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The Threshold of the Second Coming

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greed [aka cost/benefit]

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How fast the world is deteriorating into evil.  The darkness covering the land today makes the 60’s look more pure.  While there was nothing holy about the rise of immorality of the 60’s, the embrace the world is giving to wickedness today has increased by folds.  And all indications are that this increase will explode.  Are you ready for absolute chaos?  It is coming.

 

Throughout the ages, since the resurrection of Jesus, men have proclaimed the return of the Lord of Glory.  I’ve often pondered, as have others, just what the signs will be when the Holy God of Israel has had enough.  Because, when the Lord God sends His Son, this world will endure all manner of horror.  Many thought their age was the one in which the Lord would surely return.  But wickedness had not run its course.  This observation has given birth to an understanding within me.

If the world has become increasingly wicked and the Lord has not yet returned, just how wicked must the world become before the Lord comes?  Personally, I believe anyone would not be far wrong to expect His return very soon.  But how much more violence, godlessness, and unholiness needs to come to maturity before God responds with His Holy Promise to do away with man’s rebellion?  If it’s this bad now, how much more horror must man manufacture?

God has given man over to the desires of his heart.  The central desire of man is to rid himself of the God who made him.  How long will man rebel?  How much destruction will he be willing to reap from the works of his own hand?  The answer is “A LOT”!  Murders, greed, anger, rapes, thefts, lies, corruption of every sort on every level, even within families, all these things are going to increase until there is no one left on the face of the entire earth who is willing to allow God to be the King of their life.  At this time, the Lord of Glory will appear with Great suddenness; when they least expect it.

May the Lord have mercy on those who read this post.  May He open their eyes to see.  Billions and billions of blind are, even now, awaiting their fate at the hands of the Living God.  Yet hell still has room.  Why would you seal your eternity as they have?  Why not humble yourself before the Most High God, through Jesus, and accept the testimony of His people?

By His Grace.

An Echo of a Moment

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Sometimes a situation or question arrises which provokes special and pointed understandings.  It is impossible to replicate the words and thoughts at a later date.  And maybe it’s God’s way of removing pride from His people as we share His wisdom.  For this reason, I provide the following link to a conversation. 

http://zukunftsaugen.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/a-joke-or-a-revelation/

Proof of Our Wicked Hearts.

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The Ten Commandments, In SVG

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The heart of man is wicked beyond redemption.  If you want the proof of this, present yourself to the Holy God of Israel for inspection.  He will render the truth to you, and you will come away knowing.

By His Grace.

Be Wise

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Gavel

You, who beg the Lord to move against the wicked, consider this:

The Lord has been Holy from before this place of testing began.  He will be Holy for eternity.  He has established this place to test the hearts of man according to His perfect knowledge.  Wisdom has cloaked the Lord forever.  Wisdom will be His crown, for God does not change like shifting sands.  All the wicked will appear before Him.  And His words will never fail.

It is our folly to provoke His hand of judgment.  He has established a place where He will judge.  When He judges, His judgments will be final.  What word will they speak to their defense?  What will the lips of the condemned speak to wrench themselves loose from His Holy Hand?  They will appear before Him locked in the folly of their own ways.  Who are we to speed this horror on them?

Have you considered the billions of condemned?  Have you given thought to the wonder that you should know the Lord?  Has the marvel of your standing before Him utterly weakened your knees?  Does the praise of Glory, which belongs alone to Him, dripped from your lips with understanding?  You are blessed to know the Lord Jesus.  You have been blessed to receive what is withheld from billions.  Have you considered why? 

We are a people of unclean lips.  And we live among a  people of unclean lips.  How will we avoid speaking these words, “Woe is me!”  We believe.  We come to know Him.  What of those who remain in the darkness from which we were plucked?  Encourage the Lord as you will, to speed His hand against His enemies.  But consider the fate you too deserved!  What if His people had spoken the same thing before you came to knowledge?  What if the Lord had moved with the speed requested by His people?  What would be your defense now?  Consider carefully.  For we worship the Living God who has promised an end to this place.  He has set a place in eternity to judge.  And, when that place is reached, there will be no place left to hide. 

If we stand, we stand because of His mercy and patience.  What righteous do we own that has not come directly from the Holy Hand of He who gives understanding to all?  We stand because He determined to render mercy to us.  We are called to love Him because He has spoken life into our souls, thus we stand.  When they fall, it will be His wrath which calls them to His throne.  Have we done all we can?  Have we sought His Holy Will through prayer?  Are we still rebellious before His ways?  Do we dress our words of prayer with our own pitiful knowledge?  Are we guilty of speaking before The Living God with words without knowledge?

The speed of the Lord’s hand is tempered by His Mercy.  His patience clothes His ways; perfect and pure.  Love dictates to the heart of He who lives forever.  Consider carefully how you attempt to provoke the Lord to move against His enemies.  We too are only those redeemed from among them.  Are we more than charred sticks pulled from the fire?  Ask as you will, but understand what you ask.  Be very careful how you approach the Lord with such a request.  For it is not wise to provoke the Lord to perform what He is not willing to accomplish.  It is written, and will not be taken away; The Lord is not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to an understanding of His Glorious, loving, and patient ways.

Cease your incessant dribble.  Clap your hand over your mouth and seek understanding.  Understand the will of the God you serve.  Present yourself to His knowledge and learn His ways, lest we too fall because we live in ignorance.  Rise up and receive.  Receive the responsibility given to those who call on His Holy Name, Jesus.  He has given us the task of serving the Living God.  Though we are but grafted into the tree which is Israel, we are, none-the-less, grafted in.  All His promises are ours to hold.  Believe!  But believe with fear and trembling.  Consider our standing with a sober heart.  He is the Living God of all eternity!

Glory to God!  Bring Glory to your God!  He is the Living God who will bring an end to this place of testing according to His perfect wisdom, knowledge, and Glory.

By His Grace.

Good Luck?

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Press Your Luck

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I see those who call themselves Christians constantly quoting the phrase, “Good luck”.   I know they don’t mean to offend the Lord.  But don’t they realize that is a saying of those who have no hope?  To those who use that term, luck is the way life works.  “Maybe I’ll get what I want and things will go well with me.”

And I see others post their horoscope on their profiles.  Don’t they realize these things are not of God?  They are both approaches to a life left to the whim of things beyond their hands and understanding.  This is God’s realm.  But they replace Jesus with luck and the wickedness of tarot cards. 

Where is luck in the Bible?  Where is the mention of witchcraft in the Bible?   Were either mentioned as God’s prescribed means of pleasing Him?  And after all this world is done, the wicked banished to hell for eternity, and the saved ushered into the presence of God by Jesus, where will all these ungodly approaches to life be?  They will be banished with those who hate the Lord.

Give it a thought a moment.  If it isn’t a life of faith in the will of God through Jesus, it’s no life at all.  We are told that we have every confidence in Jesus alone.  And that it will be faith in the Son of God which saves us.  Why would you allow yourself to even speak such wickedness?  The answer comes in two parts:

1. You don’t know Jesus as you ought.  To you He is something yet to come. 

2. His ways mean little here.  Your god is luck or witchcraft. 

What do you think is the end of those who measure their lives by such standards?  If you hold to these things, Jesus cannot be your sole source of strength.  Even if you rely on your friends to save you, you will have no hope.  Why would you live as the world lives?  Don’t you realize that NOW is the day of salvation?  Why are you waiting to meet the Holy God of Israel before you abandon the things of this world?  He has told us the truth; nothing built on the world will survive into an eternity with Him.  And everything of this world is to be destroyed.  Turn to Him alone!

Bring honor to your family.  Abandon everything false and learn to rely completely on He who can teach us what is true.  We will give account of what we have done with the Holy Gospel.  It would be wise to ingest God’s things and get rid of that which is not.

By His Grace.

What is Man That You Are Mindful of Him?

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solor system creation

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This message is to those who call themselves Christians.  It would make no sense to speak this word to those who do not believe.  Yet, even those who do not believe and read this with a desire to believe can benefit.

A man stands in a valley and feels the tiny breeze float across the valley floor.  The day is hot and the breeze is a welcome addition to the evening heat.  Where the breeze came from, where it will go after it touches the man, and how long it will last, are under the Mighty hand of The Lord of Life.  The man is happy to receive, and that is all he can be.  He did not create the valley.  He did not create the mountains from which the coolness of the breeze appeared.  He did not create himself, nor choose the place where he now stands. 

So it is with the Love of God in our faith and belief.  We are the product of His Glorious Will.  He desired to create this place of testing according to His endless wisdom.  And we are only the product of an Endless and Beautiful Love which is our God.    We are of those who receive and become blessed by His Lovely touch.  And from our perspective, this is where we find our end.  We are receivers.  We are not providers or creators.  This realm belongs to He Who Is.  And, with great joy, those who are aged in His wise counsel, will appear as understanding such things.

We have no wisdom but that it comes to us from the Only Wise God.  We have no task we can do which will find a lasting value, but that we are given such things from He who works to cause life in His people.  When we pray we are given words, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes according to the Lord’s leading.  And we are keenly aware that we belong to Him who has No End.  When we speak of the Gospel, we speak with words that are only ours in that they found sound through us.  All things Good belong to He who is Good.  What work, word, attitude, or emotion, which belongs to the Gospel did any of us create?  Without His guiding and loving hand we are nothing.  But with His hand and guiding we are ambassadors of the Living God.  And all that I have just said remains held in the Glory of the One and Only Son, Jesus!

Why is this place?  Have you asked yourself that?  Why are we here?  Why are we set to receive the Glory of our God, Christ Jesus?  What is this place I have come to speak of as a “Place of Testing”?  And what should be our response to the answer if we could but know it?

This place is so that the Glory of God might be proved once and forever.  Why should the perfect and Holy God need to prove His Glory?  Because there was a place where one challenged the Holy Wisdom of God.  There was a place where a lie was born.  Yet it was not as we know lies.  It was a slight variant to God’s perfection.  A challenge was born and presented before the Most High God.  What was the challenge?  It’s not possible for me to know the words nor the time when it happened.  But in my limited understanding of our God, it went something like this.

“You ask too much.  You want perfection from Your creatures.  You demand perfection.  But You ask too much.  What you require of Your servants is not possible for us to endure.  You will ask.  You will demand.  And we will strive to comply.  But You did not give us the strength to endure.”

From what little I know about our God, I do not perceive Him arguing the point with the accuser.  Perhaps there was a word of thanks for the information given.  But the end of the conversation came quickly.  And God ended the conversation quickly as a display of mercy.  For, surely if this one could accuse the Most High God of an imperfection such as this, there was a whole lot more to come.  Why allow this one to fall deeper into rebellion than necessary at the moment?  Immediately, God knew what to do.  And without fail, He began what would be a marvelous reply.

What I perceive happened next was an order given to Jesus, the Word of God.  “Build a black void in this certain place.  Make it of such and such measurement. And place it in this certain place.”  And so it was done by He who is the very Word of God.  “Create lights within this void in these certain places.  Create them of this and make them shine according to my vision.”  And so it went until we come to the scripture announcing God’s crowning end to this creation, “Let us create man in our image”.  The two trees were planted and orders were given as to how they are to be treated.  “Of this one you cannot eat, or you will surely die”.

“And on the 7th day, God rested from His work”.   Now His answer to the accuser was presented as a place of testing.  A place was made where the accusation could play out.  And proof could be known, not spoken as an answer of words, to he who did not believe.

We are presented by the Mighty hand of God as an answer to he who accused.  We are tempted by he who accused.  And we succeed according to He who was accused unjustly.  We are become the answer to an accusation.  How much are we valuable to He who Lives Forever?  We are His spoken word.  We inhabit His will.  And we are His jewels according to His Great Wisdom.  How then should we act?  How then, shall we believe?  How then, should we build our faith in the Holy One of Israel?  And, how then, should we obey what we hear? 

We do not serve out of fear.  For He who made us into His answer is sure in His Holy ways.  If my God desires obedience and all that I have, how shall I muster up a place to say no?  I am His.  I am a part of His answer to an unholy doubt.  How then, should I live with doubt?  I am proof of His Glorious will.  The power of God is within me to obey and to know He is True!  There is no fault within Him!  I will say it again, “There is NO fault within the Most High God!”  Any fault perceived remains within me.  And such things must be crushed into utter destruction.  By this I am provoked to believe to the point that I do.  What is this “doing” He demands from me?  He demands that I receive from His Holy Hand.  He demands that I believe that what He says He is willing and able to accomplish.  And He does not ask too much.  What He demands from His creation He provides the strength to accomplish.  Shall we join with the accuser and say this is not so?  It should never be so!

Set your heart to understand.  Set your soul to receive His gift.  For we are on display according to His Holy and Perfect answer to an accusation.  Remember how the Lord Jesus spoke of that one?  “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here.  I have not come of my own; but he sent me.  Why is my language not clear to you?  Because you are unable to hear what I say.  You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire.  He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.  When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.  Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!”  (John 8: 42-45)

Stand firm upon this sure and singular truth:  God is true.  And there is no shadow of turning within Him.  Present yourselves as those who believe.  Put down your childish doubt.  Believe that you might do!  Hone your faith so that you might receive His Holy Will.  When we question and doubt we join with the liar.  I will say it once more with all the importance of eternity:  BELIEVE!

By His Grace.