Where are we now?

The Apostle Paul called it a race. The Lord and Master Jesus, called it something to “endure”. Everywhere in scripture are references to the difficulty of “entering in” and “finding” life at the end of the journey or race. Yet, we have been taught to ignore the inconvenient un-pleasantries and warnings of Jesus and Paul about this “difficulty” and we skip merrily down the rosy path of the Sunday version of Faith, oblivious to our heading, possessed of blank incredulity and a lust for the “blessings” that today’s Christianity touts as virtually automatic upon a confession of faith. Couldn’t be further from the Truth.

The multitude have followed Christ for their own pleasure, treasure and safety. They have not been called by God to follow Jesus Christ TO God. Is it not evident? These have walked away from the real Christ as it was done in John 6:66. Make no mistake. “Christians” do many good deeds. Their self-serving and perceived “for-God” deeds do them no good in the end. It is written, …”I never knew you”. Their rebuke and ejection from the presence of Christ will be the reward of their independent thinking; Their need for control over their lives. Their rebuke will not come at the hands of the ecclesia. For today’s “Christians” are not a part of the true Body of Christ. The ecclesia are told to reprove and rebuke their own. Not those of another fold, another faith, another gospel, another Jesus.

The true Church or Ecclesia, have counted the immense cost of following after Jesus Christ. They are that which remain after the multitude turns away when faced with the likes of John 6:44-65. Whereas, the Ecclesia, called by God, have heard by the Spirit, counted the cost of following Christ and now suffer a double-edged trial. They have forsaken the world John 19:29-2Co:6:17-Re:18:4, and they suffer for it. They have taken the narrow way and by trial, tribulation and spiritual warfare, agonise and suffer their way toward the blessed Hope of Salvation in the end -M’t:10:22. They have no need of worldly prosperity though it be tagged as “Christian” or godly. Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger. Zep:2:3

What about Luke 21:36? If we’re “Church-saved”, what is the need to pray that we be found worthy to escape the things that are coming upon the earth and to stand before the Son of man? Isn’t it unnecessary? Aren’t we “saved”. Aren’t we going to be raptured?! What need to pray or agonise or work out our salvation in fear and trembling (Phil2:12)? Based upon a simple proof text like Luke 21:36 or Phil 2:12, don’t those who consider themselves “saved” now, call Jesus Christ a liar? Or must this become some metaphor with which we can circumvent the ‘tough’ words spoken in Truth about the real walk with Christ? Only if God has given it to His ecclesia, can they understand the simple truth about the difficulty in finding Life at the end. The rest, …are what they are.

I believe the separation, or polarization of the camp is about complete and we have entered into a stark and bleak manifestation of that which has been prophesied for the world of our day. The great and terrible tribulation of the last days. Armed with Truth and residing in Christ and their God, the Ecclesia now enter what I believe to be, the last and terrible phase of the road to redemption. And at the end of their journey, at the completion of the race, …God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Rev:21:4

A veil of darkness has descended upon the world. A famine of God’s word has descended with it. The scourge of blindness, delusion and hate has masterfully woven itself into the fabric of the societal psyche. The devastating effects are only now manifesting themselves. The world continues as it did before destruction came upon it. …Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 2Peter 3:4

Undoubtedly, the spiritually deaf can “hear” words from scripture but, these words are not quickened in them to promote a turning from one’s sins, a return to God. An impossibility. Thus, I believe the famine of the Word, that quickens, instructs and heals, is entrenched and in place today especially amongst the churches. The Word is having no effect upon the apostate multitude. The Word is now like water that is trickling onto dry sand of men’s and women’s hearts and evaporating, by the decree of God. God has given them up!

By God’s mercy, if we are alive today and in Christ, we are still only wayfarers in the world. Sojourners. Onlookers. Either we look to the world as our sustaining ‘savior’ or we have forsaken it’s allures, sweet snares and lying promises, to follow the real Jesus Christ, as a few have been called to do. We are alive because it is the will of a sovereign God that we be so. Who we follow, has been known from before the foundations of the earth were laid. Those who perish, also.

We cannot serve two masters (M’t 6:24) and we have one choice to make regarding whom we shall serve. Though our God knows the choices we will make, the choices we make are yet up to us. God will never withdraw what we have come to understand as free will. We may have a hook in our jaws, but we will always understand it as being a rational free choice we made. Understandably, a mind boggling concept. Without the Spirit of God, it surely is.

With each passing day, the closer we draw to our God, the more our helplessness grows. And the better we understand that we can do nothing to please our God. Can a branch on a tree bear fruit because it decided to? Or can it only bear fruit by the hand of the one who plants, waters and prunes it? This helplessness marks those whom God has called and sanctified. Those who have entered into His rest as He did on the 7th day (Heb:4:3-5). We are told by God to seek after meekness and wisdom. Nothing of this world will suffice.

God’s ecclesia have entered into their rooms of refuge after having sought Him out. God Himself is their refuge. They have shut the door behind them. God’s ecclesia have no need for churches; No need of the fellowship of poisoned and deluded congregations, the lies and blasphemies of those in the high seats who preach the lies of their father. The proof of the unity of the religions of the world, under one god, is in the divisions. Divided, that they might stand as one before the Destroyer and fall like a house of cards before the Lord. Most notable are the divisions among them that call themselves “Christian”. There are no “Christians” among the true brethren of Jesus Christ. And so the sad prophecy plays out. …And few there be that find life.

We have entered into a time of strife and woe such as has never been seen. And this tribulation grows with every passing hour. It is soon to become Great. Those whom God had called to preach this warning have become silent now. The camps, having been soundly divided, have been warned. The only “voices” heard today, are those of contrary spirits. Men, and sadly, women, who pepper their spiritual and physical ‘survival’ preaching with a few Truths, disconnected from their agendas, but used as bait to draw the spiritual minnows to their hooks and away from God. They possess enough bait to sway the double-minded ‘stray’ into believing that they have what is needed to lead them to salvation; After the physical instruments of “salvation” have been purchased. The only “ministries” among us today are those of wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked merchandisers. Lions, leopards, wolves, dumb dogs and thieves.

The spirit of antichrist rules in the temples of the blind multitudes. One needn’t wait for a stone and mortar monstrosity to be erected in the “holy land”, to herald the beginning of sorrows! Sorrows have come and Jacob’s trouble is upon us ALL!

Nay, Our concepts of Prophecy, Faith and Salvation are far removed from any reality, spiritual or otherwise. As far removed from us as the vain, empty, lip service we render to God. Our hearts (and minds) have completely left the building! We have been “preached” into impotence and death for (at least) the last hundred years. Legions of dying souls hover tenuously between two worlds. Neither hot nor cold.

We needn’t wait for a celestial, satanic holiday, marking the proximity of the spirit world, to the world of men. That world is readily accessible any time and perfectly visible to even the most ignorant of the blind. How it is reacted to, determines the individual or collective fate.

But if we believe there is a God who has set all courses, our angst and frustration over the blind should fade to peace and acceptance of God’s will in the matter of all of His creation, lives and courses. They have been set. God’s sovereignty has been set long before the fore-ordained Jesus Christ, Creator and Savior was created. Colossians 1:16: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And what were the rebellious created FOR?! That they descend into rebellion? Indeed, and more. That God be glorified amidst it all, …by every creature ultimately.

Isa:45:23: I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

But our church-boxed version of God would never suffer the notion of a sovereign God! Sure, God can be sovereign BUT… what about ME?

Thus, as the darkness increases and dark light shines, the Ecclesia find themselves driven into their God; Driven under His wings. Peace, rest and contentment reign in the lives of God’s own. Our separation to God being complete through Jesus Christ, our lives mock the despair, fear and chaos which permeate society today. And not a peep is heard from the Ecclesia. Their deeds of obedience and trust in their God may or may not draw scorn, hatred and even death. By their God’s power and will, they hide in plain sight.

I believe we have entered into the dusk season now. The night comes when no man can work. God’s true Watchmen have spoken His warning to the Camps. They too are hidden with Him in the dry places. There is nothing to do but trust in our God and Father through His Son. There is naught we can change, save working out our salvation before our God with fear and trembling and prayer and supplication if it be God’s will. Alone with our God in secret. One on one. For a veil of darkness has descended upon the world. Indignation has begun. The point of no return has been passed. The sky is red.

We are in it…

Those “holy” places we had called our sanctums and refuges now stand fully torn in shreds and exposed to every wind of Godly indignation that blows through the societal, economic and cultural fortifications we once trusted in; The “Egypt” we had wrapped around ourselves. Exposure has come. The hunt is on in the world. There is no peace. There is no safety. Chaos, panic and fear are the order of the day. To God be the glory.

Holding fast to our Faith and proceeding down our own paths with Jesus Christ, (in this, the end of days), we find ourselves remembering that which was taught us through the Spirit of the Living Merciful God pertaining to these times and especially, the manner in which we walk our paths.

I believe that school is out and that repeated recitations of our professions of faith to the world will not ease nor hasten our passage down this gauntlet called our walk of Faith. No, rather I believe that the time has come to end all talk and to walk our walk under the gaze of our Father and His Son. In quietness and confidence. In secret, but walking plainly upright before men. Our “walk” is not to be confused with the swaggering “walk” of modern day professors of Christ. The empty, unimpressive Churchianity walk.

Amos, the prophet, prophecies of times when the prudent shall remain silent for it is an evil time. I believe we have crossed over to this paradigm. And I should like to do as I am led to encourage the Ecclesia in whatever way I am given. I believe we must turn a sober eye and look around us and realise that the indignation has begun in earnest and that the world around us is beginning to implode. There will be no turning back now.

There will be no remedy, although some believe that a certain “savior” will come on the scene to bring the world from the brink of destruction. Be that as it may, any new or improved world which would follow, after the advent of this “savior”, shall undoubtedly be as dark, dangerous and restrictive as the former. God has prophesied a downward path into chaos. That shall stand and nothing which seems as “light” will ever be taken as an upturn in the world’s fortunes, by the Ecclesia. They shall not be deceived. And no one knows how the way down will go. But it will be terrifying.

Now as this world descends into abysmal chaos, lets take a sober, objective look at it, some of its “high points”, and get ourselves “acquainted” with these frightful manifestations of God’s wrath which now visit us with mounting frequency and terror. Just where are we now…?

The governances of the world dig deep into mountains storing vast supplies, arms, medicine, seeds and armies. …hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. The people, save those elite, chosen to reside in these man made refuges, shall certainly be exposed to what is coming upon the earth from above. It is no secret that the elite of the planet know full well what is coming from the cosmos and they are hard pressed to hide themselves from it. Call it what you will, but ‘global warming’ is putting it in the mildest of terms.

Famines of food dot the globe today with increasing frequency and this nation waits upon the precipice of starvation as soon as 2009. The supplies of physical wheat and other grain, the “staff” of life as it has been called, wanes and ebbs away with each passing season. The sun scorches and the rains drown the fields of the earth. The rust returns to rot the wheat across the globe. Prices now soar, already putting simple staples out of reach of a growing number of people. The earthly food with which our God has so faithfully fed us every day of our lives, shrinks from the shelves and storehouses, leaving some to wonder at what approaches. Well, for many, starvation and disease will negate any future wondering. By my account, reproach and sore judgment is upon us.

Breaking points have been reached. Families, children or spouses are murdered due to the stress and despair. Robberies and thefts grow daily. Acts of wonton violence in schools, restaurants and public buildings rise. A crescendo of gunfire. A symphony of bombs. A song of praise to the father of lies, the murderer-god.

Nations stand ready to fight over resources like food, water and minerals. Many have already engaged. How much time is there before we have no earth to fight over? Our financial markets collapse further into insolvency and ruin. Home and credit card defaults and foreclosures are the daily fare. It will not stop there.

The earth rips apart, smolders, the heavens scour with horrendous winds and storms. Hosts of “beasts of the field” devour with disease, eat away bodies and multitudes run into the arms of their “Egypt” system which drains their savings dry and leaves them to live on as wards of the laboratory, rats pumped full of lethal poisons. Living indentured cadavers. How long before the mammon runs out? How long before the leaven of TRUE JUSTICE runs through the lump?

We believe that we will never go through any tribulation. We believe we can dredge up the sustaining filth of this world and never be held accountable for treason against what we profess with our vile lips in church every Sunday. Then, mercifully, after we have raped, killed, coveted and stolen our way to our prosperity, we will be mysteriously whisked away by a god which is only a figment of our hell-born imaginations. Our faith is in a lie and in a system that has been specially created from the foundations of the earth, to wipe our smug, self-assured smirks from our faces. To wipe us clean off the face of the land.

Our children are born dead to society. Drained dry of morality, if any were to surface. Children bereft of morality, respect and common sense. Those who resist are drugged down into base, catatonic zombies, seeking after the same emptiness their fathers and mothers thrive upon. Our children are weak, vile, self-centered vermin, clawing, hording, narcissistic, full of pride and nothing else.

We “sense” something is wrong out there. But we scurry and bow before our electronic nannies and are told bed time stories about the importance of the unreality which mother-god tells us is the only reality. As long as we have a house, car, a full refrigerator, electricity to run our toys and an illusion to live for, our worlds are perfect. Not to forget the 2.3 children sucking blind, morally weak parents dry at every breath. The light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive friends.

Now we hear of war.

Now we hear of famine.

Now we hear of plague and disease coming.
Now we hear of fire, freeze, flood and ruin.

Now we hear of earthquake and celestial catastrophes approaching.
Now the governances disconnect from reality.

Now our money managers run from the building.

Now our utility rates rise.
Now our food and fuel bills climb to unaffordable levels.
Now our cul-de-sac neighborhoods fall to crime and ruin.
Now our food supply dwindles on near empty store shelves.
Now we cannot afford a Band-Aid at the ER.
Now we cannot pay the rent, mortgage, credit card or cell bills.
Now we lose our jobs and source of our “wealth”.
Now we can find no jobs.
Now we abandon each other.
Now our children shoot each other.

Now our children shoot themselves.
Now we shoot each other.

Now we shoot ourselves.

Now, one by one, we are forced to awaken from our slumber. Now we awaken to a world that has taken, or is about to take, everything we have believed in, away, including our sugar daddy God. Now it is too late and our perplexity turns to despair. No passing go and no get out of jail free card.

M’t:22:14: For many are called, but few are chosen. The ‘ones’ that will be chosen will suffer far more than the unfortunate deceived zombies we see now floundering in the chaos that pours in like a flood. The chosen will suffer for rejecting the ‘goodly’ world and it’s pleasures and trusts. The chosen will suffer for separating themselves from it, in mind and spirit and flesh. The chosen will suffer for following the most hated and reviled man who was ever born upon this earth. The chosen will suffer two kinds of hunger, two kinds of thirst, two kinds of pain. Zombies hunger and thirst not for righteousness nor for any spiritual thing. The chosen counted the cost before they chose to follow Christ. And “someone” knew who would and wouldn’t.

I remember telling you that the bill for mans folly is about due. Well, it’s been delivered. And may God have mercy on His own. And His own pray not for the world (John 17). Seek to hide ever deeper inside the Refuge of the God who called you to a glorious hope and resurrection. After the earth has been wiped clean. After the Zombies are gone.

The real war began in the realms. In the hearts and minds. Now it manifests itself upon the earth, in the nations, in neighborhoods, on the streets. They will fall to war, famine, pestilence, flood or fire. They dwell carelessly in the isles. And will they repent or will they curse God? Who can tell but God.

Where are we now? Right where we should be, I suppose. It is going to get much worse than this. In a month, this will be considered the good old days. My brethren in Jesus Christ, don’t be afraid. Rejoice. Look up. For your redemption draws near.

Take heart Saints. It has just begun in earnest now. The road is long and the fight, contending for the Faith, continues. We know that this “contending” has nothing to do with visible “church-works” of missions or evangelism. They “contend” with each other in matters of their faith. We know “contending” has to do with holding fast to our own Faith and the keeping of our souls. Contending has to do with our own walks. For we know, in the end as during the race, we are alone in secret with our God and His Son. And alone we are, on our narrow way.