Do Not Be Deceived


Dearly Beloved Servants of Jesus Christ,

READ all of Matthew 24

The Lord is very soon to return.  Great tribulation is coming upon all who dwell on the earth (Revelation 12:17; 13:5-10), and that day (the Lord Jesus’s return in the clouds, immediately after the tribulation of those days) “will not come” until that man of sin be revealed and the abomination of desolation be set up in the Temple of God (the image of the beast depicted in Revelation chapter 13 and Matthew 24:15) and the "falling away" happen first.  

2 Thessalonians Chapter 2
Paul said, "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.  (For 'every eye shall see' Jesus return to earth.  Just as they saw Jesus ascend into Heaven, so will they see Him return.)
(Paul is basically saying, "Some very specific things need to take place before the Lord returns to gather His people.  Don't worry that you've either missed it somehow, or that it is going to happen without your knowing when it is going to happen.)
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (the day of the Gathering of the Saints) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;  (The revealing of the Antichrist for all to see, in the act of the Abomination of Desolation of the Temple, as spoken of by Jesus Christ to Daniel 12:11 and to John.)
 4 (the Son of Perdition) Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God, sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
(Revelation 13 happens first, before Jesus comes to gather His elect, His people, His saints, His church, His holy ones; so don't let anyone deceive you into believing that you've missed the coming of the Lord Jesus.  The mark of the Beast is issued first.  Don't let them make you think that you could even miss Jesus's coming, for it is after the Beast rises from the sea.  The strong delusion (the lie that Antichrist is 'the Christ') comes first.  Then, after 3 1/2 years, (Daniel 7:25; Rev. 13:5) Jesus Himself will descend at the voice of the trumpet of the seventh angel, and the end will come.)
 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

And now ye know what withholdeth (restrains) that he (the counterfeit Christ-Antichrist) might be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth (restrains) will let (restrain), until he be taken out of the way.
(Satan would destroy all of humanity now if God would let him, but God is on His own time-clock.  The revealing of the wicked Beast will happen once Satan is defeated in the 'War in Heaven' which is depicted in Revelation 12.  At that time, Satan and his demon warriors are completely thrown out of Heaven, and the last Three Woes (Revelation 8:13) of all time are issued to all who dwell on the earth, for Satan has come down knowing he has but 3 1/2 years (but a short time) to try to raise an earthly and demonic army to fight against Jesus at His second coming.)

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (Revelation 13:13, Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22; Revelation 19:20)
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Ought we not, therefore, to be greatly on our guard against deception?  We had better take NO pleasure in unrighteousness.  We had better be sure that we LOVE the TRUTH, even those truths which chastise us in our own sins.  Better the chastisement of a loving Heavenly Father, than the scourging of a righteous judge.  Better to suffer a little humiliation, and to bow in humble sorrow now, than to be broken in two by the Rock of Jesus Christ.

 Jesus said the harvest (the gathering of the elect and destruction of the damned) which is effected by the angels (who are the reapers Matthew 13:39) is the end of the age (Revelation 7; Revelation 11:5-19;  Revelation 14:14; Revelation 16:15-21).  The Son of Man coming in the clouds is at the Seventh Trump, the last trump, and Jesus said this would happen “immediately after the tribulation of those days.”   Matthew 24:29-31 

The Mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets, at the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet Angel. (Revelation 10:5-7)

He is coming for a 2nd time; it is going to be His second and final coming, for the purpose of taking back this world and establishing His eternal dominion; and for binding Satan for 1,000 years and giving His reward to His saints.  The dead in Christ will rise first (we who are alive and survive to see His coming will not precede the dead in Christ), this is the first resurrection.  The second resurrection (of the ungodly) comes only after the 1,000 years when all who died in sin, not in Christ, are risen to await judgment. (Revelation 20)

I mean to tell you that He is soon to return and set up His perfect millennial kingdom.  Is His return more than 3 1/2 years away?  Yes, I would dare to say that it is.  Because of Jesus's Words of warning and admonition, we are aware that the Man of Sin must fully be revealed first, and that the saints will be fully given into Antichrist hands for 3 1/2 years.  

While there is already persecution unto death of Christians all over this accursed world, an entire world-dominated Antichrist system has not yet been fully effectuated.  The False prophet has not yet made an image to the Beast, nor has he instituted a mark which is the only means of buying and selling.  There is Satan worship on this earth.  But the worship of Satan under absolute penalty of death to all who disobey has not yet been effectuated. (Revelation 13:17-18)

That Abomination of Desolation has not been set up yet (although there are abominations set up in some churches, and in the Church of Rome already, which have made those houses desolate of the Spirit of God).

Those of you who know your Bible understand that there is going to be one final week of years (Daniel’s 70th week-the final 7 years of time) which will usher in the very return of Jesus in the clouds.  We who are as the Bereans and who are like unto the tribe of Issachar know the times.  The Lord is impressing this on every heart that has a desire to know the fullness of His Truth as proclaimed in His Eternal Word.  Perhaps even you are discerning the hour.

The 7 years prior to Jesus’s return will bring to pass all of the Book of Revelation.  There is so much I would love to expound here, but out of concern that I would become too wordy, (and that I have already) and that you would not read to the end, I will try to keep this short.  The important word for today is simply 'Repent, for the Day of the Lord is at hand.'

Walk circumspectly, redeeming the time, delaying not in coming fully to Jesus, in wholesale denial of all that is of this world, for the time is truly short, and the days of destruction of the ungodly and of the unrighteous false church are at hand.


The Lord God has impressed on me (and not only on me, but on so many others) that this is all soon to come to pass.  The word to me, in many dreams and in one dream in particular was, “Why have you stopped warning them about the judgment to come?  Why have you stopped telling them of My soon return and to repent?”  

To my great shame, my only answer has been that, 'no one wants to hear.'  The pleadings to join with me in following Jesus fully, the urgent warnings to flee all sin with me and resist the Devil and give no place to the Devil-- these words fall on deaf ears; ears stuffed full of the fingers of those who are also shutting their eyes, and uttering nonsense in reply, just as a child who will balk at reproof by stiffening his neck also plugs his ears, squeezes tight his eyes and says, 'na-na-na-na-na.'  Many an excuse is given for our failings as a church.  But who will contend for God?  Who will proclaim His Word with boldness?

No one (or so incredibly few) seems to see the lateness of the hour, nor care about the abominations in America and in the church, which are so very many, and which have left the house of the Lord (the churches) desolate.  They say that they care, and that they see, and that they believe, but their actions and inaction prove otherwise.  The Church, who is commanded to keep her garments and be holy as also her Husband is holy, is not walking in holiness, nor is she wholly being chaste to her betrothed.  She has gone a whoring after works of the flesh and that which does not profit--gaining the whole world, and losing her soul.  Sadly, she has also drawn many harlot daughters after herself, that they may join her in her idolatry.

I grow tired of hearing people say they believe that sin is killing this nation and this church like a cancer, yet they do nothing to remove the cancer or to prevent it.  They say they don't want the cancer (which is merely the result of sin and evil and wickedness), but they bring cancer-causing agents into their homes, hearts, lives, churches, minds and bodies.  

Who among you would be fool enough to drink cyanide, or to stab himself, or to throw himself from a high mountain?  NO one in his right mind would think to do such a thing in the physical realm.  We all demonstrate our firm conviction and belief that cyanide is deadly by shunning, resisting and fleeing from the drink!  We prove that we want to live by keeping our feet on the strait path, so that we will not tumble to our deaths off the side of a cliff.  We must not test God by toying with danger, as that is evil in itself as declared by Jesus to Satan during Jesus's temptation in the wilderness.

Tolerating, inviting, or accepting evil and the works of darkness in our lives is proof that we do not believe Jesus's Word to be true (for He says the wages of sin is death).  Likewise any refusal by a Christian to resist, flee from and hate all forms of evil is FULL PROOF that that Christian does not truly believe that the evil and the sin and the works of Satan are truly deadly to Christians.

You see, an alcoholic or drug addict, having once been enslaved by the evil poison, knows that the drug is a killer of the mind, the body, the soul and the spirit.  That one who has truly been saved from the demon spirit of alcoholism and drugs will flee it and resist it forever, because they truly believe it to be deadly to them.  One who has seen their life ravaged and utterly destroyed by the demons of lust, fornication, pornography, adultery or sodomy, will in no wise entertain any of those demons ever again in any way once they have been truly set free through repentance and remission of sin by Jesus Christ.  The one delivered from the demons of witchcraft, sorcery, demon worship, that one will never, ever desire to draw near to those tools of the craft again.  They will hate the evil, and speak out against the evil, and will desire that every one who is enslaved by those evils be set free indeed!

Anyone who has truly repented and been freed from the bondage of sin (all who sin are in bondage to it) will never want to tempt himself to partake of that sin again, because that man knows for sure, and does truly believe, that the evil of that sin is as a deadly poison to him.  They will not have remnants of that wickedness in their homes, and will guard fiercely against going anywhere near it themselves.  They will certainly never want to have anyone around them tempted by those demons of bondage, and they will never want to be the cause of leading anyone (especially children) into any of those forms of bondage, by having the tools of Satan in their homes.  

Do you now see?  Are the cataracts falling off?  This is how we examine ourselves to see whether we've been saved from sin, whether we've truly repented from sin, whether we've then been forgiven and freed from sin.  The proof, the evidence of our salvation from sin is this: We will flee evil and fiercely resist it at all cost to ourselves, because we hate the poison which almost killed us and which is killing billions of others.  Our love for the many waxes warm, yes it burns brightly as a flame of fire, for we love the people and we hate to see them enslaved as we once were.  Do you still want to see them enslaved?  Do you not so badly desire for them to be freed from the demons?  Then by the power of the Holy Spirit--boldly proclaim the freedom from sin in Christ Jesus to all who will hear.  And pray fervently that many will hear.

I submit to you, that the greater portion of those who are called by His Jesus's name (Christians), have never truly believed in the deadliness of their sins; they have never been convinced that the sin they tolerate, invite, or accept into their hearts and lives has made them dead spiritually and prevents them from glorious abundant spiritual life on earth; they have not seen the ravages of sin clearly enough to even see the need to repent and run the other direction in order to flee it.  

How can this be?  How is it that the prisoner is still bound to and bound by sin, yet he thinks himself to be free and saved?  How can one think he's been found by the Shepherd Jesus, but still be lost in his sin and bound to it.  Why is this so?

It is because foolish Shepherds and leaders and fellow sheep of the flock, who themselves have not fully admitted to the sin in their own lives and have not desired to be free from the sins that entangle them, cannot powerfully preach repentance.  They, themselves, are still in bondage to sins, yet they believe themselves to be saved from sin.  Though they repent not fully, they believe that they have remission of sin.  All who are themselves not truly convinced that the sins are deadly will never completely flee from sin, nor will they strongly warn others of the wiles of the Devil and of the snare of sin.  They do not flee and resist because they do not truly see, nor do they admit to the danger.  In their hearts, in the secret place, they love the sin, they lust after pleasure more than they love the truth.  They receive not the love of the truth, therefore they go on deceiving and being deceived.

The truth is that we are wretched without Jesus Christ.  Our hearts are deceitfully wicked.  We have to fully be made to hate our own sin, and the deadly effects it has had in our own lives, before we can even come to Jesus's feet weeping and begging him to "show mercy on me a wretched sinner."  We humble ourselves as the prodigal son did.  We beg to be made a hired hand, a servant of our LORD and our great Savior Jesus Christ.  Then, in our humble estate, He kills the fatted calf and prepares a great banquet for us.  Once the wicked son returns home in abject humility, the Father receives him as a son and restores him.  Until the son finds himself wallowing with the pigs, having completely squandered the gift of life that God gives, until that time, the son will not repent and bow himself low before his Father and seek to be rescued from his own pit of despair.

Are you saved?  Are you made free from your sin?  Do you still tempt your own self to sin by bringing in the tools of Satan into your midst?  Do you toy with danger (pornography, drugs, drink, violence, witchcraft, lies, hatred, strife, maliciousness, discontentment)?  Do you falsely believe that a dance with the Devil will not kill you spiritually and even physically?  If you still do these things, yet call yourself a child of God and a sheep of Jesus's fold, ask yourself why you deny Jesus's Words.  His sheep hear His voice; they follow Him wherever He goes.  Jesus does not lead us into temptation.  If you are being led to sin, or if you are leading yourself there, Jesus is not leading you.  Either you have left Him willfully, to follow after your own lusts, or you've been beguiled by the evil tempter, even Satan himself, to go back and wallow in the mud and eat your own vomit as a dog does.  

Take it from someone who has had too much to drink, each time you fall and repeat the sin, you return to your own vomit.  You beg to be healed when you are hungover, yet you will not stop being the agent of your own turmoil by ingesting poison.  Yes, all of humanity is very stupid indeed!  We each, return willfully to our own sins (for it is our unrepentant will to sin), yet lament its prison shackles.  Sinner, it is for you to bow, it is for you to enter humbly before Jesus, then will he say, "Where are your accusers?  Neither do I condemn you.  Now go, AND SIN NO MORE." John 8:11

Almighty God does not desire that you remain slaves to your sins or your sin nature.  He wants all to come to repentance and to have our shackles taken off, so that we may follow Him into eternal life.  He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. (Ezekiel 18:23) 

All who truly hate sin, and are freed from it (saved) will flee every form of evil, unrighteousness, sin, lust, hatred, envy, strife, violence, witchcraft, sorcery, pornography, murder, lies.  These idols of sin you will break down with your own hands, because you do not want to serve them anymore, for they are cruel and evil masters who desire only your destruction and damnation.

Those who are themselves slaves to sin, will suffer others to remain in their chains of sin and be bound just as they are.  Maybe this is why the most dreadful sinners (like me, past tense) seem to truly HATE evil.  I know firsthand (I regrettably say) the poison that evil and wickedness are.  Once one has seen the fruit of sin (which is death both spiritual and physical), one will flee sin!

A child is careless, and strays into the street, only because that child does not have a true belief in the possibility of being run over.  Christians are careless and don't flee sin either because they have not been made to hate sin (their beloved sins which are killing them) or to realize the real dangers of sinning.

Mankind will defend himself and his ways to the bitter end; but who will contend for the LORD God and for His Word, and for His Truth, and for His Prophecies of the Judgments to come upon an Harlot Nation of false Christians who bring shame to His Great Name (which He has magnified even to the Heavens).  Who are these who bring perpetual shame to His Holy Word (which He has magnified above His Name)?  We bring shame to the name of the Lord Jesus because as a body of disciples, followers of Jesus (supposed, in name), we have not fled from sin in our own lives.  We have not rooted out the evil, bitter root of sin, but instead have bound ourselves with these bonds from which we thought ourselves to have been freed.  

We are a nation of Christians with logs in our eyes.  No wonder we no longer feel empowered to help the ungodly to remove the specks in their eyes.  No wonder we cannot speak forcefully against evil in order to protect innocent children from death and destruction both in and out of the womb.  No wonder we are as a nation of fruitless eunuchs, having neutered ourselves by being joined with sin.  No wonder we are neutral and apathetic toward the destruction of the ungodly and the unrepentant soul who is enslaved by our supposed enemy the Devil.  No wonder we are as Sodom and Gomorrah.  No wonder there is death all around us and our houses are plundered with debt.  No wonder, when we have laid up our treasure on earth in heaps and mounds of garbage which we have purchased from Satan in order to enrich his coffers and fulfill our own lusts.  No wonder Satan is so empowered to move against us when we have fortified his battlements of war.  His cache is full of bullets and armaments.  He is well provisioned, and we have strengthened his evil right arm.  Will Almighty God not be just in demanding a recompense of us when we have done this great evil in His sight and in His name?

I am not Ezekiel, not Jeremiah, not the Apostle Paul (who warned those he loved for 3 years in tears, about the coming deception); I am not Daniel, not Apostle John, nor any other of the Old Testament Prophets whom I love.  Therefore, don’t listen to me as your authority.  If you seek to know whether I have rightly divided the Word of truth, then investigate it.  Read the Book of Evidence which is the Bible, if indeed you are one of His sheep.  His sheep hear His voice, and they do follow Him.  

You, read the Bible, read Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Obadiah, Amos, Joel; read the New Testament where our LORD Jesus took it upon Himself to WARN and to inform all who would follow Him what is going to happen in the time period before His return.   Read the Revelation of Jesus Christ and get to know the God of your Salvation.

Now is the time, a very short time, of preparation.  Now is the time to forsake all others and follow Jesus as you have never done before.  Pray and fast; worship the Lord in your own home; devour the Word of God which is the Bread of Life.  Wash yourselves in the precious and sanctifying water of the Word of God.  Never let His words depart from your lips.  Prepare your children to seek the Lord—do this daily, without ceasing.   

Now is the time to put on the full armor of God, and to keep it on like a good soldier who knows that his armor is his very protection from the enemy.  Do not be drawn away into the works of the flesh.  Wait upon the Lord as His servants Abraham and Sarah should have instead of using human ways and means to bring about the Lord's promise of salvation.  The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.  Now is the enemy before us, ready to pounce and devour us.  We must pray as we never have before, and stay awake.  We remember Jesus said, "Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

We do not have all the time in the world.  There is a war brewing in the heavens, and as Jesus said, we would have wars and rumors of wars.  Do not take this lightly.  There will be another world war, and America will not be unscathed.  Where does your treasure lie?  Are you yet seeking things of this world?  Have you become “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God?”  It is time to grow up in the Lord; do not scoff and say that the Lord is delaying and get consumed with drunkenness and begin to beat your fellow servants (even if only with your words).  This is scriptural.  We need to WATCH, to WAIT, to be ready.  We have been so sternly admonished by our Lord Jesus who loves us and does not want that day to come upon us unawares. 
 

Jesus wants us to pass our time in Holy Fear; in this way we prove that our blessed Hope is indeed His Glorious appearing.  We need to throw off everything that is ensnaring us.  If it be gossip or backbiting, if it is drunkenness or orgies (or watching it on TV), if it is slothfulness (Spiritually), if it is hatred in your hearts which leads to bitterness, striving and hardheartedness, get rid of whatever your pet sin is.   

Clean your house literally of all idolatry (covetousness is idolatry according to the Bible, be content with such things as you have), violence (in movies or in your heart), filthiness (in movies, mouths, hearts), unforgiveness and mercilessness (if we forgive not, our Father in Heaven will not forgive us; those who show mercy are given mercy); We have to clean out the death and invite Jesus in to be our very life.  But Jesus does not abide with sin.   

Do you see?  We must abide in the vine if we are to bear fruit.  Do you not know that Jesus does not have any part with sinfulness?  We are the temple.  We need to let Jesus clean out our temple-our heart, mind, home (as He did with the money changers).  Then and only then can we fast, pray and wait for the Holy Spirit to come upon us with power (As in Acts)—a power that will make us do one thing—PREACH with boldness as Peter did, as Paul did, as Stephen did even while being stoned.  It will be a power that makes us full of Jesus and His forgiveness.  We will be consumed with a love for the lost, the hell bound sinner, the wandering sheep who has left the fold.  We will not be able to be silenced.  We will be about the battle, the Lord’s battle for hearts and souls.

Those who repent now and keep their hearts pure will SEE God.  We need a spiritual rebirth, not just a revival in the church.  We need, on an individual basis, to choose the better more narrow road, to open up to Jesus who is on the outside of the Laodicean church in America even now, knocking, and waiting to be given the place of full Lordship (not just partial acquiescence) in our hearts, our lives, our minds.   

Ask yourself, be honest—Do you really believe, can you stand before God Almighty, and say that you love the Lord your God with ALL of your heart, ALL of your mind, ALL of your soul, and ALL of your physical strength?  I doubt that any of us are there.  But, WE NEED to be.  Especially in light of the plundering which is coming our way.   

We need to be awake with our lamps full of oil (the Holy Spirit).  Do you know what the great Tribulation will be?  Do you want to be caught unawares?  Do you want to fail to prepare your children?  The deception which is coming on this earth, and which in so many ways is here (but will be so much worse than you have imagined or even could imagine); this deception is going to blow away anyone who does not know (KNOW) their God.  Daniel said those who “do know their God will do great exploits” during the time of Antichrist rule.  Those who don’t know their God, who don’t have their armor on, who are not versed in the Word, who are not accustomed to fasting and to pray without ceasing (yes this is literal unceasing prayer) will not be able to stand in the evil day.  You risk being deceived if you do not hold fast to the Word of Truth in the power of the Holy Spirit of Truth.

I plead with you. If you, too, know that the end of all things is nigh, then by all means, choose today to follow with the whole heart, with a full determination of your mind (your will), with all of your energy in your physical body.  Jesus will fill you with power from on High which is the Gift of the Holy Spirit; He will do this freely because He desires to.  But He does not fill those who seek the power for the power’s sake or for the sake of miracles.  It will only be that He abides with them who give all glory to Jesus and refuse to take any glory or earthly gain for themselves.   

No, He is against the proud, but He gives grace to those who humble themselves.  We need to do as we have been commanded: “but to do justly, but to love mercy, and to walk (continue daily) HUMBLY with our God” and the Lord Jesus.  We need to keep being filled with the Holy Ghost, this is true.  But in order to be filled, we need to be first emptied of sin.  Empty yourself of your ambition, throw off all sin which so easily entangles you, stop building your earthly kingdoms on the sand of this earth, get rid of hatred, malice, selfish anger, gossiping and vengeance.  Trust the Lord Jesus who has saved you, and love Him by being fully obedient.  And don’t forget to pray without ceasing—without ceasing!
 

I am nothing, and I know that all of you (who know me) know that.  I am nothing but a child of God, saved by the unmerited grace of Jesus who saw fit to clean me up and to take me under His precious wing and to remake me in His very hands into something useful.  Jesus is my life, my all, my hope.  I judge (condemn) no one.  But I do discern all things as is being commanded by Jesus in Scripture.  I love you all with a pure heart.  I desire so earnestly that you all come to fullness of maturity in Christ and that you be filled with the Holy Ghost daily so that you may stand and remain (survive) unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the clouds after the great tribulation, as spoken by Jesus our Savior.  

To live is Christ, and to die is gain—but, I desire, as long as I am in the body, to spur all believers in Jesus Christ on to greater faith, to greater belief, to greater love of Jesus, to a closer following of Jesus.  I will that the joy of the Lord become your strength.

Jesus wants us to be ready, but more than that, He simply wants all of us, every part of us.  Jesus’s words in the Bible are so clear.  Don’t let anyone dumb His words down for you.  He is truly asking for your all.   If someone tells you that you can make a partial turning toward Jesus, but look back as Lot's wife did in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, then turn away from that one who advises you to remain weak and allows you to tolerate your sin.  That man or woman who wrongfully instructs you does not love you.  A parent who loves a child will never cease to protect them from sin, to warn them off of sinning, to plead with them to keep themselves from sin.  The one who is the true shepherd will love you enough to tell you the truth and to urge you to humble yourself and let the shepherd unshackle you eternally from your sins and from the demons that torment you.

Do you lack spiritual maturity? Do you lack patience? Do you fail to see the fullness of the Holy Spirit fruit (love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, longsuffering, kindness) in your life?  If we lack the character of God in our lives, it is because of our sin.  We have given place to the devil, and there is only so much space in our heart.  God cannot sit on the throne of our hearts if we’ve given “place” to the devil.  When we sin it is because, as James declares, “we have been led astray by our own lusts” and desires of the fleshly nature.   

We have to be ever so vigilant in keeping our hearts pure before God so that we can be good and faithful servants of Jesus Christ.  Satan desires to sift those who have a heart to obey God.  Satan wants to destroy our testimonies, to render us useless, to keep us from bearing fruit.  We do have an adversary-Do not be fooled.  That adversary seeks our destruction in a way that is unique to each of us.   

Therefore, be on your guard, reject your pet sins-hate the sin because it is poison to you, and give full place to Jesus so that no place can be given in your heart to the devil to get a foot in the door of your heart.  We all deal with this, and as long as we are in this body of death we will deal with these fleshly passions, and at any time we think we stand we need to take heed lest we fall (take it from someone who has done nothing but fall, and fall, and fall).  I know that we need to be vigilant at all times.  

Yes, Jesus cleanses us from all unrighteousness when we repent AND turn FROM our sin, but we are not cleansed before that. (Saying we are ‘sorry’ to God, but continuing to give place to the sin, is not repentance, and we all know that.  Don’t let anyone deceive you and take away your salvation or your crown of life.)   

We need to walk in the way which Jesus has given to us—the very narrow way.  Do not be foolish as I have been and begin to widen out the path by allowing yourself to sin and by trying to justify whatever sin you do have.  

We do have a part in our salvation; our part is to refuse evil and to turn to Jesus with a whole heart.  If we desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus, and if we desire to be fully used of God for all His will and glory, then we absolutely must be so intentional about kicking out the sin in our hearts and homes.  

God wants to fulfill the pure spiritual desire of our hearts, not the foolish desires of our flesh.  He is never going to let any child of His be content with earthly treasures—so stop striving against Him.  If you are discontent, perhaps you are trying to get to that place where you have “enough” of what the world has to offer.   

I have news for you.  God does not want you to be content with what this world has to offer (success, money, power, silver and gold, praise from people, respect, the list is endless).  NO, He desires a people who are wholly after Him.  (Please test this by reading the Bible for yourself.  His desire is that you are content (and fully satisfied) with HIM alone.)  

He desires a bride who longs only for Him.  He is a jealous God.  He is coming back for a bride without spot or blemish who is not off in idolatry.  Covetousness (wanting what others have) is idolatry.  Idolizing people (even pet preachers, or athletes, actors, singers, friends, etc.) is a SIN.  We ought to praise no one, save CHRIST JESUS.  Even angels and saints are not to be worshiped in our hearts or to receive the praises that are reserved for God.  (Read Revelation and Daniel-see thou doest it not.)

Reserve all your praise for Jesus who alone is worthy of all praise (we sing this in church, let us live it in our lives).

Beloved in Christ, my words have already become too many.  Please seek the Lord Jesus with all of your heart while it is yet day.  The time of great distress is nearly upon us.  If you are not ready, Get READY.   

This is not a time to fear, this is a time to TRUST.  But you must know in whom or in what your trust lies.  This world is sinking sand, but Christ alone is the solid rock upon whom you must believe and trust with all of your might.  Settle it in your hearts and minds today whom you will serve.  You cannot serve two masters.   

Be strong in the LORD and in the power of His might.  Be of good courage if you are fully following Jesus and being filled with the Holy Ghost and living HOLY before Christ Jesus.  If you are not yet fully surrendered (you alone know), then get right.  Choose today whom you will serve.  If you choose to serve this world and remain a slave to sin, then know that you choose that, and take the consequences of not being ready.   

But I admonish you to choose today to turn fully, as never before, to Jesus, abandoning all others, forsaking all this world (and Satan) has for you, and taking hold with firm grip to the hope which has been set before you in Christ Jesus.  

2 Timothy 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (Therefore, read the Word, know it, memorize it, meditate on it, be instant in season and out of season, be ready to give an answer to all who ask about the hope that is within you.)

Amos 8:11  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12  And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. (Therefore seek the Lord today while He may be found.)
 

Romans 13:8-14:1 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9  For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. 11  And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. 
Romans 14:1  Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
 

Jeremiah 17:5-18 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6  For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7  Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8  For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 11  As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. 12  A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. 13  O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters. 14  Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. 15  Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now. 16  As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee. 17  Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. 18  Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Psalms 94:1-16  O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. 2  Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. 3  LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 4  How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? 5  They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. 6  They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. 7  Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. 8  Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? 9  He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? 10  He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? 11  The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. 12  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; 13  That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. 14  For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. 15  But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. 16  Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?   
            

Daniel 11:32  And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he (Antichrist) corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

Daniel 12:3  And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. (Do the work of God; turn many to righteousness, be a prophet as Jeremiah was and do not let the people continue in their sins as all false prophets do; turn men from their sins and TO Jesus.)

1 John 2:3  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. (We must continue to examine ourselves to see whether we be in the faith.)

Psalms 4:1-8  A Psalm of David.

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. 2  O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. 3  But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. 4  Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. 5  Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. 6  There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. 7  Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. 8  I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

Ezekiel 9:4-6  And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 5  ¶And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6  Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. (Those who are of the Devil will worship his Antichrist/Beast and take his mark and his name.  Those who are sealed by God through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit unto the day of Redemption, those ones who sigh and cry against the evil, those will be spared, and they will not be able to be touched by the demons that arise from the abyss at the time of the 5th Trumpet sounding.  Love God and Jesus and serve Him-take His mark, His Name, upon yourselves and take up your cross and follow after Him until the day of His glorious appearing! Revelation 9)
 

The Lord Jesus is at the door, knocking.  Humble yourself and turn from sin and open up the door to Him.  All who continue in wickedness will be ashamed.  But those who mourn for the sin in the land and in their hearts, and who follow the Lord Jesus with a pure heart shall be saved.  And it will come in that day that anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved.

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