ideas of freedom and democracy, and who trusted the United States and NATO for their mutual defense will find them selves suddenly out gunned by all their neighbors who invested in Russian and Chinese weapons systems.  

For some people groups like America's Middle Eastern friends the Kurds, sadly, the writing is already on the wall. When Turkey and Syria, who both see the Kurds as their common enemy begin holding joint military operations for the first time in my lifetime, you know that something is in the wind. On the other hand countries like the UK will clearly be either slayers or on the sidelines since they just recently decided to move their troops out of the Mahdi's way and ended their deployment to Iraq.  Finally, there will be countries like those poor Eastern European countries who wanted so desperately to join NATO and be protected by an American Missile defense system, whose brief taste of freedom will be cruelly ripped away. The Russians are already causing trouble in Georgia, and soon Eastern Europe could face a curtain far darker then the one that was made of iron.     

With this war of conquest will come chaos, the second deadly tool.  Soon after the news reaches the world that it is in the middle of World War Three the world economy as we know it will collapse.  Money will have no value, and law and order will be stripped from the world's poor and defeated countries as life suddenly becomes a desperate fight for survival.  Very quickly people will devolve into savages as riots and looting break out in major cities, and warring gangs and people groups play out their own smaller versions of World War Three. (Note: There is a chance that the value of the dollar will collapse even before the war begins, we'll see.)

Then with the war and the chaos will come a global famine the likes of which the world has never before seen.  Although the war's disruption in transportation of the world's food supply, combined with the disruption in the American Farmer's energy supply, and the destruction of the American Economy could in and of itself cause famines in the third world, this coming famine will also be by the anti-Christ's design.

Finally, at some point in the mix, the dread pandemic will be said to have reached the stage where either deadly vaccinations or deadly precautionary medicines are necessary. They'll say, "It's just like the pandemic that hit after World War One", and the medicines of death will be mandated.  (Side Note: The anti-Christ will not bother vaccinating third world countries with the death vaccine when he can just starve them to death; that is unless he wants to kill a bunch of them with the vaccine before he orders it for the rich first world nations to scare the first world victims into taking it.)       

Between yesterday's and today's entries, this is the story that I see for our coming days. That is if we do not turn back to the truth, and get everyone prepared to receive the promised end times outpouring of the Holy Spirit of Power. Joel 2:28 - 32 - "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke..... And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Shout for joy, if we are ready to receive Him, our Lord will truly come riding in to our rescue.

What is the timing of all of these events? I'm not sure.  The vaccines could come before the war or after. Although there seems to be an order to the four horsemen in Revelation 6, they could be sent so closely together that the order of how they effect any one person or region could be different then how they effect another.  Needless to say if the Church of God is caught completely unaware then when the dust settles there will probably be millions less people on the face of the earth, and many of them will be us. 

(Update) This end times battle has been pre-ordained by God for thousands of years, and very soon the Father Himself is going to come and fight along side of His Faithful like a Mighty Warrior. The Worldwide healing miracles announce God's Presence and He will strongly support those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. Luke 18:7-8 - "And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" This is the question of the day. What will God find when He finds you. 

(Update) Please, Please, Please, I beg you, do not take matters into your own hands and try to shoot it out with the power of the anti-Christ alone or in groups, unless you are fighting against him in prayer. He has the combined strength of all of the world's superpowers at his disposal, and if you try to resist him before you receive the Holy Spirit of Power, then you are not only throwing your own life away, but you will be in sin murdering Law Enforcement Officers who are only trying to honor their duty to their posts. Then once you receive the Spirit's Power use only non-violent means if you need to resist your national guard and hometown civil authorities. I recommend asking God to fill them with Holy Terror so that they will just run away. However, if you are a civilian who is filled with the Holy Spirit of Power and you are faced with a non-Christian foreign invader then you should consider yourself as a soldier in the field of Holy Battle and defeat the invader in order to protect the innocents. 

Observations of a Watchman (Part 1) 

The Story So Far - The American Thread

7/8/09

This blog has not always been dedicated to the analysis of current geopolitical events and where I see them leading, but since early 2009 a story has been unfolding to me that is so compelling, so unthinkable, so critically important, and yet so obvious, perhaps only me, that it's a story that I feel compelled to tell. The underlying premise of this story is that the anti-Christ, or as the Muslims call him the Mahdi, is alive and well and is about to ride forth and try to take over the whole world.  

There are two interwoven threads that make up this story; what is happening on American soil to overthrow "Christian" America, and what is happening in the rest of the world.  The Bible in Revelation 6 says that in his coming conquest, the anti-Christ will have the ability to kill people in a geographic 1/4th of the world. 

Since he's called the anti-Christ, and since he, as the Mahdi, has promised a great military victory to the Communist and Muslim Worlds over Israel and the Christian World, then who are the people that you think he's going to want to remove from the planet? Here's a hint, once again he's called the anti-_____ . Any ideas? That's right the Christians and the Jews.  

Unless the Body of Christ wakes up, this is what I see happening in American.  

For the Mahdi to win, America must be defeated both at home and abroad.  To defeat the American military abroad the Mahdi's plan is simple, deadly and already in progress.  Over the years America and her allies have built up the strongest military in the world with a built in ready made exploitable weakness.  Our modern army, navy and air force weapons systems have become almost completely dependent on computers.  

Soon, at the given time Obama, a Muslim who is on board with the anti-Christ's plan, will flip the switch on our military computers leaving our forces and their allies completely helpless against the Mahdi's hoards.  They will call it an effective cyber attack by terrorists, but it will be Obama.  The Iranian President has been quoted as saying that the Mahdi's army will rise out of Northern Afghanistan, and since coming to office Obama has proclaimed Afghanistan as the war that we should be fighting and he has transferred thousands of troops there.  Sadly, when Pakistan surely falls, our troops in Afghanistan will be completely land locked by enemies, and with no weapons systems, no planes or choppers coming to the rescue, and with no hope for escape, unless we can reach them with the Holy Spirit of Power, it will be a horrible slaughter.  

Just recently Obama showed any doubters in the Muslim world that he was on board with the global Jihad by having Air Force One fly symbolically down the Hudson River, the same route that the 9 11 terrorists took.  

Unfortunately, it will be no different for our forces in South Korea and, unless Obama has made a deal to save them for his future use, our forces in Iraq.  Once the computer is cut our planes will fall from the sky, our subs will sink to the bottom, and our ships will be helpless floating targets.  At first I thought that Obama might want some US soldiers spared for future population control, but now I'm not sure.  Blue Helmeted peace keeping thugs from Europe or even the Middle East might be called upon to restore order to a post pandemic America that has descended into chaos, and since the Department of Homeland Security recently issued an alert to consider returning veterans as threats, there soon might not be anymore returning at all.  

To defeat the Americans at home the plan is also simple and genius.  Because the second amendment was designed to protect us from something like an anti-Christ take over of America, Americans have been given the right to own guns.  Although the Obama Administration is doing everything it can to disarm America by limiting the amount of bullets that are available, he will not be able to put a dent in gun ownership before Mahdi rides forth without causing an untimely revolution.

So how does the Mahdi outsmart the American Gun Owner.  He sends a nurse to do the job.  As you know the pandemic flu has already been introduced to you as a possible future threat to your life, and you will be told that the best way to protect your life is to take an untested vaccine.  What they are not telling you is that when you are ordered to do so, most state governments can make you take the vaccine whether you like it or not, all in the name of the common good. (Google the Law - The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act) and check it out for yourself. This law has been described as draconian, and it gives the state the power to lock you up like a terrorist and take away everything you own just for refusing to take the shot. 

(Important Update -If God testifies to His Presence with world wide healing miracles then tell all your family, friends, neighbors, and enemies to stay calm when they announce the deadly pandemic vaccines. Tell them not to take the pandemic vaccine if possible, but whether they avoid it or if they or their children are forced to receive it, if they start to feel sick in any way; tell them that they should pray for themselves and for their children in Jesus name and if they have just a tiny bit of faith, God will protect them from it's death.  John 3:14 - "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." (Also if you hear a recording of me saying that the Bible says that you have to take the vaccine know that I misspoke to my friend at the time and meant to say the government says you have to take the vaccine, not the Bible. I quickly corrected myself, but you will probably not hear that part.)

Those who refuse the shot will most likely find out first hand whether the rumors about the countries FEMA camps are true or not.  The thing is that this decision to vaccinate truly is a matter of life and death.  The pandemic flu does not pass well from person to person unless they have engineered it to do so, and why would the anti-Christ want a lingering pandemic flu hanging around once he's killed off those who he wants to kill?  

The media has already told us that we will need to watch the Southern Hemisphere for indications of what is going to happen here in the US in the fall. However, if the AC's evil foot soldiers decide to speed up their deadly timetable the virus may be effectively spreadable by food. All they would need to do is taint some school's or hospital's food, and it would seem to the public that the virus is spreading at an alarming rate. Although I'm not certain, it's my guess that this is why there have been so many cases in the schools. It's also my bet that there will be an ever increasing number of people who die from the flu to the point where not taking the vaccine would seem fool hearty. The thing that they will not tell you is that the people dying are the ones who are already sick with other illnesses, who took the vaccine or who have eaten targeted flu contaminated food. At first much of the vaccine will probably be non toxic so that the deaths start off slow and the connection between death and the vaccine can be blurred and disputed. Later when it's time for America's vaccines I imagine that there will be a lot more that are deadly then safe.  

Now how to get the gun owners. Believe it or not the Obama Administration has thousands of temporary employees, mostly from ACORN, out painting GPS computer coordinates in front of every household in America. The thing about computers is that once they have your GPS coordinates they can cross reference this with your gun records and target the gun owners for the first vaccinations.  

They will send a sweet Christian Nurse and a Godly Christian Cop to your door to make sure that you and your family take your doses of death, and if you try to fight it you will not only be seen as Un-American, but soon a greater force will come to your door to arrest you. Then if you fight back against the greater force, not only will you be shooting it out with your Christian Brother on the force, but you will be seen by the media as the reason why we should have had gun control laws in the first place. Parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated will most likely lose their children on the spot for child endangerment, and with all of the laws since 911 designed to save us from terrorism, Americans will be powerless to stop the real terrorists at the door. Sadly, most gun owners when faced with the prospect of taking the shot or losing everything they own will just take the shot. Then the government can come in and pry the guns out of their cold dead hands just like the bumper sticker says. (Update- However, if God has demonstrated His Healing Presence with world wide healing miracles, then if we or our children are forced to take the shot we will be able to receive it and by faith not die, but don't take it to show off, God gives His Grace to the humble.)  

Finally when the smoke clears and order is restored to the world, the anti-Christ will deal with the remnants of his enemies, the Christians, by blaming them, of all people, for the vaccines being tainted, the crops failing, and the military defeat, and as the secular progressive media trumpets it, the angry world will believe it. If the Body of Christ does not wake up, like Hitler had the Jews to scapegoat, the anti-Christ will have us. Matthew 24 describes how Christians in the end times will all hate each other and turn on each other, and that the love of most will grow cold. This will happen either now or 3 1/2 years from now when Satan comes to earth depending on when God decides that we need the Refiner's Fire. 

(Update) Please, Please, Please, I beg you, do not take matters into your own hands and try to shoot it out with the power of the anti-Christ alone or in groups, unless you are fighting against him in prayer. He has the combined strength of all of the world's superpowers at his disposal, and if you try to resist him before you receive the Holy Spirit of Power, then you are not only throwing your own life away, but you will be in sin murdering Law Enforcement Officers who are only trying to honor their duty to their posts. Then once you receive the Spirit's Power use only non-violent means if you need to resist your national guard and hometown civil authorities. I recommend asking God to fill them with Holy Terror so that they will just run away. However, if you are a civilian who is filled with the Holy Spirit of Power and you are faced with a non-Christian foreign invader then you should consider yourself as a soldier in the field of Holy Battle and defeat the invader in order to protect the innocents. 

Marching Order # 12 

There is a Time for Everything Under Heaven

7/8/09

I've always wondered why Jesus told his disciples on the way to the garden, Luke 22:36, that if you don't have a sword then now is the time to buy one, but then when they came to arrest him, Jesus immediately tells Peter to put his sword away. Matthew 26:52 - "Put your sword back in it's place, Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.""  For years I've believed this verse meant that to pick up a weapon and fight meant that you would die a violent death, but now I don't think that's the case.  Clearly, not everyone who has gone to war has died a violent death, so maybe this verse means that anyone who tried that specific night to use a sword to defend Jesus would not be supported by God in this effort.  Jesus was meant to die on the cross for us, and no one was going to stop that.  Also Jesus is described in Isaiah 9:6 as the Prince of Peace, but then in Matthew 10:34, Jesus says that he did not come to bring peace but a sword. Then Jesus says in Matthew 5:39 - "But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.  If someone strikes you on the right check, turn the other also", but then later in Matthew 21 he took a whip and drove the money changers out of the temple, and though this is always depicted as Jesus just cracking the whip, I would imagine that he might have had to crack it on a couple of them.  

So should we have a sword or should we not have a sword, does Jesus bring peace or war, do we let people slap us around or do we whip them with a whip? The answer is all in the wisdom of the timing. Ecclesiastes 3: (1):(3):(8) - "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven..... A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build....... A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace." 

Before you receive the Holy Spirit of Power, although you will want to protect yourself and your family during the times of riots and panic, whenever any authority comes to arrest you for not taking the vaccine, or for not following the Patriot Act, or for anything else that they might want to arrest you for; there's no way to defeat them on your own and to resist arrest, at that point, would be like Peter drawing his sword in the garden.  The modern day term for such an action would be "suicide by cop", and with the united force of the armies of the whole world against you, to me this would clearly be the time to put the sword down.  

Although the European Jews of the 1940's were taken to concentration camps for extermination, and this could be what the enemy is planning for us, I believe that the Lord has other ideas. Some of us may die.  I don't know if this is before or after we are taken into captivity, but if we are to die then this has been appointed for us by God and we are to accept it by faith.  God's servants have been suffering and dying for their faith for as long as there have been God's servants and this is to the glory of God.  Although some may die in captivity, it seems to me like the enemy's focus will be to apply intense pressure and cruel deception to try to get us to turn our hearts against Jesus. 

I believe that Christians and Jews going into the refiners fire, either now or 3 1/2 years from now, will be like soldiers going to boot camp; only for us what God will want to test and train is our faith, and our love for each other. When God takes everything away from us and we are sitting cold and alone in a dark dank dungeon can we still say, "It is well with my soul"?  For every Saint this will be a personal contest of our love for Jesus -Vs- our love for this world. 

Hebrews 11 : 13c - 16 - "And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth, ..... .......... instead they are longing for a better country - a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." Once we are tested and approved, God in His Almighty Power will walk side by side with us in the greatest, most joyful, most rewarding and fulfilling adventure that we could ever imagine.  Take hope there's great joy on the other side of the refiner's fire. 

Does God love you?  Will your answer be the same when He totally destroys everything that connects you to this world?  What about when all that you have built is gone, and all of those that you love are either dead, in prison, or hate your guts for being a Christian? What about when those who once sat beside you in church say, that you are a fool for holding on to your faith in "a god who betrayed us all?"  Then can you say, "Jesus loves me"?

If you are selected to join God's People in Boot Camp; if you can hold on to your faith that God loves you and sing hymns in prison like Paul; if you can in your heart sell everything that you have to buy the field that holds the buried treasure and if you are ready to go to our heavenly country; if you can see with spiritual eyes what is unseen, and keep your eyes fixed on the eternal prize; then Your Father God wants you to graduate boot camp and serve in the Holy Army of the Lamb.  

Where are the Bible Verses to back it all up? 

7/8/09

For the last several weeks I've been studying the Old Testament Prophets, Revelation, and the Gospels to see if there's anything in the Bible that talks about what I'm seeing coming down the pipe.  Now I don't claim to know if each passage that I've discovered from the Old Testament Prophets has already been accomplished, or if there's a chance that they may be accomplished multiple times, but here are some of the results that I got so far in studying the word of God.  

If the Church of God does not repent, a time is coming (I think very very soon) when there will be Wars, Famines, Plague, and the Conquest of the Free World by the anti-Christ. Revelation 6:1-8- "... They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the field." Horse #1 is the conqueror who is the anti-Christ or as the Muslims call him the Mahdi. (Note: Iran's President has met him, put his trust in him, and is boasting that the Mahdi's return is eminent.)  The Lord has revealed to me that the Mahdi is now in charge of all of the world's superpowers, including the United States, and is about to try to put an end to every nation who resists his rule. 

A time is coming (I think very soon or perhaps in 3 1/2 years) when everyone on earth will hate Christians so much, and many will end up hating each other so much that many will want to have each other put to death.  Matthew 24:9-13  - .... At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other ....." (Update 5/26/09 This could be soon or after the rapture of the 2 witnesses, 3 1/2 years into the end times period when Satan tries to force the Mark on everyone who is left. For everyone still alive at this point it is vital that they do not accept the Mark of the Beast or bow down to His image or worship the evil one in any way.)

Although we have been taught that we will only experience God's love, it's not unlike God to test His children's faith with painful trials.  For example Job whose faith was tested by losing his health, his wealth, and his children all in one day.  Job 2:9-10 - "...... Are you still holding on to your integrity?  Curse God and die!'  Job replied, 'You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God and not trouble? ......" (Update) - "This is why we must repent."

Since we are near the end times it's predictable that God's Children will be among the first to be called to repentance, and to be tested.  1 Peter 4:16-19 - " ...... For it is time for judgement to begin with the family of God ...... " (Update) - "The sword of God is hanging over the Church of God. God will use the anti-Christ against us to humble us and break us if we do not humble and break on our own."

As Christians we are not to live for this world, but for our Heavenly King.  Soon what we're living for is going to be put to the test.  Hebrews 11:13-16 - "And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth ...... Instead, they were longing for a better country - a heavenly one.  Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." (Update) - We must be willing to serve Jesus to whatever end with courage knowing that He will meet us with His Glad welcome on the other side.

It is not unlike God to refine his people for his purposes. Zechariah 13:8-9 - "In the whole land,' declares the Lord, two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it.  This third I will bring into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, "They are my people", and they will say, "The Lord is our God." Before Satan arrives on earth after the first 3 1/2 year period a third of the world burns with fire, one third of the people die from the mounted troops, and the one third that is still alive are the ones the who Lord will refine who have yet to repent from their love for this world. They are the ones that will be tested in the refiners fire; refined by the fire of living on earth with Satan, and they must not worship him or take his mark even though he will present himself as God.  

God will send prophets to help the people. Amos 3:7 - "Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets." 

It is not unlike God to discipline the leaders of His Flock.  Jeremiah 25:34 - "Weep and wail, you shepherds; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.  For your time to be slaughtered has come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery." (Update - There is still time for everyone to repent and get their hearts right before God.) 

It is not unlike God to Judge a whole nation for the practices of it's people. Ezekiel 7:4 - "I will not look on you with pity or spare you;  I will surely repay you for your conduct and the detestable practices among you.  Then you will know that I am the Lord." (Note: Who can say that America is not full of wickedness and detestable practices?)  

A time is coming, in the future, when the anti-Christ will order a Mark be put on people's hands or foreheads to identify them so that they can buy or sell.  Revelation 13:16-18 - "He forced everyone ..... to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark ....."

Note: If you find yourself in the refiner's fire it does not mean that the Lord does not love you, God uses trials and testing to build proven character, and with proven character comes hope. After Satan has arrived on earth the Lord will send out three more angels to give everyone warnings to repent and turn to him, and then His wrath will be poured out. Revelation 14:6-11 -"Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim ....." I believe that there will be people saved right up to the end, but the Bible is very clear that if you take the Mark or worship the beast or his image, that you have sealed your fate. 

Then there is a final rapture described in Revelation 16:15 - "Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully shamefully exposed." Then in Revelation 16:17- "The Father says that, "It Is Done", and the end times harvest of lost souls is complete." 

Marching Order - 11

Respect the Ground Rules - In Everything Team

7/8/09

2 Corinthians 9: 8 - "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all you need, you will abound in every good work."  

Although God could wipe out all of His enemies with a single thought and be done with it, He has given us the high honor of working together with Him to reach the lost.  As we were free to choose between following Jesus or turning away, so will the lost whom we encounter. We can talk to them, pray for them, feed them, heal them and protect them, but we cannot choose for them.  They must be free, and we're never to apply any pressure to sway them to unite their hearts with Christ's.  

As Jesus ministered in his day he united the physical world with the Spiritual world in all that he did.  He did not create a fish, but he multiplied them; He did not create a coin, but he had Peter fish for one; He did not create the wine, but turned water into wine.  The physical is our contribution to the effort, and the result is God's.  In the old testament, God could have given Goliath a heart attack, but he had David throw a stone; thus they combined in the God/David combo to win the great combined victory. Moses had his staff, Noah had his boat, Samson had his hair, Jonah scared the crap out of God's enemies because it looked like he'd been inside a fish for three days, Gideon had his trumpets, and on and on and on.  

As we learn to operate in our new power we too will see the combining the physical with the Spiritual. That way we and God are both contributing to the team win.  If you have a physical Gun, God can keep it loaded with bullets.  If you have some food, God can multiply it so that it's all you will need with plenty to spare to share with others.  If you need water ask God and he will tell you when and where to strike the rock. Just don't strike the rock on your own expecting it to work because you willed it to. Anything that we attempt to do outside of the team effort will fail, and disappoint God. We are yoked to Jesus, and his yoke is light, but don't try to pull him in the direction that you want Him to go, instead cooperate with the Spirit and go the way He leads you.  

Finally, never eat your last fish. One of the greatest things that we can bring to the table to win the lost is the return of the abundance of food.  Before we rise, the anti-Christ will have already set the stage for a horrible famine that the beast will blame on us, and nothing will help us win back the hearts and minds of the people faster then if we can, (once the army is in full force unless the Spirit specifically directs you to accomplish this task) begin to take care of their immediate physical needs. Feeding, healing, comforting, and loving the lost as Jesus would, will initially speak to them much clearer then any sermon that we attempt to deliver, however remember the love and the message go together hand and hand as the opportunities to share the truth arise.  As a body we will have unlimited Spiritual resources at our finger tips so there will be no need to hold back any of the goodness of the Lord from anyone, at any time, ever. Selfishness, pride, and greed must all become things of the past, because we will always have more then we need and it will never be our accomplishment that brings it to us.    

Marching Order - 10

Numbers & The Goal

7/8/09

Although we will soon have God's Holy Spirit of Power flowing through our lives we will still have the physical limitations of our human form.  We will need to eat and sleep and crap just like we do now; just like Jesus did, and it's imperative that we follow God's instructions in Ecclesiastes to team up so that we will not be caught unaware.  Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 - "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up!  Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.  A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."  Remember: While we are in battle, if two do lie down together make sure that the third guy is wide awake keeping watch.  Don't get caught alone, and don't get caught napping.

First, as the Spirit moves through the Christian body we must move fast and light, and there is no time to catch up with old friends or have a fun time together.  We are to pass the Spirit Christian to Christian, men and women, and as we will be moving in teams of two or three (See Marching Order 8), so we should instruct everyone we empower. With God's mighty power in our hearts, we won't need 4 or 5 of us to travel together. The key is to move as fast as we can to get the Spirit to as many as we can so that we can maximize our numbers as we come to the rescue.  

The exception to this order is for the Christians in the World's Militaries. Once the believers in your unit are filled with the Holy Spirit of Power, God may send a few of you, when you are off duty, in teams to other units or ships to pass the Spirit on to them, but you must listen to His leading on this. You have a charge to defend the helpless people in your care that God expects you to honor.  With the Holy Spirit of Power and a mustard of faith, your equipment will work no matter what the enemy does, and if you have two mustard seeds you won't need to worry about either reloading or resupply. For example, if you are a two mustard seed jet fighter faith warrior, you will be able to fly as long as you want, and missiles and bullets will just keep firing every time you pull the trigger. Further, if someone gets missile lock on you then just ask God to shut off their computer, or ask God to send their missile back at them, and He will. If you have the Holy Spirit of Power, then know that this is the time of the Lord's Favor, and God wants us to win. 

For those outside of the military remember, the enemy is going to be gunning for our brothers right away so that he can kill as many of us as possible before we can get the Spirit to them, so remember their helpless estate and let's try to keep the numbers of the beloved who are tortured and or killed by the beast down to an absolute minimum.

Once enemy is exposed defeated and in full retreat we should pause and listen to the Lord as far as how He would want us to continue. From then on every Christian Soldier with the Holy Spirit of Power will be responsible first to God to discern if the orders that he is receiving from his earthly commanders fall in line with the orders that he is receiving from his Heavenly Commander, and then he must follow the orders of the Lord. 

Marching Order - 9 

Seek and You Will Find

7/8/09

Matthew 7: 7 - "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." 

Seek.  If you are reading this and you are a Christian on the run from the beast seek the Holy Spirit of Power.  All of the verses in the Bible about nothing being impossible for you and God to accomplish together are coming true, and if the Spirit has not yet reached your area pray for it and seek it.  (Note: God will not just let you move mountains if He doesn't want you to at that time. We have to seek God to see what He will want us to do, and if that includes moving mountains, then the mountains will move.) The Spirit will be passed person to person and will not just be given, it also must be received.  The enemy is going to be coming after the Christians right away so it behoves you to stand firm in your faith to whatever end. The power is there, pray, seek, find, receive, enjoy, fight, win, go from victory unto victory.    

Marching Order - 8 

Read the Word for Guidance and be Amazed

7/8/09

2 Timothy 3:16 - "All Scripture is God - breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be throughly equipped for every good work." 

God speaks to me though the Bible, and it's amazing how every time I read it, God says something new.  I think that it's because, though the Bible stays the same, the context of my life changes, and different verses that I read on one day in one context may not speak to me, but then when my context changes that same verse will be applied to my heart for the exact instruction that the Spirit wants to give me.  Very soon, unless God decides to tarry, the context of all of our lives is about to change in a most dramatic way, and you'll be amazed at what the Bible is saying to you.  When you are filled with the Holy Spirit of Power, verses that you didn't understand before like, Matthew 17:20 -"He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."  will make total sense. 

Up until now we have read this verse like Jesus must have meant something other then what he plainly said. This must be a figurative mountain or otherwise how could he be telling us the truth? But now since the Father Himself is moving so close to us to match the enemies growing strength, this verse has a whole new context for us.  When God is this close, bringing this kind of power to His children who received His Holy Spirit of Power, what was impossible yesterday will be ordinary tomorrow.

As Spiritual warriors it will be up to us to stay connected to Jesus like the branch to the vine, and God will direct the battle.  I'm pretty sure that He is going to raise up captains and administrators to follow, and perhaps that will be the role of the 144,000.  As a member of the body of Christ we will not have to reach the whole world by ourselves, but we will work as an integrated team, and God will have special missions for, and use the gifts of, each of His warriors.  

Not only will our role be as protectors of the saved and the lost against the enemies of Christ, but we are also called to love the lost, encourage the weak, heal the sick, feed the hungry, bring freedom to the captives, drive out demons, and win the lost souls to follow our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lost are literally the prize that's at stake in this contest. God loves them and wants them, and the devil wants to steal, kill, and destroy them.  

In the Old Testament God told His children to take the land and slay His enemies, and then in the New Testament God told His children to love their enemies in the hopes that they would come to a saving faith in Christ.  Now in the final battle we will, defend ourselves and the lost and bring Freedom, Justice, and the Love of Christ to the world. It will not be our job to hunt down and eliminate everything that we see as evil, and God will lead in how we should live. God will have the wheat and the weeds grow side by side until it is harvest time, and it will be key for everyone to listen to the Spirit on how we can be involved in the Harvest as we labor together as the body of Christ.   

Finally, before you receive the Holy Spirit of Power, defend yourself with force from rampaging civilians, but not from governmental authorities, until you have received the Holy Spirit of Power. Once God's Power has come upon us we should be able to discern who to appose and who to protect.  Seek the Spirit of Power, because as of now, I'm pretty sure that God will give it to specific people of faith to begin with, and then it will be passed on person to person, and it will depend on both the faith of the one who gives and the one who receives.  I'm also not sure of the timing of when this outpouring will take place so patiently endure whatever comes your way until you receive it. 

How will you know if you received the Spirit of Power? Ask God what you can do together to show you that the power is there. Jesus said you could do something like uproot a tree and throw it into a lake.  So if that's what God puts on your heart to try and the tree doesn't fly, you don't have it yet, keep seeking.  The Bible says that many false prophets will arise and deceive many so if someone says they have the Spirit, but that they cannot pass it on to you because you're not a Christian or that your faith is just to weak to receive it, then ask Jesus to cleanse your heart and keep seeking.  If you love the Lord Jesus and want the Spirit of Power keeping praying like the widow who demanded justice in Luke 18:5 - "yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming." and God will bring it to you.    Zechariah 4 : 6b - " ..... Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty." 

The context of our lives are all about to change, and we can count on God to speak to us through the Bible all the way to the promised land.  

Marching Order  - 7

Don't Get to Cocky

7/8/09

Matthew 23 : 12 - "For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

Although I must admit that it is fun sometimes to taunt your enemies, and even Elijah took some playful jabs at his foes, once we take the field we have to stay humble.  We want God completely on our side at all times, and we never want to experience any of those you need to be learn a valuable lesson right now moments.  God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble, and He will let us loose a battle for our own good, to teach us that painful lesson. Don't forget that it's only your ounce of faith and God's mountain of power that's getting the job done. God wants to share the experience of victory with us, but He will not let us become proud and take the credit for what He is clearly accomplishing.  

As we need to stay humble, and we also need to not underestimate our enemy.  He will start with the complete balance of earthly power, unlimited wealth, committed followers, the ability to confuse and deceive you if you are not guarding your thoughts, and an evil genius that is unmatched by any super-villain ever.  Sure we are going to be defeating him all over the board, and at every turn, for the first 1,260 days, but he is a very determined, very angry, and very vengeful, being, and he will find a way to hurt us anyway he can. 

Be warned that this enemy is pure evil to the core with no hope of redemption, so he has nothing to loose in making as many other people's lives as miserable as his own.  

Revelation 12:12b - "But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short." 

    

Marching Order - 6

Honor God's Authorities 

7/8/09

Hebrews 11 : 13-16 - "All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance.  And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.  People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country - a heavenly one.  Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." 

The Sword of the Lord hangs over the Church of God, but God can come with a blessing or a curse for us. If God fights for us He will lead and guide us in how to bless the world. If He doesn't, then we are in for a very painful lesson in what it means to be faithful to our God. Either way God is expecting us to win the day, and I have no doubt that we will.

   

Only after you have received the Holy Spirit of Power and you can do something like uproot a tree by faith should you question whether any nation or government is still under God's rule. However, Spirit of Power filled Christian soldiers and sailors of every nation must remain at their posts and fight with their units to defend those that they are deployed to defend until the Holy Spirit Himself redeploys them. Make no mistake the New Global Solution is out to kill all Christians or try to force them to take the mark, which would make their Dark Lord all the more happy.  Once again until you have the Holy Spirit of Power do not try to physically fight against your government's authority in anyway, because until the anti-Christ shows his hand, you will only be shooting it out with your Christian Brothers who are honorably standing their Law Enforcement posts; this would be a terrible testimony to the lost, and to do so would be suicide. Then when you have the Holy Spirit of Power listen to his leading and he will guide you in what you should do. 

Although I don't know how long that we are going to be in the field, we will be deployed to where we are needed when we are needed.  Remember nothing is impossible with God, and if you see it in the Bible you will probably live it in the battle.  If we're needed right now in China, no problem, remember how the Spirit of God transported Philip?  One minute he was here, and in a flash he's gone somewhere else.  As an army we will be able to be much more mobile, and effective in concentrating our forces if we can get all the units we need anywhere in the world in a flash.  It will not be up to us as to which enemy we are advancing on or when we shift theaters, but the Father God Himself, will be at the command and controls of his highly effective army.  One note, don't limit your thinking just to the New Testament when it comes to believing God for powerful works of the Spirit.  You may find yourself in a situation where you need the strength of Samson, or the wisdom of Solomon, or the protection from the fiery furnace, and I'm sure that we will see new things that we never would have thought of as God shows his power and creativity to the world.  

Remember we are a Holy Nation, not a place on a map.  God can make many worlds with a thought, but there is something very special to Him about a created being that chooses to love him back.  May we fight for the treasure and bring home the prize.     

Marching Order - 5

We Will Decide What Army God takes into Battle

7/8/09

Romans 9 : 20-21 - "But who are you, O man, to talk back to God?  "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?  Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?"  Ezekiel 34 : 16 - "I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice."  2 Chronicles 7:14 -"Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land."

(Update) If God's Children hear His Call and repent. If we will turn back to living the truth and ask to be cleansed from our delusion induced unrighteousness, we will march out as Joshua's Mighty Army. However, if we do not heed the call, many fewer of us will march out as Gideon's smaller but effective Army; that is after many of us have faced the refiner's fire and been cleansed from our unrighteousness. Either way God's Army will take the field and God will win the day.  

Marching Order  - 4 

Soldiers of the God/Man Combo

7/8/09

John 15: 5- "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing"

Clearly, God could do everything in the coming battle and we could just sit back and cheer, but that wouldn't do anything to help us to grow in our relationships with Him.  Believe it or not, this coming fight is going to be as much for us as it is for those whose lost souls who are to be won.  For our sakes God wants to unite His Heart with ours in the battle helping us to grow in our faith, trust and love.  

Living the God/Man combo means that we first act in our minuet strength, and then God comes in with his unlimited power.  It's a team victory, small act of faith, mighty unlimited power, small act of faith, mighty unlimited power, small act of faith, mighty unlimited power. Also, when you are in the heat of battle remember do not try to win with your limited strength when God's unlimited strength is right there with you.  This is not a battle for your glory, so don't try to be a hero by running out ahead of where the Spirit of God is leading you, and don't try to do more then what the Spirit of God is impressing on your heart to do. 

Once the battle is joined God will be directing each unit though the Spirit.  He will be making the strategic decisions, and if He is going to supply us with Generals and Captains, then He will make this clear to us as well. Then it will be up to us to listen for our orders and obey. 

Marching Order - 3 

Expect a Glorious Victory

7/8/09

2 Corinthians 2: 14 - "But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him." 

With all of the modern armies of the world amassed against us it would appear that the Christian army doesn't stand a chance.  We have a few guns, but they have all of the bullets.  We have rocks and they have tanks.  We have no air force and they control the skies.  That's not fair.  Or is it?  

The main battle weapon's system that the Christian wields is the most dangerous weapon on earth, and that's the weapon of faith.  Soon guns fired in faith will be able to shoot without bullets.  Arrows, fired in faith will be able to down f-16's, and rocks thrown in faith will stop tanks cold.  The key here is that nothing is impossible to one who has faith.  The enemies forces though mighty, are limited to the box of the physical and natural.  They are warriors of cold science and reason, but we are warriors of faith, not limited to the box, and the Spirit of Power that we are soon to receive will make us for a long season invincible.  

I know that this is hard to get you arms around right now because the power has yet to come, so as you wait for it, read all of the words of Jesus about how we are about to be able to do greater things then he did.  Jesus walked on water, we can walk on water.  Jesus healed the sick; we will be able to heal our wounded. Jesus brought back the newly dead; we will be able to bring back our newly dead so that they can get right back in the fight.  With God on our side the fight isn't really fair at all.  We will crush them like bugs, and they will never know how or why.  When the battle is joined, be courageous and filled with joy as God smites your enemies right before your eyes. 

We will have the glorious victory right up to the time that Satan arrives 1,260 days into the end times.  He will then be given the power to conquer us, so we have 1,260 days to win as many souls as we can to Christ. At that time some of us will die and some will go into captivity, but if we go into captivity we must never take the mark of the beast or worship him in any way. We must be faithful to God even if we are taken into the refiner's fire. God has chosen who will be refined and it is for our benefit that we are allowed to suffer for a little while to the glory of His Name.  

Marching Order - 2

Commanded to be Strong and Courageous

7/8/09

Joshua 1:9 - "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." 

Very soon there are going to be three types of people on planet earth.  Those with the beast, those with the Lord, and those who are up for grabs, and we are to stay faithful to the Lord and continue to defend and fight for the lost right to our end. God has a plan for all of us, and no matter how we enter into eternity we will be happier if we walked by faith, courage, and trust in our Lord. 

Marching Order - 1 

Undivided

7/8/09

John 17: 20-21 - "My prayer is not for them alone.  I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.  May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me." 

Very soon the power of the Holy Spirit will be lit on earth and passed from believer to believer, until it reaches all who call on the name of Christ.  Once we receive the Spirit we are united. There will be no us verses them, and no squabbling over points of the faith in the family of God. A Baptist with the Spirit is now the same as a Catholic with the Spirit.  An Evangelical with the Spirit is the same as a Lutheran with the Spirit.  A Methodist with the Spirit is the same as an Adventist with the Spirit.  Sure we think that the other guy is wrong about a whole host of things and God will lead us all in the truth, but if we all have the same Spirit of God surging in our hearts then we are all approved by God, and we must all rally to the standard of Christ as one, and labor and fight side by side against the enemy as one.  (AS ONE)

Furthermore, there will be no room for divides along the lines of race, class, citizenship, or National Origin.  We are all equal in Christ as souls that He loves, so there is no place for the pride of thinking that you are any better then your brother for any reason.  Instead we are going to need to count on everyone as a team from the greatest to the least to assure the victory.  The Lord has many things that He wants to accomplish in the coming harvest and one of them is to bring the body into perfect unity under one throne, the Throne of Christ.  Do not be surprised if the mightiest warrior is that little, funny looking, scrawny, hard to relate to guy with the heart of gold.     

Our enemy will not be able to overcome us if we can keep his lies out of our heads and truly love our brothers no matter who they are, or what tradition they come from.  We must never allow ourselves to be divided and thus defeated.  Rally to Jesus and fight side by side like cornered lions filled with terrible Holy resolve. 

This Means War

God is Leading us in a Revolution back to the Truth

7/8/09

God's people need to prepare their hearts now for the greatest struggle that will ever be waged. It's coming hard and fast and it's going to hit like a ton of bricks, and sadly, many may be taken by complete surprise. Forget about the rapture.  Why would God pull the bulk of his Holy Army out of the ultimate fight to go have a party when there are so many souls that He still wants to keep left in the precarious balance?  And wouldn't Jesus' concern be with the sheep that are still missing? And what was that about picking up a cross?  "What's a cross"? Shouldn't our soft western faith be tested with suffering and sacrifice like the Saints of old, or like our brothers and sisters who've lived under the constant threat of death by communism?  

Christian, something worse then communism is at the gate, and if you call on the name of Christ you're a soldier now brother, whether you like it or not.  The same dark forces that will come for your public heroes, leaders, teachers, prophets, pastors and evangelists will come for you in time, and you will not be able to avoid the conflict.  God's desire is to, in the end, redeem you and take you home to Heaven, but it's time for you first to show your metal.  This earth is not your home, and very soon you may be able to prove it.  

Since the first wave of the assault will most likely be against the leaders, the rank and file Christians need to know that they are expected to step up and fight the good fight of faith, down to the last man. The Holy Spirit of Power will be poured out on the earth and spread from person to person, but there may be a period of time before it reaches every corner of the earth, and the enemy will most likely try to begin his process of eradicating Christians right from the get go. Before the Spirit arrives, it will be a true testimony to God if Christians can hold together under the enemy's evil onslaught. Remember, where two or more are gathered in Jesus' name He will be there; and no matter where we are, God will be there for us; but our only hope of staying faithful is by continually seeking his face, and seeking His Holy Spirit's Strength.   

Once it's begun, trust God and ask Him simply to meet you in the depths of your trial with the grace to overcome the world. God is about to change all life as we know it, and everything must be settled in the next 7 or so years before we then begin the times where God lives among us and rules us as our Righteous King.  Though it will be the fight of our lives, if we, by His grace, are victorious in our own personal contests of loyalty to Jesus verses our love for this world and the fear of death, then we can approach the throne of Grace with our heads held high unashamed, knowing full well that we belong with Jesus.