Friday, April 27, 2012

An open letter to the Churches

It has been a little over a year since I wrote this. I still weep when I read it. To those that have an ear to hear it is an encouragement and a call to war.

Hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying, not only to those who misguided the sheep, but to the sheep as well.

Sheep

Sheep (Photo credit: James Good)
I am writing as I have been compelled to write. The Spirit of the Lord tells me that we are of the Laodicean church, and as such we are on the last stand and have failed to hold our ground.
The prophets1 have put forth the call to repent, but you have ignored that call, and instead, induced fear in my people.

You have taken away their hope.

 Most will not receive this, but some will.
 "To the messenger of the church in Laodicea, write: The amen, the witness who is faithful and true, the source of God's creation, says: I know what you have done, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. But since you are lukewarm and not hot or cold, I'm going to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I'm rich. I'm wealthy. I don't need anything.' Yet, you do not realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. I advise you: Buy gold purified in fire from me so that you may be rich. Buy white clothes from me. Wear them so that you may keep your shameful, naked body from showing. Buy ointment to put on your eyes so that you may see. I correct and discipline everyone I love. Take this seriously, and change the way you think and act. Look, I'm standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I'll come in and we'll eat together. I will allow everyone who wins the victory to sit with me on my throne, as I have won the victory and have sat down with my Father on his throne. Let the person who has ears listen to what the Spirit says to the churches." (Revelation 3:14-22 GW)

The call for repentance has gone forth and you have ignored it.
The cry for hearts to turn to me has gone forth and you have rejected it.
I have sent my prophets and you have mocked them.
I have sent my warnings upon this nation, do not put your hope in the idea that there will be more.
I do not recommend you ignore those warnings.
The time of my return for those who are awaiting me is now within minutes in my time frame. Will you ignore that too?

Pastors
I sent you as shepherds to lead and guide the flock, but you have failed. You have not only failed but you have robbed my sheep, and left them as fodder for the wolves. They wander around with no hope and direction. And even though I have told you that you are not in the darkness that this day should creep upon you, that is exactly what is happening to them. 

Read Matthew 25. Do not ignore this warning! 
Although everyone in this parable was invited to the same wedding half were not ready. The oil is not the Holy Spirit for you cannot buy a free gift, therefore the oil is passion and desire, and none of you have that.
The shepherds are foolish. They don't look to the LORD for help. That is why they won't succeed, and all their flocks will be scattered. (Jeremiah 10:21 GW)

 You think you are a success if you have fame and fortune, but I tell you that the first shall be last, and there will be a payment to be made for the damage you have done to my flock.

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My portion under foot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. (Jeremiah 12:10 LITV)

You love to call this time that is coming the Great Tribulation, and it is, but it is also a time of wrath. If you have played the fool with MY people then you will be included in that wrath. 

You can stand there in an attempt to rebuke me, I anticipated that, for that is what Pharisees do, but what in your foolish mind makes you think that you will escape the wrath of God.

Woe to shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture, says Jehovah. Because of this, so says Jehovah the God of Israel against the shepherds who shepherd My people: You have scattered My flock, and have driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Jehovah. Jeremiah 23:1-2 LITV)

Shepherds, you should be leading the sheep. Start crying, you great leaders! Roll around on the ground in pain, you leaders of the sheep. It is now time for your slaughter. You will be scattered everywhere, like pieces flying from a broken jar. (Jeremiah 25:34 ERV)
There will be no place for the shepherds to hide. They will not escape.
(Jeremiah 25:35 ERV)

We were designed for hope, it is the reason we are here.

You shepherds that chose not to attend the flock, have robbed them of hope. You have chosen to preach what people want to hear, and not what I have spoken to you. 

..,the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;“ (Psalms 33:18 BBE)

Be strong and brave, all of you who are waiting for the LORD'S help.
(Psalms 31:24 ERV)

Hope is the main motivation that drives my people toward the end. Hope is the backbone of faith, based in faith, and the reason that we look toward a promised end and rescue from destruction. 

As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Matthew 24:37 AMP)

You have not been bold enough to understand this statement, so I will declare it to you. Evil thoughts and violence filled the heart of everyman, except one, NOAH. I placed him in the Ark, and I closed the door. Then destruction came. In other words, tribulation, coming from people, was all around him, just as is it today.

You have eliminated the talks of hope because you do not believe my words. Did you think that I would not notice such an act of treason. In eliminating hope, you have proven your lack of faith, and shown your distrust of my word, my life, and my resurrection. 

You have robbed my people of hope by your unbelief.

Do you not understand that HOPE was and is an integral aspect of your beliefs. 

I promised and then guaranteed that hope with my body as the payment, when it should have been your body on that cross. 

Do you not understand that the riches of heaven are only yours because of the fulfillment of hope.

Paul challenged the Sanhedrin based on a solid understanding of this hope.
But Paul, when he perceived that one part of them were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, cried out to the council (Sanhedrin), Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; it is with regard to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am indicted and being judged. (Acts 23:6 AMP)

While you have refused to establish hope in people, Paul was willing to be chained because he grasped the promise of hope based in Jesus.

This is the reason therefore why I have begged to see you and to talk with you, since it is because of the Hope of Israel (the Messiah) that I am bound with this chain. (Acts 28:20 AMP)

Abraham – One of the main reasons we are here, had hope.
There was no hope that Abraham would have children, but Abraham believed God and continued to hope. And that is why he became the father of many nations. As God told him, "You will have many descendants." (Romans 4:18 ERV)

Your deficient decision for Jesus Christ, demonstrating your lack of faith, has caused my Church to not know who I am.
Through our faith, Christ has brought us into that blessing of God's grace that we now enjoy. And we are very happy because of the hope we have of sharing God's glory. (Romans 5:2 ERV)

Several translations put it this way: “this grace in which we stand,”, Without hope none of them will stand. 

And what is it that they might have need to stand in?
Faith in adversity?; Faith in my name?; The application of my Word and Name in bringing life to others.
No, you have not taught them that.

They cower and cringe in fear, and if not cowering, they think that they are god’s. Where would they get that idea? Because instead of preaching hope and faith, you preach a message of lust and idolatry.
You created a monster that will be your destruction.

You only have one option, and that is to repent.

Time is short and my patience with you has grown thin. The last days are upon us, and you need to clear your hearts and minds now. You need to restore the broken and lost to health. Ignore this and I will not ignore your wrongs.

The Assyrians are upon you already and you do not even know it. They will show you no mercy, and they will dash your children upon stones, before your feet. 

Repent in humility and weeping, and I will restore you. Turn from me and I will throw you to the winds.

If you are so minded, share this with the pastor of your choice.
Share this with the sheep of your choice. 

I do not wish to see you miss out on the in-gathering of the church to himself, but lacking zealous passion you may. You will deeply regret that as it will be hell for those still here.

Open your bibles and read the second chapter of Joel. Peter stood on the day of Pentecost and declared that Joel's prophecy was fulfilled in their hearing. God opened the door that day to the amazing.

Should you choose to turn to him, he will turn to you. Open your mouth and determine, as watchmen upon the wall that this destruction is not happening on your watch

Declare, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the risen one, that there will be peace and safety everywhere your foot stands. Declare sanity over this nation while you are upon it.

Grow a backbone and act like the man and woman of God you were designed to be.

Son's of Adam, and Daughter's of Eve, I am calling you out. You know who you are. You have heard the calling in your ears for some time now. What is holding you back? Fear? Fear is of the devil and does nothing more than incapacitate you. 

Do something. Shout, scream, cry out, repent over a broken nation. 
Still the enemy and the avenger. 
Have the guts to do something.
You do not have the time or the luxury to be silent.
Hold your tongues and I will hold you responsible. Their blood will be upon your head. (Find it in scripture.)
Cease to be lethargic and uncaring. Awaken to righteousness.
Do something.
Be a fire that will not go out.

Cause a few people to regret the fact that you walked into the room, and make a few glad that you did.

Men and women of God should be the last thing on earth that the unbelieving would ever want to mess with, and first person that they call.

Walk this earth as the prophets walked. BE BOLD, and show the world what the power of God is all about.

DEAR GOD, IT'S TIME.



1Jonathon Cahn, The Harbinger, Subtitled “The Ancient Mystery That Holds the Secret of America’s Future,” The Harbinger is published by FrontLine, an imprint of Charisma House. - This only one of the voices, but if you will take the time to verify and compare you will see that the Spirit is telling all those that will listen to say the same thing.

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Jesus had a thing for hookers.


A former prostitute overwhelmed by the realization that God loved her exclaimed, “Jesus had a thing for hookers.”

Yes, yes he did. But in case you feel left out, he also had a thing for the broken, the poor, the downtrodden, outcasts, sick, demon possessed, and apparently the dead.

You can’t go around making statements like that if you cannot back them up. So here is a few:

Matthew, the tax collector

This man was hated.
Rome only tolerated the tax collectors because of the money, and we can be sure that no decent Jew would have anything to do with him.

Look at what the Pharisees inferred about him.

And having seen this, the Pharisees were saying to His disciples, For what reason with the tax collectors and men stained with such vices and crimes is your teacher eating? And having heard this, He said, No need do those have who are in sound health, of a doctor, but those who are ill; (Wuest’s translation of Matthew 9:9)

Jesus sought Matthew out, not the other way around. A social outcast in Jewish society, his only friends were those who did the same things.

The woman caught in adultery.

John 8:3-11 ISV But the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. After setting her before them, (4) they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of adultery. (5) Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?" (6) They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. (7) When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." (8) Then he bent down again and continued writing on the ground. (9) When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there. (10) Then Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?" (11) She said, "No one, sir." Then Jesus said, "I don't condemn you either. Go home, and from now on do not sin any more."

Jesus did not just stumble upon this situation, they Pharisees, in an effort to trap, hunted this woman down and threw her at his feet. Any good Jew would have stoned her.

Does anyone else ever ask, what happened to the man? Women, unless they are hooking, do not, as a rule, pursue men, it is usually the other way around.
I want so much to believe that this might have been Mary Magdalene.

Try to imagine how she responded to Jesus actions toward her.

I know what religion has tried to teach me; that after demonstrating appropriate contrition of spirit, and an extended investment of time in the Word, she would have come to the full realization that she needed Jesus Christ. This would have led her to a place of public confession of her sins, allowing for the redeeming work of God, and over time she was changed into the perfect person that God intended.

Hog wash.
Having never experience anyone or a love like that, she walked away changed. If it has never happened to you, you will never understand.

I can equate this a couple of ways. A book I read, titled “The Shack” was one that changed me, for I have never understood God to be so personal. I walked away from that book with an understanding of love for the Father, and Jesus, like I had never known before. Sure, I knew that God loved me, from a distance, but now I seemed to know that he cared. Another way I experienced this mercy and love is through the broken path my life has taken. I now understand mercy more than you will ever know.

No, that day she walked away different. She walked away with a longing for a relationship with the man who cared for her.

Could the world see a problem with a statement like that? Of course, and I can understand it. It is our broken nature that prevents us from seeing something like the depth of God’s love; our bodies and mind are incapable of grasping fully what his love is, and how he feels about us. Why do you think there are so many marital failures in the world. Unable to communicate with each other we confide in someone else. That seems ok at first, but then you feel so loved all of a sudden. Your appreciation turns to want and then what happens? In the world, the total destruction of a marital relationship.

Look at what the love of God can do to you, and for you.

Luke 7:36-50 NIV When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table. (37) A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. (38) As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them. (39) When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is--that she is a sinner."

Let’s take a slight break in the passage. Simon (Peter) must have fancied himself a devout Jew. (Peter is a story all his own.) But in case Jesus was not paying attention to his surroundings Peter gives him the update. This woman touching you, (that should not have happened regardless) is a sinner!

I am laughing as I write this. How would Peter have known this? 
 
Luke 7:40 NIV Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." "Tell me, teacher," he said.

Peter tried to straighten out God himself. Instead of chewing him out for his shallow, judgmental, stupidity, he tells him a story (a parable.) This may have been someone who Peter knew, therefore having an even bigger impact on Peter.

Luke 7:41-50 NIV "Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. (42) Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?" (43) Simon replied, "I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven." "You have judged correctly," Jesus said. (44) Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. (45) You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. (46) You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet.

I know it is not important to you, but I have a t-shirt that says, “Actions speak louder than words!” There is a scriptural reference that eludes me right now, but it speaks volumes to me. People can say anything they want, and it can even sound heartfelt, but if you cannot produce then you need to go home. We used to be able to go to the local dairy and get a truck load of that. Your mouth is writing checks that it cannot cash.

This woman did not need anyone to tell her that. She, having been impacted by the loving God, and she is not even forgiven yet, is pouring out her heart in love toward someone who showed her a mercy she had never experienced in her life.

(47) Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven--as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little." (48) Then Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." (49) The other guests began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" (50) Jesus said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

He knew what her sins were, it did not matter. He would have done it all, just for her. All that sarcasm I spouted on about meant nothing to Jesus. There were no hoops, just action. Jesus just got through explaining how it works to Peter. Now here she is, showing, anyway she knew how, that love in return.


I read a book called “Jesus the man” by Kahlil Gibran. I would not recommend it, but there was one thing that I took away from it, and that was Mary Magdalene’s description of Jesus, and his response to her.

She tells of how he came into her “garden” and sat upon her bench. Spying him through the window, she longed for him. He was, to her, a good-looking, muscular man. She described his face, and the relaxed, but far away look as he stared off into the distance.

She approached him and, like the others, invited him in. She knew what she would do with him, but Jesus was different, and he changed everything. He responded to her like no man had ever spoken. He said, “I have loved you like no man has ever loved you.” She said it was like he looked right through her. He seemed as though he knew my every thought, my every deed, and yet would disclose none of them. So vulnerable and yet so safe. Made speechless by his words she stood there. He on the other hand stood, clasped her hand with both of his; thanked her, and turning walked away. She was forever changed.

The man at the pool.

John 5:1-9 NIV Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. (2) Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. (3) Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. (5) One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. (6) When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" (7) "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." (8) Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." (9) At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,

I suspect that this was not the first trip through this area for there is an amazing amount of information about the setting.

Of all the people there why this man? One of the things we know is that he was a Jew. How would we know that? Because, excited after being healed, he did not go home, he apparently decided to celebrate around the temple drawing the attention of the Jewish leadership. They are the one’s that said the law forbids you! They were not concerned with the nations and how they lived their lives, but they were concerned with a Jew that was breaking the law.

Did you ever think about that? This man laid there for years, and yet had a reasonable degree of clothing on. 

What was it about him that said, “I am a Jew?”

There was only one significant indicator and that was the piece of cloth with the tassels that had the blue stripe in it. This is the same piece of clothing that David cut when Saul came into the cave of Adullam to relieve himself.
Someone must have shown some care for the man by the pool, but we can’t find them anywhere.

The story tells us that the entire area was filled with paralyzed and disabled. The NIV called him invalid. Did you ever stop to consider that the word invalid conveys the meaning of unsound. Everyone lying around the pool was unsound, if for no other reason, the lack of intimate relationship with the Father.

Another thing you should have picked up on.
John 5:6 NIV When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

Two things strike me about this. Jesus took the time, to find out something about the man. He learned that he had been here a long time. Why was that important? Asking questions got those around him focused on the subject matter, and perhaps even why. The other thing I notice. Why of all these people, did he choose this man?
I suspect that Jesus, of all people, knew the man's history and ailments, but then Jesus freely gave up his place in heaven to be a man. Did that restrict his knowledge of what was going on? Not at all, but this should come as a relief, everything he did, he gained through the Holy Spirit, just as we can.

The Samaritan woman.

This story baffled me because I could not understand the vile hatred the Jews had for the Samaritans. After going into bondage, one of the kings holding them captive decides that leaving the land vacant is not the best idea, so he substitutes a people in the place of Israel. Samaria then becomes the capital city, and the priests this king brings in to lead the people, take them even deeper in the worship of false gods. The Jews despised them, partly because they were a mixed race, and yet they tried to act the pompous role.

John 4:7-9 NIV When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (8) (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) (9) The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

She could not even come when the other women would come. She had been thrown out of their club, and openly talking to a man was forbidden for a decent woman. 

How did she know he was a Jew? That same identifying garment that the man by the pool had on. She knew exactly what it meant.

What was result of her encounter?

John 4:39-43 NIV Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." (40) So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. (41) And because of his words many more became believers. (42) They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world." (43) After the two days he left for Galilee.

She was the one who told Jesus, “I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” That does not mean that they would know him when he showed up, she just proved that.

How would anyone have known? Sure they had the prophecies, but that required you keeping them in your thinking, and then being on the look out for them to happen. Surely there was someone like that. Daniel was reading through a scroll of Jeremiah, when he realizes that Israel’s captivity is almost over. There is no happenstance, God had everything planned out.

Alright, you are paying attention, looking for the clues, but there were many boys born in Bethlehem that year. Herod knew that as well and had them all killed, and he widened the age range, just in case.

God knew he would have to make himself known. Who was he dealing with? The descendants of Adam, and Adam’s new and not so improved sin nature caused him to try to hide from God. Life between God and man would never be the same. There was only one way to fix it, and that was to restore the relationship by buying the man back. Yes, there is more to it than that, but you get the idea. God had to prove himself at every appearing since.

One of the first outlaw bikers.

Judges 11:1 NIV Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.

There are so many things that seem insignificant in the bible, and yet speak volumes to those paying attention. Jephthah made it into the book of Hebrews’ hall of fame. Merely recounting what he did would have, and should have inspired us all. But it is this phrase, “his mother was a prostitute” that will help to make him.

I called him the outlaw biker, but his life did not start that way, none of them do. They were all cute little babies that did not talk back or slap at you when you touched them. No, something had to make them turn.
One of my favorite old songs was one by Waylon Jennings, and it has a line in it that goes like this, “my heroes have always been cowboys.” Why do you suppose that is? Cowboys were good guys and bad. They could take a punch, or in the case of John Wayne, a bullet or two, and act like it was a scratch. They rescued or rustled, and some, when they got caught and hanged, would still spit at your feet in defiance. They were tough as nails, but they too were cute little babies at some point.

Jephthah was not the only son.

It says that Gilead’s wife, not the prostitute, also bore him more sons. In the chronology of this family it appears that Jephthah was the oldest son. The “legitimate” sons drove Jephthah out of the house. Think about that. Either Gilead hated Jephthah, possibly because there was always some embarrassment associated with who his mother was. Or he taught these other sons this hatred. It just occurred to me that Jephthah may not have grown up in the household directly. Wow, this could get deep, it is certainly getting uglier.

It is clear that Gilead had little control over how decently his other boys acted. The idealistic scenery of the Ponderosa ranch, and Ben Cartright, the patriarch of the family, raising three boys, as a single parent, into the fine men we watched for years on television, did not happen here.

There was some huge breakdown of family values going on here. But to give them the benefit of doubt, the nation was ravaged yearly.

Judges 10:6-8 NIV Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the LORD and no longer served him, (7) he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites, (8) who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

Jephthah is driven out.

Judges 11:3 NIV So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrels gathered around him and followed him.

What causes people to follow you?
For some it might be their eloquent manner of speech. I believe our current President is in office because he said the right things, in a convincing tone. He promised change. Do a little research into what the government plans on doing to it’s citizens and you will agree, change is coming. I do not believe that this was the case with Jephthah. Scoundrels are rarely interested in talk.

David, before he became king, had to flee for his life. As he was “hiding” men gathered to him also. What were they described as? The downtrodden, the poor, the oppressed, the divorced, the hungry, men angry with the government, and generally scoundrels.

Do scoundrels occasionally cause you grief? Absolutely, many have no concerns about democratic process, and you may be king as long as we don’t kill you. Having come back from a battle, where they served a mercenaries, they were all exhausted and hungry. What did they come home to? Nothing, for the town had been sacked and their families were gone. These scoundrels wanted to kill David, for what? It was not his fault. 
 
These men gathered around Jephthah because he had become like them. One of the things that stands out in this story is that Jephthah learned what is was to be a Jew. He would not have been included with that hall of fame distinction if it were other wise. In an attempt to clarify what I am pointing out I will use a line from an old “BC”comic strip, by Johnny Hart. There were several of these in which the cave man would walk along the beach, look down at, or pick up a clam, and make a discovery. This excited so much that he would shout out, in case anyone could hear him. In one instance he shouts out, “clams have scruples!”Jephthah seemed to have scruples.

Living were they did, on the outskirts of town, they seemed to be less affected by the invaders that Israel suffered under. When the leadership of town finally had enough of the invasions they came to Jephthah.

Judges 11:7 NIV Jephthah said to them, "Didn't you hate me and drive me from my father's house? Why do you come to me now, when you're in trouble?"

These same brothers that threw him out were now the town leadership. Something is terribly wrong with that picture. 
 
I love his response, “Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?” As though the trouble did not effect Jephthah. Of course it did, but then they may have just stolen it back.

Jephthah proposes a deal. If I fight for you, then I am in charge; meet my secretary of state! Jephthah did fight for Israel, and ruled over them. Did a fairly good job of it to, for he led Israel for six years.

I guess you can ascertain that Jephthah had the potential of being a real mess. He hung out with scoundrels, and may have been one himself, but God sees something else. God looks on the heart, and knows the character of the person, a thing that many others cannot see.

When you read a story like Jephthahs’ and the aspects that created are not clearly defined, then you have to step back and look at the bigger picture. People are not born killers. Yes, there is a sin nature in all of us, and only receiving Jesus Christ gives us the edge we need to not pursue our natures cataclysmic demise.

I know that there are people that will argue against that statement, so let me point something out. Noah is the example that Jesus gave of what it will be like in the end. Guess what, we are there.

Scripture says:
Genesis 6:5 NIV The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

Genesis 6:12-13 KJV And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. (13) And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

The bible is filled with incredible stories like this, history really. And God clearly had a heart for everyone of them. He chose to use them, taking the messy paths that their lives took them on, and made something good out of it. People that made marked differences in our lives. Chances are we would not be here if it were not for the Jephthahs’, the Jonahs’, and women like Mary Magdalene, for they showed us a God that cares and shows mercy beyond all expectation.

If you were to ask I would tell you to run to Him. He has always been ready to take you in, no matter where life has taken you. His name is Jesus Christ, the risen one.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Se trata de un espĂ­ritu opresivo.

Las piezas del rompecabezas se están uniendo.
Es casi aterrador la rapidez con que veo las cosas en movimiento, pero yo no tengo miedo por mí, estoy preocupado por el 50% que no están esperando ansiosamente su regreso, y los que realmente no sé de él (Lee Mateo 25). También tengo amigos que están tan profundamente arraigadas en los cultos, que sólo la gracia de Dios que les saque. Aun así, a pesar de que "los cristianos" el amor a gritar, "se va al infierno", veo a un Dios amoroso, misericordioso, que sigue para tirar de ellos en el reino. Piensen en eso. Juan vio el martirio por Cristo. Estos salieron de la Gran Tribulación, creció la columna vertebral, y declaró que van a servir al Dios vivo, no Dios, y para que tengan sus cabezas cortados.
No, yo no estoy preocupado por mĂ­ mismo porque tengo una esperanza sĂłlidamente fijado en mi JesĂşs que venĂ­a de arrebatar a muchos de nosotros de aquĂ­, al igual que Lot (prestar atenciĂłn a ese pedazo de la historia), ya que le informa que los problemas le latĂ­a con fuerza en la su puerta esa noche.
2 Pedro 2:6-9 MKJV Y a las ciudades de Sodoma y Gomorra, reduciéndolas a ceniza, les condenó con una caída, dando un ejemplo a los hombres que tengan intención de vivir impíamente. (7) Y le libró al justo Lot , abrumado por la conducta lujuriosa de la ley. (8) Para que los justos que vive entre ellos, de ver y escuchar, su alma justa, fue atormentado día a día con sus actos ilícitos. (9) El Señor sabe cómo entregar las piadosas de la tentación, y reservar a los injustos para un día de juicio, debe ser castigado ,
 GĂ©nesis 19:18-24 MKJV Y Lot les dijo: ¡Oh, no, Señor, (19) por favor, ahora, tu siervo ha hallado gracia en tus ojos, y has engrandecido tu misericordia que has mostrado conmigo dándome la vida . Y no puedo escapar al monte, no sea que me alcance el mal y muera. (20) He aquĂ­ ahora esta ciudad está cerca para huir allá, y es un pequeño. Dejadme escapar ahora allá (¿no es ella pequeña?) Y mi alma vivirá. (21) Y Él le dijo: Mira, yo he aceptado, sobre esto tambiĂ©n, que yo no destruirĂ© la ciudad de que has hablado. (22) ¡Date prisa y escapar de allĂ­! Porque yo no puedo hacer nada hasta que hayas llegado allĂ­. Por lo tanto el nombre de la ciudad fue llamada Zoar. (23) El sol se habĂ­a levantado sobre la tierra, y Lot llegĂł a Zoar. (24) Entonces Jehová hizo llover sobre Sodoma y sobre Gomorra azufre y fuego, de parte de Jehová desde los cielos.
El siguiente es un comentario que le hice a un puesto en otro sitio. Lo he modificado un poco.
Recientemente he incluido algunos comentarios sobre Jonás en uno o mis mensajes, y luego habló de los comentarios de algunos chicos que yo estaba haciendo con el estudio de la Biblia. El líder se negó a escuchar cualquier cosa fuera de lo que había aprendido de Jonás de la escuela la iglesia. Señalé que odiaba a Jonás a los ninivitas, y estaba dispuesto a suicidarse en vez de traerles un mensaje de misericordia.

Dios fue misericordioso con ellos, al ver su arrepentimiento, pero ¿cĂłmo se explica el odio de Jonás. Yo nunca habĂ­a oĂ­do a nadie hablar de ese aspecto, y de repente, en el Ăşltimo par de meses, a travĂ©s de varios caminos, toma un nuevo significado al menos para mĂ­.  
La opresión como usted dijo que era el de Hitler / nazi, el régimen, y la historia es clara en la que éste era el tema de la ninivita régimen también. Tome esta opresión un paso más allá, y usted encontrará el terrorismo desde la base.
cambios terrorismo su forma de pensar, actuar y hablar. Si te aterrorizan, convenciéndolo de que usted se encuentra en grave peligro si se mueve en mi contra, entonces se comienzan a creer que la situación es desesperada, y usted será congelado, miedo de actuar, y ser compatibles con la más ridícula de las demandas. Mal se convertirá en la derecha, porque el opresor lo dice.
NĂ­nive era de los asirios. Ellos no fueron perdonados por Dios en su arrepentimiento, Dios simplemente retenido en su juicio. Muchas personas creen que Dios los perdonĂł, y si ese es el caso, entonces Ă©l habrĂ­a olvidado, pero no lo hizo, porque Dios finalmente llevĂł a cabo su destrucciĂłn sobre ellos, pero no todos. El fondo aquĂ­ es que estamos tratando con un espĂ­ritu satánico, incluso se podrĂ­a decir que es un espĂ­ritu del anticristo. 
NĂ­nive fue la base cerca de la ciudad de Mosul en Irak. Mosul, resulta que era uno de los motivos peor batalla que libramos en, mientras que en Irak, y es muy posible que algunos de los que lucharon contra eran descendientes de los asirios supervivientes. El arqueĂłlogo ha desenterrado los restos de dos grandes montĂ­culos, casi colinas. Todo el mundo alrededor de Mosul era consciente de ellos.
Los asirios fueron el imperio persa, asĂ­ de simple.
¿QuiĂ©nes son los persas? Irán de hoy, pero no sĂłlo Irán, recuerde que estamos tratando y opresivo espĂ­ritu del terrorismo. Ese espĂ­ritu sigue vivo con el pretexto del Islam. La bestia de la escritura va a salir del Islam, y ser llamado el Mahdi. El falso profeta, que el Islam tambiĂ©n se espera, será un sacerdote judĂ­o convertido al Islam, este hombre va por el nombre de JesĂşs, asĂ­, tĂ©cnicamente Isa bin Maryiam, el hijo de MarĂ­a, no de Dios. Este sacerdote judĂ­o / musulmán llevará a cabo todas las señales de circulaciĂłn y milagros que JesĂşs realizĂł no sĂłlo, sino que los profetas tambiĂ©n. El engañará a muchos y hacer que se convierta. ¿Por quĂ©? La opresiĂłn.
El diccionario Webster:
Opriman ', vt [L. appressus, desde opprimo; ob y PREMO, para presionar].
1. Para cargar o carga con imposiciones irracionales, para tratar con la gravedad de injusto rigor, o las dificultades, ya que, para oprimir a una naciĂłn con los impuestos o contribuciones, para oprimir a uno a que le obliga a realizar el servicio razonable.
¿Suena esto como alguien que vuele aviones contra las torres gemelas? No necesariamente, pero los efectos de este acto hacer!
Una vez más me voy al diccionario Webster:
TERROR,
1. El miedo extremo, terror violento, susto, miedo a que agita el cuerpo y la mente.
2. Lo que puede excitar temor, la causa de miedo extremo.

Webster era al parecer un hombre temeroso de Dios, porque él se incluye como parte de su definición, un pasaje de la Escritura de Deuteronomio 32 . Este pasaje dice mucho a aquellos que están dispuestos a escuchar.
La espada fuera y por dentro el terror, deberá destruir tanto el joven y la virgen, la succión también con el hombre de cabellos grises.
Me siento impresionado a agregar un poco más.
Porque son una nación sin sabiduría, ni hay en ellos entendimiento. Si fueran sabios, que comprendieran esto, sino que se entendieran su postrimería! La venganza y la retribución pertenecen a mí. Su pie se deslice en el tiempo, para el día de su aflicción está cercano, y las cosas que vendrán sobre ellos date prisa.

Consiga una copia de "El Heraldo, por Jonathon Cahn . Es una buena lectura, basado en la historia, la profecĂ­a, y Ă©l pone este material a cabo de manera cautivante.

La convocatoria ha salido. 
Estoy prestando atenciĂłn a la llamada, y tratando de actuar como vigilante en la pared, y tocando la trompeta de advertencia tan fuerte como pueda. No voy a tener la sangre de Estados Unidos en mis manos.
Creo que estoy haciendo lo que Dios me ha llamado a hacer, actuar en el ámbito de un profeta, decretando lo que veo y oigo en mi espĂ­ritu, y tratando de despertar a los muertos y el sueño. Si esto no es que entonces les sugiero que se despierta a alguien más, ya que todos sabemos muchos. 
Si toco la trompeta, al ver la aproximación del enemigo, y no hace nada, entonces la sangre caerá sobre su cabeza.
Una de las cosas que pienso cuando escribo estas cosas es Jeremías. Los líderes religiosos le pegó en la cara, lo encarceló en más de una ocasión, y lo dejó morir. Se le preguntó a hacer cosas vergonzosas, y se burlaron de él para hacer ellos. Él clamó a Dios para que lo dejara en paz, tal y como lo he hecho. Y yo me negué durante un tiempo para llevar la palabra de Dios.
Yo no voy a una iglesia profecĂ­a amable, y el liderazgo religioso no me va a tirar si hablo en pĂşblico. Yo no soy un tonto.
Yo tenía un amigo me pregunta, "está seguro de que desea que este papel de profeta?" Al ver que yo soy un poco introvertido, básicamente tímida, y no les gusta llamar la atención sobre mí mismo, NO. Pero las cosas me han cambiado un poco, y aunque otros pueden verme como enojada y media, voy a defender a los que están siendo oprimidos, al parecer, incapaces de defenderse, y lo haré con una venganza.
Me veo obligado a decirte una cosa más. Este no es un llamado a consumirse en el miedo, este es un llamado a crecer una red troncal, y caminar en esta tierra al igual que los profetas de la antigüedad. Comienza a declarar las cosas que no sean como si no lo eran. Aquellos que escuchan vendrá corriendo a usted porque usted sabe que su Dios y no demuestran miedo.

He decidido que el tiempo que mis pies están de pie sobre el suelo de este paĂ­s no va hacia abajo con mĂ­ en Ă©l. ¿Por quĂ©? Porque tengo la palabra de JesĂşs en Ă©l, y yo soy sĂłlo eso anwry. Que decretará que, por mi palabra, al igual que hizo ElĂ­as. Yo sugiero que usted haga lo mismo donde usted vive.


No te atrevas a tratar de hacerme estallar por esto.
Es la falta de gente como yo que han permitido a este paĂ­s a los bebĂ©s de asesinato (al igual que Israel hizo con su culto a Baal y Moloch), y dar la vida y la religiĂłn a los necios. David se arrepintiĂł por su "ataque" en el rey SaĂşl diciendo: "No toquĂ©is a mis ungidos". 
Usted no sabe quién soy. Yo no soy un loco, pero estoy harto de la gente sin espinas, porque lo he visto en mí por mucho a la larga. Ellos caminan por mí en la sala de descanso y preguntar, "es que una Biblia?" Continuando dicen, "Oh, voy a la iglesia en esto y lo otro", pero no tienen ningún interés en hablar sobre las cosas de Dios. Todos ellos huyen. Lo que hacen es hablar de sus idolatrías. Sí, lo dije. Las cosas que sustituyen a Dios con, incluso si se trata de un teléfono pésimo.
Ponte de pie, y estar dispuestos a morir por lo que usted cree. Hay cristianos en países islámicos controlados, mientras hablamos, que están haciendo justamente eso, morir por lo que creen.

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