Part 7 What should we be doing to be prepared for His coming?
This is the last part on my series on the signs of the times.
Introduction
I will put in the verses from Matthew 24:42-51 and Luke 12:35-49 Luke 21:29-36 about what we must do to stay alert.
Matthew 24:42-51
In the verses above the Lord Jesus Christ is warning those who are His that we must be awake, watching and to be alert always. That we must expect Him to come at any time for we do not know when He will come at what time day or night He will come.
We are to be expecting Him, to be watching out for Him and to be living in a manor worthy of Him. For His actual physical coming is our blessed hope for by His coming it will bring our redemption in full.
Hebrews 9:28
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Those who are in positions of authority such as pastors, teachers, Sunday School Teachers, elders, deacons, ladies ministries, counselors, youth pastors and even watch men and women. We must all be endeavoring to live for our Lord plus giving spiritual food to those God has entrusted to us to prepare them for the Day of the Lord as well.
We must not be like the lax, lazy steward who got drunk, beat up those servants who were under his authority and decided to live it up with those who are worthless. When Jesus comes back He will reward those who were good stewards over His house.
He will punish those who were not good stewards, He will whip them and cast them out into outer darkness. Though His punishments will be in accordance to whether or not the person knew the Lord's will or not and acted in accordance with whether they knew the Lord's will or not.
Yes Jesus will punish those who do not carry out His will and who do not look after those He has entrusted to them.
In section B of this part I will deal more in depth about the role of the watchman and watchwoman as doorkeepers watching out for the return of Jesus.
We must note and be aware also that Jesus will come upon those on the earth like a thief in the night. That we must not allow ourselves to be overwhelmed with what is happening on the earth nor should we be bowed down with the cares of this life and become like the world in its attitudes. For the Day of the Lord will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
In other words the Great Tribulation will affect everyone who is living on the earth at that point in time. It will not just be in a localized area of say the Middle East like some people might think or teach. No it will effect everyone on the earth.
That is why Jesus is telling those who will be alive at that time not to be disheartened but to be awake, alert and watching for His return and not to be caught out. For He will come like a thief upon those who are not watching out for Him.
I have already put these scriptures on Jesus coming upon the people on the earth like a thief in part B to the Interlude between Parts 5 & 6 but feel it is worthwhile putting them in again.
To remind people of the seriousness of the times we are living in not to be lax but to keep our wits about us and to remember we don't know when our Lord is coming.
However just because we don't know the exact hour of His coming though we do know the season and day the season being the Autumn Feasts and the Day the day being the Day of Atonement.
I have spoken about this in Part 5 about the coming of the Lord Jesus what it will be like and the season of His coming.
This not knowing the day or hour of His coming doesn't give us the excuse to goof off or be lazy. Or to be biblicaly ignorant or to be ignorant about bible prophecy and its importance.
Here are scriptures about Jesus coming like a thief in the night.
Matthew 24:42-51
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 12:35-49
35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Luke 21:29-36
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
We are to be expecting Him, to be watching out for Him and to be living in a manor worthy of Him. For His actual physical coming is our blessed hope for by His coming it will bring our redemption in full.
Hebrews 9:28
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Those who are in positions of authority such as pastors, teachers, Sunday School Teachers, elders, deacons, ladies ministries, counselors, youth pastors and even watch men and women. We must all be endeavoring to live for our Lord plus giving spiritual food to those God has entrusted to us to prepare them for the Day of the Lord as well.
We must not be like the lax, lazy steward who got drunk, beat up those servants who were under his authority and decided to live it up with those who are worthless. When Jesus comes back He will reward those who were good stewards over His house.
He will punish those who were not good stewards, He will whip them and cast them out into outer darkness. Though His punishments will be in accordance to whether or not the person knew the Lord's will or not and acted in accordance with whether they knew the Lord's will or not.
Yes Jesus will punish those who do not carry out His will and who do not look after those He has entrusted to them.
In section B of this part I will deal more in depth about the role of the watchman and watchwoman as doorkeepers watching out for the return of Jesus.
We must note and be aware also that Jesus will come upon those on the earth like a thief in the night. That we must not allow ourselves to be overwhelmed with what is happening on the earth nor should we be bowed down with the cares of this life and become like the world in its attitudes. For the Day of the Lord will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
In other words the Great Tribulation will affect everyone who is living on the earth at that point in time. It will not just be in a localized area of say the Middle East like some people might think or teach. No it will effect everyone on the earth.
That is why Jesus is telling those who will be alive at that time not to be disheartened but to be awake, alert and watching for His return and not to be caught out. For He will come like a thief upon those who are not watching out for Him.
I have already put these scriptures on Jesus coming upon the people on the earth like a thief in part B to the Interlude between Parts 5 & 6 but feel it is worthwhile putting them in again.
To remind people of the seriousness of the times we are living in not to be lax but to keep our wits about us and to remember we don't know when our Lord is coming.
However just because we don't know the exact hour of His coming though we do know the season and day the season being the Autumn Feasts and the Day the day being the Day of Atonement.
I have spoken about this in Part 5 about the coming of the Lord Jesus what it will be like and the season of His coming.
This not knowing the day or hour of His coming doesn't give us the excuse to goof off or be lazy. Or to be biblicaly ignorant or to be ignorant about bible prophecy and its importance.
Here are scriptures about Jesus coming like a thief in the night.
Day of the Lord being like a thief in the night.
Matthew 24:43-44
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Revelation 3:1-3
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Matthew 24:43-44
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
2 Peter 3:10-18
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Peter 3:10-18
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Revelation 3:1-3
1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Revelation 16:1515 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
I will break this last part on the series of the signs of the times into two sections.
Section A
Will comprise warning about websites that appear good on the surface but have other agendas.
A word of warning when reading this article from Prophecy News Watch please do not click on the links about the real fate of satan and the rest of the wicked.
I do not endorse their side advertisements or sale of questionable books, dvds for I feel that they are endorsing things that go against God and Jesus.
Here is an article warning about this man and his books.
And another article warning about this man and others.
Just read the article/s I give the links to from Prophecy News Watch and ignore the embedded advertising. Do not buy their books or dvds that they are promoting for they are dangerous.
I am afraid that Prophecy News Watch is speaking out of both sides of their mouth. They warn about dangers from homosexuality, or they give some useful insights in what is happening in the world re Israel, Iran, North Korea and the White House.
They are using these things on their blogs as a front for advertising links to books and dvds that promote heresies that are damnable.
I do not condone this at all. As I have said I only use their articles that are connected to what I am writing in warning about certain lifestyles or to inform people about what is happening in the world at large.
I am not into this I do not wish to tickle itching ears. I just want to write about what is in the bible. I have no wish to support that which will lead people into error.
All I can say is just read the articles themselves and ignore the links to the books / dvds that those who run the prophecy News Watch blog want to promote.
Or you can copy and paste the article onto a word doc if you want to keep the article to share with others. You can then delete the links to their books and dvds plus getting rid of the ads that are embedded in their articles. That way you have a very good article without these annoying ads that are detrimental to what the article is about.
Nor do I read all of the articles from Prophecy News Watch, I only select the ones that are relevant to put on my weblog.
Will comprise warning about websites that appear good on the surface but have other agendas.
Section B
Will consist of lessons I wrote about what we can do to be prepared for these trying times to stay alert and awake for the coming of the Lord.
Appendix
First of allI will give some verses out of Daniel 11.
Daniel 11:33-35
33 The wise among the people shall instruct many. Yet for many days they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by destruction. 34 Now when they fall, they shall be given a little help. But many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 35 Some of the wise will fall, so that they may be purged, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it is still for the appointed time.
These verses above speak about how some people tried to make a stand or in the future will try to make a stand against the evil king. They will try to stand for righteousness and God will allow them to do exploits in Him.
These people will be wise people who will know the times and understand the times they are living in to try and instruct others as well.
I know these verses are speaking about the Jewish people who will be living in this future time.
In my remarks below I will deal with it being to do with both the Jewish people who will be in Israel / Jerusalem at the time of the wicked King and the believers in Jesus from the Gentiles leading up to this time.
The verses in relation to the Jewish people who will be in Jerusalem at the time of this wicked king.
These wise people from among the Jewish people could be the priests, the orthodox Jews who may be open to the truth about Jesus as well and could very well be secret followers of His.
From these verses we see that there will be some people who are not really interested in standing for the Lord as their motives are not right. Some people will join these people and it will seem as though they are giving them help. Whereas they will not be helping them but hindering them thereby causing them to fall.
That they will join themselves to these wise people and will win them over with flatteries to get around them.
God will use this still for His glory and some of these Jewish people will possibly call upon Jesus and will be saved.
Or those who are Jesus's secret followers will possibly come more out into the open and be bold for Him and through their witness others may come to believe in Him. By this trial their faith may be proved and they themselves will be refined through the trial of their faith and they will be purified made white through believing in Jesus the true one as their Messiah. This will keep happening until the time of the end which is the return of Jesus to His land of Israel and to His city of Jerusalem.
It may be through their witness that others the remnant may end up calling for Jesus to save them when the armies of the nations finally do come up against Jerusalem to invade it.
The verses in relation to the Gentile followers of Jesus leading up to the time of the Great Tribulation
Like the future wise people among the Jewish people there will be wise people among the followers of Jesus from the Gentiles who know the times we are living in. They will be the watchmen and watch women warning of the times we are in.
Yet there will be people who will join with those who are genuinely wanting to stand for God's way, His truth and righteousness. These other people who want to join with those Godly people will pretend to help the Godly people and to alleviate any suspicion they may have concerning them they will try to get around them through flatteries.
By their flatteries the Godly people will be weakened in their stand for Jesus by the other people who are compromisers.
These compromisers in order to look good in people's eyes at the time they will join with, align themselves with those who are wanting to stand by the Lord and because of these other people who are not really interested in the things of God both sets of people will fall and be taken captive / put to death.
The reason why some of these people may join with the righteous people is to gain a following or to have some sort of influence over people, to look good.
The reverse may be true too whereas those who are wanting to stand for righteousness will join themselves to the compromisers to gain a following too to get what they believe in out in the open.
In order to get a following a platform to speak they may be willing to compromise on some things they believe in and know to be right in order to be heard.
This too will weaken them for they have compromised on the truth and then they are no different to the people who are false teachers by their willingness to join with them. So that they can be given a platform to speak from to become well known to gain fame in other words.
This is the case today where some people know that certain teaching may not be right but in order to gain a following or to get their voice heard.
To get their teaching out there they will compromise their stand on what they know is right. They will either not stand up for what they know to be right or compromise and speak against what they know to be right just to gain a platform an audience.
They will align themselves with false teachers just to be known.
Or false teachers will align themselves with Godly teachers to be known to get a wider audience in other words they will pretend to be ministers of righteousness in order to not only deceive people but to gain a larger audience. So that through deceit and subtlety they will worm their way into people lives.
This can be seen by people writing certain websites or prophecy news websites.
Let me explain what I mean.
I have noticed in my travels around the net in doing research for this weblog that certain websites while they are useful and appear on the surface to be very good in passing on information themselves from other sources.
I have noticed that some appear to be fronts for something else. That while they are giving an article of interest they are at the same time pushing questionable advertising about their own products that is not doctrinaly right.
That is why I am writing this section to warn you dear reader to be careful of everything you read, see, hear on the net. Jesus Himself said we are to be careful how we hear. If we hear right in the Spirit more will be given to us if not we will lose it for it will be taken from us. So we must have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying and discernment too.
Mark 4:23-25
18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
Even with what I put on the net check it out test it with the word. We are all human and make mistakes, get things wrong only God is perfect. Some people are out to deceive others deliberately. While others do so out of ignorance or unintentionally.
I am not out to deceive anyone I am wanting to expose the darkness as Paul admonishes those who love Christ to do so.
Ephesians 5:6-21
In case you think some of the websites, youtube videos I have referred you to as being of a questionable material or heretical and you may think that I am into such things.
I want to reassure that I am not into the beliefs that some websites or you tube videos may be espousing nor do I endorse or support them.
I am only passing on information that I find on the net from different sources and sometimes unfortunately embedded in these sources is some questionable material of what those who write the websites or makers of the You tube videos may believe in.
That is why I am warning you about some of the web sites or you tube videos. That is why I am telling you to test the spirits to check out all things.
Don't accept it because I have put it on my weblog.
Do your homework. Check out the websites for yourselves through the article link I have given to you in my blog posts. Or disregard it if you don't feel comfortable with it.
Look up the scriptures I give to you, seek the Lord ask Him to affirm what I am saying to you to show you if what I am writing is of Him or not. He will make it clear if what I am saying is of Him or not.
I do not subscribe to any of these websites or you tube channels except Mary Greeley I subscribe to her channel on Yellowstone that is the only person I subscribe to.
I don't get emails from the websites I go onto I am not linked to any of these websites you tube channels, though I have put some links up for people to go onto certain sites on my side bar in my blog.
I have done this because the links I give within the body of my writing does not become highlighted. So to help those reading the blog I have put some links on my blog for the sites I mostly use.
Other than that I have not linked myself personally through correspondence with the websites I have given that is what I mean I am not linked to these other websites on a personal level.
Nor are they linked to my blog, nor do I write on their forums. I am not on social media so I don't have a social media following. Nor am I making money from this weblog for I feel to make money from the weblog will be detrimental to what I am saying about the last days.
You cannot serve God and mammon. Christ should be our treasure for all of those who know Him as He is our inheritance and we are His.
So getting back to the websites to be careful of. Do read the articles but whatever you do, don't be tempted to click onto the links that appear in the body of the articles telling you to buy their books/dvds for what they are promoting is heretical.
Best thing to do is to copy and paste the article of interest onto a word doc, delete the advertising and you will have a very good article for future use to give to other people warning of what is to take place on the earth.
One such website to be careful of is Prophecy news watch for embedded in the news articles is advertising pushing their agenda. What they are into is not right doctrinaly it is off.
However as they gather news from different sources I find them useful for this reason.
I regard myself as a librarian of the net.
I find information and pass it on. Not every book in the library is helpful some are downright harmful, some are very good but some may be a mixture of good and bad. So that is how it is with some websites some are good, some are bad or harmful and some are a mixture.
I try to keep away from the bad/ harmful ones, pass on the good and warn about the mixtures. If I had put in a bad link on my post I will go back and will pull that bad link and put in a better one if I can find one.
To give an example of what I mean about Prophecy news watch I have put in the link to an article about Drag Queens and in that article was an advertisement about a book those who own the website were promoting.
I checked into it and found that the person behind the book that was being promoted in the article was part of the Armstrong Church of God. This is to be avoided at all costs hence my warning about not to go into the links advertising goods pushed by the owners of Prophecy News watch for this is a front to promote their heretical beliefs.
Do use the articles but keep away from the other stuff.
Here is an example of the article I am warning you about concerning Prophecy News watch.
Appendix
- YouTube videos about people coming of the Catholic church ie ex nuns giving their testimonies.
- Some more information about Derek Prince in relation to his teaching on Israel and New Order of Latter Rain / Word of Faith leanings.
Section A
Will comprise warning about websites that appear good on the surface but have other agendas.First of allI will give some verses out of Daniel 11.
Daniel 11:33-35
33 The wise among the people shall instruct many. Yet for many days they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by destruction. 34 Now when they fall, they shall be given a little help. But many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 35 Some of the wise will fall, so that they may be purged, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it is still for the appointed time.
These verses above speak about how some people tried to make a stand or in the future will try to make a stand against the evil king. They will try to stand for righteousness and God will allow them to do exploits in Him.
These people will be wise people who will know the times and understand the times they are living in to try and instruct others as well.
I know these verses are speaking about the Jewish people who will be living in this future time.
In my remarks below I will deal with it being to do with both the Jewish people who will be in Israel / Jerusalem at the time of the wicked King and the believers in Jesus from the Gentiles leading up to this time.
The verses in relation to the Jewish people who will be in Jerusalem at the time of this wicked king.
These wise people from among the Jewish people could be the priests, the orthodox Jews who may be open to the truth about Jesus as well and could very well be secret followers of His.
From these verses we see that there will be some people who are not really interested in standing for the Lord as their motives are not right. Some people will join these people and it will seem as though they are giving them help. Whereas they will not be helping them but hindering them thereby causing them to fall.
That they will join themselves to these wise people and will win them over with flatteries to get around them.
God will use this still for His glory and some of these Jewish people will possibly call upon Jesus and will be saved.
Or those who are Jesus's secret followers will possibly come more out into the open and be bold for Him and through their witness others may come to believe in Him. By this trial their faith may be proved and they themselves will be refined through the trial of their faith and they will be purified made white through believing in Jesus the true one as their Messiah. This will keep happening until the time of the end which is the return of Jesus to His land of Israel and to His city of Jerusalem.
It may be through their witness that others the remnant may end up calling for Jesus to save them when the armies of the nations finally do come up against Jerusalem to invade it.
The verses in relation to the Gentile followers of Jesus leading up to the time of the Great Tribulation
Like the future wise people among the Jewish people there will be wise people among the followers of Jesus from the Gentiles who know the times we are living in. They will be the watchmen and watch women warning of the times we are in.
Yet there will be people who will join with those who are genuinely wanting to stand for God's way, His truth and righteousness. These other people who want to join with those Godly people will pretend to help the Godly people and to alleviate any suspicion they may have concerning them they will try to get around them through flatteries.
By their flatteries the Godly people will be weakened in their stand for Jesus by the other people who are compromisers.
These compromisers in order to look good in people's eyes at the time they will join with, align themselves with those who are wanting to stand by the Lord and because of these other people who are not really interested in the things of God both sets of people will fall and be taken captive / put to death.
The reason why some of these people may join with the righteous people is to gain a following or to have some sort of influence over people, to look good.
The reverse may be true too whereas those who are wanting to stand for righteousness will join themselves to the compromisers to gain a following too to get what they believe in out in the open.
In order to get a following a platform to speak they may be willing to compromise on some things they believe in and know to be right in order to be heard.
This too will weaken them for they have compromised on the truth and then they are no different to the people who are false teachers by their willingness to join with them. So that they can be given a platform to speak from to become well known to gain fame in other words.
This is the case today where some people know that certain teaching may not be right but in order to gain a following or to get their voice heard.
To get their teaching out there they will compromise their stand on what they know is right. They will either not stand up for what they know to be right or compromise and speak against what they know to be right just to gain a platform an audience.
They will align themselves with false teachers just to be known.
Or false teachers will align themselves with Godly teachers to be known to get a wider audience in other words they will pretend to be ministers of righteousness in order to not only deceive people but to gain a larger audience. So that through deceit and subtlety they will worm their way into people lives.
This can be seen by people writing certain websites or prophecy news websites.
Let me explain what I mean.
I have noticed in my travels around the net in doing research for this weblog that certain websites while they are useful and appear on the surface to be very good in passing on information themselves from other sources.
I have noticed that some appear to be fronts for something else. That while they are giving an article of interest they are at the same time pushing questionable advertising about their own products that is not doctrinaly right.
That is why I am writing this section to warn you dear reader to be careful of everything you read, see, hear on the net. Jesus Himself said we are to be careful how we hear. If we hear right in the Spirit more will be given to us if not we will lose it for it will be taken from us. So we must have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying and discernment too.
Mark 4:23-25
23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Luke 8:1818 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
Even with what I put on the net check it out test it with the word. We are all human and make mistakes, get things wrong only God is perfect. Some people are out to deceive others deliberately. While others do so out of ignorance or unintentionally.
I am not out to deceive anyone I am wanting to expose the darkness as Paul admonishes those who love Christ to do so.
Ephesians 5:6-21
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
I want to reassure that I am not into the beliefs that some websites or you tube videos may be espousing nor do I endorse or support them.
I am only passing on information that I find on the net from different sources and sometimes unfortunately embedded in these sources is some questionable material of what those who write the websites or makers of the You tube videos may believe in.
That is why I am warning you about some of the web sites or you tube videos. That is why I am telling you to test the spirits to check out all things.
Don't accept it because I have put it on my weblog.
Do your homework. Check out the websites for yourselves through the article link I have given to you in my blog posts. Or disregard it if you don't feel comfortable with it.
Look up the scriptures I give to you, seek the Lord ask Him to affirm what I am saying to you to show you if what I am writing is of Him or not. He will make it clear if what I am saying is of Him or not.
I do not subscribe to any of these websites or you tube channels except Mary Greeley I subscribe to her channel on Yellowstone that is the only person I subscribe to.
I don't get emails from the websites I go onto I am not linked to any of these websites you tube channels, though I have put some links up for people to go onto certain sites on my side bar in my blog.
I have done this because the links I give within the body of my writing does not become highlighted. So to help those reading the blog I have put some links on my blog for the sites I mostly use.
Other than that I have not linked myself personally through correspondence with the websites I have given that is what I mean I am not linked to these other websites on a personal level.
Nor are they linked to my blog, nor do I write on their forums. I am not on social media so I don't have a social media following. Nor am I making money from this weblog for I feel to make money from the weblog will be detrimental to what I am saying about the last days.
So getting back to the websites to be careful of. Do read the articles but whatever you do, don't be tempted to click onto the links that appear in the body of the articles telling you to buy their books/dvds for what they are promoting is heretical.
Best thing to do is to copy and paste the article of interest onto a word doc, delete the advertising and you will have a very good article for future use to give to other people warning of what is to take place on the earth.
One such website to be careful of is Prophecy news watch for embedded in the news articles is advertising pushing their agenda. What they are into is not right doctrinaly it is off.
However as they gather news from different sources I find them useful for this reason.
I regard myself as a librarian of the net.
I find information and pass it on. Not every book in the library is helpful some are downright harmful, some are very good but some may be a mixture of good and bad. So that is how it is with some websites some are good, some are bad or harmful and some are a mixture.
I try to keep away from the bad/ harmful ones, pass on the good and warn about the mixtures. If I had put in a bad link on my post I will go back and will pull that bad link and put in a better one if I can find one.
To give an example of what I mean about Prophecy news watch I have put in the link to an article about Drag Queens and in that article was an advertisement about a book those who own the website were promoting.
I checked into it and found that the person behind the book that was being promoted in the article was part of the Armstrong Church of God. This is to be avoided at all costs hence my warning about not to go into the links advertising goods pushed by the owners of Prophecy News watch for this is a front to promote their heretical beliefs.
Do use the articles but keep away from the other stuff.
Here is an example of the article I am warning you about concerning Prophecy News watch.
It spreads! Drag queens teaching kids becomes phenomenon
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A word of warning when reading this article from Prophecy News Watch please do not click on the links about the real fate of satan and the rest of the wicked.
I do not endorse their side advertisements or sale of questionable books, dvds for I feel that they are endorsing things that go against God and Jesus.
This link that pops up is one such questionable side issue. Please ignore it for it has dangerous ideas and damnable heresies. It is Gnostic and possibly universal in its ideals this book that they are promoting.
Here is an article warning about this man and his books.
Thursday, October 12, 2017
http://watchmansbagpipes.blogspot.co.nz/2017/10/beware-of-joseph-farrah-and-joe-kovacs.html
And another article warning about this man and others.
A SHOCKING LACK OF DISCERNMENT: PROMOTING THE HERESIES OF HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
https://www.thebereancall.org/content/october-2012-extra-heresies-of-armstrong
Just read the article/s I give the links to from Prophecy News Watch and ignore the embedded advertising. Do not buy their books or dvds that they are promoting for they are dangerous.
I am afraid that Prophecy News Watch is speaking out of both sides of their mouth. They warn about dangers from homosexuality, or they give some useful insights in what is happening in the world re Israel, Iran, North Korea and the White House.
They are using these things on their blogs as a front for advertising links to books and dvds that promote heresies that are damnable.
I do not condone this at all. As I have said I only use their articles that are connected to what I am writing in warning about certain lifestyles or to inform people about what is happening in the world at large.
I do apologize for posting these Prophecy News Watch articles I didn't realize until recently what they were doing in promoting another Jesus through their books and dvds that they are into sensationalism.
I am not into this I do not wish to tickle itching ears. I just want to write about what is in the bible. I have no wish to support that which will lead people into error.
All I can say is just read the articles themselves and ignore the links to the books / dvds that those who run the prophecy News Watch blog want to promote.
Or you can copy and paste the article onto a word doc if you want to keep the article to share with others. You can then delete the links to their books and dvds plus getting rid of the ads that are embedded in their articles. That way you have a very good article without these annoying ads that are detrimental to what the article is about.
Nor do I read all of the articles from Prophecy News Watch, I only select the ones that are relevant to put on my weblog.
Another website to be aware of some things is Church watch.
Church-watch is a good apologetics website but they are into Calvinism which I am not and they don't believe or some of their writers don't believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit is for today. In other words they are Cessationists.
I am not a Cessationist, for I am Holy Spirit filled and do believe the gifts are for today but not the way the heretical NAR Kingdom Now people push their version of the gifts from a false spirit which is neither holy nor is their spirit the third person of the Godhead.
I do use their articles because I find them useful concerning the ecumenical unity the destruction of the Protestant faith and their warnings about the heretical NAR, the leaders of it and its history.
In spite of the things I have mentioned concerning them being Calvinist or Cessanonlist in their leanings. I would still recommend them for they do write very good articles and they are well researched.
I have written on some of their web posts but that was over two years ago when and only because the Lord wanted me to write a comment on their post. I haven't written anything since.
Another site to be careful of is the YouTube videos put out by a chap in Israel and he does videos on Israel.
His channel is called Israel News Live. There is nothing wrong with these videos though there have been some questionable things mentioned in a couple I have watched.
I would warn you to be careful of his teaching material. By all means watch his news broadcasts as he is in the Middle East he does have a good finger on the pulse.
What I do warn you about is be careful of when he talks about the book of Enoch, the Nephilim or any other possible Gnostic / Hebrew roots/ possible cabala connected things.
I have tried not to post too much of his things because of these questionable things he has pushed or mentioned in his videos.
The only reason why I have included his news videos is because he has access to information about Jerusalem and the Vatican that I don't have and it backs up what I have been writing on the weblog from other sources.
There could be other sites I have not mentioned that may have some questionable things in them but chiefly the other websites I have put in with the posts have been from pretty sound websites or from news sources such as Sky News Australia or from media sources or from Wikipedia.
I am only giving you a taste of what is out there and hopefully it will get you thinking and doing research for yourself and hopefully it will help you know what to look out for and to avoid what is harmful and to hang onto what is good.
Before I leave this section.
Here is an example of a supposed apologist going over to the dark side in other words he is hobnobbing with other religion's leaders and heretics. He has compromised the faith.
Apologist James White Draws Concerns After Holding, Defending Interfaith ‘Dialogue’ at Church With Muslim Imam
https://bereanresearch.org/apologist-james-white-draws-concerns-holding-defending-interfaith-dialogue-church-muslim-imam/
and from Churchwatch.
What happens to White when Brown hits the fan.
https://churchwatchcentral.com/2018/01/04/what-happens-to-white-when-brown-hits-the-fan/
and here is an example of a false teacher and others with heretical leanings wanting to look good in the eyes of the Christian community. They are doing this by establishing a Bible Museum. As Rick Warren is on the board of this museum what exactly is he and the others with him are promoting?
Are they promoting the true bible and key events from archaeology and other things or are they trying to promote the bible in another light a false light to show that Christianity and other faiths of the world are linked somehow and their version of the bible and bible events proves it.
I don't know but I don't trust anything with Rick Warren''s involvement nor will I support this museum that could be a front for other things not scripturaly sound but is in reality in opposition to the True God of Israel the author of the bible through the Holy Spirit inspiring the OT prophets and the NT apostles.
You can read about this bible museum here.
and here is an example of a false teacher and others with heretical leanings wanting to look good in the eyes of the Christian community. They are doing this by establishing a Bible Museum. As Rick Warren is on the board of this museum what exactly is he and the others with him are promoting?
Are they promoting the true bible and key events from archaeology and other things or are they trying to promote the bible in another light a false light to show that Christianity and other faiths of the world are linked somehow and their version of the bible and bible events proves it.
I don't know but I don't trust anything with Rick Warren''s involvement nor will I support this museum that could be a front for other things not scripturaly sound but is in reality in opposition to the True God of Israel the author of the bible through the Holy Spirit inspiring the OT prophets and the NT apostles.
You can read about this bible museum here.
Museum of the Bible Commentary
by Sandy Simpson, 1/3/18
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/MuseumoftheBibleCommentary.html
Section B
Will consist of lessons I wrote about what we can do to be prepared for these trying times to stay alert and awake for the coming of the Lord.
Before getting into the Bible study I will include a good article from Berean Research how to follow good New Years Resolution in growing strong in the Lord.
Now here is the bible study from Mark 13.
Bible study from Mark 13 Teaching notes on the Doorkeeper
Believers in Christ are also called to be watchmen and watch women.
⦁ What are believers to be on the watch for?
I have set out scriptures below showing what we are called to be on the watch / lookout for. Jesus often spoke in His end times discourses that we are to be on the lookout for false prophets, false christs and not to be deceived by them.
⦁ That we are to be awake and to be alert and watching for His coming for He will come at an hour we will least expect Him to.
Though He may tarry it doesn’t mean that we should fall asleep or become lax and to get drunk spiritually as well as physically drunk. No like good stewards of the house we must be awake and alert and teaching and preaching the word in season and out of season rightly handling the scriptures as a good workman or good workwoman of the word, building up the household of faith.
⦁ We will look at being a doorkeeper and how to build up the walls of the church to keep it safe from heresy. At the end of the lesson I will include scriptures on being a watch man or watchwoman and scriptures on prayer for you to study them for yourselves.
⦁ I got this brief bible study on the doorkeeper one Sunday morning when I was sitting in church. The Lord dropped the following thoughts into my mind.
⦁ The man going on a journey is the Lord Jesus Himself He is the one going on a journey. He has left earth and ascended back into heaven to wait until the time is right for His second appearing to bring in His kingdom.
⦁ That He has appointed different kinds of tasks to His servants down the centuries see Ephesians 4:11-16, Romans 12:9-12 and 1 Corinthians chapters 12 and 14.
A Bible study on the doorkeeper
Taken from Mark 13
Mark 13:28-37 Amplified Version
28 Now learn a lesson from the fig tree: as soon as its branch becomes tender and it puts forth its leaves, you recognize and know that summer is near.
29 So also, when you see these things happening, you may recognize and know that He is near, at [the very] door.
30 Surely I say to you, this generation (the whole multitude of people living at that one time) positively will not perish or pass away before all these things take place.
31 Heaven and earth will perish and pass away, but My words will not perish or pass away.
32 But of that day or that hour not a [single] person knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
33 Be on your guard [constantly alert], and watch and pray; for you do not know when the time will come.
34 It is like a man [already] going on a journey; when he leaves home, he puts his servants in charge, each with his particular task, and he gives orders to the doorkeeper to be constantly alert and on the watch.
35 Therefore watch (give strict attention, be cautious and alert), for you do not know when the Master of the house is coming—in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning—
36 [Watch, I say] lest He come suddenly and unexpectedly and find you asleep.
37 And what I say to you I say to everybody: Watch (give strict attention, be cautious, active, and alert)!
1 Who are the Doorkeepers?
⦁ You can say the door keepers could be people who are involved in prayer, who spend time with the Lord.
They may be people who are called to be watchmen and watch women watching out for and warning against the rise of false teachers, false apostles, false prophets in the church. Warning against apostasy, standing for the word of God.
They could be pastors, leaders of churches, bible study groups, anyone who is involved in ministry in the body of Christ.
Or people God does use in a watch person role and those in leadership in the body of Christ would do well to work with the watchmen and watch women whom God places in the body.
For they will be an asset to the leaders in being able to do research on things that could be harmful to the body that the busy leaders normally don't have time to do.
So if they work in with these people the body would be better protected from harm coming in through questionable teaching, prophecies or people coming in as wolves in sheep's clothing, false ministers of righteousness.
They are acting in a prophetic way by being the eyes and ears of the body through their research and through the time they spend with God in prayer getting insights from Him through His speaking to them from the word or through the Holy Spirit leading and guiding them in their research into questionable trends in the Christian community at large. So that they can warn the church that they attend of these harmful trends that need to be avoided.
The doorkeeper is one who gives good food to those who he is in charge of to make sure that they are well fed on the scriptures and knowledge of God.
They disciple those who they are in charge of in the ways of the Lord, teaching them on prayer, bible study to discern and test all things and how to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
⦁ However as the time grows closer to our Lord’s second appearing and as the day is growing late, the doorkeepers must not be asleep on the job but they must be awake even more so and not nod off or be abusive towards their fellow servants see Matthew 24:45-51 and Luke 12:35-48 for similar illustrations about being awake and watchful.
⦁ So the Lord Jesus Christ has gone back to heaven, He has appointed His servants to be about His Father’s business to be doing their allotted tasks in His house or being witnesses for Him bringing people into His house.
2 Role of the Doorkeeper
⦁ Now the doorkeeper has been given strict orders by Jesus to be on guard, to watching and alert, not to go to sleep.
He or she is the one responsible for letting people in and out of the door, He or she is the keeper of the house of God, and the watcher of the gate.
They are to make sure nothing profane enters into the house and to warn the servants the master is coming. He or she is the one who will let the master in to prepare the servants for His coming, so that they too won’t be caught unawares and napping.
⦁ So as the servants in the Lord's House are doing their allotted tasks the door keeper is watching for the Lord’s return to get the house ready for His coming.
They are like security guards they check people's credentials to see if they are eligible or not to enter the Lord's house to teach, preach to have influence in any way over the Lord's people.
In other words they must watch out for wolves in sheep's clothing and if they find them to warn the sheep about them. This is a watchman watch woman's role as being a door keeper.
In fact in the Temples in Jerusalem there were doorkeepers too and they made sure only those on temple business were allowed into the temple. Keeping a strict eye out for those who were not allowed into the Temple and removing them smartly if they did find them.
Some articles on the doorkeepers of the Tabernacle / temple.
3 The time is getting late and abusive stewards bad doorkeepers are now rising up
⦁ But wait the hour is getting late, many centuries have passed, the watchers are getting weary and letting their guard down, and the servants are getting tired, discouraged and grumpy at the delay of the Lord’s coming.
⦁ The door keepers are slacking off and allowing anything to pass muster and allow false teaching to come into the house of God anything goes why test it with the word let it all hang out. They are starting to party, getting drunk, having spiritual highs on questionable doctrines of demons and so called supernatural visits from angels or more like demons dressed as angels of light to deceive.
⦁ Many are growing tired and are falling asleep including the door keepers. They are saying why bother looking out for His appearing, He is tardy, we have many more centuries to go before He does come back,
His appearing is ages away yet so we can get drunk, play around and dance before the golden calf modern day false worship / drunk fests or abuse the servants be abusive towards those in their care or abusive towards those who stand for righteousness.
⦁ They will tell others to slack off, persecute those true believers of the word put them to death, get drunk, sleep around, play the fool in the house, beat up the servants and not feed them good stuff but pig swill. Even tell them that it is not true the gospel and let’s preach another one God won’t mind He wants us to be rich or to be happy and not keep up good morals but to lower our morals and accept anyone who names the name of Christ without checking their credentials with the word of God the scriptures.
⦁ So they accept all sorts of weird stuff prosperity doctrine, false revivals, kingdom now, replacement theology, same sex marriage, get drunk play rock music in the House of God.
4 The Good Steward / Doorkeeper their characteristics and the warning of Jesus to keep watch to be alert and awake.
⦁ Yet there are other door keepers who take seriously the things of God, they are awake and alert, they are watching and keeping their eyes on the times to understand what is happening and passing the warning onto those servants that they are working with.
⦁ They feed them good stuff from the word of God and from the Holy Spirit of God Himself. They sit at the feet of Jesus and learn from Him. They warn when danger is coming and are passing on information to be alert, they tell the servants to be watching and to keep looking out for the Lord for He is coming soon and not to fall asleep or give up.
⦁ They are the faithful ones the Lord will find waiting and watching for Him when He does come back and He will reward these faithful servants in the way the scripture describes and the faithless servants they will be recompensed with what their wicked actions deserve in accordance with the scripture.
⦁ The Lord Jesus says everyone must be awake both the door keeper and the servants but the greater responsibility to keep awake is on the doorkeeper.
⦁ This is a timely lesson for today when the Lord’s coming is drawing closer and the kingdom of darkness is getting ready to take over with a false peace treaty to be signed with Israel and the nations through the devil’s advocate the Jesuit white pope. Along with the false political/ military messiah that the Jews will welcome with open arms,believing that this man will be the messiah to come one like King David.
⦁ So reader beware and be awake and watching our Lord will be appearing very soon to set up His true, just righteous kingdom of Heaven in Israel with Jerusalem as the seat of His authority.
A Bible Study on repairing the breaches in the walls of the body of Christ
Teaching on being on guard against heresy
Study taken from the book of Nehemiah.
Nehemiah 4:11-23 Amplified Version
11 And our enemies said, They will not know or see till we come into their midst and kill them and stop the work.
12 And when the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, You must return [to guard our little villages]; from all places where they dwell they will be upon us.
13 So I set [armed men] behind the wall in places where it was least protected; I even thus used the people as families with their swords, spears, and bows.
14 I looked [them over] and rose up and said to the nobles and officials and the other people, Do not be afraid of the enemy; [earnestly] remember the Lord and imprint Him [on your minds], great and terrible, and [take from Him courage to] fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.
15 And when our enemies heard that their plot was known to us and that God had frustrated their purpose, we all returned to the wall, everyone to his work.
16 And from that time forth, half of my servants worked at the task, and the other half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail; and the leaders stood behind all the house of Judah.
17 Those who built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves so that everyone worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other hand,
18 And every builder had his sword girded by his side, and so worked. And he who sounded the trumpet was at my side.
19 And I said to the nobles and officials and the rest of the people, The work is great and scattered, and we are separated on the wall, one far from another.
20 In whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.
21 So we labored at the work while half of them held the spears from dawn until the stars came out.
22 At that time also I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that at night they may be a guard to us and a laborer during the day.
23 So none of us—I, my kinsmen, my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me—took off our clothes; each kept his weapon [in his hand for days].
A Background
⦁ Here is Nehemiah working to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. The enemies of the Lord those who were not of the house of Judah or Israel were plotting and scheming to hold up this work by attacking the people, they hoped to pick them off by attacking them at their work on the walls or in their villages.
⦁ They even tried to intimidate Nehemiah but he wouldn’t let them and neither would he let them intimidate the people from accomplishing the work of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.
⦁ If the people could be discouraged from finishing this work then the enemy would have achieved his goal.
⦁ Nehemiah set people with weapons to be behind those who were building up the walls or they worked with a weapon in their hand or sword girded on their side.
⦁ Nehemiah, his servants, his kinsmen and guards who followed him never took off their clothes; they may have rested but always were at their posts in building the wall.
⦁ They were ever on the alert, watching and on guard against their enemy. If one place was attacked Nehemiah had the person who blew the shofar, trumpet working beside him so that he could have the alarm sound that people were under attack and those who can could come to the aid of those being attacked.
A1 My Dream about Nehemiah
⦁ I had a dream about Nehemiah building up the walls of Jerusalem it was like I was watching this even on a TV screen in my dream.
⦁ In the dream I saw the walls being built up made of good solid stone like sandstone and Nehemiah and those working with him were down besides the walls in a dug out area like a pit laying or working at the foundation of the wall making sure it was strong.
⦁ There may have been more but that is all I can remember other than I could have seen a scene from either Ezra or Nehemiah’s life when they were in Jerusalem and I must have chosen to see something of Nehemiah and that is what I saw.
B How is the body of Christ to be like Nehemiah building the walls of Jerusalem?
⦁ We who are members of the body of Christ must be also on the lookout to build up the breaches in the walls of the body. Christ is building His temple after the model of the one in heaven of which those of us who belong to Him are lively stones that are added to this temple by Him.
⦁ Yet wolves in sheep’s clothing, false prophets, false apostles, false shepherds and false teachers are trying their best to pull down and destroy the true body of Christ by invading the body and polluting it with their heretical teaching.
C We are to be watchful
⦁ We need to be on the watch, to be alert and making sure we do support our Godly leaders by praying for them, submitting to them, and standing with them in their stand for the Lord and His word. Those who are not walking rightly in these things must be warned about what they are doing in the hope they will turn from their false beliefs and turn back to the truth.
⦁ We need to use wisely the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God that hangs on the belt of truth, we need to be clothed with Christ and His amour daily.
D We are to be armed in the Spirit and to know our enemy
⦁ Just as Nehemiah had weapons and had armed the people with weapons to fight physical enemies.
⦁ Some people worked with a weapon in hand. While others stood behind those working with weapons in hand on the ready to kill those enemies that would come on them in a surprise attack day or night. In an attempt to stop them from finishing the work of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.
⦁ So too we need to be on the alert to fight spiritual enemies. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but we fight against principalities and powers we are to pull down strongholds and bring them under the obedience of Christ. For our enemy walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he will to devour and pick off. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, Ephesians 6:10-18 and 1 Peter 5:8-10.
⦁ He attacks day or night and doesn’t care when or where, he is a subtle foe that gets us when we are weak, vulnerable, tired, sick, discouraged, he doesn’t care how he attacks, he just does through circumstances, work, friends, family the household of faith.
⦁ His main aim is to separate us from our beloved shepherd to make us lose heart, to cause us to doubt His love and to mistrust Him and thereby this will cause us to wander off and therefore makes us easy pickings for the wolves.
⦁ He will do everything in his power to make God out to be a liar, to cause lies to be spoken about God and His character making us doubt God’s care, love and concern for us and to doubt He exists or has power to help us.
⦁ He will cause distrust to grow between brethren and families and distrust between God and His people.
⦁ Satan is a sneaky foe and one we cannot fight on our own but must rely upon God to help us fight him as God knows what satan is like and knows how best to fight him.
⦁ Just as the people in Nehemiah were encouraged to remember that God is powerful and terrible and He will fight for them and to be encouraged in their God.
⦁ So too we must be encouraged in our God as well, that He will guide us, protect us and fight for us if we put our trust our absolute trust in Him.
F Our weapons and how we are to be clothed.
⦁ He has given us weapons that are not worldly or fleshly but they are spiritual weapons that are best suited to fight the enemy and by prayer keeping our lines of communication open to the Lord we can hope to overcome the enemy. Jude 20, Ephesians 6:10-18.
⦁ We need to know the word to overcome and defeat the enemy that is the sword of the Spirit Hebrews 4:12 the word of God and this sword hangs on the belt of Truth and we need to walk in all truth and be filled with the Spirit of Truth the Holy Spirit.
⦁ We need to be clothed with Christ daily being filled with the Holy Spirit daily so that we can be built up in Christ walking in love, we need to have our hearts covered with the breast plate of righteousness as Christ is our righteousness and this protects our hearts, we are to guard our hearts. Colossians 3:1-17, Ephesians 4:21-5:21, Romans 13:14, Galatians 3:27.
⦁ Our minds need to be in perfect peace for our God has not given us a spirit of fear but power, love and sound mind 2 Timothy 1:7 and He God will keep us in perfect peace who keep our minds (thoughts) on Him and trust in Him Isaiah 26:3-4.
⦁ We need to keep on our heads the helmet of salvation the blood of Christ covers us and our minds. We need to pull down every lofty thing that is arranged against us 2 Corinthians 10:4-5.
⦁ We are to protect ourselves also with the shield of faith or trust, we are to put our absolute trust / faith in our Lord and Saviour and His Father they will take care of us and will look after us if we look to Him alone.
⦁ He is a shield about us and a fortress and bulwark, several times in the Psalms it refers to God as a shield about those who love Him. Psalms 3:3, Psalm 91.
⦁ We are to wear the gospel shoes of shalom / peace to bring the good news of salvation to those around us to win them from the Kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of light. Our feet are beautiful feet that bring this good news of salvation and the coming kingdom of God to others.
⦁ Jesus had beautiful feet too as He brought the good news of the gospel of the Kingdom to the House of Israel, Isaiah 52:6-10.
G How to be good workmen
⦁ So we need to be good workmen knowing how to rightly handle the word to preach in season and out of season, to rebuke, correct, exalt, edify those whom we are speaking to and to be able to give a good reason for our faith.
⦁ We need how to handle the scriptures rightly as a good swordsman when to thrust, when to parry, when to be on the offensive or defensive to stand our ground and not be moved or shaken by events but to do all to stand firm in our faith and our trust in God.
⦁ Not to be afraid of the enemy and his hordes but to look beyond him to our God who is bigger than him and he the devil will be rewarded by being put into the lake of fire after the Great White Throne judgment between the old heaven and earth and the new one. 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 4:2, 1 Peter 3:13-17, Revelation 20:7-10.
H To be in constant pray and who we pray for.
⦁ We need to pray for our leaders over us pastors, teachers, youth leaders, prophets, watchmen and women.
⦁ Those who are prayer warriors or intercessors the true ones in the Lord, we are to encourage these leaders, pastors etc mentioned above and to lift their hands up in prayer like Aaron and Hur held up Moses hands in the battle against Amalek when he grew tired they sat him on a rock and held up his hands.
⦁ When they did this Joshua was able to defeat the enemy.
⦁ The attacks on our true leaders wears them down and wearies them and may cause them to be discouraged and want to give up.
⦁ They are on the coal face and are in the sights of the enemy for their stand in the Lord for truth and righteousness.
⦁ So we must be on guard also not to let the enemy get into our fellowship with false teaching and false prophecy or any other heretical thing, whether it is through books, dvds, home groups, youth groups, music, visiting speakers or even our pastors, elders or deacons.
⦁ The pastors, elders and deacons and worship leaders, youth pastors must be on the alert too for any false teaching that may come into the church through the various means listed above.
⦁ The key to being on the alert is to do research on the person that is being promoted through their books, dvds or conferences, check them out on the net through reliable web sites, ask around check out what they believe does it line up with the scriptures if not do not go near them.
⦁ We all must be watching and listening to the Holy Spirit to hear what He is saying and to test the spirits behind what is being taught.
⦁ Always ask questions, check things out don’t be afraid to question and voice any concerns you may have.
Don’t ignore the warning check in your spirit re false teaching or prophecy or leaders coming into the church. Be on guard against them.
⦁ Don’t ignore any check in the spirit you may have as this may be a warning a red flag from the Holy Spirit that what is being taught in the church, youth group, music team, home group is not from God.
⦁ Don’t go along with it if they say this is the latest prophecy from the Lord or this is what God wants no questions because if you do question you are quenching the Holy Spirit and are disobedient to God and this move won’t go ahead because of it being questioned, this is demonic reasoning.
⦁ God is not that weak He cannot handle questions rather He encourages open discussion.
⦁ Or don’t be put off if they say don’t judge or you are being a Pharisee it is because they are wanting to push the latest fad through from the US that could shipwreck not only the church but people’s faith.
⦁ They are not infallible and if they are truly hearing from the Lord there will be a peace in the Spirit about this.
⦁ The Lord Jesus will lead by His Holy Spirit He will not drive us into the new direction.
If something is really of the Lord He will reassure us that it is of Him and He will do this with love and kindness not harshly and the Lord is always open to questions Isaiah 1:18.
⦁ He doesn’t shut people down, nor does He bully them and tell them not to question or else they are judging.
⦁ If anything is of the Lord He will make it clear and plain, He is a God of order not of confusion, He does everything decently and in order 1 Corinthians 14:33.
⦁ The devil’s wisdom is of the earth and demonic and brings doubt and confusion. God’s wisdom is from above and brings peace and righteousness.
⦁ God is not the author of fear or intimidation and He will affirm anything that is of Him that is new in different ways and there will be a rest or peace about it. James 3:13-18, James 4:1-17, 1 John 4:1-6.
J Be aware of the devil’s tactics
⦁ The devil pushes, intimidates, bullies, abuses, nags and tells people not to question or to judge or test to see whether or not what is being taught or pushed through as being from God.
⦁ The devil drives and doesn’t give people time to think, he is always push, push, push he is driven and drives others.
⦁ People who don’t go along with the latest fad or false move are often are made to feel less than worthy or of any worth they are intimidated to join with the latest fad by being accused if you don’t you are quenching the Holy Spirit, you are a Pharisee, you are judgmental, you are not being obedient to God etc, etc, etc.
⦁ He accuses people; he stands over them and makes them break down in fear to be bullied to go the way the main group is going especially if the pastor or main leaders of the church is the driving force behind such a move.
K Check all things with the word of God the scriptures
⦁ All things need to be checked out and tested against the word of God and this is our yard stick to see if any new move is of the Lord.
⦁ If it doesn’t match up with the word the scriptures it needs to be thrown out straight away.
⦁ Heretical teaching must be guarded against at all costs to prevent it coming into the church for if it does it will leaven the whole lump and will lead people away from their Lord 1 Corinthians 5:6.
In Conclusion
⦁ So in conclusion we must stand guard with our weapons in our hands to guard against the evil day that is fast approaching and to protect our brothers and sisters in Christ, to build up the walls that the enemy is trying to breach to bring harm upon the true body of Christ. If we do this the Lord will work with us to protect His own.
Here is an article on how to protect the body of Christ against wolves in sheep's clothing, bad fruit and Jezebels. Don't worry about being called names by them. For they did the same thing to the true prophets and to Christ Himself name calling that is.
I have experienced this too myself in the different churches I have been to as well for my stand for rigtheousness.
Heresy Hunters Guide (Part 1): Why God has called Christians to be ‘Heresy Hunters’.
https://churchwatchcentral.com/2018/01/08/heresy-hunters-guide-part-1-why-god-has-called-christians-to-be-heresy-hunters/
⦁ Here are some of these scriptures on being watchmen and on prayer. You can use them in your own personal prayer time with the Lord.
⦁ I hope you have been blessed uplifted, strengthened and have grown through these lessons and that God has spoken to you too.
Scriptures on being a watchperson in the Lord.
1 God’s people must be watchful
A We must be watchful for ourselves and our nature of life
Deuteronomy 4:15
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
Psalm 39:1
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
1 Timothy 4:16
16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
B This is very important for false teachers.
Mark 13:5-6
5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Acts 20:28-31
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Philippians 3:2-3
2Bew are of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
2 John 8
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
C For those who divide the church
Romans 16:17
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
For hypocrites
Mark 12:38-40
38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:
40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
D For the Second coming of Jesus
Matthew 24:42-44
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 25:13
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
1 Thessalonians 5:5-6
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober
Revelation 16:15
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
2 How we must watch
A With prayer
Mark 14:38
38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Ephesians 6:18
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
B With alertness
Mark 13:33
33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
1 Thessalonians 5:6
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober
C With care not to fall into temptation
Mark 14:38
38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Galatians 6:1
1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
D With care not to forget what God had done
Deuteronomy 4:9
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
E With Hope
Micah 7:7
7 Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
F With Thankfulness
Colossians 4:2
2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
This completes the series on the signs of the end times. I do not ask you to follow me but to be followers of Christ Jesus.
My aim in writing this series was to help you the reader of this blog to understand the times we are now living in and to understand what is happening in the world from God's perspective through Bible prophecy.
To help you understand the importance of Israel and Jerusalem in connection to the return of Christ. So that when things start to happen on the earth, such as wars, disasters and other things that are in reality the birth pangs of the coming Kingdom of Christ or the Kingdom of heaven embodied in the return of Christ.
You will not be alarmed, frightened or taken by surprise. That you will be ready for the King and to give an answer for your faith should anyone ask you why you believe in Jesus and put your hope in Him in the face of such adversity.
For the days are getting spiritually darker and the enemy is going to come in like a flood that will overwhelm and take captive the world. He will be allowed to wage war against the saints and even to take them captive, vex, them, wear them down and put them to death.
Our saviour will come forth from heaven and He will fight the enemy with the sword that comes out of His mouth. He will not be overcome by the enemy but will overcome him and the hordes that will be following him.
However until Jesus returns we must stand with the Lord while we can do so and while we have the freedom to do so.
We know that in the last days that when the enemy comes in like a flood the Lord will raise a standard. We know that Jesus will be that standard that at His return He will destroy the enemy/and those who are fighting against Him.
Also He will bring the people of Israel back to their land through the nations bringing them back to Israel out of hiding in the nations during the time of the Great Tribulation. Plus He will be fighting for those Jews in Israel / Jerusalem who have called for Him to come from heaven to stand on the Mt of Olives.
Isaiah 59:19-20
What we can do while waiting for His return is to raise up the name of Jesus as a standard wherever we can and whenever we can must be our first priority even if it may mean losing our homes, our families being put in prison and even losing our lives in being put to death for our stand for Him and belief in His name.
We must never be ashamed of the Lord or His teaching but we must always be willing to stand for Him, to proclaim His name and lift it high while we have breath in our bodies to do so.
We may be born for such a time as this like Esther was and she save her people because she was willing to take that risk. God put her in the right place of influence that when He needed her and her people needed her. She was there and she fasted and prayed, got her people to fast and pray and God did the rest. You can read this in the book of Esther in the Old Testament.
There is a quote that says when "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". Edmund Burke
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/edmund_burke_377528
This is exactly what happened to allow Hitler to come to power and it is happening again. We must not allow evil to triumph though it may think it will triumph it won't.
We must not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:17-21
2 Some more information about Derek Prince in relation to his teaching on Israel and New Order of Latter Rain / Word of Faith leanings.
I feel in the Lord to include these last couple of items that you can pass onto others.
1 Youtube videos about people coming of the Catholic church ie ex nuns giving their testimonies.
If you have relatives with daughters who are thinking of going into nunneries. Please don't let them do so for it is not of God these places, they are places of torture and money making rackets for the harlot church system of Rome.
I will not say anything more but will let these women give their testimonies and let them speak to you and may the Lord open your eyes to the truth of what goes on in these places.
This is the written copy of the Youtube video.
The Sister Charlotte Keckler Story
http://jesus-messiah.com/charlotte/html/charlotte.html
2 Some more information about Derek Prince in relation to his teaching on Israel and New Order of Latter Rain / Word of Faith leanings.
I feel I need to say some more things about Derek Prince.
He was the one that was involved with four other men who founded the shepherding movement. This shepherding movement is still plaguing the church today especially those churches who are part of the NAR network of false apostles and false prophets.
Derek Prince was of the New Order of Latter Rain belief system and if he was alive today he will be affiliated with those churches connected to the NAR. For that is what the NOLR movement became they became the New Apostolic Reformation movement.
For one of the men of the Fort Lauderdale Five was heavily involved with William Branham he was his secretary and that man was Ern Baxter.
I will put some more articles on his involvement with the shepherding movement. This article is about the roots of the disciplining movement going back to the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages and ends with the Charismatic Movement this is where Derek Prince and Co come in.
He also possibly held to the false Word of Faith teaching that Jesus died spiritually and was born again in hell. I will put that article here:
That of the creation replacing the Creator ie the nation of Israel she is God's creation replacing Jesus that is she is replacing her Creator for Jesus created her before He came to the earth in the body that was prepared for Him to be born in.
Derek Prince has clouded the issues of Israel and believers in Christ, he has created a diphony between the body of Christ and Israel. Through what he taught he has caused confusion and cut Christ off from His people and he presented a Gentile Christ not a Hebrew / Jewish Christ. He kept people part of the wild olive tree instead of teaching people from the nations that we are part of the native olive tree through being grafted into the native olive tree which is Israel through faith in Christ.
Unfortunately a lot of ministries to do with Israel today follow this pattern they focus on the political not the spiritual. Nor do they acknowledge Jesus and teach how the things concerning Israel, the land, the people, the kingdom relate to Jesus as the Son of their God and that He is the new covenant and way back to their God who is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There seems to be a conspiracy to keep the people of Israel in the dark about WHO their real Messiah is. That the ministries in Jerusalem and in America chiefly plus others around the world are working to keep the people of Israel out of the kingdom.
That they are priming them to receive the false messiah that will come to Jerusalem through the help of the Roman Harlot.
A lot of the ministries in Jerusalem/ Israel and are supported by hordes of churches in the world are not witnessing to the Jewish people and one so called Televangelist is denying that Jesus is the Messiah of Israel. This is from the pit of hell.
You can read about this in the following weblink. The point of interest is part way down the page on this TV network supporting wolves in sheep's clothing.
WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: FALSE PROPHETS AND BIBLE TEACHERS IN THE LAST DAYS
REVELATION TV’S VALIDATION OF FALSE TEACHERS/PROPHETS
This segment speaks of John Hagee's joining with the Catholics and denial of Jesus as being Israel's Messiah. Derek Prince is also mentioned in passing.
The comment about the Christian Embassy of Jerusalem not witnessing to Jews is found in the comments section under Anonymous fifth comment down second paragraph.
WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: FALSE PROPHETS AND BIBLE TEACHERS IN THE LAST DAYS
https://bewareofthewolves.blogspot.co.nz/2014/11/revelation-tv-apostasy-and-occult-logo.html
In fact Jesus had strong words about this to the Pharisees of His day and these people are Pharisees too.
For Jesus said that you have the keys of the kingdom but you are stopping people from entering into the kingdom. That you go overseas to look for disciples and you make the ones you find twice the sons of hell.
Matthew 23:1-15
1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
The Lord showed me all of this this week when a friend of mine sent to me the following video clip from Derek Prince's ministry from YouTube. He told me to start watching it from the 15 minute mark. Which I did.
When I watched it I wrote the following email to him, I will put in what I wrote to him taking out the parts that are not relevant.
Shalom M
Before getting into the Bible study I will include a good article from Berean Research how to follow good New Years Resolution in growing strong in the Lord.
Resolutions: 6 Ways God Could Sanctify You in the New Year
https://bereanresearch.org/resolutions-6-ways-god-sanctify-new-year/
Bible study from Mark 13 Teaching notes on the Doorkeeper
- The Believer role as a watchman / watchwoman
- Watching unto the Coming of the Lord
- And different types of prayer and ways of praying in the scriptures
Believers in Christ are also called to be watchmen and watch women.
⦁ What are believers to be on the watch for?
I have set out scriptures below showing what we are called to be on the watch / lookout for. Jesus often spoke in His end times discourses that we are to be on the lookout for false prophets, false christs and not to be deceived by them.
⦁ That we are to be awake and to be alert and watching for His coming for He will come at an hour we will least expect Him to.
Though He may tarry it doesn’t mean that we should fall asleep or become lax and to get drunk spiritually as well as physically drunk. No like good stewards of the house we must be awake and alert and teaching and preaching the word in season and out of season rightly handling the scriptures as a good workman or good workwoman of the word, building up the household of faith.
⦁ We will look at being a doorkeeper and how to build up the walls of the church to keep it safe from heresy. At the end of the lesson I will include scriptures on being a watch man or watchwoman and scriptures on prayer for you to study them for yourselves.
Part One
⦁ I got this brief bible study on the doorkeeper one Sunday morning when I was sitting in church. The Lord dropped the following thoughts into my mind.
⦁ The man going on a journey is the Lord Jesus Himself He is the one going on a journey. He has left earth and ascended back into heaven to wait until the time is right for His second appearing to bring in His kingdom.
⦁ That He has appointed different kinds of tasks to His servants down the centuries see Ephesians 4:11-16, Romans 12:9-12 and 1 Corinthians chapters 12 and 14.
A Bible study on the doorkeeper
Taken from Mark 13
Mark 13:28-37 Amplified Version
28 Now learn a lesson from the fig tree: as soon as its branch becomes tender and it puts forth its leaves, you recognize and know that summer is near.
29 So also, when you see these things happening, you may recognize and know that He is near, at [the very] door.
30 Surely I say to you, this generation (the whole multitude of people living at that one time) positively will not perish or pass away before all these things take place.
31 Heaven and earth will perish and pass away, but My words will not perish or pass away.
32 But of that day or that hour not a [single] person knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
33 Be on your guard [constantly alert], and watch and pray; for you do not know when the time will come.
34 It is like a man [already] going on a journey; when he leaves home, he puts his servants in charge, each with his particular task, and he gives orders to the doorkeeper to be constantly alert and on the watch.
35 Therefore watch (give strict attention, be cautious and alert), for you do not know when the Master of the house is coming—in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning—
36 [Watch, I say] lest He come suddenly and unexpectedly and find you asleep.
37 And what I say to you I say to everybody: Watch (give strict attention, be cautious, active, and alert)!
1 Who are the Doorkeepers?
⦁ You can say the door keepers could be people who are involved in prayer, who spend time with the Lord.
They may be people who are called to be watchmen and watch women watching out for and warning against the rise of false teachers, false apostles, false prophets in the church. Warning against apostasy, standing for the word of God.
They could be pastors, leaders of churches, bible study groups, anyone who is involved in ministry in the body of Christ.
Or people God does use in a watch person role and those in leadership in the body of Christ would do well to work with the watchmen and watch women whom God places in the body.
For they will be an asset to the leaders in being able to do research on things that could be harmful to the body that the busy leaders normally don't have time to do.
So if they work in with these people the body would be better protected from harm coming in through questionable teaching, prophecies or people coming in as wolves in sheep's clothing, false ministers of righteousness.
They are acting in a prophetic way by being the eyes and ears of the body through their research and through the time they spend with God in prayer getting insights from Him through His speaking to them from the word or through the Holy Spirit leading and guiding them in their research into questionable trends in the Christian community at large. So that they can warn the church that they attend of these harmful trends that need to be avoided.
The doorkeeper is one who gives good food to those who he is in charge of to make sure that they are well fed on the scriptures and knowledge of God.
They disciple those who they are in charge of in the ways of the Lord, teaching them on prayer, bible study to discern and test all things and how to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
⦁ However as the time grows closer to our Lord’s second appearing and as the day is growing late, the doorkeepers must not be asleep on the job but they must be awake even more so and not nod off or be abusive towards their fellow servants see Matthew 24:45-51 and Luke 12:35-48 for similar illustrations about being awake and watchful.
⦁ So the Lord Jesus Christ has gone back to heaven, He has appointed His servants to be about His Father’s business to be doing their allotted tasks in His house or being witnesses for Him bringing people into His house.
2 Role of the Doorkeeper
⦁ Now the doorkeeper has been given strict orders by Jesus to be on guard, to watching and alert, not to go to sleep.
He or she is the one responsible for letting people in and out of the door, He or she is the keeper of the house of God, and the watcher of the gate.
They are to make sure nothing profane enters into the house and to warn the servants the master is coming. He or she is the one who will let the master in to prepare the servants for His coming, so that they too won’t be caught unawares and napping.
⦁ So as the servants in the Lord's House are doing their allotted tasks the door keeper is watching for the Lord’s return to get the house ready for His coming.
They are like security guards they check people's credentials to see if they are eligible or not to enter the Lord's house to teach, preach to have influence in any way over the Lord's people.
In other words they must watch out for wolves in sheep's clothing and if they find them to warn the sheep about them. This is a watchman watch woman's role as being a door keeper.
In fact in the Temples in Jerusalem there were doorkeepers too and they made sure only those on temple business were allowed into the temple. Keeping a strict eye out for those who were not allowed into the Temple and removing them smartly if they did find them.
Some articles on the doorkeepers of the Tabernacle / temple.
The Temple and Tabernacle Responsibilities of the Sons of Korah
https://www.ucg.org/beyond-today/the-temple-and-tabernacle-responsibilities-of-the-sons-of-korah
A Doorkeeper in the
House of My God
http://www.canadianreformedseminary.ca/files/Smith%20-%20Clarion%2061.23%20-%20A%20Door%20Keeper%20in%20My%20Father's%20House.pdf
What was the significance of gatekeepers in the Bible?
https://www.gotquestions.org/gatekeepers-in-the-Bible.html
⦁ But wait the hour is getting late, many centuries have passed, the watchers are getting weary and letting their guard down, and the servants are getting tired, discouraged and grumpy at the delay of the Lord’s coming.
⦁ The door keepers are slacking off and allowing anything to pass muster and allow false teaching to come into the house of God anything goes why test it with the word let it all hang out. They are starting to party, getting drunk, having spiritual highs on questionable doctrines of demons and so called supernatural visits from angels or more like demons dressed as angels of light to deceive.
⦁ Many are growing tired and are falling asleep including the door keepers. They are saying why bother looking out for His appearing, He is tardy, we have many more centuries to go before He does come back,
His appearing is ages away yet so we can get drunk, play around and dance before the golden calf modern day false worship / drunk fests or abuse the servants be abusive towards those in their care or abusive towards those who stand for righteousness.
⦁ They will tell others to slack off, persecute those true believers of the word put them to death, get drunk, sleep around, play the fool in the house, beat up the servants and not feed them good stuff but pig swill. Even tell them that it is not true the gospel and let’s preach another one God won’t mind He wants us to be rich or to be happy and not keep up good morals but to lower our morals and accept anyone who names the name of Christ without checking their credentials with the word of God the scriptures.
⦁ So they accept all sorts of weird stuff prosperity doctrine, false revivals, kingdom now, replacement theology, same sex marriage, get drunk play rock music in the House of God.
4 The Good Steward / Doorkeeper their characteristics and the warning of Jesus to keep watch to be alert and awake.
⦁ Yet there are other door keepers who take seriously the things of God, they are awake and alert, they are watching and keeping their eyes on the times to understand what is happening and passing the warning onto those servants that they are working with.
⦁ They feed them good stuff from the word of God and from the Holy Spirit of God Himself. They sit at the feet of Jesus and learn from Him. They warn when danger is coming and are passing on information to be alert, they tell the servants to be watching and to keep looking out for the Lord for He is coming soon and not to fall asleep or give up.
⦁ They are the faithful ones the Lord will find waiting and watching for Him when He does come back and He will reward these faithful servants in the way the scripture describes and the faithless servants they will be recompensed with what their wicked actions deserve in accordance with the scripture.
⦁ The Lord Jesus says everyone must be awake both the door keeper and the servants but the greater responsibility to keep awake is on the doorkeeper.
⦁ This is a timely lesson for today when the Lord’s coming is drawing closer and the kingdom of darkness is getting ready to take over with a false peace treaty to be signed with Israel and the nations through the devil’s advocate the Jesuit white pope. Along with the false political/ military messiah that the Jews will welcome with open arms,believing that this man will be the messiah to come one like King David.
⦁ So reader beware and be awake and watching our Lord will be appearing very soon to set up His true, just righteous kingdom of Heaven in Israel with Jerusalem as the seat of His authority.
Part Two
A Bible Study on repairing the breaches in the walls of the body of Christ
Teaching on being on guard against heresy
Study taken from the book of Nehemiah.
Nehemiah 4:11-23 Amplified Version
11 And our enemies said, They will not know or see till we come into their midst and kill them and stop the work.
12 And when the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, You must return [to guard our little villages]; from all places where they dwell they will be upon us.
13 So I set [armed men] behind the wall in places where it was least protected; I even thus used the people as families with their swords, spears, and bows.
14 I looked [them over] and rose up and said to the nobles and officials and the other people, Do not be afraid of the enemy; [earnestly] remember the Lord and imprint Him [on your minds], great and terrible, and [take from Him courage to] fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.
15 And when our enemies heard that their plot was known to us and that God had frustrated their purpose, we all returned to the wall, everyone to his work.
16 And from that time forth, half of my servants worked at the task, and the other half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail; and the leaders stood behind all the house of Judah.
17 Those who built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves so that everyone worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other hand,
18 And every builder had his sword girded by his side, and so worked. And he who sounded the trumpet was at my side.
19 And I said to the nobles and officials and the rest of the people, The work is great and scattered, and we are separated on the wall, one far from another.
20 In whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.
21 So we labored at the work while half of them held the spears from dawn until the stars came out.
22 At that time also I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that at night they may be a guard to us and a laborer during the day.
23 So none of us—I, my kinsmen, my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me—took off our clothes; each kept his weapon [in his hand for days].
A Background
⦁ Here is Nehemiah working to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. The enemies of the Lord those who were not of the house of Judah or Israel were plotting and scheming to hold up this work by attacking the people, they hoped to pick them off by attacking them at their work on the walls or in their villages.
⦁ They even tried to intimidate Nehemiah but he wouldn’t let them and neither would he let them intimidate the people from accomplishing the work of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.
⦁ If the people could be discouraged from finishing this work then the enemy would have achieved his goal.
⦁ Nehemiah set people with weapons to be behind those who were building up the walls or they worked with a weapon in their hand or sword girded on their side.
⦁ Nehemiah, his servants, his kinsmen and guards who followed him never took off their clothes; they may have rested but always were at their posts in building the wall.
⦁ They were ever on the alert, watching and on guard against their enemy. If one place was attacked Nehemiah had the person who blew the shofar, trumpet working beside him so that he could have the alarm sound that people were under attack and those who can could come to the aid of those being attacked.
A1 My Dream about Nehemiah
⦁ I had a dream about Nehemiah building up the walls of Jerusalem it was like I was watching this even on a TV screen in my dream.
⦁ In the dream I saw the walls being built up made of good solid stone like sandstone and Nehemiah and those working with him were down besides the walls in a dug out area like a pit laying or working at the foundation of the wall making sure it was strong.
⦁ There may have been more but that is all I can remember other than I could have seen a scene from either Ezra or Nehemiah’s life when they were in Jerusalem and I must have chosen to see something of Nehemiah and that is what I saw.
B How is the body of Christ to be like Nehemiah building the walls of Jerusalem?
⦁ We who are members of the body of Christ must be also on the lookout to build up the breaches in the walls of the body. Christ is building His temple after the model of the one in heaven of which those of us who belong to Him are lively stones that are added to this temple by Him.
⦁ Yet wolves in sheep’s clothing, false prophets, false apostles, false shepherds and false teachers are trying their best to pull down and destroy the true body of Christ by invading the body and polluting it with their heretical teaching.
C We are to be watchful
⦁ We need to be on the watch, to be alert and making sure we do support our Godly leaders by praying for them, submitting to them, and standing with them in their stand for the Lord and His word. Those who are not walking rightly in these things must be warned about what they are doing in the hope they will turn from their false beliefs and turn back to the truth.
⦁ We need to use wisely the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God that hangs on the belt of truth, we need to be clothed with Christ and His amour daily.
D We are to be armed in the Spirit and to know our enemy
⦁ Just as Nehemiah had weapons and had armed the people with weapons to fight physical enemies.
⦁ Some people worked with a weapon in hand. While others stood behind those working with weapons in hand on the ready to kill those enemies that would come on them in a surprise attack day or night. In an attempt to stop them from finishing the work of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.
⦁ So too we need to be on the alert to fight spiritual enemies. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but we fight against principalities and powers we are to pull down strongholds and bring them under the obedience of Christ. For our enemy walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he will to devour and pick off. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, Ephesians 6:10-18 and 1 Peter 5:8-10.
⦁ He attacks day or night and doesn’t care when or where, he is a subtle foe that gets us when we are weak, vulnerable, tired, sick, discouraged, he doesn’t care how he attacks, he just does through circumstances, work, friends, family the household of faith.
⦁ His main aim is to separate us from our beloved shepherd to make us lose heart, to cause us to doubt His love and to mistrust Him and thereby this will cause us to wander off and therefore makes us easy pickings for the wolves.
⦁ He will do everything in his power to make God out to be a liar, to cause lies to be spoken about God and His character making us doubt God’s care, love and concern for us and to doubt He exists or has power to help us.
⦁ He will cause distrust to grow between brethren and families and distrust between God and His people.
⦁ Satan is a sneaky foe and one we cannot fight on our own but must rely upon God to help us fight him as God knows what satan is like and knows how best to fight him.
⦁ Just as the people in Nehemiah were encouraged to remember that God is powerful and terrible and He will fight for them and to be encouraged in their God.
⦁ So too we must be encouraged in our God as well, that He will guide us, protect us and fight for us if we put our trust our absolute trust in Him.
F Our weapons and how we are to be clothed.
⦁ He has given us weapons that are not worldly or fleshly but they are spiritual weapons that are best suited to fight the enemy and by prayer keeping our lines of communication open to the Lord we can hope to overcome the enemy. Jude 20, Ephesians 6:10-18.
⦁ We need to know the word to overcome and defeat the enemy that is the sword of the Spirit Hebrews 4:12 the word of God and this sword hangs on the belt of Truth and we need to walk in all truth and be filled with the Spirit of Truth the Holy Spirit.
⦁ We need to be clothed with Christ daily being filled with the Holy Spirit daily so that we can be built up in Christ walking in love, we need to have our hearts covered with the breast plate of righteousness as Christ is our righteousness and this protects our hearts, we are to guard our hearts. Colossians 3:1-17, Ephesians 4:21-5:21, Romans 13:14, Galatians 3:27.
⦁ Our minds need to be in perfect peace for our God has not given us a spirit of fear but power, love and sound mind 2 Timothy 1:7 and He God will keep us in perfect peace who keep our minds (thoughts) on Him and trust in Him Isaiah 26:3-4.
⦁ We need to keep on our heads the helmet of salvation the blood of Christ covers us and our minds. We need to pull down every lofty thing that is arranged against us 2 Corinthians 10:4-5.
⦁ We are to protect ourselves also with the shield of faith or trust, we are to put our absolute trust / faith in our Lord and Saviour and His Father they will take care of us and will look after us if we look to Him alone.
⦁ He is a shield about us and a fortress and bulwark, several times in the Psalms it refers to God as a shield about those who love Him. Psalms 3:3, Psalm 91.
⦁ We are to wear the gospel shoes of shalom / peace to bring the good news of salvation to those around us to win them from the Kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of light. Our feet are beautiful feet that bring this good news of salvation and the coming kingdom of God to others.
⦁ Jesus had beautiful feet too as He brought the good news of the gospel of the Kingdom to the House of Israel, Isaiah 52:6-10.
G How to be good workmen
⦁ So we need to be good workmen knowing how to rightly handle the word to preach in season and out of season, to rebuke, correct, exalt, edify those whom we are speaking to and to be able to give a good reason for our faith.
⦁ We need how to handle the scriptures rightly as a good swordsman when to thrust, when to parry, when to be on the offensive or defensive to stand our ground and not be moved or shaken by events but to do all to stand firm in our faith and our trust in God.
⦁ Not to be afraid of the enemy and his hordes but to look beyond him to our God who is bigger than him and he the devil will be rewarded by being put into the lake of fire after the Great White Throne judgment between the old heaven and earth and the new one. 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 4:2, 1 Peter 3:13-17, Revelation 20:7-10.
H To be in constant pray and who we pray for.
⦁ We need to pray for our leaders over us pastors, teachers, youth leaders, prophets, watchmen and women.
⦁ Those who are prayer warriors or intercessors the true ones in the Lord, we are to encourage these leaders, pastors etc mentioned above and to lift their hands up in prayer like Aaron and Hur held up Moses hands in the battle against Amalek when he grew tired they sat him on a rock and held up his hands.
⦁ When they did this Joshua was able to defeat the enemy.
⦁ The attacks on our true leaders wears them down and wearies them and may cause them to be discouraged and want to give up.
⦁ They are on the coal face and are in the sights of the enemy for their stand in the Lord for truth and righteousness.
⦁ So we must be on guard also not to let the enemy get into our fellowship with false teaching and false prophecy or any other heretical thing, whether it is through books, dvds, home groups, youth groups, music, visiting speakers or even our pastors, elders or deacons.
⦁ The pastors, elders and deacons and worship leaders, youth pastors must be on the alert too for any false teaching that may come into the church through the various means listed above.
⦁ The key to being on the alert is to do research on the person that is being promoted through their books, dvds or conferences, check them out on the net through reliable web sites, ask around check out what they believe does it line up with the scriptures if not do not go near them.
⦁ We all must be watching and listening to the Holy Spirit to hear what He is saying and to test the spirits behind what is being taught.
⦁ Always ask questions, check things out don’t be afraid to question and voice any concerns you may have.
Don’t ignore the warning check in your spirit re false teaching or prophecy or leaders coming into the church. Be on guard against them.
⦁ Don’t ignore any check in the spirit you may have as this may be a warning a red flag from the Holy Spirit that what is being taught in the church, youth group, music team, home group is not from God.
⦁ Don’t go along with it if they say this is the latest prophecy from the Lord or this is what God wants no questions because if you do question you are quenching the Holy Spirit and are disobedient to God and this move won’t go ahead because of it being questioned, this is demonic reasoning.
⦁ God is not that weak He cannot handle questions rather He encourages open discussion.
⦁ Or don’t be put off if they say don’t judge or you are being a Pharisee it is because they are wanting to push the latest fad through from the US that could shipwreck not only the church but people’s faith.
⦁ They are not infallible and if they are truly hearing from the Lord there will be a peace in the Spirit about this.
⦁ The Lord Jesus will lead by His Holy Spirit He will not drive us into the new direction.
If something is really of the Lord He will reassure us that it is of Him and He will do this with love and kindness not harshly and the Lord is always open to questions Isaiah 1:18.
⦁ He doesn’t shut people down, nor does He bully them and tell them not to question or else they are judging.
⦁ If anything is of the Lord He will make it clear and plain, He is a God of order not of confusion, He does everything decently and in order 1 Corinthians 14:33.
⦁ The devil’s wisdom is of the earth and demonic and brings doubt and confusion. God’s wisdom is from above and brings peace and righteousness.
⦁ God is not the author of fear or intimidation and He will affirm anything that is of Him that is new in different ways and there will be a rest or peace about it. James 3:13-18, James 4:1-17, 1 John 4:1-6.
J Be aware of the devil’s tactics
⦁ The devil pushes, intimidates, bullies, abuses, nags and tells people not to question or to judge or test to see whether or not what is being taught or pushed through as being from God.
⦁ The devil drives and doesn’t give people time to think, he is always push, push, push he is driven and drives others.
⦁ People who don’t go along with the latest fad or false move are often are made to feel less than worthy or of any worth they are intimidated to join with the latest fad by being accused if you don’t you are quenching the Holy Spirit, you are a Pharisee, you are judgmental, you are not being obedient to God etc, etc, etc.
⦁ He accuses people; he stands over them and makes them break down in fear to be bullied to go the way the main group is going especially if the pastor or main leaders of the church is the driving force behind such a move.
K Check all things with the word of God the scriptures
⦁ All things need to be checked out and tested against the word of God and this is our yard stick to see if any new move is of the Lord.
⦁ If it doesn’t match up with the word the scriptures it needs to be thrown out straight away.
⦁ Heretical teaching must be guarded against at all costs to prevent it coming into the church for if it does it will leaven the whole lump and will lead people away from their Lord 1 Corinthians 5:6.
In Conclusion
⦁ So in conclusion we must stand guard with our weapons in our hands to guard against the evil day that is fast approaching and to protect our brothers and sisters in Christ, to build up the walls that the enemy is trying to breach to bring harm upon the true body of Christ. If we do this the Lord will work with us to protect His own.
Here is an article on how to protect the body of Christ against wolves in sheep's clothing, bad fruit and Jezebels. Don't worry about being called names by them. For they did the same thing to the true prophets and to Christ Himself name calling that is.
I have experienced this too myself in the different churches I have been to as well for my stand for rigtheousness.
Heresy Hunters Guide (Part 1): Why God has called Christians to be ‘Heresy Hunters’.
https://churchwatchcentral.com/2018/01/08/heresy-hunters-guide-part-1-why-god-has-called-christians-to-be-heresy-hunters/
⦁ Here are some of these scriptures on being watchmen and on prayer. You can use them in your own personal prayer time with the Lord.
⦁ I hope you have been blessed uplifted, strengthened and have grown through these lessons and that God has spoken to you too.
Scriptures on being a watchperson in the Lord.
1 God’s people must be watchful
A We must be watchful for ourselves and our nature of life
Deuteronomy 4:15
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
Psalm 39:1
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
1 Timothy 4:16
16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
B This is very important for false teachers.
Mark 13:5-6
5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Acts 20:28-31
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Philippians 3:2-3
2Bew are of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
2 John 8
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
C For those who divide the church
Romans 16:17
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
For hypocrites
Mark 12:38-40
38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:
40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
D For the Second coming of Jesus
Matthew 24:42-44
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 25:13
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
1 Thessalonians 5:5-6
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober
Revelation 16:15
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
2 How we must watch
A With prayer
Mark 14:38
38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Ephesians 6:18
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
B With alertness
Mark 13:33
33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
1 Thessalonians 5:6
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober
C With care not to fall into temptation
Mark 14:38
38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Galatians 6:1
1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
D With care not to forget what God had done
Deuteronomy 4:9
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
E With Hope
Micah 7:7
7 Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
F With Thankfulness
Colossians 4:2
2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
This completes the series on the signs of the end times. I do not ask you to follow me but to be followers of Christ Jesus.
My aim in writing this series was to help you the reader of this blog to understand the times we are now living in and to understand what is happening in the world from God's perspective through Bible prophecy.
To help you understand the importance of Israel and Jerusalem in connection to the return of Christ. So that when things start to happen on the earth, such as wars, disasters and other things that are in reality the birth pangs of the coming Kingdom of Christ or the Kingdom of heaven embodied in the return of Christ.
You will not be alarmed, frightened or taken by surprise. That you will be ready for the King and to give an answer for your faith should anyone ask you why you believe in Jesus and put your hope in Him in the face of such adversity.
For the days are getting spiritually darker and the enemy is going to come in like a flood that will overwhelm and take captive the world. He will be allowed to wage war against the saints and even to take them captive, vex, them, wear them down and put them to death.
Our saviour will come forth from heaven and He will fight the enemy with the sword that comes out of His mouth. He will not be overcome by the enemy but will overcome him and the hordes that will be following him.
However until Jesus returns we must stand with the Lord while we can do so and while we have the freedom to do so.
We know that in the last days that when the enemy comes in like a flood the Lord will raise a standard. We know that Jesus will be that standard that at His return He will destroy the enemy/and those who are fighting against Him.
Also He will bring the people of Israel back to their land through the nations bringing them back to Israel out of hiding in the nations during the time of the Great Tribulation. Plus He will be fighting for those Jews in Israel / Jerusalem who have called for Him to come from heaven to stand on the Mt of Olives.
Isaiah 59:19-20
19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
Jesus is that standard.What we can do while waiting for His return is to raise up the name of Jesus as a standard wherever we can and whenever we can must be our first priority even if it may mean losing our homes, our families being put in prison and even losing our lives in being put to death for our stand for Him and belief in His name.
We must never be ashamed of the Lord or His teaching but we must always be willing to stand for Him, to proclaim His name and lift it high while we have breath in our bodies to do so.
We may be born for such a time as this like Esther was and she save her people because she was willing to take that risk. God put her in the right place of influence that when He needed her and her people needed her. She was there and she fasted and prayed, got her people to fast and pray and God did the rest. You can read this in the book of Esther in the Old Testament.
There is a quote that says when "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". Edmund Burke
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/edmund_burke_377528
This is exactly what happened to allow Hitler to come to power and it is happening again. We must not allow evil to triumph though it may think it will triumph it won't.
We must not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:17-21
17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
- I was intending to make this the last blog post and leave it for a while. However the Lord has strongly impressed upon my spirit that He wants me to do more blog posts.
- One will be a postscript to this series on the signs of the times. It will be a rebuttal to those who don't believe we should concern ourselves about knowing the signs of Christ's return.
- Also the Lord has also very strongly impressed upon my spirit that He wants me to write about the significance of Jesus in connection to Israel, the covenants God made with Israel through the Patriarchs, the story of Joseph, the importance of the temple in connection to the coming of Jesus, the Atonement, God's covenant with David, Jesus as the New Covenant as Prophet, High Priest and King.
- This is what my King wants me to do and I must be obedient unto Him. To write the blog posts on the Significance of Jesus in connection to Israel as this is very important to Him to let people know about this truth in these last days.
- He indicated to me that I was not to just write about people teaching erroneously about the church and Israel being two different things and by their doing this they are leaving Jesus out of the picture.
- He sternly put into my spirit that if I don't offer an explanation as to why Jesus is an important connection to Israel that I am no better than the people I am writing a warning about.
- He said to me how do I expect people to understand why it is wrong to teach that the church is separate to Israel if I don't offer them the solution to this erroneous teaching.
- He wants me to give them the antidote to this poison by teaching them the truth about the connection of His Son Jesus to Israel, through the teaching series He has given to me on the Olive Tree Understanding Israel over the last seven and a bit years.
- He indicated to me that now is the time to bring this teaching out into the public forum through the Internet.
- That if I be obedient to Him in putting up the posts He will take care of the rest that He will watch over this work and not to worry about copyright for He will take care of that too. He will not allow people to take this work to make it their own for it is God's work it is not my work but His and it is Holy.
- I can verify that this work is holy and anything to do with Israel, Jerusalem and Jesus in connection to them is holy for God has dealt very strongly with me over the years the moment I had tried to make this work my own.
- I have to keep giving it back to Him and say it is yours and it is Holy, I cannot mishandle it so you will need to help me to carry it by giving me the strength to carry it. When I give it back to Him and pray like this He gives it back to me and gives me the strength and courage to go on.
- I may start another blog or keep using the same blog to write on the Significance of Jesus to Israel. I will use the material God has given to me over the last seven and a bit years to put on these blogs posts and I will include any articles that I feel relevant to go along with each bible study on the Significance of Jesus and Israel.
- In closing in regards to these posts on the signs of the times. They are for those who have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying.
- Before I close off this last post on the signs of the second coming of Jesus I will include an appendix.
Appendix
1 Youtube videos about people coming of the Catholic church ie ex nuns giving their testimonies.2 Some more information about Derek Prince in relation to his teaching on Israel and New Order of Latter Rain / Word of Faith leanings.
I feel in the Lord to include these last couple of items that you can pass onto others.
1 Youtube videos about people coming of the Catholic church ie ex nuns giving their testimonies.
If you have relatives with daughters who are thinking of going into nunneries. Please don't let them do so for it is not of God these places, they are places of torture and money making rackets for the harlot church system of Rome.
I will not say anything more but will let these women give their testimonies and let them speak to you and may the Lord open your eyes to the truth of what goes on in these places.
Dark secrets of the Catholic Church; Ex nun Confesses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WkKmU_W8NUThis is the written copy of the Youtube video.
The Sister Charlotte Keckler Story
http://jesus-messiah.com/charlotte/html/charlotte.html
FORMER ROMAN CATHOLIC "BRIDE OF
CHRIST" NUN TESTIFIES OF ABNORMAL LIFE IN THE CONVENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDAT_BgtnBc
2 Some more information about Derek Prince in relation to his teaching on Israel and New Order of Latter Rain / Word of Faith leanings.
I feel I need to say some more things about Derek Prince.
He was the one that was involved with four other men who founded the shepherding movement. This shepherding movement is still plaguing the church today especially those churches who are part of the NAR network of false apostles and false prophets.
Derek Prince was of the New Order of Latter Rain belief system and if he was alive today he will be affiliated with those churches connected to the NAR. For that is what the NOLR movement became they became the New Apostolic Reformation movement.
For one of the men of the Fort Lauderdale Five was heavily involved with William Branham he was his secretary and that man was Ern Baxter.
I will put some more articles on his involvement with the shepherding movement. This article is about the roots of the disciplining movement going back to the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages and ends with the Charismatic Movement this is where Derek Prince and Co come in.
The Disciplining Dilemma, Chapter 8
Roots of Modern Discipleship Movement
https://www.culteducation.com/group/983-international-church-of-christ/10146-the-discipling-dilemma-chapter-8.html
DID JESUS DIE SPIRITUALLY?
http://gentleshepherd.com/index.php/did-jesus-die-spiritually-2
Again the Lord has affirmed what I have written concerning Derek Prince being part of the Word of Faith movement and linked to the heretical NAR movement. The Lord led me today 7 January 2018 to another website that speaks about Derek Prince and the Shepherding movement and his involvement with Lou Engle and the Call. The same Lou Engle that is kissing the feet of a Catholic Priest in one of his huge rallies a few years ago.
You can read about this and watch the video clips here.
Again the Lord has affirmed what I have written concerning Derek Prince being part of the Word of Faith movement and linked to the heretical NAR movement. The Lord led me today 7 January 2018 to another website that speaks about Derek Prince and the Shepherding movement and his involvement with Lou Engle and the Call. The same Lou Engle that is kissing the feet of a Catholic Priest in one of his huge rallies a few years ago.
You can read about this and watch the video clips here.
http://hiswordfirst555.ning.com/group/wordoffaithmovementproclaimingthetruth/forum/topics/derek-prince-video
He is promoting his books more than the bible in this video.
So it is is quite possible that Derek Prince did believe and teach like the Word of Faith teachers such as Joyce Meyer that Jesus died spiritually it is just I haven't been able to track it down yet of him teaching or saying this. I am sure it is out there somewhere though.
He boasts about what he has done, more than giving credit to Jesus. I believe he got a lot of help to be well known through the world through his involvement with these false ministries.
When I heard his testimony in this video on the web link above there was no mention of his being convicted of sin and repenting of sin. It just sounds like he had a questionable paranormal experience. He spoke to this spiritual entity and assumed it was Jesus but was it?
What he describes sounds very much like what people say they experience in the many meetings of the false Word of Faith and NAR churches today. Also what he taught was based on false teaching through the NAR / WOF mob and Rome itself.
He taught leaven that has leavened the whole lump of Christendom especially the Pentecostal/ Charismatic circles and it has affected the whole world especially the African, Indian nations and other poor nations that have a heavy Roman influence. Was he a plant of Rome? I wonder.
Derek Prince was a well educated man, both before and after he got saved, yet he had the audacity to criticize those who are educated and he is educated himself.
What does he want people to be dumbed down so much that they have to buy his books and learn from them rather than from the scriptures. He is also pushing a religion of works is this coming from Rome or from the bible as he says?
Yes God does tell us to look after widows and orphans but is he pushing his false teaching on these people?
Is that why the Word of Faith and the NAR have orphanages in poor countries like Africa and India all the more to indoctrinate these people into the false christless little gods doctrines, and the health and wealth prosperity doctrines of the False Word of Faith and NAR mob.
Thereby making these people dependent upon these false churches so that through the handouts they receive from these churches. The church denomination that is based on Word of Faith doctrines have control over the people that are coming to them for help.
That the teaching they give them makes them dissatisfied with their lot in life and it cause them to want to be wealthy instead of looking to Jesus to satisfy them spiritually.
He says in this clip that Jews will be coming to Christ in a big way but they won't be until the Lord comes back and it will be only the remnant who will be saved. Yes there are messianic Jews today in large numbers but sadly like Jesus says even the elect will be deceived before He comes back.
That a lot of these precious brothers and sisters in the Lord from the House of Israel are being deceived through the lying false apostles and false prophets of the NAR and a lot are caught up with NAR churches and movements and also a lot are involved with Rome Jews for Jesus being one lot of Jewish ministries being caught up with Rome.
In fact the Jews have been so blinded by the harlot system that they think that the Roman Catholic church is part of Christianity and that Catholics are Christians. Whereas they are not. I even wrote to one such Jewish believer in Israel explaining that being born again is not being converted to Christianity or a church but it is being converted to Christ to being a disciple of His.
I wrote many other things in the email to him but all I got back was what I had written was very deep in other words they didn't understand what I wrote to them at all.
In fact a lot of ministries are objecting to people being called Christians who follow Christ from a Jewish background. They are more concerned with preserving the culture than becoming born again and being not of this world.
For Jesus saves us from this world to be His followers and to have His life and to be taken spiritually out of this world and its cultures that are corrupt. So that we can be citizens of heaven waiting for our Lord to return to set up the kingdom of heaven on earth based in Jerusalem.
Here is another web link showing the Timeline of heretical beliefs and Derek Prince is listed under the Shepherding movement.
What I will focus on is how he has hoodwinked the world into believing a false theology about Israel. That puts up the nation of Israel and puts down Jesus. In other words what he taught was replacement theology of another kind. He is promoting his books more than the bible in this video.
So it is is quite possible that Derek Prince did believe and teach like the Word of Faith teachers such as Joyce Meyer that Jesus died spiritually it is just I haven't been able to track it down yet of him teaching or saying this. I am sure it is out there somewhere though.
He boasts about what he has done, more than giving credit to Jesus. I believe he got a lot of help to be well known through the world through his involvement with these false ministries.
When I heard his testimony in this video on the web link above there was no mention of his being convicted of sin and repenting of sin. It just sounds like he had a questionable paranormal experience. He spoke to this spiritual entity and assumed it was Jesus but was it?
What he describes sounds very much like what people say they experience in the many meetings of the false Word of Faith and NAR churches today. Also what he taught was based on false teaching through the NAR / WOF mob and Rome itself.
He taught leaven that has leavened the whole lump of Christendom especially the Pentecostal/ Charismatic circles and it has affected the whole world especially the African, Indian nations and other poor nations that have a heavy Roman influence. Was he a plant of Rome? I wonder.
What does he want people to be dumbed down so much that they have to buy his books and learn from them rather than from the scriptures. He is also pushing a religion of works is this coming from Rome or from the bible as he says?
Yes God does tell us to look after widows and orphans but is he pushing his false teaching on these people?
Is that why the Word of Faith and the NAR have orphanages in poor countries like Africa and India all the more to indoctrinate these people into the false christless little gods doctrines, and the health and wealth prosperity doctrines of the False Word of Faith and NAR mob.
Thereby making these people dependent upon these false churches so that through the handouts they receive from these churches. The church denomination that is based on Word of Faith doctrines have control over the people that are coming to them for help.
That the teaching they give them makes them dissatisfied with their lot in life and it cause them to want to be wealthy instead of looking to Jesus to satisfy them spiritually.
That a lot of these precious brothers and sisters in the Lord from the House of Israel are being deceived through the lying false apostles and false prophets of the NAR and a lot are caught up with NAR churches and movements and also a lot are involved with Rome Jews for Jesus being one lot of Jewish ministries being caught up with Rome.
In fact the Jews have been so blinded by the harlot system that they think that the Roman Catholic church is part of Christianity and that Catholics are Christians. Whereas they are not. I even wrote to one such Jewish believer in Israel explaining that being born again is not being converted to Christianity or a church but it is being converted to Christ to being a disciple of His.
I wrote many other things in the email to him but all I got back was what I had written was very deep in other words they didn't understand what I wrote to them at all.
In fact a lot of ministries are objecting to people being called Christians who follow Christ from a Jewish background. They are more concerned with preserving the culture than becoming born again and being not of this world.
For Jesus saves us from this world to be His followers and to have His life and to be taken spiritually out of this world and its cultures that are corrupt. So that we can be citizens of heaven waiting for our Lord to return to set up the kingdom of heaven on earth based in Jerusalem.
Here is another web link showing the Timeline of heretical beliefs and Derek Prince is listed under the Shepherding movement.
Modern Heresy Timeline The Flow of Current Heretical Beliefs
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/modern.htm
That of the creation replacing the Creator ie the nation of Israel she is God's creation replacing Jesus that is she is replacing her Creator for Jesus created her before He came to the earth in the body that was prepared for Him to be born in.
Derek Prince has clouded the issues of Israel and believers in Christ, he has created a diphony between the body of Christ and Israel. Through what he taught he has caused confusion and cut Christ off from His people and he presented a Gentile Christ not a Hebrew / Jewish Christ. He kept people part of the wild olive tree instead of teaching people from the nations that we are part of the native olive tree through being grafted into the native olive tree which is Israel through faith in Christ.
Unfortunately a lot of ministries to do with Israel today follow this pattern they focus on the political not the spiritual. Nor do they acknowledge Jesus and teach how the things concerning Israel, the land, the people, the kingdom relate to Jesus as the Son of their God and that He is the new covenant and way back to their God who is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There seems to be a conspiracy to keep the people of Israel in the dark about WHO their real Messiah is. That the ministries in Jerusalem and in America chiefly plus others around the world are working to keep the people of Israel out of the kingdom.
That they are priming them to receive the false messiah that will come to Jerusalem through the help of the Roman Harlot.
A lot of the ministries in Jerusalem/ Israel and are supported by hordes of churches in the world are not witnessing to the Jewish people and one so called Televangelist is denying that Jesus is the Messiah of Israel. This is from the pit of hell.
You can read about this in the following weblink. The point of interest is part way down the page on this TV network supporting wolves in sheep's clothing.
WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: FALSE PROPHETS AND BIBLE TEACHERS IN THE LAST DAYS
REVELATION TV’S VALIDATION OF FALSE TEACHERS/PROPHETS
This segment speaks of John Hagee's joining with the Catholics and denial of Jesus as being Israel's Messiah. Derek Prince is also mentioned in passing.
The comment about the Christian Embassy of Jerusalem not witnessing to Jews is found in the comments section under Anonymous fifth comment down second paragraph.
WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: FALSE PROPHETS AND BIBLE TEACHERS IN THE LAST DAYS
https://bewareofthewolves.blogspot.co.nz/2014/11/revelation-tv-apostasy-and-occult-logo.html
In fact Jesus had strong words about this to the Pharisees of His day and these people are Pharisees too.
For Jesus said that you have the keys of the kingdom but you are stopping people from entering into the kingdom. That you go overseas to look for disciples and you make the ones you find twice the sons of hell.
Matthew 23:1-15
1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
The Lord showed me all of this this week when a friend of mine sent to me the following video clip from Derek Prince's ministry from YouTube. He told me to start watching it from the 15 minute mark. Which I did.
Derek Prince Teaching: The Place of Israel in God's Purposes(3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNQMMqIhnYWhen I watched it I wrote the following email to him, I will put in what I wrote to him taking out the parts that are not relevant.
Shalom M
He is a false teacher you mightn't think so but after hearing the last part of the you tube clip I know he is.
For he lifts up Israel but doesn't really lift up Jesus at all and he twists yes he twists the scripture in Isaiah 11 to make out that the banner is Israel when it is not the ensign is Jesus who is God Himself. Jesus is the root of Jesse, He is the root of David the branch that will be glorious that will draw all people to Himself including the people remnant of Israel.
Oh how clever he is in twisting the scriptures in this way. He has probably been told to say Israel instead of Jesus by those who he has been bought by namely the Vatican or the Jews who support the Vatican. For in my part 6 on Derek Prince I gave an article about Derek Prince and the others from the Lauderdale five meeting with a cardinal from the Vatican in the Holy land possibly in Jerusalem.
The people of Israel are blinded by the Lord and by satan as well and those who hate Jesus want to glorify the State but say nothing of Jesus. The land covenant is to do with Jesus as well as you know from what I had taught.
No mention of the Great Tribulation or the fact that like in the Holocaust the Jewish people were kept alive by believing and non believing Gentiles. So too during the Great Tribulation the believing and non believing Gentiles will be used by God to help preserve the remnant of the Jewish people alive in the nations and Israel.
Hence Jesus saying to the sheep nations in Matthew 25 when you did it to the least of these my brethren you did it to me that includes believers as well for we are His brethren through faith as well as the Jewish brethren by faith and by blood.
God will make Himself known somehow to the Jewish people when the last Gentile comes to faith at the end of the Great Tribulation for them meaning the Jewish people to call for Him to save them.
Jesus said He was to be lifted up not Israel I noticed that Derek Prince didn't say anything about Jesus being lifted up and who is Isaiah 11 speaking of at the beginning but the Lord Himself. Also it speaks about the holy mountain with the animals being at peace with each other when does this take place? It doesn't take place until Jesus returns and sets up His millennial kingdom. These people including Derek Prince who are New Order of the Latter Rain, Kingdom Now Dispensationalists because dispensationalists have joined with the Kingdom Now mob and they are in reality bringing in satan's kingdom not God's.
They are trying to make out that the gathering of Israel now is of the Lord and that we are in the millennial reign of Christ now. How stupid we are not in the millennial reign of Christ now they are trying to rob Him of His right to rule the earth by stealing this right from Him through their false teaching.
Nor has the tongue of the red sea been destroyed and other things mentioned in Isaiah 11 have taken place. Nor has the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem been turned back, they are still been held captive by the Arabs. Also Jerusalem still has to be trampled underfoot of the Gentiles during the last week of years the Great Tribulation with the antichrist sitting in the third temple has still to take place.
Makes me wonder whose side was Mr Prince on and how many billions of people has he poisoned with his false teaching and lies that will make it hard for the truth to be told.
I noticed subtly he was saying the separate plan for Israel and the church theory which is false again this divides Christ and makes Him to be a Gentile not a Jew it shuts Him out of His land and heritage. Boy that makes my blood boil in this heretical teaching. This is what God is up against satan's lies and scripture twisting.
Again why didn't Derek Prince witness to that Jewish lady to win her to Christ? Why didn't he explain that Jesus is her Messiah. How would God save the remnant except through revealing Christ as their New Covenant that cannot be broken to them but he doesn't mention this at all. So he gives people the impression that the Jews can be saved somehow outside of Christ. So this lady will go to hell not knowing Christ as her Messiah thanks to Derek Prince and how many other Jewish people did he send to hell too by not telling them from the scriptures who Jesus is.
What he did was a cop out oh God will save you when the last Gentile comes to faith at the end of the age what about those Jews who die in their sins before then? He has murdered God's people he has shut them out of the kingdom of God.
He tells people to do works but doesn't tell them to share the gospel with the Jews and yes we are to show them kindness as set out in Matthew 25 but this also applies to the Household of faith the believers in Christ Jew and Gentile as well. By saying this he was preaching the Catholic gospel of works oh the serpent was speaking through him alright the crafty creature. Derek Prince was a Roman tool and boy Rome must have loved him blinding so many people and preparing them for their false messiah and to worship the land of Israel while blocking the Jewish people from salvation. No clear explanation of how we are to win the Jews or how God was going to help them come to Him and what the covenant was and how it is Jesus. Nor was there anything said about the Tribulation at all mind you I didn't hear his other videos but I don't think he would say anything on these things. He has no clear eschatological stance he just would slide away from the issue when asked.
The trouble is Derek Prince has been idolized by too many people including a friend of mine over in Australia. He is not God neither am I, we are both limited in our knowledge only God isn't and it is time people woke up to the truth Derek Prince while he spoke truth on some things he was first and fore most a false teacher. He got people in by the truth he did share but once he got them he filled their bellies with the pig swill of lies and half truths from hell and his Catholic masters.
Now I know why God had me write all these articles and web posts it is to expose people like Derek Prince who was and those who are in the pay of Rome. How else did he get the funds to travel the world and spew forth this poisonous false teaching of the Word of Faith and ecumenical unity with the Catholic church of let's get into bed with the Harlot of Rome.
I will not bow down to this garbage but will expose it with every breath in my body.
Until the Lord either takes me home, or I get martyred or He comes for me.
Now here are the scriptures that he referred to in the video clip. I will put in bold those that pertain to Jesus Himself.
Yes I may use this clip in teaching down the track to show he is twisting scripture and lying to people glorifying a state that knows not her God yet but she is in readiness for a false messiah and to show how these scriptures apply to God Himself through His Son.
Before I put the scriptures down I will give the definition of Nazarene. It means branch and Jesus is the branch / root referred to in the scripture.
Nazarene [N] [S]
This epithet (Gr. Nazaraios) is applied to Christ only once ( Matthew 2:23 ). In all other cases the word is rendered "of Nazareth" ( Mark 1:24 ; 10:47 ; 14:67 , etc.). When this Greek designation was at first applied to our Lord, it was meant simply to denote the place of his residence. In course of time the word became a term of reproach. Thus the word "Nazarene" carries with it an allusion to those prophecies which speak of Christ as "despised of men" ( Isaiah 53:3 ). Some, however, think that in this name there is an allusion to the Hebrew netser , which signifies a branch or sprout. It is so applied to the Messiah ( Isaiah 11:1 ), i.e., he whom the prophets called the Netse , the "Branch."
The followers of Christ were called "the sect of Nazarenes" ( Acts 24:5 ). All over Palestine and Syria this name is still given to Christians. (See NAZARETH .)
The Lord's gathering of the people is to the ensign who is the root or branch. How can they or how dare he meaning Derek Prince say this is the nation of Israel. It says his meaning a person it speaks in the third person singular not a group of people or thing such as a nation. This is how the Jews whitewash the servant scriptures of Isaiah 42-53, they try to make out it is referring to the nation of Israel when God is speaking about a person that person being His Son who is the suffering servant.
If God hadn't taken me through the hard yards concerning this stuff that is touted by those who support Israel, over the last seven and a bit years I too would be now lapping this garbage up that itching ears love to hear. I too was duped by this at the beginning. Until the Lord started to educate me from the scriptures and showed me the truth it is about Jesus and Jesus alone concerning Israel and the two are closely interrelated you cannot separate them.
He was an enemy of Christ and Israel while pretending to be their friend. What a Judas and by the way God will deal with the nations when His Son returns what they are going through now is just a foretaste but He will deal with them for rejecting His Son too and that applies to the Jews who reject His offer of salvation through Jesus as well don't forget.
Isaiah 11:1-12
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. (This has not happened yet see Revelation 19, Joel 3, Zechariah 14, this is when Jesus sets up His kingdom)
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. (Has this happened yet? This is the millennial kingdom when Christ is throned in Jerusalem ruling Israel and the nations. Interesting they skip right over these verses above and just go to the part about the ensign blatantly ignoring the fact it is about Jesus.)
10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. (Again who is the root of Jesse? It is Jesus and we have sought Him through salvation by the cross and His again this is third person pronoun His rest shall be glorious. Again has this happened yet? No it hasn't it is still pending.)
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (This has not happened yet again it will take place when the remnant comes to the ensign of Christ at His return brought to Him by the nations see Isaiah 49 and Isaiah 60 again this is the millennial kingdom when Jesus is sorting out the nations in the Valley of Decision. Mr Prince is right Joel 3 goes with Matthew 25 and I have taught this in how it connects to the Tribulation period with you and P in 2016. Yes the Jews are gathered but think of it they want to have a war between the Jews and the Arabs to try and wipe out all of the Jews in Israel that is why they have gotten all of Israelites in one place now to try and wipe them out. It won't happen of course so when they don't win this war they will sue for peace the false peace of Daniel 9.)
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. (This will happen at the return of Christ)
This too is about Jesus as the ensign that God will raise up against the flood of satan and his hordes in the last days. The covenant in the last verse is the New Covenant who is Jesus of course. Derek Prince may have touched on this in his other videos but I am using these verses to show how it is Jesus who is the root / branch of Jesse/ David and that he is the One to be lifted up through His death on the cross.
Israel didn't die on the cross Jesus did. He died for her the land and the city of Jerusalem as well as her people and the Gentiles. This has been covered in the Interlude between parts 5 & 6 section A.
Isaiah 59:19-21
19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
(Who is being lifted up here Israel or Jesus?)
John 3:14-15 (Who is being lifted up here Israel or Jesus?)
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 12:31-33 (Jesus is being lifted up like a standard, and ensign)
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
I noticed Derek Prince didn't mention Romans 11:27 to the Jewish lady for she would be asking what does the covenant signify in this verse and how would the covenant take away their sins. This is about Jesus again. Derek Prince was lifting up Israel while he was demeaning putting down or ignoring Christ. This is a spirit of antichrist and I have found with a lot of these ministries that support Israel there is a very strong pro catholic spirit and a very strong antichrist spirit indeed.
A lot of the false New Apostolic Reformation people, Word of Faith people support Israel but they are in cahoots with Rome so I wouldn't trust any of them or their ministries now
I wouldn't give them time of day now they are enemies of Christ and His Father and enemies of Israel. They will be like Judas and will betray Israel one day when they won't do what they want.
Notice the verse 26 is similar to Isaiah 59:20 given above.
Notice the verse 26 is similar to Isaiah 59:20 given above.
Romans 11:25-27
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Revelation 5:5
5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Revelation 22:16
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
This is what I have been contending with the last seven years of so when I have tried to speak to people about Israel from what the Lord has shown me from the scriptures how it relates to Jesus being His Son and the Old Testament is all about Him.
That as soon as I start to speak I get cut dead by people who throw Derek Prince at me or some other false teacher. Their ears have become so dulled they have become deaf they have swallowed lies and God has given them over to the lies. People like Derek Prince has hardened people to the truth.
So God has to send His judgments and His true prophetic witnesses to wake people up or to get the man on the street and some within the churches who have not gone over to the dark side of apostasy completely. As I have often said even within the camp of Israel there are those who are for God and those who are against Him. Through what He has given to me He is separating people from within the church those who are for Israel as opposed to those who are not and even within those who are for Israel He is separating those again who are for Him from those who are not.
As many have been blinded by false teaching on Israel and the second coming of Jesus thanks to the secret pre tribulation rapture theory and dispensationalism teaching wich the secret rapture is part of and it is false teaching.
So I will use this video clip with the scriptures I have used in this email plus any more the Lord will give to me to show how wrong he is while it appears on the surface that he is right. Yet he is subtly moving people away from Christ to a Godless state that the Vatican wants to rule over from Jerusalem and there will be an unholy marriage between Trump and the Vatican he is the political / military power beast on which the harlot will ride.
Here endeth my sermon.
God Bless
Jenny
Here endeth my sermon.
God Bless
Jenny
As a friend once said about a cult that started near the town we currently live in how could something that seems so right be so wrong. I can say this is true of what Derek Prince taught concerning Israel and the church how can something that seems so right be so wrong and it is very wrong what he taught.
Only God can open people's eyes to this truth that Derek Prince taught half truths concerning Israel and the second coming of Christ. Let the Holy Spirit of God show you the truth concerning Israel and the second coming of Christ and the millennial kingdom that He is going to set up at His return which is the Kingdom of heaven.
Before I finish totally with this last segment of my last post. I will add some scripture to do with the word branch in them and these scriptures are in the Old Testament but when you read them please think of these scriptures as referring to Jesus.
Isaiah 4:2
2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
Jeremiah 23:5-6
5 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.
Jeremiah 33:15-16
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our righteousness.
Zechariah 3:8-9
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.
9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Zechariah 6:12-15
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the Lord.
15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.
Isaiah 53:1-2
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord Revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Matthew 2:23 AMP
23 He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled: He shall be called a Nazarene [Branch, Separated One].
Matthew 2:23 KJV
23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Revelation 5:1-5
23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Revelation 5:1-5
1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Revelation 22:16
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
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