The Answer is Outside of Our Man Made Religions

Incitement of and violence itself is the acting out of the rage and bitterness within the human heart caused by a myriad of reasons. It's the byproduct of hatred in the human heart which is the result of sin. There is a remedy for violence! It is forgiveness. One must tap into the source of forgiveness for its power to be unleashed however.  Forgiveness is God's business and power. We can't muster it up. Vengeance is also God's business. God asks us to forgive one another while he asks us to let him deal with the justice that's involved in vengeance. While there is a time and purpose under heaven for war to take place, it is for one specific reason. It is to stop evil when it just won't back off, and we pray for God's guidance and timing in such campaigns. BUT regarding which side one is on we all ought to heed the Word of God for it says woe to those who call evil good and good evil, and blessed are those who call good, good and evil, evil, because there is no confusion, there is no deceit, there is no lying in the latter. There is truth when you call things what they are. We must pray for leadership who fear God and listen to God with surrendered lives who are commissioned for such war in its time and place. Regarding the individual souls, God is interested in healing and reconciling relationships between people of every race, and nationality. Getting to know who God is is the first step in healing the sin within. Believing his Word changes everything.  Even when people and or powers in high places encourage hatred or violence towards others, people can rise above that and respond in forgiveness. Forgiveness will go a very long way in sacrificing itself for the good of other people. Consider the heart of God: that while we were yet sinning ( thinking murder or hating our brothers and sisters, and acting out murder) he sent his son Jesus Christ to die for us. He was redeeming us who are unredeemable. God scourged his son with the punishment we deserve to pay for all the violent acts of humanity. God poured the full weight of his wrath on his own son so that people could be saved from his anger toward sin. Do you see how important it is to see the Triune God for who He is? God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the only one who can change the human heart from hate to loving forgiveness. The One Triune God DEMONSTRATES this forgiveness to us all. Jesus is above all religion. People kill in the name of their man made religions. Even worldly "Christianity" has killed in its own name. But Jesus, who is God, is not about worldly "Christianity", nor Islam or Hinduism or Buddhism or any other religion. God is outside of all religions of the world, and God the Father sacrificed his son Jesus for us so that he could forgive us all, and so that we in turn would forgive others. God is not forcing anyone to conform to forgiveness....nor is he forcing anyone to believe in Jesus.  He is commanding us to do both. We can reject his command or obey it gladly. Both choices have powerful results that influence everyone and everything. We are not to focus on our differences in religion and try to unite all the differences into one like people are trying to do under Chrislam or one world religion. We are to become united in Christ Jesus alone. We are all to conform to Jesus Christ who has easily and obviously proven his Authority in Lordship through his living sacrifice and powerful resurrection. Everyone is called to repent of their sinful natures. For the power of forgiveness in the world to be unleashed the world must put its faith in Jesus Christ alone, and acknowledge being under the name of Jesus Christ alone.  We live in a time where we desperately need to be in discernment about what is true and false Christianity, which is about the real Christ versus Anti-Christ. God will hold people accountable for their sin through the Word of God, and we need to do what he has asked us to do which is REPENT of our sins and put our trust in Jesus Christ then live in the Holy Spirit of Love , Joy , Peace , Patience , Kindness, Goodness , Gentleness , Faithfulness and Self-Control...which is only possible when you begin a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. He has already won the battle over sin.  His blood has the power to wash away all sin and it's damage everywhere. 

Too Proud? Ask God for Humility and a Broken and Contrite Heart

There will be people who won't go to heaven for eternity. They are those who were too proud to receive the only remedy for the problem that plagues humanity. Only pride prevents the crookedness within us all from being remedied...only pride keeps one from bowing humbly at the foot of the cross in deep thanks. No one deserves to be in heaven with God, but those who will be there will know it is by his grace through Christ alone that they are there. 

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” (Romans 1:16-17 ESV)

Living Lyrics Through The Holy Spirit

Mercy Music (Come Home)

Written By: Timothy Brindle

Restoration Album

Verse 1-
This song is written for backsliders,
And those who fell of "the road" like bad drivers.
Who think they're too gross for Mercy and so, so unworthy,
And think the Christian walk's a hopeless journey.
Perhaps like me, you try to smother conviction,
By lust or drugs or some other addiction.
Or you deny your disgusting condition,
Or think, to turn back is too much of a mission.
I know how you feel, like, "What's the point of trying?"
So you avoid the I AM, but you know that He's REAL
You're pursuing sin, although it will kill,
And it's ruining you, and No, you won't be fulfilled
He won't disown you, your only hope, He is still
cuz Christ groaned on the hill when He atoned for your guilt.
There His love was shown and revealed
so, "Come, be washed whiter than snow" by the flow that He spilt (Isaiah 1:18)
for all your wrong sin.
The Lord is good and forgiving, abounding in love to all who call upon Him (Psalm 86:5)
however bad your doubts,
He says, "Whoever Comes to ME, I'll never, ever cast you out!" (John 6:37)

If you're God's son or perhaps you're His daughter

and like a lost sheep you so happened to wander

After every lust you could imagine or conjure

After every greed you could fathom or ponder

Passing pleasures look how fast it was squandered

I know you feel like you've been captured and conquered

If you don't trample on His Majesty's Honor

And you know how He has to cast off a scoffer

But recall Jesus took the wrath and the slaughter

But recall Jesus took the wrath and the slaughter

Yeah! He already took the wrath and the slaughter

FOR YOU!

So you could come back to the Father

COME HOME, come home, COME HOME, come home, COME HOME

Won't you come back to the Father?

COME HOME, come home, COME HOME, come home, COME HOME

Yeah! Come back to your Father!

Verse 2-
In quick sand I was stuck from my tangents of lust
Until I seen that the Blood of the Lamb is enough
And if I was oppressed under the guilt of my sin—
then how many other of His children are pinned?
Discouraged and despondent in ramped bondage
In sin's grip like anacondas
Consistency, they just can't accomplish
Wounded on the side lines with a damaged conscience:
Convinced by Satan's roaming legions, that they're only pagan hopeless heathens
"And therefore Jesus won't receive them,
Because they have NO righteousness—No achievement!"
But they're really seeking to make their own appeasement
when in reality, the only pleasing atonement to God is Jesus' groans and bleeding—
So let that be the only hope you're pleading!
And you don't need to first work your way back
And NOPE, you won't please Him with your personal lash
Yeah, it's true, you deserve to be smashed
But Christ already averted the Curse and the Wrath (Galatians 3:13)

COME HOME, come home, COME HOME, come home, COME HOME

Won't you come back to the Father?

COME HOME, come home, COME HOME, come home, COME HOME

Yeah! Come back to your Father

Verse 3-
If nothing convinces you to come to your senses
but you run from Him I pray your dungeon of sin gets,
so uncomfortable and empty that you run to the Sinless Son who gives abundant forgiveness
'cuz it isn't WHOLE, your "secret heart", it's true
Within your soul—the deepest part of you
I know your spiritual stomach is starving (Isaiah 55:2)
So come back to Christ and He'll abundantly pardon! (Isaiah 55:7)
God put an eternal gap in your heart—so you going after sin is absurdity
'cuz it only leaves you trapped in the dark—so come be filled by Him who IS ETERNITY (Isaiah
57:15)
So peep it homie, though He is holy,
Behold Jesus, Whose so Meek and Lowly (Matt. 11:28-30)
I too am weak—but Yo, He upholds me
Don't trust Christ + Self—NO! Jesus Only!!!
Why return to Christ, I'm sharing some reasons:
Sin is lie—Christ swears His allegiance
Sin our cancer—but He bears our diseases

See infinite grace—come cherish its freeness (Chea!!!)
Receive all the Merits of Jesus,
And on Judgment Day, you'll be there in HIS Clean-ness! (Zechariah 3:1-5)
While you are far off, the Father is chasing,
To receive you in His Arms in His Awesome Embracin' (Luke 15:20)
His Son's robe covers all your mistakes, and
He slaughtered "The Best Calf" on the Cross in your place, kid (Luke 15:22-23)
Admit His law you were breaking
Come as a JACKED-UP SINNER—it's the only qualification (Luke 15:21, 18:13)
I should be the first to witness:
that Christ Jesus came into this world for the worst of sinners! (1st Timothy 1:15)
Say, "While revealing Your Cross to me, Hosea 14:4, HEAL MY APOSTASY!"

If you're God's son or perhaps you're His daughter

and like a lost sheep you so happened to wander

After every lust you could imagine or conjure

After every greed you could fathom or ponder

Passing pleasures look how fast it was squandered

I know you feel like you've been captured and conquered

If you don't trample on His Majesty's Honor

If you know how He has to cast off a scoffer

But recall Jesus took the wrath and the slaughter

But recall Jesus took the wrath and the slaughter

Yeah! He already took the wrath and the slaughter

FOR YOU!

So you could come back to the Father

COME HOME, come home, COME HOME, come home, COME HOME

So repent for it's the Lord you can trust

COME HOME, come home, COME HOME, come home, COME HOME

Yeah, His mercy is more than enough!

The Full Counsel of the Gospel is Necessary

In order for the power of God to come to you for salvation the FULL counsel of the Gospel must be realized and believed in. Accepting only parts of it will do you no good. Hearing only parts of it taught from the pulpit is also detrimental. There are 3 critical parts to the Gospel to believe for it to be affective. Your knowledge can increase in the full counsel as you read the Word. The first (the hardest to accept because of pride in the human heart) is to admit that you are the problem... not your problems themselves, and you cannot do anything to fix the problem. You, yourself, are the sinful one needing to be saved. There are serious consequences to being the problem...the wage of sin is death in eternity. The second is to believe that Jesus is the solution for you by his death, burial and resurrection for you ( hard to believe because of doubt and denial that God was actually with us in Jesus' body and that this one God/Man is the only way to eternal life. This doesn't fit into human logic or understanding. It is true nonetheless, therefore, it must be received by faith), and the third is to live your life for God according to the Bible which is by God's grace and through faith in it. You are not earning salvation since you received it freely by faith in Jesus' work. You are now free and working out your obedience joyfully, through repentance, through a clean conscience , and because  you love God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.  You hate to continue to be the problem and you want the Solution to live through you. Once you live daily in this complete understanding of the Gospel there is power to save you. Jesus is everything! Jesus is God. Don't dwell on the fact you are the problem once you own that, but accept it humbly and thankfully receive the solution, Jesus Christ. He will do his work through you and you will have Jesus, Your Eternal Life. 

Jesus Christ is Above One World Religion and One World Government.

Jesus is not wrapped up in religion. He is not confined or limited to man's perspective of who they think he is, but man limits himself by not accepting the truth of who he is.  Jesus is the very one who is holding everything together. Through him the universe, the earth, everything was created. The world's understanding of Christianity is desperately confused because this reality about Jesus is not accepted or realized personally. Jesus is God in a human body, and he died, was buried and came back to life for people.  All the religions of the world are attempting to unite. Why and under what spirit? There is an anti-Christ spirit and a Holy Spirit.  I am praying that people will know and experience unity in the Holy Spirit who points to Jesus as the Way the Truth and the Life, as God incarnate, as the Savior of the world, as the Jewish Messiah, as the Redeemer and Mediator between God the Father and man, as the Servant of all, the Light of this world. Jesus is not bound or defined by a religion. He is Eternal Life itself. 

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Focus on the Gospel

When you consider that God the Father declares he will wipe away the wage of every sinful act made by a person through their confession of faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and that he will not remember any sin erased by the blood of Jesus-how extremely important is it to focus on that Gospel and not our problems, or past. The Gospel is our past, present and future. It's real freedom. In that Gospel is real unity.

The Answer

Religion (man's effort and work to please some kind of god) is not the answer, politics (man's attempt to govern people and maintain some kind of civil order) is not the answer. The answer is a sincere faith proven by yielded actions. Love is a verb that can only be propelled by the Holy Spirit. The world really needs the Living God to put its faith in so the Holy Spirit can do its work. He can get things done through yielded and surrendered people.

Andrew Murray writes, "God's opinion of what we really are, and what we desire is not based on the feelings we conjure up, but rather the tone of our lives during the day. Our relationship with God is part of our relationship with people, and failure in one of these is failure in the other. The effective prayer of faith comes from a life given up to the will and the love of God. My prayer is answered by God, not as a result of what I try to be when praying, but because of what I am when I am not praying. "

A Powerful Option: United & Corporate Prayer

Everything that hinders us from experiencing the full power of God in our lives is tiring. Sin in us all, the world's crash course, Satan's lies and how much influence he has had to bring people down with him is all exhausting. All that's left for us to do that will change the direction of sin in us, hasten the kingdom of God, and stop the deception of the Devil in our world is to not only pray privately but to also pray to the Father corporately and in unity. 

Everything Is Screaming For It Now

Occasionally, and more so these days, I am captivated by the thought that it is only a moment that is separating us from the eternal life we hope for, and are confident in, and are looking toward with Jesus. It's only going to take one second or less for the transfer to occur, and then everything we've ever known will change. All that concerns us here in a moment will be behind us, and that sharp quick contrast in timing makes it seem that the reality of it is already here. It's as if the kingdom of God wants to be here among us now. When scripture says that the whole earth and heavens have been groaning and longing for this in Romans 8 (since the creation ) it apparent that everything is screaming for it now. 

Give Thanks In Everything- Jesus Didn't Say It Would Be Easy

Regarding the now time, think about how trying the circumstances can be that God allows into our lives. Loss of loved ones, being held captive in prisons and harsh treatment by those who don't know the love of God, fighting an illness or disease, being lonely or discouraged. So many of these things are meant to build us up in reliance on God through faith, and to help us acquaint with the sufferings of Christ, and ultimately be thankful for everything in every circumstance. It is not easy to consider it all joy, but we are encouraged to because it is possible to.

God is Sovereignly Working

I believe God is doing all kinds of good works that are unknown to us that are for our benefit. He works within us, and around us, in all our circumstances to keep us going, to build our faith, and to give birth to faith. Whether someone knows him personally or not he has set so much in place that is a kindness and a care. Although He is a God who gives he also takes away for our benefit, and when he takes away it seems that some kind of faith is ignited, some kind of a reaction happens inside that helps us want to recognize Him. If he takes something or someone away we all of a sudden turn our cries toward heaven or our many emotions. If our income is not enough or our kids get sick or if a country is headed for disaster or clear and present danger is over the horizon...we start looking up to the One who we know can make all the difference, to the One who is sovereign. We are always at his mercies and graces, and he always works out everything for the good to those who love him and are called according to his purpose. And in his kindness, God has made known his warnings so clearly that things are not going to remain the same as we know it. This world is reserved for fire. Those outside of Christ have no hope of salvation with God, yet God in all his kindness and care has made known that he has loved the world, and sent his only son into the world so that people can believe in him and not perish but have everlasting life BEFORE the time runs out. Life as we know it is going to become more and more right and true, and everything and everyone will give an account for their existence; their free will choices. Everyone will be in their place based on choices, whether that be in heaven or in hell. And God is not willing that anyone should perish but that all come to salvation through Jesus Christ.

God's Unmerited and Overarching Kindness Towards Us

God the Father is abundantly good to us without our awareness. We go through our days, regular routines, and don't hardly realize how dependent our lives are on his graces. His unmerited grace is constantly overflowing to us without our awareness, without our faith in him even. When was that last time we thanked him for the rising of the sun, for keeping the physics of the universe in order, the earth on its axis, and for keeping a good supply of oxygen, for sending the rain, for the ability to walk, and breathe, and see and even for being alive? It's not all held together by itself...so it's good to recognize and acknowledge that he is the One responsible for all these kinds of blessings to us every moment. Most days I take these graces for granted where I am not aware and giving thanks, but I am thanking God for his overarching and sustaining kindnesses to me and for the world. 

Uniting the dIvIdEd Through Love and Prayer

The Spirit of God confirms that the way to unity , real long lasting unity in Spirit and in Truth is through Prayer and Love. These two powerful pillars hold everything together in relationships. And isn't that what life is about...relationships. They make everything that is good grow in our relationships with God and each other. It doesn't matter where we are, what country we're in, nor what laws and regulations rule over us. Prayer and love are the laws that must regulate humanity for there to be any progress in unity. The differences between people are appreciated in true love and prayer. True love and prayer rejoice in what is right and good not in what is improper or destructive.  Learning and studying and practicing these two things in faith in God will challenge the world, and be the pathway to unity for all the many people groups of this world on down to the little family that lives across the street, and the single lady who lives down the road. Let love and prayer be what they are,  accept them for what they are. Don't let misunderstanding of what they are influence today's decisions. Alternatively, seek out what prayer and love are so that they are understood and become the powerful forces for change in every circumstance. 

Everything depends the clarity of our relationship with God and our fellow neighbor. The two can not be separated. A heart that is not right with God nor his neighbor does not succeed. Matthew 5:23-24, says we must deal with any unforgiveness before we can really approach God and have his open ear. To really love God is to love man. Mark 11:25 says that We must forgive others in order for God to forgive us of our trespasses.  Matthew 6:12 and 18:35 says, that if we do not forgive others that God will not forgive us. 

Forgiveness is a by product of faith and love which is all strengthen by prayer. When you begin praying, if there is something not right between you and your brother the Spirit of God will remind of these verses. Our relationships with one another and how we are treating each other is of utmost importance to God. God is glorified in a life that is loving others ...so he will hold us accountable by convicting us to  correct our relationships together. Additionally, our prayers will be hindered if we are not right with our fellowmen or if there is some sin in our life we are not dealing with. So we must have a forgiving heart to approach God. Nothing strengthens faith as much as the consciousness that we have given ourselves in love and compassion for those whom God loves. When we do what Colossians 3:13 says, forgive others just as Jesus Christ has forgiven us, we are living in the fullness and freedom of what Christ intends for us. All of our prayers and love depend on our faith in God's pardoning grace toward us. God sets the standard of forgiveness so that we can begin clean and fresh with one another and himself. If God dealt with us while keeping our sins in mind, not one prayer would be heard. 

Forgiving opens the door to all God's love and blessing, and once we have asked God to forgive even our own sins (which implies we will no longer go on sinning ourselves) then our prayers will become heard and powerful. We pray in faith when God's forgiveness takes hold of our hearts because we start to see the results. When the Spirit of God takes hold of us his nature is manifested to those around us.

It is obvious that today very few people have surrendered their whole hearts to the Living God. It is critical to know and believe that by Doing so ( surrendering all to God in faith) is not religious act. It is not a man effort to reach and please God. It is only a yielding to the only Living God out there. When we yield it's by faith. The Word of God says that it is impossible to please the Living God without faith. he wants you to trust in him fully, and the Bible is His book to you which is like no other book. The main theme of the whole Bible is this: The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses selfishness from our conscience and our whole being, and by us trusting in the power and love that is in the life blood of Christ, God the Father with his Holy Spirit can possess us. WHAT A MYSTERIOUS REALITY .....that a human being can be possessed by someone. All in all, we are to be possessed by the Spirit of the Living God so that nothing else rules over us. We are not to remain empty in ourselves and we are not designed to be possessed by evil demonic spirits which can happen because people mess around with the things of the Devil. When we sin we invite the wrong spirit to come into our souls and rule, BUT when we repent and turn from our sins, and forgive one another just as Christ did for us we invite the Living Spirit to rule and reign. It's all about who you are going to yield to. LET'S YIELD TO GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SEE HIS AMAZING WORK BEGIN TO HAPPEN EVERYWHERE! The time for this is truly now! The world is literally dying for love in every place, every nation, every family, every school, every heart. All the promises of God towards humanity are a resounding Yes and It will be so through Jesus Christ alone. I pray for your heart that you would see Jesus today as the narrow gate to life with God forever and the gateway to amazing change in your life. The blood of Jesus cleanses you of all your sins. The love of God ino Christ is a pardoning love that takes possession of you and flows through you to others. Your forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in you, and this is a necessity for the work of prayer to be performed through you in faith.

Regarding today's concerns, the true remedy for the problems is to not focus nor glorify the problems themselves, but to begin focusing on the solution in humility. Only the Gospel has the power to change a life in today's world which is becoming quickly harsh, and violent, and intolerant of what is really good. Only by hearing the clarity of the Gospel can a heart and mind that thinks it's ok to sin, be convicted to the core and see things and themselves as they really are before God. God, by his Holy Spirit, is the one who enables a person to see themselves as they really are. Are you really righteous in his sight my friend? You are not going to stand before him with anyone else. You will be alone and accountable to the One who sees all things, and knows all that you have ever done or thought. Are you really righteous before him? He requires perfection! The only way he will see you righteous is if your heart and faith is trusting in his son Jesus Christ ALONE for the forgiveness of your sins. Jesus is perfect in his eyes and it is God's eyes that really matter. If the blood of Jesus is not upon you in Spirit and in Truth you have no justification. You have no forgiveness. You will have his judgement and wrath for all eternity. God's mercy is upon you if you believe in the One who he sent to you to save you from your unrighteousness. Give your heart and faith to Jesus right now! Ask him to forgive you of all your sins and to give you the faith to believe in him with all your being. This is reality and He will do it! Let your life be Born Again into eternal life so that you can be used by God for his Glory for the rest of this short time we have on earth. You will glorify God if you love him and people! Your prayer will be heard and will be a force of good for others!

Andrew Murray writes, "God's opinion of what we really are, and what we desire is not based on the feelings we conjure up, but rather the tone of our lives during the day. Our relationship with God is part of our relationship with people, and failure in one of these is failure in the other. The effective prayer of faith comes from a life given up to the will and the love of God. My prayer is answered by God, not as a result of what I try to be when praying, but because of what I am when I am not praying." 

Let's all give ourselves to the Living God in personal selfless love for those whose lives need God. Neither faith nor love will profit if we don't have love. Love unites us with God' and it proves the reality of faith. BUT WHAT IS GODS WILL IN all these judicial, political, religious realms and all the endless issues that arise out of man's heart within these realms. His will is that we realize that our efforts in justice, governing, and religion are NOT THE ANSWER. The real answer is to surrender to Him by faith, and to have FAITH IN HIM ALONE (Mark 11:22). It's to put our trust in the Holy Bible and read it for ourselves, let the Spirit of God interpret it's message to us. HE IS A LIVING GOD and maybe that is the hardest to believe for the people of the world.

Nothing Needs to Grow As Much As Our Faith In Jesus Christ

What is faith in Jesus really? What is the living faith that receives, holds, and applies the authority of Jesus Christ in life....that receives that Jesus himself is the Lord and Conqueror? Where does this faith come from and how can it be received?

Do you know what it says in Philippians 2 about Jesus Christ? Here is what it proclaims:

"Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

Jesus often explained and reproofed that impotence and failure was due to unbelief in Him. The inability to do the impossible was due to a lack of trust and dependence on the living God himself as Jesus the Lord and Conqueror in their souls. The faith they were lacking was specifically that Jesus is the authority in all things, and that there are degrees of faith in him that one graduates into as a result of spending time with him, and as a result of surrendering all to him.

Here are some notes from Andrew Murray on the issue of  how unbelief can be turned into powerful faith in Jesus Christ through prayer and fasting:

• "Jesus Christ must have total a influence and control over one's life in order for faith to do it's mighty deeds.
• Faith is the simplest exercise of the spiritual life, and it is also the highest. Faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong, and prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development. There can be no true prayer without faith in Jesus Christ, and yet prayer is the way to more faith in Christ. There can be no higher degrees of faith without much prayer. We must look to the throne of God to know where and how faith is to start and grow. It is in prayer, exercising faith in fellowship with the living God, that faith can increase. Faith lives by feeding on what is Divine- God Himself.
• Adoring worship of God, waiting on, and for him in the deep silence of the soul is what increases the capacity for knowing and trusting God....it's where faith is born.
• Prayer implies a dying to self which will allow a closer union to Jesus in whom the Spirit of faith comes in power. Faith needs prayer for its full growth. Christ Jesus is a person's life, and the life of a person's faith. It is Jesus Christ's life in a person that makes them strong and ready to believe.
• Jesus said," He who loses his life for my sake will find it."
• Prayer is the one hand in which to grasp the invisible. Fasting is the other hand in which to let go of the visible. Only in a life of moderation, and self denial will there be sufficient heart and strength to pray much. Fasting helps to express, to deepen, and to confirm the resolution that one is ready to sacrifice anything, even self, to attain the Kingdom of God.
• Jesus knows to accept, value and reward with power the soul that is ready to give up everything for Him and His Kingdom."

NOTES: Prayer Must Be Definite- Andrew Murray

It is only when the child has yielded his own will in entire surrender to the Father that he receives from the father the liberty and power to will what he desires

The prayer in faith that Jesus sought to teach his disciples does not simply proclaim its desire and then leaves the decision to God

The prayer of faith finds God's will in a promise of his Word, and pleads for that promise until it comes

Faith is nothing but the purpose of the surrendered will resting on God's Word and saying, "I must have it!" To believe truly is to will firmly

If you really will to have something that is within your reach, you do not rest until you have it. When Jesus asks you, "What do you will?" He asks whether it is your intention to get what you ask for at any price, however great the sacrifice.

Do you really will to have it enough to pray for it continuously until he hears you, no matter how long it takes?

Laborers are Born Through Prayer

Prayer changes things and blesses people. Lord breathe Your Spirit into all your children so that we no longer miss Your compassion, and so we see , as you do, people as the objects of loving care and interest. Fill us with faith that prayer is powerful to bring about definite results. 




"The Lord has surrendered His work to His Church. The power that the Lord gives His people to exercise in heaven and earth is real; the number of Laborers and the measure of the harvest does actually depend on their prayer. The power to provide for the needs of the world and secure the servants for God's work has been given to us in prayer. Jesus teaches us to pray, "Then say to the disciples, the harvest is truly plenty, but the Laborers are few; pray to the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth Laborers into his harvest." Matthew 9:37-38. Jesus has been exalted to bestow the gifts of the Spirit. He wants to make gifts of men filled with His Spirit. Prayer has a promise of a supply. God is always ready and able to supply. Luke 11:8 confirms, "I say unto you...He will rise and give him as many (Laborers) as he needs. " Andrew Murray

World News Flash: All There Is....Is Love- Nothing Else Will Last Forever

Praying for the Love of God to take deep root.....The people in your life are there so that you can love them, and Love is enough when it is really Love both for the giver and receiver. Every good gift comes from God, and he has put very specific Gifts in your life to simply Love. This sums up the meaning and purpose of Life. 

"And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. (1 John 2:3-11, 15-17 ESV) 

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. (1 John 3:11, 16, 18, 23-24 ESV)

Knowing God as Father....Brings Eternal Life and Complete Fulfillment, Peace, and Joy

In the hardness and coldness of this world, we can quickly lose site and trust in the tenderness and closeness of God....particularly, His Fatherliness to us His children. We have suddenly lost sight of what true FATHERLINESS is or never known it, because we have turned our hearts away from God's ways. How many generations have now turned their hearts away from God the Father and His FATHERLINESS? The need for Fatherliness from God is the most important need of a person. It's the foundational structure of a person's life. If the experience is not there then what is there? Quite seriously, think about the significance of a Father's love in general from an earthly point of view. A father, by definition of scripture, is to be loving, tender, patient, gentle, compassionate, and in joy over His children, so much so, that the child experiences the close intimacy and tenderness and helpfulness of his Dad. Oh, how desperate and lost we are without the knowledge of the Almighty God's powerful Fatherliness in our lives. Without Him in the heart of earthly dads we don't know real Fatherliness and therefore can't give true Fatherliness.  If a Man, woman, or child has grown up with a father who demonstrated the above character they are most blessed, most able to grasp and maybe accept the truth that there could really be a God in heaven who is the originator of true Fatherliness and love.  But for those whose experience under a father was lacking these blessings there is real loss, there is real pain and maybe anger, and more. It is absolutely critical that we come to know and trust in God for who He is. The Living God is made up of a trinity of individual persons: They are God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit. Each of these Persons are unique yet One. Each of these Persons have a role to play in a persons life, and they are all to be worshipped as One God. I pray that you trust this even though it is difficult to grasp. God the Father's love is to be believed in by us. It is to be sought out by us. We are to know it and experience it, and what is the BEST is that God the Father has poured out his love to be experienced now. We must get into the right state of mind and heart to receive it. Believe this, the world is hard and cold because people are sinful, and because Satan roams around seeking to destroy everything and everyone, but this does not change who God the Father is, and how he is dealing with this problem of sin inside of us, and how he is dealing with Satan and those with him.  He is dealing with it all in Love and Justice. We are to focus on his Love. To have His love we must give Him our whole hearts just as a child is to give their whole heart to their Father. 

The cross of Jesus does not make God love us, but instead it is the result of God the Father's love for people. The Father loves all and beckons all to come, and trust in His love and forgiveness through the Cross of Christ. Through that trust and relationship a person becomes a child of God and God becomes their Father, because the Holy Spirit comes to live inside of them. A person then starts to learn who their Abba Father really is. It is fatherlike love that awakens childlike trust. We need to ask Jesus and the Holy Spirit to reveal the Father, and His tender love to us so that we can become childlike, and experience how, in this new life with God, lies all the blessings and promises of God including the power of answered prayers. To get this confidence, strength and hope of the truth we have to call upon God as our Father. Our Dad, Abba Father.

God the Father is a Spirit and true worshipers worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. We are not to learn to be a child as a hard thing to do, like a hard lesson at school, so that we can make our Abba Father think we are doing good. God loves us not because we are clever or good, but because He is our Father. His love lies underneath everything. He loves all his children: the clumsiest, the dullest, the worst, the best, the weak, the sickly, the struggling, the thoughtless, the most obedient....all the same!  He is not looking for results as motive in our hearts, but rather effort to love Him in all our heart, souls, minds and strength. The love of the Father in us starts with a relationship with Jesus Christ. It starts after a person places their trust in the living, dying, and resurrected sacrifice of Jesus' life for their very own life. Only then do the floodgates of God the Father's promises and blessings become available to them. After this Born Again experience a person becomes bound to God by the closest and most tender relationship with Him. The new child has a right to His love, His power, and His blessings in a way no one else could give. Now, all His everlasting love, patience and wisdom reach down to help His new child. The Father listens with compassion to His child's prayers. The child who lets God be their Father in everything, and will live their whole life in the Father's presence and love discovers that being in God's Fatherliness produces a thriving relationship with answers to prayer. All the cares and concerns for others that the child has in prayer and intercession the Father hears and also cares and the Father will answer. The secret of effective prayer is to have the heart filled with the Loving Fatherliness of God. It is not enough for us to know in the mind that God is a Father. It's essential that the heart knows Him.  The Father must have our whole hearts in honesty and effort.  When this is the case then that person can count on the fulfillment of the promises and that Abba Father finds joy in granting requests to prayers. 

Living as a child of God and in His Fatherliness is eternal life! Give your all to Father God today by receiving and trusting in His all powerful free gift: His Son Jesus who is the Narrow Gateway to Eternal Life with the Father.

With much love for you, and the hope and trust that God and you will have a relationship together for eternity. I look forward to worshipping God the Father with you for all eternity!

Eternal Promises that God Performs for His Name's Sake

This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault. But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it. (Colossians 1:21-23 NLT)

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. (Isaiah 30:18 ESV)

I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. (Isaiah 43:11, 15, 25 ESV)

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. (Proverbs 8:17 ESV)

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad that the waters were quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven. Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! (Psalm 107:28-31 ESV)

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. (Psalm 103:11-14 ESV)

I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house; (Psalm 101:2 ESV)

Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face, who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted. (Psalm 89:15-16 ESV)

Notes: Blood Moons- Mark Biltz

- Many look for signs of extraterrestrial life that might be trying to communicate with us. 

- Scientists, spend hours and millions of dollars on research to see if there is life anywhere else in the universe....giant satellites, NASA, Vatican, Governments etc.

- Why do research scientists looking for E.T. totally ignore the greatest time in history when an Extraterrestrial spoke to 3 million people all at once who were all witnesses to the event on Mt. Sinai. The event was recorded and is a major historic event. This heavenly Being arrived on our planet on Mt. Sinai and gave a book written with all His insights on how to help humankind. 

- God knows that we are creatures who always look for signs. So he uses many ways to get our attention, but the problem is we don't know how to read the sign that he send us.

- Sometimes it is hard to grasp the whole because our perspectives are skewed. 

- To understand prophecy, you don't want to start in Revelation, but Genesis. There are more then 300 references in the book of Revelation to the Tanakh or Old Testament. If you throw out the Old Testament you've thrown out your reference manual to Revelation. Proverbs 25:2

- One item that has been restored after nearly 2,000 years is the Hebrew language. The resurgence occurred in a major way in the beginning of the 1900's. 

- The return of the Hebrew language is a sign of the times. Zephaniah 3:8-9

- The Creator of the universe likes to play hide and seek, and God only reveals himself to those who go on the hunt for Him. Anyone can say they love God while they pursue their own self-centered interests, but God will only reveal Himself to those who pursue Him. And even then it can be halfhearted pursuit. 

- There are divine appointments, and scheduled ones in the Word of God. The Creator of the Universe wants to interact with humanity at set times. He has an appointment book, per say, where he has scheduled and keeps track of his interaction /intersection with humanity. 

- Having a Hebrew mind-set and basic understanding of the Hebrew language when reading the Bible helps one understand these appointments. 

- The Feasts of the Lord are the divine appointments. They are his predetermined appointments that have already intersected and will intersect human history. 

- God created the sun and the moon not only to send signals, but also to determine His feast days, or appointed times. This is why the sun and moon operate like clockwork. 

If we want to know where we are in history according to God's time clock, then we need to go by God's clock, not ours. 

- When God is about to be up to something big, He will send us signals via the sun and the moon on His feast days. 

- If you have entered the covenant of God's family, then you are supposed to know the family's signals. 

- The feasts of the Lord were and are to be dress rehearsals of coming events. 

- Here is a test. Regarding God's first coming, if God fulfilled the Spring Feasts literally through Jesus Christ to the very day and hour, do you believe that He will fulfill the fall feasts through Christ on the very days and hours of His second coming? Do you believe with all your heart, soul, mind and strength that God is the same yesterday, today and forever, with no shadow of turning? 

- It's imperative that the Children of God get on God's calendar. 

- The spring feasts were fulfilled in order: Jesus died on Passover, was buried during Unleavened Bread, was resurrected during Firstfruits, and the Spirit was poured out on Shavuot/Pentacost, bringing in the great harvest. Similarly, the fall feasts have to be fulfilled to the very days and in order. 

- The biblical calendar is one of the tools you need to properly understand in order to know what is quickly coming upon the world. 

- God always warns before He brings judgement. In God's mercy, He is sending big time warnings from His heavenly billboards. People can choose to ignore them at their own peril, be indifferent and ride out the storm, or come to the dress rehearsals and be ready. 

- When Paul said, "at the last trump," he was referring to the hundredth blast on the Feast of Trumpets. (1 Cor 15:51-53)

- The Lord will come as a thief not only to the dead church, but also to the wealthy, blind, lukewarm church. 

- Do you go to a dead, lukewarm church that believes the Lord will come as a thief in the night to them? 

- The Church can wake up and watch at the appointed times..

- The Bible says, " no one knows the day or the hour," but most don't understand this verse in its true context and in context to who Jesus was addressing. Read Matt 25:8-13. It is to the foolish virgins that the bridegroom says, "I know you not," because they were not watching. Luke 12:37, shows that those who watch for the Lord's coming will be blessed. Luke 12:42-46 reveals that the evil servants are also those who the Lord's coming will be like a thief in the night. Not as a thief to those who are watching. 

- Jesus rebuked religious leaders because they were not watching and did not know the hour of his coming. Matt 16:3

- When the Bible mentions seasons, it is not talking about winter and summer but the appointed times. 1Thess 5:1-4 reveals the importance of being on God's calendar.

- Because a person knows the appointed times the Day of the Lord will not come to them as a thief in the night because they know when to be watching! God encourages us not to set dates but to know the season or appointed time of His coming. 

- Since the days of the early church, the church has been presenting to the Jew a "Jesus"  in Egyptian clothes! Jesus is seen as a white sometimes blond European. But this is far from His own roots.  Jesus' real name is Yeshua. 

- The Church needs to return Yeshua to His own family.

- It will come as a surprise when the church realizes Yeshua is still Jewish. 

- In AD 321, Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, to the exclusion of all other religions. It signaled the beginning of discrimination and persecution of the Jewish people.

- The church went grievously wrong and got off the biblical calendar by doing what their human reason approved and by following what the majority ruled at the Council of Nicea in AD 325 by Constantine. In the 4th century, the "church" told the Jewish people they could no longer determine the new moon or the biblical calendar, on pain of death. 

- Saint Jerome (AD 347-407) described the Jews as " serpents, wearing the image of Judas, their psalms and prayers are the braying of donkeys."

- Bishop of Antioch and John Chrysostom wrote a series of 8 sermons against the Jews

- King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella signed the Alhambra Decree that declared all Jews had to leave Spain in 1492. Spanish Inquisition. Was Christopher Columbus Jewish? Jews that would not convert to Catholicism would be put to death during the Inquisition. Martin Luther reformed and reached out to the Jews hoping they would accept his theology, but when they rejected it he wrote an exhaustive essay about his hatred for the Jew, called On the Jew and Their Lives (1543). 

-The Bible warns Christians about not being pretentious and thinking they are better the branches in Romans 18:11-21. It's because of the Jews unbelief that we Gentiles have been granted mercy. And when the gentile begins to show Jews mercy, they will believe. 

- Should we go by what the majority says, or what God says? Do we do what seems reasonable to us, or to God?

- Moses was more concerned about God's reputation than his own. Num 14:17-21

- The "church" needs to realize that the fathers of the Christian Faith are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

- Historical events line up with the Torah reading of the week.Getting on God's calendar is like an alignment you may get at the chiropractor. Everything begins to fall into place. 

- You don't know what you don't know. 

- If you come in agreement with the calendar God uses, you will become exceedingly close to the Lord in your walk with Him. Deut 6:5

- Most denominations never hold a memorial Passover to remember the Lord' s death as He commanded in 1 Cor 11:26. Jesus died on Nisan 14, Passover, not Good Friday. Jesus rose on Feast of First Fruits not on Easter etc. 

- Because the biblical calendar is rejected, look what happens in 2016. Easter Sunday falls on March 27, so Christians will be celebrating the resurrection a month before Passover, the date that Christ died, which won't come until a month later, on April 21. Because of this, Christians are not able to connect the signs coming from the heavens when they fall on Passover. 

- The Jewish calendar is based on three heavenly events: the rotation of the earth makes one day, the rotation of the Mormon around the earth makes a month, and the rotation of the earth around the sun makes a year. The Gregorian calendar on follows the first and the third events. 

- 29.5 days for the moon to go around earth , 365.25 days for earth to go around sun. The Jewish calendar  handles the fractions by using either 29 or 30 day months and either 12 or 13 month years. 

- Scientifically, you can only have a solar eclipse at a new moon or the first day of a biblical month. You can only have a total lunar eclipse at a full moon on the 15th day of a biblical month. This is why God scheduled some of his divine appointments or feast days at those times. Rose Hashanah is the first day of the seventh month. And both Passover ( the Feast of Unleavened Bread), and the Feast of Tabernacles are on the 15th of the biblical month. 

-Solar and lunar eclipses are regular occurrences but when they fall on feast days, we should pay attention, because God is trying to tell us something. 

- Four total lunar eclipses in a row are not as common as one would believe. It is called a tetras. There were 62 tetras over the last 2,000 years. Of these, only eight fell on feast days, with the ninth coming in 2014-2015. 

- Nine, symbolizes the number of finality or judgement. It signals the end, it signals the conclusion of a matter. It signifies the end of man. 

In 842-843 AD, two tetras occurred on feast days. At this time, The Treaty of Verdun was signed to end the Carolinigian civil war and divide the Carolinigian Empire into three kingdoms: West Francia, Middle Francia, and East Francia. the Carolinigians were intolerant to their Jewish subjects, the the division of the empire adversely affected all the Jews in the realm.

- Between 1400 and 1500, there were four tetras, two of which fell on the feast days. 1428-29 and 1493-94. In 1428, an assembly of Jews in Italy met in Florence to gather funds to give to Pope Martin V in return for his protection. In 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean, Kinf Ferdinand and Queen  Isabella signed an edict to expel Jews from Spain. 

- Between 1900-2000, there were five tetras, but only two occurred on feast days-1949-50 and 1967-68. These were epic years for the Jewish people with major prophetic implications. In 1948, Israel became a nation, and then in 1967, the Israelites recapture Jerusalem. Not only do we have four blood moons in a row, with all four of them falling on feast days, but they also happened at a time when historic prophecies were fulfilled!

- In this century, eight tetrads will occur, but the only time they will fall on the feast days is in 2014 and 2015.

- The generation from 2002 to 2056 will be the generation where the month of Tishri will be fulfilled! The fall feasts and the return of the Messiah will happen in this generation!

- In 2015 we have a total solar eclipse is on March 20 followed by a partial solar clips on September 13.

- The total solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 is on Nisan 1; The very beginning of the religious here in the very day the fire fell from heaven and let the altar at the dedication of Moses his tabernacle. 

- There will be a partial solar eclipse on September 13, 2015 which is on Rosh Hashanah.  After that, just two weeks later, there will be a total lunar eclipse on Sukkot. 

- The odds of a full moon or about 1 in 29. The odds of a lunar eclipse are about 1 in 110. The odds of a super moon occurrence are about 1 in 6,570. The odds of a super moon during a lunar eclipse are astronomical. What are the odds of having a super blood moon falling on the Feast of Tabernacle's in 2015! This is not a coincidence!

- Can you imagine what it will be like for the Jewish people in Israel sitting in their soup is on the first night of the feast of Tabernacle's and there is this stupid blood moon overhead? Don't you think God is trying to speak to us? This is equivalent to a prophetic grand slam homerun. The heavens are shouting, "Hello! Is anybody paying attention?" 

- The four blood moons of 1949–50 occurred after Israel became a nation in 1948. The Six-Day War of 1967 did not happen on the day of one of the eclipse either. The eclipses coming in 2014 and 2015 are signs in themselves, as they occur on the feast days. If nothing noteworthy happens in 2014 or 2015, it just means these are signs of things to come.  

- There is no doubt that different biblical prophetic events will happen on these very feast days in the fall. They are days that events will happen, but this is not setting dates, because we have no idea what year!

- When a house is on fire, you have people running out and others running in. It depends on what you believe you're calling is. Many people speculate on where we are regarding the timing of the rapture. It doesn't matter. Because we are not afraid. 

- too many Christians waste so much time trying to determine when the rapture is going to take place to get absolutely nothing done for the kingdom. There are no extra points for being right. If you are wrong, it doesn't mean you raise from the dead. We should rather be wrong and ready and white here. God does not care about personal views of the rapture. He only cares if we are doing what you told us to do. Which is share the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

- In all of this we are speaking about coming judgment.

- On September 17, 2001, or Elul 29, the day before Rosh Hashanah, the Dow Jones average saw its biggest drop ever at 7%. Seven years later on September 28, 2008 which was again Elul 29, the day before Rosh Hashanah, The Dow bill 777 points, or another 7%! Do you see any connections here? Now we are coming up to the third and final shemittah year (7th year of a 7 year cycle) since 1994, when Jupiter was hammered. Could the coming blood moons signal our third strike, and we will be out economically? We already see the signs of economic collapse coming, with America being so much in debt and our government in a comatose condition. 

- The Bible says that in the last days, knowledge will be increased Daniel 12:4. This is not only secular knowledge but biblical insight as well.

- All these signs coming together at one time, are potentially the culminating signals that God is closing this chapter of human history. This could be the final curtain call for the great tribulation mentioned in the Bible. God has always wanted to warn his people, and the rest of the world, before he intervenes.

- In Leviticus 23:3, Moses proclaimed, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, "the feast of the Lord, which you shall proclaim, holy convocation, even these are my appointed feasts." According to Strong's Concordance, the Hebrew word for "proclaim" gives the idea of accosting a person met: calling out to, addressing by name, them that are bidden, or to invite, mention, publish, or read. This tells us that we are responsible to proclaim the Feasts of the Lord to others. We are to bid them to come to the wedding! It's hard to imagine, but there are people who do not want to come to the wedding of the Messiah! We are responsible to bid them to come.

- In Matthew 22:2-4 it says, "A certain King, which made a marriage for his son, sent forth his servants to call them that we're bidden to the wedding; and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, tell them which are bidder, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready:come unto the marriage." What is unbelievable is what happens next: they made light of it and went their ways one to his farm another to his merchandise! 

- The creator of the universe is calling you by name to come to the great supper!

- God is writing his message this time so the whole world can see it. He is asking you to run with the interpretation of his message. But we must run with understanding. The great tribulation may be upon us and time is short, for The Day of the Lord is at hand!

- The two main things to remember are: 1.) That the body of Messiah needs to get on God's calendar to understand the signs of the times. And 2.) The reason we got off of God's calendar in the first place was because of the errant  thinking behind replacement theology. 

- Ruth and Orpah represent the Gentiles who are grafted into the covenant of Israel by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So Ruth and Orpah, in one sense, also represent the "Church" that is grafted into the branch. When Naomi, the Jewess, Heard there was bread again in Bethlehem, she went, back to the land of Israel. This represents the restoration of Israel back to the land in 1948. Ruth and Orpah represent the church in the final days. Orpah means, "the back of the neck"; she turned her back on Israel and return to pagan lifestyle. 

- Today we have the final epic battle lines being drawn in the church in these last days. The church will be divided between those who support Israel, work the harvest, and bring forth the Messiah, and those who turn their backs on Israel and form the one-world church. On one side will be those who love the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as David did, and this group will be small, as David was. On the other side will be the giant Goliath, The one-world church that hates God's people and wants to see them destroyed. Where will you be standing on that final day? When you say we should stand with the Jewish people, doesn't abnormal anger and hatred spew from their mouths? Do they allow the traditions of men to override the internal truth of God's word?

-  People don't know what they don't know! If pastors were never taught, how can we expect them to teach it? Some get mad or frustrated because they spent thousands of dollars on religious education only to find out they were given wrong or inaccurate information. When studying Christianity's Jewish roots many people's eyes become open and statements such as "I've been robbed" or "why wasn't I ever taught this?" occurs. Many people get mad at their pastors for not teaching, but we cannot be held responsible because they were never taught the Jewish roots of the Christian faith.