Edition 240

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This website comprises the Abrahamic Expression of faith, which goes to the Jew and the Gentile, with a Messianic slant. I affirm the fullness of biblical truth, embracing the cross of Calvary. I reject Babylonian paganism in the church and the legalistic excesses of the Messianic Movement. This ministry has a distinct kingdom vision, identifying with God’s call and plan for the Jewish people. My position is pre-trib! Personally: I was saved in 1976 while working as a war correspondent, journalist, photographer, artist and environmentalist. My interest in Bible prophecy was instant. My calling came soon afterwards. It is to share this great drama, to stand watching and to glorify my God.

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16^th November 2018

Shabbat Shalom to all:

Silence and ignorance:

Firstly, a bit of background:

Early in my spiritual life I discovered the secret of the fear of the Lord. I have sought it and chosen it and as a result, My Lord has taken me into many great things and increased the depth of my walk with Him. It has removed from me all complacency of attitude, and set the scriptures on fire.

It’s an ongoing endeavour that constantly produces its fruit.

Even now, when I sit down to write, I always have a tinge of nervousness in my heart, knowing that I’m sitting down before my Lord and for Him, before anyone else.

You can only know the grace of God when you know the fear of God. This is the way to deeper understand of the gospel.

Those who never teach on hell, the wrath of God, and judgment do not know the fear of God.

Due to the huge numbers coming to this website, and the nature of the internet, I only get to know readers through emails. That has been extremely insightful. It has given me a feel for the general spiritual temperature of today’s believers, worldwide.

It’s always a case of the few and many, with few really being sold out on our Lord and moving forward, and many in the luke-warm to ice-cold camp!

What I have observed is that the spiritual flavour of the day is general spiritual ignorance, with much deception thrown in. But there are many with hearts sold out on our Lord of glory.

These end time events are so very exciting, but how much more so, and comforting, when you know what is going on, from God’s point of view.

Be doubly diligent in your faith in these days. Anchor yourself to the truth and grow in it, moving forward all the time. It is very easy and quick to get out of fellowship with our Lord and into fellowship with the world’s ways.

There is huge unseen pressure to fit in with the world. It will make you a non-descript Christian, useless to God.

Israel in the cross-hairs:

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Prophetically, the world will soon come against Israel simply because God has chosen Israel for His purposes. It’s all about to blast onto the world stage.

There are two universal problems I want to briefly touch on, that may or may not involve you:

They are “silence” and “ignorance” in the face of God’s revealed word and will on Israel.

►Silence:

Silence allows and encourages aggression. We saw that succinctly in the silence of the Catholic church during the Holocaust of WW11. But the Catholic church was not silent when they murdered millions of Jews during the Inquisitions.

They chanted triumphantly - “hep hep hooray” as they slaughtered Jews. (This term is an acronym meaning “Jerusalem is lost” and “kill the Jews.”)

Today the Catholic church, and others are silent on the desire of Islam to win Israel.

Silence identifies you as a biased, spineless, sell-out. Silence is selective in this regard. The blind are not silent in their support of the enemy! “If you forsake God – you praise the wicked.” (Proverbs 28:4) In many ways, silence is a snare!

Silence on the Israel / Palestinian issue aligns you with the curse of God, which is on those who come against Israel. (Genesis 12:3, Numbers 24:9)

Isaiah 62:1-2 “For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace (be silent), and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns. The Gentiles shall see your (Israel) righteousness, and all kings your glory. You shall be called a new name by the Lord.”

►Ignorance:

There is an innocent ignorance, but that's not what I'm speaking of here.

Ignorance of God’s word when you have the opportunity to know it – leads to a curse! (Deuteronomy 28)

Ignorance of an enemy can be very costly! Ignorance of where God’s blessings lie and how they operate, will rob you of those blessings.

Ephesians 4:18 “They have their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening that is in their heart.”

Acts 17:30 “These times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands men everywhere to repent.”

Psalm 14:1 (Amp) “The empty-headed fool has said in his heart, there is no God.”

We could quite accurately extend the meaning of this verse above to include the word of God and His choices and plans.

The Bible reveals a terrible indictment from God upon the church in relation to Israel. Do not see Israel as Israel, but as Israel coming to the light and lighting the world, in the near future.

Romans 11:20-22 “Because of unbelief they (Jews) were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty but fear (be afraid). For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: On those who fell, severity; but towards you – goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.” (Lit= hewn down like a tree.)

Romans 11:25-26 “I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own opinion, that hardening in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so all Israel will be saved.”

Note in the verse above that ignorance on these things results in you being self opinionated!

The job of the church has always been, and still is, to take the gospel to the Jew first. (Romans 1:16) We are to make the Jew jealous with the gospel. (Romans 11:11)

Much of the church has failed miserably in this simple clear-cut commission.

►As far as Israel goes; many churches are filled with blinding fog!

The end of Islam:

The end of Islam: The Bible speaks in a number of passages about the defeat and destruction of various nations for coming against Israel. They are many, but some named nations are the fully Islamic, Arab nations of today.

It’s always a good idea to see and know the “end from the beginning.” (Isaiah 46:10)

►For your study, read the following scriptures: Jeremiah 25:15-32, Ezekiel 35:2-15.

As God births His love and concern for Israel in you, a new, exciting dimension of Christianity comes about. You see with new eyes and new understanding. It is just like a new birth with a new purpose.

Once you see these things, you will have been truly touched by our Lord and never be the same again...what a wonder! Oh, and did I mention that some will hate you for it!

Psalm 18:30 “As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.”

† Shalom...Joel.

Edition 240. December 31^st 2014

False end - time doctrines:

False end – time doctrines:

Introduction:

As we head into what will be an extremely critical year for the world, there are many things we must take heed of in our preparation for our Lord. No, I’m not saying the rapture / tribulation will begin in 2015 although it most certainly could, I am saying the time is very short. If it’s not this new-year it won’t be more than a few more.

This edition is not about false doctrines in general, but those that have specific relationship to these end days. They are not all outright heresy or error. Some are just twists in the truth as you will see.

There are a number of false doctrines that have specific relevance to the end-time scenario. These are the big ones of our day that will intensify and become deadly and dangerous.

I’ll first of all list them and then we can speak about them.

Today we are in a dangerous world of the arising of billboard Jesus – another Jesus – your own personal sponsor for your own life. This billboard Jesus in not holy and pure, and is full of error. He is a creation of the modern church – just for you. He can fit in nicely without interference.

There are so many churches that can’t change even if they wanted to. Their ways are so deeply entrenched in the ways of the world; they are one with it and its god.

The call and cry for repentance and a return to the pure undefiled gospel is falling on deaf, dead ears.

1 John 4:6 “We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

The list of false end-time doctrines:

●Deception today is no different from the past and no big deal if you’re saved.

●Satan is not the god of this world, Jesus is!

●The world will continue as always.

●Jesus is coming back to offer love and forgiveness.

●You can help create a world of peace now.

●Doctrine is not important, just love one another.

●Jezebel in the church.

●Israel is of no consequence. The Palestinians must have half of Jerusalem and the land of Israel.

●You do not need the baptism in the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit to see and deal with demons.

●Jesus was married.

Identifying last-days deceptions, heresies and false doctrines:

The false doctrines of our day will relate to the important biblical doctrines of our day.

Satan is the god of confusion says the Bible, and of course he is going to obscure himself and his operations and spread confusion in the things of God’s prophetic word.

Revelation 12:12 “Therefore rejoice O heavens and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows he has a short time.”

The verse above will intensify incredibly in the tribulation period, but we are in the labour pains now and forerunner period to the tribulation. We are in a spiritual environment of intensifying battle.

The deadly false doctrines of today will glorify Satan in disguise, cast down God’s eternal truths and exalt the things of the devil.

The devil attacks the Christian through the world system, the flesh-nature and the demonic. The big heresies of today will most certainly include error relating to these three things.

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●Deception today is no different from the past and no big deal if you’re saved.

On the Mount of Olives our Lord warned five times of end-time deception during His discourse with the disciples. If you blindly accept everything and you do not question and search for biblical truth, you must be, will be, and deserve to be deceived.

2 John 1:7 “Many deceivers have gone into the world who do not confess Yeshua the Messiah as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”

Revelation 13:14 “And he (Satan) deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which were granted him...”

2 Thessalonians 2:9 “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs and lying wonders.”

Matthew 24:4 (Description of end times) “Take heed that no one deceives you, for many will come in My name saying I am the Christ and will deceive many. Verse 11: “Many false prophets will arise and deceive many.”

Psalm 119:118 “You reject all those who stray from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.”

2 Timothy 3:13 “Evil men and imposters will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

2 Timothy 3:1-5 “In the last days perilous times will come, for men will be lovers of themselves...having a form of godliness but denying its power...From such people turn away.”

So, just in these few dramatic verses above, and there are many more, we see a pattern, a very dangerous, deadly pattern! It’s all about end-time deception.

If your church is not teaching you about deception and warning you of its danger – be careful of that church! Be careful of any church that does not teach on God’s enemies, who, by default, are your enemies.

Revelation 12:9 speaks of the “beast that deceives the whole world.” This is a tribulation verse but do you see that immense power here?

We are in a time period of increasing deception - not the other way around.

This is the urgent message of the day. It is urgent. It is happening even right now.

●Satan is not the god of this world, Jesus is!

For God so loved the world He would never harm a flea! Sounds funny, but that is the exact lie a growing number of people believe. They believe that Satan is in hell or out there somewhere, or something, anything – just not that Satan is the god of this world. (2 Corinthians 4:4)

“How can Satan be the god of my world to have fun in?” This is the unwritten question of most people today!

Satan has power and authority in this world system. He is its god.

According to 2 Corinthians 4:4 God has blinded the eyes of the world. Do you know that? Do you understand that? The world is blind. It is blind to its demise. All of its ways emanate from spiritual blindness. It’s heroes, celebrities, leaders are all blind. The world can’t receive the Spirit of truth. Its works are all evil, it is at enmity with God. We are “not to love the world.” We are to come out of its domain and be separate.

If they could see into the spiritual realm for 1 minute, they would all fall on their faces in repentance!

By the way, the earth is not the world. The world is the socio-political, economic area and the dealings of man. We could say that the earth is adorned or dressed with the world. The earth, although it still has the curse upon it will continue, later restored and glorified. The world will be destroyed soon, never to arise again.

The great end-time deceptions and heresies relating to the world will be those that obscure Satan, keep him hidden, concealed and out of the picture. It is this world that we as believers are commanded to “hate” and “die to.” (John 12:25, Galatians 2:20)

A great coming heresy will be taught by many churches, especially all the orthodox churches. It will be that the world can come together as one in peace and make world peace. This will all be the work of Satan in disguise.

●The world will continue as always.

2 Peter 3:3-4 “Scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, saying ‘where is the promise of His coming? All things will continue as they were from the beginning of creation.’”

It is the end-time scoffers who believe that world will continue as always. That’s actually quite logical if the Lord is not coming back to judge the world, it must continue as always.

If the world will continue as always, there has to be a very strong focus on preserving it, saving it and making it a better place. None of these things are part of the great commission for the true disciple of Messiah.

If nobody knows the time of the coming of the Lord, you must have the world as your playground. There will be little division between the world and the kingdom of God in your view.

This is exactly why so many churches are full of worldly heresy.

●Jesus is coming back to offer love and forgiveness.

People of the world are blind spiritually, uninformed, falsely taught and in all error. They believe that Jesus was some Gentile, gentle guy who was full of love for everything and everyone. Hell is foreign to them.

You would be shocked to know how many intelligent, educated people believe that if this Jesus is coming back again, he will come back as Mr. Nice Guy in love, forgiveness and compassion.

Let me tell you this. Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah, the King of all Kings is returning in love. He is returning to destroy the entire world polluted by Satan, and all its unsaved people, who will be cast into hell. This is pure love in action. Setting up a new world order, a universe of holiness, purity with no sin or evil in absolute glory – is an act of incredible love.

More sure than anything you can imagine, is the coming judgement. It is coming to every human being that ever lived. Every unbeliever will be judged to hell. Every believer will be judged and assessed for reward and loss of reward.

The idea that no judgement is coming or it will be a picnic is an evil heresy.

●You can help create a world of peace now.

The apostate church will remove end-time teaching and all that relates to Israel, Jerusalem and the Jews. It will remove all things relating to end-time judgement, severity, destruction, doom and terror.

With all teaching on the rapture, the tribulation and the second coming, all neatly removed, the Inter-faith world-church will push for world-peace in a big way. Satan will be the driving force.

They will draw in most churches. Already there is a big move in this regard. The stage is being prepared even now.

As in the times of Babylon and all the other fallen world empires, they will think they can build a world of peace.

The push for unity amongst all religions and churches will be a major end-time heresy. Be careful of having anything to do with it. World-peace is coming – God’s way. It is called the Millennium and it is coming on the destruction of all that is not of God and has not gone though the cross of Messiah.

Anything and everything to do with multi-faith is to be avoided. It is ultimately doomed!

●Doctrine is not important, just love one another.

Acts 20:27-28 “I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God. Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock...for I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.”

2 Timothy 4:3 “The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers and turn from the truth to fables.”

Isaiah 59:14 (End-time context) “I looked and saw the truth cast down in the street”.

2 Thessalonians 2:10 “Because they did not receive the love of the truth, God will send them strong delusion. (End-time context).

2 John 1:10-11 “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your home nor greet him.”

1 Timothy 4:1 “The Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.”

The verses above need no explanation. They are powerful indeed. Today we are in an environment where doctrine is being sidelined and replaced with, “Just love one another.”

●Jezebel in the church:

This is one of the many deadly, evil spirits in the end-time church. The Jezebel spirit is all about illegitimate domination and control, designed to bring down or nullify church leadership. The tragedy is that few church leaders these days are even aware of this demon spirit.

It attacks families and anywhere where God’s authority structure is found as well.

You do not make peace with Jezebel – you kill her violently. (Not the individual but the spirit).

I have done an entire edition on this subject which you can find HERE. (It is the most hated edition so far.)

●Israel is of no consequence. The Palestinians must have half of Jerusalem and the land of Israel.

This will become the big issue of the end-times. Many churches teach that because Israel rejected our Lord, God has rejected them and is finished with them.

Of course God did reject them, but that’s not the end of the story.

God brings the Jews back into their land in spiritual blindness and when this is complete He lifts that blindness and completes His original call and work with the Jews.

If God is finished with the Jews, then the Palestinians have a legitimate right to the land in terms of democracy and internationalism.

The false doctrines around this issue will spark the next Holocaust and be the dividing fence between heaven and hell for many people.

●You do not need the baptism in the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit to see and deal with demons. (Yes you do!)

Please be very sure of one thing. Satan does not operate alone. He has a host of multitudes of demons working with him. Because you can’t see them does not mean they are not there.

You need spiritual equipping, certain tools and weapons to see and deal with unseen demons.

The baptism in the Spirit supplies these weapons of spiritual warfare.

The baptism in the Spirit is also for your edification, to speak mysteries to God, to magnify God, for assurance of faith, unity, protection, discernment, stability, power, authority, endurance, self control, prophetic insight and more.

These attributes and more can be found in the following verses:

Acts 1:18, Acts 19:1-7, Acts 2:38-39, Acts 10:44-47, Acts 2:18, John 14:16, Acts 2:3-4, 1 Corinthians 1:7, 1 Corinthians 14:4, 1 Corinthians 12:12, Romans 12:2.

Many who come against the baptism in the Spirit use the following verse. They say, “You see tongues will cease” But the question is when. The verse is very interesting. It indicates that tongues will cease but knowledge will vanish away. In the original, the word for ‘cease’ means an immediate cessation, while “vanish away” means over a time period.

This verse actually implies a pre-tribulation rapture. That is when tongues will cease in an instant.

1 Corinthians 13:8-13 “Love never fails, but whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues they will cease; whether there is knowledge it will vanish away. When that is perfect is come, then that which is in part will be done away with...For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know as I am known.”

These last days are a time of immense spiritual conflict. If ever there is a time for the full equipping of God’s provision it is now.

►By the way, I distance myself from the ministries that abuse the gifts and have turned them into a lying, magic circus performance. The likes of Benny Hinn and others – I stand completely aloof from.

●Jesus was married.

This may seem somewhat obscure, but it may also be very important. The Dan Brown heresy centres on one main theme, which is that Jesus was married and had kids.

If that were so, there would be people around today who have pure undefiled blood in them with no Adamic curse. The one thing that did make our Lord Yeshua different from all other human beings is that He was born of a virgin with no earthly father, thus sidestepping the curse of the sin-nature that came to us all through Adam.

The logical conclusion of Brown’s deception is that there are people now with the pure blood, Arian, Christ-blood in them. This then makes them divine and equal with the deity of God. Do you see where this is going?

This is important in that sometime soon an individual will arise claiming to be God in the flesh. This will be the antichrist. He will be able to demonstrate in some way that he is pure and has no Adamic curse in him and therefore he will have the ability to be as God, including miracle working.

So, Dan Brown, did you know that you were preparing the way for the devil himself? By the way Dan, I have never and never will read one of your cursed words.

Those who have the unredeemed blood of Adam in them see those with the redeeming blood of Messiah in them as the evil enemy.

There is a similar evil doctrine in the Catholic church.

The Catholic church claims Mary was conceived without original sin. On the Catholic feast of so-called Immaculate Conception, the Catholics repeat the blasphemous phrase; “Oh Mary, our mother, today the people of God, in celebration, venerate you, the immaculate, preserved from the contagion of sin from the beginning. The full story is Here.

Catholicism has thousands of fathers, many are homosexuals wearing frocks. It has a mother who is not a virgin. None of them – not one is my father or mother. I reject them all – every one! (Matthew 23:9)

How to prevent deception:

You can’t in your own strength. You can’t as a compromised Christian. You can only do so through the power of the cross and the shed blood, together with the full equipping of God and the use of His provisions and gifts.

You must know your Bible very well under the leading and guiding of the Spirit of God. If you feed your spirit with the good food of God’s word it will begin to dominate your life. If you feed your spirit with the cursed garbage of the world – it will dominate your life.

The good news:

Very soon Satan will be cast out and bound. The future universe will go through one more brief rebellion at the end of the Millennium, but for all true believers, the second we step into eternity – that’s it! Our glorious future is signed, sealed and delivered forever.

Personally, it is an accomplished fact now, but the full manifestation is at the salvation or glorification of our bodies.

If you want to get a brief glimpse of the glory that awaits us please have a look at edition 197 entitled “The glory of the future universe”. Click Here.

Final thoughts:

Proverbs 1:28-29 “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek Me diligently, but will not find Me, because they hated knowledge (of God) and did not chose the fear of the Lord.”

There is one big issue with the coming of the Satan. He is and will try to delay the coming of the Lord and he will do everything in his power to neutralise his biggest enemy – the word of God and those born of the blood and Spirit of God.

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I created this image from a number of bits and pieces of art work blended into one. The theme is the cross with death on one side of the cross and life on the other.