Newness of Life

 This needs more editing, but I wanted to post these thoughts and verses. John 6:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, “And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” “Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those who had been given the right to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus, for proclaiming the word of God, and who had not worshiped the Creature or his statue, not accepted his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They had come to life again and now they reigned with Christ for a thousand years. This is the first resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended.) Blessed and holy are those who share in the First Resurrection. For them the Second Death holds no terrors, for they will be priests of ...

I believe that Isaiah 7 and 8 are a prophetic parallel to our day offering insight and wisdom. For thus the Lord spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of t his people, saying,  "You are not to say, It is a conspiracy! In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, And you are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it. "It is the Lord of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, and He shall be your dread." Isaiah 8:12-13 The people of Judah feared an alliance between Israel's Northern Kingdom and the Syrian King. Isaiah warned them to put their trust in God, but Judah's King would not listen to him and instead trusted in an alliance with Assyria's King. Since the people were in fear and trusted in a man, God warned Isaiah not to be swept up into the idolatry that was overtaking all of the people around him. Sound familiar? An enemy is identified, the people fear, and a "savior" is ...

 Tale o f Two Cities: Which city shapes our desires, and drives our conduct?  Are we fighting for Babylon and conformed to its image, or the eternal city of God? The harvest is all about separation-scripture speaks of trouble and shakings through time that purge and separate the leaven from God's people in a refining process, but those who have no appetite for God remain unchanged and unable to discern that it is God Himself calling them near through the trouble. "I counsel you to buy gold tried by fire." Trouble is God knocking, but the wicked come forth without any gold, says the prophet.  We are shaking. Babylon is falling. I keep hearing, "He will keep thee in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee" so looked up some commentary on it this morning.  The commentary was powerful and instructive for our time. The more that I study the symbol of Babylon, and Mystery Babylon, the more I am concluding that it is the fullest expression of man's sinful appeti...

  This aspect of our faith, the full redemption, was hard for me to see. I have strong views, and sometimes those views are just wrong, or partially wrong. I like to think about that when I get to fastened to a viewpoint just to remind me that I have thought one thing only to realize that it was wrong later, and this is one of those things. This is how it was regarding the truth of our full redemption. I had attended a Bible study class that taught on a proper understanding of our full redemption, and I got into an argument with the man teaching the class. (Well, he did say that he was ok being challenged. I may have taken him too seriously, but I do need to see the pathway to a conclusion if I am going to amend my views.) The difficulty that I ran into regarding the truth of our full redemption that most of Churchianity has removed from the equation, was my understanding of the power and redemption available to us right now.  As you will see in this blog, I believe in pressin...

  ( Short summary as this is a little long. I put little headings to jump to that topic. So, I had a few dreams pointing to the Feast of Tabernacles and Psalm 118 that speaks of the coming of the Lord (Feast of Tabernacles) for God is coming to live with and among and in His people on earth. This coincides with a Jewish remnant coming to faith as per Romans 11.  This feast is the fullness of our salvation that we are waiting for while we now have the downpayment or the "deposit" of the Spirit-Romans 8, 1 Cor 15, 1 Thes 2,5 etc. Now we live with the curse and have to overcome with these dead bodies, but that will change when our redemption is complete and the curse is about to be removed. He wants us to be as children and to believe on every promise and in so doing, we are feasting on Christ's life and being filled with Him! Feeding on Christ by faith. Salvation is about God feeding His people, so open your mouths. We must stop working on our sabbath rest, Christ Jesus...

Under construction: Words given to me earlier that are also a part of what is happening right now!) 1.  Ezekiel 16. God speaks of finding Israel like a baby kicking on the roadside, and He takes her home and puts a dress on her, ornaments, etc., and she commits adultery. I felt the Holy Spirit strongly on this passage, that we were "full of bread" and pride and forgot where God found us, and even used his gifts, talents, and callings to commit spiritual adultery with the world. These were deep sins of the heart, not detectible to others necessarily.  This verse was heavy on my spirit too: I saiah 48:17-18 Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.  18 If only   you had paid attention   to My commandments,   your peace   would have been   like a river,   and your righteousness   like waves   of the sea.    2....

  The Lord teaches us so beautifully through illustrations, and Paul explained that the things that happened to the Israelites are for an example for us to understand salvation. There are two chasms of waters to cross over in the Kingdom. The first chasm is the Red Sea where God brings us from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of Light.  Three days after crossing the Red Sea, the tree (that Jesus died upon) was cast into the bitter waters of death, a watery grave, and turned the water into the sweet waters of salvation from which they could drink.  "My blood is real drink." "Come all who thirst, come and drink!"  This is where the Lord God declared, “I am the Lord that healeth thee."  The second chasm is the Jordan River, meaning, “to cast down” that takes us into the Promised Land. They were saved into God's kingdom but had to embark on a long journey. The Jordan River is where Jesus was baptized before the Holy Spirit came upon Him in fullness so th...