Saturday, September 10, 2016

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: God's Sword!







Men ... Good And Bad
Are The Hands Of God
Wicked Men ... Are His Sword
So Look In Your Mirror
My Dear Friend
AND
Tell
By Your Works
Who. Is. Your. Lord And God?

God Calls All Men
Into His Service
Good Men Provide The Service Of Care
Wicked Men
Those Who Offer Not Even Deceitful Kisses To Their Maker
By The Wielding Of The Sword Of Chastisement
Will Often
Point A Now-Hurting Soul
To The Living Loving God
Who Men's Burdens Gladly Bear!
God Desires That No Man Should
From Sin
Eternally Perish!
God Cannot Use Deceit
To Move Us Over To His Way That Is Light
But God ...
Having Compassion
On A Wilfully Wayward Warrior
Will Permit The Edge Of His Sword
To Cleave For Us A Path
To Get Us To The Light That Gives Life!

Just So You Know ...

Almighty God Is Not Like Satan
Capricious
AND
Vile!
Almighty God Is Not Incontinent In His Ways!
Almighty God Gives To All Men
The Same Instruction:

Come Unto Me
If Your Desire Is 
To Walk ... In My Straight Way!

The Lord Marks The Path
Provides Provision For The Journey
AND
Stipulates
What Will Happen To Us
If We Walk Within
OR 
Without
His All Seeing All Knowing
Ever Present Eye!

Before The Journey's Start
God Itemizes
Upfront
Blessings Within
AND
Curses Without
His Supervision
After Having Issued To Every Man At His Birth
Free Will
To Willingly Walk With His Maker
Or On Our Own
In Alliance With The Arch Rebel
In Vanity 
To Walk About!

So,  Please ...

Don't Curse The Almighty
When Heart Head And Hand
Are From Sword-Cuts Bleeding!
Don't Curse The Almighty
When By Choice
You Ate What That Wicked Satan 
Was Your Mouth Strenuously Feeding!

You Had A Choice
AND
You Exercised Personal Free Will
AND
Your Own Cup 
- With Indignities Toward The Almighty -
You Were Yourself Filling
With The Swill Swallowed As Directed 
By Wicked Satan's Avid Leading!

AND NOW ...

Now That Almighty God Has Acquired 
Your Undivided Available Attention
Please ... Check Yourself
AND
In Your Peril ... Turn To God
AND
Repenting Of Your Sin
Ask Him
Please, To Take The Bitter Cup From You
Far Away
AND
Invite Him 
To Make His Permanent Home
In The Heart Of You
That To Him 
You Are Now Offering!

With Brokenness And Contriteness Of Heart
Humbly Acknowledge
That Your Heavenly Father Knows Best
AND
Be Grateful
That Forgiveness
AND
Restoration
Are Available
Upon Personal Request
- No Marian Intermediary -
AND
Then Permit God
To Do For A Hurting Child
What He Does Best
That Is 
To Ever Comfort 
Teach
Save
AND
Bless
AND
Fit Us 
To Get Us 
Into The Eternal Home!




Christos Came A-Calling!





He Had Lived A Life Of
Totally Glorious Luxury
AND
Barring One Unfortunate 
Unnecessary Incident
He Had Been
Faithfully Loved 
AND
Lovingly Worshipped
By Every Single Being
He Could In His Eye Behold!

Life Is Good!
Good - That Is
Until The Day
That It Was Decided
That He Would Have To Go 
AND
Make Peace
In One Of The Family's Houses!

Ruction Had Broken Out!
People Were Fighting!
People Were Dying!
People Were Calling Themselves God
AND
There Was Open Opposition
To None Less Than 
Almighty God Himself
In The Family's Favorite House Of All Places
Just Because Of Somebody
Thoroughly Conceited
Selfish
Wilfull
Cruel
Liard
AND
Unrepentantly Wicked!

The Former Top Servant To The Master
In The Great House Itself
Had Decided That
If He Could Not Be Boss
In The Great House
He Was Going To Destroy
One Of The Family's Households
... Just For Spite!

Anyway ...

Long Story Short
That Knave
Had Been In Love With His Own Formerly Gorgeous Self
AND
Desiring Others To Worship Him
As He Worshipped Himself
Had Brought That Peculiar Estate
- A Favorite Of The Father -
To Ruin
AND
That Is Why
Christos Had Had To Make 
The Arduous Journey!

The Experience Is Novel
For
When He Said Who He Is
Just About Everybody
Thought Him A Liar
A Blasphemer
AND
An Employee Of Beelzebub
The Very Wretch
Christos Had Come
To Save The Estate From!

It Was A Total Farce!

NOW ...

Everybody Knows That Story
But
I Personally Wonder 
How Christos Felt
Not Feeling Anything
From The Majority Of His Family
BUT
Hate!

I Know That He Could Commune With His Father
But
I Want To Know
To Understand This :

How Does One
Who Has Only Known Love
Exist
- In His Own Property -
Amongst A People Out Of Himself
Who Are Protected And Provided For
By Himself
AND
Who Despise His Very Existence
Survive?

How Did Love Live Without Love

Amongst The Unlovely
But Beloved
Unkind And Cruel Family
And
Survive
Unbesmirched
By
That Pervasive Taint Of Sin
Mingled With Ravaging Hate?!


Not Every Single Person Hated Him For There Was A Remnant Who Knew A Godsend
When They Heard One!

BUT ... 

The $1,000,000,000,000 Question Remains:



How Do WE Personally Stand Up 
For Jesus 
In The Face Of Rabid Familial Hate
Disrespect AND Dishonor 
When Every Body Knows That 
We Need Love To Survive



The Answer Is Important For Every Christian's Survival In These Last Days!


Mother Against Child

Enemies Within Your Home
Self Before Jesus Is Not Worthy Of Jesus
Anything Given Up For Jesus Christ
Is Returned 
Tenfold!
Jesus Christ Is Faithful
His Own Will He Secure
All We Need Is Endurance In Him
AND
We Shall His Face In Peace
Behold!

The Holy Spirit Offers Comfort
The Holy Angels Provide Protection Each Day
We Need To Remember To Follow The Captain
AND
Strive By His Word
To Walk Firmly
On His Marked Pathway!

The Devil Is Not Going To Ease You
The Devil Will Pour Out Virus-Mimicking Hate
We Must Keep Our Eyes On Our Savior
Else
We Will Share In The Devil's Just Fate!

Let Us Keep Our Eyes Upon Jesus
Let Us Walk Boldly Unto The Christ
Let Us Sing For Joy
For The Revealing
Will
Turn The Dark Days
Into Glorious Light!

Jesus Is The Way
The Truth
AND
The Light
Let Us
Through Him
By Him
For Him
In Him
Be Faithful
For There Is Always The Darkness
Before There Is The Light!


*********

Jesus Christ

IS

The Light Of The World!





Friday, September 9, 2016

HAPPY SABBATH + SATANIC DECEPTIONS: The Immortality of The Human Soul!




































THE FUNERAL

"... In Certain Hope of The Resurrection ..."

"Don't worry about your Mum and Dad - they are safe at last with Gran-gran and Pop-Pop, and Uncle Petey!"

"...  and they are watching over you even right now!"

"I know that they will watch over us! And ... and ... we can still talk to them, and ask them for guidance and protection!"

"Your Daughter is happy now!"

"Your Son is in Heaven with God!"



Two Weeks After The Funeral

Aunt Judy and young Sandy are having breakfast on the back patio.

"My! My! You are looking quite chipper this morning! Did something exciting happen!?"

"Oh, yes, Aunt Ju! Something really, really, wonderful happened!"

"Do tell, Sweetie Pie! What happened?"

"Aunt Ju! Mommy visited me in my room last night! I was sooo happy to see her! She looked sooo beautiful! And, she was wearing the perfume I got her for her birthday last month!"

Aunt Judy's blood became like ice in her veins, and she felt cold! So very, very, cold!

"Lord Jesus, have mercy on us! It is happening all over again!"

"Aunt Ju! Aunt Ju! What's wrong! 
You look like you have just seen a Ghost! 
Are you okay? 
Do you need some water! I can get you water! 
Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Aunt Ju!?!

"Sannie, would you go get my King James Bible from my night-stand, please?"

"Bible!?! 
What do you need your Old Bible for?!
Auntie, you look like you need a doctor!"

"Sannie, please! Just go get my Bible for me! This is really important!"

"But, Auntie? What about my news?!"

"I know, Dear! Just get the Bible, and I will show you something that is truly important for you to know at this time! Please, hurry!"

"Yes, Auntie!"

Sandy rushed off to get her Auntie's Old Bible, well-worn, and ratty-looking and overstuffed with Prayer Requests and Grateful Thank You's, and well and truly marked-up, and so, so, very smooth from much loving use.

While Sandy was away from the table, her Auntie was in fervent prayer to Almighty God, beseeching Him to:



PLEASE, Oh, Lord!
PLEASE, let this Madness of Visitation 
by 
The "Living Dead" 
End in Sandy this Very Day
and 
In My Family For Ever!!


You see, Aunt Judy came from a family long-given to inquiring of, and communicating with, Familiar Spirits, and, as a result, whenever there was a death in the Family, it was almost automatic that the Beloved Dead ALWAYS "Came Back!" to offer solace and offer bodily comfort to that one person who ALWAYS made that Plaintive cry:



"If I could only talk to them one more time, to see them and touch them, and smell them, and to hear them say that they are happy in Heaven, and to be able to say "I Love You" ONE LAST TIME, I will be okay!"


Aunt Judy had been hoping that this would not be the case with her beloved Sannie but ... The Path was being tread all over again!

She should have known that this would happen for even though Sandy's parents had vocally professed their Christianity, they were always burning incense and candles, and purchasing prayer cards for the anniversaries and birthdays of the dead and they even had an Ouija Board and had even proudly stated that "God blessed them with a 'Seeing Third Eye!'"

Bottom line is that Sandy's Parents were oxymoronic New-Age-Seeker-Christians forever seeking Truth but never being able to come to The Conclusion of The Whole Matter! 

They had had Itchy Ears and had, until the day of their deaths, been forever going to whatever was the newest, most bizarre, most exciting, thrilling and deep "Church, Pastor, Prophet, Teacher, Guru or Guide" around their city. 

If "The Teaching" was New and Popular, they were RIGHT THERE!

FYI: 

Aunt Ju had tried here best to teach her Sandy God's Truth, and had made it her mission to keep Sandy away from the demonic influences that her parents had espoused as much as she could by having Sandy spend as much time as possible in her home! 

... Problem was, Sandy's home was in her Parents' house, and there had been only so many reasons she could use to have Sandy spend time at her house when she, herself, lived only three blocks from Sandy's house! 

How she had hated going to, or even having Sandy live in that house! It was oh sooo creepy and smelly! Ugghh!


Well ...

As is to be expected, we learn what we live and, here, this very day, at this very time, Aunt Judy knew that she was going to be battling the very Forces of Hell to turn Sandy away from the Wickedness her Parents had taught her to Believe!!

Thankfully, Aunt Judy is a Praying, Bible-believing, Faith-upholding, Repentant, Jesus-Saved, Christ-Following Christian:



"Lord God Almighty, have Mercy! 
Give me the words that I need to tell Sandy Your Truth! 
Lord, Please! No more with the lying conceits and demonic deceits! 
Help me, please!" 

Oh, Lord, may Your Holy Angels surround this house and 
Protect us from Satan and his Minions, and 
Father, let Your Holy Spirit have It's Way 
As I seek, by Your Will, to teach My Sannie 
The Truth of The Way To Eternal Life! 
I Love You! 
Lead Us to The Eternal Home!
 Amen."


"Here Auntie! Here's your Old Bible!"

"Thanks, Love! Please bring your chair next to mine - I must show you something!"

"Read this for us, please - Ecclesiastes 9:5-6!"

"5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun."

"What does this mean, Aunt Ju?!
Why did you have me read that Scripture, Auntie?!"

"Hang on, there's more, then I will explain all!"







Romans 8:11, "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." 

1 Peter 3:18, "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" 



"Auntie! What does all of this mean! You are scaring me!"

Hon, I don't mean to scare you! I just want you to know The Truth! 

Hugging Sandy close to her heart, Aunt Judy spoke at length to her beloved niece about Life and Death, and The Certain Hope. But first, she asked her niece a straight question:

Sandy, have I ever lied to you?

"No, Auntie! Never! Not even a little white lie as Mommy used to call them!"

Well, Sandy, I pray that you will believe that what I am going to tell you is The Truth. God is my Witness, and I promise to never ever tell you a lie!

First, there is No Human Soul that is Immortal! And No Human Soul visits Heaven Nor Hell when they die!

Your Mommy and Daddy are not in Heaven nor are they in Hell! They are asleep, knowing absolutely nothing, and are incapable of doing anything but sleeping!

God said that the Dead know nothing! You read that Scripture for us, remember?

"Yes, I do, Aunty." Sandy quietly replied!

Do you believe the Word of God is true?

"Of course, Aunty! The Bible says that God is not a man that He should lie!"

Sandy, I get very angry when I hear the Priests and Pastors at funerals telling heart-broken people that their loved ones are being welcomed into Heaven by Saint Peter!

Peter The Apostle is in his dusty bed resting! He is not manning Heaven's Gates! 

Our loved ones are not Greeters standing with arms wide open to welcome the newly arrived Dead from Earth to The Eternal Home! It is just a demonic deception!

Jesus Christ is not a liar! 

He said in the Holy Word that after our death is The Judgment and that He, Himself, is going to give unto every human being what he or she has earned for a Reward! That means that the Good and Faithful will be commended and the Wicked and Unfaithful will be condemned!

Sandy, if what Jesus said is true, is it possible for Dead People to go straight to Heaven or Hell?

No, Auntie! That would make Jesus a liar! 

Wise King Solomon said that the Dead know nothing!

King David asked of The Lord: Who In The Grave Shall Give Thee Praise?

Righteous Job said: 



I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
And Though After My Flesh 
Worms Destroy This Body
In My Own Flesh
At The Latter Day
I Shall See Him Face To Face!

The Apostle Paul, in Thessalonians, said:


Comfort Ye One Another With These Words:
The Dead In Christ
Shall Rise Up First
And Those Who Are Alive And Remain
Will Be Caught Up Together With Them
To Meet The Lord
In The Air!



Does this sound to you as though The Dead are already experiencing Heaven and Hell?

Not at all, Auntie! That sounds like they are, as you said, resting and waiting to be awakened!

Sandy, Satan is a bold and unrelenting Liar! Always was! Always will be!

Satan's lie of the immortality of the human soul is one of his best deceptions ... so far! Sin brought Death into The World but, you see, Man was not created to die! Our Sin leads to Death unless we accept the Offer of Salvation, The Offer of Saving, extended to us by Jesus Christ. 

The idea of Death is frightening to us, and because most of us refuse to believe The Words Of Truth and Light and Life, and go seeking after what it is not given to us to know, Satan is able, by outright lies, partial truths - which are also lies - and deceptions, to do a very good job of convincing men to believe that Almighty God does not mean what He says!

God's Word spells out God's Character, who He Is, what He Says, and what He Will Do for The Good, and against The Evil! 

Just like he did in the Garden of Eden, Satan calls into question the Truth of what God, Himself, said! Satan wants us to believe that The Truth of The Word Of God is reliant upon our interpretation of The Word!

Do you know what interpretation means?

Yes, Auntie! It is the explanation of what I understand a thing to mean and not necessarily what the thing actually means!

Very good! Interpretation is how you see something! It is our Perspective! But ... our seeing is not always sight! The Problem with that is that it leads to lies acquiring the patina, the shine, of Truth even though it is a glaring lie!


God Gave His Best
So That We May Be Blessed
BUT
At Death
We Sleep In Our Dusty Beds
Until
The Trumpet Of God Shall Sound
Calling Us Either To
The Resurrection Of Glorification
Or
The Resurrection Of Damnation!


Sandy, Good  Repentant People go to Heaven and Bad Unrepentant People go to Hell ... but not right now!

So if Mommy is resting in her grave, who was in my room last night! Sandy asked, her voice shaking.

Sandy, it was not your Mommy, so it had to have been a demonic spirit masquerading as your Mommy! If that Being appears in your room again, say your Prayers to Father God in Jesus Christ's name, rebuking that Being also in The Name Of Jesus Christ, and asking The Father to grant you His Peace and Rest, and to protect you from Evil Spirits!

Our God is Faithful, and what He says He will do for us, He will do!

Thank you, Aunt Ju! I love you!

Sandy, let us go to The Throne of Grace and talk to The Father about this, okay?




THE PRAYER:

Heavenly Father, 

We Come Before You Seeking Peace
And Rest And Protection!
Lord, We Accept That Your Holy Word Is True
That The Dead Know Nothing
That The Dead See Nothing
That The Dead Can Not Do Anything
And We Implore You, Lord
To Protect Sandy From The Wiles Of The Devil!

Father, We Know That Sandy's Parents
Even Now
Are Still Sleeping In Their Graves
And
We Accept And Believe 
That Jesus Christ Is Returning To Earth
To Give Unto Each Man 
What He Had Earned 
From His Own Life's Work!

Father,
We Humbly Beseech You
To Grant Us Your Grace
Your Blessing
Your Protection
And
Your Provision
And
In Your Mercy
To Help Us To Hold On To Our Hope
Of The Resurrection Of The Just
Unto Eternal Life With You!

Help Us, Dear Lord, To Deny The Bright Liar!
Help Us Ever To Accept The Truth
Of The Holy Gospel
No Matter Who Preaches It
And
To Deny The Lies Of Satan 
No Matter The Benevolent One Who
- In Your Name -
Presents Them!

Father,
In Living Faith We Beseech You
To Help Us To Do Right 
And 
To Live Right
In Your Holy Sight 
Until The Glad Day!
Grant Us The Watch-Care
Of The Holy Angels
And
Your Glorious Grace
For The Days Ahead.
In Jesus' Holy Name We Stand And Plead!
We Love You, Lord!
AMEN