The Pilgrim's Way...As Judgment Falls
Jack Hook
Oct 4, 2005
Hello my friends.
Has the holy and righteous God of Israel given over America to
judgment? Are the fiery aircraft missiles of 9/11, the one-two
punch of the flood waters of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and
the earthquakes to come a clear warning from God that he is
going to destroy the land of America/Babylon by fire,
earthquake, and flood, Revelation 16:17-21, 18:1-24?
Regrettably, I think so. Why? Four reasons...(1) Because of
America's betrayal and seduction of Israel and the Jewish
people, who themselves will be judged and scattered again by God
for rejecting his Son...2) Because of American Christendom's
betrayal of Jesus by welcoming seducing spirits and doctrines of
devils and refusing to repent when exposed...(3) Because of the
acceptance and legalization of the homosexual lifestyle of Sodom
and Gomorrah...(4) And finally, to execute vengeance for the
mass murder of fifty million children in their mother's womb.
Dark and gloomy days are here and will only get worse with the
passing of time. I do not enjoy writing these things. I have
written them knowing full well that God does not take pleasure
in the death of sinners, and neither should any of us, Ezekiel
18:23,32. My heart is broken for what is coming upon the people
of this world, which includes my family and friends. However, a
heart that is truly broken will not be silenced and stopped from
speaking the truth in love and with compassion, hoping some will
hear and turn from their ways.
The prophet Zephaniah saw the days of wrath now before us today
and said..."The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and
hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord. The
mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath,
a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and
desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds
and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the
fenced cities, and against the high towers. And I will bring
distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because
they have sinned against the Lord. And their blood shall be
poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung....I have cut off
the nations, their towers are desolate. I made their streets
waste, that none passeth by. Their cities are destroyed, so that
there is no man, that there is none inhabitant....Therefore wait
ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the
prey. For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may
assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even
all my fierce anger. For all the earth shall be devoured with
the fire of my jealousy."
Seeing the death and destruction around us, and knowing what is
to come, Christians should humbly cry out to the lost around
them and say as Jesus did in similar circumstances...unless you
repent, you shall likewise perish, Luke 13:1-5. To many American
Christians these words are too harsh and cruel, even though they
came from the mouth of the one they say they love. Many of them
have most likely never read this passage or heard it from the
pulpit. Moreover, the perishing or death Jesus is talking about
is not just physical death when the soul separates from the
body. He is warning of the eternal separation from his presence
when he casts an unrepentant sinner into Hell, Matthew 10:28.
I have received many replies to the "Solomon is Calling, Part
4...Changing the World" letter posted on my web site. Some of
you have asked me to clarify what I meant by the three pillars
of pollution that have doctrinally seduced most of Christendom
in America....(1) the prosperity gospel of the pampered
prophets, (2) the militant patriotism guided by the "just" war
doctrine for Christians established by Constantine and
Augustine, (3) and the new age psycho-babble of the
purpose-driven, possibility-thinking, and mega-church movements.
These three evil pillars, along with the "ecumenical" movement
led by the Pope of Rome, clearly reveal the Great Harlot
religion of Revelation 17, who will also be destroyed during
Daniel's 70th Week.
As I was preparing to write another letter to all of you, I
received an article from Tom Lamb, whose web site I am linked
with. He is from New Zealand, so we have never met face to face,
but we have exchanged emails over the last couple of years and
seem to have many things in common. I began to read the article
sent out to his mailing list and became deeply moved in my heart
at what I was now reading. So I decided to include it in this
letter to you. I encourage all of you to read his article and
see for yourself how he has spoken the truth in the love and
compassion of the Lord Jesus Christ. What is refreshing is how
he points you to the person of the resurrected Jesus Christ and
not to himself or any other man. Nor does he pitch you for money
or offer to sell you his latest message or bottle of holy water.
My friends, every one of you who know in your hearts that Jesus
is alive can see that the doctrinal pollution in Christendom,
wars, diseases (aids), earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, and
the legalization of abortion and homosexuality, are pointing to
the return of the Lord to this Earth in judgment and to
establish his Kingdom. His judgment on this final evil
generation is intensifying as a woman with child in travail.
These generational birth pangs, which run parallel with the
return of the Jews to Israel, are becoming more painful and will
soon give birth to the Antichrist of Daniel's 70th Week of seven
years, Daniel 9:27. He will promise to relieve the gloominess
and darkness that has overcome the Earth. For awhile he will
seem to be successful, for peace and happiness will break out in
the Middle East. However, this is when the fullness of God's
wrath will be unleashed creating unheard of sorrows. Like the
generational sorrows that produced the Antichrist, the
intensifying sorrows of the 70th Week will give birth to the
coming Kingdom of Jesus Christ, when he sets foot in Jerusalem
to establish his millennial reign.
Furthermore, we all need to know or be reminded that the only
way to be part of this coming Kingdom is through Godly sorrow,
repentance, and faith in the shed blood and bodily resurrection
of Jesus Christ. His blood applied to our heart or spirit by the
Holy Spirit is the only thing that can wash away the sin nature
we were all born with. A sin nature that exists from birth in
our spirit, mind, and body, that manifests itself in the pride
of this life, love of money, and love of this world system and
its carnal pleasures, 1 John 2:16. Once we receive our new pure
heart or spirit, the now indwelling Holy Spirit immediately
begins the renewal or sanctification of our minds every day,
while we await the coming of the Lord to give us new glorious
bodies. Remember, salvation of our heart, mind, and body is a
gift, and can only be received, not earned by your own power and
strength. All of us who have received the gift of the Holy
Spirit by repentance and faith know that a "war" now exists "in
our minds" between the old nature yet in your body, and the new
heart or spirit that is hooked up with the Holy Spirit and his
power, 1 Peter 2:11, Galatians 5:16-26.
Know this, it is our inherited proud sin nature that blinds us
from seeing how hopelessly arrogant and wretched we really are.
When we are first told of our sin nature, we recoil at the
thought that we are really that bad and hopelessly so. We refuse
to see ourselves as God the Father does! Yet something in our
heart convicts us that we need to be changed. As I have written
many times, the four most difficult confessions before God in my
life were...(1) Admitting how rotten and wretched I really was,
and how desperately I needed the love, forgiveness, and power of
Jesus Christ to escape God's wrath and eternal condemnation that
I deserved...(2) Admitting to the God of Israel that I was born
with a nature that both despised him, and honored any other god
or religion that allowed me to rationalize and justify the
desires of my heart...(3) That I was guilty of crucifying the
Son of God who came to show me the way, the truth, and the
life...(4) And that all nations are controlled and manipulated
by Satan, and that America, who I loyally served for five years
as a commissioned officer in its Army, was really Babylon the
Great, the final phase of the Roman Empire prophesied by Daniel.
I can assure you that when you truly confess and come clean with
the Lord Jesus Christ, thereby spiritually entering his Kingdom,
you will soon find out, as I did, that America and the nations
are presently headed on a violent collision course with God
because of Satan's dominion over them.
Tom has reminded me, and I hope you as well, that the
political-religious kingdoms and nations of this present world
all belong to Satan and his fallen angels, and that at the
glorious return of the Lord Jesus, Satan and his evil hordes
will be cast into the bottomless pit for one thousand years,
Revelation 20. Our mission as pilgrims is to love people by
telling them of Satan's delusions that blind them, as they once
did us, and point them to the Lord Jesus, his bloody cross,
glorious resurrection, and his second coming. His article is
well worth the time it will take you to read it through. He
clearly defines the way of the true pilgrim or remnant on this
Earth, who eagerly await the coming of the King of Kings. And he
exposes the twisting of the scriptures that so identifies the
leaders of the Great Harlot.
For example, as Tom says concerning Luke 22:36-38, where Jesus
tells his disciples, including Peter, to buy a sword, is twisted
and used by militant Christian patriots to justify killing their
enemies. Keep in mind that Peter, after hearing that from the
Lord, then used his sword in an attempt to behead those who came
to arrest Jesus. Matthew and John's account of this momentous
incident reveals how Peter and the others misunderstood what
Jesus was teaching about the sword, for the Lord heals the man
Peter tried to kill, and in rebuke says...Peter, put up again
thy sword into his place, for all they that take the sword shall
perish with the sword, Matthew 26:51-56, John 18:10-11. Peter
was stunned and confused. He didn't yet realize that he needed a
new heart, as we all do, in order to properly understand the
teachings of Jesus Christ. But on the day of Pentecost, Peter's
carnal reaction to violence was washed away when he was filled
with the Holy Spirit and given a new heart. And if you read his
letters, which were written by the hand of God now within him,
you will clearly see the change in Peter's attitude toward his
enemies, 1 Peter 2: 21-25, 3:13-22, 4:1-19.
Peter, like other writers of the New Testament, heard Jesus say
concerning the "two swords" they possessed that dark day of the
Lord's arrest...It is enough, Luke 22:38. Is it possible the
Lord was telling his disciples that "it", the two-edge sword
which is his word, is all they need when engaged in the
spiritual warfare against the fallen angels that control the
human race, Revelation 1:6, 2:12,16, 19:15,21, Hebrews 4:12,
Ephesians 6:17? I think so! Moreover, the two edges of the sword
have distinct meanings and must be spoken together in order to
understand the nature of God One edge are the words of love,
mercy, forgiveness, and grace. The other edge are the words of
judgment, wrath, and eternal condemnation upon all those who
reject his offer of mercy and forgiveness. The God of Israel,
the Lord Jesus Christ, is a Holy God who will separate out from
his Kingdom all that refuse to repent. That day is upon us my
friends.
Please contact Tom and visit his web site if you so desire.
Also, I welcome any comments or questions you might have, so
please click on my web site and go to the "guestbook" to post
your comments, or you can just reply by email. This article and
the last one I sent out to you, "Last Week Gaza, This Week
Katrina" are now posted on my web site. While you are on the
site I again encourage to read the article, "Babylon's Final
Fall", which explains in scriptural detail what is going to
happen to the United States and when.
Your eternal friend.
Jack
http://www.babylonthegreatisfalling.net
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Tom Lamb
http://beyondcamp.net
beyondcamp@clear.net.nz
Greetings fellow pilgrims, those sitting on the camp fence, and
the odd spy! Hope this letter finds you well and pressing on the
upward way. Or should I say along the narrow way! Narrow is the
way: Yes, the way remains narrow, and few are those who find it.
Simply because, the Bible tells us so.
Obviously, those who make it are those who can be spiritually
called (not branded) ... the remnant of God. Remember, Jesus'
flock is always small according to scripture (that's tiny,
little, minute, wee - ya ken whatta mean!). To many, this notion
is unpopular, especially in this day of "think big", mega-church
attendance, and the 'gospel of prosperity' peddling! Reason ...
because the word 'small', little' and 'remnant' do not sound
trendy nor do they "go with the flow" (they don't bring in the
bucks or the applause of others, in other words), and those few
who hear and follow the voice of the great Pastor (that's our
shepherd - the Lord Jesus Christ of scripture) is both a rock of
offence and a stumbling block to the masses. Simply because our
Creator will never fit in with "our" agenda while He has cut
everyone out of His, until, when and if, they come and fall on
the His Rock.
Yes, ROCK OF OFFENCE and STUMBLING BLOCK! Did you really get
that!? The reason some may snub and ostracize you because it
snubs the truth
which you may stand for. It says (that's the word) ... "Blessed
are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate
you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out
your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." That's for Jesus
sake! Is this the gospel you have been called to? The unpopular,
raw and base version? Whose a candidate for this kingdom anyway?
"Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
their fathers to the false prophets." Or ... "for that which is
highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God."
It's so easy to take the cozy, wide road which welcomes and
entertains everyone at no real cost or cross to bear. "If ye
were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye
are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you." Meaning, there is great disdain
on anyone categorizing themselves as just pilgrims passing
through this life, opposed to those who market a religious
show-piece for (temporal) "spiritual" affluence and admirability.
His way (that's our Maker's) is contrary and even foolish to the
things of the world. Oh, how the Evangelical Movement (the
Mainstream - comfortable - Church) continues to follow the wide
road that only leads one way ... down. Accommodating all that is
false and apostate. As it celebrates it's contemporary,
up-market, funky image (how it can change to suit the times but
refuses to change to suit the Saviour) and flaunts it's
relevance in the world (making it apart of the world). While the
remnant are in it but not of it, choosing the cross above
prosperity, popularity, prestige, fame and acceptance. Who is
really on the Lord's side? Who is really willing to fall on the
Rock instead of the Rock falling on them?
Yes, time will tell and time is telling, as religionists show
their true colors by placing their blind allegiance to their
flag, their country, their Caesar, and their spiritual
professional ("Christian" guru that is), above the kingdom.
Labeling anyone who remains in the wilderness as irrelevant,
weird, cultic or "off the rails".
Appealing unto Caesar:
You know a scripture Christendom is gooey over and quoting a lot
at present (in order to seduce the Pilgrim Church into getting
involved in politics and rallying around social causes) is by
stating how Paul appealed to Caesar. The notion being ... if
Paul can appeal to Caesar then this gives license so the elect
can challenge (or force) the State or society to change it's
stance on morality and decency, believing we are doing God and
"humankind" a good turn. The truth is, we cannot
change society. It is not our call. Neither is it our call to
reform nations (or apostate churches for that matter), but to
make disciples out of (out of) them.
Yeah, Paul appealed to Caesar all right! However, let's look at
this in line with the true context of Acts and not to suit some
wannabe or religious agenda. Let's see if Paul really went to
Rome to tell Caesar what a naughty empire he was governing at
times, and how it could be improved or fixed-up by listening to
his heavenly advise? Let's examine the whole context of why Paul
was appealing to Caesar and help knock another Golden Cow off
its perch in the process (should you find this correction true)?
Here are the references (only found in Acts) to weigh up in the
light of the full counsel of God.:
Acts 25:11. "For if I be an offender, or have committed any
thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none
of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me
unto them. I appeal unto Caesar."
Remember, here was an innocent man who was being condemned by
his Jewish kinsman as the lowest of the low, just because he was
always ready to point out the error of their way and point them
to the true prophet who came as Messiah and Redeemer.
Acts 25:21. "But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the
hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might
send him to Caesar."
Paul's heart was for Israel. However, Israel's religious
hierarchy despised him as they did His Savoir, because the truth
meant their job was in jeopardy due to the fact that the old
Levitical priesthood had been done away with at the crucifixion
of Jesus of Nazareth (Heb. 7:11). These Blokes were so hard
against the truth, and fanatic for their obsolete religion, that
a number of them even swore an oath refusing to eat or drink
again, under a curse, until they put Paul to death (Acts 23:12).
This is religion at it's worse, showing it's true (crazy) colors
when the chips are down, and truth cannot be compromised with.
Yet Paul would not use this against them as his desire was to
win them.
Acts 28:19. "But when the Jews spake against it, I was
constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to
accuse my nation of." Under Caesar (Paul being a Roman citizen -
Acts 22: 25-29) Paul was granted Roman protection (Acts 23:27).
Acts 25:25. "But when I found that he had committed nothing
worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus,
I have determined to send him."
Conclusion: The Jewish Concision were trying to block out Paul
(getting rid of him) in order to silence the truth. Paul took
advantage of his Roman citizenship (going right to the top) in
order to secure Caesar's protection so his life would be spared
in order for the gospel to proceed. Also, this was a two-prong
blessing as God had called Paul to Rome (Acts 23:11) and this
could strategically open the way for the Gentile world to hear
the truth of the good news, fulfilling Acts 13:46
and Gal. 2:8. If the Jews could get Rome's backing against the
"new sect" (Acts 28:22) as they did when the got rid of it's
leader, Jesus (Acts 4: 27-28), then think of how effective the
world would've been in getting rid of the way and stifling the
gospel? Doesn't politics make ya sick!?
Acts 23:27. "This man (Paul) was taken of the Jews, and should
have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued
him, having understood that he was a Roman."
The book of Acts finishes on this note from Rome:
"Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is
sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it. And when he
had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning
among themselves. And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own
hired house, and received all that came in unto him, Preaching
the kingdom of God (not political or religious reform, social
change, or 'Kingdom Now' theology), and teaching those things
which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man
forbidding him."
If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight:
You know scripture tells us to pray for those in power in the
(civil) world. It also commands the disciple to pay his way (not
ripping off the system but paying his taxes and being a loyal
citizen) as I also have kept repeating Paul ... to use the world
but not abuse it. Scripture does not say to rebel against the
king or speak evil of dignitaries. Or over-throw those in power
whether they are for evil or for good. The complete opposite in
fact. Did Jesus ever preach against this brutal Emperor or his
illegal occupation of "the Holy Land"? Did Paul ever preach
against a tyrant called Caesar Nero? No, he appealed unto Caesar
as we already know and was never guilty of going after, or going
against his fellow Jewish kinsman, even though they went against
him and the church, in such a blood thirsty and barbaric way.
Acts 25:10. "Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat,
where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as
thou very well knowest."
Did the early Christians ever support one nation rising up
against another or take part in it? You will not find record or
a shred of evidence to this cause in the whole New Testament.
I do not know George Bush or Tony Blair, or what forces are
swaying them, nor what is in their heart. However, nowhere does
scripture say we (the remnant called out) are to support or go
to war for a government. What George or Tony does is their
prerogative, as long as we (the called out) are in obedience to
our call ... praying for governments, so peace can prevail, and
the gospel can go out unhindered. Immensely simple really!
The New Testament is clear that we are not to take up the sword
as the trained professional solders are ordered to, and
methodically, clinically and calculatingly destroy other lives.
However, it does make provision for a believer to carry a sword
(Luke 22:36). This is the only scripture that patriots,
'kingdom-now' advocates, and puritans can find to justify their
"holy" destructive crusades ("we are taking the world by storm -
for Jesus" - or defending our interests from theirs), where it
is actually not a license for making war at all, but provision
for a believer to own a firearm. One must understand that in
"Biblical" times in the Middle East, before the population
explosion of man forced dangerous beasts out of the region, it
was dangerous to take a journey from one region to another due
to the odd man-eating lion or other predators lurking along the
way. There was also the danger of bandits and robbers. A sword
in the pouch could serve as a deterrent. It was also practical
to own a weapon to hunt your own game for the family table. And
what happened if a righteous man saw a woman or child in
danger from some evil maniac and there was no one around to come
to their rescue?
When solders came to the last prophet of the Old ushering in the
New (as in the manner of the trend in Judea at the time) he
said, Do violence to no man! In other words (further taken up by
Jesus Himself) .. if you want to follow your new king then you
now belong to His kingdom outside of mans, and therefore, as a
servant of His, you will not fight! There was simply no need to
... the war had been won. It was and is .. finished!! Calvary
was total and complete! Forever!
It is finished!?
I remember some time back on a news report where a US army
captain or NCO, or someone, was being interviewed in regards to
the action they were taking in Iraq to justify a nation invading
a foreign, sovereign, nation, without permission, invitation, or
UN sanction (they can and will do this by the way, as Jesus said
YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS and "nation shall rise against nation").
His explanation was (to words of this effect) ... "This is a
holy war. We as US solders are Christian solders going against a
heathen enemy for a righteous cause. By us taking bullets and
rockets to our enemy is God's way of bringing His wrath to them
and recompensing evil. Before we go into combat we pray and ask
God's blessing on our efforts and seek His strength and might to
carry His plan forward."
Oh yeah! Who has brain washed these guys to that extent? Go and
do your destructive acts but please leave GOD out of the picture
and don't expect the true pilgrim's support to take out
innocents along the way, causing mass suffering and misery,
justifying it as war! I have seen all the "touching" photos of
combat solders huddled around praying and doing the 'team
(spiritual) bonding' thing (with a bible in hand); or stopping
for a church service before action stations. I have also
se(which you may brush off as propaganda) the other side of the
story. We are constantly being feed by the media this one-sided
spin, about a righteous crusade against the forces of evil, when
in actual fact they are fighting against a desperate,
disadvantaged people who are using the most desperate measures
to defeat a hi-tech occupation enemy, who they too see as the
forces of evil coming against them, to force their corrupt
system upon them, to feed and build on their own interests (ask
the Vietnam decision maker, Robert MacNamara, what he thinks
now?). The problem is many would rather allow the newsroom to
sway their convictions (one way or the other - depending on who
owns it) than the word of God.
Where in the New Testament is there Christian armies going
against their enemies when we are told to love, forgive, and
pray for our enemies? Where in the New Testament is the Way ever
taking up arms to shake off the Jewish Zealots who where out to
pay havoc and waste the Christians? Where in the Book of Acts,
or the whole New Testament for that matter, is the redeemed
recorded defending themselves or taking up arms when the chief
terrorist Saul and his henchmen dragged families out of bed in
the early hours of the morning to their fate? Or where is there
one little mention or record of the believers being told to join
in the insurrections against the (illegal) Roman Occupation of
their land at the time, or organizing an uprising themselves
against it, or arming their own "Christian" militia? You wont
find it dear Saint because it is not there and is in total
contrast to the gospel, and in total contrast from the words of
John the Baptist at the beginning of the New Testament era when
he addressed the solders of his day, "Do violence to no man", as
already stated. To Jesus who said, "My kingdom is not of this
world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants
fight". To Paul who said, "having slain the enmity" by
abolishing it on the cross. To James who said, "From whence come
wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your
lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill,
and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye
have not, because ye ask not." To Peter who said, "No man that
warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that
he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier."
Simply because, as a soldier of Christ, we fight the good fight
of faith and know our fight is not against flesh and blood (did
you get that ... NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD) but against
spiritual forces, as also the weapons we use are not carnal (THE
WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL) ... as bombs and rockets
are replaced by the spiritual things which are mighty through
God to the pulling down of strong holds. Casting down
imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ. And having in a readiness to revenge
all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. As in the
manner of Acts, when the chips are down ... "We ought to obey
God rather than men"!
Sounds like the real enemy is within to me! Which needs dealing
with spiritually! And constantly! No gun or grenade will work
against this one. Going after our enemies (human enemies we are
to love and forgive and pray for) are just a diversion and trick
to make us part of the problem and not part of the answer, by
making us react emotionally or intellectually and not
spiritually. The answer ... the cross, the cross, the cross!!!
Not as a banner to wave or adornment to be worn, but as
something to be applied to every ounce of our carnal nature
lurking in our own lives, that we may be crucified with Christ,
to the world and the world to us. And if you are reacting to
what I have just written, then may be it is the old man (the
carnal 'self' nature) raising it's ugly head again, because
within our wicked uncircumcised hearts we would rather do it
"our"/mans way and not God's.
In other words ... the forces of evil we are coming across and
discern by the Spirit (not physical senses) is the spiritual
opposition placed on us by an invisible army of spiritual
hoards, in cohesion with their leader Satan, in order to keep
man confused, at loggerheads with each other, destroying each
other, so that mankind would be diverted from the cross and not
even survive to be given the chance of salvation. When a
believer joins in any worldly cause is he or she in actual fact
aiding the enemy's (the Devil's) onslaught to rob, kill and
destroy. We, the true remnant are sent to bring life and light,
not condemnation or destruction.
"But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for
nothing again (so much for 'seed faith' and 'prosperity
teaching'); and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the
children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and
to the evil (you wont be taught this at military academy, will
you?)."
Yes, a narrow way! How narrow can it get? To this extent ... the
dismissal of us, and to the manifestation of Him, with whom we
have to do!
Back to John again (just a voice in the wilderness) ... pointing
us to behold the man; the lamb of God: John endorsed this simple
message .. more and more of Him, as we deal with, moment by
moment, less and less of us! Very clear and straight to the
point ... "He must increase, but I must decrease."
John was fading, as was the Old System of an eye for an eye and
retribution to your enemies, to a new and living way going
beyond just loving your neighbor, to loving those who despise
and hate you. And serving our (worldly) masters with fear (not
rebelling against them) even when they are froward.
The new message was now on the scene to be embraced by those
called out ... to point us away from ourselves to Him, the
Redeemer. As the remnant called out, the only calling we know is
to point people to Jesus. Not to our way, our answer, our
doctrine, our opinion. To remain safe we point folk to Him, the
one and only mediator between God and man. And because there is
another Jesus and another gospel out there, we make sure we
point people to the Word of the word .. the Christ of the
scriptures. Everything else we proclaim is to make folk think
for themselves, and to expose the nonsense that has obscured Him
(where opinion and personal prejudice, and anything else of
self, not nailed to the cross, finds it hard getting in the
way), by going to the word found in the scriptures for the
answer/s.
"It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of
God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of
the Father, cometh unto me."
"But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you,
and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same
anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no
lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."
Don't follow me, follow the Bible! Don't listen to me, listen to
Him! I don't have any answers let alone the answer. However, He
does. We come into this world lost as orphans without a Daddy,
and need pointing to our Father, who can only be found through
coming through His Son Jesus ...
"Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from
this present evil world, according to the will of God and our
Father"!
Which means religion in every shape and form is totally
redundant, and any other way to find God outside the Jesus of
the Holy Bible, is a white elephant. Yes, it is finished!! So
suicide bombers can drop their madness and fall on their face
towards the one true God of heaven and earth, and cry out for
mercy; and the Christian soldier can leave his weapon at home
and be a servant and not a killing-machine; and the religious
professional can repent and admit that his job is superfluous,
that he is only obstructing the kingdom from the masses; and the
religionist (whether Catholic, Protestant, Byzantine,
Evangelical, Puritan, Fundamentalist) can admit their doctrine
and church is manmade, and becoming a child is all that is
necessary in entering the kingdom. The way is narrow! His name
is Jesus! As no man cometh unto the Father, but by Him.
Tom Lamb
http://beyondcamp.net
beyondcamp@clear.net.nz
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