The Sounding of the Trumpet and The Day of The Lord
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10/23/09 From God The Father and Jesus The Christ, YahuShua HaMashiach, Our Lord and Savior - A Letter Given to Jayse and Timothy, For Jayse and Christopher, And For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear

It is time, says The Lord...

I shall send you both to serve in the name of The Most High, even by the name of My Son, by which He is called, Jesus... Christ... The Lord. My judgment is poured out, My glory is put forth, My name shall resound in all the earth!... Yea, even as the sound of a blasting trumpet, which is continually blown by My servants, the prophets, and has now been made known to the multitudes, also having gone out amongst the people in your own land. Even among many nations afar off, it shall continue to blow, until the day comes in where I remove My bride...

I tell you the truth, that day has come, says The Lord.

Look, for it is at the door!... Behold, I have passed through!

And those who hear and give heed to its sounds and this warning, they will be given robes of white in the sanctuary of The Lord. And to those who forbear, woe to them, for they shall partake of My judgment and taste of the hot anger of The Lord their God... Even unto refinement shall they go, walking through the fire, accompanied by much death... A stream of flowing tears and much wailing, deep and heavy sorrows. For lo, none have seen the like, nor have they beheld that which The Lord has prepared, nor have they taken part from the table of The Lord’s judgment, in the manner with which this generation has now began to sup... No, not since The Lord stretched out His hand over Egypt has anyone seen the like. Woe to this generation!... For they shall also drink from the cup of The Lord’s fury, which shall be poured out in full measure... Says The Lord God Almighty.
Shall I not discipline those I love?... Shall I not give correction?! And what of the wicked, shall I not punish them?... Even to the punishing of all those who forget God and spit upon His Son, they who hate the sound of His name... MY NAME... The name I gave Him, The Holy One... YahuShua.

I shall destroy! Says The Lord...

Death... Much devastation shall come...

And what a sound shall come up, what a cry shall be heard,
Passing through the streets and down all the alleyways...

Oh such a great wailing and gnashing of teeth,
Says The Lord, who has come to judge and make an end.

I, even I, shall cause destruction and overturn... And your nation and your land shall be cast down. It shall be left in ruins, it shall fall, it shall no more stand by all its filthy pride, with all its pomp and arrogance, as though it remains a king upon his throne, saying within himself, ‘I shall never fall, I shall never be as the beggar.’ Woe to you, oh nation not desired, you are fallen already and shall soon be left as the vagabond in the streets, with no one to give him rest or shelter from the storm. For you stand divided against yourself and have forgotten your God, and seek no longer to know His Christ. Nor of His ways do you consider, that you might please your God by walking in them.
Yet hear Me now, oh filthy people. This I concede, and of this I will confess concerning you: You are united and have become one people... A people of transgression!... In this you remain united.

Hear the Word of The Lord!...

And know, all you peoples, it is I, The Lord God Almighty who has done it!

Behold, the time has come, to reap the harvest and gather in from the fields...

And to judge the earth...

Reap, oh Son of Man, reap!... Bring My children home!

Destroy all this wickedness, and judge the nations...

Thus says The Lord in all His fury:

I AM COME!

My servants, this is what I say to you: Endure, with all patience and in trust, for much death has come... An overflowing scourge shall overtake the nations. The wicked one awaits to be loosed, and evil shall no longer be held back. I have removed My hand, says The Lord... Evil reigns! For the time has been appointed and shall continue, until the day comes when all the earth beholds The Son of Man in His majesty, coming upon the clouds with great power and glory.
My sons, let your hearts not be troubled, for you have the name of The Lord written within you... Lo, even The Father’s name shall soon be placed upon your foreheads. And not one stone shall by any means bruise you, nor shall any part of all this wickedness touch you... No, not even one hair upon your heads shall be lost. For it is I who goes before you... Even I shall be with you, in your goings out and comings in. Behold it is I, even I, who shall dwell fully in you in that Day... And it is MY voice to which all things must give heed! For I am The Lord and there is none like Me! Therefore, submit to Me, and I shall carry you through this storm, wherein you shall also give Me perfect praise.
According to these words, let it be so: In thirty days you shall be established, and after forty you shall receive the prophet’s reward. I shall send to you My angel, yea, My messenger and servant, Gabriel, and he shall impart to you wisdom and the Word of The Lord. Then, you shall go out with the trumpet upon your lips, with the new song in your hearts... Yea, you shall march to and fro in all the earth, going wheresoever I send you, doing all things which I ask of you. For in you both I am well pleased, for it was pleasing in The Father’s eyes that you be established as such... Servants, of The Most High God, in the Day.
Even now, Jayse, you have become My servant, a prophet, and soon shall you come into a completion of your faith, according to My will and that time which I have purposed, for I am The One who shall cause it to happen within you, and by Me shall it be fulfilled... In Me and through Me. Behold, you shall behold My form and embrace Me tightly, says The Lord... Yea, I shall come into you, and you shall sup from My table in the house of The Lord.
Christopher, listen to your brother, for he speaks for Me, and I have placed My voice within Him, and have appointed him to speak in My name. Even you, My son, have come to know the voice of The Lord your God, and so you shall also speak for Me in the Day. For now, continue on, abiding in Me, with all trust. Know and remember, and keep this knowledge close to your heart... In all things, The Lord God Almighty is with you, leading and guiding your every step.
As I had moved in My servants of old, both living in them and speaking through them, going before them and counseling them by My Spirit, the same Spirit by which My Word was put forth, causing all both great and small to tremble at its sound and by its power... So shall it be for you both in The Day of The Lord. For I, The Lord, do continually stand before you... At all times I am with you, leading you upon the path which has been appointed for you, according to the will of The Father. Take heed, My sons, servants of The Most High God, witnesses of My coming, adopted sons of the branch of Levi, you have I appointed as watchmen, and you shall continually blow the trumpet, this trumpet I have placed before you...

The Lord has come in all His anger!...

His arm is outstretched in His indignation!

And your nation, it is given up...

It is an offense to Me and knows Me not...

Betraying The Lord of Glory at every turn,
No more knowing their right hand from their left,
A continual backsliding, perpetrating sin and blasphemies without ceasing,
Abominations in the streets, evil and wicked devices in every corner...

How long shall you tempt Me?!...
How long shall you try the patience of The Lord your God?!...

I am come out of My Sanctuary!...

I have lifted up My eyes to judge! Says The Lord.

Even all these churches of men play the harlot, even to the reveling in their adulteries against God, choosing to forsake the knowledge of God in their thoughts, forgetting His ways in action... Rather embracing the knowledge of men and all the lusts thereof, seeking greedily for gain. For they do not seek out My ways, nor keep My commandments... Nor do they embrace The Holy One as He is, in seeking to really know Him, even to walk in Him, to know His ways, by which they would have pleased their Father in Heaven.
Therefore, thus says The Lord: The churches of men are given up, spit out and cast into darkness, where there shall be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. For the pride of men has blinded them from the truth, and I take no delight in their vain worship. For many have made and worshiped false gods and set up idols, even praying to the dead, altogether forsaking The One who was sent to them, even He, The Holy One, The ONLY Mediator between God and man... They have become gods unto themselves! Says The Lord... Saying and teaching others, in My name, that Christ and My Word in Scripture is the way into riches and material possessions. Oh yes, they shall surely receive, and in a day they shall receive it!...

I shall give to them poverty...

And for their possession, a day of wrath,
A day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness...

For they have forsaken The Truth!
Nor can they discern their right hand from their left hand.

They shall be struck dumb, and left desolate,
Utterly void of light and My Spirit, says The Lord God of Israel... I know them not.

I am The Lord!

As for you, My sons, you shall be established, filled, and sent out... Lo, you shall surely gather and shout The Lord’s proclamations, says The Lord.

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That is the feeling of condemnation. It is a consciousness of wrongdoing ever present in mind. Like you are on borrowed time, and the IRS is looking for you. It is this condemnation that steals your life.

My stomach is in knots when I am like this, and I don't sleep as well, etc. It is like my body gets messages from my mind, that I am cursed, and then it produces the curse in my body - sickness, sleeplessness, etc. This is living under condemnation.

So looking deeper at why this feeling of condemnation overshadows me, I recognize that I think I have blown it and the other shoe will drop, so to speak ... because the sticker matters.

But, what if the expired sticker is just for an oil change? And I have convinced myself that I can get a ticket and a trip to jail for an overdue oil change! Then all my condemnation is FALSE condemnation. My lack of confidence before the authorities is based on a lie. I shrink back, but not based on knowledge. I have the awful feeling because my believing has locked me in a prison of doubt.

The same is true if the government repeals the laws about registration and inspection stickers, and I don't know about it.

As a Christian, I have felt that way with God. Lack of confidence, doubting, wanting to get my "stickers up to date" before I let Him see me. This is what religion produces ... a sticky feeling of condemnation. But there is no condemnation for us. We have every reason to be bold before the throne. Christ has given us His stickers, and they never expire.

Why shouldn't I tell a mountain to go into the sea, and it leap and plunge? Well, it must be because of my believing. I am doubting that whatever is true about Christ has become true about me. That I am no longer condemned. That my guilty quotient is the same as Jesus' guilty quotient. That I am as pure before God as Jesus Himself, even better than any innocence that Adam had. To the measure that my believing doubts these things, I shrink back, and try to avoid God and His drag net. I have nothing but doubt about what I say to mountains, etc. It is all tied together.

Literally, whenever we get to the point where our believing matches reality, we can walk with pure innocence in this world, and no accusation can stick to us. We can be so confident in our infused perfection through Jesus, that there is no less of a reason for God not to grant our request for a mountain to be cast in the sea, than for Jesus Himself to say the same request.

Mar 11:23
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not [CONDEMN HIMSELF] in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith

I changed the word "doubt" with "Condemn Himself" above and I submit that the Greek translation bolsters my point.

Those of us that are in Christ, have every reason to be bold, if we can ever get our believing to match reality.

It is only lack of belief in Jesus that any redeemed saint can feel any condemnation whatsoever. Jesus has unlocked that cell, and it cost Him dearly to do so. Lets arise and come forth and leave that prison, knowing that any stumbling is no excuse to wallow in self-condemnation. We fall, but lets fall forward into His arms, not delaying in fear and doubt ... for we know His love has cast all these stumblings into the sea of forgetfulness.

In Him we HAVE reconciliation, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of God's grace in Christ Jesus our Lord.

"I died...behold, I am risen...and I live forever...amen. And so, also shall the righteous man live. Even if this same one turn and stumble, his salvation is in no wise lost to him. He has an Advocate with the Father, and One who stands for him, having already paid for his transgression. For lo, his sin is remembered no more and cast into a dark sea of forgetfulness." - Jesus

(besides, such a mind set on Jesus will stumble far less anyway.)

Oh yes I am. Apparently I have not been delivered of my shame just yet anyway. Have you ever thought about the ways a person could possibly be ashamed of Jesus? I had a major slap in the face just recently--due to my inability to stand up for Jesus. I've had this friend I've known for about fifteen years. I lost contact with him, and have just recently found him on Facebook. Turns out, he's embraced the homosexual lifestyle with full force. I sent him a friend request and he never answered me. A couple of weeks later I sent him a mail asking why he wouldn't talk to me...

Here's his response:
"Hey hun...I know u'r a beautiful person & I want to say hi...I just worry a bit I guess because it's taken so many yrs to accept myself how I was born (gay) & ok I know u'r religious (which I respect cuz my mom is too, etc) ...I would never want to change u but I guess I worry u might want to do that to me or judge me & just don't want to go thru that again, etc. I'd luv to reconnect & be FB friends....I'm the sweetest guy around & from my memories of u, I know u r too...just talking out loud right now (thanx to a few too many beers..haha)...what r ur thoughts?...am I worrying fr nothing?"

So, you know what MY RESPONSE WAS? Shoot, I'm too embarrassed to even put it on here. Something along the lines of: "Oh, I won't judge you....oh no, not me, I can keep my beliefs to myself...I won't force you to believe anything I believe..." blah blah blah.

I'm ashamed, and would like to run and cover my face in embarrassment!

Do you know what Jesus says those who are ashamed of Him?

Luke 9:26
For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His [own] glory, and [in His] Father's, and of the holy angels.

OUCH! I have since repented...and I know I have been forgiven....

These things are a big deal though. These little "slips" of denial. No different than Peter, and his words when asked if he was one of Jesus' disciples--"He denied it and said, "I am not!"

I need to stop this. I write my struggles for a couple of reasons. It's so common amongst us, yet we are so ashamed even of our own selves to admit that is indeed what we have done! Also, I want to remind all of us of the sobering words Jesus says of those who deny Him. He will be ashamed of us. I do not want Him to be ashamed of me. I do not even want the thought to cross His mind.....
I am so sorry...

Proverbs 31 (NKJV) -

10 Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband safely trusts her; So he will have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good and not evil All the days of her life. 13 She seeks wool and flax, And willingly works with her hands. 14 She is like the merchant ships, She brings her food from afar. 15 She also rises while it is yet night, And provides food for her household, And a portion for her maidservants. 16 She considers a field and buys it; From her profits she plants a vineyard. 17 She girds herself with strength, And strengthens her arms. 18 She perceives that her merchandise is good, And her lamp does not go out by night. 19 She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hand holds the spindle. 20 She extends her hand to the poor, Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy. 21 She is not afraid of snow for her household, For all her household is clothed with scarlet. 22 She makes tapestry for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple. 23 Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land. 24 She makes linen garments and sells them, And supplies sashes for the merchants. 25 Strength and honor are her clothing; She shall rejoice in time to come. 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom, And on her tongue is the law of kindness. 27 She watches over the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness. 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her: 29 "Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all." 30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands, And let her own works praise her in the gates.

QUESTION: Hi Trent, Thankyou for taking the time to read my email. I have been with my partner for 3 years, we are both really strong christians and really love God with all our hearts. But there is one thing we both find so hard to control and it is sex. I pray and i ask for forgivness and i try i really do try to stop but i give into the flesh i wish i could just stop this have you got any tips of how i can control temptation i really want to live a proper christian life. Will God forgive me? I really want to turn my life around and become a better person i dont want to let God down. Thanks Annie

After thinking and praying, here is what I was inspired to write this young lady:

Your definition of what it looks like to be delivered from the temptation of sex probably looks like this: "We are living together and sharing our lives together like a married couple but because we are not married we choose to not have sex together."

Here is my definition as a contrast: "We have learned that we just can't handle living together without sex so we have arranged to live apart until we are ready for marriage."

I never want to hear about how you are have ever had success living together without sex. Instead, a sign of maturity in you would be if you told me that every night you live together you have sex. In actuality, the nights that you refrain are probably the same nights that you or he burns with passion for each other. Don't comfort yourself thinking anything good was accomplished when the desire is there, but no action was taken.

You can tell maturity in a young child at a cliff's edge.

In the western US there is a geological feature known worldwide called "The Grand Canyon" ... I'm sure you have heard about it. There are basically cliff edges everywhere. These cliffs are shear and steep and anything near the edge risk plummeting to a speedy and irrecoverable fall. So, lets imagine two children next to one of these cliffs.

One child runs to the edge and leans out over it trying to look cute or brave.

The other child holds its parents hand and is in constant touch with the boundaries with a mindful awareness of what deadly mistakes can be made around the edge.

Which is mature?

Which is immature?

{name omitted}, if I may be frank with you, I don't think much of your maturity right about now. You are playing with fire, by putting yourself into situations that you cannot handle. You are not going to be delivered from such a circumstance, anymore than someone seeking to be delivered from alcoholism by being able to drink heaps of it without a buzz. Such a person should not expect that kind of deliverance. Not deliverance in the middle of the activity but BEFORE the activity. A person delivered from alcoholism, knows their limitations and weaknesses and stays away from bars and parties that have alcohol. They are foolish to wonder why they can not keep going to these events and stop stumbling.

Your problem is that you are a really strong Christian. You should be weak, and mature and know your limitations and stay far away from the cliff's edge.

But I fear you are too strong to take my advice. You can handle it right? You can take the situation and not fall, because you are strong enough, right? (I'm just being tough on you for your good ... I hope I am wrong.)

Let me tell you what I would do if I lived with my fiance before we were married.
SEX! Lots of it!

So guess what?
We didn't live with each other before marriage. We didn't sleep over or none of that stuff.
Why?
I could not handle it and neither could she ... but unlike YOU ... we KNEW IT!

Don't be like that foolish kid that races to the edge of the cliff and wonders why they keep falling off. Stay in safety and far away from the edge. This awareness of weakness is true strength and true maturity if you will take a more excellent way.

Ripening for the harvest,
Trent

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20 Scriptural Reasons to DISbelieve in the Doctrine of Hell.-- http://gracehead.com/index.php/2009/04/19/p1216

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Who, Among You Oh Israel, and Among You Oh Olive Branches, Have Fasted Unto Me?! Says The Lord God
7/27/09 From God the Father - A Letter Given to Timothy During an On-Line Bible Study, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear - (Regarding Believers in Christ Taking Part in a Jewish Fast During the Month of Av)

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2/26/09 From YahShua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior -
A Letter Given to Timothy, As spoken by the Lord during an on-line Bible Study
For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear

You need look no further, nor in any other direction. There I am... With you and in you... Always... Even to the end of this age and ever after.

Look up, My beloved. Look upon My face, for it does continually shine upon you... Why look anywhere else? Here am I... Choose Me, for I have already chosen you. Even from the foundation of the world you were Mine.

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I've spent a good deal of effort on GraceHead.com explaining how inferior the written Word (scripture) is to the Living Word. Here (http://bit.ly/1o5YRm) is a list of articles to this effect. The point is that the Lord is the SOURCE of the scripture. And that He makes it true, not the other way around. I stand behind these points, but I'm taking the time in this article to temper the remarks so that I don't give the wrong impression.

It occurs to me that anyone could make a case that the scripture is essential to us, even if it is not essential to God. And the only proof that they would need is the existence of scripture. In other words, we MUST have needed it or it would not be here. That may seem obvious, but I've been delivered from the fear of saying obvious things. :-)

This reminds me of something I said when asked if we really need prophets. My answer was not really from me, and it still doesn't sound like me. However, some inspiration arose in me to say this: "If God sends prophets, then a prophet must have been needed. If no prophets are sent, then none are needed."

So, we have the Old and New Testaments, and even though God could re-inspire equivalents at any time ... He preserved these things because the need for them never subsided. Likewise, we have new written Word ... as a Final Testament ... and its very existence is all we need as proof of its need (authenticity is another topic ... here I am presuming its authenticity for the sake of discussion.)

An analogy of this would be that a if a doctor gives a patient a cure, one could say that we don't NEED the cure, because we have the doctor and as long as we have the doc, we can get the medicine at any time ... but that would be a bit too far, wouldn't it? We might had better say, that we MUST NEED the cure, or else the doc would not have prescribed it. The issuance of the prescription is THE evidence of the need of the prescription ... and likewise the issuance of the Letters closes the debate on whether or not they are needed by their mere existence and nothing more.

Perhaps the analogy is even more fitting when you consider that God is called "The Great Physician."

Of course, the argument is moot for any so-called word from God that is demonstrably false (Book of Mormon comes to mind.) ... but like I said earlier, authenticity is another subject for another day.

There have been some allegations about Jesus being a racist, and I thought I would clear it up, since I know Jesus and have known Him for several years. The truth is that Jesus is a racist. The allegations are correct.

The obvious question is which race bears the brunt of His hate, and I think that you will see that one race in particular is the race that He hates. But, what you may not know is that Jesus thinks that flesh counts for nothing, so the race that He sees is not one that can be seen in the body of flesh, rather He sees the races of the inner man. In the inner man there are two races: Adam and Christ. Apart from your body you are either one or the other of those two races.

In my experience, Jesus does not try to get along with the race of Adam. Coexistence is not an option. He wants to kill the entire race of Adam, and one day will see its extinction. Here is the problem with the race of Adam - they are all inferior, and they will perish like flowers in a vase. They seem to be learning about life, but all the while they are dying. And if they let Jesus get ahold of them then He'll just go ahead and finish them off, by throwing the Adam life in the garbage, and replacing it with His own life.

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.

10/24/04 From God the Father - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear

When those people, being called of themselves Christians, ask you, 'To which church do you belong?', you shall answer them, "I belong to no church named of men. I belong to My Lord Jesus. Together, with all those who are His, is the Church in which I dwell."

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1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 (New American Standard Bible)
do not despise prophetic utterances.
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good;

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If the letters to your friend Timothy ARE in fact from God, then that means that the prophecies in those letters MUST happen.....right? Since prophecy from our God is 100% accurate...

The reason I ask is because I have known sooooo many people who claim to have been given a message or revelation from God....and they boldly predict events to come....but they end up being wrong. (Which means either the one who gave them the message is a lier, or they faked the whole thing.)

Lets always discern what we hear and read. A huge event of the end times is people falling away.

Here is a reply, that I punched out on my crusty old laptop ...

Hi there.

There is always tension when a prophet issues something from God. On the one hand, one should not despise prophecies. On the other hand, one should pay attention to cry false and to shun a corrupt source if and when their words show to be untrue. So, the tension is in looking at both the current word and all the words as a whole.

It gets easier once you find a fault, because you no longer have to deal with the source. One fault or error in what a prophet states and they are no longer to ever be viewed as God's messenger again.

It is difficult when someone has yet to be seen as false, because even though confidence is gained by the certainty and accuracy of their prophecies, one cannot use that confidence to rubber-stamp approval on any future prophecies or to turn a blind eye to what was said even from the beginning. All of it as a whole and every detain therein should be constantly re-examined and shown to be true. It should be always shown to be spotless in any examination or it should be treated as no better than the book of mormon or other demonstrably erroneous so-called prophecies.

I believe Timothy is true and is receiving from God. Nevertheless, I am always looking for new ways to nail down what is said and keep track of it with the rigor that it deserves. Does this mean that I am still skeptical? Well, I must admit that I certainly do believe it is authentic, but that does not give me the escape to treat the Words lightly or to quit testing them.

God speaks to me, not like Timothy, but in the Voice within. And even though it is from Him, I don't always hear it right and want Him to reaffirm His words over and over until I understand clearly. This going over and over would apply even more to any voice from God outside of my heart claiming to be from God.

I have spreadsheets, with predictions in the Letters, and links back to when (the date of origin) they were issued and the latest possible fulfillment thereof. When Timothy saw what I was doing, and making with the spreadsheets, he offered to help and has added to the list ... even from among his private letters (as opposed to the published letters on the site and pdf.)

I wish there were more people that took this approach to the integrity of what Timothy is delivering, but I don't know of anyone else that is doing it. Just what I am doing with Timothy's help as far as I am aware.

Anyway, you are right to say that one falsehood demolishes the ministry of any prophet. When I first set out to read the Letters, I was looking for that one falsehood. Now, several years later, I still am on the lookout, even though I stand convinced of them.

So, my advice to you would be to never take my word for it or anyone else's. Examine and test things for yourself with much prayer and much going over and over in prayer to see if you are really hearing right and really giving the situation the due gravity that it deserves.

This is not a time for herd mentality and just going along with the crowd, letting them decide things for you. The crowd is notoriously led astray, and prone to error. This is a time for study and prayer and to live with integrity before the Lord ... for when we are called to account for this life, the crowd will not be standing next to us as a defense if we get things wrong. We each will stand before Him and He is able to make us stand. Therefore, with stamina and longsuffering, let us be diligent with what is before us, so that on that day we will have no regrets.

Ripening for the harvest,
Trent

If I had a mind to brag a little, I could probably do it without looking ridiculous, and I'd still be speaking plain truth all the way. But I'll spare you. I don't want anyone imagining me as anything other than the fool you'd encounter if you saw me on the street or heard me talk. Because of the extravagance of those revelations, and so I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan's angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty!

At first I didn't think of it as a gift, and begged God to remove it. Three times I did that, and then he told me, My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness.

Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size - abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become.

You may have heard this story, but I'll tell it anyway:

A king in great delight scattered his most precious possessions in the courtyard, and announced that it is out of love for his subjects that they could come into his courtyard and behold these marvels and treasures. Seeing the crowd and filled with charity, the king announces to all that came, "My beloved," he said, "look around and whatever catches your eye that your heart might desire ... anything in the courtyard ... wrap your arms around it and it shall be yours."

You can imagine how one after another picked beautiful statue and golden sculptures with gladness and the king gave with gladness. However, one boy puzzled and pondered these things.

"Please don't be angry," he said to the king, "Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Of course."

"Really? Have you thought about what this really means?" the boy continued, "I can put my arms around anything in the courtyard and it will belong to me?"

"Try me right now. Test me, my child" said the king with authority, "whatever your heart desires will be yours if you wrap your arms around it."

And with that, the boy fell to his knees and with tears the boy clutched the feet of the king. Now, with greater tears the king said loudly, "You, my child, are wiser than all the rest. You have chosen wisely for it is in possessing me that you possess all I have."

You see?

Beloved, I know God is good and gives to us out of His abundance ... I just don't care. I'm not interested, and I'll happily go without what others have. I have enough of those things. I just want the King.

Can anyone offer Him? Is anyone promoting Him and lifting up Him? What programs and systems are there out there for people like me that want only Him?

Sure, I get it ... some people want the gifts and the treasure. Fine. I understand. My interest is in the Giver. That's just me.

We all get to choose, beloved. What our heart desires will be given. Our heart is revealed through choice and God fixes our choice for us whether we choose Him or the alternative.

Remember the disciples? One asked if they could go and say goodbye to loved ones first. Jesus said to him: "No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." He chose. Jesus fixed his decision for him.

Still other disciples asked to sit at the Lord's right and left hand, and were asked by Jesus if they could drink from the cup that the Lord would drink from. They said to Him, "We are able." He said to them, "My cup you shall drink;..."

Once again, they chose, and the Lord fixed their choice for them, making it real and honoring their decision. And know this, these two disciples did indeed drink from His cup, as they, the sons of Zebedee, were brutally executed for their faith.

Choice. There is lots of it. We choose. God honors and settles our choices. Among the choices are wealth and health and so on. A heart is revealed by choosing those gifts. But for me the best choice is none of those things. I've experienced wealth, and I've experienced something better.

My heart is not into those things. If all those things are "added to me" for seeking Him first, then so be it. If they are not and I am denied claim all the blessings in this life that are promised to those that seek Him first ... then I truly hope that I never notice while enraptured by His companionship.

The requisite for resurrection power is the marks of death. In knowing more about the Lord, I can take each step He has prepared for me, even those that include suffering and discomfort, if needs be. There are things to learn in discomfort that cannot be learned in comfort. We cannot know the peace He provides without turmoil. We cannot expect to learn of deliverance if we are always in safety. We learn through contrasts, and I welcome it.

Revelation 21
... the former sky and the former earth had passed away (vanished), and there no longer existed any sea. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, ...
Revelation 3:12
... the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which descends from My God out of heaven, and My own new name.

I understand our fascination with the material cosmos, I really do. It is easy to think of something real only in terms with how we can see, touch, taste, or smell it.

When a physical blade scraps through our physical skin, we hurt. We are flooded by our senses that are only in tune with the material (and blind to spritual reality), and so it calls to us with the deception of true substance and reality, when it is nothing more than a figment of time in constant flux ... revealing its identity as transitory and fading. That physical blade, was space dust, then magma, then ore, then a fender, then a can, then a bullet, then a brake-pad, and finally made into a blade. What will it be 100 years from now? 1000 years from now? Its identity is only founded on the figment of temporal illusion. In other words, its identity changes over and over throughout time. When this planet is enveloped by the next supernova, or a blackhole churns this corner of the galaxy again, that physical blade, that seemed so real ... will cease to impress from the grand scope of time. Even less impressive is the creation, with revelation of the Eternal.

Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

The deluge of sensitory input through our five senses, convinces us that only what is physical is what is real. Our minds are given over to materialism, to the point that we begin to think of God's Spirit as something that is less than what is physically apparent. Our materialistic minds lend Spirit less credit as a substance than a faint vapor. Only because it is not seen, nor felt, not touched, nor tasted. Spirit is merely subtle to our senses, it is completely invisible to us ... inaudible ... and immaterial. Yet the mystery is that it is far more substantial than anything that is visible, material, or audible. The Great I AM is that He is that He is. And the creation simply comes and goes ...

So, understand that I can't go along with theology that deminishes God's promises to something as trivial and faint to me as a merely physical material hope and promise, something for our eyes to behold, and hands can touch, and our nose can smell. To me that would tarnish the surpassing luster of what I know of Spirit that is far surpassing what is detected by our physical senses. I view those notions as materialisticly pandering, and carnal invention, and spiritually blind.

2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

1 Corinthians 2:7-11
No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him"— but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.

If an idea of the Kingdom is what I can see with my eyes (like a physical city on a physical planet) then why would I want to gaze at something that cheap and temporary? What is "revealed to me by His Spirit" are things that "eyes cannot see," "nor ears hear," "nor minds conceived." The glory that I am destined for is "before time began" ... even Eternal Life - God's own Life.

Jerusalem, Israel as a residential town, seen with physical eyes, yet it is perisible and transitory, not eternal and absolute as God's Kingdom. The "heavenly Jerusalem" where my hope lies does not have a population of a million, nor billion, nor trillion. The population is 1, for it is the "City of God" and the glory of the nations will be brought into it.

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11/23/05 - From Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear.

Thus says the Lord to His people, who abide in marriage as they should:

As I have given up of My body for all those I love, even unto death, likewise should all those, who love one another, love them as I have loved you. In all ways did I submit unto My bride, which is also My body, even unto the relinquishing of My power over her, nor did I judge My bride. Because of this, she has become My bride. In the same manner, she must give of herself unto Me to make the union complete and everlasting. The Father has given her hand to Me, and I have called unto her, saying, “How I long to gather you into My arms, and love you as My own, and make you My bride. Come and see...I have already prepared a place for you. Become My virgin and accept these robes of white, and walk in them and wear them well, so we can walk together in the Garden, forever and ever.”

Now listen with ears open: As I have done, do likewise, for any bride joined must be cleansed and made fit for her husband. Also, all earthly husbands must also become clean, lest your holy union be unclean. The Father gave you marriage, by which you come together as one, in His name.

So then, when there is division or separation, how then can two come together, as one in the flesh, when a division in spirit remains? I have told you already, and you also know within your hearts, that all those in marriage must first come together in spiritual intimacy, closer than flesh. Then can you fulfill this closeness through that which is fleshly. This is also a gift from the Father and should be treated as such, according to how He has commanded you and how you should receive it and experience it.

Those in marriage can reach new heights of ecstasy through the unification of flesh. Only by this union, being that which is a completion, or a finishing, of love’s desire that you become completely one, because you had first become one in the Spirit, with all thankfulness to God for bringing you together in His name, under His commandments.

One can not give into complete abandonment of oneself, melding into the love of another, unless first absolute trust is established. Trust is earned, not given. So all those, who first trust in God because of what He has done by way of Me, have placed the Cornerstone in their marriage...and from this Foundation can all new and shining houses be built, and those that already exist be strengthened.

When one of you two has an obstacle or stumbling block, then you both have fallen; and as two together, as one, must all these adversities be overcome. All those, who overcome together in Me, will receive even greater things than these which they now think will lead them into happiness. As We, the Father and the Son, are long-suffering, so then shall you be...love is patient.

Remember that any rent, which is not quickly mended, is made worse with time, further tearing away from the fabric of your marriage. Mend all rents speedily, and with a greater thread, and with more tender hands than in the past.

As all things are made new in Me,
so then, all those, who believe in Me,
must be remade in My image, walking in My ways...

so goes restoration in marriage...

your marriage of old must die
and be forgotten through forgiveness,
and be completely remade on a new foundation...

This is a process, My beloved little ones.

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10/28/04 - From God the Father, A Letter Given to Timothy - For Timothy and His Wife, and For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear.

God the Father:

When lying together, remember the decrees of God concerning these things of sex and intimacy:

You shall not lie with another outside of marriage...with your spouse only shall you lie.
Even sex before marriage, called fornication, is adultery.

You shall not think of others, but your spouse only, nor of unnatural acts.

You shall not lie with your wife during her monthly shedding of blood.

You shall not partake in sodomy.

You shall not behold others in sin (pornography) with your eyes. To do so is to sin with them.

No man or woman, in all creation, shall lie with another of their same gender. This is abomination in the eyes of the Most High and full of blasphemy! I gave unto man, by Adam, woman. From his side did I form her, and he who was one became two, and they two became one again in marriage...two of one flesh...man and woman. I saw that it was very good.

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[Jesus speaking:] Here is wisdom: Following one’s desire for love is not sin, but giving into temptation, which is against the commandments of God, is sin, and will only lead to pain. Physical love is reserved unto marriage as a special gift, whose outcome leads to great and lasting depths of love in marriage, bringing forth more gifts from God in the form of your children, who are the fulfillment of that love, being equally you and your husband in them. Oh. what joy to those, who have the blessing of children. Even those who have not conceived, or were not able, who have complete faith in Me, shall receive many children in My Kingdom to come. To all children is the Kingdom assured.

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I created a flickr photostream to house and display charts and graphs of the markers and signs indicating the end of the age. Please send me other graphics if you find some to be added to my stream.

Thanks,
Trent

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1. Signs of the End of This Age - Present Time
This includes earthquakes, wars, storms, Israel's statehood, etc., as foretold by the prophets and Jesus in the Bible. These are not part of the judgments, but are just markers or signs of the end of the age. At this time, Jesus is separating the "wheat" from the "tares" as told of in the New Testament. (For signs of the end of the age, please read Matthew 24 and Luke 21. The "wheat" and the "tares" parable is Matthew 13:24-29).

2. First Resurrection. First Harvest of the End of This Age.
This first resurrection is for those who belong to Christ, both those who have died in Christ and those who are still alive. At this time, Jesus is gathering the "wheat" into His barn. The redeemed have to be gathered up before the judgments and tribulation start because the innocent and forgiven(those who are truly converted in their hearts, in whom Jesus sees of Himself) will not be judged or punished. "For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive, and are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air." (Thessalonians 4:16-17)

3. Seven Years of Judgments from God & Tribulation from the Antichrist
During the seven years of judgments from God, He will: Judge the people, punish the wicked, and loose more harvest (the wild wheat) from the hand of the evil one. All, who call on Jesus' name during this time of tribulation, will be saved. The judgments include the plagues, etc. as told of in the book of Revelation. These plagues are literal...by no other means will the people be awakened or their hearts softened. The tribulation is from the antichrist (beast) and includes the persecution of the new believers and his war against them. The Second Harvest takes place during these seven years. Any believer, dying during this time, goes directly to Jesus, to be with those of the First Harvest.

4. Christ Returns and Establishes His Kingdom on Earth
When Christ returns, He will destroy the antichrist (beast) and his false prophet. Jesus will bind satan for one thousand years, and He will bind all the "tares" or wicked, who are left, and destroy them. (The "tares" are destroyed, a permanent state - not an endless torment). The beast's army will be destroyed with the sword of Jesus' mouth and the brightness of His coming.

5. Thousand Year Millennium - Seventh Day, a Period of Resting and a Reward for the Redeemed
This period of one thousand years is a period of resting and a reward for the redeemed. They will live and reign, with Christ, on earth. During this millennium, satan is bound. He will not be able to tempt the people.

6. Second Resurrection. Satan is released.
At the end of the thousand year millennium, satan is released one last time. Also resurrected, during this time, are all those who did not take part in the First Resurrection.

7. Final Judgment
All the books will be opened. This is the time of final decision for those who were not part of the First Resurrection. All prophets, who have ever lived, will be proclaiming the truth to the great multitude outside the gates. All people, who have chosen Christ, from the beginning until now, will be safely inside the gates. Also during this time, the newly redeemed will be welcomed in the gates, before the final battle happens.

8. Final Battle
Satan, and all those who follow him, will rage war against the holy city and the Lord. All of satan's army will be consumed by the fire from Heaven. Satan will be cast into the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet were thrown. All of the books, and death, will also be cast into the lake of fire. Anyone, whose name is not written in the Book of Life, shall be cast therein.

9. Eternity with the Lord...We will be forever with the Lord. Amen.
"Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." Revelation 21:3-4

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Is baptism necessary for salvation?
While baptism is an important act of obedience, it isn't necessary for salvation. The only requirement for salvation is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ ( John 1:12-13; 3:16-18; 6:28-29 ; Ephesians 2:8-9 ). In the first century, baptism always followed immediately as the first step of obedience, so much so that it is often mentioned alongside of faith as part of the "package" that brought a person into the body of Christ ( Matthew 28:19 ; Mark 16:16 ; Acts 2:38 ). However, passages like John 1:12-13 , Romans 3:21-31, 4:1-12, 5:1 , and Ephesians 2:8-9 make it clear that it is God's grace through faith alone that bring salvation.

The misunderstanding by those who teach that baptism is necessary for salvation stems in part from a failure to recognize that the New Testament was written by people who were familiar enough with baptism to understand that it was the normal means of expressing conversion. In that context, early Christians would be less likely than ourselves to misunderstand the symbolism in the apostle Paul's words:

Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Romans 6:3-4).

He could use the expressions "baptized into Christ," "baptized into His death," and "buried with Him through baptism into death" with the confidence that his readers would realize that he was using the language of symbolism. Obviously baptism doesn't cause us to die physically with Christ or to be buried in the tomb where His body was placed. It expresses our desire to live a victorious Christian life and symbolizes our identification with Jesus Christ through faith, by which we share in the benefits of all He did for us.

We recognize symbolism, for example, in the wedding ring. A ring doesn't physically cause unending love and devotion, it symbolizes these qualities. Likewise, wearing a gold band doesn't make the wearer a faithful spouse. Its symbolism is an outward expression of an inward reality and can be a helpful reminder of fidelity.

Verse after verse in the Scriptures, both in the Old and New Testaments, clearly affirm salvation by grace through faith alone. Abraham, David, Moses, Daniel, and a host of Old Testament people were never baptized and yet are heroes of the faith, heirs of salvation. The dying thief who repented was promised companionship with Jesus in Paradise even though he died without baptism ( Luke 23:43 ). If we interpret the few passages that seem to make baptism a requirement for salvation in the light of the hundreds that declare salvation is by faith alone and the many that clearly make baptism a symbol, we will find them in perfect harmony with the great body of biblical truth.

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Jesus is NOT the answer. I don't care how many bumper-stickers say otherwise.
Jesus IS the WAY. Let me explain the difference.

For the sake of discussion, I asked my sister-in-law (who is from Spain) to translate a sentence for me from English into Spanish. Here is her answer: "Spanish spanish spanish-spanish, spanish spanish spanish spanish spanish spanish."

She made spanish into the ANSWER of her translation, instead of the WAY of her translation.

(again for the sake of discussion) I asked a friend mathematician to handle these three problems. Here is his answer: "3X2 = mathematics ... 5 / 4 = mathematics ... 185 - 667 = mathematics."

He was about as helpful as my sister-in-law, don't you think? See the chaos that can happen when someone mistakes the WAY for the ANSWER?

In the first case Spanish was the WAY she was supposed to derive the answer, and in the second example mathematics is the WAY that he was going to handle the questions ... but they inserted the WAY AS the answer.

This is absurd, no? And it is just as absurd to say that Jesus is the ANSWER, when He is the WAY.

The ANSWER always is concerned with "what" ... but it is a far greater thing to know the WAY, because every WAY is concerned with "HOW." If you know HOW, or then you have hope no matter what unforeseen thing comes against you.

Jesus is the HOW to handle the unforeseen things.

Just think about knowing HOW to speak Spanish opens up infinite ways to communicate something. Just think about knowing HOW to use mathematics can make limitless questions (not just the ones that you have memorized) answerable. Jesus, likewise, is the WAY, and we thus know HOW to live.

Creation's ultimate purpose is to glorify God. Jesus is the WAY.for me, a part of the creation, to glorify God. Without the WAY, then I am doomed to fall short of the glory of God. I cannot glorify God on my own, apart from Him I can do absolutely NOTHING, but continue in slavery to sin.

The WAY is Jesus. He is HOW.

I may never know what I should have done in the past, but I know HOW I should have done it ... The Way, before, was Jesus. I should have exchanged my inabilities for His ability.

I may never know what I should do tomorrow, but when I get there ... the highest calling for me is that Jesus be the WAY, the actual HOW, it gets done ... not by my might, nor by my power, but by His Spirit, the Spirit of the Lord Jesus.

And as for right NOW, I won't know the answer for what I should do to glorify God, but if I find the WAY, Jesus, then He will supply the answer, even in this very moment.

To every thing that we are so strong as to come up with the answer, we consider that Jesus is irrelevant. We say that we can handle this one, and we call on Him later, if we need Him. Why? We skip the Way. Thus, the answer that we come up with on our own is a guess in the dark. Clearly we have lost our way, without Jesus. And without Jesus, we only think that we know the answer, but we don't.

So, I say that for as many things that I think that I know HOW to handle, it is exactly those things of which I have yet to repent. Why? Because Jesus is the WAY ... He deals with HOW. And by His Spirit, all things are possible.

• GraceHead vs LawHead
• I am becoming unteachable ... (what is my gospel?)

When I get ahold of the Way, then He leads me to all the answers. Jesus is the Way, and every other way, isn't the Way.

I don't have all the answers. Infact, I don't believe that Jesus is the answer. Jesus is the way to all the answers.

When you teach mathmatics, you don't teach the answers. Math instructors teach the way to the answers, and once a student has the way, then they won't ever lack an answer.

I'll say alot of things that are just plain wrong, but what did you expect? I am not the answer-man. Those things that I say, that make you want to question everything that I previously said is a wake up call to you that I don't have the Truth in a doctrinally packaged form.

Those wake-up calls in your life are given to keep your eyes on Christ, instead of men.

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6/2/09 From Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, YahShua the Messiah -
A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear

It has come up before Me among My flocks, this question, and now of your wife also. For your sake, Timothy, I shall answer, for you came and humbled yourself before Me, sincerely seeking to hear, even if it means your correction... Not at all doubting the word of your brothers in the Scriptures of Truth, nor that Word in the Volumes, which reveals My glory according to that gift which was seemingly rejected... Then, once again, received by repentance, sincere remorse, proven also in action.

So then, My beloved lambs, indeed you remain babes and yet lack understanding. Nor can you see past that wall you have built up in yourselves, which yet blocks your vision... Tear it down, so you may see! Soften your forehead, and perk up your ears, and wipe your eyes... See clearly and hear My Word.

Before you in the Scriptures, you see the man called Judas who betrayed the Son of Life unto death... Who, by receiving the bribe, revealed the Son of Man’s location, even leading His accusers to Him, not realizing that each step taken was bringing him that much closer to destruction by his own hand, and that out of extreme remorse for what he had done... Only realized because of My spirit which had returned, whereby his walk with satan had ended... Where he again took the money, the price for which I had been weighed, and cast it down at the feet of the guilty... Who then took the money and bought the Potter’s Field, as it is written, the Field of Blood, where Judas also hung himself.
Therefore, Judas could not buy a field with the money he did not own, nor did it enter his mind. Rather those, with evil and hardened hearts, bought the field to bury those they saw as unworthy in their eyes... Whereby a sign was made and fulfilled by Judas, written in his own blood, splattering it that no man may ever be buried there. And so it remains to this day... the desolate Field of Blood.

And of Judas, he shall be with Me in paradise. Do not speak to the contrary, lest I leave you upon the earth at the Last Day, for the blaspheming of the Spirit and My words...

Therefore, oh wicked and hard-hearted sheep, do you really know Me?... And of that one sin, which cannot be forgiven, of which Judas did not commit? For though he died before Me, his sins I also bore, even crucifying them upon the tree in My own body.

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God's being must be removed for anything else to exist. So in the beginning we have a formless void. Of what is it void? It is void of Eternity for the creation is temporal (within time.) It is void of infinity also, thus God could form finite - multiple entities within it, while He remained beyond the creation ... as it were "moving on the waters." I give this background, because most people are predisposed to view the cosmos as the substance and God's being as a faint or sortof minimal fill?in?the?blank whatever. But, the deep revelation is that God is the only stable and formidable substance that is unchanged and persistent, and He compressed His being to remove Himself from the realm wherein we are created and live. But, just as it began; it will end. This is for only a season, and the collapse draws ever closer to the "last day."

So, there is a natural gulf between man and God of impossible dimension ... there is no compatibility between finite and infinite. There is no natural way for Eternal and temporal to be intimate ... and thus God is to us - a Consuming Fire.

Man wants to be intimate with the Creator, and He with us, so God sends an umbilical cord to a little box- the ark. And later He sends it to a little room - the Temple's "Holy of Holies." But, that did not really provide any kind of intimacy. Only a priest would get to interface after a ritual of painstaking detail to show just how far below we are to God, and then the priest did not have much to report but we are sure that it was all distorted anyway by the priest's organic intellect. Anyway, this is all leading up to God's intention to send that umbilical cord to Mary's womb. The temple was just an appetizer.

Down the umbilical cord travels the Spirit of God and at the end we find a Man. That man was born in Bethlehem - Jesus Christ - God with us.

So, Jesus (while never being less then God) decided to behave as never more then man. Why? He came here to reconcile the infinite nature of God and the finite nature of the souls of men - to make peace between He and us. But, also because if He chose to behave like God, then that would not teach us anything. We have no hope to behave like God, thus He behaves like man - He prays to the Father, and He receives instruction from the Father to obey, and He even says, "I always do what is pleasing to the Father." Pretty cool, eh?

John 8:23
But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

Now, the Christ is not a creature formed out of the void of the cosmos. He is from above. Jesus is the ONLY Begotton. He descended directly from beyond, from infinity, from eternity ... from the Father. And He reconciles us by offering us that life from beyond - eternal life. But, there is a great price to pay for reconciling our nature with His, and that price is demonstrated at the cross.

Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Not much of a trade: our ungodliness for His Godliness, but the swap was made. and it has brought peace to those that are born from the void, as we now can be born of the Spirit - even the Spirit of God, the same Spirit that animates the Son of God, and that is eternally present beyond the creation with the Father.

It is because Christ is the very substance of the being of God that we can partake of Him to have eternal life. Now, God's umbilical cord, Christ ... has umbilical cords to men, of which I am one of the men that has agreed to have this done unto me. Now I have eternal life, which is the same life that is in Christ as I am attached to Him, and His life is the same life as the Father as He is attached to Him. Pretty cool, eh? ... and I did none of this. Christ did it all. All I had to do is agree to have it done to me.

All anyone has to do is invite, yet not all are willing to do so. (not that "the willing" have anything to boast about.)

So, our good works do not secure a change in enternal destiny.
RATHER, our change in eternal destiny changes us into fit vessels for good works that He has prepared for us to do.

We work because we are already saved, and by virtue of this gift and the deposit within by which all of the divine attributes are now being mingled and infused into our innermost beings ... we awaken to new desires and new wants.

Tit 2:14
[Christ] gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.

These wants are "strange" to us, and our new desires appear "strange" to the world. For "strange" means that it is come from beyond this world.

I am vexed by my faithlessness. I want to be rid of sin (some sins more then others.) And I don't know of a single thing that I have ever done that lead me to these desires. I don't credit bible-study, greek-parsing of scripture, quiet-time, prayer-warrior ... nothing! It must be something that GOD is doing in me that is the genesis for this soul in this ape-suit to be so concerned with the things of God and His kingdom.

So join me, if it suits you to, and lets encourage each others growth in this realization of God's Kingdom, and its manifestation in our wants and our works. And as this occurs we can both delight and give praise and honor to Whom it is deserved, for never once have we ever been able to produce such fruit. We bear (not produce) the fruit of the Vine.

"Scripture statements concerning the nature of God...affirms His unity....But the Scripture as plainly affirms the distinction of persons in the Godhead. 'Unity in plurality and plurality in unity' is the great assertion here...it must not be forgotten or denied, that there are continually exhibited within [the Bible's] pages, in bold relief, truths seemingly opposed to each other...The twofoldness of truth as offered to our view in Holy Writ, is one strong argument of its not being the work of man. It is the glory of man's intellect to produce ONENESS. ..." (Robert Govett, "The Twofoldness of Divine Truth," Norwich, 1892)

Most church-goers seem to think that salvation is getting forgiven, and that is the extent of it.

"God forgives people so that they get to go to heaven even though He would otherwise be really mad that they sinned."
I would estimate that at least 8 out of 10 church-goers would say something similar, wouldn't you?

I look at getting forgiven as just an appetizer. Reconciliation doesn't really feed anybody's hungry soul. One can be forgiven and reconciled but not really saved. In fact, everyone is reconciled though many have been saved of nothing. Even our famous John 3:16 shows that salvation isn't a clean and dirty issue, but a life and death issue.

If we have died of cancer and someone finds the cure, what good is it to us? Sure, they could administer the cure to us, but what good is that to a corpse?

Our cancer is sin and the wage of sin is death. So what good is it if someone comes along and rids us of what killed us? Are we not still dead?

Provided that we have died of cancer and someone finds a way to revive us, but has no cure for cancer, then why even bother reviving us? Take a dead cancer victim and give them life, while they still have cancer, and they will shortly die again. Perhaps immediately die again.

Through salvation we are taken from death to life, does not come without the cure for what killed us to begin with. In fact our remedy is really two-fold. Thus it is written:

Romans 5:10
"For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!"

I am putting the emphasis on the part of the equation that scripture emphasizes - salvation by His Life!

If you are ever compelled to say something, then say exactly that, by the Spirit, and with the words that He gave you to say.

If the Spirit tells you to instruct the dean of students of a seminary then march into their office and instruct them! If the Spirit tells you to hush while some ignoramus is begging you to tell them the gospel, then hush!

If the Spirit tells you to give everything that you own to somebody that is dripping with gold, then immediately give it away. If the Spirit tells you to withhold spare-change from someone who is dying of starvation then don't you give them a penny.

Start living according to the Spirit. Start walking by the Spirit, and abandon all of your thoughts and plans.

You think that everyone needs to know what you know? Well, that might be, but the need is not the call. Wait on the call, and when you do this you will be as a fisher of men. Stop deciding when to cast your net all day and hear one word from the Master ... and watch what happens, with such feeble effort applied to His specific call to action. Your boat will not be able to bring ashore all that will be accomplished in simple trusting obedience.

Right now all evangelical thrusts of mainstream Christianity have all lost their way. They are all about how man can be instructed by their carnal mind, hoping and planning to bring in a harvest through calculated resource management and supervision. That is mere training on how to walk according to the flesh, not according to the Spirit. Lets forever repent of any lonely un-holy ambitions and acts of devotion that have no origination from the Spirit. That stuff is just sinning and calling it good. It is wood, hay and stubble, and just exhausting ourself in the meantime with nothing to show for it.

I witness to reality on this blog, but only because it would be more exhausting to hold it within. God has placed this song in my heart, and I am revealing this true-condition as I speak. I don't care it if moves one person closer to God. I don't care if it makes some people go to war with God. What you do with it is your own business. There isn't anything "in it" for me one-way-or-the-other. My satisfaction comes just be getting it off my chest and the relief does not depend on your response.

By the Spirit, I know about and witness to a reality that is revealed to me. Do with it, however you want to. Whether you "amen" or scoff at it, I only want your true condition to be revealed. If nothing else, I only encourage that we be true and lay aside all pretense, even the pretense of ignorance with regard to what has been revealed to us.

Revelation 22:11
"LET him who does wrong continue to do wrong; LET him who is vile continue to be vile; LET him who does right continue to do right; and LET him who is holy continue to be holy."
Revelation 22:10-12 (in Context) Revelation 22
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Often we approach the relationship to God with a systematized forensic understanding of the basis of relationship (ie. the facts of the gospel.) ... but at some point, we begin to realize that the relationship makes true those facts ... not the facts making true the relationship ... and all that stuff, no matter how much we think we have it figured out, is meaningless apart from God, Himself ...

What if there was no Bible (as the past has shown to be the case) and no religion (see Abraham) ... would there not be an essential table set at the heart of man that seats only two? Would there not be a place in the very heart of us to build something of a personal and unique understanding between God and each of us? And wouldn't this fit under the heading of "relationship?"

Then what is all this religious stuff we pile up around this table, so that we can hardly see it?

You are blessed. You are loved. You are building something that religion cannot replace, when it is you and the Lord baring your heart to each other ... crying and shouting, being heard, and understood ...and seeing how the other responds.

I have found the most impressive communication of God's love has come to me after shaking my fist and cursing Him.

This is how we ripen for the harvest ...

Here is what I wrote in reply:

It isn't beneficial to cling to worthless idols.

Jeremiah 2:5
This is what the LORD says: "What fault did your fathers find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

What the Bible calls an "idol" is anything (and I mean ANYTHING) that we run to for comfort in times of trouble and calamity BESIDES the Lord. We just aren't suited to cling to things that cannot help us. Anything other then the Lord are worthless at helping us in those times. We should always take the opportunity of trouble to cast our cares upon the Lord and run to Him for rescue, and to drop anything we were holding onto that isn't the things of God.

So, we don't need to be experts on what is or what is not sorcery, occult and witchcraft to get the idea that something is not of God. It isn't hard to figure out what is God and what is not, for there is none like Him. What is hard is to radically apply the principle of idolatry to our lives.

You see, the idols that I run to in times of trouble have not been fairies or jewelry or pretty designs. The idols that I have clung to in the past are intimidation, anger, bullying, charm, deception, lying, piety, pride, elitism, complaining, grumbling, unbelief, distrust, exclusiveness, insincerity, lust, and so-on. Some people go to recreational drugs, or other people to deep into self-righteousness and image building as a way to "keep up appearance" in times of trouble. Did you know that there are many people whose idols are higher education, and seminary training? Those things are inherently bad, but when you run to those things INSTEAD of God in times of trouble then you are on shaky ground ... even if you run to the Bible, or church.

There is a funny story in the Gospels of Jesus going on an mountain with a few close disciples. And on the mountain the disciples witnessed a marvelous event, where Jesus was found talking with Moses and Elijah. (Matthew 17 and Mark 9 and Luke 9.) Peter was there, and he was very impressed. The reason is because the Bible of their time was the Old Testament, and it had two parts: The Law (which was written by Moses) and the Prophets (which was written by God's prophets like Elijah.) So, seeing Jesus with those two, seemed like a fantastic sight to Peter, and he blurted out:

Luke 9:33 As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." (He did not know what he was saying.)

Peter wanted three tabernacles. One for Moses. One for Elijah. One for Jesus. Do you think that was a good idea? Do you think that Moses and Elijah were worthy to be treated as idols? Or is the Lord the only one worthy? Well, God did not make us wait long for the answer to these questions ...

Luke 9:35-36 While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. A voice came from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him." When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone.

Now, that settles it. Jesus is alone at the mountain ... and He should also be alone in the mountain of our heart. If Moses and Elijah were not worthy to be there, then what about all those things that we run to in times of trouble and calamity? If those two don't stand up next to Him, we should not put anything else on equal standing with the Lord ... not "fairies" and not "Celtic symbols" ... but more so those other things ... gossip, slander, anger, charm, flakiness, piety, hypocrisy, and even Christian devotion. We aren't meant to serve two masters. We each need to come to the place where we quit building tabernacles and shelters on our mountain except for the Lord. And we run only to Him.

Luke 16:13 "No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and [fill in the blank]