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The Time Appointed

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By the Watchman Dana G Smith
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In 1962 an album was released titled ‘The Bitter and the Sweet’ on Columbia Records. On this album was a song that did not become popular right away. The song had been composed to music by Pete Seeger in the 50′s and recorded on his 1962 album.  The Song, however, did not gain much notoriety though.  The song if I mentioned it would immediately come to your lips and the chorus as well.  Before Pete recorded it the Limeliters put it on their RCA records label and in their album called “To Everything there is a Season”. It would be later recorded and released in an album in October of 1965 by the Byrd’s who were formed in Los Angeles in 1964. The song was called, “Turn, Turn, Turn!”

During the turbulent 60′s with Vietnam, unrest, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the assassination of President Kennedy, many young people were swept up in this tide. A tide that was described so well in Pete Seeger’s song which was made number one by the Byrd’s release of  “Turn, Turn, Turn”.  It was indeed a time to be born, to die, to plant, pluck up, kill, heal, break down, build up, weep, laugh, mourn, dance, to get, to lose, to keep, to cast away, to rend, to sew, to keep silent, to speak, to love, to hate, to war, and a time of peace. It was this generation that protested the government for these kids did not trust them, and about this time came the ‘Jesus People’ or ‘Jesus Freaks’ upon the scene.

From Drugs, alcohol, free sex, rebellion, tune in, turn on, and drop out! This was the motto, all brought to a stoned generation of young people who listened to Dr. Timothy Leary. It was the generation that would epitomize the song itself. Today as I look back, truly, the song describes perfectly this generation of Americans.

Ecclesiastes 3:1  ¶To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2  A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3  A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4  A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5  A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6  A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7  A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8  A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

This has been the richest generation of all in America. We have been swept up in the greed of the century as banks fail,  company’s fall, and nations go under heavy stresses of debt laden markets. We as Americans today have eaten more and with much more gusto. There is nothing we do not have to enjoy. The finest of Foods, wine, cheeses, meats, and seafood! The finest of everything!

We live in the biggest houses, most luxurious living accommodations on the earth at any time. We drive the biggest cars and trucks, using oil to fuel them. Fuel which we don’t have. Our farms and ranches are some of the most productive on earth. We have technology that makes the public forget the way things use to be. Today we are dependent on instant messaging, world wide Internet, satellite radio, pictures from space, men on the moon, and much more. Our churches are the biggest on earth with the most luxurious fixtures ever. From crystal, gold, silver, brass, and more, we fill up the sanctuaries across the land. We are rich, not only rich, but filthy rich. We are comfortable, not just comfortable, but lie amidst our furnishings as if tomorrow’s judgment will never arrive.

In short, if you follow the song from Ecclesiastes and understand why the generation accepted it so well, you too will see this generation in that song. It is time tested!

Moreover, in a ‘time appointed’ God made sure this land America was founded. In a ‘time appointed’ there came true believers to this land. In a ‘time appointed’ there was great revivals and people who walked in holiness in the fear of God. In a ‘time appointed’ there was wars, peace, and much more. Amidst all this, evil was around! Evil men acted wickedly, and plotted against the righteous and against their God. Today this plotting of the Wicked is summed up on Psalm 2 and we are seeing it unfold before us today!

I want to tell you that there is a ‘time appointed’ for all what God does! It is in his timing. When I first told someone about the visions I had as a young man it was 1973 to my wife. About that time, David Wilkerson came out with a startling book called ‘The Vision’, which described judgment coming on America. Now all that time has passed and this judgment of total destruction has not come yet! Yet much has occurred! When I started working to do as the LORD called me to do as a Watchman, I knew it could be anytime when all these things would or could occur. I lived and still do from day to day, believing this could be the day. Yet it has not come, but I know it will. Be it 2 years, 3 years, 7 years, or 30 more years, I know, that I know, this judgment will hit America and she will never be the same. Jeremiah preached destruction to Israel so much, they hated his message and him. He preached for decades about coming judgment, yet it did not come for many years.  There is an expanse of time that God allows, it is called the ‘word of his patience’.

The Apostle John was in Patmos and knew well of the patience he would need to walk day by day. He did so and in this walk suffered tribulation and trial. We are all to keep the LORDS ‘word of his patience.’   In his own timing, according to his plan, while we keep his patience, he will fulfill all that he has said!

Revelation 1:9  ¶I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 3:10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

When we first were called into the ministry years ago, my wife and I sold our home, left our jobs, packed up the kids and our belongings and took a uhaul across the plains to a little ‘bible college’. We did this to fulfill what the LORD had called us to do. During that time we found others with deep callings, some to a far away nation.

It was in this environment we learned, fellowshipped, and found that in all this, we still had much to learn. But we also found Gods hand hard to bear as he would lead us and if we got out of line or needed correction, he would as a Father correct us. Believe you me, I know his firm hand.  We studied, prayed, and worked through it all. Today I still remember fondly those days. We had ‘koininia’ groups, or what many call ‘cell groups’ where we would gather. We backed one another, shared with each other, and truly loved one another. But today, we have been divided by time and miles. Although I remember how I loved them and still do, it is not the same. I have not heard from them for many years. I have also seen how the enemy has struck them. Some finding hardships on the missions field and after all the years of preparation, came home early, then divorcing. I also found others, friends whom I loved splitting up and leaving each other after all the years of preparation. There are many times when those who are called, in the journey find the attacks of the enemy so severe that they give up. Believe me, in all this, I have learned, ‘There is a God appointed time.’ There is in this ‘time appointed’ a time for victory, a time for defeat, a time for everything that is under the sun to happen. For in all this, our enemy is never far away from us, but neither is our LORD who is our strength. This then is the choice you and I must make daily, to understand the ‘time appointed’ of the LORD and to make the best use of it all for him.

When we went to bible college, graduated, and finally had our Ministry credentials, we all thought we had made it. But sadly, that was just the beginning! What we had done was just open up a whole new level of warfare against us. In this war, which became a battle, and at times we lost, the whole point was to one way or another in Gods grace to keep going. Even though it was tough, and even tougher than you could ever know, we kept going!

I remember in school we were told that ‘ if this is where you are called too, that is to bible school to prepare for the LORDS ministry’, then this is where your to be! If the LORD was to come at that point, then even if we never made it to full time ministry, we were where the LORD had called us too! Even today, we know that judgment is here and will get worse. As I write this, more young people are graduating from schools as we went to and are beginning their ministry. Many others are leaving America’s shores for a four year tenure as a Missionary! What if it all falls apart? What if all hell breaks loose and they are stranded in some foreign country? What IF? That is the call they accepted! In Gods appointed time, it will happen, no matter where you are or what you are doing! If they are stranded in a third world nation, with not a dime or any food, what then? Well, they will seek the LORD God who is their help, he will hear! But in all this, there is a ‘time appointed.’ So today, seek the LORD, pray, and follow him with your whole heart! Be not fearful, but walk in faith, having the testimony of Jesus Christ. Let this be with you wherever you go or whatever you do, then when ‘Gods appointed time’ occurs, you will be where your supposed to be and in his will!

Acts 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Here are some scriptures for you to consider in the ‘time appointed’!

The LORD set a ‘time appointed’ for Sarah to have a son, it was not Sarah’s or Abram’s time appointed, but the LORDS!

Genesis 18:14  Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

The LORD set a ‘appointed time’ for Judgment to strike Egypt

Exodus 9:5  And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.
6  And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

David’s Sin of Numbering the People, there came a ‘time appointed’ for judgment upon Israel for the sin.

2 Samuel 24:10  ¶And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
11  For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
12  Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
13  So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
14  And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15  So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

Job saw an ‘appointed time’ for man on the earth as a hireling! This chapter describes the fullness of this righteous mans miseries, such a strait that even his comforters saw his sufferings and thought him to have sinned against God.

Job 7:1  ¶Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

At the ‘time appointed’ of the father, he sent for his Son, made of a woman, made under the law! To redeem them that were under the law that we might be adopted. Because we are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying Abba, Father!

Galatians 4:1  ¶Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2  But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3  Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5  To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6  And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

The ‘time appointed’  describes when those of understanding who stand against the ‘Son of Perdition’, the beast, in the end times shall fall. For there will be those who do wickedly against the covenant [blood of the covenant] through Christ, and of God. This section describes what I believe is the endtime war between the beast and the children of the woman. For the beast will make war against them, being those who have the faith and testimony of Christ Jesus and keep the commandments of God.

Daniel 11:32  And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
33  And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
34  Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
35  And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
36  And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that is determined shall be done.

We live day by day, in the faith and keeping the testimony of Jesus Christ. We have been grafted in [Romans 11] to the vine [John 15] and are now part of Israel.  Both Jew and Gentile, male and female are one in Christ. But we are to have patience and keep the Word of his patience, for in due time, he will come!

Revelation 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Revelation 12:17  And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 13:10  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Revelation 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Revelation 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Originally posted 2009-03-01 11:02:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Yet I will Rejoice in the LORD

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In the God of my Salvation!

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Habakkuk whose name means ‘embrace’, faced a national crisis in Judah. The words describe the scene around him and these words are: violence, iniquity, grievance, spoiling, strife, contention, law is slacked, judgment never goes forth, wicked compasses the righteous, wrong judgment is the result. During the time of such crisis, Habakkuk was embraced by God, who answered his questions and found faith and sustenance in God who would see him through the coming trial upon the nation. This prophet would also ‘embrace’ others, and help them to find the God of their salvation as well.

In the beginning of the book, we find this prophet crying to God and asking how long it would be before he would hear. All this wickedness and violence were all around him, it looked as though the wicked and evil had taken over the place. The man of God had faith, but right now, he needed answers to the calamity that surrounded him. Where was God? Why was this happening? How long would the LORD allow it to go on? All this was on the prophets heart and mind, as well on the thoughts of the other righteous in Judah at the time.

Habakkuk 1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth

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Bend Toward the LIGHT

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Bend Toward the LIGHT~
by the Watchman Dana G Smith
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I saw a new plant today, one I planted from the seeds of an apple. It had grown and was on the shelf. As I saw it, in the beginning of the day it was straight as I had just put it in the sunlight. Later on in the day after a portion of the days sun shining on it, it was bending toward the sun, the light!

Through the day the sun continued to shine on this small plant, it was growing and pointing about 45 degrees towards the sun where the rays of light came from through the window. As night came, I moved the plant onto the counter as it was small I tucked it gently near a corner. The morning came as usual and I saw the small green plant. It was still green and fresh, standing tall as ever. But it was standing straight up. Even with the kitchen light on, the plant never moved toward these rays of light.  The Florescent light did not cause the plant to bend towards its light either.

As I write this today and think of our small plant that came from the seeds of an apple, I also enjoy the coming season. It is not the winter of ‘discontent’ but the summer of ‘content’. This is time for animals around here to take a breather from the harsh realities of winter. It is tough make it through the months of bitter cold and snow. When spring and then summer arrives, the animals especially since we have so much moisture, seem to romp, play, and act as if relieved of the goodness that surrounds them. But even summer is short lived in this area. So is, life in general. Life is short. Daily I am amazed at how just fragile, short, and precious life can be. You see, as humans, we too, bend towards the light. And that light can come from various sources. But there is only One True light. This light, lightens the entire world!

Job 24:12  Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
13  ¶They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14  The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15  The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
16  In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

As humans we have forthrightness of thought, or so we think. God as some may acknowledge him, has given to man rational thought. Others think a bit of goo just appeared and we became rational and the masters of our own destiny. While even others know full well who the true Living GOD is and wilfully reject his love. These follow even other thoughts and motivations. For these following the ‘lightbearer’ or Lucifer is their main goal.  It is this light which rejects the ‘love of the Father’, Jesus Christ his son, and salvation as the Gospel is given. In this light comes all forms of religions, idols, Gods, meditations, astrology, new age, and other attractions. All of them are rebellion against the ONE True God, Yahweh.

Furthermore, this God, even the True God Yahweh, Adonai, I AM that I AM, even our Father, has reached out to mankind. The battle is on today to lessen that which God has done. Lies from the ‘false lights’ go out. But the true light, which lighteth everyone is before us today. It is that light which will cause us to grow as green plants, before the LORD. It is that light which will cause us to hunger and thirst for His Truth, for behind this Truth is a great LOVE that no man can fathom. A Love which will cause all those who are planted in the LORD God through Y’Shua Ha Massiach, Jesus Christ to bend towards him. These small plants look tenderly to their Father, and his light causes them to bend towards him. In heart, mind, soul, and body.

Psalms 4:6  ¶There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalms 18:28  For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Psalms 27:1  ¶<<A Psalm of David.>> The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 112:4  Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

The Light of which we follow today must be the ‘true light’.  The LORD Jesus Christ came into the world because of the truth of LOVE, which the Father and the Son both possessed. They loved each other, and loved mankind! The Son came so we might believe on him and be saved from death. He was, is, and always has been the ‘true light’.

2 Corinthians 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

It was in Jesus that life was poured out. Both on the cross for our sins and for the Father who sent Him. It was that life which can be poured into our lives, His life giving Spirit in our Lives, forever. It was also not just to the Jews as a promise, but to the Gentiles. Isaiah 42:6 says “I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.” It is given to man to understand this, the Choice is yours! It is God who is light and as in 2 Corinthians 4:6 “who commanded the light to shine out of darkness”, and it is God as well which says in the same verse that God “hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” It is time, my friends, to point your little plant towards the light of God and let it grow. Be sure, you are Bending towards the TRUE LIGHT!

It was our LORD who said that in the World, he was indeed the ‘light of the world.’  [John 9:5] It also is a fact that  Jesus said in John 12:46 “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.” This is the LIGHT, plain, simple, and a God fact. You can debate it, ignore it, deny it, fabricate lies about it, follow ‘Lucifer’ the light bearer and his false lights of prophets, or you can believe the truth. The TRUTH, is as Jesus said, “I AM, the WAY, The TRUTH, and the LIFE.” [John 14:6] NO matter what you do or others around you, it won’t change eternity or the Word of God, or the LORD himself. He cannot deny who he is!  HE is LIGHT, and there is no darkness in HIM! God has given you a choice! YOU can abide in Jesus today, who brings us to the Father. It is in Him that we can be ‘light’, ‘salt’, and ‘not be in darkness’! John the Baptist testified of the Son of God, the Lamb of God, who was the light of the world. Johns Gospel said of Jesus “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ¶And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” [John 1:4-5]

James 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

In eternity right now, there is the Word of God. The bible which we have contains our copy of that Word. Jesus was the Word incarnate. For he was in the beginning with God, and he himself was God, and there was not anything made, that was made, that was not made by him. [John 1] It is a God fact, a God truth, and reveals the active breathing completion and supernatural power of the ‘Word of God.’  God gave his commandments, in Proverbs 6:23 it says “For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.” It was through the law that we came to know what sin was. It was and is through this same Law that we understand how Holy God is. Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 ; ”Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”  Jesus also say that the Word of God is Truth. He said specifically in John 17:17 while speaking to the Father, praying for the disciples; saying “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” The truth is, Jesus Christ, he was and is, and always will be the Word. God gave his word to man! We can trust his word. This is the difference between the false prophets, that are false lights, and the ‘true light which lights every mans heart’ who seeks him in ‘Spirit and truth’. From the False lights come lawlessness and rebellion. From the LORD of Truth comes ‘Truth, Light, and law’. Jesus fulfilled that law, while at the same time giving us commandments. The Apostles taught these commandments and even went so far as to say in 1 John 5:3 “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.”

John 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

As his lights, we are to walk in His love, this itself is a commandment, to follow mercy, to worship only our God and none else which is a commandment. These are only examples, but think on this, if you think you are a light of God and openly worship another God, are you following his will? No! Think on this awhile, we are to walk in the Spirit, have the fruits of the Spirit in our lives, and love one another. This is the True God, True Light, and True follower who knows his LORD and does those things which he commands. [John 15:10] Many will come to him on that day and say LORD, LORD, but he will say to them,  “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” [Matt 7:23] Jesus then gives a parable to illustrate what he means by saying that “whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.” [Matt 7:24-25] In these days and the age of the endtime, we will face many things, and the question is, “do you want your house to stand or fall?” If you want to make it through and stand before the LORD as a faithful servant, then follow the ‘True LIGHT and do those things he commands us to do!’  For those who do not do this shall be likened unto a fool!

Matthew 7:26  And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

It is that which you must decide today! Follow a fools folly and do as many Christians, churches, and even unbelievers do, i.e. ‘follow their own will and thinking’ or truly be a Disciple of the LORD and be in His LIGHT! In America Christians and those in Churches have created a great religiosity! A great religion with great edifices, and very wealthy. The time is coming and it is short, in which, the fire of Gods burning will burn all that is not founded upon the Rock, Jesus Christ. Not just founded in name, but in discipleship and true veracity in obedience. There will be no escape for those who wallow in America and in her churches thinking this alone will provide safety. For I tell you, every brick of such will be torn down. Only those in the LORD will stand.

Proverbs 13:9  ¶The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Isaiah 5:20  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Matthew 6:23  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

The Sad reality today is the world is in chaotic blindness towards the True light. The God of this world, the Apostle Paul says in 2 Cor 4:4 has “blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” All nations today are feverishly working to create a man made utopia on earth. One where the full potential of mans ability, knowledge, and moral awareness is found. The trouble is, man does not have any moral awareness! Man has religion, but that will send him directly to Hades! Man cannot create such a haven or heaven on earth. Man is the resident renter on this planet. The current landowner, or so he thinks, the devil, will be cast off soon. All those who follow him will be destroyed. Mans ways will be erased from this planet. The earth, the heavens, and all that is therein, will be renewed in God.

The battle is heating up and many who are Gods ‘lights’ in the world have always been the martyr and found death in HIM, who died for each of these on Calvary’s cross. It is a battle where the world, its leaders, and the people who have rejected Gods truth of Love [love illustrated-John 3:16; love rejected 2 Thess 2] will find another light, one they will follow. This one will lead a mass portion of the population down the rat hole of destruction. It is time, my friends, find the true light, seek Him today, let your plant grow in him. Your plant, i.e. ‘your body, mind, soul, spirit’, all you have dedicated to the LORD God and his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, Y’Shua Ha Massiach. It is in Him we must be, for he must be both Savior and LORD today!

There will be a time, my friends, when all this is gone, vanished. Into thin air, with the rebellion, sin, iniquity, hatred, and virulence towards God! It will be those, the nations of them, ‘Which are saved that shall walk in the light of Gods heavenly kingdom.’ Make sure your one of those, Seek HIM today! Plant yourself towards the LORD God and his purpose. Let yourself be watered by his ‘righteousness’ and ‘goodness’ today! For in a World that is sick, full of sin, with only sinful men to lead them out, there is no hope in that scenario my friends. Make sure, you know the Light, of which, you are following and bending towards today!

Revelation 21:23  And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Revelation 21:24  And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Revelation 22:5  And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

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Examining the ‘I am’ of God, Jesus Christ who revealed the Father to mankind so that they would believe in him, repent, and find redemption to God the Father through Christ.

I AM, The beginning, there was nothing before God, for God always existed!

Exodus 3:13  And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14  And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you

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When Moses ask the Lord God who it was that had sent him to the Jews in bondage in Egypt, he was told to say “I AM hath sent me unto you”. Before that phrase he explained to Moses this “I AM that I AM.”  The words here ‘I AM’ is seen as the name used with “Jehovah or Yahweh”, the jews call him Adonai. But the ‘I AM’ used here is hayah, i.e. “ I AM [hayah] that I AM [hayah]. This word tells that who Moses was talking to ‘exists, always existed, and always will exist’. He is not only the One who made the covenant with the Fathers of the Jews now in bondage in Egypt, but he was the ONE who kept the covenant with them. The fact that he was now sending Moses to fulfill his covenant to them illustrated the truth to “I AM that I AM”, the self existent one, the one who always existed, the one who was not created, he was before all things and by him alone all things exist.  He was telling Moses that “I who exist, and created all things, who make covenants, keep covenants, and I control all things”. By Him Kings, nations, and peoples exist, period.

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It was also this God who further clarified what he told Moses by saying that “The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you-Ex 3:15″.  They would recognize this statement, for they had cried to this God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to rescue them from their bonds in Egypt. Now he had come in answer to their prayers and the fulfillment of his covenant with Abraham.

Exodus 34:6  And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7  Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

We find, though, in Exodus 34:6 when the “LORD passed by” before Moses and proclaimed “The LORD, The LORD God” that the word LORD is used three times in this verse. It is the word for YHWH, or Yahweh, Jehovah. This is the personal covenant name of the LORD God. It is here we find the attributes that God himself has ascribed to himself, describing who he is!

The LORD, God who is the covenant keeping God and self existent One. The One who was before all things and by him all things exist. Before him all creation will stand one day. This is the One True God who is compassionate, merciful, and gracious. From this cometh grace in the form of our Savior Jesus Christ, Yeshua Ha Massiach. This God is longsuffering, slow to anger. He is full of goodness, i.e. loving kindness, steadfast love, grace, mercy, and faithfulness. From this word the New Testament relates it as mercy or grace. He is the God of Truth, who is faithful, and not only is he good, but also merciful, and is a keeper of that mercy, again here we translate this as loving kindness, steadfast love, grace, mercy, faithfulness, devotion,   and goodness. It also is the same with this word in the New testament that translates it as mercy.  These are the qualities that our God and Father, described of himself. These are the qualities that our Savior Jesus Christ, who was sent from the Father brought in revelation to the world, revealing the Father.

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The other day as I came to stop at the local tire dealer thoughts of finishing this tire repair were utmost. It had been another day, one that began early, very early. The night before our tire went flat and the businesses were closed that repaired them. I always have a tire repair kit with ‘vaporized glue’ that goes into the tire via glue and air. This stops the hole nicely, but the tire needs repaired. So the next morning here I was. I walked into the dealership and a guy was reading the paper, no one was at the counter to take my job order. I stood there a minute or so and nothing. The guy reading the paper finally came behind the counter and smiled saying “I will find someone to help you.” “That’s Good, I thought to myself” as I looked around the showroom filled with tires and rims.

A guy came up and started to take my order. As I stood there watching the man try to find our account in his database, he looked up and said, “I’m in the M’s now.” This referred to the accounts, of course, and I waited for him to get to the S’s. Finally in the group where our account was to be located, he could not find it. I went out to the car and found the last receipt from this dealer when they did work for us, on the corner was the number. I went in and gave it to the counterman who had given up taking our order and now, though I went in first and was first to be waited on, now I was second. But the last of two. So here I was, the last, though I was first. I waited, getting a little troubled that this guy so quickly shoved my business to the side and took another customer, but as I waited the Lord gave me this, “The first shall be last and the last shall be first.” I smiled to myself as I pondered this quote from scripture.

Finally my order was taken and the other guy’s truck was the first in the bay to be fixed. Then our car was taken next to the bay where the other customer’s truck was. Thus here I was last in the bay. Again I thought of this “the first shall be last and the last shall be first.” It would be a 45 minute wait so I went down to the river to take pictures, pray, and possibly write. After the time was up I stood in the showroom waiting for the car to be done, nothing yet. I went outside and within a few minutes our car was done. Yes, that’s right. Even though I was last in the bay, our car was first to be done. So although I was first, yet I was last, and while I was last, still I was first. What a lesson for me today, thanks LORD!

I called the wife and let her know of a lesson today the LORD showed me in practical terms. Terms I could definitely get the point. I further looked over the gospels, one part in particular comes alongside what the lesson learned was. It was here as I read how the Lord stunned the disciples when they heard Jesus say “Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven – Mtt 19:23.” This statement was made even clearer in the context of the Rich young ruler had kept the commandments. All good young Jews at this time would indeed observe the commandments and consider themselves to be of Abraham. This young rich ruler, which, scripture would later say ‘went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions’ Matt 19:22. Why was this young man so sorry? Was it just because he had great wealth, possessions, and thought that if he just kept the commandments it would be okay? If we look further into this section we see that he called Jesus ‘Good Master’ and wanted to know what good thing he could do to inherit eternal life! Of course, today we know that in the flesh, there is no good thing, but although Jesus was God’s son, He put the Father first as usual by refusing to be called good and saying that only “God is good, vs 16″. Here the context brings to light a ‘rich young ruler who in appearance had it all’. He had wealth, possessions, and did good, but on top of all that he kept the commandments. The point here is what many today miss, you cannot buy your way into heaven. You cannot do one single good thing to inherit heaven. For this young man to keep all the commandments and yet not know the Son of God who now stood before him was blindness. This young man would keep all the commandments but not follow one single commandment from the Son of God. The Lord had called this young man, but this rich young man did not heed the call. The call to give up everything you had, money, wealth, possessions, and even your religious upbringing to follow the LORD was too much. Therefore he went away sorrowful. This young man would never realize that to know God truly, he had to come to the Son of God, Y’Shua and believe [trust in, rely on, cling too] in this Messiah.

Moreover this whole section speaks of those who indeed would give all to follow the LORD. It speaks of those who are part of the kingdom of God because they have come as little children and believed what the Son of God told them. But even though the group of followers who were Y’Shua’s disciples saw and heard this, they were stunned to say the least. This sounded to them as if no one could be saved. But in the call from God all things were possible Jesus said to them.

Matthew 19:13  ¶Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
14  But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
15  And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
16  ¶And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17  And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18  He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
19  Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
20  The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
21  Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
22  But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
23  ¶Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24  And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
25  When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
26  But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

One in particular, Peter saw this and wanted to know “Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? Matt 19:27″. It was still in the mind of the disciples that Y’Shua had come to bring in the kingdom on earth. If that was so they thought, as his first disciples then they would have seats of power, judgment, wealth, and be at the side of God himself. They still did not understand the full scope of the suffering servant Isaiah wrote about. This was the backdrop as Peter wanted to know what about us!

Jesus spoke to them all, even though it was Peter who asked the question. This must of been in the minds of all of them as they watched in horror at the thought of someone not being able to enter the heaven if he kept the commandments. The Jews at this time knew how to be righteous and work their way to heaven, or so they thought, Jesus had come to bring the full measure of salvation and understanding to them all. But he would have staunch enemies in the religious camp of the Pharisee’s and Sadducee. Jesus told them that in the ‘kingdom to come’, those that have followed him, would ”sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel Matt 19:28″. Further he also said that “every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life vs 19″. Mark’s gospel says in chapter 10 and verse 30 that this would be “now in this time” and “with persecutions” plus in the “world to come eternal life.” In both sections speaking on this the LORD puts the phrase, “The first shall be last and the last first”.

Mark 10:28  Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
29  And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
30  But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
31  But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

Matthew 19:27  Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
28  And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29  And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
30  But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Luke chapter 18, verses 18-34 also speaks to the Rich young ruler as well. In Luke’s account it says in verse 22 that the LORD knew he lacked one thing. He had to give that thing he treasured most, i.e. ‘his possessions, wealth, pride, and his religion’. Y’Shua was turning on its head, the religious perception and teaching that the Jewish religious leaders had been teaching. This was not about a ‘kingdom of God’ you could see. Jesus came to bring salvation to all men and the ‘kingdom of God’. But this kingdom would be within men until that time when God would live with men on earth, in the ‘regeneration or the millennial kingdom’. Jesus told them what he was doing, he came to be delivered up to the Gentiles, mocked, entreated spitefully, spit on, scourged, put to death and on the third day he would be resurrected. But in all this they did not understand that the LORD came to fulfill all things written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man.

Luke 18:31  ¶Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
32  For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
33  And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.
34  And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

It was a kingdom Jesus brought that would not come with observation at this time. The kingdom, Y’Shua said is ‘within you Lk 17:20-21′. The kingdom indeed would come someday, but in the future. When this kingdom would come Y’Shua [Jesus] would light up the heavens as lightening does from one part of the heaven to the other so all see it, so all will see when he comes to bring in the kingdom of ‘regeneration.’ Until that time, there would be deceptions, deceivers, false Christ’s, false messiah’s, and people would desire to see the ‘kingdom’ and many would be deceived. A whole generation would face this someday, a time as in the days of ‘Noah’ and likened unto the ‘days of Lot’.

Luke 17:20  ¶And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
22  And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
23  And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
24  For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
25  But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26  And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27  They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28  Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30  Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31  In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32  Remember Lot’s wife.
33  Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34  I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35  Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36  Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37  And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

The call to the rich young ruler and many today has gone out. But in this, ‘the first shall be last and last shall be first’ is directed at what the Son of God came to do and why. He came to ‘seek and save’ those who are lost. Today, the call still goes out. Many have had as the young rich man did, i.e. received God’s call! God’s first call to men is that ‘all men everywhere repent. Acts 17:30′ Just look to those things he had. He kept his religious ideas, his money, his possessions, and rejected following the LORD, for the cost was too high. The same today. The Lord is saying to us as he did to the young rich man who had an idea of religion and getting to heaven, don’t trust in what you can do or what you see. Trust in me, give up all you have and follow me. Again, the cost was too high and for many still is.

Acts 17:30  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

The phrase ‘the first shall be last and the last shall be first’ has to do with the highest most noble effort man can make on the Lord’s behalf. What is that? It is the call of obedience, to follow what the LORD has said to do. You see in the world, if your first, you win. All the highest accolades, awards, money, fame, fortune, and wealth are yours if you are first. This is the worlds wisdom. If your last, well you lose! If your poor, you lose! If your ugly, you lose! If your fat, you lose! If your anything the world considers last, you lose. But this is the worlds wisdom based on the ‘lusts of the flesh’, the ‘pride of life’, and the ‘lust of the eyes’. God’s wisdom is higher, to the world, this wisdom cannot be understood nor attained!

Matthew 20:1  ¶For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
2  And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3  And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
4  And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
5  Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
6  And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
7  They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
8  So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

I have been on the worlds lose list! I have known defeat! I have known being last, without hope, lost, and in sin! To find hope, you must find despair! To find salvation you must find you need saving in the first place. Pride blinds us of that, lust robs us of what we have, and religion will kill us. Jesus came to bring to all, even to those who are afar off from the first time he walked this earth, salvation and knowing God! He came to bring the kingdom of heaven into our lives, hearts, and souls. To redeem man, to save them from sins, to allow them the blessings of the Father, to be delivered from the hopelessness and wickedness of the world.

1 Corinthians 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

This is why, Jesus said the ‘first shall be last and the last first’. The context of this statement follows the discourse we have been talking about in Matthew. God goes to the poor, downtrodden, the sickly, the sinner, the ungodly, and anyone else first. Although in this life they are last, yet many of these are the first to respond to Gods call and accept it. They recognize the need for God and hear his voice and feel his love for them. For many it is the first time anyone or anything cared deeply about them at all. But this is also about ‘workers in the Lords vineyard’! It is about those who are called to work. It is about the chosen! God has put out a call to those who say they love him and follow him. This call is ‘chosen’, it is for those who respond and say Yes, LORD, I will go, I will do, I will walk in your ways! It is about those who will respond to the LORD and follow him, taking their cross. When they first hear the call, this is where the ‘rich young man was.’ He had a form of religion and success in the world he knew. But in the world of the Savior, this was ‘gaining the whole world’ and not God! Many today are called, they refuse, choosing to follow the worlds idea of fame, religion, and even success. Many accept the call but refuse to be chosen, that is, taking up their cross and following the Lord. These are those who save their life, and the result is they will lose it! Others accept the call, then follow the LORD by taking up their cross and following him. These are the chosen.

Matthew 16:24  ¶Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
25  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
26  For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
27  For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

In going out as the ‘chosen’ some are first to go into the vineyard, and others are the last to go. In the LORD’s system and righteousness, no matter when you go, you will receive the same reward, the reward is for obedience to go and work, not in the work itself.

Matt 20:9  And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
10  But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
11  And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
12  Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
13  But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
14  Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
15  Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
16  So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

This is about you and me responding to lose our life, our pride, our own self will and do as the LORD says. Not worrying about the world, its idea of success nor reward. This is for those who are not yet in the field of the LORD working. This is for those who have not responded yet to go! This is not about going to China, India, or some foreign place. This is about going to the LORD’S field and taking up the position he wants you too. It is about finding a niche to work in for the LORD, a niche that he has called you too and chosen you for. Even if your late it won’t matter the reward is the same! The obedience is paramount, for he has called, you answered! Then you have to go and do! For the LORD himself said, ‘If you love me you will keep my commandments.’ We all know about the beatitudes, the ten commandments, the fruits of the Spirit. But this one commandment is to ‘ignore your own life, don’t try to save it, give it to me and I will take care of you.’

In conclusion, the marching orders for the time we live in are found in Revelation. One verse stands out revealing the chosen for this era and age we live in. These are the ones who will take the LORD’S command and call to the limit of what he has said to do. These are exciting times and the message must get out! Time is short, the field is waiting, people are hurting, and someone has to go! Someone must love the LORD more than their own life! Someone must ignore the flesh, the pride, the call of the world and love the LORD even More. Who is that someone? Where will we find them? One things for sure, when you go, remember, “the first shall be last and the last shall be first.”

The Marching order again is found in Revelation 12 and verse 11 which says: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

The verse in Revelation 12 speaks volumes to those who want to overcome at this time. A time which is definitely not for half way this or that! It is all the way! It is here that I get back to the ‘practical lesson’, a way of showing me what to understand. The LORD is with us all the time. The field is wherever you go, the work is all the time, and the rewards will not come until the end of age. Even in the simple days, times, and events such as getting my tire repaired, the LORD reminded me of the Kingdom importance. That we are always in the vineyard, at all times, and we must walk in him, be in him, for he knows us and our every thought and motive. Nothing is hid from him and he knows us. More important he knows me and all those times I am living, working, and having a life. This life is and must be in Him, pleasing HIM. For eternal principles and priorities take over when your ‘chosen’ and have decided to be ‘chosen’ by following him, losing your life, taking up your cross, and losing totally yourself in Christ Jesus. Yes, the LORD was there that day! As the morning sun shone, as the man read the paper, as the other customer came in, as the man could not find our account, and as I stood there wanting to get it all over with. The LORD was there saying, remember the ‘kingdom priorities I have called you to!’ Yes, LORD I remember! I knew immediately you spoke to me, “the first shall be last and the last first.” But you did not just speak to me that day, you gave me a 100 % practical experience in the ‘kingdom’ that day. No one heard it but me. No one saw it but me. No one knew the lesson, but me, till now. Now you too, can learn the lesson with me. “Kingdom priorities 101, the first shall be last and the last shall be first.” No matter when you go, the reward is the same. The first ones shall reap the reward of the last ones, and the last one shall reap the reward of the first ones. It is about obedience and being chosen.

Originally posted 2009-05-24 07:33:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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“Celebrating a Special fall show during Yom Kippur with Guest Bill Bean, Salvation and Deliverance in Jesus Name”

Bill Bean “I’m a living witness to the awesome power of GOD. I have been both blessed and cursed by HIM, and I have fought a life long battle against satan and his demons.”

Bill Bean is a nationally known author and lecturer. His faith in GOD has inspired many people around the country and in different parts of the world. Bill says, “GOD truly delivered me from evil.”

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By the Watchman
Dana G Smith
Keywords: Truth, faith, redeemer, Jesus Christ, G-d, Father, salvation
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With all that is going on today it is easy to get mad! But today I tell you “Don’t get Mad, Get G-d!”. I don’t mean just any mamby pamby god.  I mean G-d the Father, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is the ‘mystery of ages’ and has come!

rail cars

Photo of  “prison rail cars”  rolling to its destination. Such evidence is seen all over america as people more and more are asking why our government needs such things as these. Remember WWII and the imprisonment of the Japanese?  In perspective such prison rail cars for transporting large groups of hostiles from one place to another. From one city to a closer ‘prison camp’! Today we are not at war with Americans, or are we?  Many questions are asked, but none to few answers are forthcoming.  If you are looking for Truth and truthful answers, we have our Lord and he is the “way, the TrUth, and th eLife”. TrUth has ‘U’ in it!

John 14:5  Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7  If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8  Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9  Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

Don’t get fear either, get trust in our G-d, who is able to keep you from falling as Jude says in summing up his epistle!

Jude 1:24  Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25  To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

But this kind of faith and trust can only come when ‘U’ are in the ‘TrUth’ of Jesus Christ and his Father.  The whole world can have a panic attack, in fact scripture says  Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”-Luke 21:26. It is the natural man, those in the world who cling to their idols, gold, silver, nations, churches, false religions and saviors, that will experience this ‘failing of hearts’. But for those who are the ‘U’, in ‘TrUth’ of Christ, they have the ‘peace of G-d’ and his Word as assurance. We are in Him, who is able to keep us, and even if we should perish from this mortal coil of perditious trouble in the world, we have hope, salvation, and glory awaiting us through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Jesus Christ is the only Way of Salvation, the ‘Truth’ of G-d who came to reveal our Fathers Love. It is this G-d and Father who loved us so much as to deliver us from death and the grave. The power of G-d in us through Jesus Christ, with the promises of G-d in our hearts, powered by his Spirit, the Ruach Chodesh, will finds us in his arms even in trouble in the world. It is that ‘light’, the Christ, the Messiach, Yeshua, Jesus who has come to reveal what ‘True Light’ really is. The enemy has plenty of delusions and lies, but he cannot touch our G-ds power, love, might, honor, strength, wisdom, and salvation for the beloved.

This is ‘TrUth’ my friends. ‘YoU’ are in his declaration, His Word, and in His promises. We are in troubled times, but we are not to be troubled. The world may be mad, or even make us mad. But we need not be mad, instead, “Don’t get mad, Get G-d”.  Same as Fear, the world may be fearful, worried, and uncertain about tomorrow, but we know who holds tomorrow. It is high time we as the ‘people of G-d, the bride of Jesus Christ’ started believing and walking in the power and purpose of Him who has called us to Salvation and Glory in Christ Jesus. We are in the world, the world better not be in us or our hearts. We are his light, his salt, and as such, our voices and faith should ring out against the corridors of every nation, every government, and every leader that we stand for Christ, and Christ is G-d, and in Him is Salvation! He is coming back to establish the Throne of David. He will make us Kings and Priests to our G-D!  It is these truths that should hit all who hear us or oppose us. Our voices and witness needs to be clear, loud, consistent, and with power hitting those who hear us smack dab in their heart and spirit.

Revelation 3:21  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne

Revelation 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth

Today, if you will hear His voice, ‘harden not your hearts’, this is what the world needs to hear! He is alive, we are his children. They may hate us, beat us, imprison us, or kill us, but we will only go as our G-d leads or directs us. We are his, as such, nothing will happen without his commandment.

Hebrews 3:15  While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Hebrews 4:7  Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day If ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

It is also true today that for the world, RedeeMEr, as ‘ME’ in it. The redeemer of mankind, Jesus Christ, has already come to the earth to redeem men unto G-d through his work on the cross. It is this ‘blood of the covenant’ shed for their sins that will bring them out of desolation and destruction to our G-d the Father of all mercies and hope. For you and I, we already know ‘
Christ died for ME!’ So our ‘ReedeeMEr’ and Savior is Christ, we believe and have received him. As with Job, we can say this “I know my redeeMEr liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.”  Further Job said, ‘after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see G-d.” Now that is faith! You know this man knew his G-d!

Job 19:25  For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26  And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God

Finally my friends remember also that ‘FaIth’ has ‘I’ in it! If we are truly born of God, then we will overcome the world. The victory that enables and ensures this is our ‘FaIth’. That ‘FaIth’ is solidly rooted in the ‘I’, which is you and “I” who believe that Jesus is the Son of G-d! For this scripture says, is the ‘victory that overcometh the world, even our FaIth’.

1 John 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Today, my friends it is raining. Troubles are all over the world. Israel is in the center of it, as America strikes her hand to control and manage it all. Our leaders are deluded, the system is broken, and the world is heading to chaos. But we have the victory that ‘overcomes the world, even our “FaIth”, believing and trusting in this fact: JESUS CHRIST is the Son of God, the Only begotten of the Father, full of Grace and Truth, and he alone is the Savior of all the world.

Be found in him, our Savior.

What follows is a recent Psalm with scripture references from Psalm 2 !

Lamentations of America

A Psalm By the Watchman
Dana G Smith
Keywords: America, lament, G-d, deliverance, anguish, sins, Jesus Christ

Psalms 2:1  ¶Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3  Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

I watched it,
I am living it,
Yet at times, it is hard to behold!
Like the death of a friend,
So too, is the America I grew up in.

Enemies have done this,
Yet, they are here because of sin.
Yea, because of our sins,
We are stubborn, proud, and rebellious.
We hate righteousness as we serve our idols.
We loathe the G-d of righteousness,
As we embrace the god of this world!
Psalms 2:4  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5  Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

Many if not all, are blinded,
Done so by their own conceit!
Too proud to admit wrong!
Too busy to look up!
Too set on the error of their ways!

The People look to many things.
They have the appearance of righteousness.
They hope, though, in things other than this G-d!
Some hope in riches to save them.
Some hope in their churches to save them.
Some hope still in America to save them.
Some, meanwhile, hope in man.

Psalms 2:6  Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7  ¶I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

But I hope in the G-d of Jacob, the G-d of Abraham, The G-d of Isaac,
The Father of the blessed One, who provided Salvation through  Jesus Christ,
Yeshua Ha Massiach, his only begotten Son as the Savior of the world, and it is in his Son
do I hope, believe, trust, and follow!

Again, let me refrain, I hope in the Father, the L-rd G-d;
And in his Son, the savior of all men, Jesus Christ!

We have gone astray and do not see;
They hope in deliverance,
They will see anguish,
For they hope in vanity and in lies do they trust!
Arise from your deceit, shake it off.

For surely this is a warning and a cure,
Lest you come close to our G-d and his son
You will perish,
Therefore;
Shake off the slumber,
For the Harlot has taken over,
She is established,
She is not your friend!

Psalms 2:8  Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9  Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10  ¶Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

She will make war.
She will destroy.
She will kill with death,
All who oppose her.

She revels in drunkenness.
She drinks your blood,
Yea, she bathes in it,
From darkness has she come,
Death is in her.

Make peace with her if you dare.
For her end is misery and death.
She hates the L-rd G-d of truth and righteousness.
She rejects his reign,
She hates his children,
She will kill, steal, and destroy!

I have seen and beheld.
I have warned.
You have not listened.
You argue in repeated terms of mans wisdom,
You sit in the place of your own idea’s,
Your belief in the wisdom that you perceive to be true,
You follow men who themselves are deluded, yet you are blind!

Psalms 2: 11  Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

This is your downfall,
You reject the L-rds warning,
You reject the L-rds call!
Because of this, unless you repent,
You will find anguish, misery, and in the end death.

But those who have called upon the L-rd our G-d,
Believing in son Yeshua, Jesus Christ,
Yea and have walked in his ways,
Keeping his word in faith and obedience,
Yea, they will find shelter in Him,
In the trusted One, whose arms gather and protect.