We Must Be APPARENT Ambassadors, Truly

 The all seeing eye . . . the eye of Sauron is out and about, looking to devour . . . the truth is not in him.

God is so amazingly gracious and above and beyond the evil, the ubiquitous sin. . . .

The looking eye of the accuser, the mocker, the would-be judge . . . is ranging around to blaspheme God and thus blaspheme the believer's relationship with God.

We are obviously on a trajectory to where they are nearly able to clamp down on, subterfuge, pervert, tempt ANY efforts to keep spreading The Gospel.

We are ambassadors.  We must exemplify, BE APPARENT, regarding the purity, the honor, the righteousness, the Spirit Who is within us Who we Know--showing to, saving those, who are (apparently) headed for an horrific result.  Because of their love of evil and darkness. . . .  

We, as ambassadors of The Truth . . . strive to reveal and share THE ONLY SAVING TRUTH!

The rest go to hell.  (Sincerely, wouldn't wish it on my "worst enemy", having Seen it!).... Hence why the missionary Spirit would "crawl across broken glass for miles" (J.O. Sanders) in order to save even one soul from that pit of God bereft, self-seeking hell!

It is as serious and meaningful and touching and glorious as your (True) heart imagines.  You know this.

I know it.

Engagement with The Holy Spirit right now, right here, right today, everyday . . . is where it's at.  Where HE is at!  STRIVE!  PRESS ON!  PRAY, PRAY, PRAY! And talk to The Lord daily now!

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And, thank you my fellow pilgrims behind enemy lines, for granting me some encouragement and support.  Never not noticed, never not appreciated, and well beyond what I can convey here. . . .

GOD, El Shaddai . . . is THE ONE Who Truly SEES ALL!  ALL IS "RECORDED"!  All is noted, whether ill or submissively suffered and glorified in. . . .

Praises to God Almighty, and blessedly comradery among the Faithful.

We are to be ambassadors for the Truth we know in our Spiritual hearts.  In that, we must LOOK like and exemplify the revelation we've been given to know, such that others may wonder "what is it? that they HAVE!"

:) God bless you, God thank you, God strengthen you in these Sauronic days ahead!

 

   

Mystery Of Iniquity--Merry Christmas!

 God blesses you everyday, every waking moment . . . with air, water, light, beautiful amazing creatures all around, the sky, the verdant and snow-capped mountains, the grassy plains, the shadows, the joy of food and a million other things too oft taken for granted.  

Nothing is granted, but for God.

The most dreadful realization--should one be blessed to get it--is knowing what existence is like WITHOUT the presence and hope of God!  Anyone who has ever experienced it unanimously says "I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy."

And neither does God. . . .

One of the stumbling blocks for seekers is trying to sort out how a loving God, Who IS love, can allow or sanction or create or tolerate a place like Hell.

I've been especially lately asking Him to show me, let me understand this hard knot of truth--how to untie and (within my meager, fallen, broken understanding) reconcile. . . . NOT because I doubt the truth of it (although it has always been a bit of a spiritual puzzle) but, because I see and know how many others struggle to accept and appreciate it.  I accept it because it is simply in His Word whether I understand it or not.  So it is True.

The "mystery of iniquity" in general has long fascinated me, as I know it has also with many, seekers of God. . . .

One of the many, endless joys and fascinations with/about/for God in Heaven will be the unending revelations about the depth and holy mystery of His Being that encompasses all--in time and out of time.  It will go on and on and on, and not a single moment will be bereft of His glorious presence and meaning and being and relationship to His Created. . . . Some "day" we may perhaps be let in to See some small sliver of why and how He does what He does--for instance, the allowance of The Fall and Lucifer and a third of the angels going rogue. . . . 

In the meantime, this is what I've been Getting since I pressed in and asked, in hopes to get something and to share with the above-mentioned seekers/disciples/lovers-of-God . . . and for those others who also are simply stumped, mad and questioning. . . :

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Well, and I will just be able to relate in clunky words what I've Seen so far regarding this question, forgive me. . . .

IT IS that . . . He is Holy.  HE is perfect.  Nothing unclean can enter the Kingdom of Heaven.  It is what it is.  I AM THAT I AM.  Anyone who goes to a place WITHOUT the presence of God . . . desires to be WITHOUT the presence of God.  They know they deserve it.  They hated and denied God despite all of His obvious presence and blessings, even in this fallen mid-way realm/world.  Not only that, they blasphemed Him, rejected Him,--they don't want anything to do with Him.  Sooo, they get what want.  Forever.

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(More on this, God willing, fwiw:)  God bless you and I appreciate you so much!

 

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THE Gift This Season!

 The Holy Spirit is what's for Christmas this year.  That is what I'm getting, and God willing giving, from God. . . .

Everyone I know, who I've come across, who are in my day-to-day work-a-day world, acquaintances, neighbors, family, et al, are having an especially rough "Christmas" and in general, time at this time.

Old friends and family are lately dead or dying right now, people are struggling in all kinds of ways.

The Holy Spirit has been--through this season, and is even today--threshing me to the core.  It's kind of like "the great dressing down 2.0", "born again, AGAIN!"

There is no time for vain trivialities, baubles, distractions, false hopes, temporal fear, worldly anxieties, self-seeking, whining, complaining, ingratitude, hardness of heart, tradition, riding the fence/being lukewarm. . . . 

No. There is not time for that.

All there is . . . is to let all go that is not of and for God.  The end is nigh.

In Heaven, there IS NO END to the wonder, the awe, the love of God--walking personally with The Lord in His perfect Kingdom . . . where the trees bend and sing with the saints and the grass is vibrantly aware and also in the praise and worship of The Lord.  The flowers dance, the rocks adore, along with the saved, singing, praising, joyful . . . unending, in holy adoration and wonder and experience of the glory of God.  

THERE will be ALL that you ever craved, longed for, hoped for, imagined (that is good and lovely and beautiful and God-centered) is realized and found--the gift of gifts! . . . is awaiting . . . in Heaven

When the Spirit calls and reels you in--when the Fisherman hauls you in . . . . . . When the angels are out and about dropping off quick, terse (yet blessedly direct) messages . . . . When the call to discipleship is real, up-close and personal . . . . . When you know time is short and the reaper is prowling, coming to steal you away to shunt you down to Sheol to be tormented by the devil and his demons. . . . When the Holy Spirit is here to burn away all the rest of the dross you've yet been clutching like a fool . . . .  Know that that THIS is the time!  NOW is the day of salvation!

The separation is getting stark, hard . . . praise God!  The clarity of the difference between one or the other of THE ONLY TWO WAYS TO GO is being shouted from the Holy rooftops and watchtowers!

While material concerns and worries and wants and needs increase amidst the increasingly ubiquitous wicked tyranny--AS ALWAYS, where evil abounds, THE LORD ABOUNDS ALL THE MORE!  The darker it gets world-wise and interpersonally . . . the MORE HIS GLORY is found and shown and imbibable, because He will not, and does not leave us bereft of His presence and hope!  Even within the worst of raging storms, tempests and attacks and infiltrations, subterfuge, worldly stresses and pressures; "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

Strive, yearn, love, press toward God, and His Spirit will respond! That is what He wants!  He wants and grants that you may love and desire Him as He does you!  

In this murky, "through a glass darkly world" it does take effort, and patience in time, and pushing through . . . and He will sometimes make you wait, to test your sincere, desperate faith . . . wandering in the desert, or adrift in roiling seas . . . BUT THEN, you will see a light, like a far off lighthouse--faint, but twinkling light--and then it may dim or disappear amidst new high waves, darkness, sudden raging black cold showers . . . . BUT THEN, pressing onward, faithful face set against the enemy onslaught, you see, joyfully the light is closer, warmer! . . . . 

You keep focused on the light--it guides your course and you don't now dare take your eyes from it. . . .  Then it is showing nearer, brighter--obviously real, not a mirage!  It is on A ROCK!  There is a true, solid, safe haven!  AND you're finding yourself still drawing in to that shore, that long sought safe harbor, as you continue focus and pull ever nearer, crying out against the angry opposing gales--YES! you're being pulled inward by a force and power and will that supersedes all surrounding tempests combined!

The gift of the Holy Spirit this Christmas, this season . . . is greater than any gift being given in the world today.

 

 

Take The Heat Now! (and some other notes:)!

 

"These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." --John 16:33

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[Some notes, pen to paper, scraps that I've saved, last few weeks . . . which I felt compelled at the moment to jot down and share. . . . "Patience in the Bible means calmly enduring" . . . "If you don't (have patience, calmly endure) I will send you tribulation" . . . . . . . "Doctrines of demons have captured 'the church', widespread" . . . . . .. . . . "The burning of the 'chaff' is the Holy Spirit burning within each person--burning up all that is not of/for God--it's hot, but necessary" . . . . . . . "Suffering in your life comes from separation from God" . . . . . . . . "On earth as it is in Heaven, means . . . Heaven--God's Kingdom--is love--that is what we could have here on earth". . . . . ."The burning of the chaff is happening right now" . . . . . . "I love The Lord, it's Noah days--loving The Lord is the one way to get out of Hell to come" . . . . . "Here is some dilemma (for those who can't discern The Truth)--When the single evil instigator is controlling both sides of a conflict (ie., political/social/'religious' issues in the world)--where you are 'suppose' to pick a side--which side do you pick?" . . . . . ]

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The leading spiritual warfare weapons I am sharpening, holding, exercising desperately and intently these days . . . are Forgiveness, Gratitude, Love, Patience and constant striving to be in daily, hourly (at the very least) communication with, and love of, and worshipful astoundment of/toward The Lord, God of all!  

And . . . re the above scrappy notes... one of the heaviest of those that hit me, and keeps coming like a continuous lightning bolt from Heaven . . . is "the burning of the chaff is the Holy spirit burning within each (burning within YOU) which means . . . the Holy Spirit's work is to burn up, burn out, expunge ALL that is yet within YOU--that which is not Holy!  

Nothing unHoly can enter Heaven.  THAT is "be holy as I Am holy".... which . . . . 

We can't!--NOT without the loving sacrifice and suffering and holy blood shed on our behalf, through Jesus. .  . . So when you See just how perfect and holy we must be to enter the Kingdom--then, the depth and weight and shocking visceral gracious meaning of The Lamb's sacrifice becomes starker, and heavier and appreciated and beloved and craved and grateful for more and more and more and more and more!!!! Which HE LOVES! AND REWARDS! Through eternity!  Starting NOW!  

Yes, there is the general "burning of the chaff" going on in the world, on the macro level.  But that is just a reflection of what is actually going on among the lovers of God, God's Children, as they, within themselves, individuals, are experiencing and going along with the workings of the Holy Spirit--Who is working to intimately be involved within your mind and soul and even body . . . so to: reject, shun, dismiss, HATE ALL that is NOT of and for God and God alone!  

It's 'hot, but necessary'.

But it's NOWHERE... NO WHERE in NO WAY as hot as Hell--eternal separation from God!

Take the heat NOW!  BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

(and the hour is late!)!

Glorious Heaven Follows Forever--Who Do You Follow?

I would love your prayers.  I dare say, been under impish, but nevertheless demonic attacks of various kinds here.  I know it is widespread and intensifying, because also, the Lord and His angels are doing some last days intense separating work on the ground here these days.

Meantime, I will continue to go on record with my own testimony from what God has been kind and gracious and merciful to show me:  Heaven is real.  Hell is real.  These two ultimate destinations are more real than this intermediate realm, and should be, above all, purposefully considered more than ANY current earthly, worldly concern.  Nothing compares.  Not even close, either way. . . .

And I am praying for you as well!  I did last night. All night.  

We are in the thick of it.  It always is the time to fast and pray and love and serve and focus on The Lord--and it is also always pressing, as if today were especially THE day!  Tomorrow is not promised.  Time is short.  This life is hard and we are in hard times.

It's not so hard for those who "take the ticket", sell their souls out to Satan in this world.  In fact, they instantly get a boost--as I wrote in my song "Apollo Down" . . . "doors and locks start opening, a strange magnetic play".  That is where the temptation lies.  "Hey, things could go much better for you, if you just caved a bit--nothing crazy, just compromise a little, and you'll see that money, access, some power, some retrograde youthfulness look, and other opportunities to follow, will follow" is what the devil says. It's a sssss....ssss... the whispering of the snake, subtle at first, but then the venom and the kiss of death--the 2nd death.

Indeed, for those loving, repenting, seeking God, it is rough.   BUT it is nothing compared to the torment to follow if you aren't (loving, repenting, seeking God)!  And it is not worth speaking of, compared to what The Messiah suffered on our behalf.  I barely dare write it.

Many get their "heaven" here on earth.  But their endless hell follows. . . .

Few seek and find the narrow gate, and hell and it's demons will torment you on earth, as a sort of mini-hell experience . . . BUT then, for those who persevere, glorious Heaven follows forever. . . .

Warnings from watchtowers are flashing out all over, calling the saints to action.  A heart for the lost is especially needed in the time of lies, demonic propaganda, force, corruption, murder, pervasive evil. . . .

Blessedly Horrifying & Wrestling With The Angel

 I am having some intense ongoing "wrestling with the angel" experiences.  I've hesitated to write about it until (God willing) it is done. . . .

But this much I can say, I believe authorized just from today. . . .

That is, "Even the very numbers of your hairs are numbered.  Don't be afraid, fear not.  You are more valuable than many sparrows." 

His omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, forever astound and floor me.  AND, He is Love and He has what we call "a sense of humor".  And He is One to fear.  He is so deep, so complex, so beyond all--yet the all in all.  Words fail, but the heart doesn't, and is the bottom line way to express love of God, even if words fail, to experience and receive the joy of: one can love God as He loves us.  All Granted!

As far as the number of the hairs on your head, which He knows, He is saying in that verse two things that are eternal and, thus important to know.  If the number of the hairs are known to Him, YOU are extremely loved and valued by Him.  BUT, don't get too full of yourself.  You are more valuable than many sparrows.

Well, and along with these wrestling matches, it continues to be stressed that Hell is real.  And if you've ever seen a glimpse or experience of it, truly, you don't wish it on your worst enemy.  Thus, forgive your enemies, as YOU are forgiven by God.  We are to be Godly--imitate God's love and mercy.

He is Holy and Just.  Hence, as far as the wrestling matches have so far revealed, nothing impure, nor perfect, nor love . . . can be in The Kingdom.  And those who reject His love, and who actually hate and blaspheme and curse Him . . . go to their place . . . where they can do that for eternity.

It's blessedly horrifying.

love you, bro t