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Post by VR on Jun 22, 2016 5:24:33 GMT
| June 22nd | Reading 174 of 366 | MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS |BOOK 13 of 66 | 1 CHRONICLES 20-22
Signpost Words | ‘…..INTO TEMPTATION’
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Some Observations | It is not stated, but no doubt Israel is playing the tart again. God therefore gives permission to accusing Satan to attack the people. David’s heart, now moved to strength in numbers and joy from his accomplishments, is tempted to step off the edge of his own high heart’s building, and down he goes, yet even in his falling, commits himself into the hands of God the good, that He may do him good.
A Call To Action | God is Lord over all, including plagues & disasters, God is the Lord.
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Post by VR on Jun 22, 2016 5:21:44 GMT
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Post by VR on Jun 21, 2016 5:04:44 GMT
EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 49 of 66 | EPHESIANS 6
Signpost Words | ‘SPIRITUAL CAGE FIGHTING’ Highlight Verses | Ephesians 6:10-18 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints NKJVSome Observations | We are not under law, but the law is under us, therefore, we keep the ten commands, and so even Christian’s children are called to fulfill the 5th commandment of honoring their father and mother, for with such an early honoring of ‘God authority and structure,’ the bending of the knee to Christ will be easier as they get older. A Call To Action |Evil has been around a long time. It has a spiritual root and structure, it has boundaries of operation and various powers and authorities. Gospel ministers (that’s you!) fight ‘hand to hand’ in this evil arena.
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Post by VR on Jun 21, 2016 5:02:41 GMT
| June 21st | Reading 173 of 366 | MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS | BOOK 13 of 66 | 1 CHRONICLES 17-19Signpost Words | ‘LOVE GIFTS’ Highlight Verses | 1 Chronicles 17:9-15 Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously, 10 since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. Also I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that the Lord will build you a house. And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his Father, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you. And I will establish him in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever."'" According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. NKJVSome Observations | David loved the Lord and evidence of this was that he wanted to do something for the Lord, that God might be glorified. David lived in a fine house, God should live in a better one. David’s heart pleased the Lord and in return blessed God Him. In this blessing, like two helix DNA word strands, the near and the far, the flesh and the spiritual, meet together in such a way that the coming Christ is spoken of here. A Call To Action |When did we consider blessing God and then getting up to do it?
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Post by VR on Jun 20, 2016 8:09:14 GMT
A Media Revolution has been going on for some time now. The advent of live streaming direct from your cell phone to Social Media Channels is going to flood the world with insane and inane information. "Streaming Live now. Pete & Petunia eat Pizza whilst having a Poo." Even so, I am thankful this revolution and Christians need to get on board with it, fearlessly, professionally and with total relevance. Digital Mission is now in your hands. Do it well!
The failure of Digital Mission will be when it does not set out to make warm body churches and living disciples. If all Digital Mission can make is pussy cat Christians and plastic lions, it is not only despicable, it is destructive. Digital Mission must lead to local church, discipleship, and warm body fellowship. I tell you, even though I think local church is THE WORST IDEA GOD EVER HAD...... I am afraid this is just another thing that God has not changed His mind about. Local church still is His idea and He has not changed His mind about it. Digital Mission must lead to local church.
So, both how we utilize Digital Mission and then how we connect Digital Mission to local church is ALL important. 66Books knows how to do this!
By 2020, I want to have at least two small continental studios broadcasting 24 hours per day. Small I say, Guerrilla like even, but massively powerful Digital media outlets 'broadcasting' to the world. They will be totally Bible-Centric, Edgy, and Unashamedly Politically incorrect. They will be fearless. They will be replicating. You see, as I am not talking about recreating the current excellent Christian Broadcasting giants we still have to today, it means we can be fearless. For, not only will we have no support base to pacify and keep, but if we get closed down, on minimum funding we shall simply start again, and again and again. So, rather, as our current Broadcasting giants diminish, as they must when their diminishing and dying support base also diminishes,, I want to see this new Media Revolution prosper by opening up fearless channels of communicating the Gospel which are financed through multiple income streams. Including donations of course, but not exclusively so. THE MEDIA REVOLUTION IS HERE and 66BOOKS IS AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF IT. Please pray for us and help us to 'get it right.'
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Post by VR on Jun 20, 2016 5:29:38 GMT
EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES BOOK 49 of 66 | EPHESIANS 5 Signpost Words | ‘WAR & COMING JUDGEMENT’ Highlight Verses | Ephesians 5:3-13 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. NKJVSome Observations | Christendom is full of people of power from whose lying lips come hollow sounding words, empty words, deceitful words, dead words. Abortion is sin. Sodomy is sin. Same sex marriage is sin and the accepting of the same, is sin. Christendom not only speaks of secret filth but now with ‘love’ and fanfare, both hallows it and promotes it. The wrath of God is come and is still coming upon the earth because of these things and more and more of those similar ‘synagogues of Satan’ promoting such, shall suffer the same judgement. GET OUT!A Call To Action |Churches still maintain denominational company and come together
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Post by VR on Jun 20, 2016 5:27:53 GMT
| June 20th | Reading 172 of 366 | MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS | BOOK 13 of 66 | 1 CHRONICLES 15,16 Signpost Words | ‘BEAUTY OF HOLINESS’ Highlight Verses | 1 Chronicles 15:2-3 Then David said, "No one may carry the ark of God but the Levites, for the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of God and to minister before Him forever." And David gathered all Israel together at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it. NKJVSome Observations | God has appointed the commandments and the Word of the Lord to be carried upon the shoulders of men, not women. The priests were men, the gatekeepers were men, the singers were men, indeed, everything to do with Israel, its worship, worth, beauty and holiness, was masculine in every which way but a very few. Christian man, why are you being led by women? Get out. Christian man, Christian minister, why do you honor and fellowship with female Church leaders whose very attire, presumption and presence is an affront to the clear N.T. commands of the Scriptures. Are you frit? A Call To Action |The metro-sexual menservants of the feminized church may well promote women as elders over men, however, God does not. This rot has ruined what was left of the church and God will neither bless nor revive it. You have your messy church friends, but God is not in it. I thank God for sisters, and where would the church be without them? However, it is men who are designed and divested with the honor of carrying the glory of God on their shoulders. Women leaders in the church, and new carts of every kind, all bring death with them.
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Post by VR on Jun 19, 2016 5:51:25 GMT
The church has failed abysmally at attracting men to the cause of Christ. There are glaring reasons why this is, but least not is the feminization of Christ and His church. In the present church structures, this cannot be overcome. The rot is too ingrained. Therefore the men that are left need to get the hell out of there! However, we all know that wifey and the kids are not gonna follow you. It's far too comfortable for them at the moment. Nope, even the remaining Men won't come out of the church nor separate themselves from corrupt structures, because there are no more heroes anymore A far more easier fact to recognize as to why the church has failed abysmally at attracting me to the church has been lack of focus. Look now, I used to go and speak to men's meetings. I stopped doing that a long time ago however, as it became detrimental to my mental health. A £5 greasy spoon breakfast to old farts and their grand-kids ( I speak as an old fart) on a Saturday morning, or a few days away in what is a 'youth camp for older men,' is not men's ministry, but a pathetic and exceptionally poor representation of manhood. Look now, the statistics are very clear and have been for years. "NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Did you know that if a child is the first person in a household to become a Christian, there is a 3.5 percent probability everyone else in the household will follow? If the mother is the first to become a Christian, there is a 17 percent probability everyone else in the household will follow. But if the father is first, there is a 93 percent probability everyone else in the household will follow.*"Read more: www.bpnews.net/15630
"In short, if a father does not go to church, no matter how faithful his wife’s devotions, only one child in 50 will become a regular worshipper. If a father does go regularly, regardless of the practice of the mother, between two-thirds and three-quarters of their children will become churchgoers (regular and irregular). If a father goes but irregularly to church, regardless of his wife’s devotion, between a half and two-thirds of their offspring will find themselves coming to church regularly or occasionally. " Read more: www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=16-05-024-v#ixzz4C05PVPJxSO, what have we been doing in answer to these statistics, has our religious machinery the seminaries and Bible colleges focused on recruiting men to teach men to reach men. Have we designed and refined missions courses for men. NO.... And what about our churches who are they recruiting, is it MINISTERS to men, EVANGELISTS to men, is it DIRECTORS of men's ministries. NO..its mostly effeminate pastors, strong women and spotty goateed worship leaders and hipster youth leaders. Check out the church recruitment adds. Ministry to men is nowhere! No focus recruitment in the face of fantastic statistics.
When I ministered to men's groups in the UK, before my depression set in, I was faced with the same question up and down the land. "How do we attract young men to us." Not to the church. Not to Christ. But to us. Now most of these men were older men and financially well established. SO, I came up with an easy plan. It went like this:
- Divide Yourself into groups of six.
- Every year each of you drop £500 into a kitty. That's £3,000
- Find a young man and all 6 invite him out for a curry and tell him there is something in it for him.
- When he's downed his first Cobra tell him " Hey, there are 6 of us here, and that totals (when the average age is 60) around 200-250 years of work and life experience. Listen young man, we want to give you £9,000 over the next three years for you to invest in your education/training. The deal is this
- We want to meet with you four times a year, over a curry which we will but, to give you any advice on life women and the universe you might you might ask us for.
- We covenant to pray for you each day.
We don't want the money back, but once you are established, we want you to find 5 more men and do the same for another young man."
I told them that if they did this, young men would be beating their doors down to get to them!!
Did they do it? No. They went on eating greasy spoon breakfasts and turned into moaning old women. I got out. Why? There are no more heroes anymore.
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Post by VR on Jun 19, 2016 5:05:15 GMT
2016 | June 19th | 171 of 366 | EVENING | Ephesians 4 | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 49 of 66 | EPHESIANS 4
Signpost Words | ‘TRUE LIPS-TRUE LIVES’
Highlight Verses | Ephesians 4:17-24 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. NKJV
Some Observations | The church, the body of Christ possesses its own immune system provided by God. It’s servants, from the marrow of the five-fold ministries, keep it clean, build it up, grow it up and keep it upright. Truth is fed to the ignorant mind, obedience to the truth transfers the protein of strengthen to the new man, and the church then self-propagates growth though preaching forgiveness. The church is designed by God to puts its own spiritual health first, that it might be edified together into maturity and all of this is for the glory God.
A Call To Action | The opposite to ignorance is understanding and an understanding church knows the depths of the riches that is in Christ. If the very person of Christ is not becoming more expansive and wonderful to us
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Post by VR on Jun 19, 2016 5:01:26 GMT
| June 19th | Reading 171 of 366 | MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS | BOOK 13 of 66 | 1 CHRONICLES 12-14 |
Signpost Words | ‘MEN, MEN & MORE MEN’
Highlight Verses | 1 Chronicles 12:30-39 …of the sons of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men throughout their father's house; of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were designated by name to come and make David king; of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their command; of Zebulun there were fifty thousand who went out to battle, expert in war with all weapons of war, stouthearted men who could keep ranks; of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them thirty-seven thousand with shield and spear; of the Danites who could keep battle formation, twenty-eight thousand six hundred; of Asher, those who could go out to war, able to keep battle formation, forty thousand; of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, from the other side of the Jordan, one hundred and twenty thousand armed for battle with every kind of weapon of war. All these men of war, who could keep ranks, came to Hebron with a loyal heart, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel were of one mind to make David king. NKJV
Some Observations | Men attract men. Men, make men. God provided David with many mighty men, who in turn attracted all the more, wise men, skillful men, multi-talented men, and men well able to keep battle formation. The church without men, shall never grow, shall never be healthy, shall never grow. The church without men shall die.
A Call To Action | Man of God, bring your weapons and skill to the greater David!
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Post by VR on Jun 18, 2016 7:39:41 GMT
All round the UK the church is cloning itself in Social Action. Have we have simply become a boring caricature of self-help schemes?
When I speak to Churches about outreach, about local mission, their one and all response is, "We do Christians Against Poverty, Redeeming our communities, Prayer for the Police, we help immigrants/migrants to legally stay in the country, we organize food banks, we deploy street Pastors, and we have a great Mums and Tot's group, even a paying nursery scheme."
This answer shows me that 'the dregs' of society are being helped, and good grief Charlie brown, the amount of dregs is increasing daily. ONE of the problems I personally have will all this 'free help' is that I am paying taxes, local and national, for the Govt to fix this. Where are my taxes going? Why should I pay a dog to bark and then howl at the moon myself?
Local churches are engaging in these social action, they will say, to 'incarnate the Gospel' in love and good works, to earn the right the preach the Gospel. HOGWASH! We need to question these terms we so easily genuflect before as the convoluted religious rubbish they are. Christ is the only incarnation of the Gospel and He died to pay for men's sins. We have a COMMAND from Him to preach the Gospel, we do not need to earn any right to gain a hearing. I wonder if two of the main reasons we are engaging in such social action is 1) To make people like us. To present ourselves as no threat to them whatsoever, that we might live out our little lives in peace. 2) We are being led by 'women,' whose tendency is to mostly care. (Note..you can still be male and act like a woman.)
My answer the the first is that Jesus said the World would hate us. Why? Because of our message of sin, righteousness and judgement to come, enshrined in the need to repent and believe. We should not court the liking of the lost. It is death to the Gospel.
My answer to the second is that men, real men, masculine men, will NOT be led by mothers or sisters. Look now, men follow men and I tell what Charlie Brown, our churches are almost empty of these kinds of men.
Let the Deacons become what they should be, that is, the carers of the saints and the church. Let the elders be what they should be, men dedicated to the ministry of the word and prayer. Send out the evangelists! Let loose the true apostolic from their humanistic moorings, and from now on let our cry be 'SAINTS FIRST - CHURCH FIRST. '
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Post by VR on Jun 18, 2016 6:11:11 GMT
EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 49 of 66 | EPHESIANS 3
Signpost Words | ‘THE FELLOWSHIP OF MYSTERY’
Highlight Verses | Ephesians 3:9-19 ….and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him. Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. NKJV
Some Observations | Only spiritual eyes can see this spiritual entity, this mystery now revealed and paraded in beauty before all the spiritual hosts of heaven in all their ranks and privileges. Here is the temple of God, the body of Christ, the bride of Christ, the abode of the all filling fullness of God, the church, as glorious as an army with banners.
A Call To Action | The proclamation of spiritual words lets loose this light of revelation. Prayer captures and cossets this light in our cracked-pot jars of clay.
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Post by VR on Jun 18, 2016 6:04:26 GMT
| June 18th | Reading 170 of 366 | MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS |BOOK 13 of 66 | 1 CHRONICLES 11
Signpost Words | ‘NAILS IN A SURE PLACE’
Highlight Verses | 1 Chronicles 11:10 Now these were the heads of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel. NKJV
Some Observations | The weight of a Kingdom never rests upon the shoulders of one man. It is not one hook, it is not one well ‘raw-plugged’ screw that holds all the weight of nation above the dusty floors of this world, but rather, it is many strengthened nails, many well positioned hooks, who all together hold up a country and make the Kingdom and the King to shine. So, David is providentially provided with those most necessary ‘mighty men,’ who, along with him were forged tensile by their service and thus strengthened in their position, to become the great fixings of this Kingdom of might and rising majesty.
A Call To Action | You too need to be strengthened to be enabled to take the weight that is coming upon you. God will provide you with men who are undergoing or have undergone the same tensile training as yourself. Rejoice therefore in pressures, pain and hardship, in feinting’s, fasting’s and fears, for God is preparing for you a Kingdom, and preparing you for a Kingdom. Those who have traveled with you longest and through the harshest of times, may prove to be those solid, steadfast and sure folk, that will uphold the outworked will of God in your life in all the years to come. Keep friends very close.
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Post by VR on Jun 17, 2016 5:38:27 GMT
OPEN INVITATIONS 7 Poems for 7 Churches (6/7) | 10-66 | VOL 04 |The Reluctant Tinker
‘Seven Poems For Seven Church’s (6 of 7-Philadelphia)’ Come in! Come in! Come in right quick! For The door is always open in My holy bailiwick.
Come in! Come in! ‘Cause I’m jangling all my keys! The door is always open in King David’s [ii]diocese.
Come in! Come in! Escape this time of trial! Upon the synagogue of Satan, that’s rancid, Rank and vile.
Come in! Come in! You weak made- strong-confessors! And ‘Separate yourselves from those Sah-tan-ic professors.
Come in! Come in! Hold all your stuff right fast, ‘Cause all I’ve got prepared for you is frankly, Unsurpassed.
Come in! Come in! Before I bolt this door! ‘And I make of you all a pillar, upon my Crystal floor.
Come in! Come in! ‘Cause I’m coming very soon! A [iii]flashing piece of lightning across A [iv]blood red moon.
I say A flashing piece of lightning across A blood red moon.
© 2016 Victor Robert Farrell
—–O—– PREAMBLE | “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie — indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”‘ (Revelation 3:7-13 NKJV) EXPLANATION |I love this letter. It is just so encouraging and dare I say…happy! I dunno, for me it’s just full of joy, and God is going to go all ‘graffiti artist’ on these good folks. Brilliant! PERFORMANCE TIPS |I find imagining a manic Yorkshireman on speed works best for me. Be expressive with your eyes and hands. Make your eyes bulge at each double invitation, be slightly insane, but only slightly. There are some difficult annunciations here and phrasing, so I suggest you listen online to my performance at this piece before giving a go yourself.—–O—– Bailiwick = God’s particular sphere of operations or area of interest. His instant district or jurisdiction as a bailiff.
[ii] The district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church. In this case, the ultimate head, Christ.
[iii] “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together. (Matt 24:26-28 NKJV)
[iv] Wikipedia on Blood Moon Prophecy’s says: The idea of a “blood moon” serving as an omen of the coming of the end times comes from the Book of Joel, where it is written “the sun will turn into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.”[4] This phrase is again mentioned by Saint Peter during Pentecost, as recorded in Acts,[5] although Peter says that the date of Pentecost, not some future date, was the fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy. The blood moon also appears in the Book of Revelation chapter 6 verses 11 – 13,[6] where verse 12 says ” And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood”.
Around 2008, Biltz began predicting that the Second Coming of Jesus would occur in the fall of 2015 with the seven years of the great tribulation beginning in the fall of 2008. He said he had “discovered” an astronomical pattern that predicted the next tetrad would coincide with the end times. When the prediction failed, he pulled the article from his website, but continued to teach on the “significance” of the tetrad.
Hagee would later seize on Biltz’ prediction to write Four Blood Moons, which would become a best seller, spending more than 150 days in Amazon.com’s top 150 by April 2014.[3] For the week ending March 30, 2014, it was the ninth best selling paperback, according to Publishers Weekly.[7] By mid-April, Hagee’s book had hit No. 4 on the The New York Times best-seller list in the advice category.[3] Hagee’s book (and subsequent sermon series at his home congregation, Cornerstone Church) did not proclaim that any specific “end times” event would occur (as did Biltz in his original prophecy), but claimed that every prior tetrad of the last 500 years coincided with events in Jewish and Israeli history that were originally tragic, yet followed by triumph.
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Post by VR on Jun 17, 2016 4:54:20 GMT
| June 17th | Reading 169 of 366 | EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES BOOK 49 of 66 | EPHESIANS 2 |
Signpost Words | ‘THE MYSTERY REVEALED’
Highlight Verses | Ephesians 2:19-22 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. NKJV
Some Observations | We are equal citizens of the commonwealth of Israel, with all rights and privileges. This commonwealth is something new, something never seen before, even a spiritual temple of living stones. The handwriting against us, the right judgement of the law against both Jew and Gentile, has been rubbed out and obliterated by the blood of the cross, upon whose arm stretching beams we have also been reconciled to the Father and to one another, through which our hearts have become circumcised to mark us forever as the people of God, where God dwells triumphantly and gloriously through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit who in turn pulsates with light and effulgent happiness at the core of this new city, the new Jerusalem of which we are all both dwelling in and are become an integral part.
A Call To Action | The church is a mystery revealed, yet for most Christians it continues to remain a deep spiritual mystery! Yet, we Christians are all friends with God and are formed as His family, and by Christ are fitted together in mutual and commonwealth beneficence. We need to this out by putting Saints First & Church First. Let us love one another.
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