For all of those who are fighting a personal private battle, may the Lord strengthen and encourage you to trust and fight until you receive your breakthrough.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
The Whole Counsel of God
The first evidence of revival is a great desire to hear and obey the Word of the Lord.
“And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. . . . And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people . . . and when he opened it, all the people stood up” (Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5).
The cry of their hearts was, “Bring us the true Word of the Lord!” Ezra stood on a raised, wooden pulpit and read God’s Word for six hours while the multitude stood at attention, learning that the cause of their suffering was their own stubbornness and rebellion. The surest evidence of revival in a soul or a church or a city is a hunger for God’s Word.
Backslidden Christians don’t want to hear the Word—it bores them! What they want is excitement. Backslidden preachers don’t preach much of God’s Word; instead, they give short sermonettes. They don’t preach the Law because that produces conviction and shakes up the church! It makes compromisers squirm!If you are part of a church that is caught up in the ways of the world, then you are part of a worldly, carnal church...and it is keeping you worldly & carnal. Instead of the focus being on the truths of God, the church is busy with various "ministries" designed to entertain the soulish man. When Halloween comes around, they have a "Christian" Halloween celebration (even though there is no such thing). During football season, they have a Superbowl party. Such churches are proven in the ways of the world, but do not possess the light of Christ within needed to save the masses. It is truly the blind leading the blind. Only the Gospel is the power to save, not entertainment.
Where the Holy Spirit is at work, the people in the pew are clamoring for the Word. I get hundreds of letters from famished saints crying, “We are so hungry. We don’t hear the true Word. We get the dead letter with no anointing!” Where God is at work there are Bibles everywhere. There’s an excitement about preaching and teaching with a true reverence for the Word.
How sad it is that in many Charismatic churches, preaching is merely endured. They just want music, entertainment, and special singers on center stage! When the Holy Ghost comes, the Word will be hailed. The cry of the people will be, “Lord, I want it all: the good, the bad, the commandments, the promises, the whole counsel of God!”
You can tell me all about the homeless people you feed, the poor you support, the young men and women you lead, the people who respond to your altar calls, the favor God has shown your business dealings, the numbers who claim how your word/ministry has touched them and how God is working through you, etc. It is all dead works if the whole counsel of truth is not your foundation. If you are picking and choosing which words from God you will receive and preach, then you are a worker of iniquity even in light of your "wonderful works" (Matthew 7:21-23).
No matter how big, flashy, or "loving" a church seems. If they are not preaching the whole counsel of God, then it is Babylon. The fruit of any Godly ministry is going to set your affections on things above, and not the things of this world.
Pray for God to give you a broken spirit and to rid from you the desire to please the flesh so that you can be set free from false religion. Even those who may not be part of a church organization can still be some of the most religious people you will ever meet. Religion puts the real you behind a mask as you perform to try and prove you are what you claim.
When you are ready to stop pretending that everything is okay and be sincere before the Lord - even in your shortcomings - He will meet you there. There you will find your rest in Him and experience His life-changing power as He molds you from within, lifts every burden, and makes you a true witness for Him to lead others to Christ. Do not wait, for time is short.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
The Joy of the Lord
"[[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.]] The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!" Psalm 21:1
My family has been dealing with a situation for which we have been asking God for wisdom and guidance. This week, we have been meeting with "experts" at a center, seeking to understand the scope of what we are dealing with and options for addressing it.
Our first day at this center, a stranger approached me and started a conversation. In part she said, "This place is so anointed. The Lord has definitely led you to the right place." I said thank you and we parted ways. I then prayed in my heart to the Lord, "Lord, if that was supposed to be some kind of confirmation for me that we are to follow the advice of these people, then I am sorry but you are going to have to make it more clear than that. That just didn't do it for me."
The next day, another stranger came up to me and started speaking. In part, she said, "This place is just wonderful. I can't speak more highly of it. With the Lord's help, you will find all that you need here." Again, I responded, "Thank you." However, yet again, something was missing. While comforting, reassuring, and encouraging, the words these women spoke just did not resonate with my spirit. They were nice platitudes, but did not have the power that words from the Lord usually have.
You see, everybody has a "word from the Lord" these days, but they are not all from the Lord. We must seek to be in tune with God at all times in order to know what is of Him and what is not. A word is not from God just because it makes us feel good or tells us nice things we want to hear. The enemy himself can even transform himself into an angel of light in order to lead you astray (II Corinthians 11:14). A real word from the Lord will slam into our souls, confront our perceptions, and bring about a major change and assurance within us.
I began to question the Lord more urgently. "Lord, Friday is the day we get the feedback from these experts and their recommendations, yet I feel no closer to knowing what we should do."
"The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him." Exodus 15:2
While at that center Thursday morning, I was reflecting on God's word and His goodness. All of a sudden the Holy Spirit welled up within me and literally filled me with such amazing joy. It was such an unspeakable joy that I seriously thought I might start shouting praises to Him at the top of my voice right then and there.
I jokingly said to the Lord, "Lord, is this what it is like for you to return the joy of my salvation? I had better get a hold of myself or I am going to start shouting & dancing around this place right now and they will surely put me out!" But I honestly could not contain it; joy over the Lord was just bubbling up from my spirit. I began to pray out loud, thanking the Lord and praising Him, for I could not hold it in. I felt empowered to face and conquer anything; it was truly a supernatural experience.
"Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart." Psalm 32:11
By the end of that day, my joy had been forgotten and I was dejected; in pain, physically sick, and full of questions. "Why, Lord, was I in this situation? What was the purpose of all of this? It just doesn't make any sense." It had really been a trying day and I had been pushed to my physical limits. I still had no word which I felt was from the Lord. I was still as confused as ever abut what to do.
That night, my pastor sent me a link to the video below with a one word instruction, "Listen." And listen I did.
As I listened to Pastor Wilkerson speak about the importance of having joy while going through a trial - and not just when God brings you out of it - I knew it was a word from the Lord for me. It illustrated exactly what God had already shown me earlier that day. How could my pastor have known the message I needed to hear? How could he have known exactly when to send it? It could only be the Lord.
You see, that morning, I had been so filled with joy that I couldn't even think about my own circumstances. In the midst of a center filled with sickness, disease, and death, I felt like leaping for joy. I was overcome with thankfulness and gratitude for all the Lord had done for me, but most importantly, for Him being who He is.
So this is the kicker: what had happened by the end of the day? What had changed to cause my joy to fade? Was not the Lord still the same Comforter, Deliverer, and Almighty God I had praised in the morning? Absolutely He was. It was I who had changed, not Him. I realized that I had let my circumstances and what I was going through erode away my joy, and I became determined not to let that happen again. I will not again let the Devil steal my joy!
Yet, Satan doesn't give up easily. That night he sent me a nightmare where someone was chasing me and trying to kill me. He was trying once more to have a spirit of fear gain a stronghold in my heart. But when I awoke the Lord said, "Whose report will you believe?"
On Friday, we went back to that center changed. Instead of being overwrought with our own situation, we were renewed in faith. We actively prayed with and for others regarding whatever issues they had. My husband spoke with such vigor about the Lord, that it prompted others to ask, "Are you a preacher?" Neither were we fearful of the coming report from the "experts".
Yet as I said before, the Devil doesn't give up that easily. As we waited to hear the report, they brought in female chaplains from their "Pastoral Care" unit. Each of these women tried to use the Scriptures to get us to do what the experts felt we should do. They assured us that God allows us to make the choices in our lives. That God had placed these experts in our lives for a reason and we could just pray for God to have His hand in whatever they recommended. I don't have to pray to know God's will, they said, for God is with me and will be with whatever decision I make. These were all religious lies.
Let me tell you something: there is a major difference between religion and true relationship. Religion seeks its own way and deceives itself into believing that God will bless it. It attempts to use God like an accessory to bless what they already want to do in their defiled hearts, appending God to their desire to fulfill their own will. That is not faith. Those in true relationship with the Lord seek and desire to know His will, and obey that. True faith is trusting God and believing Him, even when you do not understand. There is a choice we face as Christians, but it is not a choice to do as we please with God's blessing. It is a choice to either obey Him or not.
Once we set this straight with the chaplains, the experts began with their report. As I listened to the report, it was abundantly clear how the hand of the Lord was with me...and had been throughout this entire trial. The situation we faced had not spread one bit, but had been unnaturally contained these past 7 years. The experts had no explanation for it. I was reminded of how even the oceans have to obey the Lord, going not where they please, but maintaining the boundaries established by the word of God (Job 38:11). I remembered how God gave Satan license to test Job, but placed limitations on what he was allowed to do. Satan not only needed permission from God, but he could not surpass the restraints God put upon him. Even in our trials, we are never at the mercy of the Devil, but God remains in control. Is there anything too hard for our God? There is absolutely not!
"Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy." I Chronicles 29:9
While there is much meat from Min. Wilkerson in this short sermon below, there were two things in particular that stood out to me personally.
In addition to the message below from Min. Wilkerson, here is a link to a message from his son: Jesus Can Still Do This.
Our first day at this center, a stranger approached me and started a conversation. In part she said, "This place is so anointed. The Lord has definitely led you to the right place." I said thank you and we parted ways. I then prayed in my heart to the Lord, "Lord, if that was supposed to be some kind of confirmation for me that we are to follow the advice of these people, then I am sorry but you are going to have to make it more clear than that. That just didn't do it for me."
The next day, another stranger came up to me and started speaking. In part, she said, "This place is just wonderful. I can't speak more highly of it. With the Lord's help, you will find all that you need here." Again, I responded, "Thank you." However, yet again, something was missing. While comforting, reassuring, and encouraging, the words these women spoke just did not resonate with my spirit. They were nice platitudes, but did not have the power that words from the Lord usually have.
You see, everybody has a "word from the Lord" these days, but they are not all from the Lord. We must seek to be in tune with God at all times in order to know what is of Him and what is not. A word is not from God just because it makes us feel good or tells us nice things we want to hear. The enemy himself can even transform himself into an angel of light in order to lead you astray (II Corinthians 11:14). A real word from the Lord will slam into our souls, confront our perceptions, and bring about a major change and assurance within us.
I began to question the Lord more urgently. "Lord, Friday is the day we get the feedback from these experts and their recommendations, yet I feel no closer to knowing what we should do."
While at that center Thursday morning, I was reflecting on God's word and His goodness. All of a sudden the Holy Spirit welled up within me and literally filled me with such amazing joy. It was such an unspeakable joy that I seriously thought I might start shouting praises to Him at the top of my voice right then and there.
I jokingly said to the Lord, "Lord, is this what it is like for you to return the joy of my salvation? I had better get a hold of myself or I am going to start shouting & dancing around this place right now and they will surely put me out!" But I honestly could not contain it; joy over the Lord was just bubbling up from my spirit. I began to pray out loud, thanking the Lord and praising Him, for I could not hold it in. I felt empowered to face and conquer anything; it was truly a supernatural experience.
"Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart." Psalm 32:11
By the end of that day, my joy had been forgotten and I was dejected; in pain, physically sick, and full of questions. "Why, Lord, was I in this situation? What was the purpose of all of this? It just doesn't make any sense." It had really been a trying day and I had been pushed to my physical limits. I still had no word which I felt was from the Lord. I was still as confused as ever abut what to do.
That night, my pastor sent me a link to the video below with a one word instruction, "Listen." And listen I did.
As I listened to Pastor Wilkerson speak about the importance of having joy while going through a trial - and not just when God brings you out of it - I knew it was a word from the Lord for me. It illustrated exactly what God had already shown me earlier that day. How could my pastor have known the message I needed to hear? How could he have known exactly when to send it? It could only be the Lord.
You see, that morning, I had been so filled with joy that I couldn't even think about my own circumstances. In the midst of a center filled with sickness, disease, and death, I felt like leaping for joy. I was overcome with thankfulness and gratitude for all the Lord had done for me, but most importantly, for Him being who He is.
So this is the kicker: what had happened by the end of the day? What had changed to cause my joy to fade? Was not the Lord still the same Comforter, Deliverer, and Almighty God I had praised in the morning? Absolutely He was. It was I who had changed, not Him. I realized that I had let my circumstances and what I was going through erode away my joy, and I became determined not to let that happen again. I will not again let the Devil steal my joy!
On Friday, we went back to that center changed. Instead of being overwrought with our own situation, we were renewed in faith. We actively prayed with and for others regarding whatever issues they had. My husband spoke with such vigor about the Lord, that it prompted others to ask, "Are you a preacher?" Neither were we fearful of the coming report from the "experts".
Yet as I said before, the Devil doesn't give up that easily. As we waited to hear the report, they brought in female chaplains from their "Pastoral Care" unit. Each of these women tried to use the Scriptures to get us to do what the experts felt we should do. They assured us that God allows us to make the choices in our lives. That God had placed these experts in our lives for a reason and we could just pray for God to have His hand in whatever they recommended. I don't have to pray to know God's will, they said, for God is with me and will be with whatever decision I make. These were all religious lies.
Let me tell you something: there is a major difference between religion and true relationship. Religion seeks its own way and deceives itself into believing that God will bless it. It attempts to use God like an accessory to bless what they already want to do in their defiled hearts, appending God to their desire to fulfill their own will. That is not faith. Those in true relationship with the Lord seek and desire to know His will, and obey that. True faith is trusting God and believing Him, even when you do not understand. There is a choice we face as Christians, but it is not a choice to do as we please with God's blessing. It is a choice to either obey Him or not.
Once we set this straight with the chaplains, the experts began with their report. As I listened to the report, it was abundantly clear how the hand of the Lord was with me...and had been throughout this entire trial. The situation we faced had not spread one bit, but had been unnaturally contained these past 7 years. The experts had no explanation for it. I was reminded of how even the oceans have to obey the Lord, going not where they please, but maintaining the boundaries established by the word of God (Job 38:11). I remembered how God gave Satan license to test Job, but placed limitations on what he was allowed to do. Satan not only needed permission from God, but he could not surpass the restraints God put upon him. Even in our trials, we are never at the mercy of the Devil, but God remains in control. Is there anything too hard for our God? There is absolutely not!
"Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy." I Chronicles 29:9
While there is much meat from Min. Wilkerson in this short sermon below, there were two things in particular that stood out to me personally.
- God has led you to this crisis.
This statement really gave me pause for consideration. I had to acknowledge that I had doubted at times. I had wondered whether the Lord had forsaken me, or whether I had somehow angered Him. The Devil had whispered in my ear many a times that God would not deliver me, that He had let me down and would not rescue me in my despair. That I could not depend upon or trust Him. Did I try to fight these thoughts? Yes! But they had served their purpose, sowing seeds of doubt in my soul. If it only takes the faith of a mustard seed to move mountains, then how much seed is needed to undermine our faith? I had not fully embraced that this situation was not a judgment against me, but one that God had ordained for His purposes to be fulfilled within and through me. Not all trials are the result of sin (John 9:1-3). Further, a deliverance that is seemingly delayed is not a deliverance denied. - Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him
At the end of the day, all that matters is that I please the Lord. I spoke to the experts and said, "My life is the Lord's and He can do with it whatsoever He chooses. I am not afraid of death. The only thing I fear is disobeying my Lord. I know that as long as I do His will, all will be worked out for my good."
My husband stated, "This present life is not all that there is. We need to be concerned with where we will go after this. This is not about playing games. I used to be a knucklehead before I got saved, but I know that Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father or one will be damned. These are sober times and we need to be for real with the Lord."
We preached to the experts for quite some time. Some of them stared at us with eyes of hatred while others listened. Yet, we spoke all that God put on our hearts and told them of His power, mercy, and grace.
In addition to the message below from Min. Wilkerson, here is a link to a message from his son: Jesus Can Still Do This.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Works of Darkness
God is extending His hand as foretold in the letters to the Churches in Revelation. The main theme? Repent!
Don't be swayed by doctrines of demons put forth to shipwreck your faith. Don't think that God will simply overlook wilfull sin; don't think such things will remain hidden. Jesus brings all hidden things done in darkness to light (I Corinthians 4:5). Don't think your church activity and "good works" will save you (Matthew 7:21-23). Don't believe that your previous diligence will protect you from your current malaise.
Jesus is the author of salvation for those who obey Him (Hebrews 5:9). Yet, even now there is a gentleman continuing to submit comments about how we don't have to obey God to be saved. How that is a "works" salvation when God says that it is a free gift and not of works. How we are eternally saved unconditionally. The Scripture is plain. It is staring him right in the face. Yet, he still cannot see the truths of God. Why? Because he is in sin. And this man is not alone.
If you are one of the ones continuing to post to this blog, but not seeing your comments approved, take that as a hint that you should move on. I will respond to sincere questions. Further, if the Lord tells me to approve such a comment for His purposes of addressing it for the benefit of others, I will. Otherwise, if a post is contentious or of the wrong spirit, it will not be approved.
Once again, there is only one problem man has with God, and that is sin. We will always be blinded to His truths until we bring forth fruits worthy for repentance (Matthew 3:8, Luke 3:8; Romans 8:7). Let's search our hearts and ensure that we are who we claim to be.
"And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." Galatians 5:24-25
"Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults." Psalm 19:12
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Works of Darkness
by Min. David Wilkerson
"If thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:23). Scripture makes it plain that hidden sins are "works of darkness." We know from God's Word that light has no communion with darkness.
The Lord suffers greatly whenever hidden sin brings gross darkness upon our souls. And nothing grieves Him more than when we resist and reject His warnings and convictions. Consider this tragic case described in a letter we received:
"My husband has given himself over completely to Internet pornography. Now I've filed for divorce, and he doesn't even care. We were happily married for twenty-five years before all this happened. I couldn't understand why he spent so much time shut up in his room with his computer. Then one day I walked in and was shocked by the ugly filth I saw on the screen.
"He became obsessed. His personality changed, and a meanness came over him. I knew he was addicted. He said, 'I can't help it. I'm going to do as I please.'"
The apostle Paul directs a horrifying statement to those who walk "in the vanity of their mind" (Ephesians 4:17). Such people justify their sin, no longer seeking deliverance from it. Paul says of them: "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart" (verse 18).
How did they become so dark and blinded? They fell under a blindness that comes upon all who give themselves over to sin: "Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness" (verse 19).
John Owen, the Puritan writer, spells out the tragic result: "A man under the power of some predominant lust is under false security and does not discern coming perilous times."
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Your Cross Is Meant to Bring You to Self-Denial
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It goes hand in hand with the message from yesterday. I hope that both messages encourage you to draw closer still to the Lord and experience His saving power in your life.
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You Cannot Carry Your Own Cross
It's very true that Jesus said to His disciples, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me." But Jesus could not carry His cross - and neither can you! Jesus fell under the load of His cross, weary, exhausted, and unable to carry it another step. John said, "And he bearing his cross went forth into a place...called Golgotha" (John 19:17). the Bible doesn't tell us how far Jesus carried His cross. We do know they compelled Simon, the Cyrene, to pick it up and carry it to the place of crucifixion (Matthew 27:32).
Jesus did take up His cross and was led by His tormentors like a lamb to be slain. But He could not carry it for long. The truth is, Jesus was too weak and frail to carry His cross. It was laid on another's shoulder. He had reached the end of His endurance. He was a physically broken and wounded man. There is only so much one person can take. There is a breaking point. Why did they compel Simon to pick up that cross? Was Jesus lying on those cobblestone streets like a lifeless man, with the cross lying over him like dead weight? Did they kick Him, try to prop Him up, and attempt to force Him a step further? But did He just lie there, with not enough strength to move an inch? His cross had become too heavy to bear.
What does this mean to us? Would our Lord make us do something He could not do? Did He not say, "...whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple?" (Luke 14:27). A cross is a cross, be it wooden or spiritual. It is not enough to say, "His cross was different - our cross is spiritual."
Personally, it gives me great hope to know that Jesus could not take up His own cross. It encourages me to know that I am not the only one burdened down to the ground at times, unable to go on in my own strength. If we are going to identify with His crucifixion, we must also identify with the steps that led to the cross. We must face, once and for all, the truth that no human being can carry his own cross.
Don't look for some hidden interpretation; Jesus knew exactly what He was saying when He called us to "take up our cross and follow Him." He remembers His own cross. He remembers that another had to carry it for Him. Why then would He ask us to shoulder a cross He knows will soon crush us to the ground? He knows we can't carry it all the way, in our own strength. He knows all about the agony, the helplessness, the burden that crosses create.
There is a truth hidden here that we must uncover. It is a truth so powerful and edifying, it could change the way we look at all our troubles and hurts. And even though it almost sounds sacrilegious to suggest Jesus did not carry His own cross, that is the truth. What it means to us today is that Jesus, who is touched by the feelings of our infirmities, must experience for Himself what it is like to be weak, discouraged and unable to go on without help. He was in all points tempted just as we are. The temptation is not in failing, not in laying down the cross because of weakness; the real temptation is in trying to pick up that cross and carry it on in our own strength. God could have supernaturally lifted that cross and magically levitated it all the way to Calvary. Then, too, He could have taken the weight out of the cross and made it featherlike. But He did not. The crucifixion scene was not a series of blunders, and though Christ died at the hands of sinners, the entire plan was borne in the heart of God from the foundation of the world. God put Simon there, ready to play his part in the plan of redemption. God was not caught by surprise when His Son could no longer carry the cross and thus fulfill prophecy. God knew Jesus would take up His cross, follow toward Golgotha, then lay it down.
Your Cross Is Meant to Bring You Down
Jesus looks upon this world, filled with confused children going about trying to establish their own righteousness, trying to please Him in their own way, and He calls for crosses. The cross is meant to break us, to drain us of all human effort. We know we are stronger than Simon who will come at our breaking point and take over the burden, but He cannot take over until we give up, until we come to that point where we cry, "God, I can't go another step. I'm exhausted! I'm broken! My strength is gone! I feel dead! Help!"
Jesus was crucified "through weakness" (2 Corinthians 13:4). It is when we become totally weak and self-abased that we witness we are made strong, by faith in the Lord. Our spirit is willing to carry our own cross, but the flesh is weak. Paul could glory in his cross, taking pleasure in how weak it made him. He said, "I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong...For he said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9,10).
Paul was not weak and strong at the same time. He grew weak because of troubles and distresses. But when he was cast down to the ground by his cross, he did not despair. It was out of that weakness he became strong. Paul rejoiced in this process of being made weak because it was the secret to his power with Christ. "Most gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."
What is your cross? It is any burden or pressure that threatens to break you down. My junkie friends call theirs "a monkey on the back." That is not a sacriligious reference to the cross. It simply defines their image of a burden that crushes them to the ground. I have often heard husbands and wives referring to their marriage as a "a cross to bear." Others see their cross as an unfulfilling job, an illness, a state of lonliness or divorce. I have heard all kinds of definitions of what the cross is suppossed to represent. I have even heard homosexuals refer to their habit as a heavy cross. Since Jesus did describe the details of the cross we are to take up, I suggest it is anything that will hasten a crisis in our spiritual lives. For example, loneliness can be a cross if it becomes a burden too heavy to bear and it finally brings us to the end of ourselves. It is then that we can allow the Lord to reach down to us and lift us out of our pity and self-destructiveness. Loneliness is a good thing if it makes us weak enough to want only His strength.
"I'm Not Doing Enough for God"
My cross is peculiar but not unfamiliar to many others. I am constantly burdened by a sense of "not ever doing enough." This cross usually becomes the heaviest right after I've written a best-selling book; after preaching to thousands; after launching a feeding program for starving children; after counseling with hundreds of troubled couples. I stop for a few weeks, take inventory of my life and ministry, and something in me gets restless. I get depressed and confess to my wife and friends, "I don't feel like I'm doing anything for God. I'm not as fulfilled as I should be. Sometimes I feel so useless."
So often I get that "unfinished" feeling. I feel I am wasting too much time doing insignificant things. It's hard to relax when a voice inside condemns you for not "burning out for Jesus." I think of all the things I promise myself I will do; the projects I'll finish; the growth in God I'll achieve - and much of it never gets done. I accuse myself of being lazy. Others seem to be so disciplined and motivated, and I picture them in my mind as all passing me by, leaving me behind in the dust. But God will ask me to keep taking up that cross daily, until it finally gets the best of me. Evidently that's a part of my life that is not yet under His control. One day, I'll fall down in despair and cry, "Lord, I just don't care anymore. Let the world pass me by. Let my dreams all fade. Let me be nothing but an obedient disciple. I don't want to compete with myself or others anymore. No more ego goals. Take over, Lord, and lift my load." That is when our Lord will step in and whisper, "Now David, let Me carry your load."
Spiritual Crosses
A week later you are groveling in the dust; your spiritual balloon busted, and everything seems to have drained out of you. All you can say is, "What happened? I haven't sinned against God; I haven't doubted. The joy just disappeared. I don't seem to have anything in me now to give to others. I'm dry and empty. Why couldn't I have kept the beautiful feelings?"
You Will Never "Arrive"
Hear me, friend - God will never permit you to feel like you have arrived. That's the trouble with too many Christians today. Way back, they received a great blessing from the Lord. God did a wonderful work in their lives. The Holy Spirit came upon them and redid their lives, through and through. It was glorious and they started telling the world about their awakening. And it's been downhill every since. They have been riding out that one great experience, and in the process, they became self-satisfied and complacent. Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. Finally that once-blessed Christian ends up feeling weak and empty. After trying unsuccessfully to invent and recreate the blessings, he gives up in despair. He cries out, "I'm spiritually dead. I'm losing ground with God. I feel like a phony. I can't seem to get back to where I was in the Lord."
Your love for Jesus can put you on your knees, but your cross will put you on your face - on the ground in the dust. God meets you in your prostrate condition and whispers, "I have chosen the weak things of the world; the foolish things; the broken things; the things that are nothing - that no flesh should glory in His presence."
The Cross Teaches Us How to Deny Self
You will have to carry your cross until you learn to deny. Deny what? The one thing that constantly hinders God's work in our lives - self. Look again at what Jesus said, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me." We are misinterpreting this message if we emphasize self-denial, that is, the rejection of material or unlawful things. Jesus was not calling upon us to learn self-discipline before we take up our cross. It is far more severe than that. Jesus is asking that we deny ourselves. This means to deny your own ability to carry any cross in your own strength. In other words, "Don't take up your cross until you are ready to reject any and every thought on becoming a holy disciple as a result of your own effort."
There are millions of professing Christians who boast about their self-denial. They don't drink or smoke or curse or fornicate - they are examples of tremendous self-discipline. But not in a hundred years would they admit it was accomplished by anything else than their own willpower. In fact, they are quick to add statements like the following: "I can quit any time I want. The devil can't trick me. I know what's right and I try to do it. I keep all the commandments. I'm a clean, moral person. I don't lie or cheat and I am faithful to my marriage vows." They are practicing self-denial, but they have never denied self. In some ways, we are all like that. We experience "spurts" of holiness, accompanied by feelings of purity. Good works usually produce good feelings. but God will not allow us to think our good works and clean habits can save us. That is why we need a cross.
I believe Jesus is actually saying to us, "Before you take up your cross, be ready to face a moment of truth. Be ready to experience a crisis by which you will learn to deny your self-will, your self-righteousness, your self-sufficiency, your self-authority. You can rise up and follow Me as a true disciple only when you can freely admit you can do nothing in your own strength - you cannot overcome sin through your own willpower - your temptations cannot be overcome by your self-efforts alone - you cannot work things out by your own intellect."
Jesus Never Forces a Cross on Us
Those who suffer will reign together. I am not glorifying the suffering and pain - only the results they produce. Like Paul, we should look at the trials and hurts we are now experiencing and rejoice in the knowledge we are going down the only path that leads to ultimate victory and maturity. No longer, then, do we look at our burdens and troubles as accidents and penalties but as a cross that is offered to teach us submission to God's way of doing things. If you are hurting right now, you are in the process of healing. If you are down, crushed under the burden of a heavy load, get ready! God is about to show Himself strong on your behalf. You are at the point of revelation. At any time now, your Simon will appear because God does use people to perform His will. Someone is going to be compelled by the Holy Spirit to come into your path of suffering, reach out to you, and help lift your burden.
Your Cross Is a Sign of His Love
Dear friend-don't think of your trial as judgment from God. Don't go about condemning yourself as though you have brought down upon you some dreaded penalty for failure. Stop thinking, "God is making me pay for my sin." Why can't you see that what you are going through is a result of His love? Are you being chastened? Do you feel like you are being dragged down? Are you in pain? Suffering? Good! That is the evidence of His love toward you. Submit! Take up your cross! Be prepared to go down even more! Get ready to reach your crisis! Get ready to reach the end of yourself! Be prepared to give up! Be prepared to hit bottom!
Please understand you are in Christ's own school of discipleship. Rejoice that you are going to become weak in order to experience His overpowering strength in you.
He laid His cross down; why won't you? For Him, a Simon appears. For us, a Savior appears. We get up and go on. It's still our cross - but now it's on His shoulders.
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up" (Ecclesiates 4:9,10).
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
God, Where Are You?
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One night Jacob sat in an open field and had it out (wrestled) with the Lord: "God, how did I end up in this mess? You made such great promises to me. You told me You would guide me, keep me, fulfill Your plans in me. How could any of this be Your leading? What kind of covenant walk is this? Lord, I simply have no future" (see Genesis 32:24-26).
Now, you may reason to yourself, "Maybe Jacob didn't seek God about some of the choices he made. Maybe he acted out of his flesh.” Well, perhaps he did, but all that is beside the point. God could have intervened on Jacob's behalf at any time but He did not.
The fact is, we can have a contrite spirit and still have problems. You and your spouse may be going through a terrible trial. You have prayed, "Lord, I don't understand. I know my heart is right, and I'm walking with You, so why are You allowing this awful trial?"
Most of us think, as Jacob did, that contrite, praying Christians should not have to endure great sorrows. We should not have to face awful times or fearful conditions in which our very future is threatened. Yet, the reality is that humble, repentant, praying Christians still suffer great peril and sorrows.
Nowhere in the Bible does God promise to keep us from problems. Never does He promise us a smooth ride in our job or career. Nor does He promise us exemption from affliction. In fact, He says: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all" (Psalm 34:19). This verse does not say God delivers us from afflictions, but out of them.
Paul speaks of knowing the heights and depths of God's love for him. Yet the Lord didn't keep Paul's ship from sinking. In fact, He allowed the apostle to be stoned, beaten and disgraced. Paul says he was exposed to perils on land and on sea, from robbers and from his own countrymen.
At times we may weep, wondering, "God, where are You? Why haven't You taken me out of this?" But even though the Lord allows us to go through things that try our souls, in one way or another He delivers us out of them all, just as He did Jacob and Paul.
Now, you may reason to yourself, "Maybe Jacob didn't seek God about some of the choices he made. Maybe he acted out of his flesh.” Well, perhaps he did, but all that is beside the point. God could have intervened on Jacob's behalf at any time but He did not.
The fact is, we can have a contrite spirit and still have problems. You and your spouse may be going through a terrible trial. You have prayed, "Lord, I don't understand. I know my heart is right, and I'm walking with You, so why are You allowing this awful trial?"
Most of us think, as Jacob did, that contrite, praying Christians should not have to endure great sorrows. We should not have to face awful times or fearful conditions in which our very future is threatened. Yet, the reality is that humble, repentant, praying Christians still suffer great peril and sorrows.
Nowhere in the Bible does God promise to keep us from problems. Never does He promise us a smooth ride in our job or career. Nor does He promise us exemption from affliction. In fact, He says: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all" (Psalm 34:19). This verse does not say God delivers us from afflictions, but out of them.
Paul speaks of knowing the heights and depths of God's love for him. Yet the Lord didn't keep Paul's ship from sinking. In fact, He allowed the apostle to be stoned, beaten and disgraced. Paul says he was exposed to perils on land and on sea, from robbers and from his own countrymen.
At times we may weep, wondering, "God, where are You? Why haven't You taken me out of this?" But even though the Lord allows us to go through things that try our souls, in one way or another He delivers us out of them all, just as He did Jacob and Paul.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Dark Night of the Soul
"For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat." Job 33:14-20
"Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction." Isaiah 48:10
Remember, weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning!
A Message by Minister David Wilkerson
A friend of mine was at his wit’s end, despairing, wondering if God had forgotten him in his personal nightmare. He became so desperate one morning recently that he cried out to God, “Unless you send somebody to give me a word of hope, I cannot make it through the day. I simply cannot go on one more day.”
A few hours later, at the point of giving up on life, he went to his mailbox and found a printed message a friend had mailed a few days before. It was a message I released in 1992 entitled, “The Making of a Man of God.” It spoke hope and restoration to his sick soul, and he marveled at the timing of the Holy Ghost. God was right on time, with a word of hope especially for him.
Today I am led by God’s Spirit to send out just a few words of encouragement to certain few who will be receiving their own word of hope, at just the right time. See if one of the following mini-messages is meant for you:
- To someone going through a dark night of the soul, feeling God has failed you: voices have confused you. Your Christian friends have deserted you. You feel too defeated to pray. You feel betrayed and even forsaken by God. Your sense of abandonment is frightening. There is a deep sorrow in you. A thought has lingered in your mind that you may have offended God. You have lost all sense of God’s love for you. Here is what God has to say to you:
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee” (Isaiah 49:15).
- To someone in a marriage crisis: you have been deeply hurt. You want your marriage to be healed and restored, but it looks hopeless. You are miserable. You have prayed diligently. You do not want to disobey the Lord, but you see no hope of restoration. I say to you: do not give up on your marriage, no matter how bad things appear.
“I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you” (Joel 2:25). “I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead also, and restore comforts unto him and his mourners” (Isaiah 57:18). - To somebody who is grieving: something happened to bring down on you a grief, a sadness, a heaviness you can’t shake. You love the Lord, but this deep grief is there night and day. You get up with it, you carry it all day, you can’t shake it at night. Yet, the Lord knows what you are suffering. Here is his word of hope for you:
“I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Let, I pray, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight” (Psalm 119:75-77).
A Word from the Lord by Sis. Bonita Petroff
Garden of Gethsemane
This is the point where many give up; they will only go so far, for as the rich man who could not part with his riches, so there are things that many of My people refuse to surrender. Therefore, in love and mercy, I send forth chastisement, to see if they will endure correction. Yet again, I shall purge My people and prune away many branches, to see if fruit will come forth in a new season.
This is where everything and everyone will seem to be against you; and things only seem to get worse – and darker; like a horrible pit full of miry (swampy) clay. This is where you will either cry out to Me, or turn away. Press in, endure, keep in the race, cling to Me, for I AM with you.
Immovable Faith
You will feel shaken, horribly shaken, but fear not. Have I not said that all that can be shaken will be shaken? Yes, you have heard this and you have read it in My word.
This is a good work, if you understand the purpose. The dross must be shaken loose, so it will surface, for dross is skimmed as it surfaces. Your faith must be immovable. Labor and travail, for it shall not be in vain. Let your labor be done in fear and trembling. Trust Me.
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. [Pro 25:4]
And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. [Heb 12:27]
To those whose house is built upon the rock, though the winds blow and the house is shaken, it shall not fall. Remain steadfast and unmovable in faith. Lo, I am doing a good work.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. [1Cor 15:58]
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. [Phil 2:28]
Who has not gone through these dark times? All My people have gone through great darkness; yet in great travailing, weeping and praying, they persevere and go through. In the shaking, your eyes shall be opened and you shall see all that is not of Me. Will you trust Me through it all?
All that is not of Me shall surface and nothing shall remain secret. Let it go in repentance and believe in Me. Submit yourself to Me, resist the enemy who seeks to keep you in bondage and he must flee. I have chosen this furnace of affliction for you, yet it is for good, as you cling to Me and follow the leading of My holy Spirit in you. Submit My child to the work I AM doing and fear not.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. [Eccl 12:14]
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. [Mk 4:22]
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Is 48:10]
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. [Jam 4:7]
Cry out to Me and I hear you. My hand is not shortened that it cannot save, nor is My ear heavy that it cannot hear. [Is 59:1]
Though He slay me, yet will I trust in him:[…] [Job 13:15]
Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and has no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. [Is 50:10]
Forgiveness is Crucial
Let no bitterness, no strife, no hatred, no anger, no jealousy, no envying, let nothing that is not of Me be found in you. Let forgiveness pour out from your heart, for it shall be a healing balm to you. Think upon Saul and David. Even when David knew he was anointed to be king and Saul sought to kill David, did My servant David rise up in pride? Did he kill Saul when he had the chance?
No, he cut a piece of Saul’s robe one time, to let Saul know that he had the opportunity to kill him, but did not. He submitted himself to Saul, who was still king and trusted Me to work things out.
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself. (submission) [1Sam 24:8]
Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave: and some bade (told) me kill thee: but my eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed. [1Sam 24:10]
And he (Saul) said to David, You are more righteous than I: for you have rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded you evil. And you have shown this day how that you have dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into your hand, you killed me not. [1Sam 24: 17,18]
Though he spoke fair words and understood the mercy David showed him, Saul did not genuinely repent. Therefore, I say unto you, do not be as Saul. Genuinely repent and believe, forgive and die to self; then shall you be raised up and become the new man. I shall have a holy people, without spot or blemish. Yea and if you fall, I say rise up, rise up again, and cry out to Me.
For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. [Pro24: 16]
Do Not Fear the Darkness
When the darkness comes upon you, as you go through the dark season, I shall shine My light upon your heart and reveal the secret things that you have not known are there. Fear not; neither be dismayed or confounded. Be strong and of good courage. I work in the darkness; I work in ways you cannot see.
Your emotional condition is not necessarily your heart condition. Allow this piercing of the heart, for out of the wound shall pour forth all that festers and infects you. Surrender it into My hands with genuine repentance, believe and I shall heal you; you shall have a new heart. I shall shine My light into the darkness, and shall shine light upon your heart. Then shall you see clearly; then shall you know my glory in the face of My Son.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. [1Cor 4:6]
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. [Is 60:2]
My people must go through these dark times. Many have despaired, been troubled, perplexed, cast down and cried out to Me. Those whom I have raised up mightily went through the darkness that came upon them. They cried out to Me, yet felt so helpless, alone and abandoned, not understanding the times of My silence. If you fall, rise back up again. Repent and believe and let your faith hold fast to Me.
Think upon My friend Abraham, after I told him about the son that he would have, and that he would be the father of many nations. What happened?
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. [Gen 15:12]
Did Moses fear the darkness or did he know that even in the darkness, he would find Me?
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. [Ex 20:21]
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. These words the LORD spoke unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. [Deu 4:11 – Deu 5:22]
Think upon the apple of My eye, David. Did he not travail in times of the darkness that came upon his soul? Did he not feel so alone?
O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me? Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless (Psalm 88:14,15)
Then said Solomon, The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness. [2Chron 6: 1]
He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths. [Job 19:8]
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Lover and friend have you put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. [Ps 88:6, 18]
Two godly men who feared and obeyed God wrote about their dark time - their dark night of the soul. Oswald Chambers wrote a poem called, ‘Dark Night of the Soul’, in his book, ‘Abandoned by God’.
Cut it off. My heart is bleeding,
And my spirit’s wrung in pain,
Yet I hear my Jesus pleading,
Cut it off or all is vain.
So I’ve stopped my ears in terror
Lest self-pity make me quail,
Lest at last I take the error
And God’s purpose thwart and fail.
I am bowed to death in sadness,
For the pain is all too great,
But the dear Lord must find pleasure
In the way He maketh straight.
In the late 1600s, François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, often called Francois Fenelon was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He wrote: His [God’s] transformation is done on the cross in darkness, poverty and death.
Think upon Elijah, Job, Moses and Paul. Have you felt as they did? Have you wanted Me to take you away from the earth? Have you despaired desperately? Yes, you have. Lo, I AM with you.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. [1Kin19: 4]
What happened? A paradigm shift… An angel came, touched him and Elijah went on his journey with new strength (new hope) after eating ‘meat’ that I sent.
And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. [1Kin 19: 7, 8]
Moses, who was faithful and meek, despaired over the constant complaining and bitterness of the people. Now the Israelites were not satisfied with manna anymore; they wanted meat. It seemed more than Moses could bear because the people never seemed satisfied and were angry with him. He wanted to die.
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. [Num11: 14,15]
What happened? A paradigm shift… I commanded Moses to gather seventy men of the elders of Israel, and I put the spirit that had been upon Moses upon them, so that Moses should not bear the burden of the people alone, and the seventy prophesied throughout the camp. Then I answered his prayer and sent meat to the people, but the lust of their flesh did anger me. [Num 11:25, 31- 33]
Even the apostles despaired at times and desired to leave this life.
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: [2Cor 1:8]
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; [2Cor4: 8,9]
Yet again, a paradigm shift took place, as once again My people were strengthened…
But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. [2Cor 15: 57]
So shall it be with My people who persevere, who go through the dark seasons, who cry out in repentance, if there be need in any area for repentance. Yea, cry out to Me and I shall strengthen you as you go through purging and purification.
for His glory
A B Chenoa
The Making of a Man of God
by Min. David WilkersonSaturday, July 21, 2012
The Dark Night Rises
The Following article is from Bro. Joseph Herrin at The Parables Blog. Although I have shared his articles before in the past, for those who do not know, Bro. Joseph has a gift for understanding the spiritual significance of events in this life. In the following post, he discusses the tragic shooting which occurred at the opening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, CO on July 20, 2012.
Before getting into his article, I would like to point out one more connection that this movie has with end time conditions in the world. In the news recently, an interview with Morgan Freeman is quoted where he expounds upon his views of God. While basically sharing that he believes mankind invented God, he goes on to say that if he believes in god it is because he believes that he is god.
The denial of God and the elevation of man into some sort of godhood itself is also representative of the type of media message the "illumined" have been promoting to the masses and in line with the type of mindset we see revealed in Scripture for the last days.
Lastly, this same message to incite fascism and class war can be seen in much of what is promoted to our young people today. From songs like Jay-Z's Run This Town to movies such as The Hunger Games (which also was represented by a symbol indicative of anarchy). What many do not understand is that this is not about finances or classes at all. That is simply a means for Satan to launch a targeted attack against God and His people.
Please don't walk around in a stupor about Christianity and the times in which we live. Satan and his illuminated ones are preparing mankind for the world they have planned in order to secure their control of the people and the resources. However, God is preparing His people as well to stand during these times and show forth the power of God to save those who are lost before Jesus comes again in judgment of the nations. Redeem the times I pray you, for if you are seeking the Lord with your whole heart, He is placing within it the wisdom and discernment to be prepared for the times we are in.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:6-16
With that said, please read on to see Joseph's review of the tragic events accompanying the launch of this movie.
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The Dark Night Rises
Joseph Herrin (07-20-2012)
The first e-mail I read this morning contained a link to a news item on the shooting in a Colorado theater where the movie The Dark Knight Rises was being screened. The movie was a midnight showing, the very first opportunity for theater goers in America to see the latest installment in the Batman film franchise. Witnesses testified that a young man dressed as Bane, the villain in the movie, burst through a door as if on cue. Some testified that it was timed to coincide with a shoot-out in the film, while others say it occurred at the same moment Batman first appeared in the movie.
The intruder to the theater reportedly tossed one or two tear gas canisters into the crowded theater, then fired some shots from a weapon into the air. He then lowered the barrel of the gun, or rifle, and began to shoot patrons of the cinema. In all, more than fifty people were shot and twelve have died. Among those injured were a three month old baby, and a six year old child whose parents had brought them to this dark and violent movie.
There is much in this news event that arrests the attention. The first thing that struck me was the profusion of homophones - words that sound identical to other words that have different meanings. For example:
Movie Name
The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Night Rises
Actor Who Plays Batman
Christian Bale
Christian Baal
Villain in the Movie
Bane
Bain (Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s Company, has been in the news).
Other Characters in the Movie Played By
Michael Caine (Cain, the murderous son of Adam)
Gary Oldman (“put off the old man with his deeds” Colossians 3:9)
Morgan Freeman (See verse below)
There were also significant details. The theater complex that the attacker entered had 16 cinemas. He attacked those in cinema number 9. E.W. Bullinger in his book Number in Scripture provides the following information on the Biblical significance of this number.
This was the very first scheduled showing of what is predicted to be a blockbuster movie. It is the third part of a trilogy by the same director, featuring the same actors. The previous movie in the series pulled in more than one billion dollars worldwide. It too was marked by death as one of the main characters, Heath Ledger who played the character of The Joker, was found dead of a suspected drug overdose. Ledger’s death occurred after the second Batman movie was filmed, but prior to its release. The interest generated by his death was linked to the tremendous success of the movie. A thought provoking article on Heath Ledger’s death can be found here:
http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus-and-heath-ledgers-sacrifice/
This is now the second consecutive movie in this series that has been born out of some act of death. This “coincidence” causes me to reflect on the use of human sacrifice in the works of Satan. Human sacrifice is very real. That Satan has inspired men to practice such rituals to incur favors from the rulers of darkness, or to release dark spiritual energy to accomplish some wicked purpose, is recorded in the Bible. Human sacrifice was practiced by the inhabitants of Canaan, and was one of the transgressions that brought forth the judgment of Yahweh.
An interesting account that reveals the connection between human sacrifice and invoking the powers of fallen angels and unclean spirits is recorded in II Kings.
When this passage says that “there came great wrath against Israel,” we need to identify the source of this wrath. The wrath did not originate in the people of Moab, for they were already intent on slaughter and warfare, but were not strong enough. The wrath did not come from Yahweh, for He would not honor the king of Moab slaying his son. The wrath came from those principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, the spiritual forces of wickedness in high places, to whom the sacrifice was offered. Human sacrifice is still required by Satan and those powers in league with him. When men seek the favor and power of Satan they will commit murder to accomplish their ends.
Consider the timing of the following connected events.
For those unfamiliar with the London Subway bombings, they have been as controversial in England as the 911 bombings have been in America. Many have suggested that the government of the UK was behind the bombings, that those accused of setting off explosions were themselves victims.
Video Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4943675105275097719
If you have been following the posts in the series titled Babylon Rising, you will be aware of the Satanic nature of the Olympic games being held in London. I believe the timing of London’s announcement as host of the XXX Olympiad, and the deaths and injuries that followed the very next day in London, were linked. A human sacrifice was offered to Satan, and you can be certain that these Olympic events will reveal the presence and power of Satan. His cunning is already visible in the symbols, buildings, rites and images associated with the 2012 games. The opening and closing ceremonies will be profoundly marked as Satanic rituals of the highest order.
These deaths and massive injuries at the inaugural showing of The Dark Knight Rises in the United States arrest my attention. One must ask “In what way is this movie being used as a tool of Satan?” I believe that one way the movie is being used is in continuing to set forth a message of class warfare. It is espousing that there are those with money and power who are hoarding the world’s wealth for their selfish purposes while the masses go without. One movie reviewer has suggested that the movie presents a fascist message.
Here is another interesting homonym. The name Bain sounds like “bane.” The English word bane is defined as follows:
This is actually what is portrayed as occurring in the movie The Dark Knight Rises. Posters from the movie show Gotham City in flames. An army arises from underground that is set upon destroying everything above them. The venom of the rabble is especially aimed at those who are living the good life, having attained some semblance of prosperity. Rather than building something of their own, this underground army has no higher aim than to pull the city down upon their own heads. Everyone is thereby reduced to poverty and ruin.
This is precisely what Satan and those “illumined” individuals in league with him are seeking to bring about. With the entire world reduced to poverty and chaos, the elite’s power and rule over the world, will be assured as they control the military, the corporations, the financial system, and food and fuel supplies of this world.
What the world has been seeing in the past couple generations is a massive aggregation of wealth. Companies like Bain Capital have taken over multiple corporations and companies that were formerly standalone businesses. Each of these standalone businesses had their own owners, shareholders, and officers which tended to spread the wealth around, creating a solid middle class. As companies like Bain capital have bought up these companies, they have cut out much of the middle class. There is a sharp delineation between those massively wealthy individuals who control these conglomerates, and the average man on the street.
Bain Capital controls hundreds of companies. Among them are such well known businesses as AMC Entertainment, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino's Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin' Donuts, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys "R" Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel. There was a time when each of the hundreds of companies controlled by Bain were standalone enterprises, and this fostered a vibrant middle class. By aggregating all of these businesses together there has developed a class of the super-wealthy. These are not the one percent that the Occupy Wall Street group has set their sights upon. These super-elite, and phenomenally wealthy individuals, are at the top tier, the very top fraction of the one percent. The amount of global wealth they control is staggering. One Internet article reports the following:
Let the thoughtful individual consider that Mitt Romney is a Mormon. The Mormon church was born out of Freemasonry. The first Mormon groups met in what were called Mormon Lodges. These were Masonic lodges promoting their unique blend of religion. Utah, where the Mormon church is headquartered, has adopted the beehive as a state symbol. It is on the state flag.
The symbolism of the beehive contains an esoteric meaning. Only the “illumined” ones are intended to know its true meaning. Even as a beehive is ruled over by a single individual, and all the rest of the hive are worker bees, or drones, so too do the elite ruling class seek to establish a world system where a very small number of individuals control the vast multitudes of the population.
This same symbolism is found in London, that center of global banking and secret government. The Lord Mayor of the City of London meets with his privy council in a building that is nicknamed “the beehive.”
People of God, the movie The Dark Knight Rises, could very well be titled The Dark Night Rises. It is a prophetic foretelling of the collapse of civilization into anarchy. Class warfare, race warfare, religious warfare, and every imaginable form of strife is being fomented by the powers that exist. David Wilkerson had visions of New York City (the model of Gotham City) in flames with tanks rolling through the streets. The day when such an event occurs is not far off. These things are depicted in the movie that this blog post is examining.
I looked at the sound track for the movie. It is a dark and somber musical score. The titles of the songs are equally dark. Following is a partial list of songs from the movie soundtrack.
A Storm is Coming
On Thin Ice
Gotham’s Reckoning
Underground Army
Born in Darkness
The Fire Rises
Nothing Out There
Despair
Fear Will Find You
Why Do We Fall
Death By Exile
Imagine the Fire
Necessary Evil
Rise
The Shadows Betray You
The End
People of God, I believe there is a prescient anointing to this movie and the music that goes with it. It is foretelling of that which stands before mankind. “A Storm is Coming.” I have not watched the movie, but the preview reveals the substance of the opening song. A woman is dancing with Bruce Wayne, the billionaire who is secretly Batman. She tells Bruce Wayne that a storm is coming. She speaks of the evil of the rich hoarding their wealth and the discontented masses who will rise against them. Following are the exact words spoken in the movie trailer.
Does this movie serve as a Satanic pronouncement of that which is even now at the door? I believe it does. I believe the movie’sopening being birthed in mayhem, in blood, and death, is a token of that which is coming soon to the nations. The dark night of mankind is at hand. Chaos and civil unrest will come suddenly, even as it came to a theater in Aurora, Colorado last night. Most will not expect it. They will be focused on entertainment, ease and pleasure when their world is rocked by sudden tragedy.
Our Father has been telling His sons and daughters that these things are coming. He has been directing His called out ones to make themselves ready spiritually, and physically. If you discern the hour you live in you will not sleep as others sleep. Cast off the stupor. Cease living as those who are blind and deaf. Seek Yahweh while He may be found. The dark night rises. A storm is coming. David Wilkerson declared before he died that what is coming will be of such severity and burst forth with a suddenness that it will cause even the godly to tremble.
I encourage you to read the following devotion by this man of God and prophet to America.
http://davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com/2009/03/urgent-message.html
May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.
Before getting into his article, I would like to point out one more connection that this movie has with end time conditions in the world. In the news recently, an interview with Morgan Freeman is quoted where he expounds upon his views of God. While basically sharing that he believes mankind invented God, he goes on to say that if he believes in god it is because he believes that he is god.
The denial of God and the elevation of man into some sort of godhood itself is also representative of the type of media message the "illumined" have been promoting to the masses and in line with the type of mindset we see revealed in Scripture for the last days.
Lastly, this same message to incite fascism and class war can be seen in much of what is promoted to our young people today. From songs like Jay-Z's Run This Town to movies such as The Hunger Games (which also was represented by a symbol indicative of anarchy). What many do not understand is that this is not about finances or classes at all. That is simply a means for Satan to launch a targeted attack against God and His people.
Please don't walk around in a stupor about Christianity and the times in which we live. Satan and his illuminated ones are preparing mankind for the world they have planned in order to secure their control of the people and the resources. However, God is preparing His people as well to stand during these times and show forth the power of God to save those who are lost before Jesus comes again in judgment of the nations. Redeem the times I pray you, for if you are seeking the Lord with your whole heart, He is placing within it the wisdom and discernment to be prepared for the times we are in.
"Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
With that said, please read on to see Joseph's review of the tragic events accompanying the launch of this movie.
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The Dark Night Rises
Joseph Herrin (07-20-2012)
Isaiah 60:2
For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples...
The intruder to the theater reportedly tossed one or two tear gas canisters into the crowded theater, then fired some shots from a weapon into the air. He then lowered the barrel of the gun, or rifle, and began to shoot patrons of the cinema. In all, more than fifty people were shot and twelve have died. Among those injured were a three month old baby, and a six year old child whose parents had brought them to this dark and violent movie.
There is much in this news event that arrests the attention. The first thing that struck me was the profusion of homophones - words that sound identical to other words that have different meanings. For example:
Movie Name
The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Night Rises
Actor Who Plays Batman
Christian Bale
Christian Baal
Villain in the Movie
Bane
Bain (Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s Company, has been in the news).
Other Characters in the Movie Played By
Michael Caine (Cain, the murderous son of Adam)
Gary Oldman (“put off the old man with his deeds” Colossians 3:9)
Morgan Freeman (See verse below)
Revelation 6:15-17
Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"
There were also significant details. The theater complex that the attacker entered had 16 cinemas. He attacked those in cinema number 9. E.W. Bullinger in his book Number in Scripture provides the following information on the Biblical significance of this number.
[Nine] is the last of the digits, and thus marks the end; and is significant of the conclusion of a matter.This was a MIDNIGHT screening of the movie. The attacker entered the theater around 12:30 A.M.. In “the dark of night,” during a movie titled “The Dark Knight Rises” an act of great darkness was committed.
It is akin to the number six, six being the sum of its factors (3x3=9, and 3+3=6), and is thus significant of the end of man, and the summation of all man's works. Nine is, therefore, THE NUMBER OF FINALITY OR JUDGMENT,
for judgment is committed unto Jesus as "the Son of man" (John 5:27; Acts 17:31). It marks the completeness, the end and issue of all things as to man—the judgment of man and all his works.
It is a factor of 666, which is 9 times 74.
[Source: http://philologos.org/__eb-nis/nine.htm]
This was the very first scheduled showing of what is predicted to be a blockbuster movie. It is the third part of a trilogy by the same director, featuring the same actors. The previous movie in the series pulled in more than one billion dollars worldwide. It too was marked by death as one of the main characters, Heath Ledger who played the character of The Joker, was found dead of a suspected drug overdose. Ledger’s death occurred after the second Batman movie was filmed, but prior to its release. The interest generated by his death was linked to the tremendous success of the movie. A thought provoking article on Heath Ledger’s death can be found here:
http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus-and-heath-ledgers-sacrifice/
This is now the second consecutive movie in this series that has been born out of some act of death. This “coincidence” causes me to reflect on the use of human sacrifice in the works of Satan. Human sacrifice is very real. That Satan has inspired men to practice such rituals to incur favors from the rulers of darkness, or to release dark spiritual energy to accomplish some wicked purpose, is recorded in the Bible. Human sacrifice was practiced by the inhabitants of Canaan, and was one of the transgressions that brought forth the judgment of Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire..., for whoever does these things is detestable to Yahweh; and because of these detestable things Yahweh your God will drive them out before you.”
An interesting account that reveals the connection between human sacrifice and invoking the powers of fallen angels and unclean spirits is recorded in II Kings.
II Kings 3:26-27
When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him 700 men who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not. Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel, and they departed from him and returned to their own land.
When this passage says that “there came great wrath against Israel,” we need to identify the source of this wrath. The wrath did not originate in the people of Moab, for they were already intent on slaughter and warfare, but were not strong enough. The wrath did not come from Yahweh, for He would not honor the king of Moab slaying his son. The wrath came from those principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, the spiritual forces of wickedness in high places, to whom the sacrifice was offered. Human sacrifice is still required by Satan and those powers in league with him. When men seek the favor and power of Satan they will commit murder to accomplish their ends.
Consider the timing of the following connected events.
Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, London was selected as the host city on 6 July 2005 during the 117th IOC Session in Singapore, defeating bids from Moscow, New York City, Madrid and Paris. London will become the first city to officially host the modern Olympic Games three times, having previously done so in 1908 and in 1948.It was unanticipated that London would be selected as host of the 2012 Olympics. Paris was the frontrunner. When the IOC announced that London had been chosen people were stunned. Some unseen force had made certain that London would be the host city for the 2012 Olympics. The next day the city of London experienced massive deaths and injuries as a terrorist event occured on her subway system. Was a ritual sacrifice demanded as reward for this selection? Were the spiritual forces of wickedness in high places being offered up a sacrifice to insure that these games were spiritually charged with Satanic power?
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Olympics_2012]
The 7 July 2005 London bombings (often referred to as 7/7) were a series of co-ordinated suicide attacks in London which targeted civilians using the public transport system during the morning rush hour.
On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, four Islamist home-grown terrorists detonated four bombs, three in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. Fifty-two people, as well as the four bombers, were killed in the attacks, and over 700 more were injured.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings]
For those unfamiliar with the London Subway bombings, they have been as controversial in England as the 911 bombings have been in America. Many have suggested that the government of the UK was behind the bombings, that those accused of setting off explosions were themselves victims.
Video Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4943675105275097719
If you have been following the posts in the series titled Babylon Rising, you will be aware of the Satanic nature of the Olympic games being held in London. I believe the timing of London’s announcement as host of the XXX Olympiad, and the deaths and injuries that followed the very next day in London, were linked. A human sacrifice was offered to Satan, and you can be certain that these Olympic events will reveal the presence and power of Satan. His cunning is already visible in the symbols, buildings, rites and images associated with the 2012 games. The opening and closing ceremonies will be profoundly marked as Satanic rituals of the highest order.
These deaths and massive injuries at the inaugural showing of The Dark Knight Rises in the United States arrest my attention. One must ask “In what way is this movie being used as a tool of Satan?” I believe that one way the movie is being used is in continuing to set forth a message of class warfare. It is espousing that there are those with money and power who are hoarding the world’s wealth for their selfish purposes while the masses go without. One movie reviewer has suggested that the movie presents a fascist message.
Note especially the highlighted words from the Wikipedia article on “fascism.” “Fascists are hostile to financial capital.” Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president of the United States, was one of the founding partners of a company known as Bain Capital. This fact has been much in the news of late as Barack Obama and his supporters have accused Romney of exporting jobs out of America through his role at Bain Capital.[Fascism] promotes regulated private enterprise and private property contingent whenever beneficial to the nation and state enterprise and state property whenever necessary to protect its interests. At the same time, fascists are hostile to financial capital, plutocracy, and "the power of money."[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism]
Here is another interesting homonym. The name Bain sounds like “bane.” The English word bane is defined as follows:
The bane of capital would be that which destroys, or ruins, the wealth and possessions of others. The deceit involved in that which is being fomented by a hidden cabal of wealthy men and women is that they are egging on this class warfare, knowing that they are themselves untouchable. The anger and jealousy of the lowest classes of mankind will not reach them. It will only bring death, destruction, and ruin to those individuals within the reach of the lower classes. In effect, what remains of the middle class, and the upper middle class, will be destroyed by those who are incited to looting and rioting.1. a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.2. a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants): wolfsbane; henbane.3. death; destruction; ruin.4. Obsolete. That which causes death or destroys life: entrapped and drowned beneath the watery bane.[Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bane?db=dictionary]
This is actually what is portrayed as occurring in the movie The Dark Knight Rises. Posters from the movie show Gotham City in flames. An army arises from underground that is set upon destroying everything above them. The venom of the rabble is especially aimed at those who are living the good life, having attained some semblance of prosperity. Rather than building something of their own, this underground army has no higher aim than to pull the city down upon their own heads. Everyone is thereby reduced to poverty and ruin.
This is precisely what Satan and those “illumined” individuals in league with him are seeking to bring about. With the entire world reduced to poverty and chaos, the elite’s power and rule over the world, will be assured as they control the military, the corporations, the financial system, and food and fuel supplies of this world.
What the world has been seeing in the past couple generations is a massive aggregation of wealth. Companies like Bain Capital have taken over multiple corporations and companies that were formerly standalone businesses. Each of these standalone businesses had their own owners, shareholders, and officers which tended to spread the wealth around, creating a solid middle class. As companies like Bain capital have bought up these companies, they have cut out much of the middle class. There is a sharp delineation between those massively wealthy individuals who control these conglomerates, and the average man on the street.
Bain Capital controls hundreds of companies. Among them are such well known businesses as AMC Entertainment, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino's Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin' Donuts, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys "R" Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel. There was a time when each of the hundreds of companies controlled by Bain were standalone enterprises, and this fostered a vibrant middle class. By aggregating all of these businesses together there has developed a class of the super-wealthy. These are not the one percent that the Occupy Wall Street group has set their sights upon. These super-elite, and phenomenally wealthy individuals, are at the top tier, the very top fraction of the one percent. The amount of global wealth they control is staggering. One Internet article reports the following:
Corporations not only completely dominate the U.S. economy, they also completely dominate the global economy as well. A newly released University of Zurich study examined more than 43,000 major multinational corporations. The study discovered a vast web of interlocking ownerships that is controlled by a "core" of 1,318 giant corporations.People, those with the true wealth and power are the 1,000th of 1 percent. Civil unrest will not touch them. They control everything. They choose which men run for government office. They control the media so that only the world view they want promoted will be heard. If class warfare erupts, and they seem to be intent on insuring it does, all that will occur is that the last vestiges of the middle class will be wiped out. Then the world will be a true two-tier system. There will be the super wealthy ruling class, and a massive population of drones, or worker bees.
When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 percent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 percent of the companies were able to control 40 percent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group...
Giant corporations have become so dominant that it has become very hard for small businesses to compete and survive in the United States.
Today, even though our population is increasing, the number of small businesses continues to decrease.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.
This is the exact opposite of what should be happening under a capitalist system.
Big corporations completely dominate the media. Almost all of the news that you get and almost all of the entertainment that you enjoy is fed to you by giant corporations.
Back in 1983, somewhere around 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States.
Today, control of the news media is concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.
Big corporations completely dominate our financial system. Yes, there are hundreds of choices in the financial world, but just a handful control the vast majority of the assets.
Back in 2002, the top 10 banks controlled 55 percent of all U.S. banking assets. Today, the top 10 banks control 77 percent of all U.S. banking assets.
The "too big to fail" banks just keep getting more and more powerful. For example, the "big six" U.S. banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo) now possess assets equivalent to approximately 60 percent of America's gross national product.
[Source: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/corporatism-is-not-capitalism-7-things-about-the-monolithic-predator-corporations-that-dominate-our-economy-that-every-american-should-know]
The symbolism of the beehive contains an esoteric meaning. Only the “illumined” ones are intended to know its true meaning. Even as a beehive is ruled over by a single individual, and all the rest of the hive are worker bees, or drones, so too do the elite ruling class seek to establish a world system where a very small number of individuals control the vast multitudes of the population.
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| London City Hall - The Beehive |
People of God, the movie The Dark Knight Rises, could very well be titled The Dark Night Rises. It is a prophetic foretelling of the collapse of civilization into anarchy. Class warfare, race warfare, religious warfare, and every imaginable form of strife is being fomented by the powers that exist. David Wilkerson had visions of New York City (the model of Gotham City) in flames with tanks rolling through the streets. The day when such an event occurs is not far off. These things are depicted in the movie that this blog post is examining.
I looked at the sound track for the movie. It is a dark and somber musical score. The titles of the songs are equally dark. Following is a partial list of songs from the movie soundtrack.
A Storm is Coming
On Thin Ice
Gotham’s Reckoning
Underground Army
Born in Darkness
The Fire Rises
Nothing Out There
Despair
Fear Will Find You
Why Do We Fall
Death By Exile
Imagine the Fire
Necessary Evil
Rise
The Shadows Betray You
The End
People of God, I believe there is a prescient anointing to this movie and the music that goes with it. It is foretelling of that which stands before mankind. “A Storm is Coming.” I have not watched the movie, but the preview reveals the substance of the opening song. A woman is dancing with Bruce Wayne, the billionaire who is secretly Batman. She tells Bruce Wayne that a storm is coming. She speaks of the evil of the rich hoarding their wealth and the discontented masses who will rise against them. Following are the exact words spoken in the movie trailer.
You think this will last. There’s a storm coming Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches. Because when it hits you are all going to wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.Video Link: http://youtu.be/GokKUqLcvD8
Does this movie serve as a Satanic pronouncement of that which is even now at the door? I believe it does. I believe the movie’sopening being birthed in mayhem, in blood, and death, is a token of that which is coming soon to the nations. The dark night of mankind is at hand. Chaos and civil unrest will come suddenly, even as it came to a theater in Aurora, Colorado last night. Most will not expect it. They will be focused on entertainment, ease and pleasure when their world is rocked by sudden tragedy.
Our Father has been telling His sons and daughters that these things are coming. He has been directing His called out ones to make themselves ready spiritually, and physically. If you discern the hour you live in you will not sleep as others sleep. Cast off the stupor. Cease living as those who are blind and deaf. Seek Yahweh while He may be found. The dark night rises. A storm is coming. David Wilkerson declared before he died that what is coming will be of such severity and burst forth with a suddenness that it will cause even the godly to tremble.
I encourage you to read the following devotion by this man of God and prophet to America.
http://davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com/2009/03/urgent-message.html
May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.
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