Edition 12 - The Prophetic Scroll

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●Some months ago North Korea threatened Israel with “Merciless, thousand-fold punishment.” This was essentially for calling the dictator a “madman!” (Jerusalem Post)

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●Trump: “Fire and fury, fight tonight, locked and loaded, ready to go” –Will someone please turn all these threats into a poem, a song – or something!

Shabbat (Sabbath) begins on Fridays at 6pm and ends on Saturdays at 6pm. The purpose is to help the church and Israel become reconciled in Messiah and to identify the rift, and the needed restoration. There is much in the church that needs to change before it can be fully reconciled with the Jew. Likewise, changes in Jewish thinking are also needed.

18^th August 2017

Shabbat Shalom to all:

Some profound truths!

There are two sources of “truth.” One is Satan and the other is our God. Obviously one is not really truth. It is a deception, but looks like the real thing.

2 Corinthians 11:14 “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”

1 John 4:6 “...By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

I’m referring in this report to truth and error generally as well as in what has become known as the Revelation 12 sign and its interpretation. These principles are universal – and extremely important.

People are led by the Spirit of God into all truth or led by the spirit of error into deception.

Are there any ways we can quickly spot truth or error? If so, what are the signs to look for?

John 16:13 “When He the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth...He will show you things to come.”

John 8:32 “You shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.”

So, just in the two verses above, we see that the Spirit of truth leads and guides. He leads into all truth and not just bits of it. And He shows us things to come. This relates to all things prophetic.

Truth overcomes error, lifting the veil and giving sight.

Truth grows in light. Error grows in the darkness of ignorance and deception. Error causes the light, and truth to recede.

You can only see error clearly in the light of truth.

Truth, especially when it comes to Bible interpretation is disciplined. It sticks to interpretive rules and laws. Error is wild and undisciplined jumping all over the place.

What we need is the leading and guiding of the Spirit of God to show what the real deal is.

Why do the same people always get caught in errors and deceptions? It’s because error is a spirit and those people have invited that spirit in. They have not identified it as a spirit and have given it a nice home in their hearts.

They can’t see the error because they are in the dark, in those areas. You need to be in the light. Let me add that you can be in the light in many areas and in darkness in certain areas at the same time.

Truth is like a butterfly – it goes through a metamorphosis into all things beautiful and of God. Error also goes through a metamorphosis into an evil, ugly idol that dominates and controls.

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Error has an evil, terrible twin sister. Her name is Beatrice Blindness. She protects herself and her sister from any attacks.

Error has one great enemy and that is the truth! Error is afraid of the truth. They cannot live together! One must kill the other. So what error does is it comes with threats and scare-tactics, insults and attacks.

***People hurt you for the reason of trying to control you. When you get badly hurt by someone it creates fear in you. That then makes you easy to control. Fear of the devil is all wrong and leads to you being controlled. Fear of the Lord is all right and creates the opposite effect which is freedom.

The devil and his workers may produce control through hurt and fear-tactics, but it will never produce respect.

Please don’t forget that important little principle in the paragraph above!

Now, let’s look at this principle in the Bible:

Proverbs 29:25 (Amp) “The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever leans on, puts his trust and puts his confidence in the Lord will be safe and set on high.”

Proverbs 19:23 “The fear of the Lord leads to life and he who has it will abide in satisfaction and will not be visited with evil.”

1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. (punishment)...”

Do you want to endure in true freedom forever? The fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever. (Psalm 19:9)

When you are in and under the leading of the Spirit of our Lord, He emits light and gives you sight. One day you wake up and suddenly you see with new eyes! You see how the devil works through people. When you see it, you are free. It can and often does happen suddenly.

You will never again fall for the manipulative power and force of error and her evil twin, blindness.

Colossians 2:4-7 “All the treasure of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in God and the Messiah. Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words...be rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.”

The level of Bible-knowledge of many in ministry today is a sad reflection of the world in the church today. In many respects the church is blind, shallow, empty and ignorant. As goes the spiritual, so goes the natural! So, in fact the condition of the sick world today is largely a reflection of a blind, sick church!

If you don’t know your Bible extremely well in these days, led by the Spirit, you have no measuring instruments to use on yourself relating to the world and its errors. You have no inner thermometer to gage your spiritual temperature or that of the world. You have no Bible-clock, bright spotlight, light-meter, speedometer, seismometer, or tension meter.

You are aimlessly adrift in a dangerous storm you can’t even see.

Truth and error eventually manifest. The seeds of both produce fruit. One is the fruit of failure, with many satanic characteristics along the way and the other produces the good fruit of great success in God and His will and way for you. You should be able to spot them both growing before they finally manifest.

Late breaking news! Just before posting this, I read a headline saying “Nibiru is to come into view when the great sign appears. (September 23^rd!) My comment: Error, error, error lies, deception and the work of the devil!

Shalom † Joel.

Edition 12. September 26th 2009

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In this edition:

●The Glory which shall be revealed

●The Gory to be revealed in believers

●The Glory to be revealed in the creation itself

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The Glory which shall be revealed

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In the late 1600s George Frederic Handel composed one of the most powerful pieces of music ever written and titled it "The Messiah" it contains an incredible track "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed" He took the title from Isaiah 40:5

Romans 8:18-21 "For I consider that the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us, for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God...for the creation itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God"

Introduction:

In this edition I would like to discuss perhaps the most exciting prophetic subject of all. It is our being changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye into people of eternal glory...and it's not far off.

These words should bring you hope, encouragement, purpose and reason for living, meaning to life and inspire you to move on, forward with our King of Great Glory!

The greatest regret of all time will be when many people one day find out about these things and how close they were and yet they rejected it all in favour of rebellion to God. The world today including many believers, has no peace, because they are rebels in the face of fast approaching GLORY.

The glory to come:

Firstly, I don't have much to say about the glory of God. It is simply indescribable. Language can't do it justice and the human mind is far too limited to imagine it.

All human beings will get a resurrection body, but only true believers will be able to share Gods glory with Him. All unbelievers will be eternally imprisoned in hell. The bottom line is...whose neighbourhood are you going to hang out in forever?

●The glory to be revealed in believers:

You may wonder why I've chosen those ugly guys in the image below to represent believers. Well, it's simply because salvation gets offered to all. The completion of our salvation transforms us physically into something glorious, wonderful, spectacular, beautiful and new.

2 Corinthians 4:17 "For our light affliction which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

It's often good to set your sights into the future, if only for a short while. It gives you perspective. A little while ago I was in one of the most amazing deserts on this earth...the Namib on the west coast of Africa. (There are some pictures of it in the "Gods Garden" section. One night I lay for many hours in the dunes just looking at the night sky and imagining the glory that is to come. It was an incredible experience!

1Corintians 15:40-44 "There is one glory of the sun and another of the moon and of the stars, all differ from one another, so also is the resurrection of the dead"

This verse (above) makes it very clear that we will all differ from each other in the resurrection. Some will scrape into a Godly eternity by the skin of their teeth, others will have a reward state that will be spectacular. Our rewards which will set us apart from each other for ever are described as wood, hay, stubble or gold, silver, precious stones, which are all hit by the fire of Gods judgement. The first three will leave a puff of smoke while the others are refined by fire and will live on.

Yes of course we will all be equal in terms of salvation, but what you and I do with our lives now in respect to Gods plan for us, will determine our eternal glory!!

One of the rewards, that never ceases to amaze me is the 'crown of righteousness' given only to those that "look for His coming"...Don't you dare ever tell me not to get into this end time stuff!! Actually, I have nothing but the utmost contempt for all those pastor / teachers out there who are in love with the ways of the world and anti -eschatology!

Philippians: 3:21 "He will transform our lowly body, that it may conformed to His glorious body..."

The above verse indicates that the sort of body we will be given will be similar to that of our Messiah after His resurrection. How exciting is that! He could travel at the speed of thought, walk through walls, appear here or there. You could touch Him, He could eat and on top of this we will have full, complete knowledge of all things just like Him. Ahhhhh the pain in my back, knee and neck will be gone forever!

We will be able to be and exist in the dimensions of the physical as well as the spiritual. We'll be able to transcend the dimensions of time and space.

The most outrageous, farfetched and stretched science fiction will have nothing on this, nothing at all. This puts that to shame in comparison.

Colossians 3:4 "When Christ who is our life appears, then we also will appear with Him in glory". Bring it on, bring it on!

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●The glory to be revealed in Israel:

Isaiah 35:1-5 "The desert shall bloom as a rose...the eyes of the blind shall be opened"

It's interesting that the land of Israel is one of the most successful from an agricultural point of view and yet it is water-scarce and full of rocks! Many people (including myself) would say that something supernatural is on the go. It's just the start though.

Isaiah 62:2-4 "The Gentiles shall see your righteousness and kings your glory and you will be called by a new name... You will also be a crown of glory in the hand of our Lord. You shall no longer be termed forsaken"

Unfortunately the above verse will come about after much suffering, but it's coming. In fact we are now in the early stages of the new birth of Jews.

Isaiah 44:23 "Sing O heavens for the Lord has done it...break forth into singing you mountains, forest and every tree. For He has redeemed Jacob and glorified Himself in Israel."

The above verse is yet future in its complete fulfilment, but we are in the fore-runner period now...exciting times indeed!

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●The glory to be revealed in nature:

Romans 8:21,22 "The creation itself will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God...The whole of the creation groans with birth pangs of labour together until now"

I am a mad bushman at heart and have spent much time in some of the most beautiful wild places on this earth. But there is always a sense in me that this was not the way it was supposed to be. I can only imagine what the natural world will be like after the curse on nature is lifted. It was lifted from a positional point of view on the cross, but nature's full salvation, like ours, still lies ahead.

Isaiah 51:3 "The wilderness shall be like Eden"

The earth will be restored to the way it was in Eden, before the fall of man. Adam's fall brought down all creation with it. The millennium period will see all of this completed.

Isaiah 11:6-9 "The wolf shall lie down with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the lion together and a young child shall lead them...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."

On many occasions I've watched a lion tear into its prey and devour the poor animal. It's quite a sight. This is normal now, but according to the verse above, a big change is coming!

Isaiah 32:15 "The wilderness becomes a fruitful field, then justice will dwell in the wilderness."

I have a passionate hatred for cruelty to animals or injustice on any level to the indefensible. Thank God for the above verse!

Job 39:8 "The range of the mountains is His pasture and He searches after every green thing"

God is green, declares the above verse! Yes I know the green movement is new age and filled with all sorts of evil, but there is a truth in the midst of 'green'! Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!

Revelation 22:3 "And there shall be no more curse..."

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The cow dung choice:

If I were to slap you in the face with a hand full of hot steaming cow dung I don't think you'd be too happy! The verse below compares the things of the world with cow dung (original word). This is the desire of the world...pure cow dung in comparison to the coming glory!

Philippians 3:8 "I count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ...for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as dung, that I may gain Christ."

2 Corinthians 4:4 "...whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who did not believe , lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them."

What an incredible tragedy that the world at large is blinded, misguided and deceived by its god into a life of futility, while right before them, so very close is glory indescribable.

I always think of this when seeing a funeral of an unbeliever. There is so much dark, gloomy, hopeless despair, while a funeral of a true believer although sad for the moment has an air of victory to it!

Conclusion:

Revelation 21:4,5 "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying and there shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away...Behold I make all thing new"

Revelation 5:12 "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power riches and honour and glory and blessing"

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In closing this edition here is a beautiful woodcut print done by Paul Gustav Dore in 1870. It's part of the Paradiso series titled "The Heavenly Choir" (thanks to Adalaide University Library)

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Kind regards and many blessings...Shalom and hang in there!

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