Action Journal

2009-10-29T17:00:00.000-07:00

Preface

As in the Days of Gibeah

Updated 2/4/11

Hosea 9 : 7 - 9 - "The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired man a maniac. The prophet, along with my God, is watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God. They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins."

This is what happened at Gibeah.

Judges 19 : 20 - 26 - "'You are welcome at my house.' the old man said, "Let me supply whatever you need. Only don't spend the night in the square." So he took him into his house and fed his donkeys. After they had washed their feet, they had something to eat and drink. While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him." The owner of the house went outside and said to them, "No, my friends, don't be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don't do this disgraceful thing. Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But to this man, don't do such a disgraceful thing." But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight."

Fast forward to the fall of 2009; it's been reported that allegedly a young woman in Northern California was lured by a friend to a place on her school grounds where ten people beat and raped her for over two hours while ten others watched and cheered. The young woman has been described as a "church goer" so it's likely that she's a Christian who was different simply because she was trying to be faithful in her walk with her Lord.

This is what we've become, like those of Gibeah; not from just one isolated incident, but as part of an adulterous and sinful generation. Clearly, this did not happen overnight. It's been a long slow gradual decline of mankind's billions and billions of selfish individual choices and little compromises that have sunk us into this moral abyss. Wickedness all around us, and running so deep that we've embraced it and no longer even recognize it for what it is. We are all responsible for what we've become both through our actions and through our silence, and now that we're here, the days of punishment are coming, and the days of reckoning are at hand.

2009-07-08T20:31:00.000-07:00

The Beginning of The End Times

Updated 3/21/11

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel 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 become His Friend. God loves His Creation, but God's very Nature is Righteousness and Holiness so all of mankind's wickedness and rebellion whether intentionally or not is an outrage to the very Heart of our God. Two thousand years ago God sent His Son, Jesus, to fulfill His Law by being sacrificed for the sins of man so that through the Sacrificial Blood of Christ, God could have a relationship with His Children. Those who put their faith in Christ were then credited with a righteousness based on faith from first to last. God then promised that those who loved Jesus and followed Him as their Lord and Savior would be sealed with the Holy Spirit as a down payment guaranteeing their standing forever as a child belonging to God. Romans 14 : 8 - "If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord."

Although it's a wonderful thing to belong to the Lord, it does come at a cost. When you're God's Child you become His Ambassador to the world around you literally representing Him everywhere you go. Beyond our passive representation of God, He also calls us to fulfill the desires of His Heart on earth. God calls His Children to stand for the Truth and to be in the world but not of the world. God calls His Children to go and make disciples of all the nations, teaching them to obey everything that Jesus commanded us to obey. God calls His Children to hunger and thirst for His Righteousness and to do everything in humility and love. God calls His Children to be strong and courageous and to be lights to the world so that all can see and know that there's a God who loves them. It's always in our best interests to fear, love, obey, seek, and draw close to our God; however, when God's Children lose our fearful respect for our Heavenly Father, embrace wicked pleasures, misrepresent Him to the lost world, and begin to pick and choose which of His Commands that we are willing to obey, it's then up to our God, as our Loving Father, to bring us back on track to our Family Duties, Responsibilities, and Standards through His Faithful Righteously Angry Discipline.

God's Message to His Children 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 out of my mouth. 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 you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so 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."

God has planned out the days to come that are known to us as the end times, and all of His Plans will be accomplished. Known to God thousands of years ago and described above in Revelation 3 : 15 - 20, but unknown to us, is that God's Children in our generation would be, and now are, displeasing to our Heavenly Father. Through the secret power of lawlessness, mentioned in 2Thessalonians 2 and already working against us even back then, the deceiver has slowly and quietly stolen our passion for obeying God's Truth and replaced it with a desire to just get along with the devil's world, an acceptance of his lies, and a love for his pop culture.

No longer are we salt and light in our representation of our God, but instead we have become bound by the rules of a one sided political correctness that tells us that if Christians want to be good members of society that we must be careful to never say anything that might be offensive to anyone else. Sadly, in our misguided attempt to reach out to our politically correct generation as a new breed of cool, positive, sensitive, tolerant, accepting, loving, Christians the enemy has turned our efforts against us and in the process we have become timid, passive, lukewarm, bland, without any resolve to teach others to obey the Lord Jesus, afraid to rock the boat, afraid to call sin - sin, afraid to tell others that they desperately need our Savior, afraid to upset those who follow false religions, and so very afraid to hurt anyone's feelings that we will often affirm to others that the Lord is pleased with them no matter what they do; even within in the Body of Christ. Malachi 2 : 17 - "You have wearied the Lord with your words. 'How have we wearied him?' you ask. By saying, 'All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them' ............. "

Two thousand years ago Jesus told the Apostle John exactly how He would find His Church in the 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." Obviously this Verse speaks of a vast disconnect between how God sees His Children and how we see ourselves in relation to our God. In this Passage Jesus goes on to say that if the Church does not ask Him for spiritual "eye salve" to help us to see the Truth of this disconnect, and in response to the Truth earnestly repent, that the Lord, because He loves us, was then going to come with a rebuke and with discipline. Hebrews 12 : 10 - "Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness."

Two thousand years ago the Lord told the Apostle John what form 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; where people will be killed by war - (chaos), famine, disease, and wild beasts. This is the discipline that the Lord will allow out of His Love for us to turn us back to a humble fearful obedience to the Truth if we do not seek His Eye Salve, earnestly repent, and turn back ourselves. Although it says in Revelation 1 : 3 that blessed are those who hear the Revelation and take it to heart, shrewdly, as the oppressor made his plans for our genocide he gave God's Children a deception so that we would not even be aware that the death, destruction, and terrible broken hearted misery that are on our thresholds are actually sanctioned as a rebuke from our God. "Don't worry about the book of Revelation.", the crafty one proclaims. "It's so confusing, and surely no painful discipline is going to fall on you. Compare yourselves to other Christians; obviously you're not the ones who are lukewarm, wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. Besides there's going to be this event called the pre-Tribulation rapture and one day you'll just fly away to Heaven to go have a party with Jesus leaving the rest of the world to me. Since that will be the very first sign that we are in the end times, and you'll be gone, why bother with it?".

(Note: The future rapture of the Church as described in Scripture is tied to the resurrection of the dead in that a resurrection event will happen just before people are raptured from the earth. 1Thessalonians 4 : 16 - 17 - "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." In the book of Revelation we see that there are just two resurrection events that are described in these Passages and both of these resurrection events are after the Tribulation time. One is described in Revelation 20: 4 - 6 and the other in Revelation 20 : 11 - 15. In Revelation 20 verses 5 and 6 the Bible twice clearly labels this resurrection as the first resurrection. Revelation 20 : 5b - 6 - " ....... This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years." Now if this resurrection is the first resurrection how can there be another resurrection then rapture event before the Tribulation when the first resurrection does not come until at the end of the Tribulation? Why did God bother to number this first resurrection as first? If there was a resurrection before this resurrection then why not just describe it without numbering it? I believe that it is numbered to help us to see that there is not going to be a large resurrection then rapture event until the Lord returns, coming in the clouds at the end of the Tribulation, as described in both Revelation 19 : 11 - 20 and Matthew 24 : 30 - 31. Although the two witnesses in Revelation 11 are brought back to life and are then taken up to be with the Lord, and the 144,000 will also be taken up at some point during the Tribulation to be with the Lord as firstfruits, see Revelation 14 : 3 - 4. Thus the large resurrection then rapture event that is described in 1Thessalonians 4 does not fit into the end times time line as the pre-Tribulation rapture event that so many people are hoping for.)

Today, since so many in the Body of Christ embrace this pre-Tribulation rapture lie, perhaps because it encourages the lost to make a decision of faith now before it's to late, or perhaps because it's obviously just so much more appealing then to have our relatively untested faith to be tested by serious persecution, pain, grief, loss and or tragedy; the Body of Christ now confidently spreads and strongly defends this powerful deception believing that we are soon going to be snatched away and rewarded for our faithfulness to Jesus; when in reality we have been quietly patiently lured, ever so slowly, away from the Heart of our God and we are about to be struck squarely in the heart by our own God's Terrible Painful Rebuke. Amos 5 : 18 - 19 - "Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him." Malachi 3 : 2 - "But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire or a launderer's soap." 1Peter 4 : 17a - "For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; .........." Jeremiah 9 : 7 - "Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: 'See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?'"

What does a terrible painful rebuke from the Lord look like? Here are a few verses in Hosea that should bring us pause. Hosea 9 : 16 - "Ephraim (Northern Kingdom of Israel) is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring." Hosea 10 : 13 - 14 - "But you (Ephraim) have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors, the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated - as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children." Hosea 8 : 7 - "They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up. Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like a worthless thing." Hosea 8 : 14 - "Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire upon their cities that will consume their fortresses." Clearly, we should greatly fear the painful rebuke of our Lord, and if He says that we need to be disciplined then we should respond to His Warning with the utmost urgent seriousness. Joel 1 : 14 - 15 - "Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord. Alas for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty."

The verses above where written about God's Righteous Anger towards His Children whom He deeply loves, and if we do not repent, His Rebuke to us could be just as serious. Think about this for a moment; the destroyer will soon be given permission by our God to kill us in 1/4th of the world. Also note that these warnings of rebuke and discipline in Revelation 3 were given for the end times Christian Church and not to the lost; although everyone on earth will be affected in some way by the terrible days to come, and many old scores will be settled when peace is removed from the earth.

Although disaster and destruction are in sight, God, in His Mercy wants us to humble ourselves and repent; so He is sending help. Amos 3 : 7 - "Surely the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets." Malachi 3 : 1a - "See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. ........." I believe that God's End Times Messenger will begin the end times as a herald running with the end times Revelation that was given to a different Servant of God by the Holy Spirit, as described in Habakkuk 2 : 1-3 - "I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint. Then the Lord replied: 'Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.'" In heralding this Message the messenger calls God's Children to read it, to repent, and to turn their hearts and their children's hearts back to each other and to God. (Note, God speaking of His Messenger who will prepare the way before Him. Malachi 4 : 6 - "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.") But who is looking for God's End Times Messenger and how would you know who to look for? For that matter who is listening for God's Watchman, who will see the sword of discipline coming, and how would you recognize the voice of a watchman even if you heard it? Frankly, very few are listening or looking for God's Messengers to come because if we are expecting to just get taken away before the end times begin then why would we need God's End Times Help anyway?

This is the situation that we find ourselves in. I believe that a key to God's Messenger's first end times mission is to somehow encourage everyone to earnestly seek the Lord for the eye salve that will help us to see and discern the Truth of our times; but people have been saying that we are in the end times for centuries, so what could possibly motivate anyone to earnestly seek the eye salve now, especially when we are blind and think that we are rich in the Eyes of the Lord?

If you read this Journal you'll see that I believe that I, like many others, can see the end times drawing near, and I've asked the Lord to testify to this specific alarm as the Second Watchman by sending to us obviously supernatural healing miracles. Then I later discovered that healing miracles are predicted for God's Children in Malachi 4 : 2 - 3 for right around the end times. "'But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things,' says the Lord Almighty." The thing is, I've also discovered a verse in Isaiah that indicates that the majority of the Lord's Healing will come in the midst of our end times testing and not before. Isaiah 35: 3-6 - "Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you." Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert." Along with the healing miracles, this verse also indicates that we are going to take some major hits and that God is going to allow some fearful things to happen, but then when we as the Body of Christ earnestly turn our hearts to Him and call on Him for help, He will come and save us.

Although the healing miracles will be wonderful to receive in the midst of our trials, I was hoping that they would alert the Body of Christ to our peril before the times of testing begin so that we can turn back to God as quickly as possible. I knew that all of God's Children worldwide would not see through the devil's deception, repent, and return to the Lord as the result of healing signs and Biblical warnings of destruction, before we've received any actual discipline, but I was hopeful that some would. I then hoped that these would be the ones who would call others to healing and renewal and who would be looking for God to come to our rescue.

At this point, after further study, I don't think that even unusual obviously supernatural healing miracles will be enough to alert the bulk of the Body of Christ to the seriousness of our coming discipline. If God answers these prayers I believe that there will be only a few days between when the miracles begin and when the discipline begins. Matthew 24 says that the coming days will be like the days of Noah where most people lived their lives completely unaware that the flood was coming. Matthew 24 : 39a - "and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. .....". However, since so many Christians are asleep and expecting a rapture, as opposed to the destroyer murdering themselves and their families; I'm still asking God to bring special early healing to people that I've specifically prayed for as signs to specific others that this Message is True, from God, and worthy of their immediate attention and proclamation. I've traveled to several states and I've prayed with a few people personally, but I've also silently prayed for several people who I have crossed paths with, like the hostess in Grand Forks, members of churches that I've attended, and also for some people who I have never met but that I've heard of through media outlets; all of whom are totally unaware of this intercession.

Like the Elijah of old calling down fire from Heaven, I'm still asking God to send down His Healing Miracles. 1Kings 18 : 36 - 37 - "...... O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again." After the healing begins I will continue to pray and ask God to heal more and more people in Jesus' Name through the first rounds testimony and example, but how far God gets in this process before the fearful events begin to happen is completely in the Lord's Hands. If God answers these prayers, some healing will begin first before the horsemen discipline, however, I can only make the requests and then it's up to our Lord God Almighty to make the decisions. Finally, don't be surprised if the deceiver has his own explanation for the healing miracles like they're from mutants or aliens or anything else other then from the Hand of God, because the oppressor knows that they're coming and he can't say that they're from the pit of Hell this time; otherwise the atheists that he's deceived would then have to consider that if there's a devil then there must be a God; and if I'm ever quoted as saying that I have blood that runs green and white, yes I've said it at different times either because of the college I attended or the color of soda that I liked to drink.

Sometime during the Lord's Promised Rebuke, when the Body of Christ humbly repents, and returns to it's first love, the Lord will come to our aid against the forces of the evil oppressor. Joel 2 : 12 - 13 -"'Even now,' declares the Lord, 'return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.' Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity."

If the world is on fire, or if God is testifying to His Very Near Presence with healing miracles, then I encourage you, to copy and paste this Journal to a file on your own computer so that you will have your own copy to read offline to see if the Lord speaks to you through it. I also encourage you to make a paper copies to have for yourself and to give to others. There are many chapters so please make sure you get a copy of all of the archives.

May God's Will Be Done

Press On

Your Brother

Thomas Israel

2009-05-23T10:05:00.000-07:00

Our Only Hope is in the Lord

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

Ezekiel 33 : 10 - 11 - "Son of man, say to the house of Israel, 'This is what you are saying: "Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?" ' Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel?'"

Updated 4/30/11

You may 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'll see just how far you've fallen from His Standards of Righteousness and have not even known it. 2Thessalonians 2 : 9 - 12 - "The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 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 His People to break the delusion of the false reality that the devil has artfully crafted before us. Although you may not even know it, your foundations of reality, morality, and Truth have been slowly eroded by a lifetime of the false words, the false signs, the false miracles, and the false wonders of TV, Movies, Media, Music, and now Computer Games and the "every sort of evil" that is splashed all over the Internet.

It's ironic that they're called TV programs because show after show, year after year, the devil's programing to sculpt our moral standards and our understanding of the Truth is exactly what we've received. What's right and what's wrong, what's cool and what's uncool, who's the hero and who's the villain, who's innocent and who's guilty, what's funny and what's offensive, what's important and what's unimportant, what's possible and what's impossible, what's Truth and what's fable, when should we keep our calm and when we should be angry, who should we listen to and who do we disregard, who is pure and noble and who has an evil agenda, what's true science and what's false science, what's excusable and what is inexcusable, as well as how we should look, how we should act, what we should say, what we should eat, how we should think, and what we should buy are all being actively downloaded into our passive minds everyday and if we do decide to examine what we're receiving it's usually only to verify the most outrageous claims.

It's no accident that the first generation to grow up, cradle to grave, with the combination of Progressive Movies, TV Shows and Media; Rock Music, Free Sex, Recreational Drugs, and more recently Computer Games and the X-Rated Internet, is now the generation who has been spiritually blinded and guided to the moral abyss by the evil Pied Piper who leads the rebellion against our God. We are the most entertained society in human history and what do we have to show for it? A total disconnection from the Righteous Heart of our God and moral standards that have sunken so low, even among God's Children, that God will most likely have to put a terrible hurt on us for our own good. How much punishment will it take to convince you of your need to actively filter everything that you see, hear, and think, and that you need to reject and forsake the devil's pleasure filled crafty programing that's leading you to destruction? It won't be easy. Most of us can't even walk into a room without turning on the TV, and once it's on, few actively filter what we're receiving to compare it to the Word of God. Then even as we try to filter what we see, hear, and think, so much of how we live and how we relate to others has been tied to the common experiences that we all share because of our common entertainment experiences. How many things in our lives now somehow relate back to a show we've watched or a song we sang? How many times have you heard a song that took your mind back to a place, a time, a feeling, or a relationship? How many times have you looked at your circumstances and said, "This is just like this movie or that show."?

Our entertainment programing has been ingrained deep deep deep within us and it's being controlled by the evil deceiver who's using it to slowly and quietly turn our tastes as individuals, as generations, and as societies first to tolerate, then to accept, then to enjoy, then to embrace, and ultimately to love immorality. Compare the music, movies, and later TV shows from the 1940's and 50's with today. Can you see the progression? Can you see the programming? Can you see that what is "normal" today would never have been tolerated in years past? Have you even noticed that today's entertainment, that we honestly love to watch, continually portrays casual unmarried sex as the norm as actors and actresses move from partner to partner with little to no concern as to whether these portrayals honor God or not? And there's nothing in the history of Christian Society to compare to the recent universal easy availability of the most evil pornography imaginable; that always seems to find it's way to the curious eyes and ears of the weak, the young, and the most vulnerable. Luke 11 : 34 - "Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light."

For centuries Christians knew the benefits and virtue of guarding their thoughts and guarding what they would allow to be set before their eyes, but at some point those with these virtues were effectively labeled by the rest of society, with the help of the new mass media, as being old fashioned, squares, prudes, uncool, narrow minded, small minded, and or closed minded. Then when someone played the "You're just closed minded" card against Christians we often reacted as if it was then our duty to open up our bodies and our minds to almost anything just to prove that we were not inferior people. Although the ones who were said to be open minded were always portrayed as being the most noble, kindest, and most inclusive of people, they rarely seemed to be very open minded when it came to considering the claims of Christianity. Why is that? Why does it seem like the "broad minded" only have a problem with Christianity and that anything else that anyone else wants to think or believe is fine? Why is it that only Christianity is defined as narrow? Let's look at Matthew 7 : 13 - 14 - "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Could it be that there are some on the broad path who just don't like it that there are those who are trying to follow the narrow path? We have to narrow our minds to focus on what we will accept as good, pleasing to God, and True and to decide what we will reject as evil, displeasing to God, and error in order to enter through the narrow gate; and it's important for us to focus our lives on obeying our Lord Jesus even if we are called names by some who are on the broad minded path to destruction.

Today, since few can stomach being labeled as closed minded and since almost everyone wants to experience as much as we can out of life, many Christians now freely open up our hearts and minds to experience as many of the devil's pleasures, thoughts, ideas, escapes, and fantasies as we can without even considering that the deceiver may be using them to eat up our time and to distract our hearts, minds, and efforts away from our God and His Missions for us in the real world. Isaiah 26 : 18 - "We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world." Instead of focusing our thoughts on Jesus, on building up the Body of Christ, and on our Matthew 28 mission to go and make disciples of all the nations, we've embraced the ever increasing wickedness of our entertainment pop culture, and the wickedness acted out by the Body of Christ has followed. Sadly, the ultimate effect of people loving evil more and more is not just that it distracts us from serving our God, but that it also leads our hearts further and further away from the Heart of our Heavenly Father. It's like we were being fed pleasurable drugs that we didn't even know we were taking, and now that we're opened up our minds and become completely addicted to being entertained we're trapped in an ever more polluted pit of evil slime that we totally enjoy, see as normal, and that we would never want to leave.

From our youngest days the TV has been used to babysit us, and many of the youth of today strive to have some form of electronic entertainment constantly engaging them, even at Church. How can anyone hear the Lord's Whisper in the midst of all the noise? Who has a use for a God if He isn't entertaining? What chance does a child have to learn to love, respect, and obey God when all he hears from his entertainment is God's Name being used as a curse word? Sadly, even when God is mentioned or portrayed "positively" in a TV show or a movie it almost always leaves us with a false impression of our God, a false sense of security over how God feels about mankind, and the false representation that God just excuses everyone's sin.

People say that the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are different, but He's not, He's the same. The God who destroyed the world because of mankind's sin, in the days of Noah, still hates sin just as much, and He will act just as Righteously, Forcefully and Decisively against the wicked of our day as He's acted towards all of the rebellious since the day He first breathed life into man. Christ, who taught us to love one another and to love our enemies in the hopes that they too will come to repentance, will one day come back on a white horse with the Armies of Heaven, as described in Revelation 19, to righteously punish all who have received the mark of the beast, which allowed them to buy or sell, because it's in receiving the mark and worshipping the beast that they will have made their final choice between submitting to God or joining the devil's evil rebellion against Him.

God, the One who gives us life and all good things, is a kind and loving Father to all who love Him, but throughout all time, to those who joined the devil's rebellion and who lived like they would be much happier if their Creator just went away; by following other gods of their own design, by reveling in their wicked lifestyles, by rejecting God's Way of Salvation, and by rejecting God's Authority over their lives; the sad truth is that at the moment that they die as God's Enemies, Hell will then forever be their very worst nightmare, and that's why we beg everyone to consider this, turn away from the rebellion, and seek to know our Lord now before it's to late. Hebrews 10 : 31 - "It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Revelation 14 : 9b - 11 - "'..... If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name.'"

It's not God who's changed, God's Children have changed! God's Children, inspired and emboldened by the devil's pleasurable programming, have lost all of their fear of God. Believing that the Kindness and Goodness of God gives them freedom to enjoy evil without consequence, they partake in all of the wickedness that they want whenever they want; and then in their hearts they relegate God's Desire for our obedience to an annoying afterthought, and that makes our God furious. 2Timothy 3 : 1 - 4 - "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-"

That's the peril. That's the delusion. Even now there are multitudes of people who believe that they're safe in their relationships with God who risk being punished by our Lord because they've been taught, along with the rest of society, to love wickedness through the outreach of worldly entertainment. Sadly, many today who claim the name of Christ for their salvation love their wicked entertainment and worldly pleasures much more then they love their God which puts them in serious peril, and they don't even know it. God tells us in Philippians 2:12 to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Truly, it's not our words or our warm feelings towards God, but our obedience to God's Commands in reverent fear that proves whether Jesus truly became the Lord to us that we once confessed Him to be. 2Corinthians 13 : 5 - "Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you - unless, of course, you fail the test" Colossians 3 : 5 - 8 - "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves as all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips." For years society laughed at the Amish for shunning the modern world, but in the end the Amish may get the last laugh if people today now choose the wickedness in our modern pop culture over obedience to our Heavenly Father. Psalm 145 : 20 - "The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy."

With entertainment leading the way, the devil has also quietly and slowly led us down the path to social conformity with his rebellion against God's Very Nature through the false prophets of Celebrity, Academic Institutions, Public Schools, what's called Social Justice, Political Correctness, and Moral Relativism. Though at the time we could see some of it happening, instead of purposing in our hearts to stand up against the tide of lies in solidarity with God's Word, we caved into them choosing to stand with the world instead of the Truth so that we wouldn't hurt anyone's feelings and so that people would not think of us as intolerant.

Sadly, only some of us now take our last stand and say that abortion and homosexuality are wrong and that marriage should be just between a man and a woman, but how do we feel about divorce? We see divorce as an acceptable normal thing, and even some Pastors of the Church are on their second and third wives; even though it hurts their children and the Bible says that they're causing themselves the women that they've divorced to commit adultery. Some Christians have all varieties of sex whenever we want, and instead of feeling shame and remorse for our sin, we don't feel anything at all. Christian teens are now expected and pressured by society to be sexually active at younger and younger ages so that precious few make it to their marriage beds as virgins, and those who try are ridiculed.

Though God says that men and women are different, political correctness demands that they be called the same. Though God says that He doesn't like it when men dress like women and women like men, cross dressing, especially among women, is now common. Though God calls homosexuality an abomination, to their shame, some churches instead of trying to help people to resist their sinful nature support, encourage, and strongly endorse the abomination by naming openly unrepentantly gay people as leaders over the repentant. Though the Bible says that God's Churches must always be led by men, some denominations ordain women to have spiritual authority over men. Though the Bible says that when God's Children come together for prayer and worship that the women's heads should be covered and the men's heads uncovered, guys now wear hats to church and women don't. Though God says wives obey your husbands and husbands love your wives like Jesus loves His Church, Christian divorce has become completely common, accepted, and now sadly almost expected as we all seek to find our own individual happiness, demand our equal rights, and expect the reward for our emotional investment that we all feel we're entitled to; even though we once stood there before our God and vowed our undying love, commitment, and support to one another. Malachi 2 : 15 - 16a - "Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. 'I hate divorce,' says the Lord God of Israel, ......."

Though God wants us to seek Him and stay connected to Him in our daily lives, some Christians spend hours indulging in news, sports, computer games, social networking, texting, romance novels, and all varieties of entertainment escapes everyday, and rarely find time to spend with our Lord. Though God says to take one day a week to rest and remember Him, many Christian's lives are in constant motion and rarely slow down to rest, to think, or to pray.

Isaiah 58 : 13 - 14 - "'If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.' The mouth of the Lord has spoken."

Though God says that we are to be lights to the world, most Christians don't even know their neighbors let alone share the Gospel with them. Though God commands us to be strong and courageous and to go and make disciples of all of the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey Jesus' Commands; few Christians these days are even willing to say that the world's false religions are false let alone that they're leading millions and millions of deceived lost souls to Hell. Can you imagine the prophet Elijah telling everyone that we must be careful not to upset the sensitive feelings of the worshippers of Baal by warning them that they're being deceived?

Though God says to not let any unwholesome words come from our mouths, words that would have scandalized our great grandparents are now spoken freely throughout Christendom, even sometimes from the pulpit, and few care. Though the Bible tells us that the devil is the father of lies, those whom we elect to be our leaders make promise after promise and then the television news personalities can only laugh as they affirm that no one actually expected these elected leaders to keep their fantastic campaign promises. Sadly, with a few honorable exceptions, through the power of the modern mass media, the free world has become captive to be governed by each election cycle's most convincing liars and amazingly, each election cycle, Christians are just as gullible to believe these lies, even as those whom we elect enact laws and give rulings that offend the very Honor of our God.

Though God says that we should discipline our children with the rod, out of our love for them, political correctness says that that's child abuse, and we wonder why our youth run wild. There was a time when there was corporal punishment in our schools for misbehavior, but now that it's rare and our children know that they can't be touched, we argue and debate over why the teachers have lost control of their classrooms and why our schools are failing. Where children use to play, gangs now roam the neighborhoods selling drugs and sometimes killing people just because of the color of their skin or the color of their shirt.

Drugs, alcohol, gambling and porn snare Christians into prisons of addiction, destroying our very lives, while the devil laughs. Our beloved entertainment industry provides us with an audiovisual stream of sex, violence, and death and we wonder why nothing seems to shock us anymore. Not content with serving God in the real world, Believers of all ages now escape to the devil's virtual godless science fiction fantasy worlds where we can murder, rape, steal, destroy, and pillage, just for fun, while many more secretly defile and debase ourselves by viewing the vile images that infest the Internet. There was once a time when Christians knew that an out of wedlock pregnancy meant that something was wrong that needed to be made right, but now they are accepted, sought after, and even celebrated; while those who choose to abort their babies are little different from those in the Old Testament who threw their babies into the fire to sacrifice them to false gods. How did we get to this place where people can think that if an unborn baby is wanted that they're real a person, who's even protected under the law, but if they're unwanted then they're just trash to be thrown to the dogs? How did we get to this place where our culture embraces, supports, and even shamelessly trumpets seemingly most every form of sexual immorality as celebrated sexual freedom while God's Designs for morality, family, and society are condemned as bigoted? Isaiah 3 : 9 - "The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves." Isaiah 5 : 20 - "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter."

These examples offer us just a tiny glimpse into how far we've been lured, as Believers, away from the Righteous Heart of our God, and our proud selfish offenses are so numerous that they're beyond listing. It's almost like we're trying to do everything that we can to either ignore or test our Heavenly Father's Will without even considering His Perspective, Authority, or Feelings. Yes the Truth sets us free, but we're suppose to use our personal freedom in Christ for good. As Children of God, when we stumble or fall into sin, we're suppose to hear the guilt brought on by the Spirit of God, quickly get back up, immediately turn away from our wicked ways by seeking God's Forgiveness and with a humble heart draw near again to Him. Then we are to humbly confess our sins to one another, and seek the forgiveness of those who we've sinned against so that we can then have peace with each other and truly serve one another in love. We're not suppose to sear our consciences, willfully embrace a lifestyle of unrepentant wickedness, denounce those who call sin - sin, and then use our freedom in Christ to shove God's Kindness right back in His Face. Galatians 5 : 13 - "You my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather serve one another in love."

As Christians we are no longer under the Law but under God's Grace, but if we know what's pleasing to the Lord wouldn't we want to try to do the things that please Him and not do the things that displease Him just because we want to be pleasing to our God? Is there anything that God wants us to do or don't do that we don't somehow neglect or rebel against? It's like if God said that we were not allowed to eat cheese on Tuesdays then there would be multitudes of people defiantly reveling lustfully in Tuesday cheese eating. It's gotten so bad that if anyone does stand up for the Truth to say that we're sinning against our God they're hated, dismissed, or disdained by everyone around them, even in the Family of God. Sadly, just like it was predicted in 2Thessalonians 2 for the last days, the rebellious Children of God now delight in wickedness and the only one left who seems to notice or care is God.

Yes Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but God is not pleased by our open rebellion, and our standing in Christ will not stop the Father from disciplining us. As a matter of fact it's God's Deep Love for us that demands that our repentance be accomplished, and that our relationships to Him be restored. 1Corinthians 11 : 32 - "When we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world." Our Holy God passionately hates our wicked rebellion, and many of the rebellious things that we do we've been doing for so long that we no longer even consider whether they may be offensive to our Father or not; so as our downwardly spiraling moral standards keep pace with the devil's immoral pop culture, that we are trying so hard to prove our tolerance towards, God, who calls us to reach always upwards towards His Standard of Moral Perfection, has become righteously enraged at us.

As our private lives and social lives have become wicked and corrupt, so as members of the Body of Christ we have also been patiently taught, over time, to believe the devil's lies that now disconnect us from completing the mission of taking God's Salvation to the ends of the earth. Lies like; since everyone sins those who are less sinful somehow deserve to go to Heaven, that many spiritual paths lead to Heaven, that hiding God's Revealed Hatred towards mankind's sinful rebellion somehow equals tolerant love while offending others with the revealed Truth of their precarious coming judgement equals intolerant hate, that God is like a kindly old grandfather who is only always pleased with us and who never gets offended or angry, that Hell is offensive so it must not be a real place, that the Bible needs to continually conform to the secular culture in order to maintain it's relevance, and that the abundant Christian life means living for God's Blessings and His Financial Increase and not so much for our sacrificial service to His Kingdom.

These are some of the dirtiest lies that the devil has ever told. The lost are on the road to Hell, dead in their sins, but many of us really don't care because to us our relationships with God are now based much much more on what God can give to us; on being financially blessed or on being intellectually fed or on being socially connected or on being spiritually entertained or on being emotionally pumped up or on finding that special someone then on what we can do together with Jesus in service to His Kingdom. How many Christian books can we read that tell us that it's good to read our Bibles and do what God says, before we will read our Bibles, and do what God says? Sadly, I think that we believe the devil's lies because we want to. We want to believe that everyone else is just going to be OK, because if people are really going to Hell then that would require some effort on our part to try to help them; and we would have to somehow unplug from our fast paced, fully engaged, fully entertaining lives, that consume all of our time, energy, and emotional strength, to somehow be able to care beyond ourselves and our own comfortable relationships.

To many Christians outreach has become about giving someone a sandwich and a blanket, but if there's little or no effort to reach people with the Message of the Gospel then we're truly only keeping the lost warm and fed on their way to Hell. It's a tragedy how so few Christians are even willing to tell someone outside of the Church that they're on the wrong road. Atheists have no trouble telling us that we're wrong. Humanists have no trouble telling us that we're wrong. Hollywood has no trouble portraying us as wrong. The media has no trouble reporting that we're wrong. Ironically, people who are involved in every form of wickedness have no trouble denouncing Christians, with rage in their eyes and anger spewing from their lips, as being the people who hate just because we compassionately warn them about where a life lived in rebellion against our God will lead. People from every false religion have no problem with telling us that we're wrong. Come to think of it, even we as Christians don't seem to have any trouble saying that other Christians are wrong.

Like Jesus and His Early Disciples, we face a world that's hostile towards the Message of Christ. Jesus talking to His Brothers said, John 7 : 7 - " The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil." And later talking to His Disciples He said, John 15 : 20 b - " ...... 'No servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also'. ......" In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said to the people, Matthew 5 : 11 - 12 - "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you." History teaches that Jesus and all of His Disciples, except for the Apostle John, were all murdered for delivering the Message of God's Love and His Salvation to the lost world, and history records that the Apostle John was dipped in boiling oil and lived to be used by God to write the Book of Revelation.

Since God first made man, countless men and women throughout the ages have been beaten, tortured, robbed, and murdered for delivering God's Messages or for refusing to renounce their faith in our God; and even now, in other parts of the world, becoming a Christian is a death sentence for those who find the Savior. How does that fit in with our, this is my life and I want to squeeze all the pleasure out of it that I can - so God bless me right now and give me the increase, Christianity? Christians in Muslim or Hindu countries share their faith and are killed for it, while Christians in the West are free to share their faith with everyone, and most of us can't even stomach the thought of just the possibility that we might have a potentially uncomfortable conversation with someone. Where does the possibility of being hated, and mocked, and persecuted, and beaten, and killed because of our testimony for Christ fit into our feel good faith? 2Timothy 3 : 12 - "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted." We are soldiers of Christ engaged in the greatest spiritual battle in all human history where we're struggling for the eternal lives of the lost souls of all mankind, and in the midst of the battle we're so programmed by the deceiver, and so hard wired to our entertainment distractions that when we get right down to it, most of us honestly care more about what's on TV, at the movies, happening online, or how our sports teams are doing, at any given moment, then we do about what's on the Heart of our God.

With so few Christians reaching out to the lost, many church leaders have changed the focus of our churches from winning the lost, building up disciples, and reaching the world to entertaining and pampering people in the hopes that they will keep coming back. No longer are sermons judged based on the merits of the Truth that they share, but now people judge their church experience based on how good it makes them feel; while many pastors cleverly put their own personal spin on the Scriptures claiming that they teach the politically correct lessons of our modern pop culture. 2Timothy 4 : 3 - "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." We say, "Hey, let's make our church more like the world around us so that more people will come." We say, "Lets not mention sin or judgement or Hell very often to all of the new people coming to our church or they might think that we're judgmental and they won't come back." We say, "Let's call those of other religions," (who are by definition spiritually dead in their sins) "our spiritual brothers and sisters so that we will sound inclusive." We say, "Our God is an all loving God so we can focus on what helps us to stay positive and feel good and the larger the crowd we draw, the more proof that we'll have that the Lord is blessing the work of our hands."

Sadly, in the process of making our churches more like the world and our message less offensive to the masses, that we honestly want to help, we disrespect and diminish our Lord by distorting and diminishing His Truth. Isaiah 42 : 21 - "It pleased the Lord for the sake of his righteousness to make his Law great and glorious." God wants His Whole Glorious Truth to spread throughout the world and to out shout and out shine the lies that are guiding men's souls to Hell. When we speak God's Truth from His Love in our hearts we're not speaking to win friends for ourselves, but to win souls for our God, although those who receive Christ will become our brothers and sisters as well. However, if we share the Truth without love or the love without ever sharing the Truth we misrepresent our God. Also, God does not want His Truth to simply become some tentative friendly comment shared within a "larger global conversation". God wants His Whole Truth to loudly sound forth from multitudes of hearts who are filled with His Love in order to bring His Salvation to the very ends of the earth.

Can't you see that we distort and diminish God's Truth if we proclaim His Nature as all Loving and Giving and then say little of God's Righteousness, His Standards, His Anger towards mankind's rebellion, His Judgements, or His Wrath. Psalm 90 : 11 - "Who knows the power of your anger? For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you." Do we really trust God's Leadership? If God says for us to do something that honors Him but brings us no obvious earthly church growth, or if it might even make others think that we are different from the strong current of modern pop culture, do we do what honors God or do we do what we think is best for God's Kingdom? God doesn't just leave it up to us to decide what His Will is based on our own personal preferences as to what we think His Will should be. It's God who gives and God who takes away both for His Greater Purposes. How can mankind truly submit to a Holy God without submitting by faith to His Love, His Justice, His Judgement, His Plan of Salvation, His Standards, His Wisdom, His Holiness, His Truth, His Wrath, and His Will? When God calls a person to repent He's calling us to reject our sinful will, to submit to His Righteous Will, and then to purpose in our hearts to be more and more like Him in our love, in our righteousness, and in our judgements as to what is good and pleasing to Him and what is not.

To those who may say that all we need is to stay positive and focus on Christ's Love remember that it was Jesus in Luke 13 : 5 - who said " ..... But unless you repent, you too will all perish.", In Luke 12 : 5 - Jesus said, "But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after killing the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him." In describing a lost soul's eternal existence in Hell, Jesus in Mark 9 : 48 describes Hell as a very real place where, "their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched." Previously in this same Passage Jesus says that Hell is such a bad place to spend eternity that if an eye or a hand were the cause of someone's sin that they would be better off to painfully cut off that part of their body then to keep it and be thrown into Hell. Further, Jesus told several of those He touched to, "go and sin no more". If sin wasn't that big of an issue to Jesus then why did He bother to tell people to repent and to sin no more?

Yes it's by Christ's Love that we are born spiritually into the Family of God, but being born again is just the beginning. Jesus is the Solid Rock on which our salvation is based, but it's when we build on that Rock with the gold and silver of fearing God and obeying Jesus that we're then pleasing to our Savior, and it's by obeying our Savior that we will someday receive our eternal reward. Hebrews 5 : 8 - 9 - "Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him." God is not pleased when His Children build their lives with passing wicked pleasures and selfish ambitions, and when we focus our message mainly on what people want to hear, receiving earthly blessings from God, and then say little of mankind's obligation to forsake sinful worldly pleasures and to obey and submit our lives to God's Will; we end up trying to sell the image of the Jesus that everyone wants and not the Jesus who truly is, and in the process the only One that we seem to have the courage to provoke and offend is Jesus. Yes Jesus loves us, but He also wants us to greatly fear God so that no one will surrender to the empty wicked pleasures of the enemy's deception and be condemned as one who loved the lie and never truly surrendered to Christ. God hates all evil and for us to fear God means that we are to hate all of the evil that the enemy is employing to try to encourage the rebellion that's corrupting souls to their doom. Proverbs 8 : 13 - "To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech."

God loudly calls mankind to rally to Jesus and to choose sides between darkness and Light, and there's a big difference between merely believing that Jesus once walked the earth and having the faith to obey Jesus as your God in reverent fear. Jesus is the Rock of our salvation but if we never build anything on that Rock it's as if we looked at the Rock, admired It, and then just walked away. As people we can say anything, and we can even lie to ourselves, but it's what we build on the Rock that will show what we truly believe. We are not saved by doing good things to try to earn God's Love, but it's when we come to understand that God doesn't just excuse our sins, we truly submit our lives to God, and we freely receive Christ's Payment, Forgiveness, Leadership, and Love; that the good things that build on the Rock will just come flowing out of us. These good works are then being accomplished through of the work of the Holy Spirit who was, at the moment of our honest true confession and commitment to Jesus as our risen Lord, sealed inside of us as a down payment guaranteeing our eternal salvation. Romans 10 : 9 - "That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." We are not to hate the people who are stained by evil, but we are to hate the evil that stains the people, and we are to hate the evil that will continually try to distract and ensnare us.

For just a moment try viewing the world from God's Prospective. God doesn't owe us Heaven. God doesn't owe anyone anything. God, the One who gives life to every living thing, in His Mercy and at His Own Extreme Personal Sacrifice, provided a very specific way for sinful man to be cleansed and made acceptable to be in His Holy Presence and sinful man says that God's Way is just not good enough? Can't you see that if there was any other way, then or now, that a man could be cleansed of his sins and forgiven by God other then through the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, then Christ's Death on the cross was not only absolutely pointless; but if there was another way, then the Father played His Beloved Son for a fool. Jesus, in the garden, begged for another way to be provided by the Father to satisfy His Law and His Justice, and none could be found. Any other way that was acceptable to God, then or now, would have saved our Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God Himself wrapped in human flesh, from a horribly painful humiliating death at the hands of His Very Own Creation. Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, trying to be a good person, and all of the other paths that man tries to take to reach God on his own merit can never cleanse a man of his sins and make him acceptable to our Heavenly Father. How arrogant is man to reject God's Way that cost Him so much and then demand that his own ways be considered just as righteous? Jesus said in John 14 :6 - "..... "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Although God's Plan of Salvation is offensive to those who are proudly trying to earn their standing with God and also to those who believe that they are already good enough without it, and we've been made to feel that this somehow makes God unfair; the Bible is very clear that there's just one Road and one Gate, Jesus, and that all other roads, then and now, lead to destruction.

Humanity is truly blessed that God gave His Son to die the death that our sins deserve. Who is man that the Awesome, Holy, Righteous, Almighty Creator of the Universe should care that much about us, and who are we to treat so flippantly the excruciatingly painful execution of our best friend the King? As Christians do we really believe that any other road leads to a relationship with God, or have we just become to intimidated, selfish, or pacified to stand up for and to speak the Truth? What hope does the lost world have if we as God's Ambassadors, God's Lights to the world, are self absorbed, image conscious, cowardly silent, or listlessly content to watch the rest of humanity walk down the path that leads to Hell; or even worse, if we give them false assurance of their salvation along the way? Can you see how God might be displeased with us? Months ago I heard on the radio that a ministry sent a shipment of Bibles to Afghanistan for the Afghan people, and then our army ordered it burned. The Word of God was burned by our "Christian Army" so that we would not offend those who want to keep their people ignorant of the Truth, and no one sees the problem here? As Ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven, honestly, how useful are we?

By God's Grace I am not writing this to condemn us, but to help us to see the distance that we've been lured away from the Righteous Heart of our God. We are all weak vessels and we are all going to make mistakes, and we will all need to seek the Lord continually to know how to speak the Truth in love to our generation. I don't know if you are as challenged by this Message as I am, but if you are please take it to the Lord in prayer. Clearly, we are all to love one another and to help one another to seek the Truth, and we must not sit in condemnation of one another because we all need to seek God's Love, Forgiveness, Guidance, and Perspective; that's the point. Everyone 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 who's 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, turn away from our sins, and turn to the Lord, He will lead us on. Men, the wife you have now is your wife so love her as unto the Lord. We are suppose to be God's Ambassadors to the whole world of His Kingdom, His Love, and His Righteousness, but if we do not immediately repent we will speak for Him no more.

Again, God writing to His Children 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 out of my mouth. 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 Passage and to then 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 spiritually 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 entertainment shows that now spiritually dull you, and the secret power of lawlessness, mentioned in 2Thessalonians 2, is much more powerful then you've been made to believe. It's no mistake that threads of spiritual truth have been artfully woven into multiple story plots to give you that been there, done that, this can't be real cause in the movie the hero did this, feeling. It's also no mistake that most all of these threads have then been twisted with spiritual lies to quietly whisper to you thoughts that make you want to doubt, dislike, and even rebel against God's Revealed Will. The question to our whole generation really is; where are we going to find the Truth, in the Bible or in the devil's well crafted pop culture collective group think? Truly, where you seek for Truth will soon effect how you will spend your eternity.

God says that though you see yourself as well off, He sees you as wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. Do you believe that? Once again how would you know, if you are blind? "You say that you do not need a thing", is that true? When you get right down to it, do you give much thought in your day to day life to your need for God? If you still say grace before a meal are you truly thankful to God for the abundance that He's given you? In an average day how much thought do you give to pleasing God compared to how much you give to being informed and entertained? God says change or His Terrible Painful Discipline and Rebuke are coming, but what can you change if you are blind to what needs to be changed? 1John 2 : 15 - "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." God tells us to not love the things of this world, but if we took a moment of honest reflection most of us could write a long list of the modern worldly thoughts, attitudes, and things that we have learned to love that distract us or turn us from obeying God. Please, by faith, turn off your programing and take an hour of quiet reflection and ask God for the eye salve, listen for the Lord to knock, be earnest to know what you lack and then when you find it, repent and be broken before the Lord. Remember, our Lord holds us accountable not only for the things that we've done, but also for the things that we knew to do but have left undone.

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. God wants to restore a right relationship with everyone who will be earnest and repent and who will open up their hearts to Him. Ezekiel 18 : 31 - 32 -"'Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone,' declares the Sovereign Lord, 'Repent and live!'"

Pastors of the flock be warned. The sword of discipline is hanging over your church and it is about to strike with terrible fury, or you may be spared if you call your church as a community to humility, confession, obedience to God's Ways, 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 discipline on your entire congregation knowing that He's going to hold you personally responsible for why it had to come. Ezekiel 34 : 15 - 16 - "I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord. 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." This verse is very encouraging for the weak, injured, lost and stray, but it's disastrous to the strong and the sleek whose only hope for becoming a laborer in the end times harvest is to repent, humble themselves, and become weak before their God.

Although I am holding out hope that there will be at least a few church leaders who will seek the eye salve, discern the times, become weak before their God, and call their church to humility, repentance, confession, obedience to God's Ways, and Truth; I think that this verse in Isaiah indicates that most will not hear the call even after we have been struck by a portion of God's Fearful Rebuke. Isaiah 9 : 13 - 16 - "But the people have not returned to him who struck them, nor have they sought the Lord Almighty. So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day; the elders and prominent men are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail. Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray." Clearly, after hundreds of years of the Body of Christ battling itself and others to try to precisely define what every verse in the Bible is meant to communicate, many church leaders across the board are now so locked into their understandings and defensive positions on the meanings of the Scriptures that few if any are even open to the idea that anyone could be designated by God to receive the True Last Days Revelation that is mentioned in Habakkuk 2 : 2 - 3 - "Then the Lord replied: 'Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.'". Further, I would think that this defensive posture against any new Revelation would be especially true since many church leaders, as mentioned in Revelation 3, most likely feel rich in the Eyes of the Lord.

Throughout time the leaders of God's People have had a bad track record when it comes to listening to the words of a prophet let alone embracing them and following the prophet's lead. Acts 7 : 51 - 52 - "You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him - " Besides the resistance to any new Revelation, many leaders are fully expecting to be raptured and gone before the end times even begin, and in the battle for the Truth almost every church leader universally will say that no matter what side you take on any issue of doctrine, in order to limit the boundaries of the debate, "the Bible, as written, is complete".

Since God's Actual Plan is going to be different from what everyone is expecting, since it will be revealed first to God's Servant at the time of the end, it will likely be very difficult for the strong and sleek sheep to stop and listen to see if they can hear the whispers of the Holy Spirit's Voice above the shouts of their own understandings; even though God told us about His Servant, His Last Days Revelation, and God has also told us that He sometimes does things that are completely unexpected. Habakkuk 1 : 5 - "Look at the nations and watch - and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." Isaiah 43 : 19a - "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." Isaiah 44 : 24b - 26 - "...... 'I am the Lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself, who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who overthrows the learning of the wise and turns it into nonsense, who carries out the words of his servants and fulfills the predictions of his messengers,'" (Note: Thoughts on a few verses that are commonly used to declare the Bible as complete: "The Perfection" in 1Corinthians 13 : 10 is the coming of Christ and the verse 12 poor reflection are the Scriptures. Honestly will you know Christ better by reading about Him or by speaking with Him face to face? 1Corinthians 13 : 8 says that prophecies will cease, but this has not happened yet since the two future witnesses described in Revelation 11 are said to prophesy. The Revelation 22 consequences of penning the last days Revelation does not mean that God does not have a Revelation to give, but that God's Servant who is used to pen it must do so by faith.)

The good news is that although the oppressor has his plans for our total destruction, and they are already in motion, they won't fully succeed. After we have turned back to the Father and He comes to our aid, it's harvest time. Matthew 24 : 14 - "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." God has a lot of people all around the world 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 and keep spreading the Gospel to whatever end. Then when God decides that our personal missions have been accomplished we should, by faith, let Him choose the time, place, and method by which we, and everyone who we love, are called home to Heaven in order to receive His Glad Welcome into Glory. Revelation 7 : 9 - 10 - "After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: 'Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.'"

I believe that the coming years will test our faith in, and our understandings of God's Love and His Goodness because many of the days to come will likely be extremely difficult for us as God accomplishes the purposes of His Grand Design. Jeremiah 30 : 24 - "The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand this." Although we have an outline of what's to come, within that outline, the times will not be completely predictable and we will need to walk by faith through the setbacks, sufferings, surprises, persecutions, twists, turns, and often through the valley of the shadow of death. The destruction, devastation, and ruin of the face of the earth is described in the book Revelation and God will be taking many Christians home to Heaven throughout the end times process leaving fewer and fewer behind on earth to continue on in His Mission until they themselves either go home to Heaven or remain alive to be a part of the meek end times remnant who will see Christ return on a white horse as described in Revelation 19. Isaiah 16 : 4b - 5 - "..... The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land. In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit on it- one from the house of David- one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness."

Also remember that we must always test the spirits. No matter how evil the world gets or how much pressure you're under, always remember that it's incomparably better to die as a follower of Christ then it is to take the mark of the beast or to in any way worship the evil ones. Anyone who takes the mark of the beast or worships the beast is declaring themselves to be the enemy of God. 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 contest for the final lost souls of men before Christ comes to live among us as our King.

We are all asleep, but 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 we were. God gives grace to the humble. Ask Him to open your eyes with the salve that only He can provide. If God shows us His Near Presence, the first of the healing miracles should begin soon, and then the first of the end times battles 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 I pray 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 Father. The antichrist 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 to be healed. 2Chronicles 7: 13 - 14 - "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." Will you please take some time of personal reflection and ask the Lord to open your eyes to the Truth. Then when your eyes are opened tell everyone you know, and e-mail this link to everyone you can and ask them to ask God if it's true, and He will open up their eyes as well. The Whole House of God, all around the world, needs to earnestly repent once they realize that we are being or are being disciplined by our God.

Personal Note: Please be patient with each other and kind to one another. In the short time since I first wrote this entry I've been convicted time and time again of just how far short I fall in being salt and light. Now that I'm trying to pay closer attention to everything I do and say, I'm humbled by the stupid worldly things that I've said and how many worldly encouragements that I've given and from time to time still give to people. In practice I tend to want to just get along with everyone, and I don't want to upset anyone or to hurt anyone's feelings.

In order to have more controlled thoughts I'm trying to limit how much and what I watch on TV, but just recently, after I wrote about the devil's programming, I told a guy in a conversation that he should watch a certain movie because it was, as I told him, "a classic." Instantly, I felt convicted. Truly, a life time of relating to others by the means of our entertainment programming will be hard to walk away from so please be patient with one another as we try to break free from the evil influences that are being used to try to destroy us.

(A thought on Christian hypocrisy: Although righteous perfection was attainable for Christ, so far, Jesus is the only One who has attained it. That means that all of Christ's Followers now and for all times past have been proven to be imperfect in our representation of our Perfect God, and by not being perfect when calling others to God's Perfect Standards we are all to some degree, hypocrites. Although all who follow Jesus are at some level hypocrites, those who do not follow Jesus are all hopelessly lost in slimy pits of filthy sin and they need to hear the Truth. When a Christian, who is trying to crawl out and live free from his slime pit of sin, calls out a warning of the spiritual deadliness of the evil slime to someone who is content to live in their own slime pit, the one who is content to wallow in slime often emotionally calls the Christian judgmental or a hypocrite in an attempt to push away the Truth of slime's danger, and to not feel so guilty about loving filthy slime. It is fair to call Christians who are all imperfect, imperfect, so as Christians if we are sincerely trying to follow Jesus in reverent fear, we must not let the accusation of being judgmental or the label of hypocrite keep us from lovingly sharing the Truth to anyone, especially to those who love their pits of slime. Only Jesus can cleanse away a man's sin, and we must never feel somehow proudly superior to those who are still covered in slime just because Jesus is in the process of cleansing us of ours. Then when we humbly share the Truth of God's Cleansing Plan of Salvation to those who are covered in slime, we are not being judgmental, but kind. Psalm 40 : 2 - "He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand."

If a Christian stumbles back into his slime pit of sin, it's important for him to again turn away from the evil and turn back to Jesus as quickly as possible to be cleansed and renewed to a right relationship with God. As Christians we should be very careful to not throw around the charge of another Christian being a hypocrite since it truly applies to us all. Matthew 7 : 3 - "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" Those who publicly charge another of "Christian hypocrisy" are almost always themselves lovers of filthy slime who are proud, steeped in their own sins, and who are using this charge against another for their own selfish purposes. While those who are walking closely with Jesus understand that we are all imperfect and they will show grace to one another and want to privately help restore a freshly fallen Brother or Sister back to a right standing with Christ so as to cover over a multitude of sins. The exception to this rule was Jesus who was, like the Father, perfect, so He could righteously call those who thought that they were perfect, imperfect. Since the very first step to becoming a Christian is to understand and acknowledge our own imperfection and our need for Jesus, there is really no need for us to charge one another with ongoing imperfection, it should already be understood. We all fall very short of perfection, but sadly, it's so predictable that those who want to find fault with our God will trumpet our imperfection as if it were God who was somehow imperfect. Even those who enjoy wallowing around in wicked filthy slimy sin will acknowledge that nobody's perfect, and that's exactly why we all need Jesus. The Sacrifice of Christ will make all who sincerely follow Jesus as their Lord sin free on the Day of Salvation, and thus perfect in the Father's Eyes. As the Family of God we are not meant to be divided by condemning one another's sins, but by the Spirit's Power, God wants us to forgive, restore, help, and encourage one another to be united as one in our love for one another and as one in our obedience to our Lord. 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.'")

Lord please teach us all how to speak the Truth boldly in love and how to live our lives as unto You. Lord please help us to realize that it's more loving to lovingly tell someone the Truth then it is to leave them to the devil's lies no matter how much the Truth may hurt, enrage, or sadden them. Lord please help us to number our days and open our eyes to the harvest. Lord please help us to guard our hearts and to break free from the evil influences that have for so long influenced our lives. Lord please fill us with holy resolve, make us all salt and light to the lost world, and please help us to truly love and forgive one another. Lord please help us to truly be examples of what You said in John 13 : 35 - "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." Amen.

2009-05-08T14:02:00.000-07:00

The Church is Sound Asleep

Few Are Willing to Hear the Alarm

Most Eyes are Plastered Shut

I'm Humbly Asking God to Send Miraculous Signs

Will Anyone Be Able to Discern the Times?

Updated 3/21/11

Isaiah 42 : 20 - "You have seen many things, but have paid no attention; your ears are open, but you hear nothing."

1Corinthians 2 : 4 - 6 - "My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power."

(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 2/4/11 of all the people I know, only a few can see just 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 only to the lost, but also signs to His Children in their communities of faith.

Obviously, the answer to this prayer is completely in God's Hands, but I'm asking God as a Second Watchman to bring these same signs to our generation.

If God decides to show us healing signs ahead of our coming discipline, 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, Michigan, Ohio, North Dakota, Alaska, Denver, and soon He will be all around the United States and then in different parts of the World.

Thus if the healing miracles begin before our discipline begins and anyone then tells you that the beginning of the end times is not just days away, that the antichrist is not alive and well, and that the ride of the four horsemen is not imminent 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, 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 all others.

If God decides to answer these prayers by showing His Power with obviously supernatural healing miracles, then read this Journal as God's Message to you, and as you read down please pay special attention to the Marching Orders for they will make a difference as to how fast the actual mountain moving Holy Spirit of Power, will be able to spread throughout the Body of Christ. If we have to explain everything to everyone we will lose valuable time while our enemy is marching against us. My Journal entries should explain the main things that I see coming, and with this information, God will lead you in what you should do.

Special Note: Don't look to the pictures to have any special meaning. I just took them along the way of life's journey. Also, don't let anyone who you don't know tell you that they wrote this Journal. Thomas Israel is a nickname, I'm unknown to the masses, and before the Holy Spirit of Power is poured out I don't plan on making any media appearances, unless the Lord makes it happen. There are some who know who I am, and in the confusing times ahead I'm pretty sure that there will be at least one member of the American 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 it out as far, as fast, and as widely as they can.

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. I know that this will be very very confusing, and I have written a special entry at the every end of this Journal to look at this topic. Briefly, 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 that is troubling you. Then ask God to help you to think about what's true, noble, 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 hatred between you and the ones that you are commanded to love, your neighbors, your enemies, and your Brothers and Sisters in Christ, then these thoughts are from Satan. Many of his attacks will cause you to feel a strong negative emotion that's 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 - "Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!"

The enemy's plan is as always to divide and conquer in theater of our minds, and he is powerful, crafty, and really good at it. He will try to divide us from God, and he will try to divide us from the ones we love the most. He is the accuser of the brethren so don't be tricked by his accusations towards another Believer, and since I'm writing all of this stuff down I will most likely be accused as well.

I affirm right off that yes, I'm a sinner who will be redeemed by the Grace of God. Since perfection is not required by God to be His Servant please don't judge God's Message to you by the lack of perfection of His Messenger or you'll miss what God has to say to you when I'm found wanting. Please know that I'm as challenged by many of the things that I believe that the Lord has communicated through His Spirit as everyone else will be. If God used only perfect people He would have no one to use, and because His Power is made perfect in weakness He often uses the weak to accomplish His Purposes. Please know that I affirm Jesus as Lord and as a Christian I pledge heart, mind, soul and strength to love God and to love people; it's what we do. I'm ashamed to confess that over the years I've sinned time and time again against our Lord, but I have humbly received the Lord's Forgiveness for these sins and I will continue to purpose in heart and mind to hate and reject evil and to love and obey God.

No matter what sins I'm accused of committing, I confess, yes I have sinned and every sin, even just one, is enough to cause a separation from God forever. Truly, it's only by humbly accepting Christ's Payment for these sins that I can then press on with a cleansed conscience and a right spirit knowing that our Redeemer lives. Clearly, if the devil can get us judging each other and accuse us into hating each other then it will make him very happy, because like Jesus said, No kingdom divided against itself can stand. As we come together for the end times harvest I ask you to consider these verses. Matthew 7 : 1 - 2 -"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Romans 14 : 4 - "Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand." Ecclesiastes 7 : 20 - "There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins." We all fall short of God's Perfect Righteousness and comparing ourselves to one another will only lead to pride if we think that we're better or envy if we think that we're not. It's a trap. 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.

If you hear the Holy Spirit speaking to you through this Message, you should print off these pages for yourself, and e-mail a link to all of your friends. (Note: I turned off the ability to leave outside 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 possible way, in every language, and if anyone tries to add to it, shorten it, change it, or stop it's distribution in any way then they will have to answer personally to God.

Note: I did not receive this Message all at once, but over the span of several months. For a while I was writing new updates for every new insight, but then the readers said that this made the Message very confusing; so I set the flow of the Message and now I update within that flow. Over time the Lord has given guidance to discern which thoughts He wanted to keep in this Message and how He wanted to relate them, and by God's Direction, I believe that what makes the final draft will be what the Lord wanted to communicate. Until the healing begins, I do not claim that what I've written is God's Message to you, however, once the healing does begin, then the Lord's Involvement is confirmed. I'm just one testimony and every fact must be confirmed by two. Once the healing miracles begin with a specific scooter bound person that I'm praying for in Hollywood, there will not be any further editing of the content of what has been written; that will be the final deadline. You should someday know who this person is that I'm praying for, because after the Lord heals him, I'm pretty sure that the Lord is going heal many others through his testimony and prayers, and that he will forever be remembered as "Malcolm the healer".

Once the healing begins, I may be directed to put new postings at the top or bottom of this Work, but not within the current postings; and if anyone else tries to somehow post a new posting in this Journal then the Lord will deal with them harshly and immediately. Once the healing has begun, if I have the opportunity, I will simply write "Confirmed by Miracles" beneath the date it was last updated. In the past when I assumed that the Lord was finished with this Message I, more then once, wrote something like, "this will be the final draft" at the top, but then when there was more that the Lord wanted to write I figured out that He would be the One to decide when the Message was finished, and He has set the deadline to be that moment when I come to know that the healing that I'm watching for has been accomplished.

Finally, If the Lord comes as a Second Watchman to testify with healing miracles to the lateness of the hour then the times that follow are going to be some of the most confusing times that mankind has ever seen. Micah 7 : 4b - 7 - "..... The day of your watchmen has come, the day God visits you. Now is the times of their confusion. Do not trust a neighbor; put no confidence in a friend. Even with her who lies in your embrace be careful of your words. For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter - in - law against her mother - in - law -- a man's enemies are the members of his own household. But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me." In the days to come there will likely be lots of people defending the concept of the pre-Tribulation rapture, counterfeit blogs with similar blog addresses to this one, critiques of other writings that I have posted but by God's Direction did not make it into this Message, critiques of God's Unworthy Messenger, scapegoats to pre-blame for the antichrist's future crimes, critiques of anyone who decides that it's worthy to herald this Message, and on and on. Because the devil can't say that the healing miracles are from the pit of Hell this time, other reasons will likely be floated as to why people are being healed. Although this would sound crazy to many of us, the enemy may even instruct his servants in government and science to announce that they have discovered aliens living on earth. I know that that sounds far fetched but I recently saw a story online where some people believe that NASA just recently bombed the moon to destroy a secret alien base. Pop culture and science fiction have been preparing the masses to believe this "aliens" announcement for many many years, and soon we may see why.

Now I'm not 100% sure if the evil ones are going to play the aliens card, but if they do it's a ready made reason for all of our friends and neighbors to turn against each other, and it's by turning us against each other that the devil hopes to win. The Bible speaks of true Believers in God, admitting that they are strangers and aliens on earth, and that these are the Believers that God commends. They were commended because they knew that being a Biblical alien meant that their souls were only going to be here on earth for a little while and then they were going to go to be with God for all eternity. Hebrews 11 : 13 - 16 -"........ 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......... a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." As Christians we know that it's our souls that are not of this world, but science fiction has changed the word alien to mean creatures from another planet who may or may not be here on earth to harm everyone else. Soon when a Christian wants to be pleasing to God and admit that he's an alien it might end him up in jail or worse. If someone said that you were a science fiction alien how would you prove that you're not?

When the enemy begins a witch hunt he usually begins small and then expands outward. We have been told to expect persecution in the end times so if they are going to play the "Christians are science fiction aliens card" or the "Christians are terrorists card" or the "Jews are the terrorists card" or some other "Christians and or Jews are the bad guys card", then they will most likely accuse a small group of people of being bad and then slowly expand their accusations. Since Christians and Jews will be the antichrist's prime targets I would expect him to go after the smaller churches or synagogues and the smaller denominations first and then work his way outward, starting with the less respected and ending with the more respected. If God begins to heal people it's either going to inspire faith or fear in the people around us, and the evil one will no doubt be ready to try to see to it that it's fear that they feel; not an appropriate fear of God, but a fear of Christians as if they were science fiction aliens. From his position over the world's media, science, Hollywood, money, power, and sadly perhaps even some of the religious "elites" there are legions of things that the antichrist's team can say or do to make things more and more confusing as far as who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, but I believe that the key to surviving the confusing times to come can be seen at the end of this Micah 7 passage; watch in hope for the Lord, wait for God your Savior, turn your hearts fully to God, cry out to Him and He will hear you.

When the Son of Man is revealed, the message and the messengers who are true are the ones who will encourage people to turn from our wicked ways, submit ourselves to God, humbly follow Jesus, love our enemies, love our neighbors, love our Brothers and Sisters in Christ, pray for those who persecute us, be merciful, give to those who ask, turn the other cheek, walk the extra mile, and make peace with each other. They will also encourage everyone to pray for wisdom before we let anyone give us or our children a vaccine or preventive medicine during the times of crisis. Truly, they will pray for all mankind, and trust that Christ will come to our rescue in our darkest hour.

2009-05-07T19:16:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of a Watchman

Updated 5/1/11

The Battle Belongs to the Lord.

Not by Might nor by Power but by my Spirit says the Lord.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the Truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in Heaven.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

The weapons we fight with are not weapons of the world.

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them.

Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.

And you'll know we are Christians by our love.

In the coming conflict the Body of Christ will soon be under attack from all sides, and to the extent that the antichrist can turn us against each other, from within. How do you fight a war and love your enemies at the same time? Love always protects, but can you really say that you're protecting your enemy when you're shooting at them? In the days and years to come before the Son of Man's Revelation 19 return God wants us to truly love and pray for our enemies and leave their fate up to Him. During our coming discipline we should pray for our enemies like Jesus prayed for those who crucified Him, as He prayed, "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.". Then once we've turned back to the Lord and received the Holy Spirit of Power we could pray and ask the Lord to touch our enemy's hearts to want to defend and protect us instead of trying to hurt us. We could ask the Lord to convict them of their sins and to lead them to seek a relationship with Himself. If we are filled with the Holy Spirit of Power and directly threatened by our enemies there are many things that we could ask the Lord to do to protect us without killing them. We could ask the Lord to fill them with Holy Fear so that they will just run away, or we could ask God to blind them or to make them all sick so that they will surrender to us and then God could heal them all through us. We could ask the Lord to put them all to sleep, or to erase their short term memories, or to make their weapons feel like they are burning hot, or if we feel overwhelmed we could just ask God for help and let Him decide what to do with them. Although we should always pray and try to defend ourselves in non-lethal ways, once we've received the Holy Spirit of Power we must distinguish ourselves from the devil's forces by refusing to kill; while our enemies, for the most part, will be trying to kill as many people as they can. Love is the Christian trademark. It's who we are. John 13 : 35 - "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." 1John 4 : 7 - 8 - "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." John 15 : 17 - "This is my command: Love each other."

Once our discipline is complete, the Lord sends down His Holy Spirit of Power, and our persecutors are, for a short window of time, not as serious of a threat, it's harvest time and the repentant souls of our persecutors will be like precious gold to our Heavenly Father. Now our response to the Lord's Discipline must be to repent, to draw closer to Him, to trust Him, and to love and pray for those who the Lord is going to use to discipline us. Do not love the devil, do not love evil, but love and pray for those who are captive to the devil to do his will. Truly, it will be through those who love God that the Lord will then show His Love to the world. (Side Note: The Lord may deal with those who threaten us with supernatural lethal force like we see in Revelation 11 where God sends fire out of the mouths of the two witnesses to destroy anyone who wants to harm them, and this is God's Decision to make, but there must be no innocent blood on Christian hands. I pray that nowhere in the world will Christians find themselves fighting and killing their Brothers and Sisters in Christ, and that nowhere in the world will a true Christian murder anyone. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.)

(Note) - Satan is the merciless master of deception, misdirection, betrayal, lying, delusion, confusion, division, contention, mistrust, fear, pride, evil, and wickedness. Although we know from Scripture what forms the coming discipline will take from Revelation 6 -Attempted Conquest, War - (chaos), Famine, Plague, and Wild Beast, it's impossible to accurately predict the moves of the oppressor in real time because he can always change up and redirect his efforts. We know that the four horsemen attacks are coming, and we will soon figure out that much of the leadership "elite" in Europe, Iran, the rest of Middle East except for Israel, some of Central and South America, some of Asia, all of the World's Superpowers including the United States, the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, etc. are mostly all being directed from the top down, either by the direct leadership or through intimidation, by the predicted emerging evil world leader with most of their efforts being coordinated from behind the scenes like a multinational multi-headed beast. This predicted evil world leader is known to Christians as the antichrist and to Muslims as the mahdi, and I believe that he will eventually try to champion Islam over all other religions with the help of his powerful and well developed worldwide support network. I also believe that many of the key current events, now and in the recent past, that seem to be driving world affairs and regional public opinion are being scripted and coordinated on both sides of the argument by the dark forces within countries of whom we are told are enemies to move the masses down the path to their own destruction. Through the incredible combined power of unlikely united world leaders, who only appear to be enemies, scripted coordinated world events, the TV dominated news media who interprets these events for their target audiences, nationalism, multinational corporations, and each nation's entertainment industry that conditions their people on how to think and reason; we and the citizens of the world are all being told the story that the elite bad guys want us to hear; each from our own country's prospective. Sadly, this story that some call the narrative is leading us all on a collision course down a path of thought that is designed, if God were to let it run to it's conclusion, to divide us into killing each other so that the ruling elite can then control what's left of mankind. Although it's really hard to know how many people are truly in on this Satanic plan and how many are just caught up in the deception, the twist is that there must be at least a few, if not more, who are knowingly leading us down this path of destruction who do not see themselves as monsters, but who believe that they are doing all of this evil for the greater good of saving the planet from the ill effects of human over population and over consumption. For them the word "sustainability" is a code word for reducing the world's population down to what they would consider to be more manageable levels.

I also believe that the plague attack of the 4th horseman is going to be delivered at some point by one of the vaccines that we're going to be ordered or strongly recommended to take, but by which one I don't know. Thus if the emerging government tries to force rush everyone to take a swine/bird flu or a weaponized plague or an anthrax or any other vaccine or preventive medicine, in a short period of time, because they say that there's a national emergency, then I would pray very seriously about whether to take this vaccine or not. Also now that they've passed the National Health Care Bill in America if they suddenly require that everyone take a vaccine or lose their health care coverage, I would then also recommend that you earnestly go to the Lord in prayer as to whether to be vaccinated or not. James 1 : 5 - "If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him." It seemed like there was something that was just not right about the National Health Care Bill that no one had the time to read or study before they rushed to force it on the American People, it's almost like they had to get it done for their plans to proceed.

(Note:) From what I've heard, the bird flu and the swine flu viruses have lived in our environment for a long long time, perhaps since the days of the Creation and that they're usually only a threat to us when our systems are extremely stressed or when we eat food that has been contaminated by the disease. With that understanding in mind it could be that swine flu vaccines are safe if a person is relaxed in normal times, and deadly if their physical and emotional systems are stressed. I heard that most of the people who died in 2009 from the swine flu were ones who's bodies were already stressed with other health problems. If the world is in turmoil like it clearly would be with the ride of the first three horsemen, then there's little doubt that our society and especially our youth will be severely stressed by those days. It's possible that even one shot of a normally safe vaccine may be a killer under these stressful conditions, and the government said in 2009 that the youth would need two. Although the disease attack could still be something else, if you, your family, or the world is under an undue amount of stress, then I recommend that you earnestly seek the Lord as to whether or not to take, or to give your children any vaccines or preventive medicines. There will most likely be stiff penalties for refusing the shot so it's important that you know God's Counsel and make your decision based on your faith in God. Normally God would protect us from these kinds of situations, and I believe that He will come to our rescue in the end, but until then we are going to have to repent, draw near to Him, and patiently endure under His Discipline. (Update: There's a chance that they are trying to start a deadly flu pandemic or at least make us believe that a flu pandemic has started in the southern United States. In 2010 we were in a situation where a corporation controlled the Gulf of Mexico as if they owned it, and they were putting any and all the toxins that they wanted into the air and water. If it's the bad guys plan to make this all look natural and spontaneous, then the seagulls, who scavenge in the region's now toxic with chemical sludge landfills, will most likely be considered the smoking gun bird to human link that warns the world that the pandemic has come. Is it possible that they are trying to recreate the world war one toxic gas warfare environment that sparked the flu (Spanish Flu) pandemic of 1918? However, once again even if a real pandemic is somehow sparked, I would still pray very seriously for God's Direction before you take a vaccine of any kind. If the Gulf oil rig drilling was allowed to proceed even though the higher ups knew that it was likely to explode then this whole crisis may have been designed to expose people in the Gulf region to these specific toxins that were being released into the environment. In 2010 I read an article that said that an outside organization was giving the gulf clean up workers breathing safety equipment, and that they were told that they couldn't use the safety equipment on the job. Why would anyone send workers out into hazardous situations and then demand that they not wear safety equipment? Does that make any sense? It's almost like they wanted their workers to be fully exposed. If the evil powers are exposing people to toxins on purpose, then there is every reason to believe that they will try to spread the flu with vaccines to people groups that they would want to eliminate.) (Note: Since wild pigs also likely scavenge in the same now toxic gulf region landfills, the bad guys may then claim a flu mutation where bird and swine flu have mutated together to make a deadly super virus.) (Note: I read an article years ago that said that many who died of the 1918 pandemic flu died because of dehydration, and that if the people who attended them had kept pushing liquids that many more may have survived. The article also said that once someone's skin began to turn blueish that all you could do for them was to make them as comfortable as possible and pray.) (Update: I read an article on 9/6/10 that said that some scientists believe that the bird flu will pass from birds to pigs and then to humans. If you remember it took months to produce vaccines for the swine flu, but if they say that this new flu has a swine flu mutated component they may then say that everyone should take the old swine flu vaccine that they have already produced. Once again we should pray before taking any vaccine because if they set the stage for the toxins to reach the birds and the pigs, then they have little interest in protecting the public from the flu scare that they would have engineered.) (Update: 9/23/10 I read an article today about how some company is working on a vaccine for weaponized plague. Now that they have put weaponized plague into the narrative, it could be the disease attack. There may even be multiple threats all calling for the public to take multiple vaccines. There is no way to accurately publicly predict the bad guys moves in real time when they have the ability to redirect their plans. Remember, the devil is a trickster. Determining which is a good vaccine and which is a bad vaccine will most likely be like a shell game. This is why everyone must pray for wisdom as to whether to vaccinate or not based on the wisdom that people can only receive directly from God the Father.) (Note: Now that the nuclear power plants in Japan are reported to be leaking radiation it is now possible that the bad guys could use this crisis as their reason for how a super flu pandemic was sparked. How many movies have we seen where something that is exposed to radiation mutates into a monster?) (Note: There are so many ways that the bad guys can script a contagious sickness threat, but whatever reason is given remember to pray and ask the Lord for wisdom to know what to do.)

(Note: The Bible says in Malachi 4 : 6 that the mission of the Elijah is "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." Then this is from Micah who is talking about the day of the watchmen, Micah 7 : 4b - 6 - "..... The day of your watchmen has come, the day God visits you. Now is the time of their confusion. Do not trust a neighbor; put no confidence in a friend. Even with her who lies in your embrace be careful of your words. ...... a man's enemies are the members of his own household." When viewed together a time is coming when men may have to turn their hearts to the protection and well being of their wives and specifically their children, and their enemies will be in their own households. Although this is not set in stone since the decisions on what they do are still in the enemy's camp, I think that in the days of confusion ahead as war rages, chaos reigns, the economy collapses, and food becomes extremely short that there may come an extremely strong fear inducing highly emotional appeal for women to have themselves and their children vaccinated and it will be so emotionally powerful, perhaps even demonically so, that it will almost be irresistible to women. If this happens and a man can see through the enemy's attack on his family, then he is going to have to become strong and step in and protect his wife; and their children from his own wife's fearful panicked response to the enemy's sudden emotional alarm. The yes or no decision to vaccinate the children is one that could get every family in an uproar if the family is divided on what is best for the children. Men, the antichrist is out to kill your family so it may well be up to you to stand your ground if you are convinced that that is how the Lord is leading you. In Matthew 24 : 6 - 7, Jesus tells His Disciples not to be alarmed during times of war, earthquakes, and famines, and although the 4th horseman's sickness attack is not mentioned in this specific Passage, I would think that God would not want us to fear or panic during this time of testing as well. May your hearts be turned to God and to your children.)

(Note:) After the events of the failed Christmas Day bomber I'm beginning to think that the leaders of the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security may not be driving the coming storm, but instead are caught under the authority of those who are. If we can go by what the media has reported, the FBI has been bullying the Secret Service with threats of prosecution for torture since the new Administration took office, and this has effectively frightened these organizations into protecting themselves. Now with our own Secret Service neutralized the Administration signed the order to bring in the antichrist's International Secret Service, Interpol, to spy on the American people and gave them full immunity in the process. Although it could all be a part of the scripted drama, the way that they treated the failed Christmas Day bomber may be telling. The FBI talked to the bomber for a little while and then shut him up by getting him a lawyer before the Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security were notified. Those at the FBI cut the others, that they are suppose to be working with, completely out of the loop. Why would they do that? Wouldn't you think that it would be better to have more people question him then less? Can you see the coordination of effort between the dark forces that got him on the plane and the ones who now shield him from all questioning by people who may not be dark forces who could put two and two together? I apologize to the Director of Homeland Security for thinking that she might be a dark operative. I now believe that she's likely not a player, but sadly one who is being played. Where is the surveillance video that would show the mysterious wealthy looking fellow who got the bomber on the plane without the proper paperwork? There were eye witnesses who saw the exchange, and these eye witnesses are highly credible; one was even a lawyer who knew the tricks that someone may use to try to discredit a witness. I listened to an online recording of this lawyer describing how the FBI agents came to his house and tried to trick him into making a wrong identification and how it was the saddest day of his life because he realized that instead of trying to discover the truth they seemed instead to be looking for ways to distort it. One of the eye witnesses was a Christian woman who was bringing little orphan children from Africa to come to live in the United States, and it may have been for these that the Lord directly intervened and prevented this tragedy. The questions arose, everyone thought about them for a minute, and then the media moved on. As I pondered these events I was reminded of the Vince Foster investigation under the Clinton Administration, years ago, where Mr. Foster was found dead in a muddy field from what was ruled to be a suicide and yet it was reported that there was no mud on his shoes, oops. Those in power made the ruling, the media thought about it for a minute, and then everyone just moved on. It's these same dark forces who will try to divide the World into eating each other until what's left for them is a more manageable bite. If the dark forces bring a charge against your Christian Brother or Sister, go to God and ask Him if the charge is true before you believe it. If the charge seems damning ask yourself if it falls in line with someone who has the Spirit of God in their hearts. The dark forces can bring any charge against anyone, they can control the critical power of the accusation, they can control any investigation, they can produce any evidence that they please, and most all of the media will take their cues from them and trumpet their rulings, on whatever charge, as if it's the truth. Obviously, this is not a new approach for the dark forces. Although it was God's Will for it to happen, Jesus faced false accusations, false charges, a false friend, and false testimony and it was the leaders of His Own People and the Roman authorities and not an unruly mob who falsely accused Him, arrested Him, questioned Him, humiliated Him, spread the bad report about Him, tortured Him, condemned Him, sentenced Him, and then crucified Him. (Note: Since the Time Square bomber's attempted bombing there has been a move afoot to take away the citizenship rights of American's who are simply accused of wrong doing. Could this lead to innocent American citizens being held indefinitely in America without trial? Could this attempted bombing be part of a set up for a future witch hunt of persecution against Americans who speak out against the coming storm? Perhaps.) Psalm 37 : 7 - 9 - "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret - it leads only to evil. For evil men will be cut off, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land." We must patiently endure the storm and refuse to get angry or fret.

(Note: Months ago someone asked what I thought about the arrest of the Christian militia in Michigan and I think that I replied off the cuff that they sounded crazy. As the media trumpeted a plot to murder police officers in the hopes of causing a popular uprising I couldn't help but think that that was the way of Barabbas not the way of Christ. The parallel was striking. But then after considering that the FBI is becoming more and more political, that they control the power of the accusation, the investigation, the questioning, all the evidence, and what's told to the media, I had to hold back judgment and still believe the best about those arrested; because in America I think that we're still innocent until proven guilty. Though if anyone is considering a violent uprising against the government all Christians must follow the teachings of Jesus and not the way of Barabbas. Until the Lord pours out His Holy Spirit of Power upon us and directs us into spiritual battle we have to patiently endure His Discipline. We can't physically fight against God's Allowed Will and to try to do so would be crazy. For now we must repent, watch, pray, and trust as our faith is tested until we are told by God, by receiving the Holy Spirit of Power, to actively resist the emerging evil world leaders. Clearly, there is no way that we can righteously stop the coming storm before the enemy makes his moves. God commands us to love. What is about to begin is a spiritual contest between God and the devil that is beyond all of our united abilities to effect by politics or force until we are included by God into the spiritual struggle by receiving the Holy Spirit of Power. There are many lost souls in the enemy's camp that the Lord wants to reach, save, and bring to Heaven during the end times harvest. May God keep Christians from fighting against other Christians, may God keep those who claim the name of Christ from murdering anyone, and may God bless our prayers for our enemies by turning them into our Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Remember it's the meek who inherit the earth.

(Note:) Once again, 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 antichrist alone or in groups, unless you are fighting against him in prayer. He will have the combined strength of all of the world's superpowers including what's left of the American Military at his disposal, and if you try to resist him before you've received the Holy Spirit of Power, then you will not only be throwing your own life away, but you will be in sin murdering soldiers and law enforcement officers who are only trying to honor their duty to their posts. Then once you've received the Spirit's Power remember to ask God to use only non-violent means if you need to resist foreign "peace keepers", national guard, and hometown civil authorities. I recommend asking God to fill them with Holy Terror so that they will just run away. However, don't forget that it's a priority to reach all believers with the Holy Spirit of Power, so once that localized situation is taken care of continue to spread the Spirit until we have reached the saturation point. Micah 5 : 7 - 9 - "The remnant of Jacob (Those who revere God's Name) will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind. The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which mauls and mangles as it goes, and no one can rescue. Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies, and all your foes will be destroyed." God has promised us the victory in this first round, but we have to wait for Him to pour out His Spirit of Power on us before He will win the day for us.

(Note:) If you are presented with any form of audio or video were I'm recorded saying something different from what is written in this Journal, then go by what is written and not what is said. For example, if I'm heard saying that the Bible says that you have to take a vaccine, know that I misspoke to a friend and I quickly corrected what I said noting that it's the government who will say that you have to take it; however, if I was being recorded you probably won't hear the correction. God has given us verses to obey ruling authorities, but He has also given us verses to resist the devil. You will have to seek God on whether or not to vaccinate. Or if I said something like, "the bad guys are going to say that the Christians are aliens", and it was recorded they may cut the tape so that all you would hear of what I said is, "the Christians are aliens." Many things that may have been recorded have the potential to sound really bad when taken out of context or spliced together with other things that I have said. I know because sometimes after I say something innocently I think about how bad it would sound out of context. If I have been under the bad guy's surveillance for who knows how long they will control the accusations and the sound bites and it's probable that you won't be shown the fruit of the Spirit; just the worst I can be, what can be created digitally to make someone look really bad, and what can be taken out of context to paint the picture of a total hypocritical loser. In the very near future I believe that it's going to be really hard to know from the media's reporting who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. It will be hard to know the truth when you don't know who to believe. I pray that if God provides healing miracles as Second Watchman's Testimony to this Message that you will hear the Spirit Himself speaking to you through this Work as it stands alone, and that you will not close your ears to it just because of the involvement of someone who will likely be painted as a total hypocritical loser. Try to remember that if God testifies to His Participation then this Message is God's Message, and that sometimes He even uses losers to deliver His Messages.

(Note:) Please pray for the world's Christian leaders, military, law enforcement officers, secret service agents, and their families. I believe that since they pose the greatest earthly threat to the enemy's plans that they will be at the top of his list of those he will try to eliminate. I fear that many of our Military Brothers and Sisters, those of whom it's been discovered through testing that they would not fire on the American People, have been purposefully concentrated into units and sent into a land locked trap that has been touted as the "Right War". In the near future I believe that they, as well as the forces of the free world who do not yet bow their knee to the antichrist, will be betrayed by the coordinated efforts of the dark forces of the world's power "elites" to insure their destruction. It breaks my heart that the Lord is going to allow these painfully bad things to happen to us. God is going to take the strong and the sleek from among us, but then He is going to make the weak and the broken strong in Him. Although it will hurt deeply to be parted from our Christian loved ones, try to take heart and understand that God has a specific plan for everyone in these few short unusual end times years, and that before you know it we will all see our fallen Christian loved ones again. God is working everything out for the good; we have to hang on to that. (Note:) In the Bible, Paul, who took the Message of Christ to the Gentiles, said that he was the worst of all sinners. There is no one who is beyond the reach of the Lord to save and to use mightily in the coming days. Don't hold the sins of the past against each other. Behold, God is doing something new. As God has given to you freely, freely give.

(Note:) There are three main stories that are running through the media are like three of the horsemen of Revelation 6. War / Chaos - The nations who are already in a war or gearing up for a coming war include - Iran, Israel, the UK, France, Syria, the United States, Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, North Korea, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Venezuela, Radical Islam, Libya, Egypt, and others. Hyper Inflation (Famine) - The third Horsemen is the coming famine spoken of in Revelation 6 who says that people will work all day and they will only make enough to buy a little bit of bread. This is hyper inflation. It was predicted in the Bible 2000 years ago and it looks like the American dollar is very close to beginning the hyper inflation process, especially in regards to food and energy prices. It's also likely that the bad guys will find ways to reduce the supply of food in the world by doing things like cutting off the water to the California farmer, polluting the food that could be harvested from the Gulf of Mexico, forcing farmers to plant with genetically modifying seeds, killing the bees that pollinate the crops, using the new food safety bill to over regulate the food industry, causing wild fires in Russia, influencing the world's weather, outlawing fishing and hunting, disrupting the distribution of food with energy shortages, and or disrupting the harvest with energy shortages. Hosea 8 : 7 - "They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up." Death - Plague - Although the swine flu could once again be hyped by the authorities to accomplish vaccinations, a new threat that is being talked about is what if the swine flu, that is supposedly easier to catch, combines with the bird flu, that is very hard to catch, but that kills around half of everyone who gets it. Since I believe that we are approaching the end times cycle I am very suspicious of anything that has to do with vaccines. A pandemic flu threat could be hoaxed since the beginning panic could be started by people unknowingly being fed flu tainted food, and vaccines could then be rolled out by the oppressor like a targeted bio weapon insuring that the people that he would want to get rid of, like Christians and gun owners, are dosed with the virus. Also, I've heard that it's possible for the evil emerging world leader to spray plague bacteria on cities to make it look like there's a deadly flu outbreak only to scare the people into taking a deadly vaccine. When the days of panic come from the first three horsemen it will probably be reported that something deadly is a threat to us and that everyone needs to get a vaccine right away. Remember the enemy is a trickster. Pray before you panic, and may God grant you wisdom and mercy for our coming days. Ultimately, God will decide who He is going to take home to Heaven in the days to come, and who He is going send out as a laborer into His End Times Harvest Fields. In the few short end times years the vast majority of Christians will go home to be with the Lord, at some point along the way, through physical death. I take comfort in knowing that the Lord is in control of the Universe, that He is Good, and that for the Christian, going home to be with God is not an end, but a wonderful new beginning.

(God can forgive everyone of their sins no matter how deeply we've ventured into evil. Those who turn to Christ for forgiveness and who turn away from their sins, with the exception of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit which Jesus said was a sin beyond forgiveness, will be forgiven.)

(Note on blasphemy of the Holy Spirit: This comes into play when the Spirit of God is obviously at work like when Jesus healed the sick and drove out demons, and the Pharisees said that Jesus was helping people by the power of the devil and not by the power of the Holy Spirit. Clearly it was the Holy Spirit who was healing people so the Pharisees, who proclaimed themselves to be the leaders of God's People and should have known better, blasphemed the Holy Spirit by calling His Work the devil's work. Jesus said that this sin is unforgivable either back then or now. When God begins to work powerfully again in our day this will most likely again become an issue. Children of God and those who claim to be Children of God will be held to a higher standard when it comes to acknowledging God's Hand behind the work of the Holy Spirit. While those who are still not yet Christians will be given a measure of grace in what they say as long as they are speaking in ignorance. (There are some practices today that many Christians say are works of the Holy Spirit which in fact are not. See the last Chapter of this Message - "Testing the spirits")) Mark 3 : 29 - 30 - "But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin. He (Jesus) said this because they were saying, "He has an evil spirit."

(Note to the People of God: God calls us to love people and to lead them to a right relationship with Himself. It must be our hope that everyone will have as much time as God allows them to repent and come to a right relationship with Jesus so please do not hate anyone, but tell them the Truth in love in the hopes of bringing them to repentance and leave the judgment of their souls up to the Lord. Jesus commanded us to love everyone, friend and enemy alike, but we can defend ourselves if evil shows aggression towards us, however don't physically resist the civil authorities until after the Holy Spirit of Power is poured out and you can resist aggression in a non-lethal way.)

Note on hate speech: The end times are coming and for those who are committed to their wickedness this is God's Last Call. Telling someone the painful Truth about what happens to the unrepentant is not hate speech, but love speech. I understand how some people can confuse what hate speech is, because God's Truth goes against what they love and they just hate to hear God's Truth. Although those who love wickedness demanded and received tolerance from Christians they now in turn tend to demonize Christians at every turn. The Truth is the Truth and if it's now a crime to say that God says that specific behaviors are sinful and must be avoided by those who claim to love the Lord, then being a Christian has become a crime and our inability to pass on the morals of our fathers to this generation has brought us right back to the days of first century Rome.

No matter what the cost, we must live out the Truth resolutely in our lives and speak the Truth boldly to one another in love. However, it's equally as important that when we speak the Truth to the lost that we do it with compassion in our hearts for the people to whom we are speaking. To do things like protest at the funeral of a fallen soldier, whether we believe that we are speaking the Truth or not, is unbelievably unkind to the loved ones of the fallen hero, and totally disrespectful to the memory of someone who sacrificed his life for our safety. God does not hate America, God hates sin, all of our sins, even the sins of the ones who are holding the protest signs, but God loves humble repentant souls. Clearly, we are not going to be very effective peacemakers between God and unrepentant man if we hold up signs that tell people that God hates them. Besides God doesn't hate them. God loves them, but the sin in their lives puts up a wall between them and God that they need to ask God for help to remove, and God will not cleanse people of their sins unless they are willing to submit to His Authority. This may sound harsh, but from an earthly perspective who would hire any employee who they already knew would willfully defy their authority as boss? Furthermore, most employees are not free to dress any way that they would want to dress at work so why is it so hard to understand that we would need to be dressed by Jesus in righteousness to be with our God in Heaven? Romans 13 : 14 - "Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature." In the end, sin and rebellion will not be allowed in Heaven so man must decide now, while he is still limited in his earthly pre-resurrection body, whether he is going to submit to God or not. God has created us in His Image, but He will not bring us to be with Him if we are just going to act like the devil; proud, rebellious, destructive, selfish, hurtful, and evil. The time we spend limited by our earthly pre-resurrection bodies is like our internship to test our heart's commitment to God under different circumstances to see whether we will choose to love God or choose to stand against Him, and I believe that God loves us all and wants every soul that He has made to choose to stand with Him and to love Him back. We see a glimpse of this in how God tested the hearts of the children of Israel in the days of Moses. Deuteronomy 8 : 2 - "Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart whether or not you would keep his commands."

In sharing the Truth we should try to figure out how to do unto others as we would want others to do unto us. Yes we would want someone to warn us about the dangers of rebelling against our Lord and to tell us of what Jesus did so that we can have a friendship with God, but how would we want that Message delivered to us? Would we want someone protesting at our son's funeral? How open would we be to protesters of any kind in our deepest moment of grief? Come on you guys, the Truth and the love go together hand in hand, and we have to take into consideration how to present our words of Truth so that they have the best hope of being received; though present them we must, and apologize to those who we've wronged, we should. 1Corinthians 13 : 1 - "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal." We should be thanking the families of our fallen soldiers and law enforcement officers and even give them gifts to show our true appreciation. They are our heroes who hold the line between what's good and the unrestrained aggression of evil. When the times of testing come we should submit to their authority over our lives until we receive the Holy Spirit of Power and then we must not harm them. However, if we are ordered to take a vaccine or to give one to our children, we should pray to see whether the Lord wants us to take the vaccine or to passively resist this order.

(Note: Soon, as we enter into the end times harvest we should focus most all of our efforts on helping and reaching the lost souls, around us and throughout the world, with the Gospel of Jesus Christ; because we will just have a small window of time to reach the lost. Although we should help to restore and maintain justice, law and order, and to protect people from evil's aggression, we can't save our culture, economy, society, or democracy from the rule of the coming antichrist, who will be given the power and a window of time to rule the world: He will rule after the bulk of the end times harvesting is completed, and before the Revelation 19 return of Christ.) Daniel 7 : 21 - 22 - "As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and defeating them, until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom."

(Note on Baptism: Although it's good for everyone to be baptized after they have made a commitment to follow Jesus, the act of baptism is not what saves a person's soul. A soul is saved by true faith in Jesus that is proven by turning away from sin and obeying His Word. Usually one of the first things people do to obey His Word is to be baptized. Any Christian can baptize any other Christian and it should be done by full emersion in water and in the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All Christians who survive the Lord's Discipline are meant to be the laborers of the end times harvest field being directed by the Spirit into the specific fields and the specific tasks that we are to perform in bringing home the lost.) Matthew 9 : 38 - "Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."

(Note on the Authority of Scripture: This Journal cannot be trusted unless the Lord testifies to His Authorship and confirms the inspired prophetic voice of His Servant, by performing the multiple supernatural healing miracles that I have personally prayed for and mentioned to others. 2Peter 1 : 20 - 21 - "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." 2Timothy 3 : 16 - "All Scripture is God - breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness." Isaiah 51 : 16a - "I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand - ........")

(Note: I believe that Jesus physically arose from the grave, and that God's Children will also physically rise as directed by God. Luke 20 : 35 - 36 - "But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection.")

Note on idol worship: God hates this practice and He will be very strict in punishing anyone who chooses to worship an idol even if they also try to worship God at the same time. Everyone can only serve one Master, and that Master must be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, through His Son Jesus Christ.

(Note: Though some may argue that the resurrection of Christ never happened, the fact that His Followers went from frightened men hiding from the authorities to bold witnesses for Christ, willing to die for their testimony that Jesus really did rise from the dead, is extremely strong eye witness evidence that they really did interact with Jesus after He arose. Something must have happened to change them. Further, if they were lying about what they said they actually saw and experienced then not only would they then have been tortured and killed for nothing, but if they were lying, as Jews, they would also be condemning their very souls to Hell. No one in their right mind would risk so much for something that they knew for a fact was a lie, and this was not just one man, but a group of men. Since the Bible records that these were just simple ordinary men chosen at first glance almost at random, who then went out to reach the world with the Gospel; from their eye witness testimony and the lengths that they went to affirm their testimony we have to conclude that Jesus really did rise from the dead proving Himself to be God.)

(Note: I believe that this is the Message that the Lord has given to tell the people. If you are presented with things that I've posted to this blog that were edited out please do not hold them to the standard as having been received from God. I have written about many things and I've made many edits, but this is the Message that I believe that the Lord wants to communicate at this time. The other thoughts, writings, stories, and edits that I have written in the past, if not placed in context will likely prove to be pretty confusing.) (If you are presented with e-mails that I've written to various people in the past understand that this has all been like an unfolding story. When the story began I had one set of thoughts and conclusions as far as what was going on, but then as the story unfolded I adjusted this thinking and these conclusions as more and more insights from the Bible became available and God began to explain the bigger picture. For example chapters in the Bible that I've read several times along the journey suddenly began speaking in ways that were previously unseen. I believe that what is in this Journal is from God, but I'm sure that some of the e-mails that I sent, especially early on, will sound very strange. If they do please understand that at the time I was just figuring things out, that what I was experiencing brought with it a measure of fear, and it was all coming most unexpectedly.) In the midst of it all I have been greatly comforted by this passage. Isaiah 51 : 12 -16 - "I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men, the sons of men, who are but grass, that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor? The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread. For I am the Lord your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves roar - the Lord Almighty is his name. I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand - I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, 'You are my people'"

2009-04-28T19:53:00.000-07:00

Marching Order # 1

There is a Time for Everything Under Heaven

Updated 2/4/11

I've sometimes wondered why Jesus told His Disciples in Luke 22 : 36 that if they didn't have a sword that they should buy one, but then when they came to arrest Jesus, He 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 that 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 what Jesus was saying in this Verse was that anyone who tried that specific night to use a sword to defend Him 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 the Son of Man 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 from 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 without God's Help 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 major armies of the world against you, this would clearly be the time to put the sword down and turn to the Lord and ask for Him for protection, healing, and mercy.

2009-03-26T19:02:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 2

Respect the Ground Rules - In Everything Team

Update 2/4/11

2Corinthians 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."

In the coming conflict God 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 beyond telling them the honest Truth of what their lives will be like for all eternity if they choose to live forever as someone who rejected the gift of the Loving God.

As Jesus ministered in His day, He united the physical world with the spiritual world in much of what He did. Jesus did not create a coin out of thin air, but He had Peter fish for one; He did not create the wine out of thin air, 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, Gideon had his trumpets, and on and on and on.

As we learn to work together with the Power of the Holy Spirit we too will see the combining of the physical with the spiritual. That way the Spirit and us are both contributing to the team win. 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 help you. Just don't speak to the rock on your own expecting it to work just because you willed it to. Anything that we attempt to do for God 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, one of the greatest things that God will bring to the table to win the lost is the return of the abundance of food. Before we rise, the antichrist will have already set the stage for a horrible famine, and nothing will help us to win the hearts and the minds of the people to Christ faster then if we can 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 in hand as the opportunities to share the Truth arise. As a Body, during the harvest window, 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. Selfishness, pride, and greed must be put away, because we will have more then we need and it will never be our accomplishments that bring it to us.

Note: When we are filled with the Holy Spirit of Power, God can, overnight, make food grow and make fresh clean waters flow, even in the desert, if it's God's Will to do so and if we will ask it of Him in Jesus' Name. Isaiah 49 : 9b - 10 - "They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill. They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water."

2009-03-26T17:16:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 3

Numbers & The Goal

Updated 2/4/11

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 just like we do now; just like Jesus did, and it's important 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. But pity the man who falls and has no one to 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. There is no time to catch up with old friends or to have a fun time together. We are to pass the Spirit Christian to Christian, and as we spread out moving in small teams of three or four, so should we instruct everyone that we pass the Spirit on to. With God's Mighty Power in our hearts, we won't need 8 or 9 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 world's rescue. Matthew 13 : 33 - "He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough.""

Once we've received the Holy Spirit of Power and combine it with our mustard of faith, there should be no need for us to kill anyone. We can ask God to blind those against us, to erase their memories, to have them form a deep love for us in their hearts, to make them laugh uncontrollably for hours, to bring on a swarm of bees to chase them away, to shut down their equipment, to make their weapons feel like they are red hot, and on and on. Although God may choose to destroy enemy armies like He did the Egyptians at the Red Sea, as individuals we should choose to show mercy to our enemies and leave their fate in the Hands of the Lord. However, the rule of thumb is, as always, to go as God leads you. Matthew 5 : 7 - "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy." If you have received the Holy Spirit of Power, then know that this is the time of the Lord's Favor, and God wants us to win.

Although the enemy is going to be gunning for our Brothers and Sisters in Christ right away so that he can kill as many of us as possible before we can get the Spirit to them, and spreading the Spirit is the priority, there is room for the Spirit to lead some of us to jump right in and start ministering healing to our family, friends, and neighbors who may be dying from a deadly disease, wound, or from starvation. For those of us who see the Church as an army we need to raise up the Army of God, and for those of us who see the Church as a hospital then let the mercy of the Lord rise in our hearts and get us moving, gathering helpers and caregivers along the way.

Once the enemy is exposed, defeated, and in retreat we should not hesitate to jump right in and help the lost around the corner or around the world in any way we can. This is not the coming Kingdom of the Lamb, this is the final harvest. We will have a limited window of time to reach the world with the Gospel as we invite the lost to the Lord's Banquet. However, at that time God will leave a remnant of His Children on earth to go through the Refiner's Fire with what's left of the unrepentant world. The Saints of God will have the upper hand during our window for the harvest, but then at a time determined by God the Father, the devil will be given the power to defeat God's Saints and some will then have to endure these last of the last days of pain, hardship, captivity, and persecution with patient endurance.

The Kingdom of the Lamb comes in Revelation 19 as the Rider who is called Faithful and True comes out of the sky to save the remnant of the Christians and Jews who will, by then, have been forged together into one people by the Refiner's Fire. (Note: Even to the end the Lord will want us to pray for those who persecute us.) May God's Hand be upon you in these end times. Matthew 5 : 10 - "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

2009-03-21T05:35:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 4

Seek and You Will Find

Updated 3/24/11

Matthew 7: 7 - 8 - "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're 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 that particular mountain to move 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's key for us to stand firm in our faith to whatever end. The Power is coming, so pray, seek, find, receive, enjoy, fight, win, go from victory unto victory.

Note: I now believe that when God pours out the Holy Spirit of Power that people will be given different gifts of the Spirit based on God's Individual Plan for them. This, I believe, is seen in the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25 : 14 - 30 where one man was given five talents and he made five talents more, and one man was given two talents and he made two talents more, but the man who was given one talent did nothing with what was given to him. The two servants who took their talents and used them wisely to increase the happiness of their master were called good and faithful servants, but the one who did nothing with what the master had given to him was rebuked. In the coming days we are to labor for our Master in the harvest fields no matter how many individual gifts and talents we have been individually given, and we are to work together as a team in harmony with one another as God leads and guides. Everyone's contribution matters to God.

2009-03-21T04:52:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 5

Read the Word for Guidance and be Amazed

Updated 2/4/11

2Timothy 3 : 16-17 - "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 though the Bible, and it's amazing how every time I read it God says something new. I think that's because, though the Bible stays the same, the context of our lives change and different verses that we read on one day in one context may not speak to us, but then when our context changes that same verse will be applied to our hearts for the exact instruction that the Spirit wants to give us. Very soon, 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 had to read this verse like Jesus must have meant something other then what He plainly said. This must have been 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, this verse has a whole new context for us. When God is this close, bringing this kind of Power to His Children, who will receive 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 Christ like the branch to the vine, and God will direct the battle. I'm pretty sure that He is going to raise up His Servant, His 2 Witnesses, Judges, Captains, and Administrators to lead, and perhaps some of them will come from 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 all be working together as an integrated team, and God will have special missions for, and use the gifts of, each of His Spiritual Warriors.

Not only will our role be as protectors of the saved and the lost, 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. Lost souls are treasure in the Eyes of the Lord. 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 their 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. 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, 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 oppose and who to protect. Seek the Spirit of Power, because as of now, I'm pretty sure that God will give Him to specific people of faith to begin with, and then He will be passed on person to person. However, I'm also not sure of the timing of when this outpouring will take place.

How will you know if you've 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 if the tree doesn't fly, you don't have Him yet, keep seeking. If you love the Lord Jesus and want the Spirit of Power keep 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.

2009-03-20T12:12:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 6

Don't Get Cocky

Updated 2/4/11

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

Although I must admit that it's fun sometimes to taunt your enemies, and even Elijah took some playful jabs at his foes, however, once we take the field we have to stay humble. We want God to be completely on our side at all times, and we never want to experience any of those you needed to be taught a valuable lesson in humility moments. God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble, and He will let us lose 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 before the Lord, we also must not underestimate our enemy. After the sinister betrayal and crushing defeat of the free world's armed forces the antichrist will control the complete balance of earthly power. Further, he will marshal unlimited wealth, committed followers, behind the scenes unlikely coordination between seemingly opposed world leaders, elaborate hoaxes supported by his trusted scientific community that have been in the works for many many years (Pandemic Flu Hoax, Alien Hoax, Global Warming Hoax, Cyber Attack Hoax). Furthermore, he has almost a complete control of the world's news media, entertainment, and information systems; and he'll have ability to publicly accuse, the ability to confuse, deceive, destroy resources, employ highly advanced unusual technology to appear supernatural, and the ability to turn us all against each other if we are not trusting God and believing the best about each other. Truly the antichrist is an evil genius who is unmatched by any super-villain ever. Sure, during the harvest window, we are going to be defeating him all over the board, and at every turn, but the enemy is a very determined, a very angry, and a very vengeful fellow, and he will find a way to hurt us anyway he can.

Be warned, the devil is total evil to the core with no hope of redemption, so he has nothing to loose in making as many 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."

2009-03-20T11:19:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 7

Be Merciful to the Authorities

Updated 2/4/11

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."

Once again until you have the Holy Spirit of Power do not try to physically fight against any governmental authority in any way, because until you can win them over by God's Supernatural Power, you may find that you are only shooting it out with your Christian Brothers and Sisters who are honorably standing their Law Enforcement and Military 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 the Lord's Leading and He will guide you in what you should do.

Although I don't know how long the first of the end times battles will last, we will be deployed by God to where 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 was gone to somewhere else. As a team we will be able to be much more mobile, and effective in disbursing our resources if we can get all the people that we need anywhere in the world in a flash. God will put it on our hearts and in our minds as far as what we should do and pray for, and the Father God, Himself, will be at the command and controls of His Highly Effective Army. Also, 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's something very special to Him about a created soul who chooses to love Him back. Have compassion for your fellow man, pray desperately for their hearts and minds to be open to the Truth, and then lead them into our Lord's Open Arms.

2009-03-20T08:32:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 8

What Army will God take into Battle?

Updated 2/4/11

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." 2Chronicles 7 : 14 -"if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."

(Update) If God's Children hear His Call, humble themselves, and repent; if we will turn back to living the Truth and ask to be cleansed from our delusion induced unrighteousness, then we will march out like Joshua's mighty army. However, if we do not heed the call, many fewer of us will march out like Gideon's smaller but still highly effective army; that is after we have humbled ourselves, received the Lord's Rebuke, and have repented from our unrighteousness. Either way God's Army will take the field and God will win the day.

Since the Lord says that He's soon going to take the sleek and the strong from among us, it's likely that it will be an army of the weak, meek, broken, humble, poor, sick who were healed, and lesser regarded Christians who will take the field for the end times harvest. God often uses the weak to shame the strong, and He doesn't look at how people appear, but He sees right through us into our hearts. 1Samuel 16 : 7 - "But the Lord said to Samuel, 'Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.'" The only hope that the sleek and the strong have to be a part of the end times harvest is to repent and become weak before their God. If they don't, upon reaching Heaven, they will be given a white robe and will have to sit out the end times harvest. Revelation 6 : 9 - 11 - "When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the alter the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they maintained. ........ Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed." Truly God has a plan for the times known to us as the end times, and all of His Plans will be accomplished. If God is planning to lead into spiritual battle an army of the weak and broken, then this will truly be the Christian nerd's finest hour.

2009-03-20T07:53:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 9

Soldiers of the God/Man Combo

Updated 2/4/11

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 contest is going to be as much for us as it is for those lost souls that we are commanded to reach. For us God wants to unite His Heart with ours in the spiritual battle helping us to grow in our faith, trust, and love.

Living the God/Christian combo means that the Spirit first prompts us as to what to do and then we act in our ounce of 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 don't try to win with your limited strength when God's Unlimited Strength is right there with you. This is not a battle for our 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.

2009-03-20T07:30:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 10

Expect the Glorious Victory

Updated 3/13/11

2Corinthians 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 are, for the most part, caring individuals leading quite lives who are blissfully unaware of the coming storm while the other guys are determined, united, holding positions of power, concentrated in large numbers, ruthless, well armed, tech savvy, well trained, well supplied, well coordinated, ably led, and their battle plans for the conquest of the world are most likely well thought out and have been in motion for at least 100 years. While we have a few guns, 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?

Soon, the battle weapon that the Christian Soldier will wield will be the most effective weapon on earth, and that's the weapon of faith. The key here is that nothing is impossible to one who has faith. 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.'" The antichrist's forces, though mighty, are limited to the box of the physical and natural, and they will be, for the most part, warriors of cold science and reason employing machinery, technology, violence, aggression, deceptions, betrayals, brutality, and lies. However, we are warriors of faith and love, not limited to the box, and the Holy Spirit of Power that we are soon to receive will make us, for the harvest season, very hard to defeat.

I know that this is hard to get your 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 even 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. With God at our side the fight isn't really fair at all. For a time we will defeat them at every turn and they will neither know how or why. When the battle is joined, be courageous and be filled with hope as God deals with those who oppose Him right before your eyes.

We will be able to reach the lost up to and through out the time when Satan arrives indwelling the antichrist and pretending to be God. However, he will at that time be allowed the power by God, to conquer us and to kill many of us, so we will have only a limited amount of time to win as many lost souls as we can during our harvest window, although people will still be saved by refusing the receive the mark of the beast even after the devil has arrived. Daniel 7 : 21 - 22 - "As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and defeating them, until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom." While the devil himself is waging war against us, some of us will die and some will go into captivity, but if we go into captivity we must remain faithful to Jesus and never take the mark of the beast or worship him in any way. Revelation 13 : 9 - 10 - "He who has an ear, let him hear. If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints." We must remain faithful to our God during our testing even if we are taken into the fire. God has chosen who will be refined in the last of the last days, and it is for our benefit if we are allowed to suffer for a little while for the glory of His Name. Isaiah 38 : 17 - "Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back."

Remember, for the Christian death is not the end but a new beginning, and remember that the Father is waiting on the other side to reward with His Love those who He finds faithful and true. An era is coming to an end and a new one is going to begin where Christ is going to live among us as our King, and everything in the old era must be settled before the new era begins. Cling to your trust that God is Good as He settles His Accounts with all of us, because I'm pretty sure that there's going to be some things that He does for our eventual good, in the near future, that we will not all understand until we are on the other side of Glory.

2009-03-20T07:01:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 11

Commanded to be Strong and Courageous

Updated 2/4/11

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. 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 individual ends. God has a plan for all of us, and no matter how or when we enter into eternity we will arrive in Heaven happier if we walked on earth by faith with love and trust and courage.

2009-03-16T05:28:00.000-07:00

Marching Order - 12

Undivided

It is by far better to die then to accept the mark of the beast

or to worship him in any way.

Updated 2/4/11

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 Holy Spirit of Power will be here on earth and He will be passed from Believer to Believer until He reaches all who call on the name of Christ. Once we've received the Spirit we are united. There will be no more us verses them, and no more time for squabbling over points of faith and practice 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; and everyone else who will receive the Holy Spirit of Power is then united with us all. Sure right now we think that the other guy is wrong about a whole bunch 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) There is no more time for building or defending our own little individual spiritual kingdoms because most all of us, in a very short time, will either die and be on our way to the Banquet of the Lord, be hiding from the antichrist, or we will be going through the Refiner's Fire of captivity to the antichrist.

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 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 His Children into perfect unity under one throne, the throne that will be established with the return of the Lamb as described in Revelation 19. Do not be surprised if the mightiest warrior is that funny looking 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 and Sisters in Christ 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 as His Body, undivided.

Revelation 13 : 10 - "If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with sword, with the sword he will be killed. This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints."

Revelation 14 : 9 - 13 - "........ "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus. Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.""

2009-03-15T02:05:00.000-07:00

This Means War

God is Leading us in a Revolution back to the Truth

Updated 2/4/11

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 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 who are still 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 warrior of faith and love now, whether you like it or not. The same dark forces that will come for your public heroes, defenders, leaders, teachers, 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 mettle.

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 life as we know it, and everything must be settled in the next 7 or so years before we then begin the period of time where Christ 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 to Jesus.