Posted on 05/08/2010 9:01:38 AM PDT by Joya
1945 to 2010
End Times Prophetic Vision founder Bill Somers passed away in April 2010.
This thread is a tribute to him and to his work.
It varies.
Some match my own rambling free association style more than others.
Yes, new to me, hope to read more on it.
Here’s the link to the Korean visions, it is Book Three, I learned of it from spiritlessons.com
http://www.spiritlessons.com/Documents/Babtize_by_Blazing_Fire/Book_3/index.htm
Quoting Quix,
‘It varies.
‘Some match my own rambling free association style more than others.’
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Love it.
And, hey, the hole-pokers oughta read the definition of blaspheming the Holy Spirit and chew on that a while.
THX THX.
TRUE. TRUE.
Sadhu Sundar Singh born Sept. 3, 1889, left civilization 1929 ???
First time I ever heard tell of this bro, excerpt is from wikipedia,
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... To his intense disappointment, the government refused to give him a permit, and he had to return to the north. It was on this trip that he suddenly recognised a basic dilemma of the Christian, mission to India. A brahmin had collapsed in the hot, crowded carriage and, at the next station, the Anglo-Indian stationmaster came rushing with a cup of water from the refreshment room. The brahmin — a high-caste Hindu — thrust it away in horror. He needed water, but he could only accept it in his own drinking vessel. When that was brought, he drank and was revived. In the same way, Sundar Singh realised, India would not widely convert to Western-style Christianity. That, he recognised, was why many listeners had responded to him in his Indian sadhu’s robe.
[edit] Formal Christian training
There was harder disillusionment to come. In December 1909 he began training for the Christian ministry at the Anglican college in Lahore. Singh’s biographers depict his experience at college as that of an unhappy misfit. He did not form relationships with fellow students, and only met them at meal times and designated prayer sessions. From the beginning he found himself being tormented by fellow students for being “different” and no doubt too self assured.
Although Singh had been baptized by an Anglican priest, he was ignorant of the ecclesiastical culture and conventions of Anglicanism. His inability to adapt to Anglican life hindered him from fitting in with the routines of academic study. Much in the college course seemed to Singh irrelevant to the gospel as India needed to hear it. After eight months in the college Singh decided to leave in July 1910.
It has been claimed by his biographers that the cause of Singh’s withdrawal was due to remarks made by Bishop Lefroy about the requirements of an ordained Anglican priest. The strictures, as the biographers report it, are that Singh was told he must now discard his sadhu’s robe and wear “respectable” European clerical dress; use formal Anglican worship; sing English hymns; and never preach outside his parish without special permission. Never again visit Tibet, he asked? That would be, to him, an unthinkable rejection of God’s call. The stipulations laid down by the bishop, however, were normative for all Anglican priests of that day in India.
With deep sadness he left the college, still dressed in his yellow robe, and in 1912 began his annual trek into Tibet as the winter snows began to melt on the Himalayan tracks and passes.
[edit] Helping others
Stories from those years are astonishing and sometimes incredible. Indeed there were those, who insisted that they were mystical rather than real happenings. That first year, 1912, he returned with an extraordinary account of finding a three-hundred-year old Christian hermit in a mountain cave-the Maharishi of Kailas, with whom he spent some weeks in deep fellowship.
According to Singh, in a town called Rasar he had been thrown in a dry well full of bones and rotting flesh and left to die. He claims, however, that three days later a rope was thrown to him and he was rescued. As Singh has been represented by some biographers as a suffering preacher, it is worth recalling that the three days spent down the well bears resemblances to the gospel narratives concerning the death and three days of burial for the Christ before his resurrection from the dead. [3]
At these and at other times Singh was said to have been rescued by members of the “Sunnyasi Mission” — secret disciples of Jesus wearing their Hindu markings, whom he claimed to have found all over India.
The secret Sunnyasi Mission is reputed to have numbered around 24,000 members across India.[4] The origins of this brotherhood were reputed to be linked to one of the Magi at Christ’s nativity and then the second century AD disciples of the apostle Thomas circulating in India. Nothing was heard of this evangelistic fellowship until after William Carey began his missionary work in Serampore. The Maharishi of Kailas experienced ecstatic visions about the secret fellowship that he retold to Sundar Singh, and Singh himself built his spiritual life around visions.[5]
Whether he won many continuing disciples on these hazardous Tibetan treks is not known. Singh did not keep written records and he was unaccompanied by any other Christian disciples who might have witnessed the events.
[edit] Footsteps of Christ
During his twenties, Sundar Singh’s ministry widened greatly, and long before he was thirty, his name and picture were familiar all over the Christian world. He described a struggle with Satan to retain his humility but he was, in fact, always human, approachable and humble, with a sense of fun and a love of nature. This, with his “illustrations” from ordinary life, gave his addresses great impact. Many people said, “He not only looks like Jesus, he talks like Jesus must have talked.” Yet all his talks and his personal speech sprang out of profound early morning meditation, especially on the gospels. In 1918 he made a long tour of South India and Ceylon, and the following year he was invited to Burma, Malaya, China, and Japan.
Some of the stories from these tours were as strange as any of his Tibetan adventures. He claimed power over wild things. He claimed even to have power over disease and illness, though he never allowed his presumed healing gifts to be publicized.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadhu_Sundar_Singh
Impressive.
Thx.
Thanks Joya!
Very interesting!
If you want some good related reading, here’s a link to a very old book that was photoscanned, wow wow wow.
I’d never heard of him either. Story is riveting.
Agreed.
Posting link again for my own sake before I lose it
SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns — May 21, 2010:
Begin again as often as you need to in order to stay on track spiritually. The enemy is relentless in presenting temptations and distractions. Resist him. Stand your watch and be aware of his tactics to derail you and keep you from victory. Continue on the straight and narrow path that leads to newness of life and greater spiritual heights, and do not deviate from truth and righteousness, says the Lord.
Nahum 2:1 He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your power mightily.
Last Update: May 21, 2010
O Praise The LORD, All Ye Nations: Praise Him, All Ye People.
Update on our Status
RE: Ulrich Schaefer
Dear Saints, in 1996 God birthed the vision of the End Times Prophetic Vision site in Bill’s and my hearts. We were blessed with being the human vessels God used to get His word out but ETPV was and always will be God’s work and His site.
Every decision made concerning it and article on it was prayed over and submitted to God before posting.
I know many of you reading this sent in articles that were never posted. This was not because they were not of God but because we received hundreds of dreams, visions and articles every week and could only post a limited number trusting that God would provide another outlet for those He wanted heard but we couldn’t post.
God had already raised up a man to continue the site and carrying on His work before Bill went home to see our Lord face to face. He has been confirmed through prayer teams and intercessors and also through 2 teams of presbyters.
I also received emails from people who knew nothing of what was going on that confirmed that this man was indeed God’s choice for carrying on ETPV.
Therefore with confidence I introduce you to Ulrich Schaefer who will be managing the ETPV site from now on. I know he will continue seeking God’s guiding for what is posted. I pray you will continue to be blessed by this site and hear what God is saying in this hour.
Asking God’s blessings for you, Mary Lee Somers
From Bill Somers’ site, a link, great source of inspiring articles,
http://www.etpv.org/rapmanch.html
http://www.etpv.org/2010/trop1.html
Article at the top of the list of articles, I am reading it now, finding it to be inspiring.
THX THX.
That was Part I, which is on Bill Somers’ site.
Here’s a link to Part II, not on Somers’ site (yet)
http://www.worldforjesus.org/articles-teaching.php?ID=180
THX. THX.
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