Showing posts with label End Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label End Times. Show all posts

Sunday, October 15, 2017

GOD'S UNIVERSE AND HIS CREATIONS THE STARS


               


So many of the recent astronomical events in the last few years and months have chirped across the Internet that I've been thinking about God's universe and His Creations- the stars.

Watching the Netflix show "Dark Matter" with its instantaneous "Blink Drive" which zooms someone to one point of space-time to another, has me asking many more questions about the universe. I can't help but ask the Living God about the Space -Time continuum, aliens, nephilim, and the transcendent bodies we are promised at the Resurrection, vs Transhumanism as touted in science fiction tales galore.

"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed". I Cor. 15:52



  A Great show for Science Fiction Fans, but beware - much violence. "DARK MATTER"

For months I have been wanting to go back and read the Book of Job where the constellations are mentioned. Having heard a reminder the other day that Job is believed to possibly be the oldest book in the Bible re-aroused my curiosity of how could Job have possibly known about distinctly named constellations?

When Job was rightfully bemoaning his losses and pain, God questioned Job's faith in Him by asking:

"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion? Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, and guide the Bear with its satellites?" Job 30:31-32 NAS

There are also similar references in Amos 9 and Job 9:9, which also mention Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and "chambers of the south."

      
         Pleiades - For Instructional Purposes Only

I read an article online "Is The Astronomy In the Book of Job Scientifically Consistent?"

The writer of the article J. Warner Wallace was not looking for advanced scientific details (though I am), but rather he expects God's Word to be consistent in a scientific sense.

I figure if rumors are true and Einstein DID rely on the Hebrew alphabet Gematria, possibly Bible codes, as well as the translation of the Word "Light" for his study that erupted in the brainstorm creating E-MC squared - then perhaps I could uncover something more by re-examining Job 30.


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                                                      EINSTEIN'S BIBLE CODE DISCOVERY


Of course Job was unable to reply to what had been largely a rhetorical question in the first place. According to Warner Wallace's article "...Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters) is an open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus."

He continues to explain that it was "classified as an open cluster because it is a group of hundreds of stars formed from the same cosmic cloud, approximately the same age with the same chemical composition...bound together by mutual gravitational attraction."

Wallace quotes Isabel Lewis of US Naval Observatory fame as saying,
"Astronomers have identified 250 stars as actual members of this group, all sharing in a common motion and drifting through space in the same direction".

But Wallace further enlightens us by mentioning Dr. Robert J. Trumpler's comment from the book, "Wonder Worlds", wherein he says:

"Over 25,000 measures of the Pleiades stars are now available, and their study led to the important discovery that the whole cluster is moving in a southeasterly direction. The Pleiades stars may be thus compared to a swarm of birds, flying together to a distant goal...leaves no doubt that the Pleiades are not a temporary or accidental conglomeration of stars, but system in which the stars are bound together by close kinship."

                 "Wonder Worlds" on Amazon.com

The Lord emphasizes His point even more deeply when He again challenges Job asking him if he can "loosen the cords of Orion".

J. Warner Wallace, on his website COLD CASE CHRISTIANITY.COM goes on to mention that God was referencing Orion's belt, which can be easily seen in a clear night's sky.


"The three stars forming the linear 'band' at Orion's waist...God appeared to be challenging Job in the opposite way he had in the first portion of the verse...Orion's belt is formed by two stars (Alnilam and Mintaka) and one more star cluster (Alnitak). Alnitak is actually a triple star system at the Eastern edge of Orion's belt. These stars (along with all the other stars forming Orion) are not gravitationally bound like those in Pleiades. ...the stars of Orion's Belt are heading in different directions."

Wallace also discusses the fact that Orion is long lasting, "not because its stars are physically connected", but because they expand a greater distance. But because eventually over the millennia Alnita will no longer be perceptible, having shifted too far away, Orion's belt will be unbuckled, just as the Lord inquired of Job. This also gives Job's writing a prophetic slant, if the suffering saint himself actually authored the book.

But more importantly, it proves that God Himself created/controls His Universe, and His foreknowledge and power pushes forward the movements of the macrocosm, far beyond man's ability to comprehend. This hints at the irony that we should never challenge God's ability or His purposes, let alone His faithfulness.

Before I go to sleep at night I have been reading several pages of a book called "The Universe - 365 Days". It puts beautiful pictures in my mind as I dream of the Horsehead Nebula, and other amazing sweeps of the expanse far beyond our little sphere.

It may seem weird, but I can't help but believe that the Lord is leading me in my studies. The other night, reading this gloriously illustrated book, I came across the constituents composing the Universe, as scientists currently understand them:

70% Dark Energy, 25% Dark Matter, and 5% Normal Matter.

I was astonished. But as I was researching on the Internet yesterday, about the possibility of so called "blink drives" fictionally supposed to be greater than Faster Than Light (FTL)drives... I came across two extremely interesting videos.

I had "googled" the search term "SPACE-TIME ENGINEERING", thinking it might be another way to phrase the terms "Time Control" or "Time Travel". (Time control is more encompassing.)

The search topic took me to David Anderson's Time Travel Institute site which I have mixed feelings about, regarding its veracity. However, because Anderson is borrowing the writings of experts in the field I can sometimes learn something new there.

The article covered the topic "Space-Time Engineering" and spoke of "bubbles" in the space-time structure, "basement universes", and discussed "negative energy". When I found out that some spaceship drives for FTL travel might require "negative energy" my mental "ears" perked up. One theoretical warp drive requires devising a way to manipulate "negative energy".

             SPACE TIME ENGINEERING - CETIN BAL - SEE Link Address  or go to www.andersoninstitute.com


For some reason, the Holy Spirit, (who guides all my studies), led me back to the Perimeter Institute website. At first I kept getting "blocked" as frequently happens since the Internet has been handed over to international control, largely under the auspices of China.


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Finally I got to:


                   Erik Verlinde Lecture @ Perimeter Institue 10/4/2017

To be able to listen for free to videos of famous physicists really excited me. So I listened to the featured lecture (above):

"GRAVITY NOT A FUNDAMENTAL FORCE - AN EMERGENT PHENOMENON".

Dr. Verlinde spoke about the "Information Universe" and "Dark Matter", as well as "Emergent" theory. I couldn't help but think that I had been hearing the concept "Emergent" in many articles I read but wasn't paying close attention because my focus had been on "closed time-like curves" and time itself.

I also remembered an article I had read about MIT Quantum Mechanics professor, Seth Lloyd, being interviewed, where he too mentions properties of an emergent type. My mind reviews this article frequently from memory.

                SHAKING HANDS WITH THE FUTURE

But I love to go back and re-read it because Seth Lloyd discusses recently-deceased physicist George Ryazanov, who saw no conflict in believing in God, and no conflict between science and true spirituality. In fact, he practiced the art of "divine downloads", or one would also describe it "divine inspiration". He had a strong desire to unite physics with metaphysics. He realized what so many other scientists have not yet grasped. Physics has come full circle to spirituality.

During one such episode, of accessing God's Mind, while he was on vacation in an isolated place, he wanted to review Richard Feynman's Arrow of Time theory. So on paper, George actually completely reproduced the mathematical formulas from memory, but was inspired to add another touch of his own, called "the Two Arrows of Time".


         George Ryazanov - Interviewed In Israel - Educational Purposes    


He believed that time travels in both directions, and like astrophysicist/writer Gregory Benford, believes that information can be passed backward or forward in time.


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Yes. Benford wrote a fictional book applying his concepts to the real world. He even appends a scholarly, scientific defense of the use of tachyons, to message backwards in time.

But he has also written many scientific papers defending his positions.        

ARE NEPHILIM REALLY PART OF END TIMES?         

As always, I had been praying for insight from God on the discussion of whether the NEPHILIM of old really do comprise a significant factor in End Time Bible Prophecy, as some profess.

I had watched a "Grade B" sci-fi movie on TV a few weeks ago that was about an alien invasion in Jerusalem. I watched it mostly because being set in Jerusalem, I could see the local sights and the way people lived there. I won't mention the movie's name for a particular reason.

I pray about what I watch on TV because I don't want to put anything in my brain that the Lord forbids. Secondly, so many films and TV shows are now thinly veiled propaganda, if not out-right conscious mind-programming that I am careful about watching certain things.

Toward the end of the movie, the aliens became Nephilim. I asked the Lord about it and He responded that it was an abomination to Him. So I turned the movie off, but wondered if this was a reflection of pop-culture, or one of those oft-mentioned prophetic mentions of future events.




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Those Christian authors who have been bringing the Nephilim topic to the forefront, keep bringing up the verse:
           "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man." Luke 17:26

They like to use the verse to support their contention that the End Times will include a FALSE ALIEN DISCLOSURE.

One flimsy verse, along with a few others in Genesis chapters three and six, cobbled together to support their new doctrine do not make the basis for an entirely new dispensation. Even if there is supporting archaeological evidence for the previous existence of such beings in other times, it does not necessarily make a strong basis for their return.

Many of these authors support the notion that governments, including our own, will FINALLY DISCLOSE information on UFO's and aliens, citing the aliens to be godlike superiors, perhaps  posing as Mankind's creators. Even the Vatican seems to be "prepping" for this event.

A few days ago the Huffington Post featured an article about a new organization composed of high-level, former "Black Ops" bigwigs, who have suddenly broken away from government to reveal "New Physics" technologies on the horizon, and to prove that alien technologies, UFO's (UAP), and aliens DO EXIST.


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        INSIDER KNOWLEDGE ABOUT UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA

If the link above doesn't work, type the above title/address into a search engine. It will bring you there.


Is this the beginning of the DISCLOSURE that Tom Horn, Steve Quayle, Cris Putnam, Tim Alberino, and L.A. Marzuli have so passionately publicized?

Why do I - AS A CHRISTIAN - even spend my time on these topics? Because WE ARE LIVING IN THE END TIMES. I want - NO - NEED to stay aware of everything happening around me. That way I can view contemporary events and technologies, in the light of End Time prophecies.

I can examine the ideas put forth, watch the signs in the news, signs in the skies, and try to understand the events that will precede Jesus Christ's Return.

He will come IN THE SKIES, just as He promised while every eye watches:
   "Behold He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him..."  Revelation 1:7

I WANT that resurrection body He promised:

  I Corinthians 15:52  
            "In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye at the LAST trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we SHALL BE CHANGED."

I don't need some trans-humanist body made by bio-engineering. No matter how many parts are replaced, gene edits made, or nanite repairs are conducted, that artificial body will only be an expendable machine. . . A faint imitation of God's real creation, and therefore fallible.

I also don't need my consciousness uploaded into a somewhat durable container or into an android body. Any attempts to improve on God's engineering can only become a failure in the end.


So, I will keep asking the hard questions such as:


1) Is there life created by God on some other planets, in other solar systems and galaxies? Or are we THE "Goldilocks" Planet?

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2)  Will our upcoming transmuted, perfected bodies, which defy the laws of physics like Christ's did,  (John 20:26), when He walked through walls and on water, (Matthew 14:25-27), be the exact type of bodies which transport human consciousness to the outer limits of the Universe?
    

3)  Did Jesus' death and resurrection, once and for all, here on Planet Earth, become the beginning factor for not only Peace here on Earth, but also throughout the Universe or Universes, as the case may be?



                              


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Sunday, August 27, 2017

DO YOU BELIEVE IN SIGNS?


HOW ABOUT THE AUGUST 21ST TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE?

If you sign your name to something, what does it leave behind? Your signature of course! We saw God’s signature this past week, but few even know it.

Across the United States people traveled hundreds of miles to great viewing locations where the 70-mile wide path of the solar eclipse would make its swathe clear across America, from one end to the other. The solar event affected almost every state in the Union.

Twelve states received the shadow of almost near-total darkness. Indeed.

America has a serious condition. That condition is lack of awareness about what is happening in our culture and in the world at large. We are “IN THE DARK”.

I can’t live carefree and happily as I did when a child, being taught to look forward to the Return of Jesus Christ. So many pictures filled my mind with joy when I thought about Him coming on the clouds, arms stretched wide, with the sunlight of His glory streaming all around Him.

At that age I had no clue about the enormity and intensity of the events that have to occur before the Lord’s One and Only Return.

But even reading my Bible as a young girl I noticed that events described in church with regard to Christ’s Return did not always line up with the Biblical account. Absorbing the prophecies with a child’s mind I was able to pare away the man-made determinations from the pure truth of what the Bible said.

Do you believe in signs? You should! All the prophesied events appearing around us bear the SIGNature of God. The enormous number of earthquakes and volcanoes, often simultaneously exploding around the planet give huge evidence of massive Earth changes.

Romans   8:22  says, “All creation groans” in anticipation of His coming. He is the Creator and King of the Universe. Would it not make sense that His nearing arrival -  this shift of energies - influence the heavenly and earthly bodies? If one considers the inherent power accompanying the One who created everything from nothing, and thinks that power doesn’t somehow precede or surround Him or influence anything He touches – then they are very wrong.

Creation longs for its original pristine state…the one in which God looked happily upon His work, thinking that it was very good. Man has come a long way in defiling this planet, not just its ecology and environment, but spiritually as well. This planet’s ground has been soaked by the remnants of wars, greed and lust.

Many say the “signs” are speeding up. It certainly seems that way. Everything seems to be happening faster and faster as though it is building to a crescendo.

 Earth is suffering what the Lord says are “Birth pangs”, just as a woman in labor suffers increasing pain and tremors, knowing something is about to be birthed. She hopes that as the quickening occurs, it will soon be over, and she will be able to see the magnificent result of the suffering she endured.

Jesus Himself spoke about the signs of His Return in Matthew 24 and Mark 21. I won’t go over them all, but He mentioned earthquakes which have always captured my interest.

The increase in the number, frequency and intensity of these events has become profound. As a child I remember remarking when our TV announced an earthquake in some far off part of the world. It didn’t happen very often.

Granted, our scientific community didn’t always have the seismic measuring instruments then that we do now. We also didn’t have the instantaneous methods of communication which we do now with the Internet. However, I was careful to watch for these events as a child, being interested in science, and also knowing the prophecies. So inwardly I watched as over the years the number of earthquakes has increased such an amount as to note radical changes in tectonic plate movement.

Dutch Sinse has an amazing earthquake watch site, where he shows in three dimensions the number, location and depth of all earthquakes around the globe on a daily basis. Based on years of watching the patterns, he can often predict these events and where they will occur, based on his knowledge of the tectonic plates, and how pressure under them reacts.
  
          


Checking his site on August 18th, three days before the eclipse, I heard him say that those next three days would be rife with large earthquake activity. The quakes would include a swarm of long dormant volcanic action, along with Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier showing pressure from the West coast, along the California coast, as well as some quakes on the New Madrid fault line.

The New Madrid fault line over Middle America is not mentioned as often as the Cascadia region which starts around Oregon and precedes down along California, nor the San Andreas line which follows the Cali coast. But the New Madrid fault zone may play a greater role in America’s future than we can possible know at this moment.
                     

 This large, solar eclipse we witnessed on Monday, was the first of two complete solar eclipses which will occur within seven years of each other. Seven years from now, on April 8, 2024, there will be another total solar eclipse, again reaching across the entire U.S. but this time, it will make a path that resembles an X mark over America. X marks a spot right over the New Madrid Fault zone, right where the southern tip of Illinois meets Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri and Indiana.

This is where the Missouri and Ohio rivers join. If a huge earthquake would happen to occur there, it could easily divide America into three sections, causing enormous flood devastation. That possible event could even shape our coastlines far differently than we see them now.

This last eclipse, which was the first in ninety-nine years to cover the United States, happened on the Jewish holiday, the 1st of Elul, which is 40 days from Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

(The 1918 solar eclipse was followed by a “huge flu pandemic that killed 50-100 million people worldwide”, according to Steve Ciccolanti.)

The first day of Elul ends the Jewish year of 5777, the year of “completion”.

Jewish historians always associated lunar eclipses with God’s judgements toward Israel. But they have always associated solar eclipses with God’s judgement upon other nations. The fact that the eclipse occurred on a Jewish holiday, and involved the entire United States, points to the idea that God was saying something to America, in particular.

Mark Biltz, on his Youtube video “The Coming Signs And The 40 Days” says he feels this forty day time period is of extreme importance. He mentions that “WW I started with a solar eclipse over both Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.”
                    

          Mark Biltz – Blood Moons and Past Recent Eclipses

He also states that when the U.S. lost their greatest war casualties was after a solar eclipse crossed the U.S. in roughly the same path as last Monday’s event.

There is also a verse in scripture where Jesus says,
A wicked and adulterous generation seeks a sign but no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah”. (Matthew 16:4).

Long ago I always equated that verse with Jesus being in the earth three days before the Resurrection, just as Jonah was in the whale’s gullet for three days. However, during the research I did for this article, one of the websites I visited mentioned that it was 40 days from the time Jonah announced to Nineveh until the time that the city turned around and repented to God for their wickedness. Basically they had 40 days to decide.


BUT THE MOST STUNNING THING HAPPENED!
     
        ASSYRIAN ECLIPSE OF BUR SAGALE        Jonah 1-4

          

History also records a solar eclipse accompanied Jonah’s dire announcement  across Nineveh, (now called Mosul), on June 15th, 763 BC. Called the Bur-Sagale eclipse, Steve Ciccolanti describes it as one of the most famous events of ancient history.
                                  

                 Steve Ciccolanti with brief Intro




                              IS THE USA IN THE BIBLE? - STEVE CICCOLANTI


So from the date of the solar eclipse (1st of Elul), until Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, when the Hebrew people historically acknowledge their sins and repent, is a period of forty days.

       
 
   DON'T BE LEFT IN THE DARK!

                                                       




Michael Snyder on his Economic Collapse blog says, “A day of reckoning coming for America is fast approaching, and those that are wise will recognize the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.”    



Funny how this solar eclipse brings us to September 23rd and another critical, monumental sign in the heavenlies, one that only happens about every 2,000 years. And this time will be the first time in human history that this constellational alignment will occur exactly as described.

In Revelation chapter 12 it states:

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars”.

The verses go on to describe the woman giving birth to a “manchild”, who is caught up to heaven, and the woman being chased by a dragon into the desert, but a hole opening up in the desert, swallows and protects her.

Traditionally, Bible scholars had taken this symbolism to mean Mary the mother of Jesus, giving birth to Him, who was caught up into heaven at the ascension. But the rest of the verses remain a mystery.

However, in intervening years, astronomers and sky-sign watchers have discovered that an almost identical constellation alignment occurred immediately before the birth of Christ.

Some also speculate that this peculiar astral alignment gave the “Star of Bethlehem” its brilliance. It could be what the shepherds saw and also what the “wise men” from the East followed.

Immediately before the birth of Christ, the constellation of Virgo, “the virgin” was right below the star pattern of “Leo”, the Lion. The planetary body Jupiter moved into alignment into the constellation’s so-called “womb”, and stayed there, over the same period of time equivalent to a human gestational period.
                
         Biblical Mysteries (The Star of Bethlehem)
                   


This is happening again on September 23, 2017, with a small difference.

According to www.watchfortheday.org rumors activated in 2014 that the eclipse between the blood moon tetrad of 2014/2015 would kick off the start of the Great Tribulation. According to that author, the 1st eclipse occurred 1,260 days before Sept. 23, 2017. (1,260 days in the books of Revelation and Daniel refer to the 3 ½ year equivalent of half of the “Time of Jacob’s Trouble”, or “Tribulation”…the latter half being the worst time to endure.)

Some scholars surmised that perhaps Sept. 23rd, 2017 was the halfway point suggesting it would fully occur from April 2014 to April 2021. But according to “watchfortheday.org” that wouldn’t line up correctly with the Jewish feast days.

The seventh trumpet, (considered the very end of the Tribulation) occurs right before Revelation chapter 12.

In addition to the woman clothed with stars symbolizing Mary, who birthed Messiah in Bethlehem, the female figure can also be interpreted as Israel. The twelve stars could portray Israel’s tribes. The child still represents Messiah Yeshua, born of the tribe of Judah, from Jesse (the Root), and  of the House of David.

As mentioned previously, the astral line-up which occurred in approximately 3 B.C. is slightly different than the astral alignment of Sept. 23rd, 2017.

Only 9/23/17 narrows the alignment to the fall equinox. Only in 2017 will the moon “under her feet”  occur a few days after a new moon.

Leo, around her head, comprises nine main “stars”, but on only this occurrence do Mercury, Mars and Venus provide the 10th, 11th and 12th reflective bodies to make up “12 stars”.

The most unique part of all is Jupiter. Although it lines up within the framework of Virgo every dozen years, in 2017 Jupiter enters “the virgin’s” womb. A woman’s travail and pain of childbirth are equated with “tribulation”. Will Jupiter leave Virgo just as the “Tribulation” begins?

The reasons above explain why only in Sept. 2017 do all the pieces fit.

The author of “watchfortheday.org” also suggests that Jupiter will be in the sign of Taurus on the 9th day of AV, 2024 (also a year of solar eclipse across the U.S.).

In Hebrew, Taurus equates to “Coming Judge”.

We must recall Matthew 24:


Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And there shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”


“SIGNS” mean portents, warnings or foreshadowing of things to come.

Those who said in the past, “Oh people have talked about Jesus coming back for hundreds of years”, did not live in a time period when a synchronicity of signs occurred, as is happening now. The Bible warns those who foolishly mock.

Israel became an official nation again in 1948, fulfilling Bible prophecy. As the Jewish people have been drawn there in modern times again, from many other nations, Bible prophecy is fulfilled.

Isaiah 66:8 reads,

Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.”

When questioned by His disciples how they would recognize the timing of these events He responded, after a long passage of certain signs to watch for…Mark 13:28 and 30:

“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when her branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near.”

“Verily, I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.”

Many Bible scholars believe verses 28 and 30 go hand in hand, marking the rebirth of the nation of Israel. They also believe that the generation of those who live to see these events would not die before the Return of Messiah.

A biblical generation is seventy years. Israel became a nation again in 1948. Add 70 years and it brings us up to 2018. I am not setting dates. Just telling you what I have learned over the years. You can draw your own conclusions.

I can’t placate myself with mind-soothing imagery of being whisked out of "Oz" like the proverbial “Dorothy”, as a large majority of the Christian church does.

The proffered scriptural basis for the rapture theory is extremely flimsy. An entire dogma has sprung up on the basis of a only a handful of verses cobbled together and rationalized.

But that's so easily imagined by the soft, spoiled, American-pasteurized Christian, expecting fast food, fast fixes, comfort, ease, and luxury that neither the rest of the world nor millions of martyrs of the past could have ever conceived.

Neither Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Corrie Ten Boom, Nora Lam, nor millions of God's Chosen People of the Holocaust, would have considered themselves so "special", so privileged, that they could escape the ravages of the hurricanes of history that devoured them, and their loved ones in spite of fervent faith.

Yes, they hoped to live. But like the long list of heroes of faith mentioned in Hebrews 11:33-35, we must ponder the possibility that we too may be called to give our all for our faith in God...


"Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection..."

REMEMBER THAT THE CROWD OF MARTYRS IN REVELATION 7:9-14, THOSE DRESSED IN WHITE, WHO WOULD NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST - WAS BEYOND NUMBER.

IF YOU THINK YOU WILL ESCAPE, YOU WILL MISS THE CLUES, EVEN AS THEY HAPPEN BEFORE YOUR EYES. YOU WILL SAY, "ON NO, THAT CAN'T BE THE 'MARK OF THE BEAST BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T BEEN WHISKED AWAY YET".

OR YOU WILL SAY, "OH NO - THAT COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE THE ANTICHRIST, BECAUSE AFTER ALL , WE HAVE TO BE "RAPTURED" BEFORE HE APPEARS."

YOU WILL TAKE THE MARK. MISS THE BOAT, AND POSSIBLY LOSE YOUR HEAD ANYWAY...IN THE PROCESS.

              

Believing that one will be magically carried away before the horrors begin is escape-fantasy promoting apathy. It provides an excuse for not focusing on Christ’s soon Return or the actual events preceding it.

It allows people to put off repentance, allows them to hang onto their greed, self-focus, and put off living a life pleasing to Our Messiah, except for Sabbath Day, and even then maybe living the "saintly life" only for an hour or two.

I truly believe we are living in the final generation before the Return of Jesus/Yeshua.

The thought of going through all the huge events expected to occur does not thrill me. 

However, having an idea of what may come, allows me to strengthen myself psychologically, and increases my faith because it stirs me to greater depths of getting to know the Lord and His Word.

The thought doesn’t frighten me either. Always the curious sort, and an observer of history, I hope to be documenting all the details. Knowing that my Rock, the Lord, is protecting me, chases away fear.

What does make me happy is the thought of seeing my Messiah face-to-face, receiving a brand new body (which doesn’t grow old, fat, or get sick). And seeing the wheezing Earth cleansed and refreshed, (hadash) with even more gorgeous vistas, but with pure air and water to take in, as we soak in the Light of His Glorious Presence, where He rules from The New Jerusalem during His New Millennial reign on Earth. The New Golden Age of Earth.

That - and HE is the Light to hope for at the end of the dark tunnel of Tribulation.
            

                         "JerusalemDescending" Joel Chernoff -                                                                                                                    
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

WHERE ARE THE ANNOUNCERS OF HIS COMING?




Why are most pastors and evangelists NOT standing up and shouting with one voice "Jesus is coming back soon and you had better get ready?"

If the television preachers we all hear, especially those with their pleasant platitudes were REALLY hearing from God's Holy Spirit they would be shouting the message from the rooftops!

I go to church after church in an attempt to hear one pastor who is connected to what the Lord is doing in the earth today and NOT ONE IN THIS AREA is brave enough to sound the trumpet.

Granted, I no longer live on the East coast. The Lord has spoken to me to let me know that the East Coast of the United States is no longer a safe place to live. There are only a few who seem to have "gotten the memo". Perhaps in my new region people, including pastors, are slower to adopt the warning messages so readily available via media, on the more populated outskirts of the nation.

During the process of moving here I encountered not only an Assembly of God minister who never heard of Jonathan Cahn, with his courageous "Harbinger" message. I also encountered others, within main evangelical churches in this region who had never heard of the Harbinger message.

       Jonathan Cahn - The Harbinger
     

In fact, I applaud Jonathan Cahn for being one of the few brave souls who takes a public stance for truth. He is one of the "Watchman on the Wall" scouting the horizon for signs of the Lord's Return, just as I have been since childhood.

       Read The Harbinger

Is it because even the pastors and so called "prophets" in the Body of Christ today are so caught up with their own concerns that they no longer hear God's Heartbeat? Can they not recognize what He is doing in the Earth today?

Do the unusual storms, increasingly frequent earthquakes, simultaneously spouting volcanoes, strange trumpet sounds, and signs in the skies not tell them anything? Oh yeah. Climate change!



Yes. Of course Earth's Climate is changing. We are entering into a new Eon. A time of The Return of Earth's True King, Yeshua Ha Messiah. He promised He would Return in the clouds, in great glory.

Yet the "pillow prophets"  turn a deaf ear. They pretend to heal the wounds of God's people with pleasing words that put them at ease at a time when they should be on highest alert. They actually encourage the Church to delay obtaining the oil for the midnight hour because the leaders don't even recognize that the midnight hour is upon the Lord's people.


       "But at midnight there is a cry, Behold the Bridegroom. Come ye forth to meet Him".    Matthew 25:6

       "Watch therefore: for ye know not when the Lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cock crowing, or in the morning."Mark 13:35 

We are arriving at the final hour - getting so close to the Lord's Return. We are now at the short countdown. We are in the days when time as we know it is ticking off its final minutes.

We have passed from "The Age of Grace" to "The Age of Messiah". Just because the Age of Grace has fused into the Age of Messiah, does not mean that more people can't be "saved" (added to God's Kingdom").

It simply means that Yahweh's focus is now intently more pointed toward Israel than ever. It means that Jesus' (Yeshua in Hebrew) foot is on Earth's Thresh-hold of whatever trans-dimensional portal in the sky that He is coming through.

We will see momentous happenings in the very near future. The spotlight of world attention is about to fall on the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet. They might even try to pawn off an alien visitation as a false christ to be worshiped.

Pope Francis To Announce Extraterrestrial Savior

EXO-VATICANA THE VATICAN'S SAVIOR?

READ EXO-VATICANA AMAZON.COM 
     

 Most certainly sentient artificial intelligence (AI) may play a role, if it is not already doing so. However, only those who are filled with the Spirit of the Living G-d will know who these individuals truly are. Everyone else will be duped into thinking that the duo are simply great world leaders. And one of them will force the entire Earth to worship him.

Sound preposterous? It's not. Down throughout history many emperors and kings not only claimed divine origin, but set themselves up as gods to be worshiped. Just because you didn't pay attention in history class doesn't mean it won't happen.

       Emperors Demanded Worship - Caligula, Caesar Augustus, Diocletian

       Imperial Cult - Ancient Egyptian Pharoahs

       Ancient Roman Religion - Augustus
   

Those who put their every move on Facebook, along with their locations and photos of family members, have no clue what they are setting themselves up for.

When the very near economic collapse, and likely nuclear war or EMP event occurs, they won't know what hit them. A large majority will eagerly take the Mark of the Beast on their hand, to feed their families, and be able to buy whatever goods are available at that time.  And if they refuse? Well every family member's photo is plastered all over Facebook! Ever heard of coercion prompted by threat of family extinction?

Those who expect to be whisked out of here before any of this happens are laying huddled under a false security blanket of deception, which will comfort them all the way to the death chambers prepared for Christians who are rapidly becoming "enemies of the State" in our current culture. OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE! Must they be forced open by the torturers' forceps?  

Since as early as 2009 One-Worlder, billionaire George Soro's front group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, has been advising the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to consider anti-abortionists, end-time prophecy believers, U.S. Veterans, 2nd Amendment supporters, anti-illegal immigration activists, and anyone outspoken against this administration's agenda, as "radicals", and "terrorists".
             
        The SHARED AGENDAS OF GEORGE SOROS AND BARACK OBAMA

 Under then DHS head, Janet Napolitano,  a document from the Missouri Information Analysis Center, one of many newly created national police centers, was distributed to police departments across the United States. These "Fusion Centers" have since ensured that all these categories of people be scrutinized.

          THE MIAC REPORT TARGETING VETERANS AND CONSERVATIVES


We are no longer living in the America we once knew. It has been "fundamentally transformed".

           

The Lord is returning in great glory and with fire. Judgement will fall, not only on America, but upon the entire Earth.
"For the Son of Man is coming in His Father's glory with His Angels, then He shall reward each person according to what he has done."  Matthew 16:27

This means His Return equals Judgement. For something this big, shaking, quaking Earth to its very core, governments have to make up some such cover story such as "Climate Change" to explain all the inexplicable earth events.

Do you have any idea how often fish, whale, seal and marine creature die-offs are occurring around the world now? Have you searched alternate news sources to see how many bodies of water, small or big - have turned blood red! Quite a few!

     

     

"Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven: yea, the fishes of the sea shall be taken away."  Hosea 4:3

       "And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters, and they became blood."   Revelation 16:4 

But no! Everyone has their ears and eyes plastered to their smart phone, occupied with text-messaging...rather than conversations between real people. Don't think I am opposed to technology. That's not so. But when technology overreaches the boundaries for mankind's good, or is misused, then I beg to differ with the common consensus.

"At the time of your Appearing you will make them like a FIERY FURNACE. In His wrath the Lord will swallow them up and His fire will consume them."  
Psalm 21:9
Who will Christ judge and destroy when He returns? Not the wise virgins, who kept their lamps burning with the oil of His Holy Spirit! They are able to see "the signs of the times". They are able to see the darkness falling around them. That is why they are constantly filling their lamps with oil. How? Through praise and worship of Almighty God! By being so close to Him that they can lay their ears next to his heartbeat, just like the Apostle John who would lay his head on Jesus' chest because he loved Him so much.

Knowing the truth of what God's Word, the Bible, actually says about the End Times and the Return of Jesus Christ is very important. If your pastor has not taught these subjects then find a church where they are being taught. Not a false gospel of "Rapture" escapism. Rather seek the truth. Only truth will set you free from the rampant deceptions that the enemy of our souls has unleashed against the Body of Christ (Believers in Christ Jesus).

Who will Jesus/Yeshua judge when He returns? His enemies! Verse after verse and passage after passage in the Bible equates Christ's return with fire and judgement.

If American Christians think they are suffering persecution now - they had better "toughen up". They had better get ready for the "Big Time"! Are you ready for Prime-time, Christians?

Are you hardened, determined to stand at any cost against the wave of persecution that is coming?

Do you know what you believe? Are you ready to die for it? For your families to die for it?

Are you ready for the miracles God wants to do through you and for you? Are you ready to receive them? To receive the knowledge that miracles are for today? They never stopped!

Do you know what End-Time prophecy says about the "Last Days" and what happens before the Final Trumpet blows? The trumpet sounds appearing around the globe have not by any means stopped. They are still sounding loudly the foreshadowing of the Final Trumpet to come.

        The Final Warning - Could We Be Living In The Trumpet Days Of Revelation?

Are you more consumed with your comfortable life and your "Smart-phone" (which constantly beacons your exact location), than you are consumed with Jesus Christ, His Love, and His testimony?

Are you ready to refuse the Mark, as we are instructed in the Bible? Even to the point of losing your head? Two U.S. lawmakers, Tennessee's Senator Ken Yager, and previously, Georgia House Representative Doug Teper, believe that the capital punishment death method should be changed to guillotine.

        Georgia Wants To Use The Guillotine For Capital Punishment

        GEORGIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HB1274 DEATH PENALTY GUILLOTINE

         TENNESSEE LOOKING TO EXECUTE INMATES VIA GUILLOTINE

        BOTCHED OKLAHOMA EXECUTION PROVES IT'S TIME TO BRING BACK GUILLOTINE


       "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgement was given unto them: and I saw THE SOULS WHO WERE BEHEADED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS, AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, and which HAD NOT WORSHIPPED THE BEAST, neither his image, NEITHER HAD RECEIVED HIS MARK UPON THEIR FOREHEADS OR IN THEIR HANDS; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."   Revelation 20:14
 Top government sources have confirmed that guillotines have been shipped to many locations across the United States in preparation for this upcoming event.

         GUILLOTINES REAL! SOLDIERS FIND OUT THE TRUTH FOR THEIR USE
     

Will you "bow in humble adoration", after standing strong through earthquakes, hunger, wars, persecution and open your arms in welcome when HE appears?

     



..."Ye men of Galilee, Why stand ye gazing into heaven? This SAME JESUS which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come IN LIKE MANNER as ye have seen Him go into heaven." Acts 1:11


But this time our King is not coming as a humble Baby - a Lamb - He is coming as the Lion of The Tribe of Judah... King of all Creation, who dwells outside and apart from our known universe. But the Door of Separation is about to open wide. Do you now hear His horse's hoof beats thundering toward us?



     "And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war."
               "His eyes were a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written, and that no man know, except he himself."

               "And he was clothed in a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called The Word of God."

                "And the armies which were in Heaven followed him upon his white horse, clothed in fine linen, white and clean,"

                "And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he could smite nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he treaded the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of God."

               "And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS".         Revelation  19:10-16


              



Tuesday, March 3, 2015

WHY ARE CHRISTIANS SO AFRAID OF THE SUPERNATURAL?

WHY ARE CHRISTIANS SO AFRAID OF THE SUPERNATURAL?                     3/1/2015

From the time I was very young, the supernatural interested me. My father would read Old Testament Bible stories about Moses parting the Red Sea, Daniel closing the mouth of lions, and heavenly bread falling on the Israelites when they were in the desert with no food.

It seemed to me like the God of Israel, Yahweh, could do anything. I still believe it to this day.

How many Christians realize that His actions are supernatural deeds of a SUPERNATURAL God?

Disney started coming out with supernatural movies in the 1960’s like “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”. My mother often watched “Twilight Zone”, and in school we would hear ghost stories at Halloween.

 Jeanne Dixon, psychic to the presidents and the stars, was prominent in the news. The supernatural was prevalent in the American culture, but not nearly to the extent as it is today.
Instead of Jeanne Dixon, today, we have TV mediums that supposedly act as channels between the dead and the living, like Jon Edwards, who’s show “Crossing Over” was highly popular during its height. Many people mistakenly believe that they are actually communicating with their loved ones through this man, who is most likely actually communicating with demons posing as dead loved ones. Then there’s the Long Island Psychic, Theresa Caputo, who also claims to do the same thing.

There is a precedent in the Bible for a ‘medium’ commandeered by King Saul to communicate with the dead prophet Samuel, in I Samuel, chapter 28.

       “Then Saul said unto his servants, ‘Seek me a woman that hath a FAMILIAR SPIRIT, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, ‘Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.” I Samuel 28:7   KJV         

  (This occurred after Samuel had rid his kingdom of all such demon-possessed people. He treaded on doubly dangerous ground! And the Lord held him to account - telling Saul he would die the very next day!)

The Hebrew word, “owb”, Strong’s H178, translates as both “familiar spirit”, and also translates as “necromancer”, as someone who evokes or brings up the dead, in order to communicate with them. But my current understanding of the supernatural elements of this – is that “familiar spirits” are lying spirits, that cling to individuals who invite them into their hearts and minds. And because supernatural evil spirits have access to information they can imitate dead relatives, giving the living information and answers that deceive the families into believing they have heard from their lost family members.

The Lord strictly forbids trucking with necromancers and wizards.

In Leviticus 19:31 God says, “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

In this passage, the Lord’s instructions imply that to seek after evil spirits, and wizards, is the same thing as worshipping other gods. Because He says, “I am the Lord your God.”


Also, in Leviticus 20:6 our Holy God says, “And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off, from among his people.”

In this verse God is basically saying that seeking people indwelt by familiar spirits, and both male and female “wizards” which would also be called “witches” is equated in God’s eyes with not only disobedience but actively worshipping or following other gods. To go “awhoring” means to prostitute oneself for something far less than God, by means of unfaithfulness to believing God to be sufficient to answer your questions about what is beyond. 

Many people seek witchcraft in order to gain what they perceive to be supernatural power, and control.

What these people do not realize is that witchcraft is a bottomless well that is worse than a spider web that ensnares their soul and spirits. They become bound and enchained to Satan just as the demonic spirits are, which are doomed and obligated to serve him.

The Harry Potter books which have become so famous in America and around the world, have imprisoned millions upon millions of children in a nightmare world of witchcraft. Many have gone beyond the original concepts, and have gone on to study deeper occult books.

In fact, while attending Calvary Chapel megachurch in Ft. Lauderdale, between 2000 and 2005, I heard a sermon which knocked my socks off. The pastor talked about Scholastic publishing, which had been a publisher of school materials since I was a child many years ago. As part of the marketing of “ Potter”, the company  prepared curricular materials to discuss Harry Potter in classes across the United States, which included discussion round tables on how children could become more involved in witchcraft. So witchcraft is actually being promoted and taught in elementary, middle and high schools across the nation, while the Harry Potter series of books become increasingly popular. 

One such Internet link reads:

Discover The Magic of Harry Potter Books And Demonstrate Your WIZARDING SKILLS! (SCHOLASTIC)

 Many teachers reported that the children went on to carry to school many other, more adult witchcraft manuals, and seriously engaged in the practice of witchcraft. Many of those once-young children, over the past decade or so, have become adults practicing witchcraft. Let’s not even dwell on the popular movies which brought vividly to life the often-thought harmless characters, which actually mock parents and those who do not embrace witchcraft or occult practices.

The National Educational Association also makes flagrant use of Harry Potter lesson plans, as well:

NEA: Tools/Lessons - TEACHING HARRY POTTER

                        

Not to mention that these same children are punished or expelled for bringing a Christian Bible to class, even to read in their free time! 

Teacher Tells Student He Can't Read Bible In Class


That is bad enough. But our culture went from the mild “Twilight Zone” of the 1960’s, to the movie, “Twilight” in most recent years. The Twilight series of movies romantically glorifies vampirism, which is totally antithetical to Christ. One takes blood from many and Christ gave His blood for many, that they would be set free from such demonic bondage.

Vampirism and werewolf cultural heroes are now the norm, just as is twisted sexuality, and its ensuing violence, engendered by such shows as “Bates Motel”, and movies like “Fifty Shades of Gray” which glorifies sadomasochism.
Our children are being demonized because they are so hungry for the supernatural. If they don’t get it inside the Church – they will find it elsewhere!

Cris Putnam in his book, “The Supernatural Worldview”, on pages 110 and 111 says, “We are facing a serious problem. At the same time that the culture is embracing the paranormal, the church is largely uninformed and incredulous. The answers we provide concerning phenomena like ghosts and ESP are often circular and unsatisfactory.”

Mr. Putnam goes on to explain, “The large-scale defections from historic orthodoxy [IN THE CHURCH] bore fruit in nineteenth-century, theological liberalism’s social gospel. The focus became ‘this worldly’ in order to foster social justice rather than heavenly treasure by making disciples. Into the twentieth century, this progressively polarized conservative Christians, and they withdrew from the academy and culture at large. As the Bible believers left the discussion, unbelievers had full rein in academia and the majority influence on the next generation. This was a fatal error and a failure to heed the Lord’s command to ‘occupy till I come’ in Luke 19:3, KJV)”

     Steve Quayle and Cris Putnam on Hagmann – Biblical Supernatural View vs the Humanistic View   



Being incessantly curious as a child, interested in the spiritual, supernatural and psychology, I read many books on parapsychology and extrasensory phenomena in order to gain an understanding of the spiritual realm. Children today are just as curious, but so many are being handed Harry Potter books, or even worse read to them aloud, by their deceived parents, thinking they are encouraging their children to read. Then the parents ignorantly purchase Harry Potter wands and other toy to increase the child’s interest in a blatantly controlling spirit.

Adults in America are just as curious as the children. But not realizing that God is the original source of anything supernatural, they turn to countless other sources, rather than Him in the search for understanding. But do not be fooled. God is not mocked. In Leviticus 20:6 He promised to kill those individuals who practiced such horrible things.

As the years went on, my interest in the supernatural grew. I read everything I could get my hands on that piqued my interest. If I had just been following my earthly father’s instructions all that time instead, to read my Bible every day, I would have even more understanding now than I currently have. But over the years, I made the Bible my go-to book for information, and now base everything I know and understand, see and hear on its “plumb line”. Because I believe that the Bible is the integral, indestructible and inerrant Word of God.

As a child, I knew that the God of the Bible was amazing. I saw that He did almost unbelievable things for His people in His Holy Book. I often wondered why I didn’t see the same miracles today as were written in His Word.



THIS IS BY NO MEANS A COMPLETE LIST BUT JUST A SAMPLING OF BIBLICAL MIRACLES:
1. God provided “manna” to the Israelites                                                                                 Exodus 16:4
2.  God in person appeared to Abraham to inform him                                                            Genesis 18:17-33
3.  God also told Abram that Sarah would have a baby                                                             Genesis 18:1-15
4.  There were many appearances of angels                                (Too many references to list here. Another lesson.)
5.  Angels brought provisions to Elijah while sleeping                                                               I Kings 19:6
6. God fed Elijah via birds at the Cherith Brook                                                                          I Kings 17:6
7.  Elijah and Enoch were taken into the sky without dying                                         II Kings 2:11 & Gen. 5:24

8.  Widow’s jars overflow with oil and flour continually during famine                                I Kings 17:12-14

9.  Elijah was able to see beyond the earthly realm                                                                  II Kings 6:17

10. Elijah was able to see Gehazi his servant from afar                                                            II Kings 5:23

11. God instructed Moses to strike the rock to get water                                           Exodus 17:8; Numbers 20

12.  Twice apostles were freed miraculously from jail                                                  Acts 5:19-22; Acts 16:26

13.  Lazarus came back to life, as did the little girl, and boy            John 11:5; 12:9/I Kings 17:20/Luke 8:52

14. Young men taunting, possibly attacking Elijah, were attacked by a bear after Elisha cursed them.   II Kings 2:23-24  

15. Elisha’s bones were so filled with God’s power they raise others                        II Kings 13:2

16. Jesus and Peter walked on water                                                                               Matthew 14:29

17. Jonah lived 3 days in a whale then was spat up alive                                              Jonah 1:17 & 2:10

18. The Lord advised Joseph in dreams                                                                           Matthew 1:20 & 2:13 & 19

19. Daniel subdued lions while in their den                                                                    Daniel 6:16-24

20. Three young men withstood a fiery furnace                                                             Daniel 3:6-26



The Baptist church we attended said, “Oh such miracles are not for today. They were only for the days of old, before Jesus Christ came, died on the cross and rose.” They always taught that miracles ended then. But some of those pastors skipped over certain KEY passages in their Bibles. Or perhaps because they weren’t experiencing God’s dynamic power in their ministries, perhaps because they didn’t know how to access it, they conveniently rationalized that they could not, or would not even try.

But my childlike mind reasoned, “Why would God stop?”

And my Bible must have read differently than theirs. Because my Bible said in Hebrews 13:8:
               “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.”

So according to my childish logic, I reasoned that if God was the same yesterday, today and forever, than He must still act in miraculous ways. And if Jesus Himself, said:

And these signs shall follow them that believe; in MY NAME shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues, …they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

And in Mark  16:20, “And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the Word with signs following. Amen.”

Again, my Bible must have been published for me only, or perhaps the words disappeared when they tried to read them in their Bibles, because mine said:

“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.”  
In Matthew 10:8, and again in Luke 9:2 and 10:9.

But my child-like mind reasoned, if the Church is teaching us to “become disciples”, and Jesus told us to do these things, why would God stop, and therefore make it impossible for us to do what He had commanded us to do? It didn’t make sense at all.

In another location, my Bible read, AND STILL DOES TODAY, “I changeth not”. (Malachi 3:6.) 

According to my childish logic, if He had not changed, then intuitively His power and ability had not changed either. So what was stopping Him from producing the same miracles now as He had done in the past? But the church could not give me the answers I searched for. So I looked in other directions.  It took me on a long journey through the years, where the Lord and I had both highs and lows in our relationship. But thank God His will and power prevailed in my life, and I can truly say that I understand much more today than I did as a child. God has answered my prayers for understanding.

But what of the many people sitting in churches who have been told by their elders that God does not or cannot do the same miracles today? The leaders have sent their church members off on a wild goose chase, trying to satisfy their hunger for the supernatural and for God, through the occult, and all the mysterious occultic offerings the world has today. These same pastors will be held accountable for falsely teaching the followers of Christ that their Bible was not true.

Cris Putman, in his scholarly book, “The Supernatural Worldview” writes on page 115:
       “…a large part of Western evangelism doesn’t believe the Holy Spirit is actively revealing Himself, as reported in the New Testament, through speaking in tongues, healing by the laying on of hands, and prophetic utterances. Although these gifts are described as ongoing, unbelief has been baptized as cessation theology – the threefold idea that (1) the Holy Spirit’s purpose for ‘sign gifts’ was finished in the first century; (2) the sign gifts were given exclusively to the original twelve apostles, so that the sign gifts and apostleship are inextricably linked; and (3) the gift of apostleship no longer exists. The most often-cited proof text is: ‘Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part”. (I Corinthians 13:8-9). According to cessationists, the ‘perfect’ to the New Testament implying that, upon the closing of the canon, the sign-gifts cease. However, this is a far-fetched twisting of Scripture, as ‘the perfect’ more likely denotes the return of Christ…"

In my attempts to educate myself regarding the supernatural, as a child, there was no material I could find on God or Christians outside of the Bible, which described Christians in modern days experiencing supernatural events. Of course that was the days before the internet.

There was one book though, that my aunt gave my mother when I was ten years old. It was called, “They Speak With Other Tongues”, by John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill’s husband. She was the editor of Guideposts Magazine for many years. This book alone, was a key in my journey.
       http://www.amazon.com/dp/0800793595/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=3489035447&ref=pd_sl_4m40bpzrgl_e                                                                                              

But I kept asking, “What was stopping God?” NOTHING CAN STOP GOD!

 Then the fault must lie with men. Wait a minute! Doesn’t the Bible say that Jesus didn’t do miracles in HIS OWN TOWN because there wasn’t enough faith there? So the faith levels in his hometown were very low, just as the faith levels in my hometown were also extremely low. So despite the fact that I cherish the memories of my faithful Sunday School teachers who gave me a solid foundation in Biblical teachings, I still wondered why no churches around were supernatural. Where were the miracles?

The Word of God says, Jesus didn’t do miracles in his home region because, “No prophet is accepted in his own ‘country’. (Luke 4:24 KJV). Because they had seen Jesus grown up as a child their lack of faith levels surrounding Jesus apparently limited what He was able or willing to do. He works in coordination with our FAITH.

In OUR OWN COUNTRY, the United States, in the embodiment of the majority of Christian Believers across the USA – He has been limited by their LACK OF FAITH. That’s why so many people are sitting in churches sick, burdened, mentally ill, demon possessed, marriages dissolving, people dying on drugs and alcohol.  And the dry, dull teachers of pastors, who are not themselves on fire for God, don’t have faith to believe for miracles. So they turn it around on the Lord because of their own lack of faith. They say, “Oh, God doesn’t do that anymore.” I SAY LET GOD BE GOD!


SO LET ME ASK THE QUESTION AGAIN – WHY ARE CHRISTIANS SO AFRAID OF THE SUPERNATURAL?

A.    Because they don’t know their God, whom they say they serve. If not, then WHO ARE THEY SERVING?

B.    Because they don’t know God’s Word, and what it says. They rely on leaders to “spoon-feed” them, and neglect learning and studying the Bible.

C.    They don’t want to commit themselves. They are afraid they might have to give up something. Belief in a supernatural God, whether you believe in God Almighty, (as a Christian), or you instead serve the devil as a witch, wizard, vampire wannabe, Goth, or any other supernatural entity –REQUIRES SOME KIND OF COMMITMENT!

D.    It also requires an acknowledgement of a world beyond this one. 

Quantum physicists with their realization that there are other dimensions beyond this one, most recently evidenced by string theory, which implies 10 or even 11 dimensions, existing side by side or "parallel" with each other, brings us back to the spiritual reality that what we see is not all of that which makes up reality. In fact many scientists also hold the viewpoint that we actually live in a holographic universe.) This would mean that we are simply a holographic projection of some greater reality. This then, also requires an acknowledgement of one’s MORTALITY.




E. They don’t want to change or be changed. Change is often scary to most people. 

And so many people often stick to their old tried and true ways even though those ways do not help them at all. The comfort of something familiar is all that they really have. But through the ages, the Lord sometimes varies His methods of reaching people. He is above all else creative. Over the decades Waves of His Holy Spirit have moved over the ocean of His people, stirring them in new eras in mighty outpourings that produced different outcomes.

The Protestant Reformation is just one major example of how God turned a situation around in order for more of common humanity to understand and reach out to Him. Over centuries the Catholic Church leaders had consolidated information among themselves and spoon-fed it to the people, for profit. The common man didn’t even have access to the scriptures. The priests were the arbitrary guides to the Catholic person’s soul, unlike the order the Bible proclaims. God wanted the scriptures and Himself to be accessible to everyone. Hence the “Ninety-Five Theses” Martin Luther nailed to the All-Saints Church door, in Wittenberg, Germany 1517.

The Gutenburg press helped to put the Word of God into the hands of the common people, a miracle in itself!

Thus, although the Catholic Church remains a bastion of often-outdated traditions, another whole group of Christians – the Protestants – have sprung up, making God real to the people. Millions of denominations and churches have spawned from that one-act of a Holy Spirit inspired man.

Fast forward down through the centuries. We cannot forget the Azusa Street revival, the true beginning of the modern Pentecostal movement, in 1906, which came about through a group of young people praying fervently in California. Please click the link below to watch a dynamic video about William Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPm980ATPa4   AN AMAZING DOCUMENTARY YOU WON”T WANT TO MISS!

Wikipedia says about the Azusa phenomena, “Today there are more than 500 million Pentecostal and Charismatic believers across the globe, and it is the fastest growing form of Christianity today. The Azusa Street Revival is commonly regarded as the beginning of the modern day Pentecostal movement.”

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival

 God blessed His TRUTH-SEEKING people, from Azusa Street Pentecostalism to the modern Charismatic movement, which gained momentum in the late 1960’s. The many freedom-loving, hippie youth who had been “turned on” by drugs and free sex crashed into the reality of the dark side of those excesses. When many tired of those ancient reality-escapes, they realized that true freedom comes from Jesus Christ and following after him.

 Chuck Smith out on the West Coast started up the Calvary Chapel Churches. He played an important role in the evangelical movement in the past century. According to Ed Stetzer in a Christianity Today article, 
Simply put it is hard to overstate the significance of Calvary Chapel in re-mapping Protestantism, particularly evangelism.”

Ed Stetzer, citing Donald Miller’s scholarly book, “Reinventing American Protestanism”, “Calvary Chapel helped birth and shape a movement”.



     
REASONS WHY, CONTINUED…

F.   They are afraid to get into “DEEP WATERS” with God. They are afraid they might drown in Him. When really - He is their LIFE-SAVER.

G.  Afraid it would upset their “solid tradition”. Well this is the way grandpa and great grandma worshiped. Why should we ever accept anything different? Why? Because Grandma and Grandpa may have missed an awful lot!

H.  They think all supernatural is bad. They are afraid of the very WORD “supernatural”.

I.  They mistakenly think all supernatural events come from the “dark side”.

J. They limit God because they have limited imaginations and low expectations of Him.

K.  They are afraid of “signs and wonders”. Better get used to them Church/World!

L.  They think they’ll be labelled “odd” or ‘fanatics’.

M. They believe the mistaken notion that “Religion leads to insanity”.


WE NEED THE SUPERNATURAL ASSISTANCE OF GOD TO FACE THE SUPERNATURAL FORCES DRIVING HARD AGAINST CHRISTIANITY TODAY!

If you try to take the supernatural out of God, then you no longer have THE GOD OF THE BIBLE. God HAS ALWAYS BEEN SUPERNATURAL.

Over thousands of years He has done supernatural acts, to, for and with His people. Some of His people, those very close to Him, have performed supernatural acts by HIS Power, in both the Old and New Testaments. Those who believe His Word continue to impart healing to others by way of Christ’s power.

If you take away the supernatural from the God depicted in the Torah (Old Testament), and the New Testament, you have basically castrated God. You have declared him impotent.

If you go to church every Sunday, sing the same old hymns, DO THE SAME OLD THINGS, hear the same sermons, or the same theme preached over and over again, UNLESS THAT THEME IS GOD’S LOVE, then you are imagining and worshipping a God you have contrived in your brain, or by your Church’s teachings – BECAUSE THAT GOD HAS NO REAL POWER.

Even if your church preaches the “SALVATION” message, but NO ONE EVER CHANGES. And you hear the same old gossip Sunday after Sunday. Girls and women wear the same breast-baring outfits, and everyone and everything remains the same, to hang onto the same old status quo…you have been worshiping a God whom you have falsely assumed to be of very little power.

If you have a preacher saying “Miracles are not for today”, or “Healing is not for today”, that leader is not only robbing God, but he is also robbing you. He contradicts God’s Word, the Bible. And that same minister is effectively STEALING YOUR HEALING.

The Lord Himself says in Malachi 3:6, “For I am the Lord, I CHANGE NOT; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”

He may work in different ways, in different “movements” down through the millennia. But if anything, these “moves” of God are intended to MOVE you closer to Him.

Joel 2:28-31 says, “And it shall come to pass afterwards, that I shall pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids. In those days I will pour out my Spirit. And I will show wonders in the heavens and the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.”

And again in the New Testament Acts 2:16 through 21 reiterates this same passage, indicating that the initial outpouring of Pentecost immediately began after Christ’s disappearing into heaven, with a promise of His Return. However, we are now in the time period when these signs in the heavens are about to occur. This means that the generation we now live in, are living in the last days immediately preceding THE RETURN of Jesus Christ.

In fact, a large majority of Bible scholars fix 1948 as the beginning of the generation on Earth who will live to see His Return. Whether that is 70 or one hundred years - it means the same thing. The time is CLOSE. 

This all revolves around God’s prophetic timetable and His dealing with Israel and the Jewish people as a re-birthed nation, at its reconstitution in 1948. Scholars agree that the passage in the New Testament which speaks of Israel as the fig tree branches bring forth fruit, or coming into its “season”, its own, so to speak, is the sign that we shall see the widely acknowledged Return of Christ in the sky, the same way as He left.

       “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is night”. Matthew 24”32 KJV

      “…which also said, ‘Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye staring up onto Heaven? This SAME Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall SO COME IN LIKE MANNER as ye have seen HIM GO INTO HEAVEN”. Acts 1:11 KJV

If your church leaders are not preaching or teaching about the End of Times as declared throughout the Bible then they have totally missed the boat! They have been blinded by the deception rampant in this time period.

For we are in THE LAST DAYS BEFORE CHRIST’S RETURN, as described in many, many Bible prophecies. You need to know the truth about what is going to happen! And if you think the book series “LEFT BEHIND” has laid out the complete and true course of events then you are wrong. If you rely on fairy tales told by men and NOT on what the Word of God says about the Last Days, then you will be sorely disappointed. 
                                                                    www.leftbehind.com

You will have to rely on the true, SUPERNATURAL GOD of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, in order to overcome the challenges ahead.

Our God, Jehovah, Yahweh, King of Kings, Prince of Peace, Mighty Counselor, Almighty God - is the one you will need to rely on, to protect and provide for you and your family in the coming days.   (Isaiah 9:6.)

So you HAVE to realize that we serve a SUPERNATURAL GOD, and His ways are higher than ours. But if you know the Bible, the Word of God, and not just THINK you know, but really search out the scriptures and get to know the Living God for yourself, then you will be on your way to encountering His supernatural power.

By all means, if you are already a Christian do yourself a HUGE favor and ask the Lord for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Yes, you received the "deposit" of His Spirit. But why not go all out and learn to walk filled with HIM?

Only HE has the power to cleanse men’ and women’s hearts and minds. Only He has the ability to move mountains, calm the seas, heal the sick, know men’s minds and thoughts, raise the dead. Yet if you are fully partnered with Him, and yielded to his Holy Spirit by His Power, you will be able to do these same things.Only because HIS POWER WILL BE FLOWING THROUGH YOU! 

 HIS WORD COMMANDS IT! DEMANDS THAT HIS FOLLOWERS DUPLICATE HIS ACTS! ARE YOU A TRUE DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST? FIND YOUR S-U-P-E-R-N-A-T-U-R-A-L IN HIM!

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