tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47354699101608020022024-03-05T22:07:30.102-08:00Eyes of YeshuaTo be watchful eyes of God and a voice of reason to warn of the coming of our Lord, Messiah Yeshua in this perilous time.Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-78014051644294531962016-05-30T08:13:00.001-07:002016-05-30T08:13:42.371-07:00Memorial Day, a Day to Remember<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Shalom Beloved on this Memorial Day, 2016. Growing up I remember the Vets who would hand
out poppies on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. When I was very young I didn’t understand the
meaning of it, I just knew I got to wear this special silk flower on my dress
that day. As I grew older, I understood
Memorial Day as a picnic day, usually too chilly for shorts, but we wore them
anyway. Then as a young adult, it was a long weekend, one of the “Monday”
holidays. And now in my wiser years, I
understand that it is a day to Memorialize the young men and women who gave
their lives in the service of this country.
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We are supposed to be thoughtful and prayerful…to think
about the ultimate laying down of one’s life for their country, for the
people. Yeshua/Jesus said it was the
greatest love, to lay down your life for your friends. They went to war to protect this Nation, the
People of the United States of America from our enemies, from Communism, from
tyranny; that we might be free and safe and able to exercise our God given
rights to exist here in peace. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It should provoke a prayerful response for those who are
currently serving overseas. But my
question is, who are they serving? It
isn’t the servicemen and women that I doubt, it is the “Country” they are sworn
to uphold, serve and protect. One of the
greatest things we do to honor Memorial day is to display an American
Flag. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lately I have seen too many reports of American citizens
being forbidden to display the American
Flag to just ignore it. High School Seniors have been warned if they
bring an American Flag onto school property they will not be able to
participate in the Commencement Exercise; Private homes are being sued by their
community associations because it is not in keeping with the “appearance” they
want to convey in their developments. Fire
Depts. Are being forbidden from carrying a flag on the rear of the Fire truck,
I have to almost take a deep breath to write this…<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The reason a city official gave was so astonishing it
prompted this article; he said it reminded him of the trucks on the news
carrying the ISIS flag…he said it makes the firemen into terrorists!!! He said we who display a flag on our vehicles
are terrorist!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Please, someone let me know; did I miss the memo? Did they pass a law removing our Flag as the
symbol of our Nation? As the symbol of
our Freedom? As the symbol of what the
fallen Vets died for? Did I totally miss
the news reports? Is that why our
government officials don’t place their hand upon their heart at the National
Anthem? Was I sleeping when our Nation
was lost? I feel like Rip Van Winkle…like
falling asleep and when you wake up, nothing is the same. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
To love our country now is criminal; can anyone explain that
to me? Where are the people? Doesn’t anyone see what has happened
here? Sheep led to the slaughter…just
get in line, don’t cause a disturbance…it will be over soon. Wake up my countrymen, wake up before it’s
too late… and put a flag on your house; on your car; on your shirt and stand up
and say NO! For the love of God, the ONE
TRUE and LIVING GOD, the Creator of Creation, the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Israel, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t just lay down and give up, hold fast to
what is good and true… don’t let them have what is in our hearts as well. May the Peace of Adonai be with us and
strengthen us…shalom, shalom. <o:p></o:p></div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-8603653189031430862015-12-15T15:06:00.000-08:002015-12-15T16:55:04.987-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
RADICAL CHRISTIANITY VS RADICAL ISLAM</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We live in a
world that has a <i>mantra</i> of tolerance.
We are to be tolerant of other cultures; other sociopolitical positions;
tolerant of religious differences …respecting each person’s choices no matter
how offensive or contrary to our own belief’s they may be. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Unless of
course the culture and religion are Christian; as Christians we are ostracized
for being </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“intolerant," for we insist we have the only true faith. So let us examine this intolerant Christian
Faith and see why the World is justified in its opposing it. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Let
us begin with the very words of the Master Himself, Jesus said:</span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> </span></b><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">“Do not think that I came
to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I
have come to set ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the
members of his household.’</span></i><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> </span></i><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Mat
10:34 -36</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Messiah Yeshua did not bring peace on the
earth…He brought peace with God. When a
person receives Jesus Christ as their Savior, they are removed from the realm
of darkness and translated to God’s Kingdom which is Light! That means the realm or Kingdom of Darkness
regards a Christian as a traitor…no longer a part, for the Christian can no
longer join in with evil and be OK with it…the very presence of a believer in
Jesus can bring conviction upon a person because of their testimony and life
lived in the power of the Holy Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">This immediately can set family members at odds
with a new Christian making it very difficult to live in peace with non-believers. Now some may <i>say</i> they are Christians and
their family member has become radical…religiously obsessed; but you see, the
difference is on that last day, Jesus is not going to know the lukewarm
“Christian”. It is the <i>radicals</i>
He is coming for. What the World calls
radicals, God calls the Saints; people who are born again of His Holy
Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">The Sword that Jesus brought was not made out of
steel by man, but is called the<i> Word of God, </i>because like a double edged
sword it can result in the<i> “<b>piercing right through to a separation of
soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and
intentions of the heart.” </b></i>And if handled skillfully it can bring about
a circumcised heart.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">We are continually accused of not being tolerant
toward Islam; let us look at the <b>Sword </b>of Islam. L</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">ikewise a Muslim family can face division if
one person changes their faith; the difference is the sword that is used. Unlike
the Sword of God’s Word, this one is made by man out of steel. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">And if you go against the teaching of Islam that
sword does not bring you TO God, it takes your life from you through brutality,
bloodshed and intolerance. Islam does
not tolerate any other religion, but we are to tolerate Islam.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">There is a family in Norway in the news right
now; they are a Christian family who has five children. The state has taken the children away from
these parents, because they believe they are “Indoctrinating” them to be
“Radical Christians”. </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/jyrwvl2"><i>http://tinyurl.com/jyrwvl2</i></a></span><i><u><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> .</span></u></i><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">What is a radical Christian anyway?<i> </i>Jesus said: the greatest commandment was
to<i> “</i>… <i>love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your
soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” </i>Jesus also said: <i>“You have heard that
it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you…” </i>Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ taught:<i> <span style="color: teal;"> </span> “ Never take your own revenge, loved ones, but
give room for God’s wrath—for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,”
says Adonai. Rather, “If your enemy is
hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For by doing so you will
heap coals of fire upon his head.” Do
not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”<b> </b></i>Here, the
intent is to shame that person that they might repent of their evil way<b>. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">What about a<i> radical </i>Muslim family<i>…</i>how
might they raise their children?<i> </i></span><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"><a href="https://youtu.be/emcjcqLoBn8"><i>https://youtu.be/emcjcqLoBn8</i></a></span><i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">this little child is learning how to behead his
teddy bear!!! (<b>this video <u>must be seen</u>, this <u>is</u> radical
indoctrination of children</b>) There is no agency on the planet that would
dream of taking these children away from their parents!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Last year the National Cathedral (Episcopalian)
was opened up for Muslim prayer; a Christian woman came to declare that <i>Jesus
Christ is Lord and that He died on that cross</i> (pointing to it) to save us
from our sins…she was objecting to non-Christian prayer being held in a place
sanctified for the Worship of the One True God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ in the context of the New
Covenant. She (a Christian) was forcibly
removed from a Christian Church to make way for Muslims who teach Jesus is not
the Son of God and Christians are to be killed. <span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"> <u>http://www.christianpost.com/news/woman-who-proclaimed-jesus-during-islamic-prayer-service-at-national-cathedral-i-love-muslims-129782/<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I would like
to make clear there is a defection from Christianity. The Bible refers to it as the <i>falling away</i>. This <u>must</u> happen before the Lord comes,
and it is. From
Rick Warren and Chris-lam to the Pope and Interfaith prayer and statements that
imply the God of the Christian Bible is the same as the God of Islam, we see
people leaving right doctrine and running headlong into a One World Religion
where everything and everyone is acceptable to God apart from Jesus Christ. </span><a href="https://youtu.be/1-9PNvcqoB0"><i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://youtu.be/1-9PNvcqoB0</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> This last article came out this week about a
college professor at Wheaton College donning a hijab as a statement of
solidarity with Muslims. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>"Larycia Hawkins, a political science professor at the Wheaton Illinois, evangelical higher education institution, explained on her Facebook page that she will be wearing a hijab to work, class and church. Hawkins, who has been on the Wheaton faculty since 2007, further asserted that not only are Muslims her neighbors, but they also "worship the same God."</i> </span><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%;"><u>http//www.christianpost.com/news/wheaton-college-prof-to-wear-hijab-during-advent-to-show-solidarity-with-muslims-152329/</u></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Please read this link a-nd all the others above. They are short enough but very important for
you to see). </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is
happening because of a lack of sound doctrine; heresies are tolerated in the
church; un-Biblical spiritual experiences and practices supersede clear Bible
teaching. Eternity is promised to many,
many people in the churches that Christ Himself does not know. <i>Matt 7:22, 23; Matt 25:12</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<i style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An ISIS Sharia judge has issued a chilling fatwa, or religious
legal ruling, which orders the killing of babies with Downs syndrome and other
birth defects, according to a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Mosul-Eye-552514844870022/?fref=nf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #135390; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">report</span></a> by the Iraqi activist group Mosul Eye. The group
posted on its Facebook page, that more than 38 children between the ages of one
week and three months have already been killed by lethal injection or
suffocation. </span></i><i style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
ruling was issued by the <a href="http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/56179/arab-israeli-idf-soldier-defects-to-isis-idf/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #135390; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ISIS</span></a> Sharia board, and specifically by a Saudi Sharia
judge named Abu Said Aljazrawi. The fatwa authorizes ISIS members to “kill
newborn babies with Down Syndrome and congenital deformities and disabled
children”, according to the report</span></i><i style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">.</span></i><i style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><u><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/56282/in-latest-genocidal-move-isis-issues-fatwa-ordering-murder-of-disabled-babies-middle-east/#5Ya98WE9ZLxWOkDh.99</span></u></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My
wonderment is complete in this; all of you who </span><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">say</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> you are followers of Christ and yet are sympathetic
and supportive, even affirming to Islam, can you <i>not</i> see? can you
<i>not</i> read for yourselves their own laws and teachings out of their “holy” book? In truth you are deceived if you can support
this and believe you belong to Jesus Christ. Soon everyone will know when He comes to the threshing floor to winnow
the wheat…we will see who are wheat and who are the chaff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is the
crux of it; yes, true Christianity maintains that there is no salvation outside
of Faith in Jesus Christ. However, Christians do not impose this belief on anyone;
it is something that each individual must choose. God sets the pattern from the beginning in
the Garden of Eden; there are two trees, one good one evil…choose! In the Torah, the curses are read from one
mountain, the blessings from another …here is life and death, God counsels,
choose life! Jesus called us to witness
of the Truth that people may choose. He
did not chase people down, nor did He threaten.
Jesus did tell us all plainly that hell was real, but there is a way out
of that destination through Him…but you must choose. So you get to <u>not</u> choose Him; that is
your choice. You can live out the rest
of your days and prosper and do as you please, believe as you like…But Jesus is
still the Truth, whether you believe it or not.
If I am to stay faithful to Christ, and Islam demands my conversion I am
deprived of my life because there is no choice; convert or die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I pray first
for the lost who are in the church; for these are in the worst possible
predicament. To be lost and in the church means you are deceived and deluded
into believing that you are just fine and <b>it doesn’t matter what you believe</b>,
it is enough or what you <i>do</i> is enough or <b>nothing matters</b> because
the whole world will be saved whether you believe or don’t; love or don’t; follow Christ or don’t. You all are to be most pitied and I pray that
the Mercy of our Father in Heaven will send laborers to you that you will
listen to before it is too late, time is almost up. Shalom, shalom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-11856714628950816962015-11-15T20:20:00.001-08:002015-11-16T09:43:54.299-08:00THE FALL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I love autumn….it seems to be the foundation of my life rhythm. Without realizing it, even from childhood my
year began in September… coinciding with the start of the new school year…<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
As an adult Messianic believer, my year still begins in
September with Yom Teruah/Rosh Hashanah.
God must have built HIS time clock inside of me. Before the Exodus, the Biblical year began in
the month of Tishrei which corresponds to September, today it is still the
beginning of the civil year when the date actually changes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It is believed that Yom Teruah is also the Birthday of the
Word/Adam…perhaps even more is beneath this season with a beauty all its
own. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I enjoy every stage of autumn, the turning of leaves and the
hunt for pumpkins as we drive down the road…most of all it is the fragrance
that is uniquely fall; that musty-damp smell leaves give off especially after a
rain…don’t forget the smoky smell of burning piles of leaves.
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In past years I have noted the colors; so brilliant are the
reds, golds and orange…it looks like God painted them with fire…this year I
began to see something else. We call it
the “fall” season, a time when lively things we loved all summer, the flowers, our
vegetable gardens…the trees …begin to fade and die. All the life and beauty and
fruitfulness are now ended and ending…<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The trees that are wonderfully dressed in glorious garments
of green leaves and fruit have changed the color of life for a color of
fire…appearing to be consumed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then the trees begin to shed their leaves, they are left
<i>bare-naked</i> if you will and a pall of death comes upon them….and there is no
sign of life…<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Our Creator sends a blanket of snow, a purifying of sorts to
cover them in this dead state; almost sorrowful in appearance, these skeletal
towers that were once so alive. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It is interesting that many times in scripture men are
likened to trees. From the Garden of
Eden to even the New Covenant…what is our Lord trying to teach us? Is the autumn the season of the “fall” of
man? Is this season a reminder to us
that no matter how alive you may appear to be, death will come as it did to them? <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ishah, the woman mistakenly believed that death would be
instant; when beguiled she reached out her hand and did not die, she thought
the serpents lie was true, “ye shall not surely die”…but even the serpent
understood the words of <span style="font-size: x-small;">YHVH</span> Elohim...if you eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…surely ye shall die or <i>dying
you will die</i>. The process of death
would come and ultimately overtake them.
Just like the trees begin to show signs of dying leaves…until there is
nothing appearing to be alive, the first parents were left naked and bare before the Creator.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The winter takes some trees away and they do not
return…others seem to be only ‘asleep’ until life comes into them again. Not all of mankind will be resurrected to
eternal life one day…some will never see or taste life again but will be left
to the burning, an eternal state of death.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
When a tree is dead, it must be
cut down.<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mat 3:10 and now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees:
therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast
into the fire. </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But God gave even the trees hope…hope for new birth and redemption. <br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Rom 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly but because of the One who subjected it—in hope </b></span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>21 that the creation itself also will be set free from bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of the children of God. </b></span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>22 For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers birth pains until now— </b></span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>23 and not only creation, but even ourselves. We ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Holy Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly wait for adoption—the redemption of our body. </b></span></i></span><br />
<br />
As the snows of winter begin to give way to
warming temperatures of early spring and the sun grows stronger, the hope of
new life breaks forth with buds on the trees, again they spring forth and are
clothed in their glory once more; once more alive and fruitful, arms uplifted
in praise to our God for His goodness and faithfulness…for He promised.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in;">
<i><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Gen 8:22</b></span></u></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b> ...while all the days of the land remain, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not
cease.” </b></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
Messiah Yeshua made a promise to all people who would believe in Him;
to trust Him to save them from their sins, to secure eternal life for them…</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">John 11:25 Yeshua said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life!
Whoever believes in Me, even if he dies, shall live. 26 And whoever lives and
believes in Me shall never die... <o:p></o:p></span></b></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
So as we are taking in this season and preparing for the cold of
winter, enjoying the beauty that comes with the fall, may we remember as we
gather with loved ones over the holidays that will bring this year to an
end...like the trees we too will fade and lose the glory of this life and one
day return to the earth to await the “Spring.<br />
<br />
Share Messiah Yeshua with those you love who do not know Him. For if you have trusted Yeshua/Jesus and have
received eternal life, then you know you will be revived and live with Him
forever.<br />
<br />
Don’t let your loved ones be cut down and cast into the fire without
trying to reach them with the Gospel of Grace; the amazing love of God in
giving us His only begotten Son who paid the cost for our sins and set us free forever. Now we can boldly and freely come to the
Father through His Son Yeshua without fear, without judgment or condemnation.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Praise God</span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"> from whom all blessings flow! </span></b></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> May the Lord bless you and keep you…Until next time...shalom
beloved.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></i></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-41377001514480717732014-12-22T21:30:00.000-08:002014-12-22T21:30:53.447-08:00Light in the Darkness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Shalom Beloved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Tonight is the
seventh night of Chanukah. I wanted to share some things that stand out to me
in this season, that I hope will bless you and be revelation to you as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chanukah means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dedication; </i>it is called the Festival of
Lights. In the days of the Maccabees in the intertestamental time, the Jewish
people miraculously defeated the invading Greek army and drove them out of
Jerusalem and out of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpX7qAv4ZOMuoU_9WfQYMRKIpL1prO2jVp-niIvO8B3MO51f6cXGUVZtKxuKWm6evudq4e6-a6bnTQf28kWka4dYa7nX7IwkRuJ2hD7khUItrVq8mRYJdzxLQ0kyla6E-fhRVHz-cR7Ar/s1600/th3UK6RM2N.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpX7qAv4ZOMuoU_9WfQYMRKIpL1prO2jVp-niIvO8B3MO51f6cXGUVZtKxuKWm6evudq4e6-a6bnTQf28kWka4dYa7nX7IwkRuJ2hD7khUItrVq8mRYJdzxLQ0kyla6E-fhRVHz-cR7Ar/s1600/th3UK6RM2N.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Holy Temple
had been defiled and had to be cleansed and restored and dedicated once
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they went to light the
Golden Menorah, they found only enough oil for one day; they lit the Menorah
anyway and it burned for eight days, not just one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7VnuSby7zLzfexj9QJVIUygGawP9vnc2wxOurLDXu9s6hqBfajLwt3877Vt2AL3FyTCUO45h6cVgsaDJ_bteOO0o2vJ4tWp4-Qq_hEWcIcqYNzxY4M0O4XXIaVBj8_-tS59DJxG-B1sEX/s1600/SB_48964533.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7VnuSby7zLzfexj9QJVIUygGawP9vnc2wxOurLDXu9s6hqBfajLwt3877Vt2AL3FyTCUO45h6cVgsaDJ_bteOO0o2vJ4tWp4-Qq_hEWcIcqYNzxY4M0O4XXIaVBj8_-tS59DJxG-B1sEX/s1600/SB_48964533.jpg" height="195" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Yeshua makes the
claim “I AM the Light of the World”…He then tells us, “you are the light of the
world”. We as Christians understand our place in this world to be salt and
light, to bring truth to those who walk in darkness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is customary when we light the Hanukkiah
in our homes during the days of Chanukah, to place it in a window so the light
can be seen.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
Chanukah does
not always fall at the same time, last year it began on Thanksgiving!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year, Chanukah ends on Christmas
Eve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, tonight is the seventh
night of Chanukah and it is also the new moon. The new moon is the darkest
night of the month and we just had the winter solstice which is the darkest day of
the year, the least amount of daylight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nature itself is proclaiming darkness on the earth right now. December 22 is also significant, for the number 22 means "LIGHT"!</div>
<em>Light is used twenty-two times in the Gospel of John. The 22nd time John uses the word, he quotes Jesus: "I have come as a light into the world . . ." (John 12:46). Christians are to walk in the light of Christ (John 3:21), and be the light of the world (Matthew 5:14 - 15).</em><br />
<em>The apostle Paul’s epistle to the Hebrews, written to Greek-speaking Jews and Gentiles, is the 22nd book of the New Testament.</em><br />
<a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/22.html">http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/22.html</a><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxhJHXp3-DWa6C3llZgX7RcTQkLP4o9jaYkCxGuW4uUEhjBBivivgZFVdHmh0T40gTLtodh8u2LUaALrOEwtvVLrwg15lCNIqa8zmWeja1hyphenhyphen5J-ngkVBxkgi5a8ayvAHVDNryaAZRIPrE/s1600/thB0UVWF57.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxhJHXp3-DWa6C3llZgX7RcTQkLP4o9jaYkCxGuW4uUEhjBBivivgZFVdHmh0T40gTLtodh8u2LUaALrOEwtvVLrwg15lCNIqa8zmWeja1hyphenhyphen5J-ngkVBxkgi5a8ayvAHVDNryaAZRIPrE/s1600/thB0UVWF57.jpg" height="200" width="191" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Our
menorah is almost complete, and the brightest it will be, at the darkest
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I see this through the eyes of
prophecy…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Isa
60:1</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the
glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>60:2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon
thee. </span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">So, my dear friends I am not going to write a
long, deep teaching…just a reminder to look up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For the days are dark, the spiritual darkness is the worst it has been
perhaps since the days of the holocaust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even worse…for it is not just the evil of ruthless men who want to
conquer; but it is a deep rooted godlessness that is growing daily-
exponentially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Glory of God is coming to us who love
God, who love Yeshua/Jesus our Messiah and have trusted Him and are waiting for
His appearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">So let this night be a reminder in the darkness….let
the Light of Yeshua shine bright within you…like the Menorah in the window,
shine for all to see Him who your soul loves…JESUS CHRIST is Lord, God and KING….HALLELUJAH!!!!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">60:3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy
rising.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">He is coming quickly, </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">hold that
fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown… Maranatha…till next we meet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-91863830542035430612014-07-04T08:10:00.000-07:002014-07-04T08:15:57.668-07:00Astonishment!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Shalom Beloved, <br />
<br />
I have been relatively speechless. I am gripped with astonishment! That is a word I would never normally use, but I believe it is a word the Holy Spirit gave to me. Today I would like to take a minute if you would bear with me, and share my journey into astonishment.<br />
<br />
The mercies of God were granted to me when I was 34 and Yeshua my Lord reached down into my ignorance and complacency and saved me. I left the Catholic Church almost immediately and found myself in a growing, "Family Friendly" Church that was newly planted for only 2 or 3 years. At first I was like a child on Christmas morning, all wide-eyed and full of joy and wonder. But little by little my naiveté began to wear thin as confusion set in on account of what I was witnessing in my super-church and what I was reading in the Bible...I was conflicted and did not understand how the two seemingly different experiences were to mesh together. I was under terrible spiritual attack, and this church was supposed to be full a wise, loving and mature believers...but no one was able to help me...and the help that was offered only made things worse.<br />
<br />
I had a Pastor that wanted to preserve an image for the Church that would make it more <em>marketable</em>. I was such a young believer and had no real background in the Bible, everything was new and overwhelming to me...the enemy was much stronger than I had ever imagined, at least it seemed so to me at the time. The Pastor did not like problem people like me, so he preached a message entitled "<em>Fruits and Flakes</em>." It was supposed to be light hearted, even humorous, talking about dealing with the people in our lives we really don't like to be around. The problem was, I knew it was directed at people like myself who were suffering, and I did not see the humor.<br />
<br />
I say all that to say this, after six years of staying loyal to this community, watching deceptions, manipulations, hurt and misuse of scripture and a concern for only numbers and dollars, I left. Those were formative years in my walk and it felt like coming from a broken home. Within a few years of leaving I had a dream. In the dream I returned to visit my old congregation.<br />
<br />
I walked into a busy foyer in the dream and saw tables along the walls selling tickets for events like a Rib Burn-off...I came into the sanctuary and the Pastor saw me and waived for me to come to the front row. He acted like we were old friends, I was perplexed to say the least. The stage was right before me, and the room was packed. The Pastor came out and announced, <em>Heeeres the Show Folks!!!</em><br />
<em></em><br />
He gestured to the back of the room where there was a second stage, everyone turned around, the curtain opened and an Ice Show began! I stood up, and without realizing, I made my way up the aisle and up onto the stage, I was in utter <em>ASTONISHMENT!</em> suddenly, the Pastor was in my face angrily shouting "What are you doing here?!" End of dream.<br />
<br />
I believe the dream was a synopsis of the next stage of my spiritual life. I was to walk through many experiences in many different ministries around the country as an observer. Sort of an "eye" of God. This is a phrase the Lord used for me once, but it has taken a long time to understand. I was first called to be a Watchman, but I didn't know what I was watching for...we must have our eyes open and see and hear what God is showing us sot we can "Cry aloud and spare not!"<br />
<br />
I am now in the home stretch of my 20th year of walking with my lovely Lord Yeshua, who has been so gracious, patient and loving toward me; and in all those years He has allowed me to witness things I wish I never saw. I so wanted the <em>Protestant </em>Church to be the faithful remnant with such a rich heritage founded on the Blood of Christ, confirmed by the blood of saints and martyrs, right doctrine, striving to live for Him and show the World a better way...but it is not like that by a long shot. I was born into the end of the Church age. I have a son in his early twenties who also is feeling somewhat robbed. He mourns the loss of the America his father and I grew up in even his grandparents era, the loss of a true church family experience that was a genuine community of people loving God, each other and their country. He grieves that he may never have a family of his own and grow old with his grandchildren around him....I feel the same about the Church.<br />
<br />
Messiah's words ring in my ears and heart and He carefully warned this generation of the things that would come. He reaffirmed His warnings through the writers of the New Covenant telling us of the deceptions and lying signs and wonders, wolves in sheep's clothing, those who would exploit and slaughter the sheep for gain. But we, as a generation have not heeded the voice of warning that was sent so far ahead for us. How dare we condemn the Jewish people of Jesus day for not recognizing their Messiah,<em> they had the prophecies, how could they miss Him?! </em>We are doing the same thing.<br />
<br />
I have written about these things before, but I must continue to cry out, I pray someone will hear...<br />
I have been sitting here, still and speechless as I see the silent devastation of God's House. I causes me to recall the Passover in Egypt. Where the blood of the Lamb was applied to the house, the death angel that swept down upon the land was not able to enter. That spirit of death and destruction has descended upon our land, and every house, every Church that does not have the Blood of Lamb covering it is susceptible to the spirit of death, a counterfeit of the Holy Spirit that has come to seduce the many away from Christ. <br />
<br />
In the same way that arsenic works, little by little, undetected until it is absolutely lethal and there is no remedy, no going back, deceptive doctrines delivered by friendly, smiling, seemingly sincere people who talk about love and Jesus are fed to the sheep by spoonful's. First they take away the holiness of God and make Him casual, come as you are...God is every one's buddy. He doesn't mind that you come in the least of what you own...respect we would give to a dignitary on the earth is not given to our Creator! Casual Christianity removes the Fear of the Lord.<br />
<br />
Then we preach another Gospel, which is no gospel...no Cross, no Blood, no sin...just Dr. Jesus who will fix your problems and make you rich. Then the sin of Satan, who wanted to be like God, we begin teaching we are "gods". In the Book of Revelation we all know or should know about a star that would fall called Wormwood...meaning bitter. But in the Torah, the wormwood refers to Idolatry. What?! Idolatry in the Evangelical church? Man is becoming the object of worship. Our generation is worse than all, for they at least were ignorant and feared imagined gods they could not see... but we know man is not god nor will he ever be. There is only one God-Man, Yeshua our Messiah. There is no other mediator between man and God.<br />
<br />
We have been seduced by men and women who say they come in the Name of Christ, they say "I am Christ" Jesus said...what are they saying? I am "anointed"! They are not declaring the Messiahship of Yeshua, listen..."I am anointed". We are warned by these false teachers not to come against them, "touch not God's anointed". It is a satanic trap my brother's and sister's. This false movement is devouring the entire Church. If you are born again and have the Spirit of Grace within you, God will keep you and show you the way out. If you are deceived, believing everything they say, everything you feel and see and experience...you are in great danger!<br />
<br />
Dominionism, Kingdom Now, Third Wave, Christian Reconstruction and New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is the same spirit that conceived Catholicism; it is the Mother of Harlots, it is repackaged for a new generation who are ignorant of the past. Revelation speaks of a Harlot Church on seven hills, which all Biblical scholars know is Rome/the Vatican. This new movement boasts also of divine revelation that is new and outside of the Bible using a model of Seven Mountains. It is leading everyone to the pit of hell<br />
<br />
Two main vehicles are used to hook people into them, the first is false doctrine and evil practices as taught through <em>Alpha Course. <a href="http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/alphacourse.htm">http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/alphacourse.htm</a> </em>Please open the link and read through the articles, it is vital information that needs to be shared.<br />
<br />
The next area is the downplay of the Holy Scriptures. Teachers mock those, who like the Bereans search the scriptures to see if what is taught is true. They set up the atmosphere for their false teaching by holding a Bible and with mirth offer a scripture to all of those who have to have a Bible verse to back everything up! In the Dark Ages of Roman Catholic Apostasy, the enemy made sure the Bible was not available to the people. It was forbidden! Now it is being presented as legalism, not as important as the "spirit", but is it the Word of Truth, it is our only plumb line to know if something is truth or error...why else would the devil tell you put the Bible away. They are teaching that Doctrine is evil, it causes division! The new mantra is UNITY...doctrine will be sorted out when we get to heaven!!! Without sound doctrine, they won't get to heaven!<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span style="color: teal; font-size: small;">2Ti 3:14</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> But continue in the things that you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned </span><span style="color: grey; font-size: small;"><span style="color: grey; font-size: small;">them</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;">15</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> and that from a babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. </span><span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span style="color: teal; font-size: small;">16</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> All Scripture </span><span style="color: grey; font-size: small;"><span style="color: grey; font-size: small;">is</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, </span></strong></em></span></span><dir><span style="color: blue;"> </span></dir>The last area I want to mention, and by no means have I spoken of all the problems or heresy, only a few that are pressing on my mind, is music. It is interesting in Babylon we see the use of music that caused all the people to bow down before Nebuchadnezzar's statue of gold. Isaiah gives us a clue that Lucifer himself was connected to the Worship of God with instruments. The blood line of Cain, the son of the wicked one made instruments. A secular sticker proclaimed, "Music Defines Society".<br />
<br />
<br />
Few of us would disagree that it is music that radically changed the moral base and landscape of American society. For the last 60 years we have been on a slippery slope of depravity that has been ushered in, reinforced and promoted by music. It is a very strong weapon of the enemy, and he has not spared the church from it. We must never think that Satan will come in a blatantly evil form. He masquerades as an angel of light. His music speaks of love and peace and joy and freedom. He sings about chains falling off and people being set free...the set up for "ministry' and the laying on of hands so the power can deliver people. But Jesus said, you shall know the <strong>Truth!</strong> and the <strong>Truth</strong> shall <em>make</em> you free...who is the Truth? Therefore, if the Son shall <em>make</em> you free, you shall be free indeed...the Truth is the Son! <br />
<br />
We are quoted the verse that speaks of the anointing that breaks the yoke...it is used to indicated the power of the Holy Spirit in deliverance, again rendering the Holy Spirit as a substance. When in fact it is misapplied. The word in Hebrew is <em>shemen,</em> which actually means "oil" or fat not the same root as the Word Mashiach or the Anointed. In context, it was the Assyrian oppressor who would corrupt his own way by luxurious living, fatness. Scholars do not agree on how to understand this verse, but spiritually applied, it points to the anointed Messiah, Yeshua, would break the yoke of our bondage to sin and the oppressor Satan.<br />
<br />
I had a second dream about sound. Several years ago "prophets" began spreading a word about a "new sound" coming. In my dream I began to drive across a large bridge, a rushing river came up from behind and caught up my car on the bridge, above me was another higher bridge and someone was standing on it sounding a shofar; on the pedestrian walk of my bridge was a man walking and sounding a conch shell, making a similar sound...but I knew it was counterfeit, because a conch shell is unclean...we have the Holy Spirit being poured out in this hour for salvation, for the Lord is nearer than ever. But the sound announcing His coming, the higher voice of sound doctrine and true worship is countered with a counterfeit earthly sound of sensual worship that lures people away.<br />
<br />
The church is not questioning the theology behind songs in church or even on the radio, as long as it speaks of <em>good</em> things and maybe, occasionally mentions "Jesus". The music is a set up for the false message. Please, please, test EVERYTHING! <br />
<br />
Lastly, please go to Global Sphere's website and look at who are members of the NAR. It is unthinkable to me so see many who at one time appeared to adhere to Biblical and sound doctrine led astray by this aberrant teaching and movement who teach believers are "little gods".<br />
<br />
<u><a href="http://www.globalspheres.org/northamerica.asp">http://www.globalspheres.org/northamerica.asp</a></u><br />
<br />
<a href="http://arkhaven.org/dominionism_trojan_horse_in_charismatic_movement.htm">http://arkhaven.org/dominionism_trojan_horse_in_charismatic_movement.htm</a><br />
<em></em><br />
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-26825374700286784372014-07-03T22:20:00.002-07:002014-07-04T08:10:42.136-07:00Good Without God?!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: David; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Isa 58:1</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: David; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Cry aloud,
do not spare, lift up your voice like a ram's horn, and show My people their
rebellion, and the house of Jacob their sins. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">Tonight I cannot greet the reader with “Shalom Beloved”. My writing is not addressed to the beloved in
Christ at this time, but to the “church” that has sold out. I can no longer remain silent. I have
had all false doctrine I can stand.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">I was searching for a Christian -family film and found a movie called
“Anything is Possible”. At first it
started out like most low budget Christian films, but a little way into it I
found myself looking for some indication that it was indeed “Christian”. It was not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">The story is about a military family and the mom is called up to go to
Japan after the earthquake for a search and rescue mission. The child is somewhat special needs, but that
is kind of downplayed. The mom comes up
missing and presumed dead. It is
revealed that the child was hers, but not her husbands…he married her after her
child was born but they never told him that he was not his real dad. Unfortunately the “dad” had no real legal
claim since he never officially adopted the boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">Long story short, the child ends up in an orphanage temporarily while the dad petitions the
court. In the meantime, the child
refused to consider his mother dead and says she is only <i>MIA</i>. But something
miraculous happens as he sits down at a piano; he already has some knowledge of
how to play, but suddenly his skill is concert level. Clearly
he is a savant. The orphanage is in
need of a financial miracle and decides to use his mysterious talent to raise
money with a benefit concert. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">Now here it comes…before the concert this ten year old child tells his
dad he cannot <i>feel</i> his mom anymore
and asks him if he will ever see her again, sadly the dad answers no. The child now full of despair needs a pep
talk and a reminder that “all things are possible”…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">The child goes on stage and dedicates the song to his mother and plays
like a professional pianist for the whole evening. For his closing he sings a song, (apparently he
can now sing as well), the lyric goes something like this: “If you believe in <b>yourself</b>, anything is
possible”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">They drive home after the concert and miraculously the wounded mother
comes out of their house to greet them and they are tearfully reunited. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Nice movie, full of hope, </span><i style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">good</i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">
and kind people, love, FAITH, and even the </span><i style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">words
</i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">of Jesus, well kind of…partially…but oh yeah, no God. Yes, that’s right... good… without God. But notice, when dad thought mom was dead, he
told her child he would </span><i style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">never</i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> see her
again, no hope, not eternity…how tragic.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Pastor Mega-church, who has not the courage to take a stand when
directly asked if Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation; who is not willing to
speak the truth but fabricates philosophies; who reduces the Gospel to one of many </span><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.53px;">fairy tales</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> the world has
to offer…you have helped this to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Dominionists, Latter Rain, Manifest Sons, </span><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.53px;">Re-constructionist</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">, NAR…you
have so many aliases I have to cut it off here or we would need a whole page;
you who preach your lies of </span><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.53px;">Universal-ism</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> and world Domination; social reform, you
have helped this to happen…for you allude to a Christianized world with your
social gospel, which is no gospel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">A social gospel that conquers seven spheres of influence in society that
takes over seven mountains of society, are you all out of your minds? Your social gospel that reforms the world has
promoted godlessness; goodness without God; or should I say you have become <i>god</i> makers since you believe you are
“gods”, but you left out the One True and Living God as you deify man! It makes me sick to my stomach to see the
abuses of God’s word. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">When are you going to wake up foolish church and see that your aberrant
teaching is going to get you a closed door in your face…will it take another
Babylonian captivity to wake you when suddenly you come to grips with the
reality of all the lying prophets, as in Jeremiah’s day that told you everything
was going to be just fine and you are going to take the world for Christ!? Christ does not</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> want this world, all He wanted
was souls.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">His Kingdom is not of this
world.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Constantine already tried
Christianizing pagan idols…doesn’t work.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">I attended a ministry conference that was in our city…these poor
people. They stood there listening to
prophecy that I have heard almost word for word given over and over for the
last ten years; even promising a child of 12 when she is ready for college, God is going to give her a full scholarship and special gifts and blessings along the
way…everyone erupts in screams and shouts of joy…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">Our planet is dying; the Pacific
Ocean is dying and cannot be healed because of Fukashima. Whole species are being wiped out; mass animal deaths have been happening since
2011; ISIS has declared the long awaited Caliphate, do you realize it the rise
of the second Beast? Do you care? Israel
is on the brink of Psalm 83 war, the rest of the world is at war or threatening
it; Islam is growing bolder, more
aggressive and stronger seeming by the day; and our economy along with the rest
of the world is on the brink of collapse… <i>a
scholarship to college in 6 years, really?!</i>
What planet are you all living on?</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The New Caliph, al-Baghdadi
said the Islamic state was a land for all Muslims regardless of nationality,
telling them it <i>“will return your
dignity, might, rights and leadership.” </i></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“It is a state where the Arab and non-Arab, the white man and black man, the
easterner and westerner are all brothers," he said, trying to broaden his
base beyond the Middle East. "Muslims, rush to your state. Yes, it is your
state. Rush, because Syria is not for the Syrians, and Iraq is not for the
Iraqis. The Earth is Allah's."</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">1Co 10:26</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> For the earth <i>is</i> Yahweh’s, and the
fullness thereof. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: David;">We have lost this world, God is bringing this to a close and Christ Jesus
is ready to step back into time to set things right and heal this planet for
His Kingdom; not to establish a refurbished satanic kingdom. Wake up while you still can. You false preachers and teachers, money
lovers who traffick in men souls, repent and do what is right in the sight of a
Holy God and speak the <b>whole truth</b>
at all cost so that the people may be saved.
May God Almighty have mercy on us all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-28939733267777938652014-06-22T18:33:00.001-07:002014-06-23T11:33:30.794-07:00LAND OF CONFUSION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shalom
Beloved,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Are you
unclear what it means to live in “Babylon”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is the land of confusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything
and everyone is not what they seem, even in the Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say, church, and not the Body of Christ
because not everyone in the church is in the Body of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only those who are born from above by the
Spirit of Grace are in the Body.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><br />
</span></span><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #77933c; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #77933C; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent3; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> …Judah was taken into captivity when they did not keep the Shmitah or Sabbatical years
for the land.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">They were captive for 70
years or 1 year for every Sabbatical year missed.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">The Church entered into a Babylon state
when they forsook the teaching of the Torah and essence of the
Sabbath, to rest from our works in Christ….the outward sign of this confusion
is the practice of worship on Sunday.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is not the problem but the symptom. It is the Roman Catholic Church that
proudly takes credit for changing the day of Worship from the Sabbath to
Sunday, the day the Sun was venerated. It is the Roman Catholic Church that teaches
one must be a member of this tradition and do the works prescribed by the
Vatican doctrines and dogmas in in order to be saved….Works!</span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
</span></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I was
very young, I thought if you spoke about Jesus, you were a Christian and
everyone was talking about the same person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, as I have grown older and more mature, sadly I see this
is not the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many versions
of Jesus, but only one can save.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So which
Jesus do you know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A child said to me, “my
daddy said you can be any kind of “Christian” as long as you call on Jesus, you
are saved.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here in is the root of the
problem…a lack of understanding and training in sound doctrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does it matter what church or denomination
you attend?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes! Before you walk through
the door, do the homework and research their beliefs and teachings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many ministries today opt not to publish a
statement of Faith, only a Vision or Mission statement, and sometimes not even
that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are
many interpretations of the Gospel today, but this is the one place there is no
wiggle room, no license for interpretation!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You must believe the true Gospel or you will not be saved!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do we know if what we believe is true or
not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scriptures will prove it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we try to just interpret what Paul or the
writer of Hebrews is saying about salvation without understand the basis from
which they come, we will be confused and open to error.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Paul taught,
the Torah was not to be used as a means to attain righteousness, for no one is justified
under the Law (Gal 3:11).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor did Paul
condemn and reject the Torah for he said it was good and holy! (Rom 7:12) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Law was still beneficial if you use it
lawfully. (1Ti 1:8)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was to be used
for the unbelieving and unrighteous for sin is violation of the Law, that the
person can see their state and understand the need for their Savior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">2T 3:16</span></u></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> All Scripture
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> God-breathed, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness, </span></i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the time
of Paul’s writing, the only scriptures were the Torah, Prophets and Writings
(Wisdom Books).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New Testament was
not compiled yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Torah is valuable
to us for doctrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us examine the
Doctrine of Christ in the light of Torah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We only need to look into the Feasts of the Lord found in Leviticus
23.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this writing, we will briefly look at an
overview of the foundation of our Faith in the Feasts.</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">The
first mention is the weekly Sabbath</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">. Though it is not technically
one of the annual feasts, it is actually a foundation for everything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through the cross, we understand the intent
of the Sabbath was to teach God’s people that we must not work on the Sabbath
or the penalty is death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is referring
to the Believer resting from all his dead works of self-righteousness and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">REST</i> in the finished work of Christ,
receiving from God a righteousness that is imputed and not personally earned,
but gained by Christ for us through His perfect life and sacrificial death for
us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">The
first annual Feast is Passover</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A memorial feast that celebrates the
redemption of Israel from the Land of Egypt and slavery to Pharaoh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Egypt signifies the world while Pharaoh
represents the devil and sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
through the slaying of the Passover lamb and the blood being applied to the door
posts and lintel of their homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
roasting the lamb and preparing unleavened bread and bitter herbs, the people
were to come into the house with the blood on it, and eat the ritual foods and
wait until morning before coming out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For in the night, the death angel would pass over the houses and strike
the first born down in every house where the blood was not applied.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Messiah Yeshua/Jesus is the Passover Lamb, the Lamb of God (1 Cor 5:7,
Jn 1:36) slain for us on the cross on the very day the lambs were slain in the
Temple for Passover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It Yeshua’s shed
blood that covers our lives and washes us from all guilt and stain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is our Redemption from the curse of the Law
(Gal 3:13) He has set us free from the Law of sin and death (Rom 8:82) (Ezek
18:20) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So when the sinner hears the Gospel of Jesus Christ crucified and
bleeding for our sins; His death and burial, the Righteous One for the
unrighteous to carry our sins far away; and rising from the dead on the third
day for our justification, he is convicted of sin and comes to the cross of
Jesus it is literally their personal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Passover
</i>day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they move from sinner
through the cross to the other side they come to unleavened bread.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The feast of unleavened bread is kept for seven days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are not to consume any leaven (yeast) for
the whole week, but you are commanded to eat unleavened bread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The person was a sinner, but now they have
been forgiven and made new by the Blood of Jesus and have become unleavened…sin
removed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">1Co 5:7</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">as you are unleavened</b>. For also Christ
our Passover is sacrificed for us.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are justified, as they used to say “Just as if
you never sinned<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>God has made a covenant with man for
seven days (seven thousand years).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
believer is made unleavened from the time of Adam till the end of time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Heb 10:14</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are
sanctified. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After three days Yeshua was raised from the dead on the Feast of
Firstfruits, for He is the Firstfruit of them that sleep (1 Cor 15:20)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pertaining only to the Gospel we will fast forward to the Feast of
Atonements or Yom Kippur in the seventh month in the fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Christ is sacrificed once for all, the
Feast of Atonement is fulfilled through the shed blood of Jesus that pays the
price required for our redemption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only
the Blood of the Son of God is able cover the cost that is due for our
sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfect atonement, He is enough
and nothing more can or needs to be added.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If we look to the Holy Scriptures they will explain the way to
interpret the Doctrine. We cannot even begin to understand Paul’s words without
a look into the Torah from which he taught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some teach that we are not completely forgiven, that it is an ongoing
process…that we are still sinners, but just in Grace… that right living and
obedience to the commandments is necessary to continue in salvation….and many
more errors all come from not looking to our foundation first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeshua is coming soon and many are not ready.
Doctrine matters, it is what determines whether we have rested in Christ, have
trusted in HIS WORK, and not our own, whether we believe He is who He said He
is and finished what He came to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rom 10:9</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> Because if you confess
the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the</span> dead, you shall be saved. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rom 10:10
For with <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the</span> heart <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">one</span> believes unto righteousness, and
with <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the</span> mouth <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">one</span> confesses unto salvation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rom 10:11
For the Scripture says, "Everyone believing on Him shall not be put to
shame."<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I pray this is helpful so you can truly know the right doctrine that
brings us to a saving faith in Christ Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can leave questions or comments below if you are still not sure, we
want you to be confident and assured that you have truly come to Christ and are
saved. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">May the Lord bless you and keep you in your journey…Maranatha<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-13997274754794001852013-11-25T15:21:00.001-08:002013-11-25T16:54:20.480-08:00Yeshua Is At the Doors!<span style="color: #4c1130;">Word of the Lord given November 1, 2013</span><br />
<em><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;">My people, do you not understand the hour is late? Gather yourselves together in closed doors and pray and fast for those who will not listen. God knows who are His, but some will come only after prayer and fasting.</span></strong></em><br />
<em><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;"></span></strong></em><br />
<em><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;">Will you cry aloud for souls too lost to pray for themselves? Cry for mercy, great mercy for time is short to witness to them. God's strength is needed and He will do it in His time and will not delay.</span></strong></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Yeshua is coming to you, long awaited, but My people you are not prepared for His coming! Why are there controversies among you? Heal the breach and reach out to those in error...heal the breach and share the simplicity of Christ with them</strong>.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #4c1130;"></span></em><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Shalom Beloved,</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">I have been watching and listening to other believers share what the Lord is speaking and revealing to the watchmen at this hour. I believe Comet <em><strong>Ison</strong></em> is a very integral piece in discerning the time. We are experiencing very unusual timings, like the joining of Chanukah with Thanksgiving, a phenomena that will never happen again. Not only this, but add to it the perihelion of Comet Ison on the exact same day.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">The Lord has taught me a key regarding His words "as in the days of Noah". The root or <em>shoresh</em> of Noach is nun-chet in the Hebrew letters .<span style="font-size: large;">נח </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"> Noach means rest. If you reverse those two letters, they spell chen <span style="font-size: large;">ח</span><span style="font-size: large;">נ</span> or grace. In the following verse we see the essentials needed to escape judgment....</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;">
</span><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Gen 6:8 But Noah (Nun-chet) found grace (chet-nun) in the eyes (Ayin) of the LORD. </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
<br />
The Hebrew year we are in is 57<strong>74</strong>. Now ayin is very significant because the Hebrew decade we are currently in is the 70's or Ayin which means "the Eyes" of Yahweh. Hebrew letter Ayin has a numeric value of 70. The current year is 74 or Ayin-dalet;, dalet means "door" and has a value of 4 which pertains to earth and all that is natural.<br />
<br />
This decade of the "70's" is the prophetic 10 days of Awe. The Feasts of the Lord are a blueprint for us to understand God's timing in the end of days. The 10 days/years between Rosh Hashanah (Awakening) and the Day of Atonement-Yom Kippur (when the names to be written in the Lambs Book of life are all redeemed) are being fulfilled from <strong>fall</strong> of 2009-2019 (5770-5780). <br />
<br />
The parable of the 10 virgins is about judgment on the house of God. The 10 virgins are ten last years of the church. The alarm, or sound of the shofar pertains to Rosh Hashanah, the wake up...<br />
Toward the middle of the ten, there begins to be a distinction between those who walk in Scriptural truth and have the Holy Spirit, and those who have a false gospel, and even the little bit of illumination that they had is being put out by the Apostasy, the great deception. The deceived have been taught they can get what they need from other believers laying hands on them. However, Yeshua Himself teaches us in Rev 3:18 to the church of Laodicea, they must come to Him and receive the eternal things that can be found no where else. Five are wise, five are foolish...halfway through this ten year period there is a separation and judgment when the rapture of the wise, as with Noach, and the door is shut to the Marriage. The others are left to Great Tribulation, weeping and gnashing of teeth. There is another parable that speaks of the Master returning from the marriage and knocking...<br />
<br />
<em><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Luk 12:36</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.</span></span></strong></em><br />
</span><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><em> </em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rev 3:20</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.</span></span></em></strong><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<br />
There is hope for those in the church that are left, for Messiah will come again to them and knock upon their hearts, for God wants that none should perish, but that all should come to repentance.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>Repentance is to turn from every sin, idol, self sufficiency, self effort unto Christ Jesus and trust HIM to save and believe HIS WORK on the Cross is enough to pay for your sins forever, if you will just humbly receive His GRACIOUS gift!<br />
<br />
The righteous are not appointed to wrath...the wrath comes with the day of the Lord. 20<strong>15</strong> could be a time to expect the Day of the Lord; God's Name, Yah <span style="font-size: large;"><strong>יהּ</strong></span> is equivalent to 15 (yod=10, hey = 5) <br />
2014 contains two blood moons, one at Passover and one at Sukkot...2015 also contains two blood moons on the same two days. These events highlight these two years and mark the central division of the ten years. <br />
<br />
All of the prophesies must be fulfilled before the generation is completed, Israel is 70 in the fall of 2017. The same year Jerusalem with have it's first Jubilee (50 years) in the hands of the Jewish people. <br />
<br />
Now, remember I mentioned Noach and grace? The same shoresh, or root appears in the name of Enoch.<br />
<br />
<strong>H2585 chănôk/Enoch חנוך</strong><br />
<strong>From <u><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">H2596</span></span></u><span style="font-size: small;">; <i>initiated/disciple</i>; <i>Chanok</i>, an antediluvian patriarch: - </span></strong><br />
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span lang="HE"><div dir="LTR">
<strong><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></strong></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Heb 11:5</em></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><em> By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.</em> </span></strong><br />
<strong></strong> </span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> Chet-nun...Enoch means "disciple" or narrow. Enoch was raptured. Here is the last piece, Chanukah - again the Chet-nun. Chanukah means dedication, the Festival of Light is about the dedication of the temple once it was cleansed, by an act of FAITH, the Light was lit and stayed lit by the power of God. In the parable of the Virgins, the ones with enough oil refers to Chanukah, the lamps did not go out, Faith through grace. Those who did not have oil or light, did not have true faith.<br />
<br />
There is a mystery being revealed in Isaiah 60:<br />
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Isa 60:1</b> Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Isa 60:2 For, behold, the <strong><em>darkness</em></strong> shall cover the earth, and <em><strong>gross darkness</strong></em> the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>The first darkness mentioned is:</strong> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span lang="HE"><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> <strong>H2822 chôshek חשׁך</strong></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><b><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia;">From <u>H2821</u>; the <i>dark</i>; hence (literally) <i>darkness</i>; figuratively <i>misery</i>, <i>destruction</i>, <i>death</i>, <i>ignorance</i>, <i>sorrow</i>, <i>wickedness: - </i>dark (-ness), night, obscurity.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia;">The second darkeness is:</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">H6205 ar-aw-fel 'ערפל</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></b></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> Probably from <u>H6201</u>; <i>gloom</i> (as of a <i>lowering</i> sky): - (gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Chanukah takes place at the time of year when we are in the most darkness, least amount of daylight. Comet Ison is coming this week together with Chanukah and Thanksgiving all on the same day, and will rendezvous with the sun. If it survives, we may find ourselves with great difficulties as a result of CME's (solar flares) and or the debris in the tail. Electo-magnetic pulse is possible, (EMP's) where we could lose the entire power grid, worse case scenario. BUT, this could be the brightest "star" we have seen since the star of Bethlehem. That star heralded the King had come...this one may be heralding His return.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">H380 </span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">אישׁון</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">'</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">ı</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">̂</span><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">yshôn </span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";"> ISON</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">1) pupil of the eye</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">2) middle of the night (that is the deepest blackness)</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<em><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Psalm 17:8</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings...</span></span></em></div>
</div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">When we take our shoresh of chet-nun we learn what it takes to be counted worthy to escape the things that are coming on the world and to stand before the Son of Man....</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">As with Noach and Enoch, we must find REST from our works; GRACE in the Eyes of Yahweh through trust in the finished work of Yeshua our Messiah, Jesus Christ! Then we shall become His disciple for we have believed on Him and are saved and the evidence of that salvation is LOVE. Our bodies are then DEDICATED to God, for we become a Temple of the Holy Spirit. </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Even as Noach escaped the judgment and God was so pleased He TOOK Enoch, so we who have believed and are saved will also enter into that rest, the promise of escape in this decade of judgment!</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></b><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
Examine yourself dear "Christian" to see if you have truly made the journey to the Cross of Jesus/Yeshua, have you counted yourself a sinner, fallen short of the glory of God? Can you see the beautiful Saviour, who hung upon the cross, innocent lamb, slain for you and for all the world that all who believe on Him, <em>the SON of the Living God; The Word made flesh; the Son of Man</em> who bled and died for the sins of many asking only that you trust Him in return. Surrender your false confidence; your dead works of self righteousness; your unbelief; your pride and arrogance. Come and offer your life to him, filthy rag that it is and He shall give you HIS life in return; the Royal apparel of Heaven, the purest most lovely covering. And you shall be safe in Him forever, for He will save all who believe on Him to the Uttermost! And nothing shall ever separate you from Him again! <br />
<br />
May we meet in the air...Maranatha!!!</span></span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span lang="EN"><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong> </strong><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong> </strong><br />
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><strong><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></strong><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
<div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">
<span lang="HE"></span></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span lang="HE" style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span lang="HE">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span></span> </span> </span> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span lang="HE"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span lang="HE"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN"></span></span></span><br />
<div dir="LTR">
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN">
</span> </span> </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"></span></i></span><div dir="LTR">
<i><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"> </span></i></div>
<i><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span> </span></i><br />
<div dir="LTR">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span lang="EN"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
<div dir="LTR">
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><b><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></b><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span lang="HE"><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
</div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic;"><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span lang="EN"><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
</div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><i><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
</div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></i><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span></span></span><i><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></i><span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<div dir="LTR">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</span><o:p><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">
</span><dir><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span></dir><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">
</span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-77981132770024885142013-10-14T15:12:00.001-07:002013-11-25T16:56:40.955-08:00A Season of Rememberance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">Shalom Beloved,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">We are in mid-October already! Here in Ohio it has been a beautiful fall season with very mild temperatures and really nice weather. I love this season for so many reasons. We have just concluded the Fall <em>Moed</em>, or Appointed Feasts of the Lord. The fire colors in the trees and flowers also remind me that the Lord will return with Fire and Great Glory. The fruits of this season are especially delicious from the plums, and squash, pumpkins and pomegranates. <img alt="Happy New Year! plus a festive Brussel Sprouts with Pomegranate" class="imglt" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDwQBnlPGT8W0sAcW-gHC0yfzutKrC6aECTZu1T0MJDAN_9dpLig:www.zestforlifetoday.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/whole-and-cut-pomegranate.jpg" height="161" title="Happy New Year! plus a festive Brussel Sprouts with Pomegranate" width="200" />Have you ever tried to eat a pomegranate? First examine it, did you notice it has a crown on top? If you try to peal it open it is sticky and messy. Inside the thin bitter skin, are hundreds of seeds incased in a gel-like kernel. There are roughly around 600 seeds in this fruit. The pomegranate has been likened to the Torah (Gen-Deut.). The Torah/Law has 613 Commandments. That is a lot of seeds to take in and digest. The problem is, Torah alone, like the pomegranate is not able to implant in your spirit it's truth anymore than the pomegranate seeds can. Both will pass through without changing your composition. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">But Adonai has made a promise of a New Covenant, (<em>Brit Chadashah</em>) not like the one He made with Moses and the children of Israel when He brought them out of Egypt. But something brand new, fresh, not like the former one. But God Himself would do what we cannot. He would place His Torah inside of our inward parts, in our souls and write it upon our hearts! <em>Jer 31:33</em> The Lord God would change us from the inside out, for the working of Torah cannot change us from the outside in. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">Remember Y'shua was speaking about the things that defile us: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><dir><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mar 7:15</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></dir><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">So, conversely this is also true; for if evil comes out from a man's heart and so defiles, then that which is righteous, if it comes forth does sanctify. How does God do this then? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><dir><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2Th 2:13</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">the</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> Spirit and belief of </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">the</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> truth, </span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></dir><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">When we humbly turn to Messiah Y'shua, trusting Him alone to save us from our sins, to forgive us, cleanse us and make us new we are given the Holy Spirit of Grace to come and dwell in us forever. We are saved, sanctified, justified and glorified in God's sight. Why does God do this for us? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Psa 115:1</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for Your mercy f</span><span style="font-size: small;">or Your truth's sake. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">Sanctification, like salvation is the work of the Holy Spirit, for God's Glory. It is the very truth of the Glorious Gospel that precludes any man's flesh to glory before God. The Spirit Himself points us to Christ Jesus, the work is His, the Glory is His...the reward, He shares with us...Wow! We didn't earn it, we don't maintain it, we can't preserve it. Our new life is from our Creator, He has created us new! Adam didn't help God, neither do we. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">Like children we are taught by the Spirit and the Word to think in accord with the mind of Christ, to live according to the Kingdom that God has placed us in, a spiritual one. We live in a Kingdom of Peace, wherever we are. Our King, is not deposed, He is not abdicated, nor is His crown delayed. He is the Sovereign Monarch who is able to care for, protect and love His people.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">Many teachers since the beginning of the Reformation have set out to find, embrace and preach the true Gospel. As I listened to a well know Messianic Roots teacher speak about the spirit of Elijah who restores all things before Messiah comes, I realized indeed the spirit of Elijah is at work in this world. In the heart of every reformer, who desires to see the true Faith restored as it was in the beginning; who sifts through the mountainous, varying doctrines that people have striven to perfect; the spirit of Elijah is at work.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">But the Word tells us:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><dir><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mal 4:4</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <strong>Remember </strong>ye the Torah of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">with</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> the statutes and judgments. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mal 4:5</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: </span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mal 4:6</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">This prophecy encompasses the end of days. Notice it says to <em>remember </em>the Torah of Moses..by what agency do we remember? </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mar 9:12a</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> And he answered and told them, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elijah verily cometh first, and restores all things;</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">Elijah, in the form of John the Baptist came preaching repent! for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Turning the people from Idols and empty forms of religion back to the Faith of the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Israel; back to the God of Israel. So, even now the voice of Elijah is crying out through many "Teshuvah" repent - turn, back from sin and idolatry to the Lord our God. Turn back from following this teacher or that, this movement or that one...turn to God who sanctifies you through the Holy Spirit, who being in you will teach you all things. </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">All teachers must be tested ALL THE TIME...we can make mistakes, misunderstand, get ahead with a small revelation before we have the whole thing...you Beloved must test what you hear. Go to the Holy Scriptures and see if indeed it is so. Even among Messianic teachers, or Hebrew Roots teachers are some excellent insights, but in our zeal to restore the true worship of <span style="font-size: large;">יהוה</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">we may get pulled into the "works" of Torah. Even if we say it is not for salvation's sake, but out of obedience unto love for God, we can still stumble if add works to sanctification or works to blessing or God forbid, put the people under a curse such as in Malachi for not tithing!</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">The Word says remember the Torah of Moses. Call to mind, study and understand that the Torah is a type and shadow, it is instruction to us to understand the incredible blessedness of the New Covenant. One of the primary teachings of the Torah is to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Ex. 20:8 The Lord Y'shua is Lord of the Sabbath Mk 2:28.</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">The Sabbath observance teaches us that to do "work" on the Sabbath day is a sin unto death. So will God, as some say, cast away all who forget the Sabbath, or keep Sunday as the day of worship? No, our salvation is determined by our trusting in the finished WORK of Y'shua/Jesus Christ. But there is a reason Satan went after that law to change it to Sunday as soon as he was able to. It teaches us to rest completely in Y'shua, not working to attain, but believing, trusting, loving Him, glorifying Him for what HE has done. So our praise and focus is the Son of God, the object of our affection and worship. If we believe our works are weighed in, we perish.</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">The arguments sound very pious and righteous...<em>God has made you able to live righteously, now it is up to you to utilize His provision and "overcome" your sinful self</em>....but the problem is there is still room for pride for your accomplishment. When you stand in Messiah, and His finished work, there is only humility and gratitude for you have <em>received</em> an indscribable gift you did not deserve and could not earn. </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">The Spirit is able to bring us to perfection in that day...that is the Lord's work, not ours. We, as children obey because we love Him for what He has done, for the love He has given us...yes, the commandments to Believe and love are absolute. But believe, is enabled by the gift of Faith and grace, and to love one another is the evidence we have been saved and made new. Be of good cheer my mishpochah! The Lord Himself has done it, His own arm has worked salvation <em>Is 59:15-21</em> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><dir><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">1Th 5:23</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and </span><span style="font-size: small;">your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1Th 5:24</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Faithful </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">is</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> he that calleth you, who also will do </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">it.</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></dir><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><dir><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jud 1:24</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">you</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, </span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jud 1:25</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> To the only wise God our Saviour, </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">be</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></dir><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">Praise be to our Wonderful, Awesome, Holy Saviour! Y'shua our Messiah and King! </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> He has done it! </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">Maranatha (Our Lord comes!)</span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span><div dir="LTR">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">
</span></dir><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br /></div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-6867641762412350812013-04-17T21:02:00.001-07:002013-04-17T21:02:55.740-07:00In, Not Of the World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The hour is late; many are asleep, spiritually drugged,
duped, deceived or deluded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apostasy is
not at the door, it has moved in, lock, stock and barrel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not a matter of combatting the false
teaching of heretical sects or neo-Christian churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, they are far more honest; the
pseudo churches like the Mormons, the Jehovah Witnesses or even Seventh Day
Adventist openly display the error and proudly share their views which are
plain to see in the light of scripture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The heresies we combat today have been subtly introduced into
every church denomination and non-denominational, Pentecostal, and even
Evangelical Churches. Did we really think that one day, the devil would throw
wide the double doors of the church like the bandits of the old west at the
local saloon and stroll in announcing “I’m takin over this here town/church”!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, no, no, no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See he is not a fool…contrary to what many
may believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See, the Bible says a fool
says in his heart, “there is no God”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
knows very well who God is and he purposefully rebels while he yet may.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now he may not be wise, for the Fear of the
Lord is the beginning of wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he
is knowledgeable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The enemy learns from God, he sees what God does and mimics’
it because it works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wherever we see the
works of God the enemy is there to counterfeit it. But as another blogger
pointed out, he only counterfeits what is valuable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who would counterfeit one dollar bills?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if it is important to God, then for
certain we can expect the enemy to get his hand in it somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me share a dream the Lord gave me, it was
one of three that had a similar message:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was driving over a high level bridge and suddenly a
rush of water came from behind me and formed a river on the bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew I could continue to drive the car or I
could let the river carry me, I let go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then on my left was another bridge parallel with mine but higher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There stood a person with a shofar blowing it
over the side of the bridge as I passed by, it sounded like an announcement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then on my right side, I passed a man walking
on the bridge sidewalk next to the river who was blowing a conch shell that
sounded similar to the shofar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
knew immediately it was unclean and a counterfeit sound.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Keep in mind the river ran between the two sounds, the first
was a higher call that was clean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lower,
earthly sound was not clean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those
who are disciples of Yeshua/Jesus and live their lives by His Word know the
things we are seeing all around us in the world is a clear announcement that
the time is nearing for us to look up and watch for the return of our Victorious
King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the signs is the church in
apostasy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other side of the river
God is releasing in the earth to bring salvation in this critical hour, is a
false message of Dominion and world conquest in the Name of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds familiar, like that has been tried
before?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh yes, it was called the
crusades!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t work out too well;
could it be that it was the exact opposite of what the Gospel teaches us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">NAR (New Apostolic Reformation) Dominion Theology, Kingdom
Now, Third Wave, Manifest Sons…many other names for the same movement all have
the delusion that the church will grow into an entity of control in the earth,
dominating every sphere of influence in society bringing peace and “righteousness”
thus the extra-biblical revelation of the 7-Mountain Mandate!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People are being taught and prepared for a
war where the saints will become violent if necessary to impose the righteousness
of Christianity upon the world…of course, victory is assured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, in order to do that we need to
remove the last several chapters from the Book of Revelation!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In reality, this Mandate or vision is being implemented, but
not as the unsuspecting churchgoers ever dreamed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, this movement is growing and
beginning to take over and infiltrate politics, religion, entertainment,
education, business, media, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
the groundwork for a One World Religion that is acceptable to all people,
except those of us who are unmoved from the Bible as our authority; which makes
<i>us </i>a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Have you ever been in the Home section of a department store
and noticed wall art or towels, bathroom accessories that are termed “inspirational”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You come close hoping to see something of
God, perhaps a verse from Proverbs or the words of Jesus, or 1 Cor 13…instead
we are treated to a counterfeit version the world offers; <i>Live, Love, Laugh….Believe….Hope….Be
the Change you want to see in the world…</i>But I can walk away without being
too disturbed because after all, it is the world!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would be shocked if I saw something Holy
out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the space we count as
sacred is growing smaller and smaller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our homes are a sanctuary for us to be separated from the world, but we
invite the world in by listening to franchised Christian Radio stations that do
not discriminate who their sponsors are or what songs are played.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They take songs from the world about <i>love</i>
and don’t even really try to change the lyrics but a Christian artist records
it and suddenly it is a <i>Christian</i> song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Christian Book stores were safe space at one time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A refuge among the stores of the world where
you could shop, hear music that glorified the Lord and even find another
believer behind the counter who would pray with you or for you, or weep with
you as you looked for a condolence card; where all the gift ware or wall art
was engraved with scripture or the quote of a great Christian reformer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, the Christian book store carries
whatever sells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may have outright
blasphemy within its pages, heresy at the least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art and gifts now carry the same worldly
wisdom of man that I can find at Bed Bath and Beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The pulpits are increasingly coming under control of the
teaching of purpose driven mega-pastors that have one agenda…a friendly, empty
gospel that promotes another jesus, and filling the house of God with another
spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed Dominionism is moving and
growing, however it is not God’s move, but the counterfeit of the enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oddly enough the 7 – Mountain Mandate sounds
identical to the Old Roman Catholic Agenda who just happens to be seated on 7 mountains
and called Mystery Babylon the Great. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rev 17:9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"Awake, sleeping ones! And
arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light." Eph 5:14 Indeed,
arise from among the dead body where the eagles gather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, they say eagles represent prophets,
however what was Jesus warning us of?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eagles do not gather in number and do not consume carrion (dead things)…could
it be a warning for our day of false prophets claiming to be eagles when they
are only vultures feeding on the flesh of the deceived as the serpent also does?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Pray for wisdom and
understanding Saints, pray for a discerning heart and be willing to listen to
it; praying for the Israel of God. Till He comes, shalom Beloved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<i><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></i></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-49696627314835586472012-12-24T08:18:00.000-08:002012-12-24T08:26:35.857-08:00Rejoice! Through Tears...<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As I read better writers and preachers than me, I am awed
by the insights they expound about the birth of our Lord, Yeshua. But the one
thing that hits home deeply, it how differently we view the <b>“Holidays” than
the actual events were</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">From a Hebrew view, we celebrate days of
victory like Purim,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> with rejoicing and feasting; but we are
careful never to rejoice in the suffering of our enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We rejoice in the victory Yahweh has given us
in spite of the cost of lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Passover is</span></b><span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> the same, we take a
moment to remember the plagues that came on Egypt, even the death of the
firstborn so that our joy is <b>diminished</b> and we remember that our freedom
cost lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In Obadiah, God speaks to Edom/Esau…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Oba 1:11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the day that thou didst
stand aloof, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and
foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast
as one of them. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Oba 1:12 But thou shouldest not have gazed on the day of thy brother in the
day of his disaster, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of
Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken
proudly in the day of distress. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Oba 1:13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of My people in the
day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have gazed on their affliction
in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day
of their calamity. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Oba 1:14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off
those of his that escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his
that did remain in the day of distress. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Oba 1:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the day of the LORD is
near upon all the nations; as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy
dealing shall return upon thine own head. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><i><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><i><span dir="RTL" style="color: teal; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">We are children of the Father in Heaven, we must
live and speak and think differently than them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We must never forget that our <b>deliverance is always costly</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It comes to us free, but it cost the Father
everything</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Keira; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-hansi-font-family: Keira;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>;</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">though He count them as
enemies, He never takes pleasure in their destruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how vile or deserving of punishment
we may think they are, it grieves the heart of God, it is loss to Him, for
Messiah came for all men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">There seems to always be a <b>slaughter of the innocent</b> when God is
raising up deliverance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Moses day,
the baby boys were drown in the Nile River…in Yeshua’s time, the baby boys were
slain by Herod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the time Israel’s
exile from the land was about to end and England had already laid the plan for
their homeland to be restored, the enemy stood up and came like a flood to
destroy them again in the Holocaust, but God always rescues a remnant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">As we approached the last hours of History, a great slaughter was raised up
to destroy a generation with abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The great saints of this hour are the survivors this slaughter…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sHX8PBBzEVJFe2E2dpMSiJ6OM7yAUmF9I2jkMvQOyFg0-atNRS4RwZZKWwEFIdfu3m6QDtyYC22nG0dFLuPH7tMuM8U5LNQ7_Owk65W4K-x1TDp1E_16e3QTH9RxeJqwqWgnZqxSaYYn/s1600/newtown-vigiljpg-d932725c323321d5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sHX8PBBzEVJFe2E2dpMSiJ6OM7yAUmF9I2jkMvQOyFg0-atNRS4RwZZKWwEFIdfu3m6QDtyYC22nG0dFLuPH7tMuM8U5LNQ7_Owk65W4K-x1TDp1E_16e3QTH9RxeJqwqWgnZqxSaYYn/s1600/newtown-vigiljpg-d932725c323321d5.jpg" height="200" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">And now as we feel the coming of the Lord so imminently, we see children
again being slaughtered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rachel is again
weeping for her children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must brace
ourselves and be reminded of the great price that is attached to our eternal
freedom…for there may yet be another cost again before we are fully released
from this world… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">The beautiful story of Jesus birth of a Virgin and faithful Joseph a
surrogate dad to Him, there is nothing so beautiful, and such a loving
scene…the angels declare in the heavens to rejoice!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming to the lowly even as Mary of Nazareth
had prophesied in her song in Luke 1, but amidst all of the “rejoicing”, there
is a grieving that will not be consoled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">The coming of the very consolation of Israel brings with it, the sorrow of
loss that prevents you from breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Life for life…so how do we rejoice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What does it mean for us who wait for our Messiah, to know that when He
comes we shall be with Him forever, safe; no more sorrow or pain or fear…but at
the same time we are relieved, the world that remains enters an eternity of
suffering that is unspeakable, for it never ends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOrys3MAbOhHAejHo4PoEMly6eNao5zg2CKSpAkathPvcNcmn_8x2pNXp5c5ADODOMxGyj4xLw75tZVrxk6gWbIWm4SxmfEB5Te5y528TtBHRO-nZY2kuKf_2MM2QCVZtcfpGe96ipW_o/s1600/Rahcel-Weeping-for-Her-Children.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> </div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOrys3MAbOhHAejHo4PoEMly6eNao5zg2CKSpAkathPvcNcmn_8x2pNXp5c5ADODOMxGyj4xLw75tZVrxk6gWbIWm4SxmfEB5Te5y528TtBHRO-nZY2kuKf_2MM2QCVZtcfpGe96ipW_o/s1600/Rahcel-Weeping-for-Her-Children.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOrys3MAbOhHAejHo4PoEMly6eNao5zg2CKSpAkathPvcNcmn_8x2pNXp5c5ADODOMxGyj4xLw75tZVrxk6gWbIWm4SxmfEB5Te5y528TtBHRO-nZY2kuKf_2MM2QCVZtcfpGe96ipW_o/s1600/Rahcel-Weeping-for-Her-Children.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> The loss, the confusion, the disillusionment, the bitterness, the pain and
torment, the fear…will never end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
for God He sees it forever and takes no pleasure in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For our loving Father would that all men
should turn to Christ and so be saved…how tragic for our God who gave all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not yet understand, and I don’t know if
ever we will understand how Messiah suffered for each individual sin of every
person who ever lived…but indeed His sufferings were compounded to include all
who would ultimately reject Him.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">What does that say about our Yeshua?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Agreeing to come and be the sacrifice for the world, knowing that such a
multitude would not come, yet He would be required to suffer their punishment
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How else could He offer
salvation to all people?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t have
to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could have called it off,
and who could have blamed Him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">But indeed He humbled Himself and became helpless and dependent to fully
identify as our High Priest, to feel our infirmities intimately;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to love us to the fullest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why we rejoice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even through tears of grief and sorrow, our
hearts rejoice in God our Savior as Mary also rejoiced…for it disgraced her
family, her husband and her good name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She never again had honor in her community, but her heart
rejoiced…because she intimately knew the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">No matter what lies ahead, we are intimately acquainted with the truth and
we rejoice with anticipated expectation at the arrival of our soon coming King,
who will not come as a helpless babe, but as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah,
the true ruler of the World that was created through Him and for Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The desire of the Nations, the One our Soul
loves…the One we long for. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"></span> </div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbydi2fWTQ9ix4vAN9JQcThVV5m25d17u9AeGLTFpNeTgd4tl701UcCtTu95-JcnNRjc5TCoqZATrTiYDTVbY1M4WdoeweLfK60J7KaW2P8Edfsa628TsgbKclB_BaA53AiMV4NLSGGt4/s1600/Always_Rejoice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbydi2fWTQ9ix4vAN9JQcThVV5m25d17u9AeGLTFpNeTgd4tl701UcCtTu95-JcnNRjc5TCoqZATrTiYDTVbY1M4WdoeweLfK60J7KaW2P8Edfsa628TsgbKclB_BaA53AiMV4NLSGGt4/s1600/Always_Rejoice.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rejoice Evermore!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"></span><span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Keira","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-73507489096568704352012-12-20T11:11:00.003-08:002012-12-20T19:11:50.208-08:00Joyeux Noel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">For all of our friends in the World who are not yet saved by Jesus
Christ; this is the Christmas season and it seems either the World takes the
position of eliminating anything about the Gospel story of Jesus birth and
turns to mythologies and revelry to celebrate a syncretized version of the
pagan winter solstice; or they will defend the essence of Christmas, i.e.
nativity scenes in the square, CHRIST instead of X in the word Christmas,
Christmas carols and nostalgia…but entirely reject or ignore the message of the
Gospel.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGyKnu7YJt25wD4vl4t-LeOLTxPwBs39IdluUndFh7K5WC3IAG7yXto8wkzqMwVU-WkxCGOlpW1g5is6RV-ZllFk66f3MLcU3VOhn2UL39wNGAjzivYBR7ckTBSUZG6sm44_0E8G-_Lbg/s1600/Xmas-Pictures.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGyKnu7YJt25wD4vl4t-LeOLTxPwBs39IdluUndFh7K5WC3IAG7yXto8wkzqMwVU-WkxCGOlpW1g5is6RV-ZllFk66f3MLcU3VOhn2UL39wNGAjzivYBR7ckTBSUZG6sm44_0E8G-_Lbg/s200/Xmas-Pictures.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This year is unlike any other year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may be the last year we will know life as
it has been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who live on this
planet are being given over to the rule of a Tyrant that we will see emerge
very quickly in the coming New Year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
all turn to NASA, Nostradamus, the Mayans but you won’t come to Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the only one to save you from what is
coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Do you know why the world is turning with such hatred against
Israel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Jesus Christ is their
King and He is coming to rescue them from the World.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan hates them because they belong to
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have a very small window of
time to choose to come to Jesus and be saved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It could only be hours, days or weeks…no way to know for sure, are you
willing to risk being wrong?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">The scriptures are being played out just as it says; 100% accuracy
yet you refuse to believe. <i>“I plead with you yet again to come to Me, saith
the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, you will not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All you ever needed to do was believe I AM He
who is your Saviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turn to Me and I
will save you…why will you not come?”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tomorrow is the 21<sup>st</sup> day of December
2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe an asteroid will not come
and collide with the earth, but perhaps evil men will take advantage of the
fear and superstition and manipulate the people with an event of their own
making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could be an attack or some other
man-made disaster…could be Jesus coming for those who put their trust in Him;
which would be tragic for all those who do not. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><span style="color: white;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is so
simple to trust Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just believe He is
the promised One sent from God in Heaven, His own Beloved Son; born of a virgin
2000 years ago as it was prophesied in the Book of Isaiah:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isa 7:14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a
sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He was sent to bear the guilt,
shame and penalty of your sins so you would be able to go free and live forever
with God and not be punished for your crimes against God.</span> </span><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Mat 1:21</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for
he shall save his people from their sins. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukPvfVdGmD9Dak8CZfqsCFMf-1AzSbk7whsLwB7b-GYRZrRsJsaae4MTUiulq9t2Ii0oNfofUetsPIUkICIuFuFs9EsGy_c6ymZ8zB0jeesieprUgS4rTBZZzozSXAaHGWgOcgyEz3C1A/s1600/christmas_cross_ball.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukPvfVdGmD9Dak8CZfqsCFMf-1AzSbk7whsLwB7b-GYRZrRsJsaae4MTUiulq9t2Ii0oNfofUetsPIUkICIuFuFs9EsGy_c6ymZ8zB0jeesieprUgS4rTBZZzozSXAaHGWgOcgyEz3C1A/s200/christmas_cross_ball.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Don’t
ever say God is not good or loving; He sacrificed the very best part of
Himself, His beautiful Son who was innocent and Holy to die a horrific death in
your place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one deserves that love,
but God gave it anyway because He is good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">God raised Him from the dead,
in His flesh body to prove that His substitutionary sacrifice was accepted and because
He lives in the body even today, is the promise that we too will be raised in
the flesh to live whole before</span> God forever, who have trusted Him alone to save
us.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Act 3:14,15</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you denied the Holy and Just One and desired a murderer to be given to you. </span></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you killed the Prince of Life,
whom God has raised from the dead, of which we
are witnesses. </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Tyrant ruler coming on the
scene in this world is already here, he will be the devil himself in a
body.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Galant Wide"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">2Jn 1:7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For many deceivers have entered
into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the anti-christ. </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">You cannot imagine the evil that is coming…but
that does not compare to the judgment of God on those who reject the Son of
God, our Messiah….Are you willing to risk being wrong?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joyeux Noel….</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWbaEU1UFylhkL0oRNxfdbY8LsO2R6AcM-uVAvvKFz9WE9rj55p_ZPzFsVLmO5O01GTB2qwUvMaLi8zCn48cmqY9Zjt2dZhzoyt29T-Ibzn2T9bx_F8uticYVWCIynhCxsTX-ZmgBYauRP/s320/noel-creche.jpg" width="320" /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
</div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-4994330028636455602012-12-18T10:38:00.000-08:002012-12-18T10:38:21.447-08:00I Judah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I Judah declare these things</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Bangle; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Bangle;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be true, I was there and witnessed it all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">E</span><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">vil came when our people were unaware and we were
nearly conquered; not with sword or club or chariot, but words and thoughts and
culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">They came with “change” and “unity”; a sense of brotherhood and
inclulsion. We were told it was for the good of all, not just one nation, but
all nations would benefit; all would be “blessed”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“<i>Let go of your old ways, they are no longer relevant” </i>they said<i>
; “It doesn’t fit the mind of today, we need to become progressive if we are to
be the best!”.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">At first it was athletics with an emphasis on self improvement and
health; clothing styles changed so all were the same; no distinction of the
holy people anymore; modesty was old fashioned it separated and divided;
entertainment and the arts, philosophy – the wisdom of man, music and the
message that said <i>tolerance.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">They offered free education; but it made no room for the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; then unclean foods became acceptable and finally
religion that looked to other gods, but found no place for our own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">At this point assimilation demanded a response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To a point many were willing to be silent and
accept this new way, but now this was too much…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">So protest arose and the refusal to go any further, “<i>no thanks” we
will home school”; </i>we withdrew our memberships from the gymnasiums…but
these <i>choices</i> were met with a response we did not expect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, swords demanded allegiance to a “<i>New Order”</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t really a choice, it was <i>do</i>
or die.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Many for fear or lack of faith fell away to apostasy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They bowed to their requirements and
compromised, foolishly <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thinking God
would understand; after all, if they thought of “Him” as they worshipped in the
“new religion”, surely, He would count it…because He <i>knew</i> their hearts. But
then there were those who would say <i>“no, even if they slay me, I won’t
betray my God”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I Judah the son of Mattathias the priest, like my father was not
willing to apostasize; nor was I willing to go to my death passively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With passion we believed our faith was
worth<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dying for, but even more, it was
worth fighting for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I and my brother Jonathan gathered the faithful who were willing to defend
the truth; we put on <i>His</i> righteousness as a breastplate, and took up our
faith as shields that protected us; we put on the Wisdom of God to guide us where
we had never been before and He gave us the victory!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt;">They called us the Maccabees, “Hammers”, for we pounded and
smashed to pieces our enemies; we did not allow darkness to overtake us and put
us to sleep in a spiritual stupor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt;">Our God promised </span><b><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">through
the prophet Jeremiah<i> <span style="color: maroon;">“</span></i></span></b><i><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> Is not My word like as fire? says the LORD; and like a
hammer that breaks <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the rock in pieces? “<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">We searched
the scrolls daily looking for direction and found Yahweh to be faithful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After we took by the city, and the dust
cleared we saw the devastation of God’s house. Filth within and the abomination
that had been set up and worshipped; defilement was everywhere; we had to
remove the unclean, take down the idols and cleanse the Temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Our Lord was faithful to preserve a remnant that would not lay down and
die or capitulate. Even when it came to re-lighting the lamp of God in the Temple,
the oil was diminished and not enough to keep it going; but we recounted the
many victories and the way our Savior God had lead us, so we refrained from
despair and believed He would be faithful even now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">By faith, we lit the Menorah with the oil we had…and turned to prepare
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it would require eight days
till it was ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each day for eight
days we returned to the sanctuary to see the light brightly burning; on the
eighth day there was now more oil prepared but the light of faith still burned
bright.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I Judah, the Maccabee declare, as the prophet said, “what has been will
be again”…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will there come another day
when all of this is long past, and the people forget?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Will they come with flatteries and ideologies, that seem to have
wisdom; that promote fairness and equality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That change the way the people of God will think and act and speak?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will there come a day when they abandon the
truth for another kingdom that promises peace and safety? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will they fall into an everlasting sleep and
let darkness conquer at last? I Judah ask, will there be faith in the earth in
that day?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I pray they will yet believe…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-77179421672236668302012-12-07T14:28:00.000-08:002012-12-07T14:28:55.808-08:00ONLY BELIEVE!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizRzt4v1PfhKDDYTT9kswyX8pPRqPTR-58P_m6o4hNhz0JgEbtrJWi_kd0FRbwNOsIwWTHgsFpkFmxwkjWSN_IFWiepeF3fMv4m_r5QkmRItkKm_C2CZI64NNySacoLdLgAdOYSFe65xCz/s1600/chrismukkah1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizRzt4v1PfhKDDYTT9kswyX8pPRqPTR-58P_m6o4hNhz0JgEbtrJWi_kd0FRbwNOsIwWTHgsFpkFmxwkjWSN_IFWiepeF3fMv4m_r5QkmRItkKm_C2CZI64NNySacoLdLgAdOYSFe65xCz/s640/chrismukkah1.png" width="640" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Joan; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Joan;"></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>We are again in a season of celebrations, parties, shopping and “j-oy”; it is a time when our hearts are softened and we are <i>nicer</i> people, for the most part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is also a time of stress, frustration and worry.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>People feel the pressure of a list of people they want to bless at this one time of the year, and many are concerned about their jobs, what the next year will bring and yet, the credit cards are swiped and the closets are filled with precious things to give with a hope for a financial Christmas miracle.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>As Messianics, we generally don't keep Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are more inclined to observe Chanukah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It isn’t a Jewish replacement for Christmas; it is becasue of the messianic desire to be scriptural in all things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>Most Christian believers who know even a little church history know that Yeshua was not born on December 25.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bible likes to give clues to those who are willing to take the time and search it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact it does show us the time of Messiah’s birth; beginning with Zechariah who was serving his priestly rotation in the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Course of Abijah which would place him at the temple either before or after Pentecost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each priest served twice a year for one week plus at each pilgrim feast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, his course fell in line with Pentecost, therefore he would have been there for two weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>He is given the message about the birth of John the Baptist, who would be the voice preparing God’s people for the coming of the messiah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pentecost usually falls around the end of May to the early part of June. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Do </span>the math, Elizabeth was in her 6<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup> month at the time of the announcement to Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>Messianics believe that Mary conceived at the time of Chanukah and gave birth at the feast of tabernacles; Fulfilling many scriptures. However, my intent is not to cover all of this in depth at this time.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Even we who celebrate the Lord, Yeshua/Jesus are caught up in festivities and gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living in America, you cannot go untouched by the Holiday fervor, whether it is muzac in the mall or holiday treats and decorations all around, it gets to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are seasonal movies, all heartwarming and emotional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But here in lies the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world becomes mushy this time of year; we hear real life stories of heroes that rescue abandon families and load them up with food and gifts, people being extraordinarily generous and loving and everywhere you go, there are signs on towels, table d</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">é</span><span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">cor, door signs etc</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">…</span><span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> that say “Believe”.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>But what does that mean?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, to Christians, it means turn and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the world is not promoting the gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We look at those signs and breathe a comforted sigh and expect the world to be saved because it’s Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">But in reality, it is a very great counterfeit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Believe to the world, means <i>believe in miracles; </i>you don’t need God or Jesus for miracles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world is content to explain it as dear Aunt Tilly who has gone on is watching over us</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">…</span><span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>others see Karma; still others believe its God but don’t accept Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>“Believe” can mean, don’t give up on Santa, father Christmas, the spirit of Christmas; it can even mean believe in yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to share and experience I had that really made me think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reluctantly sat through the movie, the Santa clause with Tim Allen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now if you know anything about this movie, it is just for fun and rather silly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tim Allen, who is a divorced man accidentally cause the <i>real</i> Santa to fall off the roof and he dies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his pocket are instructions for just such an occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long story short, time Allen becomes the new Santa; reluctantly at first, but his little son helps him to accept his new occupation and identification and he finally believes it himself!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>The mom and her new husband of course don’t believe this nonsense, until the reality of it becomes so overwhelming they both believe it! They reminisce about childhood disappointments that made them stop believing in Santa, each wanted something badly and didn’t receive it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now, in the end, as adults their childhood wishes come true.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>The problem with this scenario is that it evokes genuine emotion with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It pulls on your heart as you look into the mother’s eyes as she realizes her ex is the new Santa!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her feelings about him instantly change, as though he had just been canonized. <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>The atmosphere that most feel around them at this time of year is not faith, but a false emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes the place of true faith that brings conviction about the truth of the gospel story and replaces it with an emotional “awwww” that warms the heart but leaves it cold as ashes on December 26. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><strong>There is nothing eternal here; it does not save, it does not heal, it does not change anyone for more than a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lest we too be deceived, I plead for discernment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May we be ready with a right response and not come into agreement with a lie.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Is it hard?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes! It is hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People will hate the truth, and those that resist it until the end will hate it even more, believing it is God’s fault they are lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop telling the grandkids Santa’s coming</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">…</span><span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>don’t watch every family movie but the ones that tell the gospel story!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read the bible account to your children, answer their questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Don’t let people walk away seeing only a Nativity scene with a helpless baby, tell them the rest of the story</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">…</span><span style="font-family: Joan; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pray as you walk through the mall and the stores for the deceived that God will send the truth to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time is short beloved, are you not convinced yet?...only believe!<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Leo; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-62040679082077525012012-11-05T11:39:00.003-08:002012-11-05T11:39:31.671-08:00Vote On Your Knees!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<dir>
<b><span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjW3r3ITeKGT_V0dFlS4fwQx62If6K8yqAqVtF42p6VqJ6pyeAv4MMdM0UNUGn92TfAV6IDoaKceU8TkGVy7OCDb597ZXRztanhT0J0oKKGa5eQlAH-6c9A9oeUW_ZMCvooeT_RehEpEpo/s1600/ppppp6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjW3r3ITeKGT_V0dFlS4fwQx62If6K8yqAqVtF42p6VqJ6pyeAv4MMdM0UNUGn92TfAV6IDoaKceU8TkGVy7OCDb597ZXRztanhT0J0oKKGa5eQlAH-6c9A9oeUW_ZMCvooeT_RehEpEpo/s400/ppppp6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div dir="LTR" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</b><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</dir>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Shalom Beloved</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Bangle; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Bangle;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Today is the last day to make decisions; tomorrow
the fate of our nation will be decided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If we choose wrong, the greatest judgment this country has ever known will
be brought upon this nation; remembering that God hears us when we pray;
remembering that all God ever asks for is repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If God was willing to turn destruction away
from Nineveh, a godless city that hated and persecuted His people, if they
repented, how much more for us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">We need to vote today, on our knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to repent as Christians for being
silent the last 12 years, for allowing ourselves to be fooled by politicians
that claimed they were “born again” when clearly they were not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have left our reasoning behind and walked
in a fog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have sat back and allowed
the liberal agenda that destroys life by not voting in those who would protect
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have taken a stand of no
stand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have become <i>Pilgrims</i>
who believe we should not be political.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We should have been more like the <i>Puritans</i> who believed their
voice mattered in the political arena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don’t necessarily agree that government should be run only by “Christians”,
this is not a theocracy and we cannot confuse that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, the Bible tells us to pray for our
governments and leaders that WE might enjoy peace in the land that we
live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">The church (I) has (have) failed to be obedient to
the Word of God and pray fervently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sleep has overcome us and now we awaken to a potential disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it too late?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the remnant is now awake, and willing to do
what is right, is that not repentance?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If we are not willing to make that mistake again and choose to be
obedient, is that not repentance?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps God will turn our course and give us another chance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Many scholars don’t see America in the last day’s prophecies
of the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Some think it is utterly destroyed, some think we are Babylon. </span>I don’t believe America is
Babylon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearly Europe has that already
in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://youtu.be/zaR-YiLmgKQ">http://youtu.be/zaR-YiLmgKQ</a> <span style="color: blue;">(Rape of Europe)</span> </span>However, I believe America is
Ephraim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Book of Hosea, God is so
grieved with Ephraim for its rebellion and wickedness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is determined to destroy it for it is
deserving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the heart of God breaks
with love and compassion for this people and cannot do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So He disciplines and like a Father, who
stands on the porch and calls out His sons name sternly to come home, the son
who knows he is in trouble comes sheepishly home, humbled and obedient When our
Father Roars like a Mighty Lion!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnE9Z-J6V3lwM0C65MOPInLdiLXAp-IJWiKv_lIMRVFlJ3yKEVm4e2MM0FnpSUNQzefQ_CZpYLJMhG9mWwMd1HYc2pywLTardSHA0tZ57BOV2MzrB5OXx-A-_kgpwWSVt0beuFmhyyot5V/s1600/Ezekiel37TwoSticksinOneHand2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnE9Z-J6V3lwM0C65MOPInLdiLXAp-IJWiKv_lIMRVFlJ3yKEVm4e2MM0FnpSUNQzefQ_CZpYLJMhG9mWwMd1HYc2pywLTardSHA0tZ57BOV2MzrB5OXx-A-_kgpwWSVt0beuFmhyyot5V/s320/Ezekiel37TwoSticksinOneHand2.gif" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">In Ezekiel, the prophet is told to join the stick
marked Ephraim with the stick called Judah and make them one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could this be a prophetic picture of Ephraim/America
standing with Judah/Israel as one against the enemies of Democracy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we fail to stand with Israel, we will be
counted as her enemy and go the way of her enemies as prophesied in the Bible…please
remember that…Israel is key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Nation
that upholds her will find favor with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">I believe that God would be willing to give
America another chance to do it right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it is not up to the heathen, brethren; it is up to the remnant to
commit to pray and intercede; to be a voice of truth, reason and compassion. To
get out and preach a true Gospel message that people may be saved. To stay
awake and cry out for God’s guidance and to warn the people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Who knows if God will relent and gives us hope for
revival that brings salvation, not signs and wonders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today is the day to vote…get on your knees…make
your choice and petition the King, Esther; it’s up to you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<b><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-themecolor: text2;">Est 4:14 For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and
deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your
father's house shall be destroyed. And who knows whether you have come to the
kingdom for a time like this?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyyqB9VgSkMLCCEHYt37twmr3bdg8OS485cxOLF37Xa5LGicAzZPy_Ez_5TW6i6ddbKweW5yIja1YjgvaiopZ-FXHLHlSJgPhmNilQEe-aUyrtGOKRij8A2AMWI5gJ1Q4LXVrazZq4UpD2/s1600/2768305830.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyyqB9VgSkMLCCEHYt37twmr3bdg8OS485cxOLF37Xa5LGicAzZPy_Ez_5TW6i6ddbKweW5yIja1YjgvaiopZ-FXHLHlSJgPhmNilQEe-aUyrtGOKRij8A2AMWI5gJ1Q4LXVrazZq4UpD2/s400/2768305830.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-3669453921446275662012-10-31T21:35:00.000-07:002012-10-31T21:57:00.064-07:00Reformation Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hTj79xwcQsZbGYRzjd3W9l2ojjh01cToGicQp2LWXVzLapM05bwYs1e8Rvnzwn7m2SN_8JbMKR9X3oc0eOziSw_QSGMkFeEv96RbrNxN4Rjk2h0w4GXVNQYX4u9kNrnnSR5Gt7rTubYA/s1600/solas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hTj79xwcQsZbGYRzjd3W9l2ojjh01cToGicQp2LWXVzLapM05bwYs1e8Rvnzwn7m2SN_8JbMKR9X3oc0eOziSw_QSGMkFeEv96RbrNxN4Rjk2h0w4GXVNQYX4u9kNrnnSR5Gt7rTubYA/s320/solas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is Reformation Day
again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did anyone notice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, October 31, 1517 was the day that
changed the course of the Christian Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some churches may have preached about it last Sunday and my thanks to
those that did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other churches are busy
with “Harvest Festivals” as an alternative to Halloween instead. But it is a
day that should shake us awake every year; a day that should remind us it is
never ok to relax and become complacent about our faith or fail to contend for
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsev_GSlK-35HIciuFye07neIkW9njEEgerh2uDJbmsOlkN9WehTFsy7zBMZc8LiQA4TGRMzNQP4SWjD8X_nBmvuVoVeKpSsAlaT7hRBGuzqhbyHcc5hZknWT1r4CAyIQ1m9TqLFko4hE7/s1600/dominion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsev_GSlK-35HIciuFye07neIkW9njEEgerh2uDJbmsOlkN9WehTFsy7zBMZc8LiQA4TGRMzNQP4SWjD8X_nBmvuVoVeKpSsAlaT7hRBGuzqhbyHcc5hZknWT1r4CAyIQ1m9TqLFko4hE7/s1600/dominion.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;">Yes, we are hearing again
the sounds of REFORMATION. But this reformation I am afraid would turn the
saints in the grave as they say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>The
New Apostolic Reformation is a heretical movement that has nothing to do with
the heart of the Reformers of the 16<sup>th</sup> century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They desire not to contend for the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, but to redefine Christianity and fundamentally change it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truth must be upheld at all cost and
continually contended for in every generation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If we fail to carry that torch into the last day, the darkness will
overtake us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we are the Light of the
World if the Light of Christ be in us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">We must not begin a new reformation, but continue the work
our forbearers began and bring it forward till it is complete in the day of
Christ. The issue is the same as it was then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Messiah is the stumbling stone, it is the inability to accept He has
done all for us, “It is finished”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grace
that combines works is not grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
many who sound as though they are staunch defenders of the Gospel who attack
the current trend of <i>grace </i>teaching because it leads to ecumenism,
permissive lifestyle and Kingdom Now theology are equally as wrong because they
bring the weight of the Law in as a must to truly be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQ9PCnc-kkSofPoXd3Cjo6qq3OIosLXTT6aTvgrUEKvtru7i8I2OcoP33L-VUXNZwLXAIsVIjaI5tMnCbEyA8FCgrmV0_9ldzHUi0vnC1kJuQdUUEqSc_BXGJjjANHdivOhCO2P1WbwVX/s1600/10cmd.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQ9PCnc-kkSofPoXd3Cjo6qq3OIosLXTT6aTvgrUEKvtru7i8I2OcoP33L-VUXNZwLXAIsVIjaI5tMnCbEyA8FCgrmV0_9ldzHUi0vnC1kJuQdUUEqSc_BXGJjjANHdivOhCO2P1WbwVX/s1600/10cmd.png" /></a></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is much discussion about the Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most agree the ceremonial Law was done away
with but not the moral Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, if
that be the case, most everyone has come short of this kind of <i>saving grace</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we must keep the moral Law (10
Commandments) and the Bible says if you have broken one, you have broken them
all, then everyone who believes the day of rest in God and Worship is Sunday
would be lost!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In truth as Christians we
should not have any trouble agreeing with God about His Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should agree it is good and Holy; that we
should have no other God; we should not make idols for ourselves; we should
never take the Lord’s Name in vain; we should honor our parents; we should not
kill; not commit adultery; not steal; not bear false witness; not covet but
somehow we conveniently excuse and explain away “Keep the Sabbath holy”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">In His teaching, Jesus said of those in that day who would
cry out to Him, Lord, Lord! “<i>Depart from me you who are lawless (workers of
iniquity) I never knew you”.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
interesting thing is, they call Him Lord, they believe in Him, they have done
miraculous works but He does not know them, what could be the reason?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, all the moral Law keepers that keep all
but the Sabbath have broken them all according to Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we tie the stone tablet to our backs and
try to climb up Mt. Sinai to reach God, we will die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1wuw41GF9Z3q0r1B6iuiEEYhkWAI9moEI8Rybb2ZcLrWfWwSufyQTxFK7rvX-4F_Dew4zn2Emmto5yQgTgNgJtxVFT_TCoy4TtbN0YcBuWuNNsYfw5gJQ1QPqO1pSQtzYGMc-sbNHZPnd/s1600/3131452958_153c9b14b1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1wuw41GF9Z3q0r1B6iuiEEYhkWAI9moEI8Rybb2ZcLrWfWwSufyQTxFK7rvX-4F_Dew4zn2Emmto5yQgTgNgJtxVFT_TCoy4TtbN0YcBuWuNNsYfw5gJQ1QPqO1pSQtzYGMc-sbNHZPnd/s320/3131452958_153c9b14b1.jpg" width="306" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The reformation that men women and children gave their life
for was a Christian belief that was rooted in the trust that grace and faith was
a gift of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one could earn it or
deserve it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They believed in
transformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They believed that true
saving faith made you new and changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was not the practice of the moral Law that made you holy or righteous;
it was Christ in you, the Hope of Glory!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">This generation has preached a false gospel; a jesus who
doesn’t change you but counsels you about your past. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has become Dr. jesus, PhD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of your sin is explained away, counseled
away and 10 stepped away, but not washed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dear friend, if you think this is about keeping the Sabbath on Saturday
and doing the 10 Commandments perfectly, you have missed the point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grace is not permission to stay in your
sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Greasy Grace</i> as the Law
keepers call it is not permission to forsake the simplicity of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point of the Sabbath is simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sabbath Law says if you work, you die. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is amazing of the 10, this is the point of
stumbling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in the Gospel of salvation
it is also the stumbling point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
keep the moral Law that you might be saved, stay saved or be counted righteous
you will die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are lawless, workers
of iniquity, no work or you die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are two Gospel commandments we are told to keep;
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and Him Crucified and raised from the dead and
love one another. No other Gospel saves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do we believe that He is enough?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do we really believe the Gospel at all, that our sins are erased,
removed not just covered!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That we are
made new, that there is evidence of newness…WE ARE NOT THE SAME!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">We invite people to the altar to accept Jesus into their
heart…WHAT?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is where we NEED the
LAW!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conviction comes when people see
themselves as sinners!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t know
the LAW!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a policeman hauls someone
before the judge who was driving 100 mi. per hour and his only excuse is “I didn’t
know there was a speed limit” He is toast!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ignorance of the Law is no excuse!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We must tell them the Law of God that they are accountable to a Holy and
Just God and then show them the Way out!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">How can we be saved from our sins if we do not believe we
need a Savior?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First we have to know that
our choice of lifestyle is sin in God’s sight, our parents neglect does not
justify our antisocial behavior or defend our substance abuse and thievery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All those smiling preachers out there
convincing people God is not angry or going to judge anyone or cast anyone into
hell, if they do not repent, I can’t imagine the rebuke that is coming to them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiADAqnu7SyMDhhYRdp9bWc1vYAdXUtL6IOYHCuvecDV2K_xtjVBWs698M9Vn9khOdDkZ6JOiZy9fVsh8ECPKYIGcF74OyIJX69Qi0N_Hp6glm66vYn2d7LwaxhTz-QlHbtQH1QckUOkRzi/s1600/Christ-on-Cross-Dusk-Sunrays.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiADAqnu7SyMDhhYRdp9bWc1vYAdXUtL6IOYHCuvecDV2K_xtjVBWs698M9Vn9khOdDkZ6JOiZy9fVsh8ECPKYIGcF74OyIJX69Qi0N_Hp6glm66vYn2d7LwaxhTz-QlHbtQH1QckUOkRzi/s320/Christ-on-Cross-Dusk-Sunrays.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFWffQXeVxSd47huLqjD7dtMdaKQh0Xln4J_Y6lrxMJ5kB5bmPX-8nsCl8bqZgMEsGc0AEVfQWAF2GeX2X2HI0TcCFQl2tk1F6EG7cSbN6Bf6alKq1N_eq_NYhbM4iCYnyQprcvF4EyiVs/s1600/equal_at_the_foot_of_the_cross_equally_in_need_of_mercy-1024x569.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFWffQXeVxSd47huLqjD7dtMdaKQh0Xln4J_Y6lrxMJ5kB5bmPX-8nsCl8bqZgMEsGc0AEVfQWAF2GeX2X2HI0TcCFQl2tk1F6EG7cSbN6Bf6alKq1N_eq_NYhbM4iCYnyQprcvF4EyiVs/s320/equal_at_the_foot_of_the_cross_equally_in_need_of_mercy-1024x569.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">God is justifiably angry with this world and He is going to
judge it and destroy the wicked because He put His only <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son, His beloved Son on the cross and allowed
Him to be brutalized and humiliated and blamed and to die for a world of people
who deserved to suffer in hell forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
for all whom trust in Him is everlasting glory and peace and joy in the
presence of Almighty God for that is His will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He wants none to perish but all to repent and come into eternal
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">But all who scorn His Son, and mock Him or do not believe
His suffering was complete <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enough to set
you free forever, even though Jesus Himself told us “<i>who the Son sets free,
is free indeed!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will die in their sins
and suffer forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the Torah
keeper, the moral Law keepers, all who name His Name but do not believe He is
enough to save and keep them forever, who have a form of godliness but deny the
power of God to change them into a new creation will perish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">So let us honor Reformation Day and remember the Saints of
God that were torn apart, brutalized, beheaded and burned alive as a testimony
of the Grace of God and the power of God to save to the uttermost .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please, I implore you, shake off the false
gospel teaching and return to the cross of Jesus Christ where we shall all find
peace and comfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put down the Law from
your hands and let Yeshua write it upon your heart and in your mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put on His Righteousness and walk humbly with
your God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shalom beloved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjap2h_aI8oFTqgcta6wtf3j1lShNbvyijk9T9ZEIpg5ZUK1ongtoU8w0-8IQ8U3OqrDVfXu_srZLvzg1yo3JRcNs19xndUqX3wVkjLNlFjPNU9eyVzOIA7i3WQCiUhq3of9JDrDWnJmy1v/s1600/it-is-finished-634x205-banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjap2h_aI8oFTqgcta6wtf3j1lShNbvyijk9T9ZEIpg5ZUK1ongtoU8w0-8IQ8U3OqrDVfXu_srZLvzg1yo3JRcNs19xndUqX3wVkjLNlFjPNU9eyVzOIA7i3WQCiUhq3of9JDrDWnJmy1v/s320/it-is-finished-634x205-banner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-45850045275590080172012-10-03T19:51:00.001-07:002012-10-08T21:33:19.672-07:00The Kingdom Divided<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">We are in a desperate time.</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Bangle; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Bangle;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">There is a heavy fog of divisiveness hanging over our nation; it is creating a racial tension that extends throughout our cities that had been intentionally seeded; one we have not seen for some years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is creating division even in the church, as racial and cultural bias aligns with political parties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">I resent when Ministers assert their influence on constituents using the Bible to support a candidate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither candidate is a Biblical Christian, why are we using the scriptures to validate programs and platforms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are not purporting to be driven by Christian “values” or ethics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How dare we use the Words of Jesus to validate or endorse a candidate who opposes the very truth of the Gospel?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Let me discuss the Christian Right first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a growing far right conservative movement based on a new theology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Conservative Tea Party found friends in the <i>Kingdom Now, Dominion Theology</i>….movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">This political agenda that is formed by Dominionism is a rapidly growing movement that is gobbling up Evangelical/Charismatic mega churches and smaller communities with a social gospel of prosperity, health, power and DOMINION; not spiritual victory in Christ Jesus our Savior and Lord, World Domination!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">So, the far right with their own delusion are vying for power and opposing the Liberals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is a more moderate, center right conservative that does not have a “Kingdom” agenda, cannot in good conscience throw in with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the conservative platform is at odds and thus divided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This far right group is so radical, that it causes difficulty for conservative candidates and the Republican Party. Not everyone is aware of their hidden agenda to move toward theonomy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So conservatives are divided amongst themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Liberal, or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><em>Christian Left </em>are operating on such an emotional level, that it has become about racism; accusations of racism among ministers who formerly have enjoyed fellowship and peace; platforms about poverty and healthcare appeal to the traditional underdog stance, but they are not seeing it for what it really is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When their mothers and grandfathers cannot receive treatment, but comfort care only because they are too old, left to die because they are not useful to society, it will be too late. The problem is, they are so pre-programed to accept anything promoted by the Democratic Party, that they fail to hear with their ears and see with their eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s look at the tip of the iceberg…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Liberal Pastors blindly support the Democratic platform passionately accusing the Conservatives of making everything about two issues, Homosexuality and Abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">When Pastors can uphold lawlessness and defend these actions by calling our Constitution and or Flag an object of idolatrous worship and Patriots who are greatly concerned about preserving our freedom for the next generation Idolaters, I fear they will awaken to find themselves in the hangover of the Great Delusion and that they are culpable for giving our enemies the leverage they need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">The apostasy has been carefully planned to coincide with this transitioning of our Nation, preparing the “church” and the people to accept ecumenism, tolerance, even mentally conditioning them toward one world religion and government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason it is successful is they have told them the Bible is not literal, there is no Tribulation, no Antichrist, no soon return of the Lord to rule, they will rule instead and conquer the World for Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Great Delusion has begun to lay a foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The enemy had come into the Church and divided the Holy Community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus prayed that we would be one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we allowed our hearts to be guided by love and truth, instead of being ruled by unforgivness, bitterness, anger from past generations, much of which never affected us or even our parents and the desire to find a political “savior”, we could all stand as one voice and be heard for we would be the voice of a multitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could stand together against tyranny, oppression and wickedness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">When Satan causes the people of God to see one another as the enemy, we are busy attacking each other and no one is on the Wall…he comes right in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church has truly been sleeping just as Jesus said it would, for the most visible and influential part has been corrupted and infiltrated with a false Gospel that like leaven is growing and taking over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Religious Far Right are Dominionists;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Romney is a Mormon with a Mormon eschatological agenda;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Obama is not Christian, which is plain enough to see;</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Christian Left are deluded into believing an answer to prayer has come that will deliver equality and provide all the answers, what they are actually getting is socialism;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Conservative Center, few who see the whole mess that are now reduced in number because of division and are not effective enough or great enough in number.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Divide and conquer - </span><span style="color: teal; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Rev 6:2</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">God have mercy on us, God forgive us our sins as a Nation and show us mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have committed the sins prophesied in the Torah, that when we would come into the good land and prosper, that in our prosperity, we would forget our Creator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord our God, remember Abraham when he asked for mercy if there be 5o righteous, and all the way down to 10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not sweep away the righteous with the wicked…Deliver us O God from the evils of Islam, Communism, Marxism, Socialism, Totalitarianism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deliver us O, Our God, from personal tyranny and treachery <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Protect us O, Our God from our enemies that would use our moment of weakness against us to rule over us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pray for those who name the Name above all Names to come to their senses before it is too late, before the Devil uses the House of God to rise to World Domination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May God have mercy on us all.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"></span> </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/Oi_KaZ53eDg/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Oi_KaZ53eDg&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Oi_KaZ53eDg&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"></span><span style="font-family: Bangle; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-26756917545022924562012-08-21T12:28:00.000-07:002012-08-21T12:28:01.642-07:00No Tolerance!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7vLDL5ZlPIsUXsXHixJTI5Xp_N5Tr4oTj5jm1m_HKdtc1WL1UXMWZyDhjnfhMYZdMk9DS8sqwzKqWq2PTuRbXhiJljRaSoKvJWI4uYFyzW31mywWAYMaj1HoSjKzLyLFUNxmmh64rFAR/s1600/Tolerance-T-Shirt-(8178).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7vLDL5ZlPIsUXsXHixJTI5Xp_N5Tr4oTj5jm1m_HKdtc1WL1UXMWZyDhjnfhMYZdMk9DS8sqwzKqWq2PTuRbXhiJljRaSoKvJWI4uYFyzW31mywWAYMaj1HoSjKzLyLFUNxmmh64rFAR/s1600/Tolerance-T-Shirt-(8178).jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">W<span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;">e have been brain washed
with mantras of “Political Correctness” and “tolerance”, but true Christian
faith is not tolerant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are not to tolerate false teaching, we are not to tolerate the ways of the world among us,
we are not to tolerate blatant, un-repented sin among us, we are not to
tolerate heresy, we are not to tolerate another gospel-another jesus-another
spirit!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We are not the judges of
the world, which is God’s business; we are to judge them that say they are
brothers, who say they know Christ and yet everything they say and do works
against the Gospel and sound doctrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our witness for Yeshua our Messiah is to be such that shows we are a new
Creation in Him, different and set apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the world, not of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not “holier
than thou, for God hates that (<em>Is 65:5)</em> but we are to demonstrate His
righteousness in love and mercy, guarding our own hearts and the<em> Little Flock</em>,
lest we become deceived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are not to
employ the toys of this world to reach out to the lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Torah, God commands us to destroy the
forms of idolatry of the Nations from among us; we are not to worship Him in
such a way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be seeker sensitive in a
way that uses the familiarity of night clubs and rock concerts to attract people
is not of God; we are not converting them, they are converting us to a New Age
Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We have nothing to do
with those who say they are Christians and march openly protesting and hating
people in rebellion to God who are sinners. Nowhere does it say we are to do
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are to offer the hope of
salvation to them that desire to escape the penalty of sin, never condemning
or judging the lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who do such
things do violence to the true Gospel of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;">Come out from among
them</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;">, do not be a partaker of
those who hate and judge and cause His Name to be blasphemed every day; do not
be a partaker of those who preach and live a social gospel that requires no
repentance, no trust in Jesus Christ, no true knowledge of Him, no ongoing
relationship with Him, no growing faith and knowledge of the Word of God and
continual implementation of obedience to His Word as we discover more and more
what pleases Him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is time, not for a<i>
new</i> reformation, but to stand and defend the <b>true</b> Reformation;
instead of throwing off the old, we must ever move forward refining what has
been revealed and seeking to understand and live it in every generation, not
look for something <b><i>new.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<b><span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If church growth is
the goal, then the devil is helping immensely for he is only too happy to
infiltrate and puff up the numbers with goats among the sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When goats make it into the pulpits, flee…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Seek the Lord and ask for
a discerning heart, check out every word taught and preached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t read the church statement of Beliefs
only, watch, listen and discern if what is being preached and lived out is the same. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The devil is a liar and Jesus warned us about
the coming time of false prophets and false teachers…it is now here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are no longer outside our walls; they
stand among us and preach to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
say they believe one thing, but preach another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I continue to pray for us all…till He comes, Shalom Beloved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-85303354699550823832012-07-31T21:42:00.001-07:002012-08-01T06:05:27.376-07:00Just Call Me Protestant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">I have been awakened to find myself in
a place I never dreamed I would be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through
my whole walk my heart cry to God has been for truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did I end up here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was lifted out of the mire in 1994 and led
out of the Roman Catholic Church by the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to decide where to go from there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t think it would matter much since the
“Protestants” had it right!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I mean they figured out the error, they
died in the flames and under the Executioners axe to defend the truth
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well that is what history says
anyway…what happened?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">So, I just went with the flow, you
know, the new revelation!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is doing
something new…Oh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Did we exhaust the
old and He didn’t want us to lose interest so God thought of a new plan?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, long story short, after many years of
confusion as to why the Prophets were saying this…and the Bible said that…or there
<i>is</i> a rapture, to there is <i>no</i> rapture…to the Kingdom is
here!...without the King…I woke up back in the mire of Catholicism and didn’t
know how I got here.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Faithful
unto death"</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> -
Revelation 2:10</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See, I love the Reformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love what Tyndale and Cranmer and Huss and Thomas
Drowry (a blind boy) Hugh Latimer and countless others preached, defended and
gave their lives for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made it
possible for me to even <i>know</i> the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Had they not succeeded we would all be Catholic, worshipping a false
Christ who is just the devil in disguise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">I bet most don’t know the few names I
have listed, perhaps you know Tyndale, but he was more than a publishing
company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would urge you to look up and
read their stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will challenge
you and change you, unless you are already hardened.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhCF2-ele1IHk69YtTxn2e4J2QHCt8_qfEcJxINvaH8pcfMxYpjZp595rgJHOdhrhPrBTWeCNMMrVHafHagPhsHnYA_DgPiGHzJcco1XDLu7FbX2w0aB0gCHnMStfQQalVdR8mIN9VI02/s1600/7MM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhCF2-ele1IHk69YtTxn2e4J2QHCt8_qfEcJxINvaH8pcfMxYpjZp595rgJHOdhrhPrBTWeCNMMrVHafHagPhsHnYA_DgPiGHzJcco1XDLu7FbX2w0aB0gCHnMStfQQalVdR8mIN9VI02/s1600/7MM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhCF2-ele1IHk69YtTxn2e4J2QHCt8_qfEcJxINvaH8pcfMxYpjZp595rgJHOdhrhPrBTWeCNMMrVHafHagPhsHnYA_DgPiGHzJcco1XDLu7FbX2w0aB0gCHnMStfQQalVdR8mIN9VI02/s200/7MM.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Why did I feel like I was back in
Catholicism?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Postmillennialism:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(Also known as "Christian
Reconstruction", "Kingdom Now Theology" and "Dominion Theology.")
is not that different from Catholic Universalism or Amillienialism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea that Christianity (or at least an
elite group) will conquer the earth in the Name of Christ and set up the
Kingdom and it will get better and better till Jesus just can’t stand to stay
away any longer and then returns when all the work is done to just relax and
dwell among His people. </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When you must ignore or explain away clear scriptures
that point to events that are not in the long distant future, but are all
around us in order to uphold your utopian, Xanadu ideal, you are no less than
deceived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are the scoffers who do
not believe the words of the Lord about His return; these are they who have
decided for themselves, like the Pharisees of Jesus day, that it would not be
convenient for Christ to return before the 1000 year Kingdom reign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, if the King isn’t here…we rule,
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, yes we will say we are doing
it for Him and caring for His sheep and it is all His will…so did the Popes, so
did the Inquisitors, so did the brutal Crusaders that butchered human beings in
the name of Christ declaring it to be the will of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">No, see the Bible says there are wise virgins and foolish
ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All said they were waiting for
Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But only five were prepared, only
five really believed Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before Jesus
ascended, He instructed those who saw Him to wait in Jerusalem for the promise
of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did not know
how long they were to wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now after He
was raised from the dead over 500 had seen Him at once, only 120 were
faithfully waiting on the day of Pentecost only ten days later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It doesn’t matter how long we must wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as He promised He came as a baby after
4000 years…the Holy Spirit came after 10 days…I will wait because that is what
patience means, to wait. It isn’t about being right; it is about looking for
Him because He told us to. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Yeshua promised He would come and told us the signs of His
coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Signs and wonders and
supernatural junk that is going on in the church is not what He told us, His
signs are on a much bigger scale. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
signs are in the Sun and Moon and in the heavens, and on the earth below. You
can deceive yourself if you like and say that it has all been the same since
the beginning, they are just exploiting the news…but that would make you a
scoffer!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Another contribution that has found a place in Dominion
Theology, Kingdom Now ministries even mainline denominations is Contemplative
Prayer or Centering Prayer, or “Breathe Prayers”. This revelation on how to
reach God in a deeper and more profound way, becoming more spiritual is being
attributed to the “Desert Fathers”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were Catholic monks who discovered what the Buddhists knew and the Hindu’s and
all of the Eastern Spiritists knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is the Devils religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDP0MbeIvzZEOKXMTwcxzqmQ1BZwu6IUQ5m7Xm-rsEoaehseKYI2NOD3usqy2sNLEzwx84CAHVC171bIoGFyL-TCNPIVy1KdzuDh6MNF7WBLwKeglEwLtbZJbQvBKo7c9Xnsual4aLE-Gt/s1600/Card-_86-St-Ignatius-front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDP0MbeIvzZEOKXMTwcxzqmQ1BZwu6IUQ5m7Xm-rsEoaehseKYI2NOD3usqy2sNLEzwx84CAHVC171bIoGFyL-TCNPIVy1KdzuDh6MNF7WBLwKeglEwLtbZJbQvBKo7c9Xnsual4aLE-Gt/s320/Card-_86-St-Ignatius-front.jpg" width="182" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A more modern teacher of this method was Ignatius Loyola who
discovered spiritual disciplines, or exercises to work his way to spirituality
at the same time Martin Luther was discovering the gift of Grace through Jesus
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hmmm, there is something wrong
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See Inigo Loyola was the founder
of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Made famous for their many contributions to espionage, torture, murder,
treachery….having been expelled from 83 countries in the world, even Catholic
ones. The Jesuits are still going strong today perpetrating what they do best,
infiltration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have infiltrated the
Church of Jesus Christ and under the guise of being Pentecostal, Charismatic, Evangelical
or even Protestant have introduced evil practices that destroy faith for
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These spiritual exercises
lead you away from Christ, not to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Jesuits all practice these same techniques.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fruit is all bad. Their goal and oath is
to destroy Protestantism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh yes, they are known for their charitable works and care
for the poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s talk about the Devil’s
interest in the poor for a moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
who claim they are liberal do so because they declare it is the only way to
care for the poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though the rest
of the agenda may have to do with defending immorality as the Bible defines it,
or even the murder of innocents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as
long as the poor are cared for the end justifies the means.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember Judas Iscariot, he made a big deal about wasting
money that could have been given to the poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Devil loves to play that card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus said he comes to steal, kill and destroy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judas was a thief and was upset that he
missed out on a year’s wages he might have pilfered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, just because someone hides their evil
and misdeeds behind philanthropy or good deeds, the fruit is still where we
must look.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9xq-pG01DoIh92Mp-B9SOA092br1ehJSx7yPqnAufX7_6xKOqYIdWL41-i3AD3XcEIUvRQNgvEod82nkCHPT12a5C7GuXosZvYbudF8NCN4a8vbkvFkPbslCBDacKW6eD9GXjp-sKC4g/s1600/Sheep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9xq-pG01DoIh92Mp-B9SOA092br1ehJSx7yPqnAufX7_6xKOqYIdWL41-i3AD3XcEIUvRQNgvEod82nkCHPT12a5C7GuXosZvYbudF8NCN4a8vbkvFkPbslCBDacKW6eD9GXjp-sKC4g/s320/Sheep.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ecumenism that leads to Universalism, tolerance where the
Bible says there should be none.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pastors
who tell you “we don’t have to do everything the Bible says,” are blight among
the sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have lost our first love,
we have sold out for fame, money and power, we have imitated the ruling class
of the Catholic empire claiming it is ordained by God; false prophets abound
and no one holds their words up to the light of scripture; we mix works with
grace, or grace that requires no faith but is license to produce every evil and
feel justified; the church is dying and no one seems to notice; they are
rushing head long over the precipice of eternity singing their mantras and declaring
the latest rhema word that is outside the scope of Scripture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">No, I want to be known as a Protestant, one who protests the
spirit of the age, the spirit behind Catholicism, the spirit that imitates the
Holy Spirit and is Hell bent on destroying God’s people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I happen to think that sound doctrine is
worth dying for, I only hope the grace and strength and courage that was found
in the Reformers would be found in me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Michael Sattler died because he believed only people who
were old enough to make a true confession of faith should be baptized, he
rejected the tenants of Catholic faith and was tortured and burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few days after his death, his wife was
drowned in mockery calling it a third baptism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">William Tyndale was strangled and burnt for treason and heresy;
he was the first to translate the New Testament into English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks Mr. Tyndale!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRp5V7RuIIJQcRenEoTmRI_4AY9xQjZfvlTwMjEe3to0g9yekkx0CMYxRDpWzD8k2aX10MoTRUT0beaFDgeOy8kxWjFNGJJNCibZ72AxB5d0YEg4HkwIgrAuK4PkodFCo7G9pleala89Kh/s1600/gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRp5V7RuIIJQcRenEoTmRI_4AY9xQjZfvlTwMjEe3to0g9yekkx0CMYxRDpWzD8k2aX10MoTRUT0beaFDgeOy8kxWjFNGJJNCibZ72AxB5d0YEg4HkwIgrAuK4PkodFCo7G9pleala89Kh/s1600/gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
</a></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lAyhnZaqKZ31pcjC_ZENVg4mlLvPjo9C9wAk_tOvSLrtycPIQlUIt0fYO1t3ghTQ4HHLOZklHGBYeSxryiEa2IM5lszySMC5kQlEAGKCtCLjIO8qhxoY9gb3qULbpMKtDXcFePW3KGCl/s1600/gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lAyhnZaqKZ31pcjC_ZENVg4mlLvPjo9C9wAk_tOvSLrtycPIQlUIt0fYO1t3ghTQ4HHLOZklHGBYeSxryiEa2IM5lszySMC5kQlEAGKCtCLjIO8qhxoY9gb3qULbpMKtDXcFePW3KGCl/s1600/gallery.jpg" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Hugh Latimer in
September 1553 was arrested on charges of treason; taken to Oxford for trial,
he was burned there with the Reformer Nicholas Ridley on October 16, 1555. At
the stake Latimer immortalized himself by exhorting Ridley with the words:
"...<b>we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England
as I trust shall never be put out.</b>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I choose to take up
the ember of his words and fan them into flame and as long as I have breathe,
by the grace of God and His strength, will proclaim the truth and defend the
Faith of Jesus Christ as it has been revealed in the Holy Scriptures so that the
light will not be put out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAMidQj21Eb76Djgl3BOvXHnWjZ6X5qNm7Kh2_pZJ76BXJcDITHDqruA_lInD6g4C0xJJ7L4vweAuHQcY3xcDtbyuElbMJnHFcsPT9v2PRLOA8Xi3WNocogXz0Fb06UclrBhJXPLDz_9w/s1600/3131452958_153c9b14b1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAMidQj21Eb76Djgl3BOvXHnWjZ6X5qNm7Kh2_pZJ76BXJcDITHDqruA_lInD6g4C0xJJ7L4vweAuHQcY3xcDtbyuElbMJnHFcsPT9v2PRLOA8Xi3WNocogXz0Fb06UclrBhJXPLDz_9w/s320/3131452958_153c9b14b1.jpg" width="306" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I exhort you all to reconsider your own fervor, and
ask yourself if the Reformation matters to you, if not, please take a little
time and look up some of the names I have referenced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are only a tiny sampling of the people
wh0 have a martyrs crown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most were
mothers and children, grandfathers and farmers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People of no real consequence to anyone but
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They thought His truth was
everything…don’t let the light go out.</span></div>
</div>Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-89548607589156480692012-05-28T20:51:00.004-07:002012-05-30T11:26:21.407-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1I2hxEQJ0UqBN5Hn6ZhJZFlU_-wl11uIeCA0XONqPkGSbIugzoh6FMZCudQ6rsJNN7cyIamE-gaKSs9aMDoD9bLBkqzZyiZEno5QKPyr493Hz1b7e1X8Ax3RmuOHuIsHfv1NdWJCY1XT_/s1600/z165893233.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1I2hxEQJ0UqBN5Hn6ZhJZFlU_-wl11uIeCA0XONqPkGSbIugzoh6FMZCudQ6rsJNN7cyIamE-gaKSs9aMDoD9bLBkqzZyiZEno5QKPyr493Hz1b7e1X8Ax3RmuOHuIsHfv1NdWJCY1XT_/s200/z165893233.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="margin: auto 0.1in; mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-table-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-table-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-table-left: left; mso-table-lspace: 9.0pt; mso-table-overlap: never; mso-table-rspace: 9.0pt; mso-table-top: .05pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 0.22%;" width="0%">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in; width: 100%;" width="100%"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: .05pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Isa 58:1</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a horn, and declare unto My people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.</span> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This is the first of a series of writings concerning
apostasy in the Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will attempt
to address some very difficult issues and present a correct saving doctrine to
clear up confusions that are running rampant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I pray you will not judge this writing as not worth your time, but read
it with a teachable heart. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a watchman defending the truth of the Gospel, please bear with me for a moment and read the whole article.</span></o:p></span></em></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I write today with a heavy heart yet
in the hope that I may be able to help some to turn back to Yahweh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a flood that is
spewed from the mouth of the serpent, in order to sweep away Yeshua’s
Bride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>False prophets in great numbers
have risen up among us; most have not been discerned by the multitudes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are wolves in sheep’s clothing, clouds without
water… 2 Pt 2:17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jude1:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">They are the “eagles” who gather where the dead body is; real eagles do
not gather…these call themselves “eagle prophets”, but they are vultures
feeding off the deceived body in the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They promise a coming Kingdom of righteousness that THEY will
implement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They promise the church will
conquer the seven mountains of influence in the world, can you not see, they
have aligned themselves with Satan and they are leading you to
destruction!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the kingdom of
Mystery Babylon! There will be no Christian Kingdom without the physical and
actual presence of Christ!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They lie and
they know it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will never be a
kingdom of righteousness until He who is the Only Begotten Son of the Living
God, Yahweh comes bodily to earth!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
have misled you for one reason, to cause you to abandon the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They subvert your faith and little by little
instruct you in the ways of Satan; meditation, reiki, astral projection,
dependence on angels, revelations that have no Biblical foundation, even
mocking them that are like the Bereans who need to search the scriptures to
know if a thing is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may call
these things by “Christianized” names, but the practice is the same New Age
techniques the world is practicing. They have promised you the same lies Satan
has been preaching for 6000 years…you can be god. First they must deny flesh,
so they tell you Christ Jesus is not a man, He no longer needs to be human…so
you can justify your becoming divine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100.14%;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in; width: 100%;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%;">
<tbody>
<tr style="height: 12pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 12pt; padding: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We will never be divine!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have been invited to partake, to share
in the Holy Divine Nature of Christ to enable us to live in His righteousness,
in His presence forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has mingled
Himself with the believer, but YOU are not GOD!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They tell you Christ will not return for
a long time, that the church must be victorious and conquer the world…these
are the words of ANTICHRIST that denies the clear teaching of the Word of
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%;">
<tbody>
<tr style="height: 0.4in; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="background: white; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 0.4in; padding: 0in; width: 99%;" width="99%"></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="http://mhc.biblecommenter.com/jeremiah/14.htm"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</span></a></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Jer<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>14:10-16 <a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/micah/3-5.htm"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Micah 3:5</span></a>, <a href="http://bible.cc/micah/3-11.htm"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Micah 3:11</span></a></span><span style="color: teal; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span><span style="color: teal; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Jer 14:14</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the LORD said unto me: 'The prophets
prophesy lies in My name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them,
neither spoke I unto them; they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and
divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart. </span><span style="color: teal; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Mic 3:11</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heads thereof judge for reward, and
the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for
money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, <i><span style="color: grey;">Is</span></i> not the LORD among us? none evil can come
upon us. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #001320; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord calls the Jews this people,
not his people. They had forsaken his service, therefore he would punish
them according to their sins. He forbade Jeremiah to plead for them. The
false prophets were the most criminal. The Lord pronounces condemnation on
them; but as the people loved to have it so, they were not to escape
judgments. False teachers encourage men to expect peace and salvation,
without repentance, faith, conversion, and holiness of life. But those who
believe a lie must not plead if for an excuse. They shall feel what they
say they will not fear.</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The prophets in Jeremiahs day promised there would be no war, no famine, and
no captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the true prophets
spoke the Word of the Lord in direct contrast to the words of the false
prophets, they were hated and ridiculed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the disaster did come and they were swept away because they did not
believe Yahweh’s prophets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord in
His mercy brought some out at the end of the captivity and restored them to the
land having learned a terrible lesson. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, today there is no more time left after
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judgment is coming first to the
house of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Northern Kingdom of
Israel had set up false gods, golden calves in <i>Dan and Bethel</i>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judge the House of God!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You who follow after prophets and teaching
that corrupt the Word of God, that tell you angels have delivered a “new
revelation” that is OUTSIDE of scripture, you have received another gospel
which is no gospel, and another jesus that is NOT the LORD JESUS CHRIST and another
unclean spirit, not the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
have your own golden calves, lying signs and wonders, you exchange the Glory of
God for cheap gold-dust and paste jewels and manufactured mists called the
Glory…I doubt many would survive if the true Glory of God fell in a
church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read Romans Chapter 1 and you
will see today’s churches described in detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is always a remnant, but the remnant will never abandon the truth
of the Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many who profess to be wise
will be found foolish the word says</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">; did Jesus not tell us about the wise and
foolish virgins?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus commends the
church He loves, in Rev 3:7- 13 and declares they have <i>little dunamis</i>, few
miracles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A wicked and perverse
generation seeks after a sign.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Isa 8:20</span></i></b><i><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> To the Torah and to the testimony: if
they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">If the foundation and revelation of a prophecy is not
rooted in the Torah or the New Covenant, then it is of darkness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are running out of time to awaken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end are you willing to risk eternity
for spiritual thrill seeking?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yahweh is
Holy, and this synagogue of Satan has mocked Him and the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You who follow them have you allowed them to
discount the Cross of Christ, trivialize it and make it only the gateway to
bigger and better things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is the focus
on gifts and miracles and not on Fruits of the Spirit that will last?</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY9ig6M4rc_yzlkyZiM7W30Y8D4YXSd_zZaRnqMnZjz-BLd3GrZniYgPgiDO5fTkNJCM3ADnePHobd9XpEcaYo4dhqIOPt9HpcOh-qRYayGHNgBBuyDLPwxw_UFsUaL0wyfFSXtR1aBecm/s1600/narrowroad_lrs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY9ig6M4rc_yzlkyZiM7W30Y8D4YXSd_zZaRnqMnZjz-BLd3GrZniYgPgiDO5fTkNJCM3ADnePHobd9XpEcaYo4dhqIOPt9HpcOh-qRYayGHNgBBuyDLPwxw_UFsUaL0wyfFSXtR1aBecm/s200/narrowroad_lrs.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Flee the abominable houses for judgment is coming, hear
the Spirit of God calling you to repent and seek the truth…this is Laodicea!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You think you have wealth, you have
everything you need…YOU HAVE GIFTS!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love
for God is obedience to His Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Believe and you shall be saved, but what have you believed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That you can have the Spirit of Grace without
true faith and repentance?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Repentance is
turning to Christ, not an experience, not a pastor, not a church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turning to Him, forsaking your way, your
sinfulness, acknowledging your desperate state knowing He alone can save you because
of His Blood shed for your sins. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is no universal salvation; there are not many roads to, or many World names for
the One True God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Many will say to Him on that day “Lord, Lord…didn’t we
prophesy in Your name, cast out demons in Your name and do many great works in
Your name….they think they have claim because of gifts and manifestations, but
He does not know them, they are workers of iniquity to Him.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">God does not care if you are happy, wealthy or successful
in the ways of this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Kingdom
is not of this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He cares if we are
saved; He cares if we are using our salvation to bring others into the safety
that is Christ Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our reward and
Kingdom is after the judgment of this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What we have here should only be tools to survive and get the Gospel
preached so some may be saved!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jesus Christ alone, by Faith alone, by Grace alone; we
who believe, the seed of Adam, the seed of Abraham are saved from our sins and
kept by grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will never allow His
own to fall, the elect will not be deceived unto apostasy but if you have not the
Spirit of Christ, you are not His and you will believe the lie that is at the
door!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will take the mark, for your
name is not written in the Book of Life!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Turn now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think you
are reading this, if you are in one of these “ministries” God Himself is
reaching out to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not be deceived
by what appears to be good things, good works even of compassion; DOCTRINE,
DOCTRINE, DOCTRINE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does your church
post its beliefs on their website?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
do not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if they do and it seems
doctrinally correct, are they really preaching and practicing what is
posted?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Do you know what they profess to believe? </span>AWAKE!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Soon it will be too late, the Word is the anchor, and the
foundation of Truth…only in the Word will you find the help you need. Yahweh is
faithful; if you cry out with your whole heart “Show me the truth”….He will
show you in the Word, not by a spirit messenger, in the WORD. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">If you know these things already and have separated
yourselves from it, please use this writing to reach out to others who are in
danger of everlasting punishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I weep and pray for you all that this may save some,
please heed the warning, do not let pride and arrogance keep you from seeking
the truth, do not be deceived; what you sow, you will reap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pray the mercy and grace of Yahweh Yeshua
will find each one who is trapped in deception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shalom in Yeshua, our Lord God, Saviour and soon coming King of Kings.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLh3uUyJNADV5NkLdiP2tZu2AE73K6m6yduxQBplMTPxpglsObOtlJvMt8r1t5RgfLM9PLNzQkaA-atvCHDTZGENpAdmK9RULdlkbHv-B_rKRnB272mB0dp6qrbksqtuNgeVIpEHAn-vMe/s1600/j-15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLh3uUyJNADV5NkLdiP2tZu2AE73K6m6yduxQBplMTPxpglsObOtlJvMt8r1t5RgfLM9PLNzQkaA-atvCHDTZGENpAdmK9RULdlkbHv-B_rKRnB272mB0dp6qrbksqtuNgeVIpEHAn-vMe/s1600/j-15.jpg" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><a href="http://arisearielministries.webs.com/">arisearielministries.webs.com</a></span></div>
</div>Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4735469910160802002.post-1102187320117263692012-04-04T08:24:00.002-07:002012-04-04T08:37:07.341-07:00God Will Provide The Lamb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwdqod7TtOy4I9B_MrXoSOkrSh07NUcS-THwxJgKUP6hKFTqty1BpaJB9J2rIshQ2AkOTmwcanotTSIlgn0BaB9qy1DPIikFnTPyPzQ6MYyuQ1BV-QbZVlC_L8kcsxpU1AZ_rf8bdyLaD5/s1600/god-will-provide-the-lamb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwdqod7TtOy4I9B_MrXoSOkrSh07NUcS-THwxJgKUP6hKFTqty1BpaJB9J2rIshQ2AkOTmwcanotTSIlgn0BaB9qy1DPIikFnTPyPzQ6MYyuQ1BV-QbZVlC_L8kcsxpU1AZ_rf8bdyLaD5/s200/god-will-provide-the-lamb.jpg" width="200" /></a></span>Spring is here! What a very mild winter and yet spring is still so anticipated and appre- ciated; the blooming trees and beautiful flowers, even the returning of bird song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spring also is the time of Passover and <i>Easter.</i> You may think that one has nothing to do with the other, but our Creator is so amazing, that He had a plan from the beginning in the Garden of Eden. He <i>promised</i> a seed of Eve would come and destroy the serpent, the enemy of our souls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the days of Abraham, the man of faith, Yahweh sent him to sacrifice his “only” son Isaac; and on the <i>third day </i>he looked afar off and saw the place; Jesus said <span style="color: #c00000;">“</span></span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw <i>it,</i> and was glad</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">John 8:56.</span> Abraham was so confident in his God, that even though God told him to sacrifice this <i>promised </i>child<i> </i>he told his servants to wait for him, that he and the boy would go further and worship and <i>they</i> would return! He did not believe God would leave him dead; there would be some way he was raised up again! As Isaac walked on carrying the wood for the sacrifice, he asked his father, “Behold the fire and the wood: but where <i>is</i> the lamb for a burnt offering? My son,God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering Gen 22:7,8. And he did, just as Abraham bound his obedient son and laid him on the wood, and raised the knife to slay him, the Angel of the Lord stopped him, and there in the bush, was a ram caught by the horns as a substitute. <o:p></o:p></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fLg3gxijZGSQ_KaR5hyphenhyphenerncegVYs0TJ0dZbQgMPQ5Ke1A9-iAA9KO5ifWsHJuv3do2XwOA3dBY7hnPjqI_Hx6s-qlMM8IfaX-JWj-L8RX-SeLNU5cFKYr-2gq_SaheoPkRPU03GMXTNB/s1600/blood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fLg3gxijZGSQ_KaR5hyphenhyphenerncegVYs0TJ0dZbQgMPQ5Ke1A9-iAA9KO5ifWsHJuv3do2XwOA3dBY7hnPjqI_Hx6s-qlMM8IfaX-JWj-L8RX-SeLNU5cFKYr-2gq_SaheoPkRPU03GMXTNB/s200/blood.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas> <v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"> <o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"> </o:lock></v:path></v:stroke></span></v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_13" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 81pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 166.75pt; mso-height-percent: 0; mso-height-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-width-percent: 0; mso-width-relative: page; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 66pt; z-index: 251665408;" type="#_x0000_t75"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <v:imagedata cropbottom="18271f" cropleft=".5" o:title="" src="file:///C:\Users\Ariel\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"> <w:wrap type="square"> </w:wrap></v:imagedata></span></v:shape><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A long time later, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of bondage from Egypt by a mighty outstretched arm! He sent plagues upon the Egyptians for the Pharaoh would not release them. The final plague was the death of the firstborn!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moses, the servant of God was instructed to have all the people slay a lamb that was perfect; no blemish or sickness, no broken bones, applying the blood on the door post and lintel of their homes; thus making a vertical stroke and a horizontal stroke, using hyssop as kind of a brush, They were to roast the lamb and eat it that night and stay inside under the protection of the blood on the door posts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the plague entered the land, those who obeyed God and trusted in the blood of the lamb, and partook of the sacrifice were saved! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As the Children of Israel wandered through the wilderness they were instructed to build a tabernacle of meeting where Yahweh would come and meet with Moses and Aaron. The tent had a covering of ram’s skins dyed red; the root word in Hebrew for red dye is <i>adam</i>. In John 1:14 it says the Word, that was God, became flesh and <i>Tabernacled</i> among us! The Tabernacle was placed in the center of the camp, with the priests, or the Levites encamped around it! There would then be three tribes to the North, three tribes to the South, three tribes to the West and three tribes to the East. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">If you lay out the population of each group with the Tabernacle in the center, it forms a cross. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY52go1EFKP_5zMqUkNMn4kGfM7ZWHVhBjqUiFT0VnirZiksL34ZT5cJKcDy58qy56396Ec6fnYTv_m36k1c0Rc_JAELyRSGsm1XWNS9-Aujwf_ujOsZM_ZkKeIVrxxf8T5D3wmsxk8hWI/s1600/tabernacle4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY52go1EFKP_5zMqUkNMn4kGfM7ZWHVhBjqUiFT0VnirZiksL34ZT5cJKcDy58qy56396Ec6fnYTv_m36k1c0Rc_JAELyRSGsm1XWNS9-Aujwf_ujOsZM_ZkKeIVrxxf8T5D3wmsxk8hWI/s320/tabernacle4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Centuries later, Yahweh kept His promise to send the seed of the woman, His Only Begotten Son; for God Himself provided the Lamb who’s Blood would save mankind from their sins who trust in Him and partake of His sacrifice by faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the Son of Man on the Cross for all people who will believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even as Abraham was certain, that his son would be returned, Jesus also said referring to His own body<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: #c00000;">“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” </span>God indeed raised up His Son Jesus from the dead on the third day even as the scripture foretold, that we too might have life who believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZUjhSWzdjOhM9LI11wWasZPz7HgEEPD8nYkcLrNBMqsnB2kpetutp06zjcYgJvcZv2JCXyNU-SF1so1vs4joumGEYpMUlnbRWcFoUzjUjOsu492H0LrArieVANhEkd0mpQnhXe7wnowrS/s1600/imagesCA6HZQX9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZUjhSWzdjOhM9LI11wWasZPz7HgEEPD8nYkcLrNBMqsnB2kpetutp06zjcYgJvcZv2JCXyNU-SF1so1vs4joumGEYpMUlnbRWcFoUzjUjOsu492H0LrArieVANhEkd0mpQnhXe7wnowrS/s1600/imagesCA6HZQX9.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Isaac means “laughter”. Psalm 2:4,7-12 says: “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou <i><span style="color: grey;">art</span></i> my Son; this day have I begotten thee. <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ask of me, and I shall give <i>thee</i> the heathen <i>for</i> thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth <i>for</i> thy possession. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish <i>from</i> the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed <i>are</i> all they that put their trust in him."</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/jjRiNL1HKns?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p>We are required to just <i>turn</i> to Jesus, your Savior and believe and so be saved.<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> That means aknowleding the futility of your own striving to "be good" or turning from your indiffernce in regards to your sin. We must understand we owe a debt to our Creator, in His gracious mercy, He has paid the debt Himself, but we are required to trust in Him. If we refuse it is to our own shame and distruction. He paid it all, be wise...kiss the Son! Be blessed! Shalom Beloved. </span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-w38keKpZmVq80uj3sSp46KwSebsynOzsLLS-wpTTL22Of3vfEo-awR2ca21AoamOa9rlIJEb4jWtA0eZKikpQ6a2GYKDplekIEHMkeHTY4bDV7dCmILm1XxaWYsx54pN_Ia6QO8pspb0/s1600/kneel-cross.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-w38keKpZmVq80uj3sSp46KwSebsynOzsLLS-wpTTL22Of3vfEo-awR2ca21AoamOa9rlIJEb4jWtA0eZKikpQ6a2GYKDplekIEHMkeHTY4bDV7dCmILm1XxaWYsx54pN_Ia6QO8pspb0/s1600/kneel-cross.jpeg" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div></div>Rabba Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02827670418350709204noreply@blogger.com0