06/20/2024
In my morning texts with a close friend, we often share about our views of coming world events like the inevitable wars that our government leaders will use to keep the world, but especially The Church bound by fears and hatred towards their fellow man. I would highly recommend reading or listening to George Orwell’s classic novel “1984”,, where he describes such a dystopian society under total surveillance by Big Brother while constantly diverting their anger and frustrations to a foreign enemy.
Here is my response when he shared about how he copes by being optimistic with his foot on the gas while he told me I have my foot on the brake pedal.
Comments and challenges are always welcomed. But most of all I hope all believers will reevaluate the theories of Dispensationalism, Post Mill or Amillenialism, and stay focused and singleness of vision by “keeping your eyes on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.”
Response:
It's not that my foot is on the brake. If trees are down, torrential rain, and darkness, we better slow down and move ahead cautiously. Granted, the greater the risk, the greater reward. But as a minister, I'm to warn of the judgment that I perceive is on the horizon while providing hope for the Body of Christ.
Saying that, I pray constantly that the whole Earth be filled with the glory, knowledge and salvation of the Lord. Like a Dayspring on High, the end of this age will be like birth pangs, but for those who are the children of light, a glorious day approaches for true believers and The First Church of The Redeemed.
Micah 4:1-5 which is almost verbatim of Isaiah 2:2-4, "But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever."
This is now. The "last days" was the time of Christ and the early church up to 70 AD in which a new age came into existence. That's why I believe we are in the millennial reign right now. Satan was and has been bound. He will be loosed at the end to deceive the nations. Maybe that time is now. But The Church is ruling and reigning with Christ now over the enemies of our soul.
Eph 1:15 "Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all thingsto the church,
23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all."
Col 2:10 "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:...15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."
Christ is ruling and reigning now and the Church is also seated in heavenly places. The problem is her identity and birth rite has been wrested from her by the deceiving sons of the bond woman to where she's just hoping and praying for Jesus to rapture them out. What a defeatist attitude. What lies perpetrated upon the Church by the Supplanters and her pr******te clergy and authors.
Christ is preparing His Bride. My philosophy is "thy kingdom come, thy will be down in earth as it is in heaven." I pray and hope for the day that The Church creates a world that even God will pull back the veil and step down to walk among men as it was in The Garden. But as long as Christians think the kingdom is a futuristic event of only 1000 years after this world turns to crap and hell, then the misery, war, poverty, famine, and other ills and evils of our day will continue.
I'm just hoping I can spread a little heaven on earth today by being Christ's ambassador of this heavenly kingdom by showing the King’s Love, Light and Life to an unregenerate world to where they also would want to become citizens of this Heavenly Kingdom by pledging allegiance to this wonderful King named Jesus.
