I have listened to a guy named Keith Green for a while now. My brother Joseph sent me to this website: http://www.sermonindex.com/ where they have thousands of audio sermons from people that can really teach for Christ, for free. So, I pick the ugliest, most hairy icon-ed guy on there: Keith Green. I listened to this guy's sermons and the Lord used that to show me many things recently, but, I talked to Joseph and told him about the guy, not knowing the name, and he told me, Yeah, that's Keith Green. He died with two of his children on a plane crash a few years back, and his wife is continuing his ministry.
So, I started listening furiously to what the Lord taught this man here, if He loved him so much as to take him Home early. And I saw the Lord had this guy start a ministry called Last Days Ministries. I was reading Luke 21, Mark 13, and Matthew 24, and noticed not only the Gospel harmonizing and the order of what was to come at the end of the age, but that it referred to specific events. Like earthquakes. Very specific. No one can say that Jesus was talking about something else, or making a metaphor. That was a literal statement. A literal word. A natural disaster.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/art...
I found that link and I quote, "A Dec. 26, 2004, earthquake of magnitude 9 off the Indonesian coast generated a tsunami that left at least 216,000 people dead or missing and nearly 2 million homeless in 11 countries."
If this natural disaster caused this much, how much will the earthquakes that our Lord Jesus spoke of here in Matthew 24 cause? Or is this earthquake one of them?
I was listening to some pastor say today something like this, "'And there was one place that was so devastated by a earthquake, the ground and the houses were in shambles, and there was one single house that was fine and in-tact. No damage whatsoever! And they said, Who lives in that house? That guy. They asked the guy, How are you living? He said, I live for the Lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus' house cannot be broken.'"
Is Jesus Christ the man of your house? Does He sit on the throne in your heart? You live for Him and serve Him if you have and follow the Holy Spirit, within you. And not if you life for yourself.
The Lord told me tonight about the Ink and Blood Exhibition. But, He let me search around for bibles to give away first and lead me on what He's calling me to do first, then took me to biblical archaeology, and then on to find out about the exhibition. It's called Ink and Blood, and there's the world's oldest piece of tablet-writing there, a Mesopotamian 5,000 year old tablet. There's also pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest writings of original scriptural works, discovered in the 1950's at the caves of Qumran, about 13 miles away from Jerusalem in jars by a bunch of shepherds.
I'm trying to go and find out more about all of these works of the written scriptures, and I know that they're important to the Lord because He exalts His Word, His message, above everything else. He makes it important. So, I'm trying to learn a lot. And I was so excited about it, and so worked up, I went ahead at 1:30 in the morning with Marley in her PJs and slippers to drive downtown, only 3 miles away, and take a look at the front of the Museum.
It's at the Florida International Museum. http://www.floridamuseum.org/...
http://www.inkandblood.com/ex...
I'm so excited about it, I can't contain myself.
Jeremiah 31:31, 33-34
'The time is coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.' [v. 33-34] 'This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,' declares the LORD. 'I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, `Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,' declares the LORD. 'For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.'
I was listening to Keith Green talk about the prophet Jonah and mentioning the worm in Chapter 4. It's all the same story, Jonah runs from God, gets tossed from the ship on the way to Tarshish, swallowed and burped out by appointed whale, and goes to do preaching. He said Jonah's preaching was '40 days and Nineveh would be destroyed.' AND not "if you repent." Just destroyed. So when the King ordered sackcloth on every man and beast, and to sit in ashes, the Lord saw and had mercy on them.
So Chapter 4 rolls around, and Jonah's "bummed out," that he didn't see them shake and bake. And he's angry. And said, "I wish I were dead." Then he said he fled because he knew God would relent and spare them, that He was merciful. Jonah went out and made a booth outside the city to watch it, and see what would happen to it, I suppose expecting the Lord to turn and destroy it.
This is the meat of it: God appointed a gourd to represent Nineveh, a tall castor-oil producing tree. And Jonah loved it, like air conditioning. So the prophet is like how the Lord now sees Nineveh, Lord had mercy on that city. So God appoints a worm - a tiny little soldier - to come and smote the gourd. I don't know how a worm can eat a tree, or cause it to whither overnight, but the Lord prepared it, just like the whale. It falls down, Jonah's angry. But he doesn't seem to realize what God's representing here. Jonah was the worm. He was eating Nineveh. That's what the Lord was trying to say. So He asked Jonah... "Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?" And Jonah miserably says, "It does me well even unto death..." Meaning the Lord spared that city, it pleased Him to do it, and now He wants Jonah to see that if He did what Jonah wanted, it would anger Him - the city's reaction pleased Him. That's when the Lord tells him...
You neither made the gourd grow up, nor did you make the world it grew from. You had pity on the gourd, and you didn't prepare it or take care of it, yet you had pity on it when it went down. So should I, who made the world Nineveh grew out from, and Nineveh, destroy that city? Don't I have pity on it? Then says they don't know their left hand from their right, and yet the Lord was very patient with them.
From knowing Christ, I know that that last statement means they didn't know His law, but when Jonah came and preached that they were evil in God's sight, they knew them and repented from them. And so Christ uses that, "Just as Jonah was in the whale three days, so shall the Son of man be in the earth 3 days." And so if you go to Psalms Chapter 22, and read where it says Jesus' words on the Cross, and His method of death before the Romans invented it (tidbit of knowledge there...), He says, "I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men and despised by the people," and so He was referring to the prophet Jonah. His burial. His death. That's what was a part of Paul's Gospel, init? 1. Jesus died, according to the scriptures. 2. Was buried. (3) Was raised up, according to the scriptures. Amazing how it all interconnects. But I'd love to find out more about this worm...
It's funny to think about how small I truly am, yet the Lord has mercy and pity enough on me to even be able to suffer for His name. For what He's doing. And in the end, my only dream and lasting wish is for the Lord to say what He says in scripture, "Well done, you good and faithful slave." Enter into My rest...
And I'd like to make a post about Jesus's parable that had Abraham's Bosom in it, which relates to Naomi's bosom, a type of father Abraham, a type of Israel (grandfather of Jacob), which is the book of Ruth Chapter 4, Verse 16, one day.
http://www.newswithviews.com/PaulProctor/proctor28 .htm
I have found a link from a rather interesting fellow by the name of Proctor talking about the 10 commandment monument. The Lord's taught me what He's taught him about the commandments, so thankfully this wasn't any new revelation to me, and I'm so glad it wasn't and the Lord taught me about it. Phew. Is it that way to you?
Excerpt from "The Story of the Aleph Beth," by David Diringer:
"Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie argued that the Greek and the Phoenician alphabets, and other early alphabetic and non-alphabetic scripts developed from the geometric prehistoric marks employed throughout the Mediterranean region from the earliest times. According to him, the first system of classification originated in N. Syria; "daughter" systes were developed by adding some signs and omitting others. Dr. T. H. Gaster at one time revised this prehistory-geometric-sign s theory.
Since 1916, the Palaeo-Sinaitic theory has been much in favor: this theory was advanced particularly by Dr. (now Sir) Alan Gardiner. It is based on inscriptions discovered by W. M. Flinders Petrie in the Sinaitic Peninsula in 1905. Dr. Gardiner and Prof. Kurt Sethe, dealing with these inscriptions came to the conclusion that they represent a stage of writing intermediate between Egpytion hieroglyphics and the N. Semitic alphabet. The date of these inscriptions is disputed, some scholars attributing them to the early eighteenth century B.C.E.
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We may date the origin of the alphabet about 1800-1700 B.C.E, that is at about the beginning of the Hyksos period. The political situation of the Old World at the period favored the creation of a revolutionary, democratic writing, in contradistinction to the conservative, theocratic scripts of the old states of Mesopotamia and Egypt. The nationality of the inventors is unknown, but it is now generally agree that they belonged to the N-W Semitic linguistic group. Palestine and Syria, the geographical center of the greater Egpyto-Mesopotamian civilization, offered conditions favorable to the invention and elaboration of alphabetic writing. Cuneiform, Egyptian and Minoan scripts, as well as prehistoric geometric symbols were known and used here, and were drawn upon for the new invention. Moreover, the language spoken in this region was particularly favoravble to the creation of a consonantal alphabet.
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Was the alphabet a Hebrew Invention?
It has been mentio
ned that the Early Canaanite inscirptions some going back to the period of the Patriarchs, may represent the original proto-type of the Alhpabet. And, if there is substance in our theory that the twenty-two symbols of the original Alhpabet were not pictographic but artificial and geometrical, and that the names were an artificial mnemotechnic device, one is promted to ask what seems a rather startling question: Did the Second Commandment play any part in the invention of the Alphabet? Or could it have been a pure coincidence that the N-Semitic alphabetic symbols were artificial and not representational, as nearly all the origonal non-alphabetic scripts were representational? In other words, is it possible that the ancient Hebrews who presented the world with the Bible and Monotheism, also gave it the Alhpabet? ... In Tur-Sinai's opinion, 'The historic alphabet of twenty-two signs, as first developed and adapted to Hebrew and Aramaic, was created in Israel, for the purposes of Israel's religious law, and forms part of Israel's religious tradition. Thus the alphabet as it was taught by priests in words and sentences from its very beginning, is a religious document prclaiming the belief in one God.' In other words, the Canaanitic alphabet, tbeginning and foundation of all learning, is a creation of Israel's genius and a witness to the ancient origin of its Torah.'
Tur-Sinai bases his attractive theory on certain Talmudic and early Christian explanations of the Hebrew letter-names. He argues that there was a Hebrew age-old tradition of teaching the alphabet-letters as a 'didactic verse full of meaning and significance, and a sublime literary, artistic and educational document.' The substance of 'that sublime didactic verse' was an injunction: to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to cleave unto Him or Be like Him; even as He is compassionate and merciful, be you compassionate and merciful too.'
Very attractive, very beautiful, but there is hardly any evidence to support the theory.
Main features of the alphabet: The great achievement in the creation of the Alphabet was not the invention of signs - ample evidence can be adduced for the invention 'of alphabets by schoolchildren who already know their ABC - but the inner working principle. Thsi in its simplicity was the production of a system in which each sound was represented by one sign. The inventior of this system must indeed, have been a very fine phonetician. For this achievement, simple as it now seems to us, the inventor is to be ranked among the greatest benefactors of mankind. No other people in the world have been able to develop a true alphabetic system. 'It was one, and only one, of the gifts of the Semites to mankind (G. R. Driver). It was this alphabet which became the ancestor of all alhpabetic scripts the world has known. Each civilization developed its own variation on the basic script and the passing of time has made the inter-relation of some members of the same family quite unrecognizeable. Thus, the Brahmi script, the great mother-script of India, the Korean alphabet, the Mongolian scirpts are derived from the same source as the Greek, the Latin, the Runic, the Hebrew, the Arabic, and the Russian alphabets, although it is practically implossible for a layman to see a real resemblance between them.'
Please pray for the salvation of our old band rythm guitarist James, who is going to have a baby with his fiancee at age 16... Please pray that he can get saved and becoming a Christ-driven dad. And not a James-driven dad. I pray he vomits out all of his addictions, and comes to the Lord Jesus Christ with the right motive, and a solid foundation on having nothing and total darkness without Jesus Christ, the light. Pray for James. Thanks.
I was listening to a man named Keith Green for a reason I'll leave to remain hidden, and he was talking about the part where the Samaritans wouldn't feed them because He wanted to go to Jerusalem, and so a few of the disciples said, Do you want us to command fire to fall from heaven and consume them? And Jesus rebukes the disciples, saying, "You do not know what kind of spirit you're of, for the Son of Man came not to destroy man's lives, but to save them," meaning, He's not saying, "You don't know what kind of mind you're of," or, "what you're talking about." And pointed out that the disciples believed that they could do this, from walking with Jesus. But Jesus tells them, no... You don't say that by the Holy Spirit.
At Wal-Mart, I always seem to have trouble with the customers. That's the hardest part of my job. They badger me, they complain, they glote, they have proud hearts... Their sin-nature is open and viewable... And knowing the truth I have problems enduring it all. Seeing the world's problems... It's too much. So when someone wrongs me, I'd say something of God in my mind, if it got to be too much. Or I'd say something like, "My God is so much greater than you," or, "The Lord rebuke you." He'll get them. He'll fix them. Vengeance is the Lord's: He will repay.
But no! Jesus came to teach to love your enemies, like the Lord does. Not to be ready to kill them, like the disciples. I can't spirit-fy my own bitterness and anger any-more. Will He not repay? He will! But it's up to me not to go and get so angry in my mind. It's sin I'm angry with. I have to love even my enemy right in front of me to please God. My Lord. It's not like I'm hating them: if I hated, I'd be a murderer, and I'd be FAR from the Lord. No, no. I just get very disappointed inside when someone does me evil, which happens many times within a Wal-Mart day. Well, no more. I wont justify my anger and spiritualize it, but I'll be just like Jesus. I can't "strangle them for Jesus," but I can pray. Nice prayers, not ones about veangence. Wont the Lord do that as He sees fit already? And judge them accordingly?
That last article I posted is great: a church of 100 people or less in some rural Alaskan place sponsors an African village without a pastor. They didn't have one, they did it amongst themselves. That's a church! The Shepherd of the sheep should always, always be Jesus Christ. Usually from what I hear, the pastor has to do every thing. The Alpha One course...counsel people... When the pastor's real job is to be an example of Jesus Christ so that those that see him can be raised up just like Jesus Christ. It's to serve the church! But I liked reading that one thing because the church still did, as the Shepherd's sheep, the will of the Shepherd, and there was no pastor involved.
A pastor isn't some far-off class of Christian. The Lord doesn't look down and see the pastor as a pastor, as we in the world see them, but as Christians! They're no different and you're no different - the difference between they that teach and they that do everything else, is that the one that teaches faces a greater condemnation if he doesn't live up to what he teaches, says Christ. That's all. There's no difference.
Like John 10 says, Jesus is the door and he that passes through the Door becomes a Shepherd of the sheep, meaning you're no lower than a pastor and as a member of the body are expected to walk in the Spirit the exact same way.
Kenny Lake Community Chapel of tiny Copper Center, Alaska, is one small church making a huge difference in Zambia's Kabeleka community. In southern Zambia, Kabeleka residents struggle to survive on whatever they can eek from overworked soil and watch as each year more of the community's children are orphaned as parents die from HIV/AIDS.
Yet what links the hearts of rural Copper Valley and arid Kabeleka goes beyond location or lifestyle. The bond that ties these two communities is faith, hope and love—faith that God is at work, hope for a better future and love for one another.
Even though Kenny Lake Community Chapel attracts no more than 100 adults and children, the congregation was ready to make a difference halfway around the world. Inspired by the accounts Pastor Knies shared when he returned home, church members soon were sponsoring dozens of children and funding a community partnership in Kabeleka.
In 2005, the congregation raised $10,000 to help Kabeleka improve food production and understand HIV/AIDS and malaria to reduce the spread of both diseases. They also helped build a footbridge over a stream that flooded each rainy season and kept children from attending school on the other side. And they provided farmers with high-yield, drought-resistant crop seeds, as well as materials and training for village residents to construct more sanitary pit latrines.
After more than eight years serving nondenominational Kenny Lake Community Chapel's congregation, Pastor Knies resigned in the fall of 2004. Yet the momentum for this partnership never slowed. Even while the church was without a pastor for a year, the congregation's commitment to the people of Kabeleka didn't waver. Last month, on the day the congregation was called together to make next year's commitment to Kabeleka, the Rev. Knies meets his sponsored child, Joseph. temperature in Copper Valley had dropped to nearly 40 below zero — so bitterly cold that many residents normally wouldn't venture out of their homes. Yet they flocked to the church, and went beyond their $10,000 commitment to raise $16,000 for their beloved Zambian friends whom they have never met.
Have you ever noticed how the 4 gospels differ in some ways? To someone that isn't very diligent, they'll tell you that all four are the same, but just John is a little different. Or, they'll tell you the Gospels differ in certain places. But, theough they are differences, the differences are just tiny pieces of a collective picture, for example how Jesus Christ was tempted in the desert. How many times was He tempted? 6 times. Yes, there were 3 temptations, types of temptation, but the first of the temptations starts in Luke Chap. 4, where there are 3. The last are the same as the first, but the whole of His temptations end in Matthew Chap. 4; That makes a total of 6. Yes, He was tempted throughout, but 6 major culminations of the temptation at the hands of satan where satan repeats the same temptations twice.
So the difference wasn't a difference it was a deliberate-in-design harmonizing of the two accounts of the disciples hearing Jesus, to bring in more meaning. Wherever you see something that seems like it would conflict with something else, there is always, always higher meaning to it. I guarantee it, 100%. It never seems to fail, and the Holy written Word of God, that does its job 100% at testifying, seems to be inexhaustible. The Lord loves to conceeal things so His children can find it.
So, I've been looking at the end-times harmonizing in Mark 13, Matthew 24, and Luke 21 to try to see more details about the coming time, when the figs on the fig tree are ripe in that parable. I found that there's a difference in Luke right around Chapter 21, Verse 18, it says no one will harm a hair on our head, but later it says what the other Gospels say, that the tribulation will be so great, no flesh will be saved and so forth. But, Luke gives more of a detail that the other Gospels don't: Verse 12, Jesus says, "But, before all these..." And so, Jesus spoke about a time before the "Beginning of Sorrows," where we'll be hated above all men. Important and not to be overlooked, and discovered by seeing how the Gospels harmonize with each other, it was.
I hope the Lord will teach you more about this. I'm going to be asking Him myself.
Where's this thing going to go? Seems like this crop-duster's been flying for a while, but not really. I'm not tired of doing this thing because I praises Christ's name, no matter how small it is and no matter how few people visit it. I haven't had a comment on here in months. But I don't do it for the people, I do it for Jesus Christ, who sees every I do. I serve Jesus Christ, my Lord. Which I've said a thousand, but love to say and will say again.
So where does this guy go with this thing? I don't know, but please pray for me and agree with me in prayer on this one: Christ will give seed to those that He's hired, and so please pray that the Lord sends me the means to make Him a website or something of the sort about these wonderful things that He's shown me. And to give me someone that would help me, if it's too much for me. But if not, I'll continue to fly this ol' crop-duster. I thought the header looked nice, but that's just me. :wink: But pretty headers don't sow seeds. Oh well. Take care, friends. Cheers, Isaac D.
Wrote my first angry letter yesterday. Or was it the day before? I can't remember now... But, I wrote it for the Lord. So I'm very happy that I wrote it. Hope I don't turn into a fugly old man or anything, but I really want them to hear what the letter says. They seriously can't be lead to believe that the Lord's going to be pleased with what they've done? Making fun of His Son? Would you let someone make fun of YOUR son?
Yesterday I met a lady who Christ healed. She had colon cancer, and was saved in 2000. She told me the month, or the exact date I think. I was invited to her daughter's church. Very nice lady, and she knew the meaning of my name.
neville56nz1: Talk to Him, soon as you open your eyes, Thank Him for every new day, Tell Him you love Him, throughout every hour, Don't be too busy to pray. Tell Him good night, when you lie down to sleep, Ask His forgiveness if there Is something you feel that you shouldn't have done, Go to Him often in prayer. Talk to Him, make Him a part of your life, Include Him in all that you do, He knows the heartaches you've learned how to hide, The things you are going through. He knows all your questions, but better than that, He has the solutions, too... So talk to the Lord, and know in your heart, ...He's waiting to talk to you!
Why are there so many songs about women Why are there so many songs about heartaches Why are there so many that can't go on livin' If they've only wrong another date? You go on singing the same songs. Why don't you sing about Jesus Christ? There are more important things in life. There are the heavens high above. And every idle star in the sky. There's retribution and divine love. Sing about answers to the hows and whys. There are more important things to sing about. Why waste precious songs w/ words so in vain? why not have the zeal, Give His name a shout? Why are all your songs the same, mundane? tbc...
