Valley of Decision

Comments on NIV

2012-01-31T04:51:00.000-05:00

Consider for a minute if Jesus isn’t who he said he is then all our hope and faith is in vain. If Christ isn’t real then we are the most pathetic of men, of all men most miserable and foolish. We are weak, naïve and powerless.

"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;"

But if God is real and Christ is exactly who he said he is then we are the most blessed of people. The most loved, gifted and cherished by the great "I Am". We are people most powerful, to be set as judges over even the very angels of Heaven and will rule and reign with Christ for 1000 years.

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

And if you are confused by the things you are hearing in the world, do not forget that the only truth you will ever know is in the Holy Bible, the King James Version for those of us that speak English, the Bible tells us in Romans 3:4

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

So everything you hear or have ever heard and believed about this sinful world is a lie. The only truth you know comes directly from the Bible. Don’t be lead astray by any man into any other doctrine. Therefore, I would caution those of you that study from the NIV.

There are a lot of sincere people who read the NIV that are truly seeking God, I understand that, but I believe that book has the potential to lead you astray and I would get rid of it and get an Authorized King James Version. The NIV is not a modern translation of the King James, written so you can understand it better.

You need to understand that it is simply not the same book, there have been many changes made to it and even whole verses left out. For instance go to Acts verse 8:37 and read it, ah but you can't. You can’t because it isn’t there; they left it out. Now go read Psalms 12:6-7

The KJV says: "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever."

The NIV says: "And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times. O Lord, you will keep us safe and protect us from such people forever."

Protect us from such people? What is that supposed to mean? You see, with the NIV, it is possible to be lead astray. If you are having trouble understanding the KJV then you need to pray for understanding as the Bible tells us.

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." James 1:5

Have faith in God, that He is the one true God.

Janus the 1st

2012-01-01T07:11:00.003-05:00

Have you ever wondered why we do certain things during the holidays?

I remember being young and trying to figure out what bringing a tree into the house had to do with Jesus. I remember determining that it must be some silly tradition that started long ago in some strange but harmless fashion and somehow innocently linked itself to our honoring of Christ.

I further determined that no one had any idea when Jesus was born so everyone decided to celebrate on December 25th, which was also harmlessly added to our celebrations.

Many years later I decided to study the issue and found out that it was not innocently added but instead its roots were directly from paganism. The tree was directly related to their beliefs and December 25th was the birthday of their god, not Jesus. Its like telling your wife/husband that you have decided to celebrate their birthday on your ex's birthday and its ok because you have decided it doesn't mean that to you.

I said all that not to pick on Christmas again, (I have a whole page dedicated to doing that which you can visit by clicking the link in the sidebar). but rather to speak a little about our traditions concerning the "New Year".

Today is January first and that name is very significant. Why do we call this month "January". We got this name from our ancestors who were honoring their god whose name was "Janus". Below is a picture of a statue of Janus kept in the Vatican Museums.

As you can see, Janus was a strange god, He had two faces which allowed him to look forward and backward at the same time. He guarded boundaries such as doors and gates. He was also the god of transitions, beginnings and endings such as we see during the "new year". These all belonged to Janus.

In Roman times on January 1st everyone would walk around being nice to each other because they believed that on the first day, if Janus was not pleased, he would curse the entire year. That is why today we still walk around giving new year blessings and greetings to everyone.

Since Janus had two faces, and looked forward and backward at the same time, people would honor this ability by reminiscing on the previous year and then looking forward to the new year. You see this in year end news coverage when they "look back" at the year that was and then "look forward" with new year's resolutions.

Now if you are not a Christian you may look on this as actually being a wonderful thing. It preserves ancient beliefs and links us with our past and gives us wonderful traditions in the process. However, if you are a Christian you certainly must realize that to partake in these year end celebrations places you in the precarious position of worshipping other gods.

What a bummer huh? All the seemingly innocent things we do are reeking of paganism. It isn't bad enough that everyone gets mad at us during Christmas but now we can't even say "Happy New Year" what a terrible thing. Well, actually having become aware of all these lies several years ago, I have reached a place where it is a pleasure to stand out from the world. If someone wants to get mad at me over my dedication to the true doctrines of Jesus Christ then to me that is a wonderful thing.

Still, if you haven't come to this point yet it can be very overwhelming, much like Neo waking up from his capsule and looking out across the billions of other capsules being harvested and controlled by the machines and suddenly realizing the unbelievable truth. (Please see the 1st Matrix movie for this scene).

Yes, we live in a sun worshipping society very similar to pagan Rome at the time of Jesus' first coming. The main difference is we have a thin film of Christianity draped over top of it, which many are working feverishly to remove. It has been so since our earliest days, when our founding fathers, who were mostly deists, drafted our founding documents.

They didn't do it to ensure Christianity but to ensure the freedom to worship whoever you liked, the population at large just happened to be Christian so it only appeared that we were a Christian nation. This is exactly how it worked in ancient Rome, all gods were welcome there as they are here now.

So as you are wishing everyone a "happy new year" you can be aware that you are carrying on the traditions of ancient sun worshippers, specifically the two faced god known as Janus.

If it doesn't mean that to you, then you have my sympathy.

MAYAN APOCALYPSE COUNTDOWN BEGINS

2011-12-21T08:34:00.000-05:00

12/21/11 BEGINS THE FINAL YEAR OF THE LONG FORECASTED END OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR, WHICH MANY SAY BRINGS WITH IT THE END OF THE WORLD

For more than a decade now we have been treated to both theory and fact concerning the end time prophecy dealing with the supposed ending of the Mayan calendar. Soon all the hype will come to an abrupt end and the long awaited Mayan calendar mystery will be realized. In the meantime, the Mayan region is gearing up to take full advantage of this event.

An expected increase in tourism will bring curious people from all over the world to visit their ancient land. Mayan regional tourism, which usually sees around 22 million visitors, expects to see upwards of 52 million visitors this year, most of who are wondering if the world could possibly end in 2012.

Many celebrations and events are being planned much as we saw during the year 1999 and you can be sure local Mayan priests will be in high demand to perform religious ceremonies, burn incense and offer prayers to their gods. However, Yeanet Zaldo, a tourism spokeswoman for the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, home to Cancun tells us “The world will not end. It is an era,” “For us, it is a message of hope.”

In case you are wondering, she is right, there is absolutely no chance that the world will end on December 21, 2012. The Bible is very clear that we will experience 3 ½ years of tribulation such as has never been seen upon the earth, culminating with the ascension of the two witnesses into heaven just before Jesus returns.

While we have had numerous tribulational events recently, they have not all been grouped into the tight 3 ½ year time frame that we are told they will happen in. The Bible also teaches us that the end will come in a fashion similar to that of a woman during pregnancy, as the day of delivery approaches her pain will increase more and more until the birth takes place.

We are told in 1st Thessalonians 5: 3 “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” Just as the woman is not able to escape her birth neither will those of us in the world be able to escape ours.

So, while we can clearly show that this day isn’t the end it may very well become the beginning of the end. Since there is a good chance the elite of the world would attempt to use this particular date to make a push that would indeed hurl the world into the tribulation, we have but one year more to wait.

Thomas Jefferson

2011-12-13T03:20:00.001-05:00

I have decided to begin a series on the founding fathers of America, to see what they actually believed and to determine whether or not America was truly founded on the word of God.

My first subject of research is Thomas Jefferson, our third President. What did he actually believe about the word of God? Well, take a few minutes and read the quotes taken from his letters.

After reading the quotes, take a look at what Thomas Jefferson decided to do to the word of God.

Without further ado, let's allow Thomas to speak for himself. The following are several quotes from his letters.

“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.” —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus." —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 30 July, 1816

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it [the Apocalypse], and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to General Alexander Smyth, Jan. 17, 1825

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

Below are pictures of Thomas Jefferson's source Bibles that he used to cut and paste from. Also pictured is the book he pasted his chosen verses into.

Notice the care he took in carving up the Bible, it really speaks volumes for how he felt about the Bible.

As you can see, he didn't really write his own Bible as some believe, rather he "cut and pasted" (literally) his own Bible, carving up the word of God like a steak.

Yes, it is a hard fact, from the very foundation of our country we have been led by people who maintained an image of Christianity only because the majority of the people believed the Bible.

Many of our leaders held no such beliefs and today they would be proud to see the decline in Christianity. It was all a facade propped up to the degree necessary to fool the population at large, who ultimately show themselves to be sheep.

Rather than rolling over in their graves they would stand and cheer, yes friends we have been duped into believing that America was founded on Christian principles when it clearly was not. It was only the God fearing population that held our leaders to even pretend that they were Christian.

Now that that hold is weakening, they are free to be as Godless as they please, as they have been all along. Stay tuned for more research soon!

Book Notes

2011-11-30T14:17:00.000-05:00

Hi all,

As you may know the books are back from the printer and I have already sold several copies. Thanks to those who have purchased the book, I hope you enjoy it. I am planning a two hour DVD to help further explain the subject but that may take some time. In the meantime I thought I would post any clarifications I become aware of here.

This being my first book it was quite a learning experience and as hard as I tried to keep typos and grammar errors out of it several mistakes did make it into the final print. Most have been simple errors that should not cause readers to be confused so I am not especially concerned about those.

However, in the back of the book, in the charts section there is one that I need to point out. In the heading called "Christ's birth to the beginning of His ministry" (chart c) I have listed the dates under the heading as "Tishri 10th 5 BC to Tishri 10th 27 AD" This should read 26 AD not 27 AD.

I have started correcting the error with white-out before shipping so you can check your book to see if that has been done by me. If I shipped it before I was able to make the correction, please go back and do it yourself so there will be no confusion.

In the meantime, if you should see an area that might have another mistake please email me so I can be aware of it, also if you have any trouble following it and would like more answers just email me and we can talk about it. There is nothing more satisfying than studying the Gospel with someone who is genuinely concerned.

Thank you for your support and interest.

Blessings,
Jonn

Thank God for Prayer

2011-11-28T13:43:00.000-05:00

Many of you know that I write stories for the Vchannel, which is a ministry that deals with the far out and unusual material such as aliens, bigfoot, ect. Much of the writing process deals with searching for unusual stories to begin with, which can be quite time consuming.

In this light I would like to reach out to those of you who would be interested in helping us in this unusual ministry. Do you know of any strange happenings that might make for an interesting story that could be used to draw someone to the truth of the gospel?

Just send me an email with links to a news article or story that you think might be of use to the ministry. My searching the Internet for these strange stories has inspired this short article that I would like to share with you now. Blessings.

COMMENTARY ON PRAYER

As I search the Internet for news stories appropriate to the theme of the Vchannel I can’t help but realize how very much we need prayer. The realization becomes more and more clear as I read the unending drivel that is posted in all comment sections surrounding alien and exotic stories.

As I read through said comments seeking for an angle upon which to focus the story I can not help but feel a lonely sensation as I am reminded that the entire world lies in wickedness and there is no way to stop it.

Even comments from well meaning Christians fail because the corresponding comment will usually attack and completely disagree with the posted truth, thus creating the evil energy that fuels the Dragonspeak.

As Christians there are but few ways we can engage these people and none through dialog. In Matthew 7:6 we are told “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”

This is exactly what we see when we try to engage this world in its present state of degradation. Just as the Bible says, when you reach out to them they will rend your comments just as a pig would if you tossed a set of treasured family pearls into its pen.

Then it further dawns on me that this isn’t just in the strange and exotic world of aliens, which I am so often times wading through, but in all media and in all human contact. Even when the Lord sends us souls who will listen we have to be on guard not to slip into the devious and demonic traps of the Dragonspeak.

As the body of Christ we understand that we must be ready always to speak the truth but at no point can we safely engage this world in dialog. Thus our flesh is often looking for someone to talk to and more often than not there are zero options, because we are spiritual beings.

In this light prayer takes on a new meaning, no longer simply a means of asking for things but of someone to freely talk to. It becomes a stronghold, a place of safety free from the ridicule of the world. A place where your pearls are not trampled, instead when casting them forth they are tenderly collected and highly treasured by the recipient, who is God, who gave them to us in the first place.

We are strangers in a strange land and we have no hope except in Him, for in Him is life and He is the light of the world. John 8:12 says “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

So, while our flesh is still mired in the muck of this world, as we have not yet experienced the resurrection of life, it is good to know we have Someone who is always ready to listen and One who calls us “friends”.

From Jeremiah to Jesus

2011-10-31T19:03:00.002-04:00

Hi all,

I just wanted to announce the completion of my book. I have entitled it "From Jeremiah to Jesus". I thought I would post the preface here so you can get an example of what the book is about. I also scanned the cover from the proof copy. The main printing should be completed within a week or so.

PREFACE

While the subject that I ultimately deal with is of an incredible and exciting nature, the road to finding it, I can imagine, would be quite laborious to the average person who cares nothing for ancient Babylonian and Achaemenid kings and the events surrounding them.

And while I do expect the reader to have at least a minimum prior knowledge of these events I have also tried to write this book in a simple and easy to understand way and not in an “academic” way as you might expect from a college history professor.

However, it is from the book of Daniel that we are given the seventy weeks prophecy and if we want to understand the historical nature of this incredible prophecy we are forced to study the times and dates.

The amazing fact that this fulfillment could have ever been buried in our past is tantamount to watching the Red Sea split open, walking across on dry land and then just a few weeks later openly declare you wish you had never left Egypt.

Any attempt to remove the glory of this fulfilled prophecy must take extraordinary and quite obvious measures to do so. We see a good example of this in the removal of 240 years from the Hebrew calendar in a vain, and frankly pathetic, attempt to deny Christ.

Anyone with a modicum of historical understanding will quickly see the glaring blunders that the removal of these years has on the timeline of history. I find myself quite embarrassed for the whole lot of them as they embrace obvious lies rather than embrace their very own Savior, but I digress.

This book begins by laying the groundwork for understanding basic truths about the Hebrew calendar, the reckoning of days and the feasts of the Lord. These are important in reaching our goal of understanding when Christ began his ministry (26 AD) and when He died, resurrected and ascended into Heaven (30 AD).

Our history starts in earnest when we uncover the prophecy of the seventy years of captivity in Babylon, which begins from the first carrying away in 605 BC to the commandment given by Cyrus to rebuild the Temple in 536 BC. I also explain the all but forgotten character of Darius the Mede.

Understanding this timeframe is important because this is the time of the first commandment which is often disputed to be the one that initiates the seventy weeks prophecy of Daniel and once we gain a clear understanding of the seventy years we can better understand the seventy weeks.

Now, after the Temple is completed in 516 BC, we follow the timeline until the arrival of Ezra in 458 BC which brings with it yet another contender for the commandment that begins Daniel’s seventy weeks prophecy.

Finally, we arrive in 445 BC with Nehemiah, who is also given a commandment to return and rebuild Jerusalem, so this is the third contender for the start of the prophecy.

Usually the first thing that becomes clear when you begin to study this topic is that any one of these three commandments are so close as to make Christ’s arrival spot on and therefore undeniable, even to the most ignorant and knowledge rejecting among us.

However, if we dig deeper we can identify the precise commandment. This is important because once you pin it down all you have to do is start the countdown and 483 years later the Messiah is promised to show up.

You will be astonished to see how accurate the prophecy actually is and which commandment is the one spoken of in Daniel. I know I was.

Once the key is inserted into the door of understanding so much more opens up in front of us. Not only are we able to pin down the correct date but we are also able to flesh out many of the more obscure events in history.

When we finally arrive in 26 AD, we are able to uncover mystery after mystery concerning when and why things were done as they were. I remember being so excited the day I realized that I had pinned down the exact date of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection.

From there it is easier to find these other dates such as His birth and then show compelling evidence of why that date is the correct one. Also we find the time when John is baptizing Jesus in the Jordan and officially introducing the Savior to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. So many wonderful understandings are there for the taking.

Frankly, I was intrigued enough to seek it out and then write this book so I could share my understanding with you. I hope you find it enlightening.

-- Jonn Mooney

Dinosaurs in the Bible STUDY NOTES

2011-10-17T03:35:00.000-04:00

Dragon: Strong’s Hebrew number 8577 "tanniyn" meaning land or sea monster

Notice how the descriptions suggest details about the dragons and not just simple references to them.

Isa 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Jer 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

Ps 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Jer 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jer 14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Mic 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

Isa 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

{The passage above from Isaiah 13:22 is often interpreted as "Jackals" (as in a large wolf or hyena) in some reference Bibles. However this is only a suggestion as to the meaning. The real meaning of the word is as above, a land or sea monster. The word jackal is used because the idea that it could actually be a dinosaur is often just too much to stomach. Many people’s entire belief structure is centered on evolutionary theory and information such as this is too devastating for them and they cannot hear it.}

Unicorn: Job 39: 9-12
9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

Nu 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Ps 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Ps 92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Leviathan: Job 41-1-34
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

Ps 104:26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

Leviathan is not only a large sea monster but it also was able to breathe fire. There is no doubt that the above passages are describing a terrible ocean dwelling dinosaur. Most likely a Pliosaur which is estimated to be up to 50 ft long and weigh around 45 tons.

Below are quotes from a newpaper telling about the discovery of one of these creatures.

They had short necks and huge, crocodile-like heads that contained immensely powerful jaws and a set of huge, razor-sharp teeth.

Richard Forrest, a plesiosaur expert, said "What is fantastic about this new skull, not only is it absolutely enormous, but it is pretty much in 3D and not much distorted," he said. "You have this wonderful lower jaw – and you can just see from the depth and the thickness that this was immensely strong.

"It could have taken a human in one gulp; in fact, something like a T-Rex would have been breakfast for a beast like this."

Using four paddle-like limbs to propel its bulky body through the water, the pliosaur made easy work of passing prey such as dolphin-like ichthyosaurs and even other plesiosaurs.

"These creatures were monsters," said David Martill, a palaeontologist from the University of Portsmouth.

"They had massive muscles on their necks, and you would have imagined that they would bite into the animal and get a good grip, and then with these massive neck muscles they probably would have thrashed the animals around and torn chunks off.

Sounds a lot like how the Bible described it 4000 years ago, and it could also breathe fire. Imagine that.

Behemoth: Job 40:15-24
15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

(In the verse above, many Bible references try to say this is an elephant or a hippopotomus but neither of these animals "moveth his tail as a cedar" but brachiosaurus did.)

18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

Where the Eagles Be Gathered

2011-09-29T14:05:00.003-04:00

Let’s take a few minutes and explore the topic of the pre-tribulation rapture.

First, I would like to preface my comments by saying this article is directed to the dyed-in-the-wool rapturists. So all others please try not to be offended but rather learn from the idiotic mistakes of others.

If you believe in the "rapture" you will tell me that Jesus was describing it in Luke 17:34-36 when He said:

"I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."

Now, before I completely destroy the pathetic rapture doctrine I would like to quickly point out what we read in Matthew 24:39

"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."

We see here that those who knew not were the ones who were taken away. Does this not shake you at all? Of course not, because it is plain that you would rather make lies your refuge. The horrors of the tribulation are so great in your mind that you cannot fathom suffering through them, therefore you prefer to abide in the lie that is the pre-tribulation rapture.

You are a personal glaring example of what we read about in Isaiah 28:15

"Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:"

This is confirmed when you say that the tribulation shall pass through but it will not come unto you because you will be "raptured" out before it happens. It is a shame that I have to be so caustic here but how much plainer can it get?

Jesus plainly tells us that those who knew not are the ones that are taken, not Noah. In fact, we see neither Noah nor Lot are "raptured" but rather they are given a means of escape just as God will provide for those of us who are His children when the tribulation occurs. We read this in Proverbs 10:30.

"The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth."

Now, how is it you say we will be removed again? I can already hear the gears turning in your minds trying to come up with some excuse that makes sense of all this evidence against your precious rapture.

Don’t take me wrong here, this doesn’t necessarily mean that our physical bodies will be preserved. We understand that we are no longer physical beings but rather spiritual beings, hence being born again, but we see everyone so worried about their flesh.

Yes, we are so concerned about our pathetic hides. Don’t you know that your flesh is already dead but that in our new bodies not a hair of our head shall be harmed? We need to focus on the Spirit, not the flesh.

Now, you might be saying isn’t all this enough to destroy the doctrine? Well, if we were dealing with rational people this would be enough. If people cared about the truth, it would be enough but when we are dealing with people who make lies their refuge we have to realize that most of the time they are unmovable.

Therefore, it really isn’t my goal to change their minds but rather to persuade other’s not to take the same path. The rapture is so entrenched in the church that it will not be removed but perhaps a few can be pulled from the fire.

The underlying problem is that Christians today have ceded their birthright to physical Israel. They will tell you all day long that the "Jews" are the chosen people but what does the Bible tell us? In 1^st John 2:22 we read:

"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son."

So, I ask you plainly who is it again that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? Why, it’s the physical Jews isn’t it? So how is it they are the chosen people again? It seems to me that they are rather anti-Christ and if you believe the rapture you must understand that at the heart of that dastardly doctrine lies the belief that the Jews are the chosen people.

In effect the anti-Christ has set himself up in the Temple of God, claiming that he is God (were you waiting on a physical temple?) No, it is all spiritual, don’t believe me? We read in Ephesians 2: 19-22

"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."

Read that carefully. It is describing the believers as the Temple of the Lord. Yes, the combined body of believers, with Christ himself as the chief cornerstone, are fitly framed together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

And who is now sitting at the pinnacle of the Temple? You guessed it. It’s physical Israel sitting as the chosen people. The anti-Christ came right in and sat down in our very midst and almost no one noticed. Well, you better get out of there while you still can, yes get out of the churches for the anti-Christ is already taking his place there as their god.

Now, just to recap, I have shown with scripture who the anti-Christ is. I have show who the Temple of the Lord is. I have shown that the believers today revere the anti-Christ, and rest assured, it will not be long before his jealousy rages and he forbids all others and demands that everyone worship him. Yes, this is the truth.

Now, in conclusion, I am going to seal the deal and destroy the rapture doctrine with a little known and even less quoted verse that surprisingly comes right on the heals of the so-called rapture verses which we read earlier from Luke chapter 17.

Funny how you never hear this verse quoted from the rapture pulpits even though it is the very next verse. Let’s read it together now, it is Luke 17:37 and it reads:

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

What were they asking here? They wanted to know where all these people would be taken and what does Jesus tell them? He says if they want to know where they were taken just look for the eagles and there they would find them.

So, those taken are going to a supper but not the one they were expecting. Jesus is telling you that those taken are going to be destroyed. Those taken are going to be bird food. They aren’t invited to the marriage supper but rather they are the supper. …a supper for the eagles.

Wake up people!

The Road Less Traveled

2011-09-25T08:56:00.002-04:00

My search for the Truth has been an interesting road. At each signpost I have intentionally opted for the road less traveled because we are clearly told the road to Life is straight and narrow and few there be that find it. So, logic would dictate to us that we should simply never follow the crowd.

The journey begins in a wide area, when we are asked to come to Christ. We don't know much at this point since we have just set out on the road.

We come to the first signpost, an arrow to the left points to the broad way and says follow the world but to the right another says follow Christ. We take the path less traveled.

The next signpost we reach is labeled "once in grace". To the left the sign reads "You can do whatever you want and no matter what you can never be lost". WOW, that sounds great. We see many walking that road and it sounds like fun. However, we see the other sign says, "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." We take the path less traveled.

Next we come to the signpost which is labeled "Christmas". To the left we see "Good times, many gifts and family togetherness." That sounds so good. Plus, we see that most of the Church is celebrating it also, so surely there isn't anything wrong with it. The other sign simply says. "Christmas is a pagan lie. Don't do it." We take the path less traveled.

Soon after, we see the Easter signpost. To the left we see the Church celebrating Jesus' death and resurrection in the fashion of pagan sun worshippers. To the right we see persecution and ridicule for not joining in the pagan festivities. Still, we choose the path less traveled.

Then we see the Sunday worship signpost, to the left we see the entire Church world meeting and keeping Sunday holy. All our lives we have seen this, it seems so natural to us and everyone does it. However, the sign to the right tells us to recognize the Sabbath as holy. Again, we choose the path less traveled.

The next signpost is the Rapture. To the left we get whisked away to feast for seven years at a huge marriage supper in Heaven. To the right we see that we must endure the tribulation. We choose the road less traveled.

Finally one day we see the sign post to the left that says "We are the Church and we should celebrate all her pagan festivals, believe the rapture and once in grace doctrines." We see all of our friends and families following it. To the right we see a sign that says "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." and we realize we are not second class citizens behind the Jews but rather we are the Jews, Spiritual Jews. We take the road less traveled.

We come to yet another signpost. To the left says "children first, family first, country first." To the right the sign says, "God first." We take the road less traveled

The next path has people following what seems like the truth but actually it is only a road of pride. To the left we read "I know what God wants and I know I am right." To the right it says "God is right and we cannot understand his ways." We take the road less traveled

In the end we look around and there seems to be no one around.

Our road has become so narrow and straight that nearly all that used to walk with us have fallen away. The road became to narrow for them. Maybe they stopped walking back at the "once in grace" signpost or maybe they walked all the way to the "sunday worship" signpost, maybe they fell away at the loss of their rapture but in any case they have stopped walking the path.

It seems as if we are all alone, but Christ is leading us.

"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever."

Radio show #2

2011-08-22T00:38:00.005-04:00

Here is another link to a recent radio program.

Click here to hear the show.

Update

2011-08-13T05:32:00.015-04:00

Hi all.

I haven't written in awhile, my new radio show, which can be heard on the Geo Media Network, has been keeping me pretty busy, but I thought I would do a quick update.

Most of the extra time I used to spend writing articles has been going into a book, which I hope to have completed soon.

Until I finish the book I will not be posting many articles.

In the meantime I thought I would periodically post a link to my radio show.

Click here to hear the broadcast. I hope you enjoy it.

You can email James Lloyd at james@geomedianetwork.com and request to be added to the list to receive the Geogram E-blast and access to the entire database of shows including mine.

Again, I hope you enjoy the broadcast.

Presuppositional Apologetics: Part 5

2011-07-30T07:50:00.000-04:00

This is the fifth and final video in the series known as Basic Training for Defending the Faith and it explains a technique known as presuppositional apologetics. The fifth lecture is called The "Problems for Unbelieving Worldviews".

I will post the first segment of each lecture so please watch the rest of this lecture via Youtube.

Presuppositional Apologetics: Part 4

2011-07-28T06:10:00.000-04:00

This is the fourth video of a series known as Basic Training for Defending the Faith and it explains a technique known as presuppositional apologetics. The fourth lecture is called The "Defending the Christian Faith".

I will post the first segment of each lecture so please watch the rest of this lecture via Youtube.

Presuppositional Apologetics: Part 3

2011-07-25T19:52:00.000-04:00

This is the third video of a series known as Basic Training for Defending the Faith and it explains a technique known as presuppositional apologetics. The third lecture is called The "Worldviews in Conflict".

I will post the first segment of each lecture so please watch the rest of this lecture via Youtube.

Presuppositional Apologetics: Part 2

2011-07-21T08:36:00.001-04:00

This is the second video of a series known as Basic Training for Defending the Faith and it explains a technique known as presuppositional apologetics. The second lecture is called The "Introduction to Worldviews". I will post the first segment of each lecture so please watch the rest of this lecture via Youtube.

Presuppositional Apologetics: Part 1

2011-07-17T04:26:00.003-04:00

Below is a video that teaches indepth on the topic I mentioned recently on my radio program. This is the first video of a series known as Basic Training for Defending the Faith and it explains a technique known as presuppositional apologetics. The first lecture is called The "Myth of Neutrality".

Properly understood, this method is very powerful and it gets a lot of resistance from atheists who find themselves faced with a devastating reality that they cannot answer. Just as a mother blinded by the love of her children cannot see what spoiled brats they truly are so do the atheists react when given proof that without God they can't know anything.

You can link to the remaining segments of the lecture from Youtube. I will post the first videos of each lecture, being a total of five, in the near future. If you would like to hear my radio program you can go to www.geomedianetwork.com. The program airs Mondays at 3pm, Wednesdays at 8am, Thursdays at 1am and 10am and Fridays at 1pm, all times Pacific.

Enjoy.

The Doctrine of the Biggest Mouth

2011-06-30T23:36:00.004-04:00

Often the doctrine that wins the day has nothing to do with the truth, instead it has to do with the person in the room who has the biggest mouth.

The guy with the most imposing demeanor, the guy that gets the support of those around him. The truth means nothing to him, only his beliefs, because as we all know he is always right. Mr. Big Mouth and his friends already know everything and they are here to teach others, not to learn.

They may pretend to learn but you can watch them squirm when a question is brought up that they cannot answer, or a question that undermines their beliefs. They begin looking for a way out, a way to continue with their beliefs unchanged. Most of the time they will not even lend an ear to the truth because that would require them to humble themselves and admit they are wrong.

What is the truth? If you were talking to someone about math and the problem of 2+2=4 came up. You would understand that as the truth. The truth we see in math is true regardless of what anyone believes about it. We look at this example and due to the fact that it is simple math we might believe the truth is easy to prove.

However, suppose Mr. Big Mouth stepped up and said that 2+2=5 would that make him correct? Would that damage the truth at all? Suppose Mr. Big Mouth told you this and all of his friends rallied around him and said he was right and you were wrong. Would that damage the truth at all? Would you begin to question yourself about whether or not 2+2 really did equal 4?

However, what if the formula A= π*r² was brought up and you were asked to determine whether it was true or not. It wouldn't be quite as easy would it? You might actually have to do a little studying to decide whether or not it was true in the first place.

Now, once you determined it was in fact true how would you present it to others that had not studied it for themselves? How would you present it to Mr. Big Mouth, while he laughed at you and called you names? I suppose the unfortunate reality is that you can't. He either accepts it or he doesn't, you have to let him go his own route.

Does that cause damage to the truth? No. He is wrong not the truth. He can lift up his big mouth in protest, and he can convince everyone in the room that the mathematician is wrong. He can make fun of him and do whatever he wants to but it will not change the truth of the formula.

Now to a mathematician the more complex formula A= π*r² is just as true as 2+2=4 because he understands the deeper truth. For instance, just by showing the formula to a mathematician he would instantly tell you it was true. It is the true formula for calculating the area of a circle.

The same applies to religious truth. The Truth does exist and you either have it or you don't and regardless of what you choose it does not damage the Truth in any way. If by chance someone has a better understanding than you do because they study more that doesn't mean you can negate the Truth simply because you don't understand it.

At each point of growth we truly must humble ourselves in deference to the Truth. We cannot diminish it by convincing everyone that our particular belief is correct or that somehow we all have our own beliefs and no one belief is any better than another's.

Now this begs the question, how do we know when we don't know something? This may sound like a riddle but consider it for a second. You see, Mr. Big Mouth truly believes he is right, sure there is some pride mixed in with it but the point is he doesn't see it as pride he sees it as a righteous defense of the truth.

Since we see Mr. Big Mouth caught in this web and blinded to his faults we should also look at our own faults to see that we too are not following a similar path.

A good sign that you are walking in the truth is that your doctrine will line up with the Bible. If you are ever challenged by someone quoting the scripture it would make good sense to study that point until you ensure that what you believe truly does line up with ALL of the scriptures, not just your favorite ones.

If you find that what you believe doesn't line up with the Bible then you must change what you believe. You must line your beliefs up with the Bible and that means walking a road of oft times being wrong and having to repent. If most of your time is spent repenting and humbling yourself to the scriptures then that too is a good sign.

We cannot simply follow the guy with the biggest mouth and feel secure in the Truth. We must continually study to show ourselves approved and be ready to answer any that inquire to the hope that is within us.

Proverbs 1:7 says "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."

The Truth truly doesn't have a lot of tolerance for big mouths.

The Milk

2011-06-13T09:45:00.000-04:00

For years I believed that all people had to do to be saved was to come to the altar, with a contrite spirit, accept Christ into their heart by believing that He died for their sins and then confess the event with their mouth.

On the surface I still believe this is true because on one level this is what the Bible tells us. However, what if you thought you were coming to Christ but actually it really wasn't Christ, what if you had a counterfeit christ, an antichrist.

Let's look at an earthly example. Suppose you loved a certain rock star. Suppose you bought all his albums and spoke his name to all your friends and family. Suppose you memorized all his songs and watched all his concerts and TV interviews. You loved everything he did and you lifted up his name at every chance. Then one day you decided you loved him so much that you wanted to meet him. So, you go to his house and suddenly realize that even though you have all this knowledge about him, HE DOESN'T KNOW YOU AT ALL.

Suddenly it becomes clear, you are not a disciple you are a stalker.

In this example we can see that no matter how much you know about him and try to follow him and talk about him and love him, if you don't really know Him then it is all for nothing.

Now, we know Jesus is God and not a rock star, so we understand that He is able to look into our hearts and know that we are doing these things, unlike our rock star example. Yet, in the Bible we see this very thing happens to many, many people.

We are told in Matthew 7:23 "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." So how is it possible that even though He knows our heart could we still not be known by Him?

What we see here firstly is that it IS possible to end up in the same context as we saw in the "rock star" example, in spite of the fact that He is God and can look into our hearts. He will still tell the very people that actually do many things in His name to depart from him. How do we end up in this condition?

After all, we called His name "Jesus" when we went to the altar, we believed as well as we could at the time and we talked about him or confessed Him with our mouths. Perhaps we called His name with our lips but our actual hearts are far from him. Could this be true?

We see this is true and we understand that there are pretenders among us. These are the people who don't really put much thought into what they are doing for Christ. They don't study and they are caught up in worldly cares. They will put on a dress or a nice suit on Sunday and go to "Church" and act religious but the rest of the week you can not tell any difference between them and a regular sinner. They spend much more time following NASCAR than they do Christ.

Oh, they bow their heads when the preacher calls for prayer, they recite the national anthem, they love Mom and apple pie. They enjoy good country music that sings about Jesus (every now and again). They love having prayer before a NASCAR race but they love "gentlemen, start your engines" much more. (Do they even still say that nowadays?)

So lets be honest, more than likely YOU are in this group. In truth, you really don't care about the gospel. You're probably not rude about it but you're simply much more interested in the cares of this world than in seeking the Truth. This is no mystery. It is clear to anyone that you don't love Christ as much as you love football or NASCAR or whatever it is you spend your time doing instead of studying Christ. So when you hear the words, "I never knew you", don't be surprised.

This type person is easy to see through so we can move on for those that actually seek the Truth on a deeper level. Those of you that truly care, not superficially.

Knowing that Christ can see our hearts and assuming that we are not simple pretenders how is it that we could miss? We miss by never understanding WHO we are in Christ. To seek Christ is to seek the Truth. When the Truth visits you and you reject the Truth you are actually rejecting Jesus in favor of some other Jesus that you have built up in your mind.

The Jesus you have constructed doesn't exist except in your mind. To seek Jesus, is to be ready at all times to respond to any truth He sends your way and reject none of it.

The gospel is simple but it is straight and narrow and we must conform to His ways. We can expect to find that after we come to Christ we will realize very quickly that whatever it is we thought we knew is almost certain to be found wrong. You will be humbled and the more you study, the more humbled you will become.

You will pick up your cross and follow him. Along the way, your friends and family will not accept you. They will call you crazy and get mad as you draw closer to Christ and farther away from the world, and them.

At some point you will begin to understand the milk. While milk is what "baby" Christians start out with, you cannot even drink the milk until you are born. You do realize that you have to actually be born before you can eat?

So, the acceptance of Christ WILL get you to Heaven IF you die immediately after your heartfelt acceptance of him.

Basically, you would become the thief on the cross, dying just hours after coming to Christ. However, if you continue to live you MUST carry your cross and learn of him and follow his commandments. You cannot stay in the crib and live, but you must first take the milk.

This is where most of the pretenders are. Most of them at some point were actually born again in the spirit, they briefly tasted the milk and at that moment they were truly saved. Unfortunately they somehow began to believe that they didn't have to move on and seek the Truth. So, they lay there and die in the crib having barely sipped the milk.

The first thing most people usually think of after coming to Christ is that they must immediately stop "sinning" and tell everyone what happened and from then on be a totally different person and never look back. As the days roll past and the salvation experience fades in their minds they begin to slip and realize that they can't do this on their own. Soon after they die spiritually, they die, lying right there in the crib with an empty bottle in their mouth.

Why would Christ leave them alone? We know He wouldn't so why do we see this pattern so often? The answer is the so-called "Church" isn't actually leading people to the true Christ. They couldn't be, because a tree it known by its fruits and we see the "Church" today has bad fruit.

The truth is the Church is teaching false doctrines such as the believers will be caught up by a pre-trib rapture and that the physical Jews are God's chosen people. A young believer is never steered to the real Truth.

So, before we can eat meat we must drink milk. Here is the milk. You are born again into the House of Israel, you are indeed spiritual Israel, you are the adopted son of Abraham through Jesus Christ. You are the chosen people, you have the birthright, you are children of the promise, not the physical Jews (or physical anyone for that matter) as the so-called Church tells us today.

When the Church lifts up physical Israel it is actually lifting up the spirit of anti-christ. It is as simple as that.

1st John 4:3 plainly tells us how to recognize the spirit of anti-christ."And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world."

In case you don't know, the physical Jews in the land of Israel today flatly reject, deny and "confess not" that Jesus came in the flesh. So let there be no doubt, you cannot deny this and continue to believe your bible, the Israel over there in the middle east is the fulfillment of the spirit of anti-christ. It is the beast that was, and is not, and shall return. They have now returned.

So why in the world do we lead people to the spirit of anti-christ and then expect them to be able to do all the things that Christ expects of them? How foolish can we be to take someone to the anti-christ and expect them to become good Christians?

As Paul tells us in Galatians 3:3 "Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" Having become born again, why do we go back to the physical? Yet we do, day after day, waiting to be "raptured" so the "chosen people" can come back to Christ.

You say you don't lead them to anti-christ, but what is that smelly thing sitting there, right smack dab in the middle of your belief structure?

Could it be that you believe the physical Jews are God's chosen people? Do you believe that they are first and we are just the lowly dogs that Christ ended up having to settle for after the true chosen people rejected him?

Do you say that Christ failed in his mission to save the lost sheep of the House of Israel? Or do you hide that belief by saying He will fulfill it "after the rapture"? I used to believe that claptrap, I was taught that dung!

You had better be Israel because those are the people He came to save. You cannot be saved and deny your birthright. You are Israel, not physical Israel but spiritual Israel. He came to save NO ONE else. You are the elect, the chosen people, the sons and daughters of God but only if you are in Christ.

Yet like poor Esau, how eager we are to give away our birthright for nothing. Esau lost his birthright for a bowl of soup, the Church has seemingly given theirs away for even less than that.

So That They Are Without Excuse

2011-05-27T11:59:00.001-04:00

Sometimes I hear Christians tell people that they believe in God because of what they see in the creation. They will point to a bird flying and say something like "that's why I believe in God, his creation is so wonderful, it would take a wonderful God to create something so beautiful and graceful."

Possibly, they are referencing the verse in Romans 1:20 which tells us "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"

So, we say we understand the beauty of a bird or a sunset or maybe a high mountain and we look in awe and try our best to give God the glory and praise for it all. Now God does get the glory for these things, as they truly are beautiful and amazing. His creation is remarkable! The problem though is Christians always want to see things with their natural eye and frankly all these things we see are so commonplace to us now that the impact on non-believers is minimal.

This got me to thinking about this verse, if we read it carefully it tells us the "invisible things of him" are clearly seen. We talk about birds, sunsets and mountains but these are all things that we can see and this verse is telling us about invisible things that are "being understood by the things that are made".

This means we have an understanding of these things, as do ALL things that are made. Therefore we don't go to a classroom and learn about these things, we understand them instinctively, along with the rest of creation. So the birds, fish, animals and even the plants and insects have understanding, which basically means that they bear witness to these things naturally, through their actions.

So these invisible things, that we understand, include but are not limited to "even his eternal power and Godhead;" yet we think He is telling us to enjoy looking at his creation. Yet taking in all the natural beauty we totally miss the spiritual aspect, which is where our life is.

In our natural bodies is death, yet that is the first stop we always make when trying to understand the things of God. We want to run down and baptize our flesh, we want to see someone come to the altar, we want to bless physical Israel and on and on. Most look at the effect on the flesh first and many of those never consider the spiritual things, which again is where our life is.

All the things we do in our bodies, in the physical plane of existence, are death and will reap death and will burn. Our life is all about the spiritual. If the body can find a small portion of something that runs over from the spiritual cup then that is not a bad thing but even that will reap death which is the nature of the flesh.

We have it backward, instead of the body reaping a benefit of what the spirit enjoys we let our spirit feed on the crumbs of what our flesh understands and enjoys. That is why we look at the birds and try to make that fulfill this verse.

We are also told "that they are without excuse" so we will not be able to claim that we didn't understand, we will all be "without excuse". So while we can we need to look with our spiritual eye, since the spirit is where our life resides anyway. So let's try to see it from that perspective.

Think of a seed, how it must die before it can achieve its true nature. Unless an acorn falls to the ground and dies it can not sprout into a great tree. This is true of all seeds, they must die. You see their empty husks break open as the life inside sprouts into what it was designed to become. This is the same in our lives as our flesh must also fall away and die before our true self can spout into its fullness.

Again, a caterpillar must be changed before its true nature can be revealed and it becomes a butterfly and more creatures do this before they attain their full adult nature. We see the shadowing of these things in nature and they are "clearly seen" and understood by us and even the lowly caterpillar bears witness.

Further, our natural bodies get dirty. We must shower each day to keep the filth off of us, just as we must wash clean our sins by the blood of Christ. We must eat to nourish our bodies just as we must eat of the Word of God in order to nourish our spirits.

We also see the Godhead, which is the understanding of the trinity in our lives. Most of us have several different titles such as a man who begins as someone's son, he will then usually becomes someone's husband and eventually he will be someone's father. This acknowledges the eternal Godhead of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the same way we are fathers, sons and husbands. These things are natural to us and yet most people never even think about it.

If you see what these examples in nature tell us about the invisible things of God, you can further understand that even in the "non-completion" of these things the Lord is glorified. For we know the path is narrow and few there be that will find it.

Therefore we see that not everyone attains the titles of father, son and husband. Not every caterpillar turns into a butterfly, nor every acorn into a tree. If you don't take a shower you will stink. If you don't eat you will die. It is clear these things don't have to be completed. In fact we can say that the great majority don't make it to the fulfillment of their true purpose.

Unfortunately, the great majority of people in the world will not find the straight and narrow path either. Yet there is one thing we all must do. We all sleep and we all wake up, there is no getting out of that.

We can only stay away so long then we shut down and nothing can stop it, after we sleep we wake up again, there are no exceptions, the whole creation goes through this. Just as we will all one day, good or bad not withstanding, be resurrected and stand before God. Sleep is a reenacting of death and the resurrection is reenacted by waking again, and not just the resurrection of just but also of the unjust since the whole creation does it. There will be two resurrections and no one gets out, you will go to one or the other, there are no exceptions.

These things are naturally understood yet most of us never think much about it. Imagine standing before God and he explains how you acted out the resurrection every day of your life. He explains that you filled the role of the Godhead in your life, you showered away dirt and filth from your body, you watched butterflies and saw acorns grow into large trees and somehow you never caught on to any of these "invisible things of God".

So, the creation truly does understand these things. They are ingrained in us at our innermost beings, they are natural to us and ultimately we will all be without excuse.

THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING EARTHQUAKE

2011-05-22T00:42:00.004-04:00

IS IT POSSIBLE A COVER UP IS IN PROGRESS CONCERNING AN 8.4 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE THAT HIT LIBYA ON MAY 19th **updated**

A few days back I ran a story on the beams of HAARP that had been turned back up. I speculated that a major earthquake was possible due to this evidence. I assumed the target was the New Madrid fault line but now it seems that a large 8.4 earthquake has hit Libya but for some reason it is getting absolutely no coverage.

People are referring to this as "the case of the missing earthquake". As incredible as it sounds it does appear that a very large 8.4 magnitude earthquake has hit Libya, data reported by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, clearly shows that it was a 8.4 magnitude earthquake. The strange thing is that now most all of the data has been purged from the reporting sites.

According to many researchers on the net, almost every scrap of data that showed the 8.4 magnitude earthquake has been deleted. One researcher that was following the event as it occurred reported that "all the sites that had info are wiped clean now…. why would that be?"

No one is talking about this. There are just a few scraps of data left that I can find and even those appeared to be tampered with. The only offer of explanation was given by an internet reporter who claims the 8.4 earthquake was the result of an equipment error and that the earthquake was really just a 5.2 and also that it had struck in the middle of the Libyan desert where the population is scarce. It appears just as likely that the 5.2 earthquake was an aftershock of the larger 8.4.

People are beginning to suspect HAARP since the beams we reported earlier this week have been turned back down and they came down on the 19th right around the time of this "missing earthquake". It is unthinkable that something like this could be covered up but as of now that seems to be exactly the case.

Either way the silence from the mainstream media is deafening, with all the talk of HAARP you would think someone would cover the story but unfortunately, none of the brain-dead zombies who watch the mainstream media believes in HAARP.

And we can rest well knowing the mainstream media isn’t going to say anything like that to the sheeple.

editors note: While this disappearing earthquake is mysterious, a crucial point was missing about the HAARP story. The beams that were transmitted were not 2.5 earthquake frequency beams but instead the main beam was at 1.7 which is the frequency for severe weather, including tornadoes. It can now be said that the tornado disaster in Joplin MO was HAARP induced.

We are fish in a barrel! The elite have now proven they can do to us as they wish and almost no one suspects a thing.

GET READY. HAARP HAS BEEN TURNED ON AGAIN

2011-05-17T05:05:00.001-04:00

THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT HAARP HAS BEEN TURNED ON AGAIN AND ITS TARGET THIS TIME IS THE NEW MADRID FAULT LINE

If you are in the New Madrid fault line area of Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee be on the look out for glowing clouds, which are a signal of HAARP energy coming through the clouds and being directed into a particular location.

There is now strong evidence coming from the HAARP induction magnetometer that shows several distinct beams which are being transmitted into the region on full blast.

These signals were seen in Haiti, forty hours later a devastating earthquake. In Japan the induction magnetometer again showed a beam, fifty-five hours later another devastating earthquake. Now we are seeing these signals again, only now there are four distinct signals reading off the scale, all going off at once. Whatever, they are doing it should be huge.

If this attempt is successful, we should soon and very soon see a tremendous earthquake, more than likely in the New Madrid fault line area.

You may be interested to know that FEMA is also conducting a large weeklong exercise in the New Madrid region that will simulate a catastrophic earthquake.

A quote pulled from the FEMA blogsite states "The NLE 11 functional exercise, which will simulate a catastrophic earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, is scheduled to take place at venues in the national capital region and throughout the central U.S. These exercise activities are being carefully balanced with the current flooding and tornado-related disasters that FEMA and its partners are responding to, and adjustments have been made to exercise plans accordingly."

You may remember before 911 the government also just happened to be conducting exercises that simulated a similar attack on the area.

All signs point to an attack on the New Madrid fault sometime in the immediate future.

Be vigilant and pray.

May Day Trigger Pulled

2011-05-02T05:31:00.002-04:00

Well, just as I was beginning to believe my "May Day" story from a few weeks ago was not going to pan out this year, what do we see?

Yesterday, May 1st, the trigger to massive riots was pulled. Bin Laden had supposedly been killed.

Now, I don't believe this claptrap news that he has been killed but that will not stop the riots.

This event probably had an element of being a well placed distraction story but rest assured that it fulfills the opportunity to celebrate May Day with riots triggered or beginning on said day.

We will have to see what happens.

update: Israel: Published: 05/02/11, 5:58 PM / Last Update: 05/02/11, 6:30 PM

A headline from Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com sums it up nicely:

Arabs Riot in Jerusalem Over Bin Laden's Demise, Hamas Angry

Similarly, Arabs in the village of Silwan, adjacent to the City of David neighborhood in Jerusalem, rioted Monday night in protest over the elimination of Osama Bin Laden.

The story can be read in full at: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143848

updated: Israel: Published: 05.02.11, 23:17 / Israel News Ynetnews.com

Israel fears bin Laden revenge attacks

Officials boost security measures, fear attacks on US targets following bin Laden assassination

Mor also instructed police to prepare an operational response for contending with scenarios of riots or protests following the killing of bin Laden.

Full story: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4063656,00.html

editors note: I understand the entire middle east is in turmoil right now and riots abound but my understanding is that something of importance will spark riots or they will actually begin in conjunction with May 1st.

I wonder what next year will bring?

I Will Bless Those That Bless Thee

2011-04-29T19:31:00.000-04:00

Today the Church heaps blessings all over physical Israel because they understand that God promised Abraham that all who would bless him and his seed would also be blessed and all those who cursed him would also be cursed. So, since 1948 when Israel was reformed, the Church has been heaping blessings all over them, it would seem that God should be very pleased with them and return all those blessings but unfortunately that has not been the case.

It doesn't make sense. After all, they heap honor and blessings all over physical Israel. They donate money to the temple rebuilding project, they get excited when they talk of restarting the daily sacrifice and they cherish stories and souvenirs from the country. Yet, when we look around, what do we see? Do we see the blessings being returned as the promise states or do we see curses?

Of course, we see curses, especially from a Christian perspective which includes moral values but also in most every other way we are seeing curses. So what's the problem here? The modern Church has been Israel's greatest friend haven't they? Maybe they haven't blessed them enough. Perhaps they should send more money over there and maybe then God would toss over a blessing or two.

Logically we know there is something wrong with this picture. The truth is if you toss a little blessing toward Israel you should reap that same little blessing back. From all of the blessings that have been heaped on Israel there should have been a decent return on them by now but we simply haven't seen that.

So what's the true problem? The actual answer to the dilemma is that they are not blessing Abraham's seed at all. The Church has been mistakenly blessing the spirit of antichrist, which is alive and well in physical Israel. How can I say that? Well, John tells us clearly how to recognize the spirit of antichrist:

"And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." 1st John 4:3

Somehow what the Church has been missing is that the true seed of Abraham, and the real child with the promise is not the Jews (as of many) but Christ (as of one). We are plainly told this in scripture, yet they still miss it and not only have they NOT blessed him, they've actually chased him off and now stand guard at the door to see he doesn't get back in.

The true children of Abraham are those who believe on Jesus and through him have become the sons and daughters of God. YOU are Israel if you are in Christ. The Church has been blessing the wrong folks.

Matthew 1:1 gives us our answer "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham."

When Christ died on the cross He fulfilled the prophets by translating the house of Israel from the physical house into a spiritual house. The Church should be blessing spiritual Israel who is Christ, not physical Israel. Paul explains it to us in Romans 9: 6-8

"Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed."

So we see that the physical, flesh and blood Jews are not the Jews anymore. The real Jew is a spiritual Jew, as Paul explains further in Romans 2: 28-29

"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."

Israel has been remade as a spiritual body as Jeremiah prophesied in Chapter 8: 4-6

"And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel."

If you are in Christ you are that new vessel. We are the clay and God is the potter, when Christ died for our sins, this was the fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy "Oh Israel, I'm I not able to remake you as the potter remakes the vessel?" You see, God took the old, physical Israel and remolded them into a new house under the same name and the new was remade of the spirit.

Wow, imagine that! You really are a chosen people, based on your spiritual lineage not your physical one. You are not second to Israel, YOU ARE ISRAEL!!

Wow, what a wonderful thing to realize! How wonderful!! We are not second class citizens waiting to take our place after the physical Jews come back to Christ. (and I pray that many more of them do come to Christ) This is why the Jewish people got so mad at Paul and Peter, they we're telling them this very thing and they hated to hear that salvation no longer had anything to do with their flesh.

Still you either accept this or you don't and many cannot hear it. Acts 13:41 Paul refers to Habakkuk 1:5 when he tells the Jews at the synagogue in Pisidia the truth. "Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you."

A week later they chased Paul and Barnabas out of their city. If you have ever wondered why they got so mad, now you know. God turned the world upside down and did a work that they in no wise believed. Actually, many still don't believe it and it seems they still get just about as angry about it also.

So, if you reject that you are an Israelite by the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his sacrifice then you have rejected the promise, you have rejected your birthright and that is not a good thing. He came only to save the lost sheep of the house of Israel, not the so-called "Church". There are not two saved groups. There's only one flock and one shepard over them.

Look around you. Look how your plan of blessing physical Israel has panned out. What has it gotten you? Blessings? I don't think so, rather there have been curses. If we do good to Israel, which we supposedly have done, then there should have been more and more blessings not less and less blessings.

That alone should prove to you that the so-called "Church" is blessing the wrong group of people.

Just try it. Heap a few blessings on Christ and while you are at it heap a few blessing on those who honestly follow Christ and see if those blessing don't come back to you.

They will.

What Separates Us

2011-04-21T18:15:00.006-04:00

Is it important to understand what separates us from the world? We have been told all our lives that as Christians we should bring people together and be nice and sweet, but what does Christ tell us?

In Matthew 10:34-35 we are told by Christ himself

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law."

So Christ is telling us that he came to set us against one another, to separate us from the world. You see the world has a form of righteousness. Satan will appear as an angel of righteousness and talk about saving the planet or feeding the hungry. All of which seem as so-called "good things" but we miss the point.

There is no salvation in doing "good" things. There is no good without God in the first place. Yet when we do these things the world considers it as righteousness. So, Satan appears to support things that seem righteous. He talks about the children and feeding the hungry and giving and many things that can fool us into believing that maybe he is a god himself and he will even have us believe he is the true God.

If you follow his false righteousness you can feed the hungry all the way to the gates of Hell and totally miss the true righteousness, which begins and ends for us with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. He IS righteousness, not any so-called "good" work that we do.

So what are these things that separate us? Can we identify some of them? Could it be adultery or fornication? These are sins and as Christians we abstain from these. Could it be robbery or drunkenness? We all know stealing is a sin and we abstain from it. We also don’t go around drunk because this too is a sin and we reject it.

Again Satan has a righteousness and it can fool us. For instance, how many worldly fathers and sons argue about adultery where one actually says adultery is a good thing? Or perhaps they argue that robbery is a virtuous thing or one might argue for drunkenness? No, I tell you abstaining from these things are also considered righteous by the world.

The things that truly separate us are the issues that are backed by scripture but ridiculed, scorned and cast out by the world and even by the so-called modern day church. One of the most explosive separation issues is Christmas.

Read scripture from Jeremiah Chapter 10 Verses 1-5:

"Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good."

Here the Bible is describing an ancient pagan tradition that has come to be known as Christmas and anyone who cares to research the holiday will quickly realize it is fully and completely a pagan celebration dating back for thousands of years.

Pagans would and still do bring trees into their houses and deck them with silver and gold in order to worship their gods during the season of winter. They ask for their blessings to protect them during the cold months and today they sit and laugh at Christians who will fight tooth and nail to preserve the "Christmas Tree" from being taken down from a piece of governmental property when it has nothing to do with Christ at all. It belongs to the pagans!

The so-called special date of December 25th is not special because of Jesus’ birth but for the position of the sun on the horizon. This is what Jeremiah was talking about when he said "and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them."

A pagan's main source of worship is the sun and as the days got shorter they would begin to worry that the sun wouldn't return to springtime again. They would be dismayed during these changes in the seasons and on the 25th (being just a few days past the solstice) the sun would appear to begin its journey back toward springtime.

How Christians picked this mess up is a long and sorted tale. Our beliefs have been corrupted and we are barely aware of it. Suffice it to say that the only thing people can do is dream up reasons why the holiday could somehow be holy when it is NOT at all holy. Of course some will just twist scripture and say it really doesn't mean that or that was for them and not us or some other weak watered down tripe.

However, for the rest of us we are left with two clear sides, both sides know what the Bible says but one side rejects it in order please themselves, their families or for tradition’s sake and another side that is willing to allow themselves to be separated from the world.

Now, I understand that in Christ we are free and celebrating Christmas in ignorance will not necessarily send you to Hell but at some point you need to understand the facts. Realize that you are passing on the traditions of pagans and not the traditions of God. It is as simple as that and don’t forget that he that doubteth is damned if he eat not of faith.

Sadly, you probably know a great deal about Christmas lore. Santa, the reindeer, the trees, the elves and so on but what do you know about the traditions of God? What do you know about Passover for example? Is it possible you know nothing about it? Is it possible you have never even heard of it?

I understand there is no salvation in any of these holidays but why is it we know so much about paganism's holidays while at the same time we know nothing about the holidays that Christ himself observed and fulfilled and why is there so little interest in these feast days? It boggles the mind.

Back to my point, it is clear that there are a lot more people who will cast us out over the fact that we have rejected Christmas than they will because of our views on adultery. This is an area that has great potential to truly separate us and I mean separate us to the point that people no longer even wish to speak to us unless it is to tell us how wrong we are.

This in itself is a sign that we are separate from the world but stop for a moment and consider the issue upon which Satan makes his stand, a holiday. A time when togetherness and family are stressed, a time when those who usually have the most sway in your life get together to continue the traditions that you have been brought up in, nothing seems more honest, natural and good to us than this time.

Then the Holy Spirit reveals the truth but the devil is prepared for this, he has spent many lifetimes building up resistance to this day when the truth is revealed. The idea is to bring your families, your childhood, your neighbors and the entire world down upon your head so that you will look past the truth and instead remain where you are most comfortable.

He has built descriptive words right into our consciousness for the occasion. Entire characters framed in our minds to describe anyone who would dare reject his holiday. Scrooge! Bah, Humbug! You will hear and no one wants to be a Scrooge, not even Scrooge himself, as he came around also in the end.

As a rule of thumb you can gauge how close you are getting to the truth by the amount of resistance you receive from abiding in it. Tell someone you are against adultery and you will not receive much condemnation, unless you happen to be at a swinger's convention, but mention to your loving family that Christmas is a pagan abomination and they will not sit still for it, you will be labeled a Scrooge.

You can try to explain it until you are blue in the face but they can not hear it. They don't want to understand it. They prefer to wallow in a pool of ignorance because it really doesn't matter to them. What's really important isn't understanding and following the scriptures but just getting together with their family.

In Hosea 4:6 God says:

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."

Praise God for the things that clearly separate us from this world with Christmas just being one of the more obvious examples. These things make the world look at us funny and make them not want to be around us. These things make them laugh at us and cast us out, and these things cause us to suffer persecution.

These things separate us and I thank God for that.

Can we all just get along?

2011-04-14T06:53:00.005-04:00

Some of you older folks might remember the Rodney King episode during the Los Angeles riots in 1992. He was the guy that was beat up by the LAPD, which eventually caused the start of the famous LA riots, which began on April 29th and ended on May 4th. On May 1st Rodney spoke his famous words "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?" What a catch phrase! People have been using it for 20 years now and I'm sure there are many TV writers, directors and producers who wish they would have come up with one even half as good.

Yet we remember the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt who said "In Politics, nothing is accidental. If something happens, be assured it was planned this way." so you can rest assured that the LA riots were most definitely planned to accomplish a political goal, among other things, one of which is a ritual of sorts that falls on May 1st called "May Day".

When you hear "May Day" you may recognize it from old WWII movies where a pilot of a troubled vessel calling for help. (The line goes "mayday, mayday, mayday") We are told that it originated from the French word m'aiders but the truth is it is was chosen to honor "May Day" which itself is celebrated by trouble. It is more openly associated with labor's struggle or the workers revolution, which is often celebrated by parades (May Day parade) and less openly but much more surprisingly celebrated in a morbid fashion by staging riots throughout the world.

Of course the entire day is steeped in paganism which is the real reason for the riots but I really don't wish to write about all of that but I'll just ask you to pay attention on May 1st and see if there is a riot of some sort happening. Sometimes it is a big one, sometimes it is small one and perhaps they skip a year here and there but just watch May 1st and see what happens.

Anyway, be that as it may (no pun intended), my main point is not uncovering the elite's conspiracy to bring in their New World Order but instead to discuss a topic that may help you understand more about the truth and how it is found by walking the straight and narrow way.

Years ago when I first dedicated my life to Christ I remember thinking to myself that one of the goals I felt lead to accomplish was to bring everyone together. I remember thinking that I could start small and begin visiting churches and talking with pastors and after saying all the right things everyone would begin to see that we "could all just get along".

Just like Rodney! What a great plan I had.

Unfortunately for me I had to realize that God was in charge, not me. The more I studied and learned the more I realized that God's plan did not include everyone joining hands and singing "kum bay ya". What a surprise! I mean it, I was shocked that a God of love didn't want to sing "kum bay ya" with everyone.

You see we are supposed to love but we don't just love everything and everyone. We should love our brothers and sisters in Christ and we should love the Truth. We should have an undying love of the Truth. I capitalize "Truth" because I am referring to our Savior Christ Jesus. (after all, that is one of His names).

While we should live peaceably with all men we are not supposed to "get along" in the sense that we compromise the Truth. We shouldn't look for trouble and we should avoid it if possible but again our first goal should not be to come to some sort of agreement with anyone that doesn't love the Truth. How can you live peaceably and not compromise the Truth? You can avoid trouble often by simply removing yourself from a situation. Don't fuss and argue, just walk away quietly.

Fact is, if you don't love the Truth you will probably be offended by things that I say and I don't even have to try to offend you, the Truth will offend on His own. The Bible says in Matthew 10:34 "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword."

So what are we going to do? I mean what a drag huh? No hand holding... no "kum bay ya"... what's a touchy-feely Christian supposed to do anyway? After all we really wanted to get in a circle and hold hands and sing that blasted song!!

Oh well, just one more thing that God has had to get through my thick skull. I am quite the moron sometimes, incase you felt like I save all my criticism for my readers. I am no better than anyone else, I have to realize when I am wrong and let me tell you it happens quite often.

But I have a love of the Truth. Do you understand that?

It really doesn't matter what you know or whether you are right or wrong, it matters more whether you love the Truth or not. Now, we are not supposed to be ignorant and we definitely should not remain ignorant, because the Holy Ghost leads us from our despicable condition into all Truth and righteousness. The question becomes "are you willing to let go of what you think the Truth is in favor of the real Truth?"

Jesus tells us that John the Baptist was the greatest of all men that have been on the earth but the least in Heaven is greater than he. So, if John the Baptist could not attain the greatness known in Heaven how in the world would any of us think that we could attain it? We can't!

We are wretched and miserable creatures beyond hope except for the hope of ONE, Christ Jesus. Who as Isaiah says in 53:5 "...was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

It isn't our goodness that's in question, it isn't how right or wrong we are, it is all about Him. Jesus the Christ of God. The Anointed One, the Root and Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning star, the First and Last, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Lilies of the Valley, the Rose of Sharon, the Amen, the Lamb that was slain, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the son of David, the son of Abraham, the only begotten of the Father, the great I AM, the Word of God, the Way, the Truth and the Life.

"And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever." Revelation 5:13

Glory be to HIS name!

For HE is worthy! Jesus Christ is worthy!

Why is our road straight and narrow? It isn't that way simply to keep you from having any so called "fun". Nor is that the only reason that keeps people from walking it. It is straight and narrow also because almost no one uses it because most people will not humble themselves. If everyone would humble themselves and seek the Truth then it would be a wide road, a broad road and easily traveled because it would have been well worn from all the traffic but that is not the case, there is little traffic on this road.

Paul speaks of a race. It is a race of fierce competition yet not many runners.

I hope you can better see why "we can't all just get along". It's just not going to happen and it was never intended to be that way. We only truly "get along" with the Truth and those that do the will of the Father.

It is strange but while we advocate peace it is God's peace, not the peace of the world. While we advocate love it is God's love, not love of the world. While we advocate hope and faith it is hope and faith in God and not hope and faith in the world.

We love God, not the world, therefore the world hates us because they first hated him and they will not just "get along".

For they have not the love of the Truth.

Language of Lucifer

2011-04-06T03:20:00.007-04:00

Have you ever read the story of Christ in the wilderness? He was tempted of the Devil for 40 days and one of the things the Devil tried to get Christ to do was turn stones into bread. Have you ever wondered why Jesus didn't simply do it? Would Satan have then been convinced? There is much more going on in this encounter than first meets the eye. In fact, Satan still uses this same trick on us today.

So why didn't Christ turn the stones into bread? It's because He knew that He would have been doing the will of Lucifer. Have you ever thought of this? It often seems to us that he could have simply turned the stones into bread and proved Lucifer wrong. I can see it now. Christ picks up the stones and miraculously turns them into bread and then the Devil is amazed and becomes a Christian because he is now convinced of the truth.

How many times have we attempted to "prove" the Gospel to someone who doesn't really want it but instead just wants to prove us wrong or just doesn't want to hear it? You can give them proof after proof and never convince them. Luke 16:31 tells us "And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."

The unfortunate reality is missed when we do this. We are the ones converted rather than them, even though we are trying to do right and trying to prove something good. We have fallen into Satan's trap of dialoging to consensus and we don't even know it.

Let's go back to Christ and the Devil. Again, why didn't Christ turn the stones into bread? He could have but he knew as soon as he tried to prove himself in that fashion he was not proving himself at all. He would simply have been dialoging with the Devil, he would be doing the Devil's will by doing what the Devil asked of him.

This is deep stuff. We think talking to people about Christ and trying to convince them is a good thing but it is only if they are accepting the truth. If they are arguing or saying things like "we can agree to disagree" or some other cliché they are manifesting the spirit of antichrist and in a sense they are giving you your spiritual Miranda warning. It's our fault if we don't recognize it.

We often come away feeling like we have proven our point and stuck to our guns and done a good work for Christ but look at it this way. If Christ had turned the stones into bread the Devil would have become the master. He would have had Christ doing his will, even though it seems to us that Christ would have been doing it to prove him wrong. It really doesn't matter what He would have been trying to do. It only matters that He would have done it.

Thank God he didn't but instead He tells Satan "it is written, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God."

So when you tell someone the truth and they begin to argue or say something like "we should agree to disagree" you are in the presence of the same spirit the Devil used against Christ. They are speaking the Language of Lucifer.

If you have the truth then why should you have to agree to disagree with anyone? Now if you don't have the truth then perhaps you should find it. In fact, if you don't know the answer then perhaps it is you that should quietly listen and receive the truth. Perhaps the person talking to you is trying to help you but you should never agree with a non-truth.

If you know the truth you should not compromise it whether it is about eternal salvation doctrine or the timing of the resurrection or even where did Cain get his wife? Would you compromise 2+2=4? That is also truth.

If you met someone who believed that 2+2=5 and you said "no, I'm sorry but 2+2=4" and they began to argue and give reasons for why they believed 2+2=5, why would you stay and argue? They have already proven that they do not love the truth. You could jump through all sorts of hoops trying to prove it but this person has demonstrated that they have larger problems than simply realizing that they are bad at math. Never realizing that he is an idiot keeps him from the love of the truth. Because to love the truth means to realize that we are all idiots, and we don't enjoy being idiots do we?

No, we would rather remain blissfully ignorant rather than have to admit that we were wrong and how sad if we walk away from that conversation saying that we "agree to disagree" you just agreed with an idiot which makes you perhaps a "nice idiot" at best and a liar at worst because you just agreed with a lie.

If you have the truth you stand on that truth and do not reach a consensus against it by agreeing to disagree. No instead it is better to just walk away, DO NOT ARGUE, it is a trap of the Devil. Not only does it waste time but it involves you in watering down the truth even if only a little bit.

If you think of it 99% of the truth is really just a lie and that is all it takes to water the truth down. Actually it even takes less than that. Consider that 99.99999% of the truth is also not the truth but only 100% can be considered truth. This is why we need the Holy Ghost to guide us. We must not compromise our 100%.

Now what I am telling you here goes against everything our society stands for. In fact that is all we hear now days. "Let's agree to disagree Brother." or "We can agree on the central doctrine of Christ" or "We don't see eye to eye on that but we agree that Jesus died for our sins" These are all things we hear among believers. The Christians are some of the worst lot that speaks the Language of Lucifer.

For instance, we know that Joe Blow down the street doesn't believe in the Millennial Reign even though the Bible plainly teaches it so what do we tell him? We usually say "let's agree to disagree".

There is one truth and it doesn't split itself up by denomination or doctrine or even in the belief that Jesus died for our sins. Hear me out!

It begins with Jesus dying for our sins but that is not all there is. If you believe that Jesus died for your sins then you do become saved but if 10 years later you are still sucking on that bottle then what are you trying to prove?

You sicken me, sucking on the milk when you have been offered such glory and in the presence of such glory! And there you are sucking on the spiritual milk while your stinking flesh is pursuing all sorts of lusts and gains and appetites to fill your belly. You don't love God, you are a liar.

Now to someone deep in a jungle somewhere who comes to the knowledge that Christ died for his sins and receives the love of the truth and gets saved that is the greatest gift ever known unto man, but YOU! You have taken that gift and turned it into a mockery! Then you claim to be saved!

It is not that you make mistakes. You are a dog just like we all are.

In your flesh is NO good thing your flesh cannot be saved. It is your spirit that gets saved, hence you are born again, not of the flesh but of the spirit. Christ died just like your stinking flesh does when you accept the news that He died for you. Your flesh dies and your spirit is born. You are a spirit. You don't HAVE a spirit, you ARE a spirit if you are in Christ.

So, we see the deception all around us. Many have rejected what I have told you here, proving that what I am saying is true. The thought that we can believe whatever we want and simply agree to disagree is such a terrible trap that we think we are deep in God's will while practicing it. We feel like God is looking on us with pleasure when we do these things and an article on a blogsite is no match for our deep seated beliefs unless we love the truth because this is truth.

You have a lifeline.

It doesn't mean you have to get mad at everyone who talks to you this way. Most people don't realize it, they think they are serving God and we tell ourselves "if we could only get through to them" but we can't because the truth is that they don't really love the truth.

They only love what they think the truth is and that is a far cry from the real truth. The real truth requires humbleness and it requires that you deny yourself and it requires you to be wrong. Most people do not believe they are wrong so there is no way to reach them. It does seem a shame but only to the extent that we ourselves are deceived. Because we look to these people as someone who loves the truth but they don't. Can you see that? They don't love the truth, they love their own bellies.

The realization of this is staggering to me. To think that keeping the peace by allowing one guy to believe one thing and someone else to believe another is hard to accept. It seems to allow us to get along together and fellowship and grow and all sorts of so-called "good things" but if 3 people who each have 99% of the truth all get together and put all their doctrine in a pot and stir it up what is the result? 99% times 99% times 99% equals 97%. If someone with 100% truth shows up and tosses his doctrine into the pot what happens? 97% times 100% equals 97% so the guy who enters into fellowship even though he has 100% truth when he gets there, leaves with only 97% and 97% is a worthless lie.

So we see how futile it is to fellowship with or even dialog with someone who does not have a love for the truth. You wind up losing in the end when you speak the Language of Lucifer.

So, do not dialog with the Devil, he is smarter than you are.

Do not speak the truth with those who have not the love of the truth.

Just walk away.

Is Timing Important?

2011-03-27T06:13:00.005-04:00

I recently came out of a church that believed strongly in the pre-tribulation rapture. The doctrine was central and in a strange way it went without any questioning. Total blind faith was its greatest strength.

However I began to ask questions that I could never get a straight answer to such as "what happens to all the children conceived after the rapture?"

Imagine the rapture happens and 10 seconds later a child is conceived (after all the first 3 1/2 years are supposed to be good years). So, at the end of 7 years what you have is a bunch of 6-year-old innocent children that have no hope to make it to Heaven.

Now, in spite of our inability to answer simple questions such as this the doctrine still was not scrutinized in a serious way. We would discuss "how" the rapture would happen but not "if" it would happen. The conclusions we arrived at would often be something to the effect of "well, timing isn't important" or "I'll explain it to you on the way up" or "I'm pan trib" (it will all pan out if we leave it up to God) or some other trite phrase.

Looking back it was the strangest thing, the doctrine made no sense but somehow remained in its lofty place of honor.

It took me nearly a year of study, prayer and meditation before I came to the truth that the pre-tribulation rapture is a lie.

Now I could sit here and beat up the doctrine quite easily but never change anyone's mind. The rapture is so powerful a lie that it has seated itself amongst the most honored truths and it is defended as such.

The difference is that the truths in our lives are not afraid of scrutiny, in fact they welcome it. The lies however will not welcome the same, they will hide themselves.

So let's shine a light on the issue of timing and see who scatters. Is timing even important?

Christians claim it doesn't matter as long as we love Jesus. As long as we explain it to each other on the way up or as long as we are "pan trib" we will be ok. As long as we say timing isn't important and we should spend all our time bringing people to Christ and let God sort out all the messy details.

You may be surprised that Paul tells us differently in 2nd Timothy 2:16-18

"But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some."

Apparently Hymenaeus and Philetus were preaching some form of what we call Preterism today and Paul is upset because he knows that "timing" is actually very important. If timing wasn't important why would Paul make such a big deal out of such a small error in timing?

Paul knows that the sign of a true believer is that he will know and understand these things.

So all of our theories about "pan trib" and "I'll explain on the way up" should be tossed out. We should repent of our belief that it isn't important or that we should just focus on getting people saved. It would seem that we don't even know who we are trying to bring others to. We say we love Jesus but what does Jesus tell us?

We read the words of Jesus in John 16:13

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come."

Jesus comforts us by saying that the Spirit of truth will guide us into all truth and this includes the timing of the resurrection. If you don't know these things then who's spirit do you have and who are you leading others to?

If you hold to the pre-tribulation rapture theory you are in peril. Your timing is off just like Hymenaeus and Philetus of whom Paul says, "their word will eat as doth a canker."

Does the word you preach "eat as doth a canker"? Is that where you want to be spiritually? I don't think so.

So timing is very important. We are told in 1st Thessalonians 5:2-4

"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief."

Think about it, what does every pre-trib rapture teacher tell us about the first 3 1/2 years? They say they are looking for peace and safety first then secondly, after the good half is over, the destruction comes.

Unfortunately what they are truly saying is this can't be the tribulation because I haven't been raptured yet. They will say this throughout the entire tribulation (if they live that long) and then suddenly they will find themselves in the midst of the destruction and they shall not escape.

They will not have recognized the tribulation because they believed they had to be raptured before any destruction came. How sad that that day will overtake them as a thief.

Then the scripture says "but ye, are not in darkness" so what does Paul mean by this? He means true believers will know the Day of the Lord, the last day, the resurrection of the righteous dead and he tells us that we will not be surprised by it.

So the ones that know the day are the ones with the Spirit of truth because he shows us all truth and things to come. He doesn't say he will show all truth except for the timing of the resurrection.

Almost everyone I know believes in the pre-tribulation rapture (that alone brings to mind the "broad way" that we are warned about). A good rule of thumb I use concerning truth is to look at what the majority does and then don't do it. Whatever it is. If there is a majority doing it then there is almost 100% chance that it will lead you to Hell and folks you can deny it if you want but the majority of Christians today are following the "broad way" by believing the pre-tribulation rapture.

Many millions are openly walking that road.

May God place the love of the truth in your heart and may it become your one and only refuge.

He is the truth.

Jesus is truth.

Recognizing Evil

2011-03-21T06:20:00.000-04:00

Recently I posted an article called "Recognizing the Truth" and from that stream of thought it occurred to me that recognizing the truth also means recognizing evil.

Let me explain. The only way you can have truth is by having a lie to oppose it. The same way light can only exists through the opposing darkness. As strange as it sounds you cannot have light without darkness, you cannot have truth without a lie.

This is not limiting to God or anything of the such but it is simply how He has designed the world to operate. Imagine if there were no darkness, we simply would not perceive the light. If there were no lies we would have no need to seek out the truth because there would be nothing but truth and therefore truth would cease to be truth in our understanding, in effect there would be no more truth.

A physical example is a coin. A coin simply cannot exist with only one side. No matter how thin the coin gets the moment it ceases to have two sides is the very moment that it ceases to exist. Imagine good and evil, truth and lies, and light and darkness as all being two sides of the same coin. Once either side is removed the other ceases to exist. Again this isn't something that places God in a box and limits him. He is the almighty, it is his construct, we are the ones in the box not God.

So, as we see the good we also begin to perceive evil and that is what I would like to discuss now.

If I could ask you, what do you think about when you imagine the Devil? Would you say that you imagine a guy with horns, a goatee, forked tail and red skin sitting on a throne with flames shooting up all around him?

Would you visualize him touting sins such as murders, robberies and adulteries? Well, to be sure, those are all evil but that is evil that is easy to see. Looking behind the veil however, what can we see evil as?

First, the Devil or Lucifer is not an ugly looking guy sitting in Hell on a flaming throne of fire. No, Lucifer is beautiful. His name means "the light bearer". At his creation, he was set as one of God's highest angels and was perfect in all his ways before he fell.

Now when he fell he didn't turn into a red guy with horns, he is still beautiful. (Please don't misunderstand. He can present himself in many forms so this article is not trying to argue that evil cannot ever seem to be ugly.) Evil can manifest in many, many different ways. I simply want to look at one form today, a form that I believe is most deceiving.

Part of why the Devil fell in the first place is because he thought his ways were better than God's ways. God says that He, the I Am, must come first and that all other concerns in your life should become as if you hate them in comparison. The Devil tells us to love the children first, love your family first, love your country first.

Do you see what I am trying to say here?

The Devil doesn't just show up with murders, robberies and adulteries. No, he shows up with what seems like very noble and good ideals. After all who is going to argue against loving your families?

It shouldn't be surprising to us that he does these things. The Bible tells in 2nd Corinthians chapter 14-15:

"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."

There are many, many people who would tell you that their "family" comes first. There are even more that would say their children come first. This ideal seems so pure, good and wholesome that they would never see anything wrong with it. It seems almost as an absolute good. As I said who would stand against the idea that you should love, and put first, your families, children, country... etc.,

God, that's who.

Now God doesn't want us to hate anyone outright but He does demand that He comes first and everything else comes second and I am not talking about a close second either. I am talking about a distant second, a second that is so far back that it doesn't even register on the same chart. A second place that isn't even in the same race if you can hear that. A second that loses so badly that it garners a form of hatred.

So, when we set the two theories side by side what do we see? On one hand we have someone who is jealous, demanding and controlling. On the other hand we have a guy who tells you to put your children first, love your "families" and love your "country". He might even use the phrase "God, country and family" (as if country and family were somehow a close second and third.)

If you didn't know that we were talking about God and Satan here and you saw this comparison who would you be tempted to follow?

Unfortunately for Satan, God has created everything and he makes the rules. He is worthy of all praise, He is worthy of all honor, He is worthy of all glory. Through him flows all love and goodness and without him there is no love or goodness.

It is strange but by putting Jesus first you actually are putting your families first, children first and country first. If you try to put them first without Christ then they actually end up being last.

Luke 17:33 says "Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it."

This quote might not at first seem to follow along with my point but in reality it is the exact same thing. Many people in addition to their love of family, children and country have one remaining thing that they love more than all these.

That thing is themselves.

They lust after money and power for themselves and much of the so-called "love of children" and "love of family" and "love of country" is in reality the "love of your own worthless carcass" which also gets tossed on the dungpile.

So there you have it, your own life is also counted as dung, as if you hate yourself in comparison to your love of God. As Christ's disciple every element of your existence becomes in comparison to God as if you hated it and to those who achieve this (as in the story of Job) they are granted in return, everything.

As it is said "whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it".

Glory to God!

I hope I have helped you see more clearly that the sins we should avoid are not just the big ones but also the seeming "little ones", the ones that are so cleverly constructed that we even believe them to be righteousness.

2nd Timothy 3:12 says "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."

Maybe now we can understand better why we suffer those persecutions because when you tell people these things they get mad. Most will not hear it, some will come against you and you will suffer persecution.

May God give us truth and understanding.

A Prison for Your Mind…

2011-03-16T12:22:00.022-04:00

Is it possible that you live in a cage that you cannot touch or taste? An invisible cage with bars you cannot see? This cage is defined by your vocabulary in many ways. If we cannot explain or understand something because we ourselves or our neighbors don’t have the proper vocabulary then we become prisoners within our own minds.

If you have ever read the book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell you will remember the scene where the pigs painted the rules on the barn but later when the other animals (that couldn't read well to begin with, if at all) went back to read them they were confused as they seemed different. Actually the pigs had come during the night and added words here and there to change the meaning of the rules.

(If you haven't read "Animal Farm" you don't have any idea what I am talking about of course so don't even try to understand it.)

The point is this is how we are treated in our world today. How do you think it is that we all go down and apply for "drivers" licences and even pay them to get one? When you go to the law books and look up the key words in the "law" you will find that they back up the fact that you have to get your licence, so we all go down and follow the "law". The trick however is that the words have changed meanings in the last 90 or so years since the law was first passed.

The way they got the law passed to begin with was simple. "Driver" simply meant someone who drives commercially such as a taxi driver or truck driver or delivery driver and it made sense to everyone that those who use the roads commercially should pay a fee and get a licence.

Then the trickery began.

Once the law was passed they began changing the meanings of the words such as "driver" which used to mean only commercial drivers to what we know today which is that everyone is a driver and everyone has to get a licence.

Perhaps you think you can read but just like those animals you probably can't. The drivers licence is just a simple example. You are controlled every day by many other legal wording tricks that are just as manipulative but unfortunately it is all your fault because of something called the Maxims of Law.

One of the Maxims says "Let him who wishes to be deceived, be deceived." which basically means if you are not willing to go to the law library and study for six months in order to understand the truth about a law then it is assumed that you are willing to be deceived.

Did you get that? And on top of the six months you spend in the law library you will need to take constant refresher classes to keep up to date of all the new statutes they come up with. Now that's something I know we all have time for isn't it?

(Now you can more plainly see why they feel it is so important to keep you distracted with sports, TV and other junk to waste even more of your precious time.) Because if the people ever woke up to this deception their entire house of deceit would come crashing down on them, but they just laugh. They know we are just a bunch of bumbling, malnourished, flouride drinking idiots that couldn't find their way out of a paper bag much less understand complex lawyer talk.

We stupidly believe our government is controlled by fair and honest people who are only looking out for the benefit of the nation. We believe they use their offices for good and just outcomes that benefit the people but we are deceived.

Now, let's look at a simpler form of the deceit. I say simpler only because it has become so commonplace that even the mention of it seems silly to most people and will get you labeled as someone who "takes it to far".

Anyway, try to imagine living in society today and never using the names of our months or imagine functioning with out using the names of the days of the week on a regular basis? It wouldn't be easy.

This lack of ability is what I mean by the title of this article because it makes up a large portion of that cage in which Satan and the beast system has us all trapped in and we have trouble even seeing it. In fact, it is impossible for many to see it at all. The "driver" issue is much more obvious.

Please allow me to explain.

The Bible tells us in Exodus 23:13

"And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth."

Here God plainly tells us not to mention the name of other gods. Well, the following is a list of names and the false gods these names were meant to honor. Remember, these are names we should not even speak.

Sunday = Sun’s day (Sol "solar" worship)

Monday = Moon’s day (Luna "lunar" worship)

Tuesday = Tīw's Day (Norse god of war)

Wednesday = Woden’s Day (Head god of English heathenism, equated with the Norse god Odin)

Thursday = Thor’s Day (Thor, Norse god of thunder, equated with the Greek god Hercules)

Friday = Frige’s Day (Norse goddess and wife of the god Woden, spinner of the clouds)

Saturday = Saturn’s Day (Roman father-god, also god of agriculture, justice and strength)

January = Janus (the two faced god, the god of the doorway, looking forward and backward at the same time. This is why we always look back at the year past and then look forward to the future year during January 1st celebrations)

March = Mars (Roman god of war)

April = Aprilis (sacred to worshipers of the Roman goddess Venus, it is suggested that Aprilis was originally the month Aphrilis, from her Greek counterpart Aphrodite.)

May = Maia (a Greek goddess of springtime and fertility, accessible only to women)

June = Juno (Roman goddess, Jupiter’s wife)

July = Julius Caesar (renamed for Julius Caesar, who was officially declared a god to be worshipped by the Romans after his death)

August = Augustus Caesar (renamed for Augustus Caesar, who was also officially declared a god and was to be worshipped by Romans after his death.)

Mercury = (Roman messenger god known for his swift travel)

Venus = (Roman goddess of love)

Mars = (Roman god of war)

Jupiter = (Roman god-king and the son of Saturn, equated with the Greek god-king Zeus)

Saturn = (Roman equivalent to the Greek father-god Cronus, father to the god that would become king)

Uranus = (Greek grandfather-god, father to Cronus who gave birth to Zeus, considered to be primordial, having no parents himself.)

Neptune = (Roman god of the sea, brother to Jupiter and Pluto, you may know of his Greek counterpart Poseidon)

Pluto = (Roman god of the underworld, his Greek counterpart is better known as Hades)

So, here we see the cage that Satan has built around each of us. Actually trapping us inside our own minds and also the minds of our neighbors. From the time we were small children we have been under assault.

The world has had us transgressing the law and we didn’t even know it and let’s not pretend that this is not transgression of the law. It is clearly written that we shouldn’t speak these names. However, it is a glorious thing that we are under grace and are forgiven of our transgressions.

We simply have to ask in faith believing and he is just and faithful to forgive us our sins but this doesn’t mean we should willy-nilly disregard the law so that grace may abound.

We really should try to avoid using these names when possible and we should be aware each time we do use them. We should also teach others when we have opportunity so they too can stop giving honor to false gods.

Until Jesus sets up his kingdom we will be in this mess. There is no correcting it. This world is ruled by Satan and this is simply how things are done.

Corruption breeds corruption but we should not be ignorant of the Devil's devices.

Recognizing the Truth

2011-03-06T09:08:00.134-05:00

How do we recognize truth? We can begin by asking whether we think Jesus taught in parables so his message would be easier to understand?

Let’s read in Luke 8:10 "And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand."

Did you know that Jesus used parables so many might NOT see and might NOT understand? You see, God gives all understanding and if he doesn’t reveal a thing to us then we can not understand it. We do not figure things out on our own but we often think we do.

We should then better understand how people often become frustrated and angry at the "foolishness" of Christians who "take it too far" because the things of God make no sense to those who God has not revealed it. The world is in this state right now. They cannot understand why we believe because God has blinded their eyes to the truth.

In this vein of thought I began to think about those that don't recognize the truth. You see, to them it all makes sense. They go through life happy-go-lucky chasing money, fame and/or power and they think they have it all figured out.

They never stop to question it and simply laugh at Christians. They live their lives in pride, competing against each other in order to be the "top dog". Feeling proud when they "win a championship" or some other contest. They feel good when their team beats some other team, they shake their fists victoriously at the vanquished. ...dripping with pride ...it makes me sick.

Now, none of us would ever intentionally believe a lie much less defend it as the truth but once a lie is firmly ensconched in our lives we will hold it as tightly as any truth because we are convinced that it is truth.

In effect we act as if we already know all truth. Otherwise we would have already changed our beliefs to reflect the truth had we thought we had been in error. Now, since many of us are not currently in conflict with our exisiting beliefs and since we would never voluntarily believe a lie we are basically claiming we only have truth left. This is demonstrated by our lack of conflict within ourselves.

The problem is none of us ever think we could be deceived into believing a lie. (Note that I am including myself in all these descriptions.)

I recently asked a "Christian" who I sensed was very proud the question "how do you know that you don't know something?" He was immediately offended and claimed that I had just posed a riddle to him, as if it wasn't worthy of an answer. He missed the fact that it is a question that should be carefully considered.

The question reveals rather quickly in us whether we are prone to humbleness or pride. For instance, if you tend to lash out against someone who is telling you something that you don't understand then you are demonstating pride. If, on the other hand, you quietly listen and consider what you are being told then you are demonstrating humbleness.

If you then go on to realize the information is true (after considering it through the scriptures) and you change your beliefs to line up with the newly revealed truth then you are demonstrating humbleness. If again you find it true (or actually refuse to study it further) and instead bull up and push it away then of course you are demonstating pride.

The problem is we do not recognize this as pride. Instead we consider it to be our accurate knowledge that we have learned thoughout life. It will not seem to us to be pride but it will appear as a righteous clinging to things we believe to be true, even a righteous defense of the gospel, but not pride. No way, not us, we cannot be deceived!!

The terrible unfortunate pitfall is our simple inability to humble ourselves. We often realize something to be true and then reject it because it goes against something else we have believed for 30 years. We remember the comforting times when we fellowshipped and rejoiced with others believing ourselves to be in the truth and then suddenly we are confronted with the reality that what we believed was a lie. Our hearts sink as we realize we were not rejoicing in the truth but in a lie and fellowshipping in a lie and we are devastated.

It short circuits our brains and we cannot accept it. We ask how could God bless over such an error? Surely He wouldn't have, after all God would never bless over sin, yet there it is, so many years spent in error, we just cannot hear it. Sadly we will often continue in the lie rather than admit that we could have been so wrong. These lies then become our idols and stumbling blocks that ultimately undermine our relationship with Jesus.

Deception is a hard thing especially when we are deceiving ourselves.

For instance, in Luke 14:25-27 we read "And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple."

Does it shock you, that you should hate your father, and mother and wife…? What does this mean? It means when we compare our love for God to all our other concerns, even that of our very lives, it is as if we hate them and we would gladly drop each and every one of them rather than forsake Jesus Christ.

How many among us immediately embrace this without a thought and how many of us will say Jesus didn't really mean it that way?

We have read what the Bible says yet many or most of us will continue as we always have loving our families first and claiming that God honors this and claiming that he would never say that we should hate them. Even when these people actively work against the things of God many among us will reject what Jesus said and hold to our so-called "families".

We simply can't believe that we could be so wrong. It is not our nature to visualize ourselves in constant error, instead we assume that we see when in truth we can't.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 1st Corinthians 10:12

How do we protect ourselves from ourselves? We must recognize that we are as filthy rags and there is no good in us at all. We must read and study the Bible. We must humble ourselves and not turn our false beliefs into idols and stumbling blocks. When we find the truth we must embrace it and hide ourselves in it but when we are shown, through the scriptures, any belief to be false we drop it just as fast.

Deny yourself.

Take up your cross.

Walk that narrow path to life.

...and earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

The Sword of Truth

2011-02-07T11:05:00.003-05:00

"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" Ephesians 6:17

This sword is dangerous and it must cut. You can not pick it up without feeling it's tremendous power. It divides the marrow from the bone, the spirit from the flesh.

The truth is an offence. You can not speak it without offending. The truth is not to be trifled with and tossed about as if it were just another worthless opinion.

The truth is fearful to wield. It is sharper than any two edged sword, you are in a state of constant offence when handling it. The world does not love the truth. The world loves sin but this sword cuts sin and error.

"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12

Humble yourself.

Who among you can be the most humble when facing the truth? Who looks forward to the sword slicing your spirit from your flesh? Who enjoys the pain of separation?

Who would pick up their cross and follow him, denying yourself? Who would have every word spoken be an offence to the world? Who would bring every thought captive to Christ?

Who would have every relationship feeding itself only on the pursuit of Christ? Who would acknowledge that outside of Christ there is no relationship? We don't enjoy each other's company because we enjoy eating pizza together, we don't like each other because we love to camp and fish, we have nothing to build our relationships on except Christ.

We camp and fish together because we seek Christ together. We eat pizza together because we love the truth together and without that love of the truth, without that willingness to humble ourselves before it and go wheresoever it leads us then we have nothing.

That is the offense, to step away from the pursuit of the truth or get slack in that pursuit means that I must chastise you and eventually separate myself from you when I perceive that you are not responding to the truth.

Except for that love of the truth we have nothing but through that love we have everything.

I cannot, or rather should not, offend you outside of the truth. I cannot take a lie and offend you with it for the sake of offending. I cannot simply call you a hateful name and say that I am wielding the truth simply because I offend. The goal is not to offend, the revelation is in the understanding that the truth is an offence all on its own, it is an offence to the flesh. It is an offence to the world.

You are offended when I tell you that having worship service on the "Sun's day" is wrong. That isn't me offending you, it is the truth offending you.

When I tell you the Rapture is a lie and (even though you know in your heart that you have questions about it and don't fully understand it) in spite of your ignorance, still you become offended. That is the truth working in the world.

It cuts asunder, separating the lies from our understanding. We recoil at it. We don't love the truth, we love only what we believe the truth to be.

When I tell you "Easter" and "Christmas" are evil, sinful, paganism through and through and you get mad. You are not mad at me, you are mad at the truth. When I tell you it is wrong to send Christmas cards and claim Jesus is the "reason for the season". You get mad at me but deep down you sense the truth.

You are angry with the truth. You rebel against the truth. You casually circumvent the truth as if it were not important.

Yet without the truth we have nothing together. NOTHING. That love, that pursuit of the truth is all we have and without that we are separated.

If you are offended, you are in the presence of truth. That truth must become your strong tower, you must embrace it and love it. Then it becomes a solid rock which you can build upon and not a block of stumbling that causes grief in your life.

I am not perfect but this office is perfect. The office of truth.

If I fail to offend I have not the truth.

Paul Washer

2011-02-06T11:34:00.001-05:00

Background of the Shocking Youth Message - Paul Washer

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Shocking Youth Message 2002 - Paul Washer

For They Know His Voice

2011-02-06T07:42:00.005-05:00

"And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers." John 10:4-5

As Christians I know we all want to "know his voice" but how do we get to know his voice? First we need to understand what his voice is.

We are told in Psalms 103:20 "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word."

This scripture shows us that his Holy Word, the Bible, is his voice. Therefore we should read and study it always so when the time comes we will hear and understand the truth and we will respond to his voice when he calls.

It isn’t enough to follow our hearts and do the things that we think are right and moral because it may not be what God considers right and moral. I dare to say that if you have never read your Bible fully then God is different than what you think he is. You will realize this only after you actually read it for yourself.

In John 1:1 we read. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

And in Hebrews 10:7 we are told "then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God."

We can see now that our Bible is much more than just a book. We know him through it. He is the Word and it is his voice to those that will take time to learn it and study it. If we are faithful over this we will respond when he calls because now we "know his voice."

Search Ourselves

2011-01-25T01:43:00.003-05:00

How do we know that we are true Christians today? Is there any way to tell? Does it have anything to do with how we feel in our heart? Jeremiah 17:9 tells us "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" So how can we trust our hearts? We can’t.

So I now ask us to search ourselves, knowing that "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 14:12

We must take a test and if we fail it we must repent and line our lives up with his Word. We must accept the chastisement if it hits us. Knowing this "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." 1st John 5:3

1.) You will love your enemies and pray for those that despitefully use you.

"Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" Matthew 5:43:44

2.) Many of your own family will be against you.

3.) You will forgive all that your brothers have done unto you because your Heavenly Father has forgiven greater sins of yours and not held back.

"Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses." Matthew 18:33-35

4.) You will esteem other Christians better than yourself.

"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." Philippians 2:3

5.) You will look not to your needs alone but also to the needs of others.

"Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others." Philippians 2:4

6.) You will not walk in continual sin.

"If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:" 1st John 1:6

7.) You will admit you are a sinner and confess yourself to Christ.

"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." 1st John 1:8-10

8.) You will love your brothers in Christ.

"He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now." 1st John 2:9

9.) You will not love the world, you will not try to be like it.

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1st John 2:15

10.) You will hate your life in this world.

"He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal." John 12:25

11.) The world will hate you.

"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." John 15:19

12.) You will be persecuted for his name’s sake.

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." 2nd Timothy 3:12

I hope you passed the test. If not, I hope you will quickly repent of your trespasses and not try to justify yourself by how you feel in your heart.

In closing, there certainly are many other signs that follow true Christians. Remember you are saved by grace and not by works but works will follow those who love Christ.

"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." James 2:26

Imaginations of the Heart

2011-01-20T02:29:00.002-05:00

The Bible tells us in Jeremiah 17:

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

This scripture in Jeremiah is talking about our own hearts today. Do we think we are good? Decent? Worthy? No! We are desperately wicked in our flesh and that is a fact. We feed our flesh like there is no tomorrow, constantly seeking comfort and pleasure for it. It is so commonplace today that we can hardly see anything but our flesh. How often do we fast? How often do we turn away from even the little things that tempt us daily?

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Ga 5:19-21

These are the ways and the works of the flesh, the flesh is always lusting for these works. These are not the fruits of the spirit. The Bible tells us of the spirit in Galatians 5:22-23

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

1 John 1:6-7 tells us

“If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”

We should not deceive ourselves, just because we are followers of Christ we think we are not subject to sin?

In 1 John 1:8-10 we are told,

“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”

To the flesh is sown corruption but to the spirit is life everlasting. We cannot please God with our flesh. We sin continually, we are capable of nothing else within our flesh and on our best day we are no better than filthy rags before God as stated in Isaiah 64:6

“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

Our flesh, even our hearts, each and every one of us, is desperately wicked at all times. Nothing in the imaginations of our thoughts are but evil continually. This is why we have to be born again, not of the flesh but of the spirit, not of adultery, fornication, drunkenness and revellings but of love, joy, peace and temperance.

No attempt at righteousness by the flesh can succeed, it will die, in fact it is dead already and will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Only when we sow to the spirit through Christ can we hope to please God and inherit the Kingdom of God.

“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” Gal: 5:16-17

So we should be careful when we find ourselves sowing to our flesh and Paul tells us of the sin that does so easily beset us. Let’s be candid for a minute. Are our hearts at times so dark and filthy that we dare not reveal it? The Bible clearly tells us it is; the heart is “desperately wicked: who can know it?”

The price of sin is death and we must have a redeemer if we are to make it through. But thank God that he sent a sacrifice for you and me. He made a way that we could be pleasing unto God. Jesus became that sacrifice for us as foretold in Isaiah 53:5

“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

But, we cannot continue to walk in the ways of the flesh we must leave the flesh behind at every opportunity it is continually displeasing to God.

The Apostle Paul gives us instructions in how to live in Romans 13:13-14

“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.”

Put your mind as often as is possible on things of the spirit, which are “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance” This is how we know we are sowing to the spirit and pleasing our Heavenly Father.

Chastisement

2011-01-20T01:56:00.003-05:00

Why are we usually so afraid to be chastised or to chastise someone else? I personally find it very hard to tell someone that I think they may be wrong and I really don’t understand why that is.

The Bible tells us plainly in Hebrews 12:8

“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”

It would appear that we should be offended if we didn’t receive chastisement but that isn’t the case.

I have to admit that my first reaction to chastisement is to retaliate. I tell myself that I am good or that I had prayed over the issue or made a reasonable decision or some other excuse but (woe is me) I still found myself under chastisement. In other words ole’ pride steps up and I get offended.

The Bible tells us in Hebrews 12:11

“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”

Perhaps we will tell ourselves that we didn’t deserve the rebuke but does it really matter whether or not we felt it was deserved? In 1st Peter 2:20 the Bible tells us.

“For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.”

Anyway who is to say we were not deserving of the chastisement from our brothers? Again the Bible guides us through this reaction to chastisement.

“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 16:25

When my brothers in Christ offer Godly chastisement they are attempting to help me. When they offer Godly rebuke it means they cared enough to do it. As we have discussed, it is hard to rebuke a brother or sister. But if you are under Godly chastisement, that is chastisement based on the scriptures, then rejoice because God is dealing with you!

Of course it is so much sweeter to commend than to chastise, but chastisement “yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness”. So I would like to challenge each of us to practice chastisement, when it is based on the scriptures. This advice may seem strange in our world of hypersensitivity but we are not of this world but of the spirit.

Those that chastise must remember that unless the rebuke is based clearly within the scriptures then it becomes a meaningless and proud gesture of our own beliefs and not God’s.

Remember what the Bible tells us in Romans 14:4

“Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.”

I suppose what it boils down to is studying the Word. How else could we possibly know when we should chastise and when we shouldn't?

Because most of us haven't studied our Bibles to begin with, our chastisement is usually nothing but our own pride and lustful desires blurting out in an angry attack on our friends.

If we don't know what we are talking about then we should begin by chastising ourselves. Then read the Bible (KJV) and pray and learn the ways of the Lord and drop our own ways.

Eternity

2011-01-12T22:12:00.005-05:00

I was listening to a preacher not long ago talking about eternity and how it would be unfair that Cain killed only one person (Abel) and has been in hell for 5000 years longer than Hitler who had millions killed.

He believes that hell is not "eternal" in the sense that it never ends but that it only lasts long enough to completely destroy the wicked, body and soul. (Which would be eternity for them at least.)

Now, while I don’t agree with this man’s view on Hell he did get me to thinking about eternity. What does it mean to be in eternity? Could it be that God had actually committed Cain to 5000 extra years of damnation and Hitler has only had 60 or so years down there? It just didn’t seem right.

Well, of course it isn’t right, but it isn’t the easiest thing to understand, as you can imagine. Even the beautiful song "Amazing Grace" leads us down this path when it states: "when we’ve been there 10,000 years…"

How can we understand eternity? Is it possible to be there 10,000 years? Is it possible for Cain to be there longer than Hitler?

You must first realize that there is no comparison that can be made between time and eternity. We want to think of eternity as a long, long, long, long time but we miss the point. Eternity has nothing to do with time whatsoever.

When we get to heaven we will already have been there as long as anyone else and we will stay there as long as anyone else, that is the nature of eternity. If it never ends then it never had a beginning. Am I losing anyone yet?

Brother Kent Hovind offered this example on one of his DVD classes: Think of this. In mathematics a line is described as going forever in both directions and a ray begins at one point and then goes forever in only one direction. Ask yourself, which is longer, the line or the ray? Of course neither is longer. They both go for eternity.

So just as the ray is as long as the line so is Hitler in the same boat as Cain, neither has been there longer than the other. In fact, the words "longer" or "shorter" have no meaning in regard to eternity. (Assuming Hitler and Cain are even there, God may have forgiven them, we don’t know for sure yet)

Of course there is no real way to completely understand what eternity is. I believe it is something that must be experienced before it can be fully understood. As the Apostle Paul states In 1^st Corinthians

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."

Glory to God! I look forward to that day.

We only see partly but then we will see in full. The things of God are far above our meager ability to understand. I am glad I am saved by his grace and through his precious blood. That one day soon we will experience a day that never begins or will never end.

Using Our Talents

2011-01-12T22:04:00.002-05:00

I often think of what the Bible tells us of in Matthew 25:14-30 when Jesus explains

"For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods."

This is a beautiful parable that I encourage you to read to better understand what I am writing. Jesus goes on here to explain to us that we should use the talents given to us.

I found out that a talent isn’t what we might think it is, rather it was a unit of measure that was used to measure, among other things, gold and silver. I found that one talent of gold could be worth as much as 3 million dollars today if you factor in exchange rates and inflation. Could you imagine receiving 3 million dollars and simply burying it in the earth and accomplishing nothing? We begin to see why the lord was so upset with the slothful servant.

So, one talent really was quite a lot and I think we are similarly blessed with the "talents" that we are given. It is interesting that the word "talent" is used since to us the word "talent" means "abilities". We can easily translate this to mean that those with many talents will accomplish many things and those with few talents will accomplish few things but whether we are given many talents or few talents we should not bury any of them in the earth.

I am guilty for many years of not using my talents. I would often see preachers preaching boldly or doorknockers going house to house or someone effortlessly striking up a conversation with someone about Christ. I saw people with great skills of organization and networking gather large numbers of people together to forward the message of Christ. Praise God for all these.

I would see all these and when I tried to also accomplish these things I would fall flat and fail miserably. I am a quiet person and find it hard to preach or knock doors or even strike up a simple conversation. I can barely organize my thoughts much less put together a team of people so I began to shy away from doing my part. I felt like I was beating a dead horse and getting nowhere.

So, why am I telling you all this? Well, first I believe we should confess our faults and shortcomings but also to let you know that through writing I have found a talent that I can use for the Lord. It is easy for me to write down my thoughts and ideas. My mind is too slow often times to think of details quickly during a conversation but in writing I give myself time to think out what I need to say.

So if you can preach then preach, if you can sing then sing, if you’re a people person then talk with people, if you know how to organize then organize. Whatever you enjoy and that which comes easy for you are your talents. They are not hard to spot when you look at them that way.

If you are good at it then do it and do it for the glory of Christ. Please don’t spend a lot of time trying to do things that others are good at like I did for so long but rather do that which you are good at.

The Lamb of God

2011-01-12T21:40:00.001-05:00

Have you ever wondered why Jesus is often referred to as the Lamb of God?

Well, in Old Testament the Lord gave the Jewish people several feast days which they observed to serve God in the Law of Moses. These days were known as Sabbath days or "rest days". During these Sabbath days the people would bring lambs to sacrifice upon the altar of God.

The Passover was one of the greatest days given to the Jewish people. If you recall this day signified when the death angel passed over those who had blood on their doorposts before Moses lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. The blood came from a lamb that they had sacrificed earlier that night.

When Jesus sat down with his disciples in the upper room it was to celebrate this traditional feast day called Passover. Throughout the years the Jewish people had celebrated this day and Jesus wanted to celebrate it with his disciples since they also kept the law.

Later that evening Jesus was taken by those sent by the chief priests and scribes and elders. He was taken before many courts, until they finally convinced Pilate that he should be crucified.

He died on a cross at the ninth hour on the feast day of Passover. So while the Jews were sacrificing actual lambs for the their sins, Jesus became the true lamb and fulfilled the old covenant and that is why we call him the Lamb of God.

Suffering Wrongfully

2011-01-11T15:16:00.001-05:00

“For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:”
1st Peter 2: 19-21

Why do we often keep silent when the chance to witness to someone comes up? What hinders us? Are we worried that someone will get angry with us or ridicule us? Are we afraid we might get tripped up in our own words because we don’t know the Bible well enough? Do we simply not believe in the true sense?

Whatever reasons we have I would pray that we could realize what an honor it is to suffer for a conscience toward God.

Perhaps the coworker or acquaintance who zeroes in on your every fault, trying to make fun and embarrass you, is in reality a blessing from God that gives you the opportunity to suffer for his name’s sake. Is this so hard to believe?

We know there are angels among us unawares, why do we assume angels always do nice things for us and never give us challenging opportunities. Perhaps we are being tested of God, do we pass that test?

I pray that we would pass that test. I believe this is a serious issue with God; souls are on the line today friends. God bless you all!

When in the Days of Noah

2011-01-11T15:01:00.002-05:00

I often visualize Noah standing outside the ark during the last week before God shut the door, preaching to the lost to come inside and be saved. As the animals made their way into the ark I am sure Noah preached hard and even begged and pleaded with everyone to come in but none came as we are told in 2^nd Peter 2:5

"And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;"

As the last animals settled in something was about to happen on the earth that had not happened before. The earth was to be destroyed and perish by water.

There must have been many watching the animals file in, a very large crowd watching as the last few moments slipped away and many were in the valley of decision. Imagine the fate of those who almost went in. Perhaps these actually enjoyed Noah’s preaching and several times had wanted to join him but ultimately they walked off that final day and decided not to go. Perhaps, they simply didn’t take him seriously.

The Bible tells us there will be many in this state in the last days. Joel 3:14 states

"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision."

And there were many chances to come in. It can be argued that Noah spent 100 years building the ark, preaching all the way. Those people had many years to get right with God but they all refused and when God shut the door the time had ended. There was no more mercy, only wrath, from a loving God.

God had shut the door and the Bible tells us in Luke 13:25

"When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:"

So let there be no mistake, God has and will again shut the door of mercy and salvation upon those who reject him, as the Bible says in 1st Peter 3:20.

"Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."

So Noah built the ark and preached for all those around him to come into the ark and be saved. He preached for many years and never saw the first person saved. Only his wife and sons and son’s wives were with him and I suppose even they were only there because Noah was their father.

"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." Hebrews 11:7

The same thing is happening today. The message to come in and be saved is going out into the world. If God is dealing with you now would you please accept his calling to come in and be saved? Don’t let the door shut on you.

Times of Plenty

2011-01-10T20:35:00.007-05:00

During times of plenty it is very easy to think that we do not need God. We have plenty of security, food and money during these times and we get to thinking that we are pretty important. We think we can go it alone without the need for God. But during hard times we come crying to God.

Our world is now entering one of these times of hardship. We should be grateful if the Lord is still waiting to accept us as we start to think of him again.

The Bible says in Amos 8:12

"And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it."

Now this was speaking of physical Israel but many of the things that were spoken of them were for examples to us as Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians 10:11

"Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come."

So be grateful if God is still there waiting on you. His patience is running thin with our world.

Of course many will not think of God even in these hard times. They will look to government and with a worldwide crisis such as the financial crisis; they will look to worldwide government, exactly the thing that God tells us will come about.

We are being manipulated in more ways than we know! We must place ALL our hope and faith in our Savior Christ Jesus to guide us through all the tricks and lies of Satan. God be with us!

Rejoice in Temptations

2011-01-10T18:11:00.002-05:00

When, during our walk with God, he allows us to be tried and allows us to fall into temptations we should remember to consider it a time to be joyful.

As we are reminded, the Bible says in James 1:2-3

"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience."

As Satan brings these temptations before us and our flesh begins to lust in those sins that do so easily beset us, let us call on the name of Jesus and suffer the attack of the Devil with all joy.

Galatians 5:17 says

"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would."

These times of temptation are difficult, we are drawn by the lusts of our flesh and we have NO hope without Christ. Our flesh is so weak to the temptations of the world or should we say the flesh is strong against the spirit during these times and the spirit must call out to Jesus.

In 2^nd Corinthians we are told

"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

Remember, for his glory we are weak that we might call on his perfect strength. Praise the name of Jesus!

Glory in Tribulations

2011-01-10T16:58:00.004-05:00

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." Romans 5:1-5

It might seem strange to glory in tribulations but as we study God’s word we find it is not very much like we might have imagined or like what we think is right.

Studying the word of God is the most important thing you can do in this life short of receiving salvation (of course the two are eternally linked) but when we discover in Acts that the disciples rejoice that they were found worthy to suffer beatings for Christ’s sake it catches us off guard. They rejoiced for beatings, can we not glory in our own daily tribulations?

That’s the word. Let’s take time to read it and embrace it for what it says not what we want it to say. The knowledge of God is given to us through the Bible. It’s his book. He’s the boss, lets find out what he wants… and do it. As Christians we should remember to glory in our tribulations, knowing that it worketh patience, experience and hope.

Once in Grace?

2011-01-04T20:14:00.009-05:00

When we talk with people who think they can pray one prayer and accept Jesus and then spend 30 years living like the devil remind them that not only is the gate straight but also the way is narrow.

In Matthew 7:13-14 the Bible says:

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."

This means we should walk the narrow path as we journey to the Straight Gate and we must remain on that path and live a repentant lifestyle if we ever hope to enter therein.

We can be grateful that the Lord is a loving God but we should also remember that he is a God of great wrath.

In Ecclesiastes 12:13 the Bible tells us

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."

One of the biggest lies going is "once saved, always saved"? You are in terrible trouble if you believe once in grace doctrine and you spend your time watching ballgames and drinking in night clubs.

I submit to you that you haven't looked at the issue very much. You got a warm and fuzzy feeling when you read "I will never leave you or forsake you." Then you read "little known little required" and you figured that was a good place to stop. (Luke 12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.)

More than likely you didn't read it at all, someone probably told you these things and you figured that was close enough.

It would be scary to know just how little time people spend studying the Word of God. How often do you read and study?

Now it is true that if you do not leave God then He will not leave you but that really isn't what we're talking about here is it?

You can try to say those that live in sin were never really saved to begin with but you must know your advice is giving them false hope when you tell them that once they make it in there is absolutely no way to be kicked back out again.

Imagine their surprise when they realize they misunderstood your advice, hopefully it won't be too late for them when they realize it.

You must be all the way in or all the way out. Remember, lukewarm gets spit out of his mouth.

Your choice.