“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. – Matthew 7:21

[No subject is more important than how a person gets into the Kingdom of God, into Heaven.  Below is an article from a newsletter three years ago that focused specifically on this.  I think it is time right now to post it again here.]

Some consider the title above the most frightening verse in the Bible. I expect you haven’t heard any sermons preached on this one, have you? 

 For a very long time in our modern day, the churches have doted on the fact that a person has to do nothing to be in Heaven, in the Kingdom of God, other than just believe in Jesus. 

 Well, certainly, a person physically does not have to do anything to be in Heaven, in the Kingdom. Jesus paid the price for each of us to get there. That is the basis for the statement that it is by grace we have been saved and not by works. 

 But Jesus did say several verses that bear on being in the Kingdom of God. In the Bible, all these verses have to be considered. They are all said by Jesus. We have to put them all together. You can’t just read one and ignore the others. You can’t pick and choose scripture. 

There is the most famous verse in the Bible – John 3:16 – 16 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

I have said over and over in so many paces that this “belief” here is solid belief, like you believe there is enough oxygen in the room in which you are living to keep you alive; otherwise, you would be running out the door. In other words, absolute belief. Not that modern way we often use the word believe in normal conversation, which is much weaker. 

But then there is this fundamental verse, the one Jesus said when he was speaking to Nicodemus in John 3:5:

  “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 

So there has to be a real spiritual rebirth. Back in John 1 the writer notes that it is as if God himself becomes our father. In fact, the Good News Translation actually says that directly: 

Some, however, did receive him and believed in him; so he gave them the right to become God's children. 13 They did not become God's children by natural means, that is, by being born as the children of a human father; God himself was their Father. (Good News Translation) – Emphasis added by me. 

And then we have the verse in the title. This is said in a section where people have come to tell Jesus all they have been doing in his name. Unfortunately for them, he says he never knew them. So they don’t get into the Kingdom obviously. They may have been doing good works but they missed the point. They weren’t doing the will of God. They didn’t focus on knowing Jesus. Here is the full section from which the title was taken: 

21 “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. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ – Matthew 7 

 Now if that isn’t disturbing enough, there is one more verse in Matthew 18: 

2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

 In other words, a person must be as innocent and believing as a little child. 

So we have several key scriptures right out of the mouth of Jesus himself, reported to us by the disciples John and Matthew. Pretty good witnesses, I’d say. 

Yes, we of course must have absolute belief. But we also must live to fulfill God’s will as we understand it. And we must be born again, born anew. We must have that new spirit in us. We have to become the new creation Paul refers to when he says in 2 Corinthians 5 that the old has gone and the new has come. 

This is all serious business indeed! Really serious. 

Just going and sitting in a church week after week and hearing sermons does not do it. And just saying you believe in Jesus apparently on its own is not enough, at least not unless you have that rock solid belief. I fear so many of those who think they are Christians are going to have a big surprise soon. Back to the title scripture. Just how does anyone do the will of God? Well, I think Jesus put it best when he said these two scriptures: 

14 You are my friends if you do what I command. – John 15:14  

15 “If you love me, keep my commands.– John 14:15 3 

Basically, do what Jesus tells you to do if you want to be his friend and if you love him. I would think that would fit in with doing God’s will. 

If you have the Holy Spirit living in you, if you have been baptized with the Spirit, you want to do God’s will and you will generally know that in the situations you encounter. That all comes with being born again and being filled with and baptized with the Holy Spirit. 

I wrote about what it takes to get into Heaven in Chapter 11 in our book WAKE UP AMERICA! And we produced a CD on that and also did two television programs titled “Getting into Heaven” which you can watch on YOUTUBE and our website. It’s an incredibly important subject, not one to be ignored. And surely not at this time. 

Only two real groups of people are on earth now: Those who know Jesus and already are his believers, members of the Kingdom of God, and those who don’t and aren’t. This second group is lost. Unless something happens that opens the eyes of people in this second group so they can see the truth and receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior, they are not going to have a good future. KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!

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SIGN OF THE TIMES: THE HISTORY OF THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY IN THE US

 

 

I thought this year we should all look again at the history of Thanksgiving in the US:

 

Throughout the 1700’s individual colonies evidently held periodic days or times of thanksgiving.  Thomas Jefferson did this while governor of Virginia.

 

In 1777 right in the middle of the Revolutionary War the Colonial Congress recommended a day of thanksgiving.

 

In 1789, the first year of the first presidency of the US under the new Constitution, George Washington issued a proclamation establishing a day of thanksgiving that year.  Here are a few of his words from the proclamation: 

 

• it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour…
• I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be…
• we may … unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions

Abraham Lincoln finally established legally the annual holiday we observe on the fourth Thursday of November each year.  Here are a few words from his proclamation:

 

I do …invite my fellow citizens …to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

 

May all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and offer thanks then – and everyday – just as these great past leaders of the nation led the nation in doing. 

 

 

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WATCHMAN WARNING: WHAT IS HAPPENING?

 

That is a question I expect on the minds of many believers.  We are so very close to the return of the Lord.  And now we see a bold change in the government of the US that will surely lead to a move away from the trend to the one world government that was so well underway.  A very few other places have had a similar change in government, such as Argentina, but not many.  The UN, the World Economic Forum, and others all continue to work towards the one-world government.

 

So what does this mean?  Still and most obviously, we all should be alert to all that is happening as the Lord has warned us in Luke 21:36, and be ready to go when he comes.

 

Beyond that, let me say that nothing has changed regarding our being so close to the return of Jesus.  All those prophecies fulfilled, everything is still in line for that.  His coming to collect his sheep could happen anytime.

 

Here are some interesting insights regarding the newly elected government in the US:

 

• There seems to be some talk about encouraging the building of the third temple in Jerusalem. Well, that does need to be ready by the middle of the Tribulation when the antichrist comes to take up residence there, but that building could all happen during the early years of the Tribulation.  Still, it is interesting to hear this being discussed!

• The newly nominated secretary of defense himself has spoken of the need to build the temple on a specific spot on the temple mount.

  

• The newly appointed ambassador to Israel under the new administration is a strong supporter of Israel, as are several in the new administration

• Likely, we shall see a return to the efforts of the previous Trump administration to bring about a peace accord with Israel and its many neighbors. You may remember the successful Abraham accords that brought some Arab nations  to an improved relationship with Israel.

 

 

• In the election on November 5, the overwhelming number of evangelical Christians voted for President Trump. Similarly, the great number of Catholics voted for President Trump.  But, sadly and shockingly, the overwhelming number of Jews in the US voted for the losing side, the socialist government that was leading the US into the one-world government and that does not strongly support Israel.  It seems inconceivable, but then we have to realize these people do not know Jesus.  And for that matter, so many are not even serious Jews, rather being ethnic Jews.  Well, the time of their coming face to face with truth is near at hand, just not yet.

All this is interesting surely.  But then you and I know a bit more.  We know that once a true peace agreement is signed by Israel that the people believe in so much they live in unwalled villages, the seven year Tribulation begins.  In fact, it begins the moment that agreement is signed.  And the individual who clearly leads that to come about is the antichrist.

 

We also have noticed all the interaction between Russia and Turkey and Iran in recent years.  All that is leading up to their attack on Israel in the Ezekiel 38-39 war, an attack that is obviously repelled by God in a way all should recognize his hand.  That attack will happen early in the Tribulation period, for the people are living in unwalled villages when it occurs the Bible says.

 

I do have one other overriding comment:  the new administration is not yet in office.  It seems an eerily quiet period in the US.  We all should be praying for peace and safety for all involved as this goes forward.

 

We should still expect the Lord’s return to collect his believers before the beginning of the Tribulation, for as we have noted so many times, in several places the Bible notes we were not appointed to suffer wrath.  Besides, the antichrist will not be free on earth to work to bring about the famous peace agreement that begins the Tribulation unless the true CHURCH, the true believers, have been taken out of the way. 

 

Keep your eyes on Jesus.  At all times.  Pray in the Spirit.  Seek his guidance.  Remember, the Holy Spirit guides you into all truth, tells you things yet to come, and reminds you of things Jesus has said to you.  If you don’t know the Holy Spirit and his gifts, pray to receive that and the baptism of the Spirit.  If possible, ask a Spirit-filled believer to pray for you for this.  Or contact us and we can pray for you over the telephone.

 

 

 

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* WATCHMAN WARNING: THIS EXTRAORDINARY ELECTION

 

 

This very unpleasant election in America is about to reach the end – of the formal voting at least.  Early voting has already begun in many places and the final official election day is just a few days off.

The contrast between the two major candidates and between the two major parties could not be greater.  One is based more on traditional American values from the Bible and the Constitution.  The other seeks to remake the nation into a socialist society with great attention to race and gender and restrictions on fundamental Constitutional rights such as free speech.  It seems to many a contest of whether the America most citizens over 40 have known all their lives survives or the nation turns the direction of other failed socialist states, a move apparently orchestrated by the evil one to make this great nation part of the soon arriving one world government.

Having said all that, I want to make sure that all believers realize these truths:

• The Lord Jesus is and will be King of Kings and Lord of Lords no matter who wins any human election.
• The Bible is true.  The words of God are inerrant.  They are infallible.
• Believers in Jesus Christ always seek to do his father’s will.  That is one of the fundamental requirements to be in the Kingdom.  Jesus actually said that.
• In the presidential election in the US we the people are not choosing a perfect person or leader.  None of the candidates qualify for that!  We are just trying to select the best candidate to lead a secular government.  Regardless of what we think of a person’s personality or whether we would want to hang out with them, we must choose the best of the candidates. 

Surely a believer in the Lord Jesus should vote, and they should vote for the candidate that is most based on the values Jesus and his father have presented to mankind.  The election is pretty clear if you want to help the US fight to continue the traditional values and not slide to a position of extreme weakness as the Tribulation begins.  Remember, you may not be here during the Tribulation, but some of your relatives, friends, coworkers, neighbors, and associates will surely be.  

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* WATCHMAN WARNING: WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON - THE FINAL STEPS

  

There will be fearful events, Jesus said of our time.  People will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea, he said.

 

All that just happened.  No one on the west coast of Florida, the Gulf Coast side, ever expected the storm Helene to have serious impact on them.  It was over a hundred miles away and supposedly heading north to come ashore in the panhandle area of Florida.  Then suddenly there was the many feet of storm surge and terrible destruction of cities and houses on that west coast.

 

Far away, five hundred miles north, in the mountains of NC people were living in Asheville and Boone and smaller towns like Chimney Rock and many more.  Five hundred miles!  Hurricanes were for the coast surely.  But not so this time.  Helene arrived at an area already saturated with many inches of rain.  And it just poured more on.  Then a flood ensued unlike anything anyone living had ever seen.  Massive destruction and loss of life.  We still don’t know the full extent.  The rescuers haven’t gotten everywhere to check it all out yet.  Too many trees down, not like we are used to seeing – a tree here or there.  No, this is piles of trees all together that take long, long periods to remove.  Buildings and cars wrecked and piled up.  Hundreds of roads damaged and cut off.  Bridges out.   And hundreds of people still missing.

 

The flood is of Biblical proportions some say.

 

Some try to compare it to the great flood there in 1916 but of course no one was around then.

 

And at the same time this is happening Iran sends many missiles into Israel, and the Middle East is turbulent indeed.  And the Ukraine war just continues.  Nation against nation.  Wars and rumors of wars.

 

Final signs.  These are part of the final signs.  Jesus outlined events of the last days.  Those days are here.

 

We are at the time of the Lord’s return.  Most people just do not know.  Serious believers know if they are paying attention.  Not anyone else. 

 

So we wait to hear his command, the angel’s shout, and the trumpet.  And we will be off, leaving behind huge numbers of people who do not know Jesus, including no doubt a significant number who thought they were Christians but were not born again, not born of water and the spirit as Jesus said was a requirement.  They had been let down by their church or by their own thinking.  They did not do the will of Jesus’ father.  They did not have the same innocent faith as little children.  And evidently they just did not truly believe.  So many in their churches and in some places their pastors themselves will be left behind.

 

Time.  It’s time.  You can continue to try to wake people up, to tell people the truth.  Lots just don’t want to be bothered.  They don’t want to hear.  Lots already have been caught in the deception of the evil one and even have fallen into delusion.  Some have just never paid attention or apparently even been able to hear the truth of God.  Many others get angry and protest in cities and universities for anti-god causes although they can’t understand they are on the wrong side,  They line up in support of vicious and blind opponents of the Jews and they support the LGBTQ movement in all its ramifications.  They are spiritually lost and will live in the Tribulation.

 

We believers all have to keep in mind that only God the Father can draw anyone to Jesus.  We can’t.  We can speak to others about Jesus and the gospel and the return.  We can pray for God the Father to draw these people to Jesus.  But then we have to let God be God.

 

Soon.  Soon the Lord will be here.  And we believers will be gone.  Comfort yourselves also with realization that some come to know the Lord during the horrible Tribulation period.  In Revelation John the disciple sees countless Tribulation saints in Heaven.

 

I don’t know how many more storms like Helene will occur or how extensive the wars will become or how many other natural or human disasters will occur before Jesus arrives.  Hopefully none.  One thing is for certain.  He will be here soon.

 

Another thing is certain too:

 

Some things are now happening on earth we have little or no control over.  Not all, just some.  I think we still apply the power of prayer in all situations and use the authority Jesus has given us at all times.  But just realize there may be moments that possibly we can’t change.  Jesus is coming indeed at the appointed time.  That time is set.  And it is soon.

 

 

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* TAKE A STAND AGAINST HURRICANE HELENE!!! NOW!

 

 

Here we are again needing to apply the truths and the authority the Lord has given us believers to take a stand against a dangerous storm.  This time it is hurricane Helene in the Gulf of Mexico which seems to be targeting landfall in the panhandle of Florida, with serious impact also on western Florida,  and then movement on up through Georgia and eastern Alabama into South Carolina, western North Carolina, Tennessee, and even Kentucky.  Already this is a real hurricane and is projected to be a major one, but of course we can pray against that!

 

Remember, Jesus said believers can do the same thing he did, even greater.  He also said he would do whatever believers ask him in his name.  And the Father will give us whatever we ask him in Jesus' name.  And that we can order mountains in our life away.  We can order them to throw themselves into the sea (See John 14:12-14; John 16:23: Mark 11:22-23).

 

The mountain right now for those living in the target areas is the storm Helene.  It's time right now once again to use these truths and the authority the Lord has given us and to put our faith into action.  The gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of power and not just words!

 

I ask everyone wherever you are to pray against this storm, to take a stand (I personally like to step outside and face in the direction of the storm, raising arm and hand with palm to the storm.  For most of us, that direction would be facing south or southeast at this time.).

 

In your own words, declare something like this: 

 

In Jesus' name, I order the hurricane named Helene to turn aside from land, to stay at sea and to diminish in power and disappear.  In Jesus’ name, rain and wind cease!  In Jesus' name, I order Helene to harm no people and animals, no land, buildings, or boats.  And in Jesus’ name, I order no flooding and no storm surge! 

 

Be bold! You can put this in your own words, but that is what Jesus said we can do.  Remember, he changed the weather.

 

Do it now!

 

                                                                                 September 2024

 

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* A MESSAGE FOR OUR HEARTS

 

Some years ago in a difficult time I was lying on the floor at home praying.

 

God suddenly spoke to me:  “You know how much I love Jesus?  That’s how much I love you.”

 

His presence and love were intense.

 

I think I knew that before, but this was God the Father saying it directly to me.

 

Overwhelming.  I lay there overwhelmed.  Engulfed in him.

 

God.

 

He loves all believers in Jesus the same way, you know.  The Bible actually says that (John 17:23).

 

God.  The focus of our lives above everything and everyone else.

 

Our role is to love God in return and keep him above everything else in our lives.

 

Jesus once said that ^“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me (Matthew 10:37).

 

 Of course we are to love all those people, just not more than Jesus.

 

Remember the ten commandments?  What is number one?  Just this:  You shall have no other Gods before me.

 

What is the way to God?  Through Jesus.

 

God – Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit.

 

There is nothing more important in life than knowing Jesus and being in the right relationship with him. 

 

 

 

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* IT'S TIME: JESUS AND HIM CRUCIFIED

Jesus is God.  He is a member of the Trinity – God the Father, Jesus the Son of God, the Holy Spirit.  He is the King of the Kingdom of God.  He is the head of the body of Christ, the CHURCH.  All things are under his feet. 

 

Jesus’ CHURCH is that collection of people taken out of the world to form a new society of which he is the head.  It is not those brick and wood buildings on the corners, although some people in those buildings might be in his CHURCH.

 

In the most extraordinary act imaginable, this Jesus came from the spiritual world that created earth and all beings to

 

• live among people,
• demonstrate the power of God,
• teach the people the truths of life,
• take upon himself everything that separated people from God,
• allow himself to be tortured horribly and killed by the same beings he had created,
• earn forgiveness for these beings for their sins against God,
• restore people to a relationship with God,
• and so much more.

While his mother and his disciple John and some other believers watched his crucifixion in horror, all those human beings led and guided by the devil carried out their evil work much as so many lost on the earth are today led and guided.

 

This Jesus is returning any moment now to collect his believers, those among all people who have realized who Jesus is and have him as their Lord.  They believe in him absolutely.  They have been born of water and the spirit.  They seek to do his father’s will.  They have the same innocent faith as little children.

 

He comes in the air together with an archangel.  Jesus gives a command, the angel shouts, and there is a trumpet call.  The dead in Christ rise first, then all believers still living on earth.  All these believers meet Jesus in the air, where they receive spectacular new glorious bodies to replace these current human bodies.  All these believers who have lived in perishable bodies will now have imperishable bodies.  Their mortal bodies will now be replaced with immortal ones.  And thus they will be with the Lord, with Jesus, forever.

 

When he collects his believers he will be gone again, only to return at the end of the coming seven year period of horrors on earth known as the Tribulation, a time in which evil seeks to rule and God pours out his wrath on the world.  At that return he and his holy ones, the angels and his believers, will come first to Armageddon near Jerusalem where they will confront an army of people from many countries under the leadership of the evil world leader, the antichrist.  Jesus himself will win the battle there with the sword coming out of his mouth, the WORD.  Jesus is after all the WORD.  All those soldiers fighting against him will be killed.  The antichrist and his assistant, the false prophet, will be thrown into the Lake of Fire, the eternal hell.  And the devil himself, who so long ago led a rebellion against God, will be locked into a deep pit.

 

Then begins a thousand year rule of the Kingdom of God on earth.

 

Jesus.  It’s time.  Believers can’t wait.  Everyone else doesn’t know what is going on.

 

 

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* SIGN OF THE TIMES: LIVING IN THE DAYS OF NOAH AND LOT

  

Those who are not born again, spirit filled believers just do not know what is happening on earth today.

 

They cannot fathom why there is so much violence and evil and lying and corruption and general disorder and mayhem.  They cannot comprehend why things steadily are getting worse and worse.  They put their hope in humans and in electing new leaders even though they know intrinsically that human leaders have failed greatly in the past.  And since they do not know the Lord and do not have the gift of discernment, they do not know how to pick the best of the candidates for any office anyway.

 

I wonder sometimes what all these people are thinking.  In the US so many continue to work hard to support their families and live, yet the increasing cost of living is great and this is all so very hard. 

 

Those in false religions such as Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism just don’t know.  They are led by false gods, really demons from Satan’s dark kingdom, and they are just lost…eternally lost unless somehow they hear the truth of Jesus and turn and are saved.  That will take an act of God, for as Jesus said no one can come to him unless his Father draws that person to him.

 

For believers, living in the midst of such national and international confusion and violence is difficult indeed.  We all know what is going on and where we are all headed, yet we live in the midst of all the mayhem and confusion and evil.  We see the continuous deception of so many leaders and others, the obvious falsehood, and we still ponder why others cannot see all that even though we know why.

 

Hopefully, the Lord will be here any moment.  We know this is the season of his return.  We know he is coming very soon.  We know that.  It could not be soon enough for us.  The only possible reason for any delay on his part must be that there are still some in that group God chose before the creation of the world to be in the Kingdom who have not yet come to the Lord.  But when I think that, I realize that they could still come to Jesus during the Tribulation or even during the Millennium. 

 

Soon.  I expect soon.  But how are we to live right now in this period.  Well, Jesus himself said his coming would be like the days of Noah and Lot.  Now, putting aside all the terrible immoral behavior of those times, the days of Noah and Lot also had people going about their regular life activities right up until when the flood came and when Sodom was destroyed.  So I take from that we are to be about our normal activities.  For believers, that includes telling others about Jesus and his return as always. 

 

Still, big decisions for some  are looming, such as whether they should move for various reasons, or maybe should they trade in their old car, or how are they going to be able to send their child to college soon.  What do they do about all this?  My only answer is just to continue to live the basic life activities right up to the instant the Lord returns.  If they have just moved when he comes and they are taken to be with him, that move and all that effort won’t matter at all will it?  No, they will just be overjoyed to be with him.

 

I have shared so many words the Lord has said to me in the past about his return, about the surprise and the instantaneousness of it all, about how things will be changed.  He is coming for his CHURCH, his true CHURCH – that body of people who have been called out of the world society into a new organization of which he is the head.  This CHURCH has nothing to do with any of these brick buildings on street corners with all the denominations and organization affiliations and such, other than that some in the CHURCH surely are involved with some of those places.  The CHURCH is the collection of Jesus’ true believers, those who have been born of water and the Spirit, those who seek to do his father’s will, those who have the same innocent faith as little children.

 

How are you to survive all the turmoil and falsehood I referenced at the beginning of this piece?  My suggestion is to keep your eyes on Jesus, keep your spiritual ears attune to hear him and the Holy Spirit and the Father, live in the protection God has for us, ask for more wisdom and guidance always, and listen out for that command from the Lord when he comes.  And of course to keep telling people who Jesus is and that he is coming soon!!!

 

May God keep all of us in the palm of his hands, safe from harm and ready to go, actively doing his will for us now in these final days.

 

                                                                                                      

                                                                                     September 2024

 

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* TAKING A STAND AGAINST STORM DEBBY!

  

Here we are again in August needing to apply the truths and the authority the Lord has given us believers to take a stand against a dangerous storm.  This time it is a rather unusual storm, currently a tropical storm that came ashore initially as a category 1 hurricane in northern Florida and moved into Georgia and now part of South Carolina.  This storm is unusual in that it is primarily a rain event, a really dangerous, potentially historic  rain event.  It appears the storm will travel slowly and stay for days, even until the weekend in Georgia/South Carolina/North Carolina raining and raining and potentially bringing catastrophic flooding. 

 

We believers have the authority to do something about all this.  Remember, Jesus said believers can do the same thing he did, even greater.  He also said he would do whatever believers ask him in his name.  And the Father will give us whatever we ask him in Jesus' name.  And that we can order mountains in our life away.  We can order them to throw themselves into the sea (See John 14:12-14; John 16:23: Mark 11:22-23).

 

The mountain right now for those living in the target areas is the storm Debby.  It's time right now once again to use these truths and the authority the Lord has given us and to put our faith into action.  The gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of power and not just words!

 

So I ask everyone wherever you are to pray against this storm, to take a stand (I personally like to step outside and face in the direction of the storm, raising arm and hand with palm to the storm.  For most of us, that direction would be facing south or southeast at this time.).

 

In your own words, declare something like this: 

 

In Jesus' name, I order the storm named Debby to turn aside from land, to go out to sea and to diminish in power and disappear.  In Jesus’ name, rain cease!  In Jesus' name, I order the storm named Debby to harm no people and animals, no land, buildings, or boats.  And in Jesus’ name, I order no flooding and no further storm surge! 

 

Be bold! You can put this in your own words, but that is what Jesus said we can do.  Remember, he changed the weather.

 

Do it now!

 

                                                                                  August 2024

 

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* VIDEO EPISODE 11 OF THE RETURN OF JESUS SERIES POSTED ON X (FORMERLY TWITTER) AND ON YOUTUBE!!! - WHEN JESUS COMES TO COLLECT HIS BELIEVERS

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We have just posted Episode 11 of our short videos on the Imminent Return of Jesus on both X (formerly Twitter) and on YOUTUBE.  This video has the title:

     WHEN JESUS COMES TO COLLECT HIS BELIEVERS

 

We plan and hope to promote this video in many nations of the world to reach more and more with the gospel.  As you know, huge numbers in many diverse countries have come to these videos over the X network in this past year.  We have a good working relationship with the X organization to help us use their tools to reach more and more.

 

All this of course costs money, and we are grateful to all for your donations so that we may reach more and more with the gospel message in these last days.

 

To view this new video, just click on one of the two links below - one is to our X account and the other to our posting on YOUTUBE:

 

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*SIGN OF THE TIMES: FALLING AWAY IN PARIS

 

FALLING AWAY IN PARIS

One of the great prophecies of things to happen as we near the end of this age is the falling away from God that takes place (2 Thessalonians 2:3).  I write about that falling away all the time because it is apparent in so many places.

Well, the opening of the Olympics should now demonstrate to even the least discerning of believers that the world is deep into falling away from God.  That the organizers and planners of the Olympics and the leaders of France would think it wise to have drag queens hold a mock version of the last supper should shake the very core of any believer.  What does this say?  That there are large numbers of leaders in the world – in this case in the Olympics and in France – that think nothing of shoving their thumb in the face of God.

If I had gone to Paris to attend the Olympics I would be thinking seriously of getting out of there; I would be wondering just how much longer the almighty would let that city endure, or at the very least those involved in that satanic charade called the opening ceremonies.

It is a dreadfully sad time and state we live in on earth today.  Our great joy of course is our knowledge that the return of our Lord is just moments away.  How many we do not know, and yes God surely has unbelievable patience.  Would you in God’s place have watched that drag queen version of the last supper peacefully?  Would you not perhaps have just put your powerful thumb down on those involved and squashed them like the bugs they are?

Well, that is the difference between you and me and God.  He still operates by his timetable and his patience and plan.

But obviously this part of God’s timetable, the time we are living in, is drawing to a close.  And the Lord is coming soon. 

Don’t’ let them go into the night, the Lord has told me.  I’m trying, Lord.  Wake them up, Father!  Wake them up.  Only you can draw them to Jesus!  Wake them up.

What a difficult time we live in!  Even so, never stop doing all you can to help the Father draw others to Jesus.  Ask the Holy Spirit for guidance.  But never forget, we have Jesus’ own words that it is only a few who find it, the way, the real way.  Still we never quit trying.

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WATCHMAN WARNING: STAY ALERT

 

 

Not an easy time or pleasant time to be alive.  Not at all.

 

For just a few paragraphs to set the stage, let’s look at this world around us.  I focus here on the US although much similarly could be said of course about other nations.  In the US so many in the national government as well as in other positions of leadership seem to be acting in such ungodly ways.  Lies pervade their daily public remarks as well as so often the remarks of many of the media that are supposed to inform the public and remain impartial.

 

This is a day of evil like none we living now have ever seen.  I know there have been pockets of untold evil in the past, and moments of evil horror such as under the Nazis in WWII and elsewhere.  But this is a general evil that permeates the lifestyles and behaviors of so many people.  Large numbers obviously do not know they are themselves not telling the truth, or they just don’t care. 

 

Lost, confused people listen to the media and the government, and being ungodly themselves they are led astray.  So we get all the wild, virulent people saying things you know are not true.  But they obviously think they are.

 

This recent assassination attempt on former President Trump has shocked many even in the mainstream community.  Let’s be honest.  Most people living have not lived as adults when there has been such a thing happen in America. 

 

People like me who have lived quite a long time remember the ultimate horror of such a happening when the leader of the country was indeed killed.  The murder of President Kennedy was a horror that still has impact.  And all those living then gradually realized – or at least most did – that we were actually not being told the truth about what had happened.  Turned out more than just the shooter were involved.  The full disclosure of the investigation has not even now been released to the public, 61 years after the fact.  And thus began in full view the time of the national government deciding what is best for the people to know and what is not.  And thus also the beginning of many not trusting the government, a lack of trust that has grown up to today when people do not trust the federal security agencies, do not believe we will be told the truth in situations, do not believe many of the leaders.

 

I write all this as background leading up to a big statement.  And this is it.

 

People, dear people, please pay attention.  The times will only get worse on earth.  We are in the very last days of this human period.  The Lord will come any moment, and I surely hope it is indeed any moment, like today for example.  The Father obviously is still drawing others to Jesus.   We know from scripture how hard it all gets as the days go by, but we believers do know that at some moment we will be taken from this confused, dark world society as the final period of true horror on earth ensues.

 

The antichrist has not yet been revealed, although surely he is waiting in the wings.  When the true believers in Jesus are taken away, he no longer has serious human opposition to his efforts to build the one-world government and the Tribulation will go forward.  Already the UN and the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization are working towards that.

 

Remember always where the truth lies.  It lies in God, in Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, in the Bible.  Pray.  Seek to hear more always.  Live and operate in the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  Use the gifts of the Spirit, especially the gift of discernment, to survive on earth.  The Holy Spirit guides us in all truth.  He tells us of things to come.  He reminds us of things Jesus has said to us.  Remember?

 

There are large numbers of deceived, even deluded people out there, godless people whom the devil readily leads astray.  Living in the midst of all this requires wisdom on our parts and absolute attention to God’s guidance.  His words and his truths are absolute.  They are real and they work.  Remember again Jesus said his believers can do the same things he did, even greater.  Well, are you doing them?  Are you trying to do them?  Are you using God’s tools of protection?  Healing the sick?  Casting out demons?

 

I admit this is an unpleasant time.  I admit I have great difficulty looking ever at reports of what is happening on earth.  But we do need to know what is happening around us surely, so we should try to stay up to date – but just for short periods.  Don’t sit still and blindly listen and watch news programs for hours.  If you do be sure to in Jesus’ name order away from you all evil spirits.

 

You see so many of these people on television in press conferences uttering gobbledygook, lies, falsehoods, nonsense, vitriol, and you see at times they actually believe what they say.  Your heart hurts for them.  They are lost.  They don’t know the truth.  They have no foundation in truth.

 

Jesus has told me so many things about his coming, and I have shared many of them with you.  “Don’t let them go into the night” is one of his statements to me. “When I come things will be different,” is another.  Thank God for that, I say.  And here are just a few more:

 

“Tell them I am coming soon.  My people have their eyes on me.  My people tell the truth.”

 

“It will be like a beacon, like a dagger, a moment, suddenly, no light surprise.”

 

“Tell them I love them.

 

  Tell them to stay focused.

 

  Tell them I am coming soon.

 

  Tell them not to be misled.”

 

Live and operate in the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Pray often and in the Spirit.  Develop your spiritual senses that you will be more discerning in all situations.  And WATCH! as the Lord says.  Be ready for his return.  Stay in the right relationship with him.  Don’t get lost in this lost world in which we all are living now.

 

Remember, our physical bodies may be living in this lost world but we believers – our very selves, our spirits – have somehow been lifted up and even now are sitting with Jesus in Heaven.  Paul wrote about that in Ephesians.  Believers know Jesus.  Believers have Jesus as their Lord.  They are citizens of the Kingdom of God.  They will soon be getting a new glorious body and will be spending eternity in that Kingdom.

 

Hang in there.  He is coming soon.

 

 

July  2024

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