My own spirit and mind go much faster than my frail flesh – and even than Time itself, so it may seem! I hope what I’m about to relate will encourage all my readers that it’s now time to ascend further… Continue reading
As ‘101’ means ‘basic knowledge’ it makes this 101st Prophecy Progress Update quite amusing as we return to a major development in the many prophecies of Donald Trump as POTUS (President of the United States), as given to Veronika West and others.
In this post we consider news fulfilling prophecies delivered by Julie Green.
NB: ‘God-incidental’ timing of voting results and of the largest removal of a dam, which symbolises everything standing against and holding back America’s return to its Godly purpose!
Further to the previous post’s news of Trump’s win in Iowa’s Republican caucus as its presidential nominee, here’s screenshots from Julie Green team’s Prophecies Fulfilled Telegram channel, as at today:
Read about it via linked image:
Largest Dam Removal In American History Commences
Prophetic Words:
LATEST – linked titles
THE REMOVAL OF THE DEEP STATE IN THIS NATION
Word Received: December 8, 2023
“This is impossible for man to do alone. Many look to My David. Many look to My son, President Trump. They look to him to do all these things. They look to him to fix all these things, but even he cannot do it alone. And he cannot do it without Me. But he has been anointed and appointed in this hour. Yes, he will be used by Me mightily. But My children, do not look to him alone to fix what you see. Do not rely on him alone to turn things around because it is Me (that turns things around).
WATCH HOW QUICKLY GOVERNMENTS CAN FALL
Word Received: November 5, 2023 (Second Prophecy)
“My United States is being reborn, renewed, and strengthened, and so is My David. He will be restored. He will be restored, but not the way you think. I am restoring him, and the world will know it. And it is not just this election. No, no, no. It is the Great I AM Who is removing the jokesters in DC, the puppets in DC, the actors, the infiltrators, and the traitors of this Nation.
Watch and see. Watch and see Me move mightily. So, in this hour of power, I tell you, My children, I am pouring it out. In this hour of power, I am pouring it out. I want you to shout. Shout your victories. Shout your healing and restoration. Shout the prosperity I am bringing. Shout the things I am giving to you, those that were in the hands of the wicked. Shout these things. Shout unto Me. Shout unto Me, and you will see Me, the Great I AM, move, move, move on your behalf. I am showering you in this hour of My Glory and power,” saith the Lord.
THIS IS THE TIME I HAVE WARNED ABOUT
Word Received: October 19, 2023
“I am bringing My David back as I have promised, but not how you think. I am about to do something that no eye has ever seen, and no ear has ever heard. I am bringing back My David in a way that has never been done before. Don’t look to your elections to save you. I have warned you of this before. I will save you. Many things will happen before this upcoming election that will bring much shock and awe.
Prepare. Prepare this day because I will have My way”, saith the Lord.
January 16, 2024:
CNN Reporting…😅
https://apnews.com/live/iowa-republican-caucuses-live-updates
Vivek Ramaswamy Drops Out Of GOP Race After 4th Place Iowa Caucus Showing, Endorses Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbaQMctA6Gg
This is Only a Portion of What God is Saying. Follow Link to Full Prophecies in Comments.
Click image for link to read prophecy in full
Last week I printed copies of the latest published prophecies brought by Julie Green and yesterday read and highlighted that linked above:
It reads as follows:
“..Many covert operations have taken place in your government, your military, and your intelligence agencies. I have done many things to hide who My people are to protect them – those with all this proof and information. I have hidden them for such a time as this. I have hidden and strategically placed them, even right next to the highest places in your government.
I have many people in the so-called White House who have been taking down all the information- recording phone conversations, text messages, emails, everything. All these recordings are going to be shown. (They will prove) treason for the majority in your government, oh United States- treason because most of them cheated their way into those positions. And they stole many elections, not just one, two, or three, but many. It will be astounding to the American people just how many elections have been stolen and how many of your votes did not count….”
‘God-incidentally I noticed last night’s featured headline:
Click below to read:
It begins:
‘Concerns are intensifying among far-left national security “experts” and Pentagon insiders over the possibility that former President Donald Trump might leverage the U.S. military to enforce his political will if he returns to the Oval Office.
In a detailed report, NBC News inadvertently admitted the existence of a “Deep State,” allegedly working to facilitate a military coup against former President Trump if he is freely and fairly elected by Americans.
The NBC article paints a portrait of a left-wing plot to disrupt military allegiance to civilian control.
Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist wrote, “NBC reports the left is plotting ways to have military not be under civilian control. This dangerous and unconstitutional usurpation of power is being framed by NBC as good because it will undermine Trump if he is freely and fairly elected by Americans.”
[TGP cites her item on ‘X’, whereas the above link to The Federalist is mine.]
This may, however, be a wise tactic telling the leftie-loons: “We’re watching you and know all that you’re up to!” In other words, a smoke-screen for actual, ongoing military activity and hinting that ‘the boot is on the other foot’!
In my return on 7.7.21 to the mini-series US election’s NOT over – the-numbers don’t add up: #1 I posit this ‘Societal Equation’, or ‘Equation of National Breakdown’:
4 year’s attempted ‘soft coup’ + sedition + rigged elections + cyber-censorship + crooked law enforcement + unjust judges = civil war OR martial law
During the subsequent 30 months the equation’s left-hand side has gained:
+ massive migrant invasion + anti-West Muslim marches + crooked White House + court trials of main political opponent + his removal from future elections
SO EQUATION BECOMES:
= END OF DEMOCRACY = CIVIL WAR, OR MARTIAL LAW
Moreover, if military veteran Derek Johnson is correct about ‘devolution’, emergency powers and Executive Orders raised by Donald Trump that Biden cannot rescind or operate, then this latest notion about a ‘military coup’ may be just sheer supposition.
Further to my Preamble, another part of that insight is the last three items posts of last Thursday could be regarded as Trump’s long robe in Chris Bennett’s vision, Also, their news content connects with the ‘tripping-up’ effect within that ‘robe’ and the whole can be represented by a printed copy of those posts, as below:
Chris writes:
“Majesty”, the man spoke, “I can see that the robes you are wearing are causing you to stumble!”, and waited for the king to assent with a nod of his head. The man then parted the king’s flowing robe to reveal some kind of trailing cloth, sewn into the robe, that dragged along the ground. Whenever the king trod on it, it caused him to stumble.
The king motioned to a courtier and the courtier somehow cut the offending cloth out of the way, thus allowing the king to walk freely to his throne. The king nodded his thanks to the one who solved his problem, and proceeded to take his seat on the throne without further hindrance…
Almost immediately, I knew in my spirit that I had been watching Donald Trump! The Lord revealed to me that the regal robes he was wearing was the manifestation of his success in life and as president. Their ‘regality’ indicated the reputation and power he both exudes and wields. The tripping was caused by the false bit of clothing attached to his robes, and that represented the malicious persecution and prosecutions brought against him by his enemies. They, like the cloth in the vision, were designed to trip him up and cause him to fall, even to die!”
Again, as in the vision, the trap has been revealed and uncovered – or at least it’s all about to be revealed and uncovered. It was dealt with, in the vision, and it shall be dealt with in the reality of today’s situation in America. It showed, ultimately, Pharaoh, or Trump, taking his seat once again on the throne that is at present the presidency of the USA….’
ACT 3:
Therefore, my initial prophetical action relating to Chris’ vision can be extended. I trust we can stand in agreement to follow through prophetically to cut away and separate the removable news material from a printed ‘robe’ of those postings (modified to focus on that full-some news content by excluding the Julie Green transcript) as follows..:
“IN THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST AND BY THE POWER OF HIS SINLESS BLOOD, WE SEPARATE AND REMOVE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING WORKING AGAINST DONALD TRUMP’s CALLING TO SERVE THE NATION OF AMERICA!”
[It just so happens draft completed at 17:17 hours on pc clock, so publishing now]
ACT 1:
Whilst prepping Chris Bennett’s vision during mid-morning last Thursday, I appended a relevant news release of the previous evening for information:
Later, however, when ruminating upon that day’s blogging it dawned upon me that this clipping validates the prophetic vision given four days earlier!
Much later, I realised its publication by a strongly anti-Trump newspaper demonstrates public recognition of Donald Trump’s standing and authority, as described by Chris in Return of the King
ACT 2:
The publishing problem reported in the Preamble was easily solved by making Chris’ vision a ‘sticky’ post. Since Thursday it’s been a ‘Featured’ post atop the home-page.:
Upon retiring for that night I was strongly stuck with an insight over what I’d done. In my making Chris’ post ‘sticky’ and thus moving it up to the top of the day’s five postings, I’d reflected the action within his vision of Trump ascending steps!
YET MORE insight was to follow, which I shall soon relate in Act 3…
Then the angel said to the shepherds keeping watch over their flocks at night,
“Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the City of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord…” (Luke 2:8-14)
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My dear readers, have a ‘Mega-merry’ and blessed Christmas, as may be inferred from the OT Hebrew word ashar (Strong’s #833, as in Proverbs 31:28 on the virtuous wife), meaning:
‘happy, blessed, prosperous, successful, from original root ‘be straight, upright’.’
Better still is New Testament Greek’s makarios (Strong’s #3107), which means:
‘from root mak, indicating large, or of long duration…happy, supremely blessed, a condition in which congratulations are in order. It is a grace word that expresses the special joys and satisfaction granted the person who experiences salvation.’
This ‘Blessed’ is used in The Beatitudes, or the Sermon on the Mount, as recorded in Matthew 5. (Details New Spirit-Filled Life Bible, Executive editor. Dr Jack Hayford.)
May it be an especially blessed night of spiritual silence and insight for everyone.
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht is an old favourite, always sending shivvers down my spine!
The above Graz choir’s version is ‘dedicated to all those who are not able to spend Christmas with their loved ones‘.
It was first sung in 1818 in Oberndorf bie Salzburg chapel. My father must have heard it during his residence in Stalag IIIA, near Dresden. Austria looked very attractive, even as seen en-route as a captive transported from the Battle for Crete (1941). So mid-1950s, we took many holidays ‘im Tyrol’ west of Salzburg, often motoring through there later.
This version by ‘Celtic Woman’ is also sublime…
Read/watch this song’s story in “Silent Night! Holy Night!” A Song for the World.
2022-23 PROPHECIES IN PROGRESS > https://t.me/PropheciesFulfilled/11876
THE TECH GIANTS ARE ABOUT TO FALL – Julie Green
Word Received: January 8, 2023′
Something is about to take place in New York City that will get the world’s attention, and great exposures will continue to pour out of that area.’
MY GLORY WILL DESTROY IT ALL – Julie Green
Word Received: June 16, 2022
“For I, the Lord, this day encourage My children to get into My presence, where there is rest. Get into My presence, where I will give you peace, joy, and recovery from the effects of all the tests, trials, discouragement, frustration, lies, and torment from your adversary. My children, sit with Me, and I will lead you, guide you, protect you, and restore you from all the damage satan has done to you. Stop being distracted with the things of this Earth and set aside time to be with Me in your prayer closets. My Children, this is the key in this hour to rise above and not be shaken by what will be seen and heard.”
GREAT DARKNESS IS COMING AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES – Julie Green
Word Received: October 5, 2022
Watch Times Square. Things are not how they appear to be.
November 27, 2023:
To play video of Silent Night in Times Square visit > https://t.me/Jack_Posobiec/36440
Yesterday online was SO weird but the Lord must have been in it and I’m grateful for how He put His finger on a major glytch and it got sorted immediately, although wasting valuable time before going offline for our evening.
You may think it odd but I don’t always check this blog’s home-page listing of popular posts, but I did so yesterday and noticed the Bible Updates listed. That’s quite unusual but indicative and I mentioned it to a friend prepping for this Saturday Mens’ breakfast Bible study. SO time to finish the couple of drafts of more Updates re signs in the sun and the Lord’s words on Israel…
BUT along comes news of prophecies I’m monitoring. THUS chunks of my day focus on the special counsel’s submission to SCOTUS plus military operations; so they’re priority to publish. And in doing so I recall an old post and insert a link to close the latter.
1st GLYTCH
BUT I GET NUDGED to check that post of 21 April 2021 and am surprised and annoyed to find half its content is MISSING…the part with Robin Bullock’s prophetic supposition, viz:
“I believe that you’re about to see something big about the military – something very big, and I think more is going on than anybody realizes…and God’s going to do something huge here.”
Can it be found?? Thankfully, WordPress saves and enables editorial access to 25 drafts of each post, AND its editorial desktop has windows onto not only normal ‘visual’ content but also to ‘Text’ that includes coding of a post’s formatting. In scrolling through revisions, as shown below, I could read all coding that gets inserted when coping from other sources. (Facebook is full of ‘div’ codes making its content a continuous read.)
2nd GLYTCH
As a consequence I didn’t get to check that old post’s content as usual and even found it had another glytch buried therein (as in image). Also that the video link to Robin’s meeting provided no longer gave public access, so I thank the Lord for having done a brief transcript! The revived original post may now be read at. Is the US military about to act? …
3rd GLYTCH
We never watch TV news but just before retiring for the night and shutting the phone down I checked Telegraph app and noticed an exceptionally relevant Comment on Donald Trump. So I hastily took a screen-shot and shared onto WordPress and found I could immediately publish as a new post BUT for once my Android phone failed to copy the url link into its clipboard. Doing so had to await for today, when I find it works on this PC and can copy over the opening paragraphs.
Therefore, you may wish to read the revised post HUGE! UK defence & foreign affairs editor says free world needs Trump, NOW!
Today’s broadsheet’s centre page with Editorial and op-ed.
I wish to “Thank YOU” personally for taking your valuable time visiting my blog, no matter whether just to dip in or contribute to some posts, for I appreciate your involvement with my blog or visiting its Facebook page, or Telegram channel with extra prophecy-related news along with Prophecy Validations.
To those who’ve travelled with me over the years I say, thank you very much for your company on this unusual journey.
As you know, it all began in the mid-1980’s when I was in deeply involved in New-Age matters and the Lord struck me with a most memorable event, as told in Bio Info, and which has been so pertinent over Israel’s current war with hamas barbarians.
The ‘coincidental’ double appearance of a book and television documentary about Iran’s ultimate aim of eradicating the state of Israel introduced me to the Biblical history and prophecy relating to the Gog-Magog alliance and to End-times – and its author forecast a massive Muslim movement against the non-Muslim world. Continue reading
Time to tackle the theological conundrum of ‘once saved, always saved’ versus ‘falling away’ from faith.
Mulling over first thing with the Lord on today’s blogging I thought about Sunday at 3Counties Vineyard on 1Corinthians 12 and Holy Spirit’s gifts. But upon booting up my phone a message arrived about ‘lost salvation’ as a possible topic for this Saturday’s Men’s Breakfast. (Last weekend was a theological trilogy on Holy Spirit; it comprised that teaching with ministry for the giftings plus Saturday’s double dose of Romans 8 at our breakfast and the Alpha course’s Holy Spirit Away-day.)
Reflecting upon that group’s message about covering a side-issue, once again I got dropped upon from ‘On High’ to write on it! – rather like last Thursday’s jigsaw pieces.
Moreover I was ‘nudged about it being a suitable follow-on to the previous post about major church leaders now implementing apostasy, to the consternation of many laity. (It’s been an ongoing issue ever since launching this blog – 66 posts thus far).
Therefore, I humbly submit the following for consideration:
STUDIOUS DISCUSSIONS
For thirty years men from various churches in Haslemere have enjoyed working our way through various books of the Bible and discussing its verses in depth. In view of Paul’s longest letter being the pinnacle of Christian doctrine, it’s taken us some months to arrive at Romans 8 on Life in the Holy Spirit .
‘There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who[a] do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be [b]carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the [c]carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.’ (NKJV, Bible Gateway.com)
Last week, in passing, our study-leader referred to losing salvation. He and I cited Hebrews 6 but others objected and reminded us of the ‘once saved, always saved’ dictum.
This difference of opinion has cropped up a few times recently and this week’s leader undertook some research just in case the group decides to consider it. However, he concludes the wiser option is to adhere to our usual practice of examining the scripture under review.
Yet, how does a divergence of opinion emerge when most of us are well-grounded in The Word?
Furthermore, the ‘scripture confirms scripture’ principle means the whole Bible should be clearly understood; thereby leaving us of one accord!
SCRIPTURE CHECK
Here’s a small selection recommended by one of the group for consideration. Lead-in verses from the New International Version will give the cited verses some context:
John 10:28-29 > 25 Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[c]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
Philippians 1:6 > 3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:38-39 > 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[j]
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
FALLING AWAY FROM FAITH IN JESUS
Yet one must ask; if ‘once saved always saved’ is the correct understanding of the Word of God and faith in His Son Jesus Christ, then how come Holy Spirit foretells in 2 Thess 2:4 a specific ‘apostasia’ (literally, ‘from standing’ – Interlinear Greek), which translates as ‘falling away’?
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of [b]sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits [c]as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God…
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.’
In the previous post I particularly stressed verse 11, which should generate a righteous fear of the Lord in everybody!
Also, Paul later instructed his disciple Timothy that “the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons…”
That means not at a contemporary time but at a ‘latter time’ well into the future. However, apostasy began in the first century after Jesus’ life on earth, as attested to or implied by the author of the Book of Hebrews – AND definitely by Jesus’ closest disciple, John.
So, consider carefully Hebrews 6. It opens by saying its addressees have received foundational teaching and so it’s now time to progress: “Therefore, let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity…”
Note well verse 5:
4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age 6 and who have fallen[c]away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.’
We have tasted God and His Word and know Him to be good, and been given gracious giftings in the Holy Spirit – some even baptised in Him. BUT how many disciples today can operate fully in Holy Spirit’s power? Very, very few!
So the author of the treatise to the Hebrews must be referring to the miracles, signs and wonders of those apostles and disciples who were anointed in power, as described in The Acts of the Apostles. What’s more, that should have continued throughout Church history!
CONCLUSION
In view of the theological nature of this matter, this can be but my initial thoughts, submitted for what they may be worth.
I offer this as a way of indicating how two apparently contradictory understandings may be reconciled because they refer to different situations.
‘Once saved, always saved’ applies to all believers who do not fall into the error of apostasy or heretical belief. Some may even experience the supra-natural powers of the Age to Come,. Those who live in that category but subsequently disobey Jesus and scripture by following demonic doctrines and failing to repent and renounce satan, are the ones for whom salvation is withdrawn. Remember, we are to work out our own salvation in fear and trembling, according to Paul at Philippians 2:12.
Do not overlook what Jesus’ closest disciple writes about the apostates he knew or learned about:
18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
Maybe John is referring to those who became teachers of Gnosticism, a documented historical heresy, and similar movements in those early centuries in Church history.
Also, Jesus foretells His honouring believers but disowning anyone who disowns Him [Greek ‘amesamenos’ – ‘one-disowning’], which is a deliberate act of disobedience, not one of simple unbelief:
8 “I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.9 But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before the angels of God.10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.” (Luke 12 NIV)
PS. (18.11) To be continued with short posts on apostasy and salvation separately.
A SIGNIFICANT CALL FROM THE LORD TO BE WEIGHED VERY CAREFULLY! In being nudged to do something I wouldn’t normally do – opening Facebook on my phone just as we’re about to leave the house for a mid-morning meeting – AND seeing Chris had posted this 22 minutes earlier, definitely confirms it’s import. (That’s my birthday number and has occurred far too many times to be ordinary coincidence!)
He writes, as published in His Kingdom Prophecy: The ‘New’ Prophet’s Role
A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD TRUTH!
The Word of God says, very clearly, that He uses the prophetic to keep us informed as to His intention, His plans, and the results for us of ignoring His warning.
And It is also very clear that ‘he who has ears to hear’ what the Spirit wants him to hear, can do so.
“Surely The LORD God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.” Amos 3:7
‘And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom”.’ 2 Kings 6:12
Without contradicting one iota of these Scriptures, I hear The LORD say that there is a “new role” that He has for His Prophets.
I feel that the use of quotation marks around that phrase is intentionally drawing attention to the fact that this “new role” is in reality a revival of prophetic practice that has not exactly disappeared but at least been hidden in recent times — oftentimes for decades or centuries.
‘Then The LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and The LORD said to me,“Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
“See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant”.’ Jeremiah 1:9-10
When was the last time you saw a prophet with such authority over nations, or when did you see a prophet “pluck up and break down, destroy and to overthrow, build and plant.”?
Certainly we see the prophets edifying and building people up; we see them prophesying good things and warnings.
However, rarely, if ever, do we see prophets pluck up and break down, destroy and overthrow, build and plant!
So here is what I hear The LORD saying to His Prophets today: “Now is the time for you to step into the destiny I have planned for you since before time.
Now is the time for you to realise exactly why you are where I have placed you — for such a time as this!
I AM offering you a mantle, a new role for this time, but I AM also giving you a choice to step into this new anointing or to decline it.
Almost a ‘New Passover’, if you will, in which I will pass over you in favour of those willing to step up to the mark.
Why am I giving you a choice? Because to accept is to place yourself into the front line of the battle — the battles today, tomorrow, and right up to the final day.
You will become targets of all the powers of darkness, and targets of both church and non-Church groups who will seek to bring you down for your ‘alarmist and warmongering speech’.
The choice is yours”, says The LORD.
“Choose you this day to be in My chosen End-time Prophetic Army, or to watch from the sidelines.
I will not understate the seriousness of choosing to stand and I will not hold it against you if you choose not to do so.
Come to Me and tell Me of your decision and I will honour it, whichever you decide.
Ask Me your questions and My Holy Spirit will answer you.
But only you can decide. It’s up to you!” says The LORD.
Personally, I am willing! How about you?
~ Chris G. Bennett
Hello dear readers. Please excuse my being rather simplistic about what we’re familiar with, but I want to cover some common ground for further thought. In mulling over first thing with the Lord what’s in mind for blog-day, this got dropped on me..: Continue reading
MY, WHAT A ‘GOD-INCIDENCE’!
This morning I read two separate items published yesterday referring to The Days of Noah. First, from the collection of news items on progress of prophecies brought by Julie Green:
PS. Note the ‘double-22’ yet again in the date of her covering prophecy!
Secondly, in last night’s Koenig’s Eye View From The White House, Bill Wilson KIN Senior Analyst writes (emphases mine):
‘The Days of Noah and our Prophetic Times
WASH—Oct 23—KIN–The Biblical account of Noah has very similar underpinnings to the current condition of the world. As evil plays out in the Hamas attack on Israel, we can see clearly the inhumanity of humanity. When a group of people led by hatred and a genocidal ideology boldly murder, rape, torture, and dismember an innocent population, then is praised by the masses and justified by media, we know that the visitation of evil is upon us.
The prophetic words of Christ about the end of days resonate with this time in which we live. While there are several events that must occur before the return of Christ, we are witnessing prophetic signs of the coming end of the age both in the general world population and in Israel in particular.
Asked by his disciples about the signs of his coming and the end of the world, Christ was very specific. He likened world conditions to the time of Noah, when God cleansed the earth with the great flood. In Luke 17:26-27, Christ said,
“And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.”
Likewise, Matthew quoted Christ saying,
“But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”
Genesis 6:5-8 tells us the why behind both the flood and Noah’s position with God, “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD…Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.”
Herein, is the hope and faith for each of us as time closes in on the return of Christ. 2 Peter 2:5 says God “did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness…”
2 Peter 2:9 concludes that “the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of danger.” The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:13 that no adversity, or temptation, has overtaken you except what is common to man, but God is faithful and will not allow you to go through more than what you can bear, and with the adversity he “will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”
How? By your faith. Hebrews 11:17 says, “By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”
Noah is an example for us in these dark, yet prophetic times. By faith, let us look beyond the evil of the days to the promise of our prophetic destiny. Be encouraged. You are HIS!’
[In gratitude to William Koenig and Bill Wilson]
Preface:
The purpose of my recounting these online conversations is to ensure visitors to this blog can appreciate that there’s a far deeper background to Israel’s ‘Day of Infamy’ on 6th October than is claimed by militant masses devoid of compassion, who instead complain vociferously about Palestinians being trampled down.
NB: many traditional Jews are opposed to Zionism and the creation of a national state of Israel.
In A Call for Clarity on Israel and Gaza (July 2014) I cite renowned British journalist Melanie Phillips:
“This thing ultimately defies rational explanation. As Islamist savagery spreads, the moral depravity of the Western animus against Israel and the Jews can only be described as a metaphysical psychosis.”
Why did the West turn against Israel? In answering, Melanie refers to the conventional explanation that, with the post-1967 ‘occupation’, modern David turned into Goliath.
In The West’s Metaphysical Psychosis Melanie provides a solid explanation by referring to Joshua Murvachik’s new book, Making David into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel. Eg. China’s oppression of Tibet didn’t produce the same reaction. In her review Melanie puts Murvachik’s illuminating analysis of the inexplicable into a nutshell – the Arab and Muslim world set out to bend the Western mind, and succeeded.’
COMMENTARIES CONT’D
Soon after that infamous day, John Barber posted his observations at JRB Publications Israel at War. What is Happening in Israel Today followed by yesterday’s Israel and Calvinism – two hot potatoes!, which generated ‘conversations’ on Facebook.
Also yesterday, as in the previous part 1, John shares John Hymus’ item and to which one of his regular contributors objects as to its history but rightly says the satisfactory answer must be a two-states solution.
NOW, that’s just what Netanyahu was working towards with Saudi Arabia BUT which goal is not what terrorist controllers of Gaza desire – hence hamas’ war-crime to stop development of the two-state solution. Moreover, during negotiations of 1993 Oslo Peace Accords the Palestinian Authority often delayed progress!!!
‘P’, another regular with whom I’ve ‘discussed’ American politics, claims Israeli brutality against ordinary Palestinians and political frustration resulted in the nazi-style pogrom.
Obviously, both my protagonists are unfamiliar with hamas’ true, published objectives and the first, being an atheist, rebuked me as God that people believe in is the same whatever their faith. So I told him Islam’s god is very different Io the real God with whom Christians are in a personal relationship.
‘P’ reacts: “This more than “Hot potatoes” this is murder of women and children. This coming from Jewish Voice for Peace…” (copy JVP article, the statistics of which are to be verified, saying Israel guilty of genocide and attacking West Bank Palestinians).
Being open-minded I wanted to check out this source, as I’d heard about Jewish Voice for Peace in connection with a mob inside the US Capitol led by an offensive Islamist.
I found JVP’s reaction to the massacre – but whilst regret over loss of lives, there’s NO condemnation of the barbarity. Upon spotting a key factual error of 20th Century history I reply to ‘P’ as follows:
“Upon checking JVP’s site and coverage of the barbaric massacre and kidnapping of hundreds of Jews during their sabbath, plus people from over 40 nations – not just an attack on Jews alone but also upon the global community! – I note they fail to mention it was a deliberate albeit undeclared act of war. However they excuse it with two wrongs DO make it right – thereby hypocritically copying Israel!
JVP article states, “The Israeli government may have just declared war, but its war on Palestinians started over 75 years ago. Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence. Reality is shaped by when you start the clock.”
War started by Israel “over 75 years ago” > WRONG! A LIE!
100 years ago during the rise of Arab nationalism Yasser Arafat’s uncle Haj Amin al-Husseini, who rose to become Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and close friend of Hitler, incited bloody anti-Jewish riots in 1920, ’29 & ’36 – AND to our great shame with connivance of British officials overseeing our Mandate of Palestine!!! https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/haj-amin-al-husseini
And after World War II, ARAB nations continued to wage war against the long-established and immigrant Jewish communities!
So, we need factual historical honesty, do we not?
As JVP claims reality is shaped when ‘the clock’ starts, it begs these questions:
PS Remember the Islamic principle of taqiyaa – lying and dissimulation is approved by their god!”
‘P’ responds: “This is a Jewish site not Islamic.”
RB: “Yes I know, but it will indubitably be influenced by Muslims, as inferred from inaccuracy on basic historic facts.”
With respect to that influence, even infiltration perhaps, here’s what I already knew – NB Anti-Defamation League’s warning about Jewish Voice for Peace!!!:
Source: Official account of Congressswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Telegram)
Oh by the way, the same threat of decades ago but no longer to be ignored:
As mentioned previously, it’s so encouraging when encountering those with a very different opinion BUT who insist anyone else is mistaken in having a higher view. In my experience such friendly opposition is usually based upon one’s political lens, which is not always fully informed and thus rather prejudicial, rather than being disinterestedly open to considering all pertinent information. In such instances this opposition of ‘flak’ comes when I’m working on something important – as yesterday when prepping Neil Mackereth’s post on The Existential Threat to Israel – so I was metaphorically ‘over the target’ and….TRUTH BOMBS AWAY!!
My fellow watchman John Barber welcomes discussion on his Facebook and on Tuesday re-posted this from John Hymus (18 October):
PALAESTINA
A BOOK FROM 1714 BRINGS PROOF THAT PALESTINE WAS NEVER ARAB
The author spoke Hebrew, Arabic and Ancient Greek perfectly and European languages. The book was written in Latin In 1695 it was sent to Israel, at that time known as Palestine. During his travels, he researched about 2,500 places where people who were mentioned in the Bible or Michna lived.
1) First map the Land of Israel.
2) Then he identified each of the places mentioned in the Michna or Talmud with its original source. If the source was Jewish, he listed it in the Holy Scriptures. If the source was Roman or Greek, it indicated the connection in Greek or Latin..
3) conducted a demographic survey and a census of each community.
Your conclusions
1. No settlement in the Land of Israel has a name of Arab origin.
Most colonial names come from Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Roman languages.. In fact, until today except for Ramlah, no Arab settlement has an original Arabic name.. So far, most settlement names are of Hebrew or Greek origin, names sometimes distorted into Arabic name meaningless. There is no Arabic meaning in names like Acco (Acre), Haifa, Jaffa, Naplusa, Gaza or Jenin and the cities called Ramallah, El Halil and El-Kuds (Jerusalem) lack Arabic historical roots or philology. In 1696, the year Relaand returned the country, Ramallah, for example, was called Bet’allah (Hebrew name Beit El) and Hebron was called Hebron (Hevron) and the Arabs called Mearat HaMachpelah El Chalil, his name for the ancestor Abraham.
2. Most of the lands were empty, sorry.
Most of the lands were empty, desolate and few inhabited and concentrated mostly in the cities of Jerusalem, Acco, Tzfat, Jaffa, Tiberius and Gaza. Most of the population were Jews and some were Christians. Few Muslims, mostly Bedouin nomads. Naplusa, known as Shchem, was the exception, as there lived about 120 people, members of the Muslim Natsha family, and about 70 Shomronites.
In the capital of Galilee, Nazareth, lived about 700 Christians and in Jerusalem about 5000 people, mostly Jews and some Christians.
Interesting thing is that Reland mentioned Muslims as Bedouin nomads who came to the area as reinforcement of the building and farming manpower. In other words seasonal workers.
For example, in Gaza there were about 500 people, 55% of Jews and the rest mainly Christians. Jews grew up and worked in their flowering vineyards, olive orchards and wheat fields. Christians worked in the trade and transportation of goods and goods.
Tiberius and Tzfat were mostly Jews and with the exception of mention of fishermen who fished on Lake Kinneret – the Lake of Galilee – a traditional occupation of Tiberius, there is no mention of their occupations. A city like Um el-Phahem was a village where ten families lived, around people, all of them Christians. There was also a small Maroonite church in the village (Shehadah family).
3. No Palestinian heritage or Palestinian nation.
The book completely contradicts any postmodern theory that claims a “Palestinian legacy” or a Palestinian nation. The book confirms the bond, relevance, kinship of the Land of Israel with Jews, and complete lack of belonging to Arabs, who stole the Palestinian Latin name and took it for themselves.
Conclusion. — This extensive study concludes that Israel is at its absolute right to defend, claim and protect what has always been theirs for more than 3,500 years ago. When before Abraham got promise of the promised land to ISRAEL, NOT PALESTINE.
It is the land of a promise that was made to Abran by changing his name to Abraham and is registered in Genesis 17:4,5 (Kadosh Israelite Messianic Bible):
4. ‘As for me, this is my Covenant with you:………
5. Your name will no longer be Avram [exalted father], but your name will be Abraham [father of many], for I have made you father of many nations.
The same promise was repeated to his son Isaac, the same promise was repeated to Jacob the youngest son of Isaac the father of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Older documents NO MENTION OF PALESTINIANS OR ARABS.
Mention the Israeli children descendants of Avram whose name was changed to Abraham.
Note. – Adrian Reland (1676-1718), Dutch orientalist, was born in Ryp, studied in Utrecht and Leiden and was a teacher of oriental languages successively in Harderwijk (1699) and Utrecht (1701). His most important works are Palestine ex monumentis veteribus illustrata (Utrecht, 1714) and Antigüitates sacrae vetum Hebraeorum.
COMMENTARIES
John B’s re-posting of John H’s item has attracted 13 comments, but first we’ll consider Bill Smith’s on my timeline:
“I am reading, for the second time, given the present situation a book by Jay Sekulow called ” Jerusalem. A Biblical and Historical case for the Jewish Capital.” He is an internationally renowned Lawyer. It shows beyond doubt Israel’s right to the land and Jerusalam as exclusively belonging to Israel and the Jewish people.
In his great work, ” One New Man” Reuven Doros also shows the ancient history and more recent conflict since 1917 bringing out the Jewish people’s exclusive right to the land and Jerusalem. Fascinating reading. Blessings.”
RB: Good authors and years after the non-sectarian historico-geopolitical book mentioned, David Noakes told me about an excellent examination of all this by diverse Jewish & Christian authors edited by Fred Wright, ‘Israel: His People, His Land, His Story’.
My conversation with John H on John B’s timeline:
RB: Most interesting source and I expect he made some reference to Caliph Omar’s attack and subjugation of Jerusalem in 655 AD, of whom the resident Patriarch Sophronius is on record as saying, “The abomination of the desolation is in the holy place”!!! [Gibbon, ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’]
JH: Thanks, Richard. Also a very interesting comment by patriarch Sophronius.
RB: In ‘The Invisible Hand’ Victor Dunstan relates Jerusalem’s liberation from the Ottoman Empire in 1917 to the prophecy timings in Daniel 12 to the exact day and notes the coincidence with Muslim calendar dates and a Turk’s prediction of its fall. [See Bio Info for introduction to Dunstan’s work.]
JH: Do you know whether it is true that a belief was circulating in Islam that a Prophet of God would come to take Jerusalem and that the ottomans shouldn’t resist him? So when Allenby came and entered Jerusalem they didn’t resist because when Allenby was pronounced by the Ottoman’s or Muslims it sounds like ‘Allah Nabi’ which in a Arabic means ‘Prophet of God’.
RB: Yes indeed as that’s what I was referring to but didn’t have time to write. Dunstan gives a terrific account of the whole event. I will check if he cites Turkish or otherwise source…Did quick search on Allenby and this post gives some background:
What did Jesus Foretell About The First World War?
JH: I just found this in my notes. Note the very last few lines.
RB: Dunstan’s ‘The Invisible Hand’ (1984), chapter 8 ‘What Jesus Foretold About the First World War, after 4-page sub-section ‘The Exact Day of Deliverance Foretold’ on page 118:
In the days before the First World War the Turks had a saying: “When the waters of the Nile flow into Palestine, then a prophet of the Lord come and drive the Turks out of the land.”
Of course before (the war) everyone knew the waters of the Nile would never flow into Palestine (they don’t flow) today. During the (war) however, British engineers laid a pipeline from the Nile onto Palestine to supply water to the troops. So the waters of the Nile did, quite literally, flow into Palestine. The Arabic form of Allenby…is Allah-en-Nebi, ‘Nebi’ means ‘prophet’ and ‘Allah’ means ‘God.
So when the man called in Arabic ‘Prophet of God’ came to Palestine and caused the waters of the Nile to flow into the land – the Turks WERE driven out! Coincidence?’
In the next part, we’ll consider our conversational opposition’s historical inaccuracy…
In addition to ‘invisible jigsaw pieces‘ and ‘God-incidents‘, in December 2016 I began to notice the ‘coincidental’ timing of similar, or closely akin, prophetical words and visions being received almost simultaneously in different parts of the world, as first told here.
Thus began a series of what I term God’s GPS, or ‘Global Prophecy Signals’, of which I’ve since published nearly 100 examples consisting of at least two-parts (Sept 2023), all of which can be read under this tag > Gods-GPS.
Fourteen days ago, Thursday 28th September, I’d intended diverting away from my usual full blogging day to get on with the extensive task of setting up a new PC – BUT then along came a few items I just had to blog.
THEN at the day’s end the Lord dropped into my mind and spirit an insight on a NEW form of GPS!!
’28’ PROPHETIC TRIANGULATION
1 > It had been dormant a couple of weeks but I got poked to publish something on Putin simply because his very words almost echoed my prophetic musings that began 7 years ago about the Lord exposing political rot and corruption. Hence, I posted PPU #85.
2 > Then in catching up with news and posting onto Richard’s Watch Telegram I spotted Congresswoman MJT’s description of ‘The brand is China Joe’ and it spoke straight into Veronika West’s ‘strange dream’ in May 2021 of two presidents as porcelain dolls! So I posted PPU #86 re Joe Biden ‘Made in China’ with this into: ‘Note double occurrence of our own house number 28 and today’s date’.
3 > ALSO, there was news about Donald Trump writing “And in this second term – which is sort of happening now…” (emphasis mine). So, I posted PPU #87 ‘Hand-made for America’.
After having published that triplet on a triplet of world leaders and prophecy, I checked how long ago Veronika’s dream had been published > 28 months ago!
AHAHH there’s something going on here… A THIRD TRIPLET, but this one involves the number 28 thrice!
SO, we have not only our normal three dimensions of space (breadth, height, length) but also the fourth one of time!
ANOTHER ’28’ TRIPLET!
A week later number 28 popped up again, but this time in connection with prayers for the Jewish people per Isaiah 62, as taught during the final evening, 6th October (eve of barbaric terrorist attacks), of the Feast of Tabernacles as celebrated and broadcast globally by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem – Hence, satanic reaction!
The speaker remains anonymous in view of their work across the Middle-East but they told about the exceptional International House of Prayer’s 21 days’ intercession closing on Shavuot/Passover > 28th May. Moreover, it had been prophesied 40 years ago that numbers of intercessors from non-Christian backgrounds would be 100,000,000, and that was exceeded!
AND he spoke about the history of IHOP and its property and mission which involved TWO MORE instances of 28, this time on my dear wife Nina’s birthday 28th January but 50 years apart, 1958 and 2008. These were the dates in which specific farmland changed hands. First, to a leading Jewish family and then a donor to IHOP bought it on their behalf 50 years later to the exact day.
Thus once again, TRIPLE associated occurrences of 28 as a date in the calendar.
MY oh my, what a wonderfully awesome Lord God and heavenly Father we have!
[Image Credit: Digital Globe by Cooldesign, courtesy of Freedigitalphotos.net]
Puzzle In Sky by Idea Go, courtesy Freedigitalphotos.net
Four years ago, I addressed a group of UK prophets about prophecy being like pieces of an invisible jigsaw puzzle. By way of introduction I told how the Lord introduced me – a non-believer! – to the reality of Bible prophecy. Continue reading
Months after that night of destiny in 1989 I trashed my occult and New Age books, yet I kept some items that were very significant to membership in those occult brotherhoods. But very soon, troubles brewed up within my relationships. And they got worse, and worse. So I asked for prayer help and gathered all those remaining things, such as ritualistic items and pictures. Right at the peak of my trouble I heard an almost audible voice instruct me to...“Burn what you’ve collected – NOW!”
Never, ever, would I have believed what was to happen next:
Out in the backyard I piled those membership items onto an area of gravel and, putting a match to them, I sincerely repented.
Fanning the flames, I apologised deeply to God for all my past rebellious, sinful activity and specifically renounced satan and all evil connected with those occult associations.
As I asked God to forgive me, heavy invisible shackles suddenly dropped off my wrists!
I felt, and was, free, completely free – exactly as is jubilantly sung in Charles Wesley’s great hymn And Can It Be?
WOW, from despair to jubilation within a split second! What utter freedom! Praise Him!
That hymn’s lyrics present the simple yet sublime salvation found in our Father’s good news about Jesus.
How aptly the third verse describes my personal situation and what had just happened – my wonderful liberation from invisible bondage to satan.:
1. And can it be that I should gain
An int’rest in the Saviour’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my God shouldst die for me?
2. He left His Father’s throne above,
So free, so infinite His grace!
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam’s helpless race!
‘Tis mercy all, immense and free,
For, O my God, it found out me.
3. Long my imprisoned spirit lay
Fast bound in sin and nature’s night.
Thine eye diffused a quick’ning ray:
I woke the dungeon flamed with light!
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
4. No condemnation now I dread:
Jesus, and all in Him, is mine!
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach th’ eternal throne,
And claim the crown, through Christ my own.
If you’re unfamiliar with Charles Wesley brother of the renowned evangelical founder of Methodism, John Wesley, read here about his equally famous influence as author of many well-known hymns; eg. Love Divine, all love’s excelling, Hark the herald angels…
Listen to one of the greatest hymns as broadcast some years ago in Songs of Praise, thanks to Fabio Ramsay.:
I will rejoice in the Lord, I will exult in the victorious God of my salvation! (Hab 3:1)
To read my testimony in full go to Jesus Freed Me! There, you’ll find an overview of my background, two life-changing divine appointments and how the Lord began to instruct me…all to HIS glory. May you be mightily blessed upon following the links therein…
I remain, your brother in Christ
Richard
On 7.9.23 ‘CA’ emailed me about his calling as an intercessor, extracts from which read as follows:
“Dear Brother, greetings from across the pond…(I want to) encourage your dear wife, especially when the message she received from the Lord is so intense…
URGENT ALERT: Holy Spirit instructs, “Stand firm in the Lord” in coming days!
This could be a long message and must not, so for brevity’s sake I write to confirm Nina’s prophetic word/warning. I was handed an intercessory assignment from the Holy Spirit over a year ago, specifically for your….”
Today, on catching-up I find this from Pennsylvania…
EARLY THIS MORNING (email at 09.27 British Summer Time)
‘Dear Richard,
I have just been awakened from sleep..The urgency conveyed by Holy Spirit to mine is unlike anything I’ve experienced before and I felt instructed to contact you and tell you about it, almost as it is being downloaded to me….
“Urgent! Urgent is this day! Today! This very day is the Day of Destiny for many nations as their rise and fall are determined in back rooms of gross darkness by utter degenerates devoid of compassion and totally in opposition to My Son!
Fall! Fall before Me on behalf of the innocents, the babes, even the babbling fools who are duped yet cling to some straw of hope, for it may yet save them.
Today! Today is that Day spoken of in the Courts of Heaven, when evil will seem to get the upper hand. But I have set for My enemies a trap that will disgrace them:
I have told you…Today! Do not be caught by surprise. Look up ! Look to Me! Tune your ear to My Songs of War and Victory…and compassionate intercession.”
My own spirit has now gone from urgency to peaceful rest, brother. I’ve been obedient. I believe there is a turning point today and we have been warned. I pray a confirmation will be given. If not, i am content to be be foolish…and I know you know the drill as we say over here. Praying for your counsel or thoughts and with blessings to Nina and all your house, Richard,
From Pittsburgh, PA.’
SO PLEASE WEIGH & PRAY!
Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus, ‘For I always pray to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him by having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), and [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when raising Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], far above all rule and authority and power dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come…. [Eph1:17-21, Amplified Bible. We decree that the blindness be removed from the eyes of all the peoples of this land so they may see Jesus Christ is Lord.]
IN CELEBRATING MY SPIRITUAL BIRTHDAY I THANK GOD FOR MY EARTHLY AND ETERNAL LIVES
Lord, help me love everyone,even wrongdoers, with Your awesome, gracious undying love
Life-changing as my ‘rescue’ was in that dream-visitation on 14th September 1989, I did not want to rush off to church. The event’s effect and ramifications upon my philosophy of life needed careful consideration. For example, I needed to check out widespread claims of the Bible having been compiled and modified by Church councils in the 4th Century after Christ, as well as learn about its history from authoritative sources. [Prof F.F. Bruce’s The Books and The Parchments (1991) was very helpful, especially about the ‘Muratorian Fragment’. Drawn up in late 2nd Century in the church at Rome, it lists practically all the canonical New Testament literature.]
So not only did I need to assess those personal implications, but also as possibly a new believer in Jesus Christ I wanted to find well-informed believers who take Him seriously. I soon did so, but then needed to put their claims of hearing direct from God to the test. After all, they believe we have a relationship with Him and so we have but to ask…
‘…but mercy (full of glad confidence) exults victoriously over judgement’ – James 2:13 (The Amplified Bible)
Quite some time was needed to gain a full understanding of that awesome visitation thirty-four years ago and being confronted by the absolute holiness of the Lord Jesus Christ. No wonder I was intensely convicted and suddenly knew personal judgement definitely IS TRUE! As mentioned, I fully expected to take my last breath there and then and be dropped down into Hell.
It was a few years until I heard that “mercy triumphs over judgement” – yes indeed it does and thank you for being so gracious to me, my Lord. May it be similarly so for the multitudes who don’t yet know You.
That life-changing encounter used two personally intimate aspects of my life, unknown to any living soul, to grab my attention and thereby validate the experience as being real, not imaginary. Even more amazingly, both validations are directly related to the 1st and 2nd Advents! Thus, they could not but enhance my interest in End-Times that had begun only a few years earlier when reading The Invisible Hand (as described herein). Yet it took me 30 years for it to dawn upon me that when that happened I’d been given the first two pieces of an ‘invisible jigsaw’!!!
The First Advent was when Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea about two thousand years ago. Hence, the four weeks leading into Christmas are designated within the church calendar as Advent, and which start the church year. The Second Advent is coming soon and is expected to begin in the city of Jerusalem.
FIRST VALIDATION
I inwardly ‘knew’ that heavenly visitor was indeed Jesus Christ himself, and that His impressive swift descent was a foretaste of His promised return in all His glory.
The event reminded me of my favourite picture in mother’s Missal, or service book of the Roman Mass. This gave the scriptures for Sunday services throughout the year together with a picture symbolising the theme for each service. As a boy very keen on astronomy I’d been fascinated by the picture for the First Sunday in Advent. It depicted Jesus standing on the clouds over a burning earth in the midst of sun, moon and falling stars, telling of events before his Second Advent!
The validation referred to above came almost as unusually. On a healing retreat six years later, a minister told me God would show me something after lunch. Indeed He did for a lady whom I’d never met and was seated at my table confided after lunch that the Lord told her to show me something she greatly treasured.
It was a photo taken from an aircraft over a thunderstorm. When developed, the photo bore an image of Jesus Christ as though standing within the clouds. But the facial features were hazy; exactly like Jesus in my dream because I’d not seen His face!! (I seem to recall hazy clouds at the foot of the image. This one shown is published by Bible Probe.)
My legs gave way upon seeing this photo as I couldn’t remain standing but had to drop down into a nearby chair! My companion, Yvonne, said I went so white she thought I was going to faint or fall. Continue reading
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