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“Let those who have a strong, deep, abiding desire towards any special form of service to Christ, take it as presumptive proof that God intended them to do that work and that if in humility, faith and dependence they undertake it, He will prosper them in it.” – F. Guinness
“A BURDEN” – Michael Carl
Have you ever wondered how we can have million dollar church buildings and pack-in huge crowds on Sunday, but have no power in our witness? Do you wonder how about half of the people in this country claim to have had a born again experience and how the churches are having so little of an impact? Have you been amazed at the fact that American society is becoming increasingly antagonistic to the church?
How can this be?
The answer seems to be that it’s because the pastors in the pulpits have sold out to the ‘Seeker Sensitive’ movement. We’ve opted for programs, lights, smoke machines, stage props, and the prosperity Gospel.
Pastors preach the Gospel of Self-Fulfillment and talk about how we’re destined to reign. Our pulpits echo with: ‘God wants you to be happy’ and ‘You can have your best life now’. We have major tele-preachers holding ‘camp meetings’ where the ‘preacher’ shouts, ‘Let’s celebrate you!’
I heard a preacher say once that if you have trials in your life, then you don’t have enough faith. What a ludicrous statement and how utterly un-Biblical!
Paul had more faith than most of us and he never stopped going through trials. We talk faith and prosperity while the church around the world grows in not merely number, but in depth and maturity. They see miracles and God’s power; they sense His presence.
How? They’ve learned to persevere through trials. A Charismatic Episcopal Church Bishop in Pakistan had a Muslim slit his throat, throw him off of a bus and leave him for dead just because the Bishop was a Christian. But the Bishop’s ministry grows and he sees the fruit.
Christians in other parts of the world weep for revival in the American church. What does that say about us?
It means that we are weak and self-absorbed.
I heard another television preacher turn the tables and suggest that a preacher who focused on subjects like F. F. Bruce’s The Hard Sayings of Jesus was not preaching the Gospel and ignoring the truth of the Word! ‘They didn’t want to hear that’ he claimed!
What utter disregard for the truth! Jesus said, ‘”The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head,”‘ and told His followers of His coming arrest, trial, torture and crucifixion.
This means we’re deceived and taken with greed.
There are no tears for revival and the only One weeping is Jesus. He bled and died for us and we proclaim that the Gospel is a means to prosperity, power and influence. Church services look more like pop concerts and the preaching is only a babbling collection of self-absorbed slogans and how God wants us to be happy!
No, God wants us to be holy!
Where is the message of repentance? Where is the ‘”If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow Me”‘?
Folks, the message of the cross is foolishness and offensive to the world. Paul told us that 191/2 centuries ago.
Paul also told us that if he wanted to please the world, he would not be a follower of Christ.
Can you imagine Elijah having a chat with the wicked King Ahab about how we can ‘Coexist’? Or, do you think John the Baptist should have opened a dialogue with Herod about tolerance?
No, those mighty men of God were sent to confront the leaders of their time about the sin in the society! Why is it that our evangelicals spend their time trying to cozy up and make nice with our politicians while there are souls perishing hourly and going into a Christ-less eternity?
This is the message that will transform this culture and turn this
country around.
http://www.johnthebaptisttv.com/2011/10/11/a-burden-michael-carl/
ANDREW’s NOTE: I believe this is one of the most powerful words that I have seen in the last 5 years. It comes from a Christian lawyer from India named Swarna Jha – and it was posted on our Forum a couple of years ago. Time to re-read it again-
VISION: “JUST ONE ROAR of the LION”
-by S. Jha.
I saw this vision on the 22nd of August 2006
I saw a Lion. I walked with Him to a very high Rock. The Lion then Climbed the Rock, and Stood on the very top of this high Rock. I stood below, looking up at Him.
He let out a LOUD ROAR.
And EVERYTHING in the atmosphere / universe changed.
In a flash I had a 360 degree vision, and what I am about to relate happened in a flash, but I spent the whole of the 22nd of August, just waiting on God to see in ‘slow motion’, what I had seen in a speedy flash, and understand what I had seen.
I was told that my mind could not grasp the vastness of the changes I saw in the Vision. So I stayed at home, and did not take up any duties but spent the whole day, off and on, every few hours just re-visiting this vision and seeing it unfurl in more detail, now at a speed that I could cope with. I don’t think I have ever seen such a lengthy vision, condensed into a 360-degree vision flash before.
Frame by frame this is what I saw:
I saw Empires fall, and wars begin.
I saw that where previously, formulas and general understanding were proven, it did not work any more, where there were people and places overflowing with money one moment, the next morning the moneyed had nothing.
I saw many ‘proven’ thoughts, and ways now nullified.
I saw that the balance was tipped in favor of the East.
I saw Angels who had been working in the North and Northwest, recalled and sent East.
I saw children snatched out of the hands of some of the parents.
Fresh food stopped in the western area and was diverted to the East. The fertile became barren and the barren became fertile.
All this, from Just One Roar of the Lion.
I saw 3 long lines of writing in the sky. It read:
Lost, Lost, Lost.
But below, it I saw the word:
Gain , gain, gain……..where this line ended I could not see, as it just continued on, endlessly.
I saw that the East gained money, food, etc.
The losses were loss of power, prestige, money, position.
I saw:
Where a soldier stood to load his gun, to shoot, even the last single bullet he had was taken away.
Where a soldier stood ready for packing his gun, where truce had been declared, divine bullets loaded his gun, and led him to shoot.
In the Universe, expected cosmic events were diverted and unexpected ones were brought forth.
Deserts bloomed, greenery was made barren. Light that had focused on the West, now moved East.
This was so sudden that it was like saying…”One morning I woke up, and all was changed”.
(Scripture: Amos 3: 8: )
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
The Lion has Roared.
Dark clouds disintegrated from one place and gathered in another. Whilst there was a West to East exchange on a large level, on individual levels there were changes too. Everything, everything, everything, was changing.
All this from, Just One Roar of the Lion.
Just that One Roar, and things from here, were flying there and vice versa. People/ Nations, who had got used to a way of life/of thinking, were in for either a shock or a surprise.
CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE.
The hungry were fed, and the fed, went hungry. All opposites were happening.
Many homeless were housed, and many of those with homes became homeless. Light became dark and dark became light. Whatever the present situation, the opposite was happening.
Many rich became poor and many of the poor became rich.
All this, from Just One Roar of the Lion.
Clouds that were meaning to rain, suddenly disintegrated and it rained elsewhere, where least expected.
People were in puzzlement. They said to themselves, ”but I thought….” No, nothing would be as “I thought. “
Many were saying, “But it always worked this way”. Now no more. For those who said, “It’s never worked for me,” they were surprised to know that it will, now.
Heralds blew trumpets, proclaiming: “ End of empire, end of empire”.
Anyone who had been a Specialist, Monopolist, the kingpin in any area of his life/business, now that would begin to end. Nations that had empires or aspirations building towards it, would now see the beginning of the end of those empires.
Nothing was the same. Everything, everything had changed.
Just One Roar Of The Lion.
And He Has Roared.
Empty pockets were filled, the filled emptied.
Strategic changes were taking place. Whatever had worked like clockwork would not work now. People of peace were making war, and warring nations calmed down.
For the warring nations it was like the wind was taken out of their sails.
Just as Egypt, Persia, Babylon, Rome, Britain etc were all once super powers/empires, but their reign and era ended, so now any ‘super power’ or aspirations thereof, was being diffused. Nations that were looked up to were now beginning to be looked down upon and vice versa.
Balance of power and favor had shifted East.
Angels in the West, held Gold Books. One book was titled “Most Wanted”, the other, “Most Favored”.
‘The Most Wanted’ Book had living photographs of the most evil people, the traitors etc. Each one was dealt with and disposed.
The Most Favored, in the other gold Book with living photographs, were some of those, who had lived through most desolate conditions, such were lifted up.
(All that is related here, remember, was happening all at once.)
In the midst of all this, I heard the Angels sing: Glory, Glory, Glory.
Time was sped up in some places, in others, it was slowed down. Wild beasts were all crouching in fear, afraid. I saw the milk inside of cows curdle.
Just One Roar Of the Lion.
I saw Eagles, fitted with miniature bells. The bells were so minute, it was hard to believe that if they rang any could hear. Eagles did not speak, they just carried the bells that were fitted to their beaks. People were to ‘read’ the sounds.
Wheresoever the Eagles flew, to some the ringing of the bells was as a very high, deafening pitch. I was not allowed to hear this high pitch sound, but it was revealed to me, that it was an unbearable/ deafening high pitch sound.
But there were others who heard the same bells, which the Eagles had attached to their beaks, and to these the sound transmitted was different. It was sheer music. I heard this. Such people, had their hands lifted high and they were happily sighing and exclaiming, “Finally!”
I saw Angels collect gold crowns from those in the North, and they dipped the crowns in a smoky place (the kind of smoke one sees with dry ice), and when the crowns emerged from the smoke, they looked exactly the same, but now they were silver.
No matter in which direction I looked all had changed.
It seemed that the very nature of nature changed.
Volcanoes that were dormant, the ashes were removed, and a new fire was lit in them. It seemed that certain species, suddenly became extinct.
Reams of paper fell from the sky; paper and pens were sent down, for Chroniclers and Historians, for it was going to be a busy time for them.
Nothing of all creation was left untouched, at Just One Roar of The Lion.
Outside, the earth looked still, but within were rapid-fire changes. Quick, sudden, some were devastating, others surprisingly favorable, but this favor was mostly for the East.
I saw what looked like a flight-path that normally airlines describe on their brochures, as routes of flights/destinations.
For prophets, their flight -paths were moved from here to there, as if randomly, but it was not random, it was the Plan of God for prophets. Prophets will be suddenly moved, and see things from a new vantage point.
I saw some people become tar, whilst others became fountains of water.
Just One Roar Of The Lion
Many changes took place in the Universe. On earth, snows of old melted, and water in unlikely places froze.
It is no ordinary thing, when the Lion Roars.
Those dressed warm in the winter, had their clothes taken away, they were left naked. But the naked street-dweller was clothed. There was a divine transfer of wealth, knowledge, and understanding.
People, who’d talked and talked for years, had their mouths taped. But, as in Ezekiel 24: 2, those that had been mute for a season now spoke.
As the vision progressed, I heard the Lord Say: My People have no roof over their head. I Am their Roof.”
I was flown speedily, over building after building, and as we flew, I heard the Lord Say: “ Not Mine, not Mine, not Mine, not Mine, not Mine, not Mine, not Mine.”
Now I was despairing. What then was God’s?
Then I was shown, people in the fields, with instruments. They had no roof over their heads. These were God’s own.
The buildings we flew over, were demolished by an elephant’s trunk and many T.V. Studios had a fire underneath them. Apparently these buildings had been re-built on the same grounds where prior buildings had been condemned and burnt. These new buildings had been built on the foundations of charred remains and ashes.
I saw oil poured out from the sky, in two separate ways. One fell over people who gladly received it over them and laughed in the ‘oil rain’. On the other hand, for others, the oil rain caused to be set aflame all that was below.
All that was up to the present became obsolete, and new technology, the secrets of which were hidden in nature, appeared.
Science made simple but profound discoveries. I saw Scientists have a ‘Eureka’ moment. For many who were researching, studying, looking for, the ‘thing’, it was right there before their very noses. Once they saw it they slapped their foreheads, lamenting, “Silly me!”
Follies of science were exposed. The simplicity of the discoveries to come were mind-boggling.
Just One Roar Of The Lion
The very nature of nature seemed to be changing. It was as unbelievable as Isaiah 11: 6-8, ‘the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;……
In some places, I saw an overabundance of wheat, which flowed into the sea, as it was so plentiful. But in other places, I saw land, which was once green, and was now parched land where nothing grew.
I saw beautiful blooms on cactus/desert plants.
He, who understands these changes, will prepare.
The Earth was in a global eclipse. One half had light, the other half was in darkness. It seemed that plates were shifted/removed from the earth. There were people who raged against God. “ We’ll do what we have to, let Him do what He Wants to”, they were saying.
Trees trembled. They knew that their time to be cut had come. To many, prophets and counselors were restored, but from others, the prophets and counselors departed. Sadly, those from whom they departed noticed it not.
Focus/emphasis of the Church, and the world, due to the presence of new circumstances, changed.
All this, by Just One Roar Of The Lion.
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The Case for Integrity and Continuity in Jewish Feast Fulfillment’s
By Gene Lawley
The seven Jewish feasts that were ordained by God and given to Moses in Leviticus 23 have an order to them, a flow of continuity in a chronological manner. This is the pattern evidenced in the fulfillment’s of the first four feasts. Order and consistency has been the hallmark of God’s plan for the ages, not a haphazard, after-thought and mish-mash of events. He is sovereign; He knows the beginning from the end and orderliness is characteristic of His plans.
For review, the seven feasts are: Feast of Passover; Feast of Unleavened Bread; Feast of First Fruits; Feast of Weeks (Pentecost); Feast of Trumpets; Feast of Atonement; and Feast of Tabernacles.
Passover, however, was introduced at the time of the Exodus and later combined with the other six feasts. The seven feasts appear to highlight the redemptive ministry of Jesus Christ in the world, from the cross to His second coming. Colossians 2:16-17 tells us that the feasts are shadows of things to come, but “the body is of Christ”. So the feasts are commemorations of future events to be fulfilled, and we can readily see that in the fulfillment’s of the first four. And, as well, it identifies them with the person and ministry of Christ; they are not unrelated or isolated occasions of religious practice.
Christ was the Passover lamb, was buried (pictured by the nature of unleavened bread), and rose again the third day as the first fruits of the resurrection. Fifty days later, at Pentecost, the Hold Spirit came upon the little band of believers, indwelling them, just as Jesus had promised the disciples in John 14:17, “He dwells with you and will be in you”.
My argument is that there is one fulfillment for each feast, and they come about in the order they were given. For example, the next feast to be fulfilled in order is the Feast of Trumpets and it’s certainly no accident that the descriptive details of that festive activity are highlighted in Paul’s description of the rapture in I Thessalonians 4:16-17. The parallel is too apparent to conclude otherwise.
This next feast has been ignored or given little significance in the plan of God, or plugged in at the time of the Second Coming of Christ all too often. I suspect that the reluctance to give it a proper position in the scheme of end-time events has a lot to do with a fear of being labeled a “date-setter” because it pinpoints the rapture to a certain time-frame. And that is a valid concern, but certainly no excuse for avoiding a straight-forward consideration of the teaching of scripture. Jesus did tell us to “watch, for you know not what hour your Lord comes”, and we are certainly pressing toward that hour.
If one is ready for Jesus to come, it will not matter a lot if he does not know the day or the hour. I suppose Enoch, who “walked with God, and he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24) was not aware of what God was about to do, but he was totally engrossed in who he was with. That is our challenge today.
I have thought some on the way a shadow performs in the sunlight. Our bodies cast a shadow as the sun shines on us, and as the day progresses the shadow becomes shorter and shorter, until a high noon, we are standing on top of our shadow. In a sense we have fulfilled the pronouncement of our shadow. The Colossians 2:16-17 identity of the feasts as shadows of the Christ who is to come, or the things having to do with Him, works out the same way. One day soon the fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets will turn its shadow into reality.
The issue of “the day and the hour” is no simple calculation. We have established time zones and an international date line that puts some locations in a different day than others. We have daylight saving time to further confuse the issue. And, more confusing is this—my daughter lives in the Denver, Colorado, area, and I am in southern Idaho. Both are in the Mountain Time Zone, yet we were talking on the phone once and she remarked that it was dark there, while I noted that we still had sunlight in Idaho. Over the time zones to Israel, the time here in Idaho would be nine hours later (I think). Only God can figure this out, so I choose to let Him do it!
The last two feasts portray the fulfillment of two final events in Jesus’ redemptive ministry, that of the Jews’ acceptance of Jesus as their true Messiah and true atonement (the Feast of Atonement) part-way into the “time of Jacob’s trouble”, the seven-year tribulation period. And, finally, the Feast of Tabernacles, which pictures the Lord coming to dwell with His people, which He will do at His second coming to the earth.
Source: http://www.raptureready.com/soap/lawley1.html
“The roots of Christianity grow deep in Jewish culture, and it is highly recommended that all Christians learn about the Jewish feast days, holy days and other customs. They will only deepen our appreciation and understanding of our common ancestry that we have, Gentiles together with Jews. But to suggest that any Gentile believer who follows Jesus must be placed under Old Testament law is nothing but bondage, and it’s a bondage that the Bible speaks against not only in the verses quoted here, but in many other places as well. Regarding the freedom we have in Christ, let me leave you with this verse from the Master himself.”
“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” John 8:36
Source: The Hebrew Roots Movement.
Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of a new moon, or of the Sabbath days… Colossians 2:16
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