FLATLINED

       

   Jesus said, "Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. 
   Pilate saith unto him, What is truth."  (John 18: 37, 38)
   Jesus never answered.    
    Whether Pilate was interested in knowing the truth, or whether he was mocking the Lord, we know not.
   Turning to the Jews, Pilate said, "I find no fault in him at all."
   But a  short time after saying those words, however, Pilate's heart flatlined.  There he stood face to face with the Son of God and his heart for the truth died within him.
   Judas Iscariot went to church with Jesus for three years, sat on the pews and heard Jesus preach, and watched as Jesus performed miracles in front of his eyes.  But on the night before Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem, the heart of Judas Iscariot died within him.  For as Judas was celebrating the Passover meal with Jesus and the other disciples, as soon as Judas took his first bite of food, "Satan entered him".  (John 13: 27)
   Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life:  no man cometh to the Father, but by me."  (John 14: 6)
   How many people are like Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot?  How many, like Pilate, work for a government, and how many, like Judas, go to church?  But when confronted with the truth of the Word of the Lord, what do they do?  Do they awaken to "walk in newness of life" (Romans 6: 4), or do they continue to sit on the pews like Judas?---"Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." (2nd Timothy 3: 5) 
   How many churches have also flatlined?  We know this is true by the fact that more than three hundred Protestant denominations have betrayed Christ to join the World Religion that will arise in Jerusalem in September, 2016.  As long as they remain on the pews, like Judas, instead of standing with Christ, their hearts have flatlined.
   Jesus also said,
      "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."  (Matthew 7: 15)
   Even now, there are false prophets among us, for we now know that Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Nick Hall, Kenneth Copeland, and T. D. Jakes have met with Pope Francis and agreed to lead their congregations and followers to this World Religion that will arise in Jerusalem next month.
   For these men, their hearts have flatlined, and they are leading their followers to embrace Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Witchcraft, which is the hidden religion  within this World Religion.  In truth, these men are leading people to meet Lucifer  face to face in Jerusalem, which is the exact place where Jesus was crucified for the sins of the world.
   Writing this post today has been difficult for me to do, for I know that my heart could have also flatlined years ago, so that today I could easily be one in that number which is heading to Jerusalem next month to meet Lucifer. But God, who is rich in mercy and grace, gave me the strength and the wisdom to kneel to Him and accept the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Thus, I have learned that when God's Word strikes the hearts of people, something truly amazing happens---or, as Jesus said,
      "He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."  (John 7: 38)

I SHALL KNOW HIM

   There will come a day when all electronic communicational systems will cease worldwide.  This includes the internet, cell phones, iPhones, and land lines.  Debit cards and credit cards will be useless, and there will be no cash money. 
   In that day, all properties will become the properties of the state, or the world government, and there will be no emergency services such as ambulances or police.
   People, too, will become property of the state, along with their possessions, including their homes and vehicles.
   Law will be enforced by a global military, and freedom of speech and freedom of travel will be revoked. 
   In that day, people worldwide will be slaves of the state, dominated and controlled by the world government.  If people resist, they will be escorted to concentration camps for imprisonment, torture, rape, beheadings, and drugs experimentations.     
   All of this, of course, sounds like a script for a Hollywood movie, but the Bible has been warning us of this time for more than two thousand years, and that day is at hand:  it could begin at any month, or any day.  All systems necessary for implementation are now in place and ready to go.
   BILLIONS OF PEOPLE TODAY ARE LIVING AS IF GOD DOES NOT EXIST.
   "And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  (2nd Thessalonians 2: 11-12)
TRIB-U-LA-TION:  a cause of great trouble or suffering:  misery, wretchedness, unhappiness, sadness, pain, anguish, agony, travail, trauma.
   Jesus said,
      "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:  for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."  (Luke 21: 25-26)
   During the tribulation (and because of the "strong delusion" sent by God) people will be unable to discern the difference between right and wrong, truth and lies, or good and evil:  and the whole earth will be consumed with violence. 
   As it was in the days of Noah before the flood, so shall it be during the tribulation. 
   As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be during the tribulation.
   Even now, there are wars and rumors of wars upon the earth. 
   Terrorism is a war that is going global, and nations like Iran, Turkey, Syria, North Korea, Russia, and China are itching to launch World War III, thereby producing a nuclear holocaust.
   There will be no end of the madness that is arising upon the earth, for out of this chaos and disorder, Witchcraft will stand up to be the dominate religion, fueled by the ingestion of mind-altering drugs. 
   At the end of the tribulation and on a certain day, Christ will return from Heaven:  and we have these promises given to us in the Holy Bible:
      "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him:  and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.  Even so, Amen."  (Revelation 1: 7)
      "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall me:  but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."  (1st John 3: 2)

"I Shall Know Him" was written by Fanny Crosby in 1891 and is performed in this video by The Mullins.

     

THE FOURTH MAN

   God revealed the truth of Christ to Pontius Pilate in a note from his wife, saying to him:  

   "Have nothing to do with that just man:  for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."  (Matthew 27: 19)

   But Pilate rejected the truth from God and said,

      "away with him".

   For more than two thousand years, God has been revealing the truth of Christ in the Holy Bible, to which many people have accepted from God while many others have rejected Christ like Pontius Pilate.

   "GOD, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

    Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

    Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, whom he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

    Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 

    For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?  And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to be a Son?"  (Hebrews 1: 1-5)
   Judas Iscariot was next to turn his face against Christ.  He went to church with Jesus for three years, and all he did was sit on the pew and watch as Jesus preached, and he also watched as Jesus performed miracles in front of his eyes.  He barked when he saw Mary washing the feet of Jesus with a costly ointment, "Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?",  he asked.  Three hundred pence was a year's wage, and Judas saw the ointment being wasted on the feet of Jesus.  But Judas never opened his heart to Jesus, then sold his soul to the devil for thirty pieces of silver, which was the exact price paid to the master of a slave.  And after betraying the Lord, Judas committed suicide and went to hell.
   The third man was a thief and he was crucified on a cross next to Jesus; and said to the Lord:  "If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us."  Clearly, this man's only interest was in himself, to be spared from death, but not for his future beyond the grave.
   But the fourth man was different.  He, too, was a thief and was crucified on the other side of Jesus, so that Jesus was between them.  Speaking to the third man, "Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?  And we justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds:  but this man hath done nothing amiss."  Turning to Jesus, he said, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom."  To which Jesus responded, "Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." 
   Three years later, Pilate was removed by Caesar from his position as Governor of Judea; thereafter, his life is a mystery.  Historians are not sure if Pilate was exiled to an island by Caesar, or if he committed suicide in a river.
    Four men met Jesus, but only one believed in the Lord and received salvation for his soul.


(Scripture verses from Luke's Gospel, chapter 23)

 

                                                                                                                                          

THE CLINTON PLANTATION

The Clinton Plantation, Chappaqua, New York

    Hillary Clinton claims to be the champion for women and children, here in the United States and abroad.  At least that's how she paints herself on an easel.  And at least that's the way the people who follow her believe as they sit on the floor and admire her portrait:   the image of an all-caring, all-giving woman, the personification of everything a woman ought to be.  To them, there is none other person in the world like Hillary Clinton.  People in American ghettos believe that, and so do the Democratic politicians in Washington, the richest and most famous celebrities in Hollywood, and the richest and most powerful men and women in the world:  Presidents, Kings, Queens, Prime Ministers, Princes, Dictators, and, of course, friendly Bankers.  In their own minds, surely all of these people must be right, for they gladly give her their votes as they just as gladly give her their money:  and Hillary, just as gladly, accepts both.
   Hillary knows what she is, the people giving her money in exchange for tricks know what she is, and the voters don't care.  To them, she is the golden calf of American politics---perfect in all her ways and certainly not a sinner.
   But as an advocate for women and children, what exactly has she done for women and children?
   There are suffering children all across America, but where is Hillary:  to stand for them, or to plead their case? 
   There are suffering women all across America, but where is Hillary:  to stand for them, or to plead their case?
   Human trafficking of women and children is big business across America, but where is Hillary:  to stand for them, or to plead their case?
   Likewise, there are suffering women and children worldwide, but where is Hillary:  to stand for them, or to plead their case? 
   Historically, we know that slave owners live in extravagant manors high upon hills to look down at their servants in the fields, or to keep a watchful eye on their concubines. 
   The Clinton Plantation is on a hill, not far from the ghettos of New York City, where women and children are suffering from abusive relationships and drug-induced prostitution.  But where is Hillary:  to stand for them, or to plead their case? 
   Certainly, Hillary Clinton is not solely responsible for all of the suffering of women and children, but it would be fair to say, however, that she is the epitome of it:  for even the richest people giving her money do not stand for women or children, or plead their cases; for they simply close their eyes to the suffering of people at the bottom of the hills, from the balconies of their estates, and neither do they care.  They get in their cars and drive on by---"To the airport, please"---and fly away until the next money drop.
   Their goal, of course, is to keep people living on plantations, in ghettos and squalid living conditions, while continuing to dangle a carrot in front of their noses, which deceives them to believe that they will one day exit the gates of freedom that leads to better jobs, better educations, and greater things in life---but if and only if the slaves will vote for them and give them money; and while the rich get richer, the slaves remain on the plantations, because the carrot never moves. This lie has worked for hundreds of years and it still works today.  For some unknown reason, however, the slaves keep believing in the promises, over and over again.
   Hillary Clinton is immune  to pain and suffering.  She keeps herself isolated and insulated, being carefully sanitized  for fear from even touching  needful people.  Her only friends are the rich and famous as she looks down her nose from her plantation balcony at all the slaves in the field:  desiring their votes, and, of course, their money.
   Judas Iscariot also loved money.
      "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"  (Mark 8: 36-37)


  


WOMEN: WHY?

      "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."  (Genesis 1: 27)


   If you ever read parts of the Qur'an of Islam, you will learn that Allah has nothing good to say about women; in fact, the only woman mentioned by name in the Qur'an is Mary, the mother of Jesus.  Other than that, not one name of a woman is written, not even the names of the wife or female children of Mohammad the prophet of Islam.
   To Allah, women are as nothing.  They are to be no more than slaves of men, to be used and abused as men desire, and even to be hanged or beheaded by the authority of men.  Women have no civil or religious rights, no right for an attorney, and even the police will not stop men from abusing them or killing them.
   We know that the World Religion will gather in Jerusalem next month, and we know that Islam is the third leg of a tripod---along with Catholicism and Judaism---that will hold all other world religions together under the authority of Pope Francis.
   But let us be clear at this time and very honest:  Allah is just another name for Satan.
   So the question of the day is this:
      Why would women of the Catholic Church, or women of all Protestant denominations that are moving toward Jerusalem, choose to remain as followers of this World Religion, knowing the history of Islam?  For even this World Religion will be a system dominated by men, where women will have no seat at the table.  They will be used and abused in the future just as they are used and abused now.
   Women, you are better than this! 
   You are created in the image of God and not in the image of Allah. 
   For women hold a special place in the heart of God as well in the heart of Christ our Lord.
   It was a woman named Mary, who anointed Jesus with oil.
   It was the woman at the well, whom Jesus had compassion, after which she became an evangelist, ran to town and brought men to Jesus, and saying, "is not this the Christ?"  (John 4: 29)
   It was Mary and Martha and their brother Lazarus of Bethany who were special friends of Jesus, and Jesus was a frequent quest in their home when the Lord was near Jerusalem.
   It was Claudia Procula, the wife of Pontius Pilate, who became a disciple of Jesus after the Lord's crucifixion.
   It was a group of women, and not men (other than John), who remained at the cross of Jesus while the Lord bled and died.
   It was Mary Magdelene, who was the first witness at the empty tomb of Jesus, who ran and "told the disciples that she had seen the Lord."  (John 20: 18)
   It was Mary, the mother of Jesus, who was praying in the upper room with 120 disciples on the Day of Pentecost, where "they were all with one accord in one place".  (Acts 2: 1)
   It was Fanny Crosby, 1820-1915, who wrote more than a thousand hymns for the Lord, and Fanny Crosby was blind.
   Throughout the Bible, there are hundreds and hundreds of names of women, who have done some great and marvelous works for God:  and God remembers them, each and every one. 
   But God also knows that women like deals, and there is no better deal than Christ the Lord.
   Knowing this, women can be assured that they will have a seat at the table of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (see Revelation 19: 6-9). 
      "Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."  (Romans 8: 37-39)

JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM

"Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.  Who is this King of glory?  The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.  Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.  Who is this King of glory?  The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory."  (Psalm 24: 7-10)

T MINUS 30 DAYS

   The World Religion that will arise in Jerusalem next month will be void of the love of God because it is void of the knowledge of God.  It will be a religion of evil, and the earth will be filled with violence.
   Yeshua HaMashiach  is Hebrew, which means, "Jesus the Messiah".
   As this world religion gathers in Jerusalem next month, the Jews of Judaism will not say, "Yeshua HaMashiach",  because these Jews have rejected Christ, just as Pope Francis and all of the leaders of all the religions have rejected Christ, and the love of God, therefore, does not abide in their hearts.
   We have thirty days before this religion arises from the launching pad in Jerusalem and fills the earth with violence.
   This has happened before.
   Remember Noah's flood?
      "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."  (Genesis 6: 5-6)
   Then the Lord added,
      "for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." (Genesis 6:21)
   But also, do you remember the Tower of Babel?
      "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the earth.
        And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 
        And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they all have one language; and this they begin to do:  and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
        So the LORD scattered them from thence upon the face of all the earth:  and they left off to build the city."  (Genesis 11: 4-8)
   Interestingly, when this World Religion gathers in Jerusalem next month, they will celebrate at a place called the Tower of David.
   Moreover, do you also remember Sodom and Gomorrah?
      "And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
         Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and that which grew upon the ground; the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace."  (Genesis 18: 20-21; 19: 24-25; 28)
      "SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOETH FORTH OUT OF MY MOUTH:  IT SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID, BUT IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH I PLEASE, AND IT SHALL PROSPER IN THE THING WHERETO I SENT IT."  (Isaiah 55: 11)
   Yes, God is love, and, yes, God is gracious and merciful; but what people need to understand is that God is serious  about those things He says He will do, for "God is angry with the wicked every day."  (Psalm 7: 11)
    Therefore, we should be able to understand and know that this World Religion that will gather in Jerusalem next month is a wicked thing, and God's judgment will surely fall upon it.
    We have but a short time before this wicked religion arises in Jerusalem, and the time on the clock is T Minus 30 Days and counting.  What will people do between today and the end of September, 2016?  Will they continue to follow its evil ways, or will they come out of it and follow Christ the Lord?
     "Make a joyful unto the LORD, all ye lands.  Serve the LORD with gladness:  come before his presence with singing.  Know ye that the LORD he is God:  it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.  Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise:  be thankful unto him, and bless his name.  For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations."  (Psalm 100: 1-5)

     

PARENTS: PRIESTS OF GOD

      "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."  (Hosea 6: 4)


   What  knowledge?
   The knowledge of God.
   If parents do not teach their children about God, it is doubtful that their children will ever come to know God in their lifetimes. 
   For if God is not important in the homes of parents, God will not likely be important in the homes of their children.
   And if God is not good enough for parents, why should God be good enough for their children?
   If the knowledge of God never becomes the knowledge of parents, the knowledge of God will not likely become the knowledge of their children.
   If God has been treated as a stranger in the homes of parents, God will likely be treated as a stranger in the homes of their children.
   Yes, parents can teach their children about Santa Claus and green trees, the Easter Bunny and colored eggs, Jack-o'-lanterns and spooks, Saint Patrick's Day and getting drunk on green beer, Mardi Gras and dancing in the streets, baseball, hot dogs, movies, music, cars, and birthday cakes. 
   Yes, parents can teach their kids everything in the world, and all the children will have when they leave home is the knowledge of the world:  and God will be no more than a stranger among them, for their minds are void of the knowledge of God.
   Not once did the parents ever say to them,
       "God is love."  (1st John 4: 8)
   Along the way, however, some children are taught a little bit about infant baptism and how the water washes away their sins; and, in some cultures, children are taught to kill animals as blood sacrifices to their gods for their sins.  Both will therefore believe they are on their way to paradise, or heaven, because of religious rituals taught to them by their parents, which they will believe until the day they die. 
  Water, however,  is void of the love of God because water is also void of the knowledge of God.
   Religion, also, is void of the love of God because religion is void of the knowledge of God.
   For example, the World Religion that is rising in Jerusalem in September, 2016, will be void of the love of God because it is void of the knowledge of God.  Therefore, this World Religion will be a religion of evil:  and the whole earth will be filled with violence.
   When parents receive the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, they become priests of God, teaching their children the knowledge of God.  But when God is a stranger in the lives of parents, God will also be a stranger in the lives of their children:  at which time evil will find them and destroy them---which is why God says,
      "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:  because thou has 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.  As they were increased, they sinned against me:  therefore will I change their glory into shame."  (Hosea 4: 6-7)
   All across the earth today, there is a war against children.  Now we know why.  Because parents have neglected God, they have also neglected their children. 

POPE FRANCIS

Pope Francis gives Satanic hand sign.

   Do the Catholic people know that Pope Francis has abandoned traditional Catholicism and is now the leader of a World Religion? 
   Are traditional Catholics continuing to worship in their local parishes as if everything is normal, but without knowing the intention of Pope Francis and the Vatican? 
   If this is true, then Pope Francis has tricked his own people:  that, by their acceptance of Pope Francis without question, then they are also accepting everything he does---even without their knowledge, which is a work of deception.
  In September, 2016, the greatest event of the 21st Century will take place in Jerusalem as Pope Francis gathers religions worldwide in one place to create one religion:  including Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and a host of devilish, Satanic religions, and some that include the blood sacrifices of animals.
   Does it not seem strange that Islam and Judaism will gather under one roof and worship together?  We know that, throughout history, Muslims hate Jews and Jews know they are hated by Muslims.  Is this the time they will now unite, kiss and make up?
   Does it not also seem strange to the Catholic people that Pope Francis will be there with Muslims, Jews, and Satanists?   Isn't Pope Francis considered to be the leader of the Catholic Church, which, to them, is supposed to be about Christ and not about Satan?
   Yes, he is.  So it should be clear that Pope Francis is an imposter, a false prophet, for we know that Christ will not be included in this all-inclusive World Religion that will emerge in Jerusalem in September.
   Jesus said,
      "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."  (Matthew 7: 15)
   Since Christ will not be represented in Jerusalem next month, what is this event all about? 
   It is all about the exaltation of Lucifer. 
   This World Religion is a false religion because it is not about God, not about Christ, and not about the Holy Bible, and none of it is holy:  for all of it is an abomination in the eyes of God.
   Still, God is merciful and God is gracious, and He gives a plea to people in this false religion, or false church:
     "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities."  (Revelation 18: 4-5)
   But Jesus has something else to say about this matter:
      "I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan."  (Revelation 2: 9)
   Therefore, we should be able to understand and to admit that this World Religion is none other than the Synagogue of Satan.
   For it was in Jerusalem where our Lord was crucified and arose from death, and by hosting this World Religion in Jerusalem is mockery of God---while none of the gods and goddesses that will be represented in the Synagogue of Satan have arisen from death. 
      "If my people, which are called by my name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."  (2nd Chronicles 7: 14)
   God is good.  All the time.
   All the time.  God is good.
     










I'M NOT NORMAL

   I wrote the following script over thirty years ago, and maybe it is just as appropriate today as it was back then:
      Look into the mirror
         tell me what I see:
      am I me,
         or am I someone else?
     I've been on the high road
        looking for the sea:
     it is there
        and I am here with me.
   I'm not normal and I will admit it.  For if I were normal, I would be like you; and if you believe you are normal, you will be like me.
         And if I am like you, and you like me
         then we have lost our i-den-ti-ty.
   From living in this world, our minds have been conditioned to be like the world.  To dress as others dress, walk as others walk, to do and believe as others do and believe, and even to think as others think. 
   According to the world, we are to be one and all-inclusive.   For if we are different, we are considered as odd balls, or strange, and we simply do not get in and fit in with others around us.  We are not supposed  to be different.  We are not supposed  to think for ourselves, or to make up our minds, or to make our own decisions. 
   If we follow the script that the world has written in our minds, then we should be able to look in the mirror and see somebody else!
   As believers in Christ, however, we are, indeed, expected to be different.
      "Wherefore come out from them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."  (2nd Corinthians 6: 17-18)
      "And be not conformed to this world:  but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God."  (Romans 12: 2)
      "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"  (2nd Corinthians 10: 5)
      "But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."  (2nd Peter 3: 18)
   It is not always easy to walk with Lord, to learn of Him, and to pattern our lives after Him. 
   It is not always easy to be different than the world, for in so doing we are going against the grain of the world since we are not going in the way the world is going.
   It is not always easy to know that we are considered odd and strange, and to know that others talk about us behind our backs. 
   To us, it is the world  that is now odd and strange.
   The world does not understand us because the world does not understand Christ. 
   The world, in fact, is going the wrong way.
   As a Christian, my identity  is now with Christ and not with the world; and though I am no longer normal in the world, I am very normal with Christ.
      "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:  therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:  but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."  (1st John 3: 1-2)
  
  
     
     

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   " I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.  For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."    
 (Holy Bible:  1st Timothy 1: 1-6)

MY NAME IS "Idiot"




"Death and life are in the power of the tongue:  and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."  (Proverbs 18: 21)

    "The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof:  the world, and they that dwell therein."  (Psalm 24: 1)
   Yet today the earth is the most violent planet in the universe, and this is all because of humans, who have turned their faces against God.
   So much, in fact,
                  humans fear humans
                  more than humans fear animals;
                  and animals fear humans
                  more than animals fear animals.
    In Hot Springs, Arkansas, police responded to the child abuse of a four-year-old child.  "The little girl was bruised so badly she had black eyes, dried blood in the corner of her mouth and deep purple bruises all over her body."  (CNN, 8-19-16) 

     When police asked the little girl her name, she responded:  "Idiot".
    In the United States and all around the earth, women and children are under attack by evil people:  treating them as no more than punching bags, and using them as no more than pawns of commerce for sex and prostitution in exchange for money, or drugs, and families will trade their women and children for a few head of cattle or goats.  To these evil lords, women and children are no less than animals in the barnyard, being held as hostages for personal and financial gain.
   Violence against women and children is terrorism!   It is a war that they will never win:  in the face of evil men, they are helpless and hopeless, with no place to run and no place to hide.  Even now, millions of women and children worldwide are in the crosshairs of death and destruction by evil people.
   Knowing this is true, we can easily understand why:
      "God is angry with the wicked every day.  If he turns not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bows, and made it ready.  He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors."  (Psalm 7: 11-13)
   Meanwhile, governments and religions have chosen to close their eyes and ears to the cries of women and children, preferring instead to paint their eyelids with rainbows:  while others, like Hillary Clinton, who brags about being a hero as an advocate for women and children, has never lost a minute of sleep while rolling in bed with the richest men in the world.
   Yes, God is merciful and God is gracious, but God has also drawn a line in the sand, at which time He will take no more of the evil that is upon the earth, for Judgment Day is on the way.
      "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness:  because that which may be known of God is manifested in them; for God hath shown it unto them."  (Romans 1: 18-19)
      "Even so, come Lord Jesus."  (Revelation 22: 20)
     

    

     





FISHERS OF MEN

by Mareesha

   "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."  (Matthew 4: 19)


  "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor."  (Ephesians 5: 1-2)


   "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."  (2nd Corinthians 6: 17)


   The Ecumenical Movement is the greatest story of the 21st Century, yet the greatest majority of people on earth do not realize that hundreds of Protestant churches have been mixed with Catholicism as well as mixed with more than a hundred world religions, and that they are now under the spiritual authority of the Vatican. 
   For the past thirty years, this movement has been silently ushering people from all over the world to Rome with such a subtle degree of secrecy that people do not know that this story is being told, written in front of their eyes, nor do they know that they are the characters in the storybook.
   It is doubtful, too, that traditional Catholics were informed of this transitional change from inside the Vatican:  that they have been continually worshipping in their parish churches and living their lives as if everything is normal:  while not knowing that their own Popes have pulled the wool over the eyes, thereby keeping them blinded to the truth:  that the Vatican is now a habitation of devils, a mixture of Satanism, Voodoo, Witchcraft, and the blood sacrifices of animals.   
   As for the Protestant churches that have deserted Christ to join this Ecumenical Movement, they are no longer "fishers of men"  and neither can they be, which Jesus describes to us plainly:
      "I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil:  and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars. 
      "Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love."  (Revelation 2: 2-4)
   Because they have left their first love, they are no longer messengers and ministers of God and Christ, but are now ministers and messengers of Satan.  They are no longer "fishers of men"  for they have returned to the world from which they were rescued.
   Still, God is merciful and God is gracious, and He continues to reach out with His hand of love, saying,
      "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities."  (Revelation 18:  4-5)


  

I, THE LORD

        

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:  if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."  (Revelation 3: 20)
  
 "Let not your heart be troubled:  ye believe in God, believe also in me.  In my Father's house are many mansions:  if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."  (John 14: 1-3)
 
  "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ever-lasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."  (John 3: 16-17)


   "I am crucified with Christ:  nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:  and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."  (Galatians 2: 20)


   "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."  (Romans 8: 38-39)
  
   "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:  and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.  Amen."  (Matthew 28: 19-20)

  

  
  
  




                                                                                    



A TRUMPET WARNING

   Deception operates in slow, subtle, and silent ways.
   A snake is slow, subtle, and silent, and he survives by remaining in darkness.
   A prostitute always dresses up before going to town to open her brothel in darkness.
   Evil always appears as icing on a cake, but the cake is devil's food.
   An owl is wise, yet the owl is a creature of darkness.
   Bats hang in the belfry by day and come out in the darkness.
   The people of Germany were expecting Adolph Hitler to lead them to a new frontier, a new world order, or that Germany would become a utopian kingdom; instead, Hitler led the people to chaos, disorder, and destruction.
   On September 11, 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush gave his "New World Order" speech, but does the world today look like a new world order, or a utopian kingdom?
   When people place their faith in government, they will receive what the government provides; or they will lose what the government takes away.
   When people place their faith in religion, they will receive what the religion provides; or they will lose what the religion takes away.
   The Catholic people have trusted in Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict, and Pope Francis; but the Catholic Church in Rome today is a habitation of devils and evil spirits because these three popes turned their faces against their own Catholicism, and against their own people, and welcomed all of the worlds religions to enter therein---misleading people to believe that they can still be Christians in this system of global Interfaith while not making this transition known to them since 1986.  In other words, these popes have been operating in slow, subtle, and silent ways for thirty years.  In other words, these popes tricked the Catholic people because the people have their faith in the popes.  It is doubtful, therefore, that traditional Catholics never noticed the workings of the popes in the Vatican because they kept their global initiative as silent as possible.
   Not only have the Catholic people been deceived by their popes, but the people of more than three hundred Protestant churches have also been deceived by believing that the world will be a better place if churches unite with the religions of the world under the authority of the Vatican.
   We must remember that Judas Iscariot went to church by day with Jesus for three years, then made a deal with the devil in darkness.
   Judas Iscariot turned his face against Christ and went to hell.  What will happen to the Catholic people if their keep their faith in the popes and in the habitation of devils in the Vatican?  Or what will happen to all of the Protestants who have turned their faces against Christ and have linked themselves with devils of darkness?
   These three popes in the Vatican have produced a beast religion:  a religion that is all-inclusive of all the religious idols of the world, with Satanism, Witchcraft, Voodoo, and animal sacrifices.  Worse than this, they have mixed the holiness of Christ will hell. 
   Jesus said,
      "Why do you not understand my speech?  even because ye cannot hear my word.  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do:  he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:  for he is a liar, and the father of it.  And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not."  (John 8: 43-45)
   Since that we know the popes of this Ecumenical Movement have produced a beast religion, what do the Catholic people want to do?  And what do the Protestants want to do since they have also linked themselves with this beast religion?
      "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together with him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that day of the Lord is at hand.  Let no man deceive you by any means:  for that day will not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition."  (2nd Thessalonians 2: 1-3)
   Because of the evidence in front of our eyes, from the popes and from the Ecumenical Movement, this is that "falling away first" which the Bible has been warning will happen.  This, no doubt, is a trumpet warning from God concerning this beast religion; and, with this warning, God also gives a plea:
      "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." (Revelation 18: 4-5)
   We know that the day of the Lord is at hand and He could return any day now and at any hour.
      "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.  Even so, Amen."  (Revelation 1: 7)
  
  
  

ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT

ec-u-men-i-cal:  nondenominational, universal, catholic, latitudarian, all-embracing, all-inclusive; involving people from different kinds of Christian churches and world religions.
   The Ecumenical Movement is not new.  It has been operating in the world for many decades and its objective is to unite all churches and all religions in order to produce:
                                 ONE WORLD.  ONE CHURCH.  ONE RELIGION.
   While the world has been going round and round, and while people have been living their lives, going here and going there, doing this and doing that, the Ecumenical Movement has been an operation that has been mostly conducted in silence.  It has never drawn attention to itself, it has never been noisy, it has never had a steady stream of news conferences to express its agenda, and it has never had the focus of television cameras in its face from place to place, nor from year to year.  
   The  silence of the Ecumenical Movement, however, should raise a red flag, which indicates secrecy:  that they do not want the world to know the secret intentions of their hearts.
   Jesus said,
      "For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad."  (Luke 8: 17)
   Again the Lord said,
      "I spoke openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing."  (John 18: 20)
   This following section is quoted from Most Holy Family Monastery, Defending the Catholic Faith, and can be viewed entirely at vaticancatholic.com, which reveals that many Catholics are now aware of the piracy of the Catholic Church by the popes in the Vatican, beginning with Pope John Paul II, and which adds more evidence in the secrecy of the Ecumenical Movement.
      "Oct. 27, 1986, Antipope John Paul II prayed with over 100 different religious leaders of various false religions, thereby repudiating the teaching of Scripture and the 2000-year teaching of the Catholic Church outlawing prayer with false religions. The entire day of prayer with the pagans, infidels, and heretics was Antipope John Paul II’s idea and they came at his invitation. During this meeting, the Dalai Lama placed a Buddhist statue on the tabernacle in the Church of St. Francis.  Among the various false religious leaders at Assisi, there were rabbis, Islamic muftis, Buddhist monks, Shintoists, assorted Protestant ministers, Animists, Jainists and others. During the meeting, a member of each false religion came forward and offered a prayer for peace. 
    "On Jan. 24, 2002, Antipope John Paul II held another pagan prayer meeting in the city of Assisi Italy – a repeat of the abominable event that took place in 1986.  During the prayer meeting, a representative of every false religion involved was allowed to come to the pulpit and give a sermon on world peace.  In the presence of Antipope John Paul II a Voodoo high priest came to the pulpit outside the Basilica of St. Francis and gave the Voodoo prescription for world peace. (Voodoo, remember, is Satanism).  So, by Antipope John Paul II’s arrangement, from a pulpit outside the historic Basilica of St. Francis, a Satanist was allowed to give a sermon and provide his prescription for world peace.   This would involve slitting the throats of goats, chickens, doves and pigeons, and draining their blood from their arteries.
   "After the Jew, the Buddhist, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Voodoo Witchdoctor and the rest were finished preaching, the various false religious leaders broke up into different rooms to pray to their false gods.  Above we see the actual arrangement of rooms that Antipope John Paul II gave to the various pagans and idolaters.  Antipope John Paul II had it arranged in advance that each religious group was given a separate room in which to worship the Devil.  All of the crucifixes were removed, and the crucifixes which could not be removed were covered.  Antipope John Paul II made sure that the infidels and pagans saw no sign of Jesus Christ.  The Muslims needed a room which faced East toward Mecca, and it was given to them.  The Zoroastrians needed a room with a window – so that the smoke from the wood chips that they burned to the devil could exit through it – and it was given to them.  The Jews wanted a room that had never before been blessed – in other words, a room that had never been blessed in the name of Jesus Christ – and Antipope John Paul II provided them with one.  Greater abomination, blasphemy and rejection of the true God almost cannot be imagined."
   Moreover, the World Council of Churches, which represents more than 300 denominations worldwide, and with a membership of more than 500 million people, have also united with the Popes of Rome in this Ecumenical Movement.
   From Real News Right Now, dated July 9, 2015:
      American Pastors Joel Osteen and Rick Warren were among a Protestant delegation to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican for the "reunification of churches under the Holy See"---an event that did not include media attention.
      "Moments before meeting with reporters, the entire Protestant delegation, for the first time ever, entered the confessional to take part, individually, in the Sacrament of Penance."
      “It’s important that we participate in these sacred rituals before asking our congregation to do the same,” Pastor Osteen said, adding that his time in confession was “an immensely moving experience.”
   Thus we can see that hundreds of Protestant churches are in the process of converting their congregations to this new brand of Catholicism, under the authority of Pope Francis, and we should expect these conversions to be conducted in secrecy  behind closed doors.
   This Ecumenical Movement is now impacting the lives of more than one half of the earth's population under the authority of the Vatican.
   In conclusion, traditional Catholicism has been hijacked:  beginning with Pope John Paul II and continued with Pope Benedict and Pope Francis.  For the Catholic Church now includes all of the religions of the world, renegade Protestant churches, with Islam and Judaism, and out of this beast system we will see the arrival of Antichrist, the false Messiah:
      "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."  (2nd Thessalonians 2: 4)

A LETHAL WEAPON

   God is invisible, but He has revealed Himself in His Son, Christ the Lord; therefore Christ is the visible evidence of God, who is now invisible, but will again become visible when He returns.
   God is not religion, and religion is not God.
   The Holy Bible is the word of the Lord, and it is, therefore, not a book about religion, nor a book of religious ideologies, such a book of laws, rules, and regulations that should be enforced by a body of religious men adorned in fancy suits or priestly garments.
   God is God, and more people would believe in God---if religion would move its ugly head and get out of the way from people seeing God.
   Satan is also invisible, but he reveals himself in evil, while hiding under the cloak of religion, exactly in the place where people believe they are safe.
   Satan is defined as "an adversary, one who opposes, or one who stands in the way";  and, since we know that religions are created by men and not from God, then religion also means:  "an adversary, one who opposes, or one who stands in the way".
    If people, therefore, would flush the word "religion" out of their minds and cast it into the sea, they would never miss it.  For religion is a distraction, a roadblock and a stumbling block, designed and invented by unholy men to deceive people from knowing God:  leading them to believe that if they have a religion, then they will also have God.  Any religion will do, according to them, because religious heads want people to believe that God is the god all religions.  But this is a lie!
   While God is invisible, religion is visible.
   People can see temples, shrines, cathedrals, and they can see the contents of the buildings, the idols (or images of gods), and they can see minsters and priests in fancy clothes and priestly garments.  As long as they can see religion, therefore, they will believe.  But if their religion should disappear, what would they do if they could not see the buildings, see the idols, or see ministers and priests?  What would they do if they could not see their gods?  For, to them, seeing is believing.  Without their gods abiding in their presence, they would be helpless and hopeless.
   Knowing, then, that God and Christ and the Bible are truth, we should be able to see and understand that religion is the most dangerous institution on the face of the earth:  a lethal power unleashed by Satan through his ministers and priests, unholy men, who gather people in unholy buildings for their executions.  Just as mice are deceived by cheese (by what they see and smell) people are trapped by religion (by what they see and hear). 
   But the Bible says,
      "God is a Spirit:  and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." (John 4: 24)
   And again,
      "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?  He is antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son.  Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father:  but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."   (1st John 2: 22-23)
      "He that commiteth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.  For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might defeat the works of the devil.  (1st John 3: 8)
   Religion, therefore, is lethal, an institution of devils, for Satan's ultimate desire is to steal the souls of people, whom God created. 
   Thus we are in engaged in a great war, a war that Satan launched in the Garden of Eden, and now we are in global warfare as Satan and all of his minions are killing people worldwide as well as with the desire to erase Christians from the face of the earth---and a war that will not end until Christ returns and puts His foot down.
   This post today is not new information, for God has revealed this story, over and over, throughout the Holy Bible.  Perhaps it is only fitting that we conclude with a word from the Preacher, King Solomon:
      "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:  Fear God, and keep his commandments:  for this is the whole duty of man.  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."  (Ecclesiastes 12: 23-14)
     


  




    

THROUGH HIS EYES

   Bible prophecies are for believers.
   We know this is true because:  if people believed in Christ, then they would also believe in the Bible, which would enable them to believe in the prophecies.  But because they have rejected Christ, they have also rejected the Bible, as they have also rejected the prophecies.
   Because we have placed our faith in Christ, our faith is also in the Bible, which enables us to believe the prophecies.
   Knowing this, then we know that when we read the prophecies, we are looking through the eyes of God and seeing the future as God sees the future.
     "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God.  For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." (1st Corinthians 1: 18-19)
   To the world, we are narrow-minded and not exactly normal. 
   Of course. 
   Though we are no longer normal to this world, we are, therefore, normal with God because we have been "saved to the uttermost" (Hebrews 7: 25)   The world no longer understands us because our kinship is with Christ and not with the world.
   Still, we are continuously thankful to God as we are also continuously amazed at God's amazing grace for seeing us through His eyes.

  

MOSES, MOSES

    Moses was born in Egypt in 1393 B.C.,  the son of Levi and Jochebed, and the brother of Aaron, a high priest of Israel.

    Moses was raised in the house of Pharaoh where he received a thorough education in the affairs of the state and he was also aware of the gods of Egypt.

    Other than Jesus and King David, the name of Moses is used more than any other name in the Bible.

   "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds." (Acts 27: 22)

     "Moses probably lived in the palace with his mother (Pharaoh's daughter), Pharaoh, and the rest of his family, for about 35 years. We can understand from this conjecture, that Moses had access to the cream of everything in Egypt. Being part of the Royal Family, if he rode out on a chariot, the people on the street bowed. He would have had the best. If Moses traveled down the Nile by barge, it was among the finest in Egypt.  When it came to education, he probably had the finest tutors available in the land. We know for sure, from written records, that they had a great university, in its time comparable in esteem to an Oxford or a Harvard today. He would have been instructed in art, astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, and music."
   (John Ritenbaugh, Bible Tools)
   There came a day, however, when Moses killed an Egyptian, who was beating a Hebrew, and, out of fear from the wrath of Pharaoh, Moses fled to the wilderness to escape with his life.
   By and by, something strange and unexpectedly happened to Moses there in the wilderness:  God showed up!
      "And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush:  and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.  And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.  And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses.  And he said, Here am I." (Genesis 3: 2-4)
   From there, God proceeded to tell Moses about the affliction of His people in Egypt and how Moses would return to speak to Pharaoh. 
      "Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.  And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" (Genesis 3: 10-11)
   If you or I had been there, instead of Moses, perhaps we would have also said, Who am I?  Who am I that should do this?  Lord, isn't there someone else you could send instead of me?  After all, Moses had fled to the wilderness to save his life, and now he is being told that he will return to see Pharaoh.
   For the next forty years, however, Moses remained in the wilderness.  He married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, and had two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. 
   During this time, too, God prepared the mind and heart of Moses for the journey ahead---a responsibility that God did not expect Moses to perform alone:  for God had said to Moses at the beginning, "Certainly I will be with thee". (Exodus 3: 12)
   From there, Moses returned to Egypt, led the people out of slavery, through the Red Sea, and across the wilderness to their own land.  And God was with Moses every step of the way.
   For more than 3000 years, the story of Moses and the Exodus of the Hebrew people from Egypt has been told thousands of times---or 1400 years before the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
   As Christians, how do we react and respond when God, suddenly and unexpectedly, shows up and offers us an assignment?  We can be sure, however, that the Lord will help us in our assignment, just as He helped Moses.
   Jesus said,
      "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away:  for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.  Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:  and he will show you things to come."  (John 16: 7, 13)

                                                             
  

FROM GLORY TO SHAME

   In front of our eyes, we are watching a widescreen presentation of the whole world.
   No matter if we watch television, listen to radio, read newspapers and magazines, or scan the internet, we are witnesses of this graphic widescreen presentation:  for it is all about the world and nothing else. 
   We watch the news, we watch sports, we watch entertainment, and we watch anything and everything that the world has to offer on the widescreen.
   We are watching bloodshed, murder, violence, terrorism, wildfires, flooding, mass unemployment, global poverty, the assassinations of American police officers, corruption in governments and religions, and human trafficking of women and children for sex, drugs, and money. 
   We are also watching racism, sexism, individualism, feminism, and unequal justice for all because the rules have changed.
  We are watching gender wars:  the belief that adult men have the legal right to use bathrooms and take showers with women and young girls.  And this message, by the way, has the approval of our own President, Barack Obama, and our own Federal Government.
  We are watching sissy-faced men, strutting to and fro in women's makeup and clothing, trying to convince themselves and the world that they are women---while women, likewise, are doing the same.
   Whether it be good, whether it be bad, or whether it be ugly, we are watching it all on the widescreen, and very little, if any, is censored from the eyes of children.
   Not much on the widescreen is actually good for us, and most of it, in fact, is downright evil.
   The widescreen is revealing to us the condition of the whole world:  for the whole world, in front of our eyes, is dying, and we are the eye witnesses of this death to the world.
   The United States is also dying. 
   Haven't you noticed? 
   That which was once sacred  is no longer sacred.
   That which was once holy  is no longer holy.
   There is no more shame, and blushing is something ancient and archaic.
   The foundation on which this nation has stood has been uprooted and replaced by a new way of thinking, a new way walking and talking, and a new way of living.  Out with the old and in with the new---while all of this new stuff is not new at all.
      "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD,
           choose you this day whom you will serve."  (Joshua 24: 15)
   Obviously, there came a day when the people of America decided that it is evil to serve the Lord, for they have evicted God, evicted Christ and evicted the Bible, thereby leading us to believe that the widescreen is revealing is the whole world without God, which is followed by chaos and disorder, for this is the natural path of people without God.
      "I am the LORD:  that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images." (Isaiah 42: 8)
   The glory of God is departing from across the land and evil continues to rise faster and faster---adding to the evidence that America is dying as people are drowning in the sea iniquity and gasping for breath.  For the wicked, however, these are happy days, for these are the days they are living for---not knowing or believing that God's judgment will find them.
   To America, God has spoken:
      "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:  because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:  seeing thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.  As they were increased, so they sinned against me:  therefore will I change their glory into shame."  (Hosea 4: 6-7)

WATER IN THE ROCK

WATER IN THE WELL:

   When Jesus met the woman at the well, she said unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.  Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

   Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.  Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship; for salvation is of the Jews.  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in sprit and in truth.  God is a Spirit:  and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.

   The woman said unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ:  when he comes he will tell us all things.

   Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.  (John 4: 19-26)

WATER IN THE WILDERNESS:
   "And the LORD said unto Moses, Go before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.  Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock at Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.  And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." (Exodus 17: 5-6)
   "And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice:  and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also." (Numbers 20: 11)

WATER IN THE BLOOD:
   "Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.  But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:  but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water."  (John 19: 32-34)
   Even in His death, the Lord was still speaking:
      First, He spoke in the blood: 
         "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace."  (Ephesians 1: 7)  "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God." (Ephesians 2: 8)
      Secondly, He spoke in the water:
         "He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." (John 7: 38)
   Christ is therefore the Rock of our salvation, out of whom flowed blood and water, while He was yet speaking from His death on the cross.
   Even King David wrote of Him before the Son of God came to earth:
      "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 
      "For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:  in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock." (Psalm 18: 4; 27: 5)
         
WATER IN HEAVEN: 
   "And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as a crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." (Revelation 22: 1)
   "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power:  for thou has created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." (Revelation 4: 11)
   "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain." (Revelation 5: 12)


WATER IN THE WOMAN:
   What happened, however, in the life of the woman at the well?
      "The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man , which told me all things that ever I did.  Is not this the Christ?  Then went they out of the city, and came unto him." (John 19:  28-30)