Posted on 11/07/2004 8:40:35 PM PST by Quix
Prophetic Signs that we are in the End Times
Contender Ministries
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The Bible gives many examples of signs that should warn us of the coming end of the age. Six such signs are given by Jesus, two characteristics are given by Paul, and eleven other occurrences are given by the prophets to occur prior to or soon after the end of the age. While we are also told we will not know the time of the End, God obviously wanted us to know when that time was getting closer. As the Christian church is increasingly drawn into the interfaith movement, and as more and more churches go into isolation, preparing to sleep through the growing attacks on their faith, perhaps God knew it would take a few signs to wake us up and remind us that we have work to do.
Unfortunately, many Christians take the verses that tell us we won't know the time of His coming to mean they should ignore any and all scripture that might warn us of this time of tribulation. Others have fallen into the trap of fearing being labeled a "conspiracy theorist" should they display an interest in the Biblical prophecies about our future on Earth. My philosophy is simple. God included it in the Bible and, since God is all knowing, we should trust that it is something we should know and study along with the rest of His Word.
It is increasingly obvious that the time of our Lord's coming is drawing near. Prophecy is being fulfilled daily, and at a faster pace than ever before. Whether you believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, or believe Christians will be witness to the full tribulation, wrath, and final judgments, matters not. The beginning of birth pains and the signs of the times should have the same effect on all of us. It should motivate us to save as many souls as we can in the time that we have left. The Great Commission tells us to be disciples to all nations, bringing the message of salvation through Christ to all people. If the Church is raptured before the tribulation, it is important that we leave behind an explanation for the trials and judgments those left behind will face. How else will they recognize the deception of the anti-Christ and seek instead the truth of the Bible? If we are to endure the tribulation along side them, we will need to be prepared to not only share the message of salvation, but share with them the reasons for God's judgment and hold it up as further proof of their need to be saved.
Below is a study of the prophetic signs God gave us as a warning of the approaching end of the age. Many of them are being fulfilled now and many will be fulfilled in the near future. I would encourage you to study prophecy, know what is coming and be prepared to share it with others.
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SIX SIGNS GIVEN BY JESUS TO INDICATE HIS COMING AND THE END OF THE AGE
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In Matthew24:3 Jesus was asked, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?" Jesus told his apostles to look for the following signs prior to his second coming and the end of the age.
1. FALSE PROPHETS AND CHRISTS
Matthew 24:5 "For many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and will mislead many."
Matthew 24:11 "And many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many."
In the last several years many have claimed to be the Messiah. Jim Jones and David Koresh are examples of these false christs as well as countless others who are not as newsworthy. These false prophets are a prelude to the ultimate false christ, the antichrist. Many New Age groups, some even NGO's working for the United Nations, are anxiously awaiting the antichrist, preparing the way for his acceptance as the head of the hierarchy of gods and the one who will usher in world peace.
2. WARS
Matthew 24:6 "And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end."
Rumors of wars in all areas of the world now occur frequently thanks to instant media coverage and the availability of a multitude of 24-hour news sources.
Matthew 24:7 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes."
More people have been killed in warfare in this century than at any other time in history. As the death toll rises in the Middle East, more and more countries work feverishly to develop devastating weapons of mass destruction. Add to that the expanding threat of terrorism and unpredictable dictators such as Saddam Hussein, and the potential for the outbreak of war exists in nations, kingdoms and places across the globe.
3. FAMINES
Matthew 24:7 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes."
As white, Christian farmers are driven out of Africa in increasing numbers, and foreigners move in to replace life-sustaining crops with poppies that now supply 25% of the worlds drugs, famine spreads across the African continent. The undernourished are not limited to Africa, however. A large portion of the worlds 5 billion people suffers from a shortage of food.
4. EARTHQUAKES
Matthew 24:7 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes."
The number and intensity of earthquakes this century is at a level higher than any other time in history. A staggering number of seismic events occur around the world daily. The earthquake seismic monitor IRIS shows all major earthquakes for the last year. Indicated by yellow and red circles, the seismic events of the last 15 days provides strong evidence of the fulfillment of Matthew 24:7 in our day. By contrast, in the years from 1890 to 1900 there was only one major earthquake in the world.
5. TRIBULATIONS
Matthew 24:8-9 "But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name."
Christians are under attack throughout the world today. In the United States Christians still enjoy freedom to worship God without suffering much more than ridicule, hatred, or discrimination at work and school. However in many other countries such as China, Sudan, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Russia, and many Muslim nations, Christian suffer much greater persecution and often times death for their faith. During the tribulation this suffering will be worldwide and will continue even to the point of martyrdom. These first 5 signs will increase in intensity and severity as the tribulation approaches, much like the birth pangs or contractions of a pregnant woman worsen as the delivery time approaches.
6. THE GOSPEL WILL BE PREACHED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
Matthew 24:14 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come."
This prophecy has already been fulfilled through television, radio, missionaries, the translation of the Bible into many languages, and the internet. People all over the world now hear the message of Christ from missionaries who have the means to travel the globe, and via technology that allows us to communicate with people on the other side of the world right from our own homes, churches and offices.
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TWO CHARACTERISTICS OF THE END OF THE AGE FROM THE APOSTLE PAUL
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1. GODLESSNESS IN THE LAST DAYS
II Timothy 3:1-5,7 "But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god; holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
For anyone who has watched television, read a newspaper, lost a retirement to corporate greed and corruption, or just walked outside their front door, it is obvious this prophecy has been fulfilled by our generation. Our leaders are often corrupt; our cities are filled with crime, brutality, and neon signs proclaiming our sinful, godless nature. The New Age Movement brings in increasing numbers of mystics who claim to be the enlightened ones. They are some of the most educated and influential people in our societies, and yet the most lacking in real truth.
2. APOSTASY (FALLING AWAY FROM THE FAITH)
I Timothy 4:1-3 "But the spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. By means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth."
Churches today are becoming more and more ecumenical, embracing the New Age interfaith agenda, and denying Christ as the only way to salvation. Giving in to the politically correct media and a corrupt society, they have embrace homosexuality as an acceptable alternate lifestyle and preach tolerance and compromise in place of God's truth for the salvation of the world. The environmentalist movement within the New Age movement lures them into a worship of mother earth, belief in past lives, reincarnation, and Karma while demonizing all those who would eat the meat God gave us as nourishment for our bodies.
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ELEVEN FULFILLMENTS OF BIBLE PROPHECY REQUIRED FOR THE END OF THE AGE
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1. EXISTENCE OF A 200,000,000 MAN ARMY IN THE EAST
Revelation 9:16 "And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them."
An army of that size had never existed until China's army reached that number in the 1960's.
2. REDEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (EUROPEAN COMMUNITY)
Daniel 2:32-33 "The head of the statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay."
Daniel 2:40-43 "Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces. And in that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have the toughness of iron, and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle. And in that you saw the iron mixed with clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery."
The fourth kingdom of iron is the Roman empire according to Daniel's interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The two legs are the division of the Roman empire into an eastern portion called the Byzantine empire which ended in the 1400's and a western portion based in Rome which ended in the 400's. The nations of Europe since the Roman empire dissolved have never adhered or formed one empire but continue as separate nations, however, the European Union now has 15 Member States and is preparing for the accession of 13 eastern and southern European countries.
3. RETURN OF THE ONE PURE LANGUAGE, HEBREW, TO ISRAEL
Zephaniah 3:9 "For then I will return to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent."
Prior to the restoration of Israel in 1948, Hebrew was a dead language. Now Hebrew is spoken throughout Israel.
4. REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE, RESTORATION OF TEMPLE WORSHIP AND ANIMAL SACRIFICES IN JERUSALEM
For several end time prophecies to be fulfilled, the temple will have to be rebuilt.
Revelation 11:2 "Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the oly city for forty-two months."
Daniel 9:27 "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolation, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."
Daniel 9:26 "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary."
Some archeologists believe that the temple mount is actually 340 feet south of the Dome of the Rock site, putting the Dome of the Rock within the Court of the Gentiles. This may be the court outside the temple that is left out.
There are many groups already working on preparations for the new temple. The blueprints are already done, the temple garments have been made, and there have already been attempts to lay the cornerstone of the temple. The only thing standing in the way of the construction of the new temple is Islam's third holiest site, the Dome of the Rock and government support for such an undertaking. Some possible scenarios for the rebuilding of the temple are as follows:
1. The persuasion and performing of miracles by the Antichrist and False Prophet convinces the Islamic world to approve the rebuilding.
2. The United Nations will negotiate the rebuilding of the temple following a war with the armies from the North (Russia and Islamic forces). This assumes that the war with the armies from the North is not the battle of Armageddon as some feel and that this attack occurs before the rapture or tribulation period begins. The supernatural destruction of the Russian army and Islamic forces will cause an outpouring of Christian worship and zeal amongst the Jewish people who will reconstruct the temple.
3. It is determined that the site of the first two temples is actually south of the Dome of the Rock, and the court of the gentiles (Dome of the Rock) will be left out of the 3rd temple.
A group in Israel called the Temple Mount Faithful have obtained most of the clothing, instruments and other equipment required for temple worship and are actively preparing for the laying of the third temple's cornerstone.
5. APPEARANCE OF THE RED HEIFER AFTER 2000 YEARS
Numbers 19:2-7 "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed. "You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence. Next Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. "Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned. "The priest shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward come into the camp, but the priest shall be unclean until evening."
A red heifer will be required to be used in the process of purification described in the book of Numbers. In May 1997 the first Red Heifer was born in 2000 years. Another red Heifer was born in Israel in March of 2002.
6. INCREASE IN KNOWLEDGE AND TRAVEL
Daniel 12:4 "But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase."
Billy Graham was quoted as saying, "ninety percent of all the engineers and scientists who have ever lived are alive today." Air travel, space travel, DNA research and human cloning are all examples of the rapid increase in knowledge in our generation.
7. RETURN OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL
Zephaniah 3:10-11 "From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia My worshipers, My dispersed ones, will bring My offerings. In that day you will feel no shame because of all your deeds by which you have rebelled against Me; For then I will remove from your midst your proud, exulting ones, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain."
In 1984, Operation Moses saw the airlift of 15,000 Jews who had already fled to refugee camps in Sudan to escape starvation. In 1991, Operation Solomon flew 20,000 Jews to Israel from Ethiopia itself. A further airlift began in June of 1999, aimed at transporting the last 3,000 members of the Quara Jewish community from northeastern Ethiopia to Israel.
8. THE RISE OF RUSSIA
Ezekiel 38:2,4,8 "Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords. After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them."
In order for some end time events to occur Russia will have to be a strong nation with a strong military.
9. RETURN OF RUSSIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL
Jeremiah 23:7-8 "Therefore behold, the days are coming declares the Lord, when they will no longer say, as the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, but as the Lord lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I have driven them. Then they will live on their own soil."
In the 1970's and 1980's there was a mass exodus of Russian Jews out of Communist Russia. In 1999 the Associated Press reported a dramatic increase in the number of Jewish immigrants from Russia, bringing the largest number of Russian Jews to Israel since the early 1990's.
10. TECHNOLOGY FOR THE MARK OF THE BEAST
Revelation 13:16-17 "And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name."
On May 10, three members of a family in Florida became the first people to receive the biochip implant. Each device, made of silicon and called a VeriChip, is a small radio transmitter about the size of a piece of rice that is injected under a person's skin. It transmits a unique personal ID number whenever it is within a few feet of a special receiver unit. VeriChip's maker describes it as "a miniaturized, implantable, radio frequency identification device (RFID) that can be used in a variety of security, emergency and healthcare applications."
Is the biochip the mark of the beast to be used by the antichrist? We can't really know. What is significant is that people are being softened to the idea of a mark or an implant as a means of maintaining security, providing medical information, and regulating a more interdependent world. As attitudes change, fears subside, and people are convinced of the need for such a mark, the true mark of the beast will be easily introduced to the world by the antichrist.
11. PLANS FOR THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT
The United Nations, World Trade Organization, International Criminal Court, UN peacekeeping/police force, numerous UN NGO's, and other agencies are preliminary steps to the formation of a one world government. We now have the communications technology, transportation, and the pro-globalization media necessary to usher in the one world government headed by the antichrist. The increasing terrorist threat and the middle east conflict will only speed up the formation of this governing body as fear and promises of better security make more people willing to give up their national sovereignty for global governance.
12. INSTANT COMMUNICATION AROUND THE WORLD
Revelation 11:3, 7-10 "And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophecy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them and kill them. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth."
Television and the 24-hour news networks make it possible for people around the world to see the dead prophets and rejoice at their deaths.
Luke 21:28 "But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
Luke 21:32 "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place."
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December 21, 2004
"Another SIGN TODAY FOR ISRAEL AND ALL ISRAEL'S DESCENDENTS!"
by Steve Shultz
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God loves signs!
He loves signs (and wonders) so much that He not only talks about them a lot -- but He DOES them a lot.
Just get out your Bible concordance and look up the words "signs," "wonders," or "signs and wonders."
Let's just say there are a LOT of references, yes?
God has eternity to think up and create new signs and wonders...and yet, with the millions of signs we see all the time, those signs are but a few of the sum total of the signs and wonders He has made or we have yet to see.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WINTER SOLSTICE
Personally, since we just hit WINTER today (some call it Winter Solstice), December 21, 2004, in the Northern Hemisphere (and Summer in the Southern Hemisphere), we just entered into the fulfillment of yet another one of what I believe to be one of God's FAVORITE SIGNS.
God waited only four full days into creation to create this sign:
Genesis 1:14-16
14 "And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.' And it was so.
16 God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars." (NIV)
Now, since the sun became responsible for our seasons, God then connects the Sun and its seasons with Israel itself (and you and and I can grab hold of this assurance as well, and these promises -- just as they were given to Israel and ALL his relatives)...
Jeremiah 31:35-37
35 "This is what the LORD says, HE who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar — the LORD Almighty is his name: 36
[QX: Of course, as Scriptures indicate, fools tend to ignore and/or disbelieve The God of Truth and His Scriptures.] 37 This is what the LORD says:
"'Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,'
declares the LORD." (NIV)
Go figure!
GOD WILL NOT REJECT ISRAEL OR HIS DESCENDANTS
God made the seasons from Creation onward...and yet He used those same seasons to be a sign that He would not, indeed He chose by His will, that He COULD not reject Israel from being a nation before HIM, nor could He or would He reject ALL of Israel's descendents -- even though HE knew of the evil Israel and His descendents had done.
Now, let me say it again this way -- lest the Church forget -- notice verse 36 above.
Not only is Israel blessed -- but ALL of Israel's descendents would not cease to be a "nation" before God. Now, just to be clear, two of Israel's sons were Ishmael and Isaac. They get to be NOT FORGOTTEN BEFORE GOD AND ALL OF HEAVEN!
Today, we see the World Church, of which I'm a life member, blessing Israel, while simultaneously choosing not to bless Israel's children...that is, Israel's OTHER descendents.
But we must bless ALL of Israel's children.
What does that mean?
BLESSING ALL THE DESCENDANTS OF ISRAEL
Well, as an analogy...in America, we lock up the bad guys, and hopefully bless all the rest. (Of course, Jesus "upped the ante" and said we should even bless our enemies -- which means we should even pray FOR Bi*n Laden; but he must be punished, of course.)
So, at this time, we are trying, in this war on terrorism, in America -- to take care of the "bad guys," while at the same time blessing ALL of Israel's descendents. That is, we bless both the Jewish people and also we bless the children of Ishmael as well, plus the other descendents of Israel -- all of them.
This all occurred to me last night.
Another prophetic person and I were talking about the evil that happens on the Winter Solstice by those who practice the magic arts. My response was, "That occult stuff must be a counterfeit to something real!" What did God intend the season changes to symbolize? (For instance, seasonal changes such as is happening today.) And what is the enemy stealing through his evil occult practices that are done on Summer and Winter Solstices?
The Lord then led me to HIS GREAT and PRECIOUS PROMISES for ISRAEL and "ALL THE DESCENDENTS OF ISRAEL."
WHY BLESS ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE?
So, rather than curse the darkness that often takes place on this day (some of you might even be feeling the evil that takes place on Winter Solstice because you are that spiritually sensitive)... why not come against these occult practices done on Winter Solstice in the opposite spirit by BLESSING ALL THE DESCENDENTS OF ISRAEL.
In this, you will please the Lord, I believe, and demonstrate your faith in HIS WORD.
And after all, wasn't it Jesus Who asked, "However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8)
Jeremiah 31:35-37
35 "This is what the LORD says, HE who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar — the LORD Almighty is his name:
36 "Only if these decrees vanish from my sight," declares the LORD," will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me."
37 This is what the LORD says:
"'Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,'
declares the LORD." (NIV)
Steve Shultz
THE ELIJAH LIST
Wheee, now an 8.5 off Sumatra off Maylaysia.
There's a group of Wycliff translators on an island off Maylaysia's peninsula. I don't know which side of the peninsula. Prayers for them.
Though at 8 miles deep--maybe there hasn't been a Tsunami.
Given this one at 8.5 and the one very recently between New Zealand and Antarctica . . .
IF we have another 8.+ within the next week or so, I will take that as a big clue that God has racheted things up another notch or 3. . . . and that indeed, the new year will be much more interesting than the last one in a number of respects.
very well put.
VERY BLESSED by your saying so.
But I think Holy Spirit is the only one who can help some people 'hear.'
And even He requires their cooperation most of the time!
BEST BLESSINGS FOR THE NEW YEAR FOR YOU AND YOURS.
Thanks for the ping!
Thank you for the encouragement!
The end times are coming, how soon I don't know - I just want to do my best "ministry" while I'm here. That will keep me busy enough. I find the study of all this interesting, but don't want to become so engrossed that my head is "so much in heaven that I am no earthly good."
AMEN TO THAT!
Arafat Era Ends 11/11 - An 11th Hour Warning
November 11, 2004
At exactly 4:30am Paris time on 11/11, Yasser Arafat was officially pronounced dead in French military hospital, fulfilling a significant series of prophecies concerning the "removal of Arafat", and how this relates to our current timeline. For the last several years we have received numerous prophetic words from people around the world, in many cases which the Holy Spirit has verbally spoken to them that the "removal of Arafat" would be a clear sign of the Lord's soon return, and indication that major judgments were about to explode on the world scene.
The timing in which Arafat fell into a coma, November 3, Paris time (November 2, U.S. time: Election Day) is also extremely significant (read our September 15, 2004 Rosh Hashanah Report). Shortly after Yasser Arafat fell into a coma on November 3, the Holy Spirit spoke to me that 11/11 would be a very significant date in history. (I mentioned this to my wife and several other ministry associates in the Philippines.) One week ago, we felt prompted to enter into a time of prayer and fasting from 11/11/04 - 01/11/05; a 3-month period of cleansing and preparation for the new year (chiefly a Daniel fast, fruits and vegetables).
On the early morning of 11/11 before the sun rose in the Philippines, I received the following vision: I was climbing a large mountain somewhere near the Indonesian coast, traveling upwards into a place of refuge. Upon reaching my destination in the mountains, I found a small city with a large population of Christians, and begin to prophesy to them about approaching judgments; but the inhabitants were spiritually blind, and could not receive the word. Suddenly, the ground began to shake, and every eye looked towards the coast. Like a small ripple in the crystal blue sea, the first tidal wave approached and had little impact. Those watching said, "Is that all!?". They began to mock God's grace and mercy demonstrated in the first judgment. But while they were mocking yet another wave approached, slightly larger; and then another, and another. Until finally one large ripple appeared on the horizon, so large that as it struck the hills on the coast the impact left a thunderous splash, towering perhaps a thousand feet into the air. Below us the water from the tsunami traveled along the river inland for nearly a hundred miles, destroying everything in it's path.
It is interesting how God always confirms major prophetic words with signs for those who are watching. On the evening of November 11, seismic activity in the Asia-Pacific region suddenly went off the scale; with a 7.5 quake in Indonesia, followed by a 6.4 aftershock; a 6.5 quake in the Solomon Islands (Solomon representing the Temple Mount, where Arafat requested to be buried), a 6.4 quake in Japan, and a 5.8 quake in Taiwan. Tsunami warnings were briefly issued in Indonesia, and the seismic jolt was felt so strongly by ships in the region that it literally knocked sailors off their feet. The jolt caused at least one shipping accident, throwing a small boat from East Timor into the path of a passing freighter in Deli Harbor.
The first wave on 11/11 was small, but other waves are coming. As the US, UK, UN, and countries around the world continue to pressure Israel to concede covenant land promised to her by God, I prophesy to you that we are now entering into some troubled waters as we approach the new year. It will only be through God's grace and mercy that we do not see these large ripples in the sea crashing against our shoreline in 2005. But nothing is impossible with God!
Blessings,
Timothy Snodgrass
Philippines
Timothy Snodgrass – PO Box 463, Kimberly, OR 97848 USA –
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Jeremiah Chapter 14
8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, WHY shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
9 WHY shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
Most people are not aware that the book of Jeremiah is not laid out in Chronological order.
Careful study reveals this chapter…chapter 14, as the first place where Jeremiah was told that he was not to pray for the people of Judah. James Ussher, the Arbishop, placed the date for this revelation as 602 B.C., in the 27th year of the ministry of Jeremiah.
CONTROVERSY WITH GOD
The backdrop for receipt of this word was a drought induced famine. No rain was falling. Every bit of ground was parched as verse 4 of this same chapter indicates. No rain meant one thing to these people: God had a controversy with them.
Jeremiah knew the scriptures that gave this as a heralding sign of doom: Deuteronomy 28, or 2 Chonicles 7:13. Drought was once of three signs listed there, along with devouring locusts, or pestilence. The people were told that when they saw one of these three things, they had better 1) HUMBLE THEMSELVES, 2) PRAY, 3) SEEK GODS FACE, and 4) TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS.
If the people refused to do all four of these things, God would keep His promise to empty their land of its’ inhabitants.
Jeremiah was quite shocked when God told him not to pray for his people for the very first time. Look at his words:
Jeremiah Chapter 14
13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
Early in the history of America, our forefathers believed these same things. Historians such as Peter Marshall have documented that whenever the early settlers encountered times of drought, or famine, or pestilence, they regarded that it was an omen from God: God had a controversy with them. They declared times of national fasting and prayer in response to such things.
Oh, but we have become so sophisticated. We have invented a “mother nature”. We now ascribe these things to random occurrence. Nevertheless, let God be true and every man a liar. God’s word still stands, and God has said in more than one place that He is no respecter of persons.
LEGAL PRECEDENT
One thing may be concluded from this: God is a God who works through the establishment of precedent. What God has done in the past for one country, He will do for another country in the future. Our legal system, with its’ reliance upon established legal precedents according to case history, is based upon this principle. God moves upon precedents that He has established by His words, and by His previous actions.
Many in America cannot understand why God would send hundreds of prophets to proclaim that He is wroth with America. Hundreds have gone forth, proclaiming that God is preparing to move in America. America will vomit out its’ inhabitants, and many do not understand. Do not our other prophets and our TV ministers tell us that all is well? Do they not say that we are proclaiming the light of Christ around the world, and God will bless us? Do we not have Christian churches on every corner? How or why would God be angry with America at all?
The answer to these questions is legal precedent. God has lain down certain precedents. Do these things, the Lord says, and I will do what I have said in my word.
THE LAST STRAW
Many years ago, just after God sent me as His prophet, I was inquiring of Him, just as Jeremiah did. I simply didn’t fully understand why my nation was in such trouble with Him. I received a very clear answer. God explained it to me. Since my ministry call preceded the start of my internet ministry, certain things God has revealed to me have not yet been published on my websites.
Yesterday, I was asked by a friend if I could explain this on my websites: why is God so wroth with us? Why will God turn us over to invading armies? Why is God not giving us favor in our military campaigns? Why is our economy struggling? Why is drought gripping more than 50% of our nation? Why are pestilences such as AIDS spreading? Why is God going to allow many of our cities to be burned up in nuclear fire? Why is crime increasing? Why are our children committing suicide in record numbers?
I searched my website, and realized that I had never written down the revelation the Lord gave me. It is quite clear. It is undeniable. It is a one word answer.
ABORTION
2 Kings Chapter 17
9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
God was very patient with the Northern 10 tribe Kingdom of Israel. Elijah the prophet was sent to them, and proclaimed a 3 ½ year drought during the days of King Ahab. Signs from heaven were seen. Great miracles continued to be performed in the ministry of Elisha. Then, God sent the interceding prophet Amos, during whose ministry a great earthquake struck the kingdom. Surely, these things should have been enough to warn the people, but they did not have ears to hear, and the land vomited out its’ inhabitants, as the Assyrians came forth and carried the Israelites away as captives to the ends of the Earth.
You can see, in the verses above, that God had many controversies with these people. Their hearts were far from Him in many ways, but when we reach 17:17, we see the LAST STRAW in view: abortion.
Now, human nature tells you very quickly that any mother who loved her baby would not sacrifice her baby unto any God, but these women were doing it. Why?
They didn’t want these babies. Some were unmarried, and it was too difficult to support their babies. Some did not want the inherent restrictions of their lifestyles that come with the rearing of children. These babies were certainly inconvenient for them. And so, they decided upon the perfect solution. It was a legal solution, and it was a societally sanctioned solution: they would sacrifice their children by tossing them into the fire, in an act of worship. Verse 17 says THIS was what provoked the Lord to anger.
The abortion tally in America, in 2004, stands at approximately
by some estimates. That represents 2 million human sacrifices to the God of convenience and pleasure, every year, since 1972.
RIGHT TO CHOOSE
Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of women were protesting in Washington D.C. against what they view as restrictions on their right to choose. They are angry that our President has taken tiny baby steps to roll back this abomination. They want to make sure that they are allowed to continue with their licentious lifestyles. They want no restrictions to be placed upon this sacrifice of the unborn.
They even protest the recent actions of our government that outlawed a practice of baby killing known as partial birth abortion. For this restriction on their right to kill, they are angry.
Yes, our society has a right to choose. God has given us our volitional right. We can decide our fate as a nation.
I know this: If America would repent, and return to God, then God would relent of sending all these calamities that He has announced through prophets like me. But, this repentance cannot be with words alone. We cannot continue to sacrifice 2 million unborn children per year, and expect God to relent. We have a choice to make as a society. Our future hangs in the balance.
We do have a right to choose.
CONSEQUENCES OF CHOICE
It appears obvious to me that, barring a shocking public turnaround that has only been seen in the city of Ninevah, more than three thousand years ago, our nation will choose to follow in the footsteps of Israel, as the prophet described in 2 Kings 17 above. The choices Israel made had consequences. They first chose, and then God acted.
God has sent hundreds of prophets to America. Those consequences have been clearly outlined for any who have ears to hear.
This is a partial listing of consequences:
1) Increasingly terrible terrorist attacks will come against our military, and against our cities. These attacks will include the use of nuclear weapons. We will be unsuccessful in our military campaigns.
2) Asteroids/Comet fragments will fall near coastal areas, inundating large sections of our coastlines
3) Natural disasters, such as earthquakes and volcanoes, will extract a terrible toll
4) Finally, America will be invaded and occupied by foreign powers. It will be unimaginably terrible to be alive, and to be an American, in those days
God does not want to do these things, but He is BOUND by previous legal precedent. What He did to Israel, under the same circumstances, He must do to America. He cannot do otherwise.
A WORD TO THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA You descendents of Ishmael: Arabs, give ear to me. Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, listen to me good! Mexicans and Cubans, pay attention! You Persians, do not close your ears! Yes, you Canadians too, give an ear! You Japanese, be careful! Chavez, are you listening? You others who will be tempted to pile on and join the feast of blood, are you awake?
The Lord sees your private plans and intentions. He sees the temptations that are upon you. He knows and has revealed your plans to aid in the downfall of America.
Yes, you will be doing the bidding of the Lord as you invade this land, but are you without sin? Wherewith do you cast the first stone, and think you will be blameless? Ah, you are mistaken and troubled indeed, says the Lord, for as your pour out trouble upon America, it will be repaid to you double.
Repent, I say, you nations of the Earth who will devour America: Repent. Turn from your wickedness, that the fierce anger of the Lord will turn from you. For by the same precedent that I will use to empty America, I will empty you out too, says the Lord.
Blessings,
Stephen L. Bening
I understand.
I think I CAN wait.
I suppose he has some fitting, useful insights on occasion.
I just have a hard time getting beyond his . . . mannerisms, tone, speaking style.
He and wife are soooooooo polished and yet soooooooo
(have been trying to avoid the word histrionic) . . . soooo . . . theatrical?
I don't know. Just not my taste. But, I'm sure he ministers to millions and more power to him.
Timothy Snodgrass is supposedly going to have a prophetic doc on it out this week. He's quite a character, too. Sometimes I think he's fairly accurate and Spirit-led. Sometimes I think he's overly impressed with his ministry and gifting. God seems to be doing God's part of keeping or getting him to be humble, however--he always seems to have less than even I do in his bank account--less than $100 frequently--with a family that would be scary enough unless one REALLY TRUSTED GOD TO PROVIDE!
Thanks for the ping!
FOLLOWING WILL BE some gleanings from BILL SOMERS' site updated 25 DEC 2004 in the next several posts. PRAYERFUL Discernment is needed. I'm just posting the more interesting ones which I feel MIGHT be valid/true. --Qx
QX: The following seems fitting and plausible to me. However, I have received a convincing email that indicates that our beloved President has decided that Israel MUST give up virtually all the West Bank and is moving to make it happen. IF SO, God will NOT be well pleased and will deal with him and our nation very harshly accordingly, imho.
I BELIEVE THIS ISSUE WARRANTS MUCH PRAYER AND INTERCESSION THAT OUR PRESIDENT LISTEN ONLY TO THE LORD AND NOT TO DECEPTIVE COUNSELORS FROM THE ENEMY.
SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING GOD WOULD DO. --Qx:
My Glorious Work
Priscilla Van Sutphin
www.upstreamca.org
tearsofthefather@comcast.net
Dec 24th, 2004
I am the Resurrection and the Life. No man cometh to Me except that I draw him. Know that I am about to draw MANY into My Kingdom. It will be a great wind that brings this harvest. Nothing can stop My wonderful work.
Many are planting seeds and now many of those seeds planted are going to bear much fruit. I am come that you might have LIFE ! I am going to pour
out on you a much greater measure than you have imagined of My LIFE.
Do not think that I am coming to bring peace however. This Wind that comes will bring My abundant LIFE and LOVE like never before, but it will be met with opposition. That is the nature of revival. For some will receive it, and others will not. Some will try to control it and you. Remember I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH and the LIFE !
I am coming to fill your baskets full that MY WILL can be done in bringing the Kingdom over all the earth. TRUST ME to be your advocate and Your DEFENDER ! I will not disappoint you My beloveds ! Open the gates of your hearts and let the King of Glory come in ! Who is this King of glory ? THE LORD MIGHTY IN BATTLE !!!
Ps 24:7-10 NKJV Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, The LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts,
He is the King of glory. Selah
Do only what I tell you or lead you to do. No more, no less. Follow the narrow path for great is the path that leads to destruction. Listen for the still small voice. Listen ! For I am calling to you. Let Me come in and sup with you. Let me dance with you and sing over you with delight. Do not be frightened by the appearance of angels. Test the spirits. Know that I am with you and will guide you as I bring forth My glorious work ! My winds are blowing and they will blow away all the chaff in your lives and the lives of those outside as well. Multitudes in the valley of decision ! All I allow has purpose. My purpose will be accomplished in your life. You can depend on it.
I WILL in no wise keep you from it ! All over the world, My Winds will blow
on My garden of reknown. Sudden changes are coming. Are you ready My beloveds ? Do not hesitate to follow after Your God willingly. Do not be surprised how this will come SUDDENLY !!!
Hidden Motives
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Dec 21st, 2004
www.upstreamca.org
tearsofthefather@comcast.net
Phil 1:18 NKJV What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
1 Cor 4:5 NIV Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.
Motives/counsels NT:1012 boule (boo-lay'); from NT: 1014; volition, i.e. (objectively) advice, or (by implication) purpose: KJV - advise, counsel, will.
“My beloveds, I have been exposing in many of you the hidden motives of your heart, that you could see the barreness in your own life in certain areas. This is the plowing of your heart so that what is still hidden in the way of hurts and pain that is unhealed can be dealt with. There is still much insecurity and fears in your lives. And these disqualified people in the past from serving ME. I have heard your cries for wholeness and I am answering.
It’s just that your ways are not My ways always. I want you to learn your lessons well, so you never choose to divert this way or that way, away from My grace and perfect will for your life.
Do not be ashamed of your failures in motivations. Do not be overcome by your own sorrow at the lack in your flesh. I am exposing it that it can be dealt with. I will expose all the motives of men’s hearts. So you need not fear that I’m incapable of healing the most decrepid of hearts. I will heal the cold and calloused of heart. I will heal those who cower in fear and
hide from being real in life. Many of you have overcome many of the areas that others are still behind in. This has caused many to grow intolerant of the others still languishing and unhealed. I am PATIENT. That is a fruit of the Spirit. PEACE will give you patience ! Ask for My peace which comes when you keep your eyes STAYED on Me ! Look not around at all the circumstances, but lift your heads and worship. Thank Me even for those who misunderstand you and persecute you. REJOICE, and again I say REJOICE.
LESS OF YOU AND MORE OF ME is what I am after. You must decrease for Me to increase ! Humble yourselves in the sight of the LORD and HE will lift you up, the Word says ! Delight yourself in the Lord and HE will give you the desires of your heart. Ask for what you lack. Admit your lack and your sins. Stop hiding them and confess them to someone you trust not to trample you underfoot. Confession helps dissipate the attack of the enemy for he seeks always to secretly accuse you so that you despair. He is in hope of destroying those I am coming to. If he could kill many of you he will try. But I ALONE HOLD THE KEYS TO HELL AND DEATH !
I am laying waste all PRETENSE in your lives so that you will be real with each other and the world. I will destroy the hidden motives from My people who love me and know and confess their weaknesses. Do not allow the enemy to testify against you ! Do not hide your sins, but confess them to one another and be healed ! I came to provide the GRACE that you can walk in overcoming power and victory. But you must stop the hiding ! You must walk courageously with at least one other person. Part of restoration is making restitution. Zaccheus paid back finances he had stolen. For some of you all it will take is an apology. That means HUMBLING yourself and admitting you slandered someone and asking forgiveness. Or if you gossiped to confess it and allow the body to help pray for you so that you will be freed. Criticism is highly rampant in my church with a biting and devouring spirit running rampant.
The root of that criticism is PRIDE. Yes, you heard it ! PRIDE ! You are part of the problem or you can be part of the solution. It’s your choice.
There are times when I ask you to leave, to be the seed that dies and falls to the ground. There are other times when you need to pray it through and stop complaining and instead PRAISE ME in the midst of persecution and maligning. Much of what has come against you, is for your refining ! Obviously I do not want anyone to be hurt. But for some, it is the only way to develop compassion in you. I was a man acquainted with grief and sorrow.
Much of My church has not believed the doctrine of suffering with ME.
They think they shouldn’t have to suffer anything while others in other nations are dying and being persecuted and tormented and maimed for My name’s sake. I said if you share in My SUFFERING, you will SHARE IN MY GLORY. Are you willing to go all the way with ME ? Will you only love ME if I allow only good things to happen to you ? Will you give up when persecution comes ? I tell you the truth, it is coming. Will you complain and cry and dive into self pity, or will you take up your cross and walk ? Know that in the carrying of the cross, you will receive great glory ! Many have given up much more than you. Every day in other nations children starve.
I came to bring you life and prosperity, but the prosperity I bring is not always what you imagine ! You will have more than enough if you humble yourself and worship in spite of what is going on in your life ! The enemy is being used to SIFT you. I want you to come forth as GOLD ! Will you allow ME to be LORD and Master over your life or will you cling to your own will ? Begin to give up your will completely and watch how I will bless you ! Stop allowing yourselves to be deceived. Speak the Word of Life, but realize the work I am doing and call on ME for understanding. I am the RESOURCE of all you need. I AM WISDOM ! I love you as no other loves you and I will do what is BEST for you ! I promise to not leave you nor forsake you. What kind of parent abandons their child ? I AM NOT THAT PARENT ! I am a good FATHER who always has the best in mind for My children.”
1 Thess 2:3 NIV For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you.
James 4:3 NIV When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Prov 16:2 NIV All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the LORD.
1 Peter 2:19-24 NKJV For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: 22 "Who committed no sin,
Nor was deceit found in His mouth"; 23 who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness — by whose stripes you were healed.
Acts 14:22 NKJV strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, "We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God."
2 Cor 4:17 NKJV For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
1 Thess 3:7-8 NKJV therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress we were comforted concerning you by your faith. 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
Heb 11:24-26 NKJV By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, 26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
Releasing My Glory
Musa Opiyo
Dec 23, 04
In this day I am releasing My Glory upon My people in greater measure than they have previously known. I am responding to their hearts' cry and the hunger of My beloved that I would reveal Myself and make My will known to them. Let it be known that My Glory is not reserved for a chosen few but for all that will come to Me hungering for My presence. When you lift your praises before Me I dwell in the praises of My people and so I cannot help but release waves of My Glory.
You are My children and it pleasures Me to see you bask in My presence yielded to Me. What you have received in small measures you shall now get in floods, for I am flooding My Glory into your hearts and into your situations and I am turning them around for My benefit. I am visiting you with fresh vigor because I have heard your praises, your prayers and your cries for Me and now I am responding to that call, says the Lord.
Blessings,
Musa Opiyo
Web: http://mannaword.no-ip.com
Email: mopiyo@etpv.org
A Season Of Abundance and Release
Musa Opiyo
Dec 19, 04
I am breaking the strong gates of iron that have been over My people. I am bringing release says the Lord from the hand of the oppressor. No longer shall you be stolen from or overpowered, for now I am come with My strong hand to rid My people of the giants in their land. I now call you, My victorious people to rise to the occasion and walk in My freedom. Walk in the Jubilee season for what has held you back has been destroyed. You have My anointing that has broken the yoke of the enemy. No longer shall My people groan under the spirit of heaviness for I have released My Joy over you. Rejoice, even shout for joy, for I have overcome all your trials and all that has beset you and I have given you the victory. As you stand in My authority and walk in My presence, you will see the dark clouds of discouragement and despair dissipate as My Son (Sun) shines upon you. Along with My Son I am raining down My Holy Spirit afresh upon My people to give you a season of refreshing.
For many of you, you have been in the desert where you have been tried and tested by My Spirit. You have come to know that it is not by might or power but only by My Spirit that you can live, breathe and have your being. You have by experience come to know My Spirit as your Sustainer and your source of Strength. That I AM your Provision. That I AM your Everything. Yes, you have come to understand the concept of Me being the vine and you being the branches and the fact that without Me you are disconnected and without stable ground. It has not been easy but I have led you by My wisdom as you simply trusted in My ability to lead you day by day. You are now coming to a season of abundance both spiritually and physically yet My beloved the principle of complete trust in Me is still vital. The enemy wants to distract you and lead you into passivity while he plunders you, yet I call you to be alert concerning his wiles. As you remain in Me and allow Me to be your source, I will lead you to your abundance and give you the wisdom. I will open your eyes to what the enemy is doing so that you pray accordingly and take action. For indeed the year of 2005 will be a year of abundance, an expansion and an explosion of more. It is also a year that I am training My people to war in the Spirit on a higher level than they have known.
Be ready! Be strong and courageous and do not lose sight of the vision. In all your endeavors I am with you guiding you by the Holy Spirit if you will listen to My voice and take heed. Great things are coming for My people says the Lord.
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Self-Discipline
Mary Clark
12/23/05
(A Prophetic Exhortation)
I want to talk to My children about self-discipline. I want you to know that it is a good thing to apply your self control. It is a good thing to tell yourself “no” about certain things. I want you to know that I practiced self discipline when I walked the earth. I practiced it many, many times, and I believe that I conquered many things that tried to get a toehold on My heart. Yes, I tell you that self discipline is GOOD – very good!
But let Me tell you something that is not good: What happens when you fail to follow the edicts of your mind? What happens when you fail to say “no” to yourself? Do you simply say, “Lord, I am sorry that I did not practice self-discipline on this occasion?” Or do you beat yourself up with words of derision and disgust? What do you do?
I will tell you what I would have you do when you fail in your endeavor to practice self discipline: I would have you recognize what you did, ask My forgiveness, and then go on from there, not looking back. I would have you speed away from the thought processes that follow an act of lack in self discipline, not looking back, but moving forward, looking ahead to what your Beloved has planned for you.
I am not a God Who delights in seeing His dear children beating themselves over the head with words of hate and ridicule. I don’t use them against you, so don’t you use them against yourself!
Now! That is what I wanted to say about this thing called self-discipline. That is all that I am going to say on this subject tonight, but I want you to know, beloved: I take delight in you – much delight, and I want you to take delight in the work that I am doing in you. One day you are going to realize that the thing that was plaguing you is gone – all gone, and for that who will you have to thank? You will have Me to thank. That is Who. So thank Me now for what I am doing in your life, and rely on Me to move you to those greener pastures of delight for which you crave. I said that I would do it, didn’t I? Then trust Me to perform My expertise in your life. Trust Me, beloved, to take you to those green pastures where you will feed on the lushness of My word and drink from My refreshing stream of delight. That is what I have planned for you. That is where I am taking you.
So don’t beat yourself up when you fail. Simply say, “Father, I failed again in this endeavor, but I thank You that you are moving me out of this place of failure and into a place of success. Thank You, dear Lord, for removing that thing that besets Me and giving Me a new freedom to express My heart to you as I go about your work – your wonderful work – here on earth, of speaking your truth. You are my God, and I trust Your deliverance for me in the only way that You deliver it – totally, completely, and without a single hitch. Thank You, dear Father, for that knowledge, and thank You for working Your wondrous will in me!!!”
That is it, beloved. That is what I wanted to say on this subject of self discipline. Look forward to seeing My will manifest in your life and know the perfect peace that lies therein. I am your God. I love you, and I take much delight in you. I want you to know that one who follows My lead is never disappointed. One who follows My lead reaches his destiny, and that one I am certainly proud to call My very own. That is the gist of My feelings on this subject, dear child. Now, I want you to be free, for the one the Son sets free is free indeed, and that, beloved, is YOU!!!
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