HE showed us in 2 Timothy 3 what we are to expect

GOD puts leaders in office and he takes them out. Knowing this, it is difficult for me to show much more than a passing disrespect for the man who occupies the Oval Office. I vehemently disagree with all his policies. I will NOT stand with him on one single issue, unless he chooses to defund PP, reverses all his executive orders, or decides to resign. I feel I could agree on those issues.

I remember when George W was elected and Republicans fell all over themselves with praise, but I warned them that he was just another man. When he got all tied up with trying to 'get along' and put up the 'big tent,' they were falling all over themselves for the opposite reason.

This country is being 'judged' and it is because we, as a country, turned our back on GOD. We kill our children in the womb (54+ million), sanctioned by the government. We condone pornography as free speech and condoned by the government by lax prosecution. We legalized prostitution (only in 1 state). We legalized drugs (only 1 in a couple states). He said we are no longer a Christian country (we certainly don't behave like one), but what we have is a remnant of GOD'S people who are standing firm; without the promise of earthly wealth; without the promise of being wealthy like Abraham or Solomon; without the prosperity doctrines of today; without the 'name it and claim it' attitudes abounding in our pulpits.

HE, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, promised us division in our families; hardship in general and we will see more. HE showed us in 2 Timothy 3 what we are to expect in the last days. It is not prosperity. It is wars and rumors of wars. It is good being called evil and evil being called good. It is lawlessness. It is truce breakers. It is everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

I doubt most people will read this far. But this is where the reality is. When HE says, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." You must be HIS first.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.  The church, the Bride of Christ, has defiled herself.  It is past time to clean up, stand up, and hold up the Word of GOD as the HOLY BOOK that it is and quit trying to find justification to continue in sin that is clearly defined as such in Scripture.  The church has failed miserably to communicate that to the congregations!

Shalom!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!

Pray for the People of France

Terror attacks rip through Paris.  Almost 200 died,  Many injured.

The spirit of the French people will not be extinguished.  The French will hunt the terrorists down and mercilessly extinguish them.  

You terrorists have not been exposed to much history that shows what other countries are capable of when faced with a Fascist.  You are about to find out.

It is by no means over.  We know they are here, maybe down the street, and more are coming.  They want a fight, we will fight.  Do not confuse compassion with weakness.  We are not ruthless but we are cunning.  We are not vile but we are resolute.  We understand what you filthy dog terrorists are all about.  You want a holy war to end all holy wars with Islam as the world religion.  It ain't gonna happen.  YHWH is GOD, the ONLY GOD.  HE will reign supreme!  HE will overthrow the evil that is you and your kind.  

My prayer is that you know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will set you free, otherwise you terrorists have nothing more to look forward to than eternity in Hell with you father, Satan.

SHALOM!!  PRAY for the PEACE of Jerusalem!!

In the Last Days

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2 Timothy 3 (The Message)

1-5Don’t be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They’ll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they’re animals. Stay clear of these people.
6-9These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth.” They get exploited every time and never really learn. These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself. But nothing will come of these latest impostors. Everyone will see through them, just as people saw through that Egyptian hoax.

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10-13You’ve been a good apprentice to me, a part of my teaching, my manner of life, direction, faith, steadiness, love, patience, troubles, sufferings—suffering along with me in all the grief I had to put up with in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. And you also well know that God rescued me! Anyone who wants to live all out for Christ is in for a lot of trouble; there’s no getting around it. Unscrupulous con men will continue to exploit the faith. They’re as deceived as the people they lead astray. As long as they are out there, things can only get worse.

14-17But don’t let it faze you. Stick with what you learned and believed, sure of the integrity of your teachers—why, you took in the sacred Scriptures with your mother’s milk! There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.

King James Version
1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

 

2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

 

3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

 

4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

 

5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

 

6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

 

7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

 

8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

 

9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

 

10But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

 

11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

 

12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

 

13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

 

14But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

 

15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

 

16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

 

17That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Can You Really Walk too Close to the Edge?

As children we liked to get as close to the edge of pretty much everything.  Some of us, like me, were just plan hard-headed.  Really.  How long could it hurt?  How far will I fall?  Just how bad could the consequences be, anyway?  As far as getting a spanking was concerned, it always ended and was never as bad as expected.  It was soon a distant memory.  

Had my first plane trip when I was 6.  I jumped off ledges.  At 9 I walked a ledge around the second story of our apartment building.  Ran away from home at 12 on a passenger train.  That was not as adventurous as it sounds.  My aunt bought the ticket for me and my father was waiting for me at the destination.  I would rather have a beating than get a lecture.  A spanking was over when they tired, but that voice seemed to go on and on and on.

But that was then; 50 years and a lifetime ago.

Today is different.  Today, I watch as Christians, those who have become reborn, a child of GOD, try to walk as far from GOD as possible.  Of one thing I am certain, my Salvation was a totally free gift from GOD; I did nothing to gain Salvation and therefore can do nothing to lose Salvation.  I can, however, grieve the HOLY SPIRIT.  

But knowing that GOD will never leave me nor abandon me, should I really want to see how far away from HIM I can stray without severing that sweet communion we have?   While liberty has been bestowed upon me by GOD'S Grace and I am free to choose holiness, the HOLY SPIRIT has also come to live within me, give me comfort, support the Will of GOD, and encourage me to do HIS Will and not my own.  Each time that I choose my own way, I grieve the HOLY SPIRIT and the HOLY SPIRIT'S voice of reason is heard less and less until it is ignored altogether.  If I truly am a child of GOD, it should grieve my own spirit and cause my heart to weep unconsolably to know that I, in my own stupidity and pridefulness, have quenched the ONE thing that wants above all else to Comfort me and bring me back into sweet communion.

And that brings me to celebrating pagan holidays disguised as having innocent fun or even worse yet, mocking evil.  Evil and sin (which to me are one in the same) are nothing more than disobedience to the WILL OF GOD.  Are we truly authorized to mock sin?  Or are we to spread the Gospel and lead lost souls to CHRIST?   The answer is clear.  Flaunting our Salvation and dressing up in innocent costumes to taunt the Devil and his emmisaries is found nowhere in Scripture.  The Old Testament shows the Prophet of GOD mocking the priests of Baal and asking them if their god was on the toilet and unable to respond to their requests, but he did not dress up in an angel costume when he did so.  At no time in the New Testament does it show anyone of GOD'S people dressing in costume, flaunting their Christianity, and/or tempting Satan.

In the New Testament, Gentiles who became Christians were not commanded to participate in Jewish rituals, such as circumcision.  Nor were Christian Jews told to cease celebrating their rituals, such as circumcision.   When Gentiles (which is anyone who is not Jewish) were saved, they repented of their sin, just as the Jews did and became a new creature in THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.  

Is our participation in questionable holy days (holidays) simply a form of walking to close to the edge of the precipice?   Are we taunting the dark side (evil), daring it to try to win?  Or are we, Christians, being just plain stiff-necked and pride-filled in trying to go our own way? 

Paul said that he did not do the things he should do and did the things that he should not and did not want to do because of the battle that rages within.  We all suffer from that battle.  The HOLY SPIRIT is at war with the flesh that we reside in for the simple reason that our flesh has not been reborn, only our soul.  

As you go through each day, ask yourself if what you are about to do is a matter of your own pride or is it what GOD has chosen for you to do?


Shalom!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem! 

What is sin?

To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

I came across this on Facebook this morning and thought it worth sharing.  The old ideas need to be revived.  If we do not learn from the mistakes of history, we are doomed to repeat them.  Countries that have embraced the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, the sins of the Roman Empire as it decayed and was torn apart from within, will be summarily destroyed.  The consequences of destroying families, killing babies, and spending beyond their means is a recipe for disaster.

The United States of America is by no means standing alone in this respect.  

If we cannot learn from the mistakes and sins of others, we are doomed to learn from our own.  May GOD have mercy on this shameful and sin-filled world!

SHALOM!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!