Tuesday, June 16, 2020

*SIGN OF THE TIMES: SEEING THE PROPHESIED END OF THIS AGE PLAY OUT BEFORE OUR EYES


For several years now we have looked specifically at the Biblical prophecies fulfilled regarding Jesus’ return and at the characteristics of these last days and what is soon to happen.  I have shared much from the revelations the Lord has given me directly and in dreams and visions.

We are now living in the very last of the last days, a period that will last for a time I do not know.  But I do think it is not long, for one message to me which I shared with you all recently was that we only have hours.  The question is of course how many hours.

Right now in America – and in the rest of the world – we are seeing all sorts of frightening things happen.  We must never forget that the United States is only 5% of the world’s population.  Jesus is not coming back just for Americans, so things must be happening in the rest of the world too that line up.  They are.  I am just focusing primarily on the US here.

One terrible thing that has happened to all countries these past few months is the covid-19 coronavirus attack.  The real horror of this is the lack of knowledge even our experts have on this virus.  Now initially the reports were so troubling that leaders shut down society, sent people home to stay – not just in the US or Europe but throughout the world.  The primary really bad impact was on major Western European countries and on the USA, which itself is very interesting.  Looking for significance in that we have to be cautious.  It is true that probably these nations had by far more travel and connection with the Chinese people from the initial infected areas there than other nations on earth.  Still, very interesting.

This virus continues to move along and now Brazil is having a real outbreak.  Many countries in Africa and some other areas seem not to have had major outbreaks although who knows how good the data is.

In the US the shutdown of the economy has brought disastrous results with millions out of work, a big fall in the economy, and really we don’t all know the full implications for what life has been like in many homes.  In many places people have not had the funds to pay key bills we know, and people have not gone to doctors and hospitals for other medical needs that they would normally have done (how many serious conditions have not been treated?  How many people have died that could have been saved?) .  And we don’t know how horrible it has been for dysfunctional families living together cooped up for a long time.  Or how difficult has it been for lower income people in inner cities living in tiny apartments for a long time?

Well we could go on with this.  Now some state governors have opened up their states while others remain very closed or limited in freedoms.  Some of this is really questionable.  Evidently there is no clear evidence as to what is the best policy in all this.  It seems highly questionable that some states with low coronavirus impact should be held tightly down while some large states open up and seem to do well. I think this is political, a real problem of our day and the end times.  It may not be that saving a “relatively” few lives was a justifiable reason to cause who knows how much grief and death from great economic hardship, the closure of thousands of businesses and livelihoods, and all the other problems hinted at above.

I do know from our own connections the hardship of the closures in other lower income nations.   Imagine being ordered to stay at home when you don’t know how to feed your family.  Such is the case in African and other developing nations of the world.

This virus has totally put America in upheaval, hasn’t it?  And then now we have the terrible murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the resulting protests that followed.  Unfortunately, some really anti-US groups seem to have jumped into the protests and the natural general grief outpouring that followed the murder and have created serious turmoil and violence.  Quite a few people – black, white, demonstrators, police, store owners, and more - were killed and injured  throughout the country in that violence.  Now we see really frightening and bizarre responses to all this.

While some of the responses to racial concerns are positive indeed, such as government and other groups getting together to look once more into race relations, how to improve the quality and accountability of policing, and so on, there have been troubling turns.  The call to defund police or do away with police is both frightening and out of touch with life on earth today if we are to have a civilized society (There are about 1.4 million people in gangs and 33,000 violent gangs in the US).  There does also need to be the realization that, beyond the bad examples of police behavior we see so clearly in the news, the majority of police work long and dangerous hours to protect and help all people.  The police themselves are made up of white and black, male and female members.

Similarly, the trend to do away with history by destroying so many monuments of our past in this nation just is downright frightening.  These monuments represent aspects of our history good and bad.  We need to know and not ignore the past in order to improve for the future.  They represent our history as a nation.  Related to this, there is a proposal to change the name of military bases.  I’ve heard people of both black and white races speak on both sides of this.  Again, whatever is done, this is the history of the nation.  We can’t pretend things did not happen, just like England cannot pretend King George was not mentally ill during the Revolutionary War or that Bloody Mary did not exist.  And Germany cannot pretend the Holocaust and the concentration camps did not exist in WWII.

Now this violence has gone off the deep end in places, such as some groups taking over an area in downtown Seattle and declaring it another nation.  Obviously that can’t be allowed to happen, yet the state and local leaders there seem totally unqualified and unknowledgeable and unwilling to deal with the situation, forcing the national government likely to get involved.  And if and when this happens the national media is likely to go over the top as it has done for so long.  One thing the recent time has exposed:  many of the nation’s governors and mayors are not equipped or willing to deal with serious situations.

Related to all this is a big move to “cancel” things in society now, cancel words that some group does not like, withdraw movies forever like GONE WITH THE WIND, just erase history.  This is part of that “woke” culture, the politically correct movement the terrible liberal universities have trained our students in.  It is this approach to life that has greatly restricted free speech in our modern nation.
We are moving rapidly to the day the Lord comes to collect his sheep.  I know many of you wish he would come today.  I would like that too.  What believer wouldn’t?

But I think there is a small amount of time left before he comes.  I know I have one assignment from him to do that I have not done and cannot do without his guidance and assistance.  And I know the seven year Tribulation will not begin until there is a signed or confirmed peace agreement with Israel, with the Jews, that they truly believe has brought them peace.  That hasn’t happened yet, although I suspect soon.

I hope all of you knew this time was coming.  I wasn’t just writing about the last days for fun or amusement.  I wrote because the Lord had called me to get this across.  So many scriptures from the Bible are specific to this time – the rise in lawlessness, the fall away from God, the general wickedness of some people, the delusion that God sends to those who refuse to believe the truth, and more.  There are so many physical signs of the times occurring such as many earthquakes, a vast increase in the attack of locusts on several nations, and more.  But the real indication that we are approaching the absolute end of this age is the behavior of the people and the breakdown of society.

As this all goes forward the world moves to the one world government.  That just cannot happen with America being the strong presence it has been for the past century.  You can see the obvious hand of the devil in this as well as the coronavirus as he works to break down America to the point it would participate in a one world government or at least not obstruct that.  And you can see too how the mass confusion and even mayhem the coronavirus has created throughout the world sets up the world countries to be ready to accept an Antichrist who comes as a person people think can handle all these problems (e.g., a false savior).  While this one world government will eventually come about, we all can now do what we can to stand against evil, to pray for the lost and for God to draw them to Jesus, to help one another as we can.

I am going to close with some key scriptures for our time right now.  I will begin again with Jesus’ primary warning to all of us.  These are fundamental messages.  You should be able to see what is happening all about us in these words:

Watch that you are not deceived. – Luke 21:8

Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.  Matthew 12:25

…remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. – Jude 17-19

They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lieand so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. – 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

There will be terrible times in the last days.People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. – 2 Timothy 3:1-5

Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand. – Daniel 12:10

     (all scriptures from the NIV)
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Monday, June 8, 2020

* SIGN OF THE TIMES: WHO IS JESUS COMING FOR?


Not so long ago right in the midst of a service the Lord stepped in to tell me to tell people who he is and that he is coming soon.  We continued always with the preaching, teaching, healing, and more, but the focus shifted to the Lord’s coming soon.  Over the years he shared more and more – directly and through other means.

Over and over he spoke of his CHURCH.  “Help me find my CHURCH” is one of his words to me.  And I have tried.  Jesus’ CHURCH is that group of people on earth who truly believe in him, who have him as their Lord.  It has nothing to do with what denomination or local church they belong to or where they are on earth.  The members of Jesus’ CHURCH are currently working on ships at sea, building houses in difficult areas, cleaning up the streets of cities after riots, working to feed those who have no food, raising families, crossing the desert on a camel, fishing the bayous of Louisiana, riding a horse herding cattle in Argentina, sitting in a pub in London.  You don’t know where they all are, do you?  One thing – they truly know and believe the Lord.  They do what he says.  They have that new spirit in them that comes with being born again.  They are guided by the Holy Spirit.  They operate in the authority and gifts the Lord has given them.

Soon – and by that I mean incredibly soon – Jesus will come to get them.  It has really been long enough hasn’t it?  Almost too long for the believers.  But God knows the moment.  And suddenly the Lord will be here.  A trumpet blast!  A shout!  Angels sent out to collect the CHURCH.

And in all the places I just mentioned above and countless more people will just disappear.  In neighborhoods people will realize one or two of their members haven’t been seen for a while.  In individual church buildings the same will happen.  In some of those churches nothing will change and no one may notice.  In others several may depart.

Remember the Lord’s words about the numbers. “…wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Mt 7:13-14)” It will not be a great percentage of the people, not a great number. Years ago I researched the meaning of the word translated “few” there.  I looked at the original Greek of the New Testament, at least as original as I could get.  And here is the conclusion: The word translated “few” means in fact “few.”  That’s it.  Few.

Remember what the Lord said shortly after that point: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.(Mt 7:21)” Jesus did not mince words.  He made it clear.

So the few will be gone, however many that is.  Soon.  Incredibly soon.  Remember my sharing the message I got not long ago – we only have hours.  Well, that is where we are.  Just don’t know how many of those hours we have.
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Friday, June 5, 2020

* SIGN OF THE TIMES: WAKING UP TO A SHOCKING REALITY


I have been trying to think of what to write and say about all that has happened in recent days.  It has been difficult.  I think the recent months and especially the past week or so have been the worst I have seen in this country in my lifetime.

What makes it the worst?  The terrible disease?  No, we have had bad diseases before.  Well, what then?  The murder of that man in Minneapolis by a police officer?  No, although horrible, we have sadly seen that before.

Well, what then?                                                                                                                                                 
I think it is the abject failure of those elected to leadership positions in this country to protect the citizens of the country and preserve the basic rights and liberties of the people.  I think it is the shocking recognition by all of us that they really weren’t going to do anything to stop the violence, that we have some really terrible governors and mayors who just do not understand some essential things.

We have now seen many such leaders clearly not being able to differentiate good from evil, right from wrong.  In the coronavirus we saw many – including the whole national government – overreact and suppress the people, taking away basic rights.  Now some governors have moved to restore freedoms  while others seem to delight in holding the people down where there is no cause.

And in these past few days we have discovered many of these leaders do not understand the first responsibility of any of them is to protect the citizens and their property.  While pretending to be empathetic in a horrible situation, they turned the streets of the cities over to violent, evil, horrible thugs and felons to destroy and beat up and create general mayhem.  Stores destroyed.  Famous stores and little stores of individuals who worked their lives to have a business.  People beaten horribly – men, women, police.  People killed.  Monuments that mean a lot to the nation defaced – like the Lincoln Memorial and the WWII monument.

Peaceful protests are absolutely fine and represent an expression of the freedoms that come with being an American.  Horrible violence is not fine and represents flat out evil being acted out in harm to others.

The failure of leadership by the governors in many states and the mayors in many cities should create shivers down the spines of all citizens.  This shows America that we have the wrong people in positions of authority.  We should have known that.  We do now.  Most of the lack of response and understanding of what to do came from liberal governors and mayors who just couldn’t bring themselves to act.  Or didn’t have any idea what executive decision-making means.  And then the horrible violence which hid under the pretense of legitimate protests was supported by so many of the awful wealthy know-nothing Hollywood entertainers and liberal news media.

And too we cannot fail to note the national government did little either other than to give speeches and offer to send troops if the local leaders requested.  Surely there must have been more they could have done.

Surely all law-abiding Americans who know the Lord have seen enough of the news media and the Hollywood entertainers to last a lifetime.  We don’t need to see them anymore, do we?

But what is the country to do when its leaders will not enforce its laws, when there is no accountability for violence?  (What did the country expect when areas began to release prisoners or not even to hold felons arrested by police who were immediately released by the local magistrates?)

As you and I know, all this fits in the various prophecies for life in the last days before the Lord’s return.  The general increase in lawlessness.  The falling away from God.  Still, it is sickening to live through.

I have not written of other things going on simultaneously that perhaps you should know of.  There have been many earthquakes in key places.  Just two days ago a fairly strong one in southern California and a very very strong one in northern Chile.  In the days preceding, there have been many strong earthquakes, from New Zealand to Idaho.  Pretty alarming.

And of course those locusts keep attacking parts of the world.

The countries of the world today live in various states of fear, being locked down by governments that just do not know what to do.

You know the time is near for the Lord’s return.  Still, no Antichrist has appeared or been identified.  Still, no peace agreement has been signed with Israel that will begin the seven year Tribulation.  So there seems to be some time left.  Things don’t look good, do they, for the quality of life on earth.  The simple answer is no they don’t.

Keep your eyes on Jesus, as always.  Pray for God’s mercy for the United States and the world.  Pray for wise and skillful believers to be elected to positions of leaders in the states and cities.  And pray that the American citizens have now waked up to the dreadful quality of so many of those in “leadership” positions in this country.
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