THIS IS WAR!
WHO’S SIDE ARE YOU ON?Home Stretch in the
Great Controversy: A temcat study
5: Conclusion: Wake Thee;
Arouse Thee!
“Cast out of heaven, Satan set up his kingdom
in this world, and ever since, he has been untiringly striving to seduce human
beings from their allegiance to God. He uses the same power that he used in
heaven—the influence of mind on mind. Men become tempters of their
fellow men. The strong, corrupting sentiments of Satan are cherished, and they
exert a masterly, compelling power. Under the influence of these sentiments,
men bind up with one another in confederacies, in trades unions, and in
secret societies. There are at work in the world agencies that God will
not much longer tolerate.” Manuscript
Releases Volume Four, Pg. 85.
“Fallen man is Satan's lawful captive. The mission
of Jesus Christ was to rescue him from his power. Man is naturally inclined to
follow Satan's suggestions, and he cannot of himself successfully resist so
terrible a foe, unless Christ, the mighty Conqueror, dwells in him,
guiding his desires, and giving him strength. God alone can limit the power of
Satan. He is going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. He
is not off his watch for a single moment, through fear of losing an
opportunity to destroy souls. It is important that God's people understand
this, that they may escape his snares. Satan is preparing his deceptions
that in his last campaign against the people of God, they may not understand
that it is he. "And no marvel, for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light." 2 Corinthians 11:14. While some deceived souls are
advocating that he does not exist, he is taking them captive, and is working
through them to a great extent. Satan knows better than God's people the
power that they can have over him, when their strength is in Christ. When
they humbly entreat the mighty Conqueror for help, the weakest believer in the
truth, relying firmly upon Christ, can successfully repulse Satan and all his
host. He is too cunning to come openly, boldly, with his temptations, for then
the drowsy energies of the Christian would arouse, and he would rely upon the
strong and mighty Deliverer. But Satan comes in unperceived, and in disguise
he works through the children of disobedience, who profess godliness. Satan
will go to the extent of his power to harass, tempt, and mislead, God's
people. … In a marvelous manner will he affect the bodies of those who are
naturally inclined to do his bidding. Satan exults for his own sake that he
is regarded as a fiction. When he is made light of, and is represented by
some childish illustration, or as some animal, it suits him well. He is
thought so inferior that minds are wholly unprepared for his wisely-laid
plans, and he almost always succeeds well. If his power and subtlety were
understood, minds would be prepared to successfully resist him.”
Spiritual
Gifts. Volume 4B, Pg. 100.
SEX-SEX-SEX
I am not going to dwell long on this
subject of Satan’s perversion of what God made as a blessing into one of the
most hateful curses.
With the movie industry has come the
maturing of the Porn industry; the saddest part of which is Kiddie-Porn.
Please note that many Luciferians are pedophiles and homosexuals.
Shirley Temple’s first movies were a
form of soft Kiddy-Porn called ‘Baby Burlesque’. Porn, like Rock music,
has gone from soft to hard, to Child Porn and even to ‘Snuff Porn’, which
if you don’t know what it is, perhaps it is just as well.
People are being abused and enslaved for
the lusts of wicked people; children are being tortured to fill these lusts.
Ritual abuse is a reality. Incest and child abuse is rampant.
Friends, it is time to cry unto the Lord
that what is hid, will be exposed and that the oppressed will get set free and
these terrible yokes be broken. Satan’s host exult, because Christians are
asleep in rosy dream-beds. Awake! Pray! Cry unto our Lord for justice for the
abused and victimized.
SMOKESCREEN PROGRAMMING:
“Satan well knows that all whom he can lead to
neglect prayer and the searching of the Scriptures, will be overcome by his
attacks. Therefore he invents every possible device to engross the mind. There
has ever been a class professing godliness, who, instead of following on to
know the truth, make it their religion to seek some fault of character or
error of faith in those with whom they do not agree. Such are Satan's
right-hand helpers. Accusers of the brethren are not few, and they are always
active when God is at work and His servants are rendering Him true homage.
They will put a false coloring upon the words and acts of those who love and
obey the truth. They will represent the most earnest, zealous, self-denying
servants of Christ as deceived or deceivers. It is their work to misrepresent
the motives of every true and noble deed, to circulate insinuations, and
arouse suspicion in the minds of the inexperienced. In every conceivable
manner they will seek to cause that which is pure and righteous to be regarded
as foul and deceptive.” The
Great Controversy, Pg. 519.
Yes, the powers united against God
in this world are largely the ones that control the mass media. They use them
to program the minds of the public and lead them in whatever direction they
wish. TV is the most useful and versatile mind control weapon ever invented.
I
want to tell you that anything that might have a tendency to enlighten people
and wake them up to the truth and their danger, will be hotly contested and
probably never be seen on the media at all. I would warn even those who say,
“I only watch the news. I want to know what is going on” Friends, you do
not learn what is going on by watching the news; you learn what they want you
to think is going on. The news is selected to promote the ideas in the masses
that the controllers currently want to encourage.
Tell
me, have you ever asked yourself, “Out of all the millions of things that
have happened today in the world, why are these being shown to me?” It can
be an interesting study. Many will read this and say, “Oh, that is just
paranoid”. I ask, are we in the end times or not?
I
urge you to open your eyes, pray and study the Word and the SOP and make this
experiment; stop watching TV at all for a month and you will know more about
what is going on than you ever dreamed possible.
You’ll get your mind
back that you didn’t know was being held captive.
Lately, through the power of God,
many of Satan’s victims, some ritually abused and brain programmed from
infancy, are breaking free in Christ and as they heal, they remember and start
talking. The media and certain educational ‘experts’ are turning
cartwheels to try and deny this information is true. They have even invented
false psychological labels to put on the evidence; categories that have never
existed in psychology before and for whose existence is no valid proof. ‘FMS’
or False Memory Syndrome is one of the things they dreamed up to call it; and
when someone starts exposing the rottenness in high places; these so-called
experts rush over and systematically pooh-pooh everything that is said. But I
am encouraged by the Words of Jesus— “For there is nothing covered,
that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.” Luke 12:2
“For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was
any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.”
Mark 4:22 Let us pray for the evil to be unmasked and the captives set free.
Wake Thee–Arouse
Thee!
God is looking for warriors:
“I entreat you to open the door of your heart and
let your Saviour in. Give Him the whole heart—that which He has purchased. Ever
bear in mind that it is you who must choose. God forces no man. He has
chosen you, and engraven your name in the palms of His hands. Will you not
give yourself fully to Him? Time is short. You have not a moment to lose in
hesitation. The divine Word is in your hands, to be a lamp to your feet and a
light to your path.” Letter 21a, Jan. 11, 1893, to N. D. Faulkhead,
treasurer of the Echo Publishing House, and at the time involved with secret
societies.
The Upward Look, Pg. 25.
Remember—it is a spiritual battle; We
cannot fight evil spirits in hand to hand combat; We must have Spirits to
fight for us; We must PRAY like we have never prayed before and search the
inspired counsel, claiming all promises in the name of the precious Blood of
our Saviour!
“And the LORD said unto
him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set
a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the
abominations that be done in the midst thereof.” Ezekiel 9:4
“Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch
and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not
thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore
should they say among the people, Where is their God?” Joel 2:17
School of Christ:
As soon as we make a COMPLETE and TOTAL
surrender to Christ, we are enrolled in the SCHOOL OF CHRIST. We never
graduate from this school, but we will progress and learn throughout eternity.
Some of the courses are Obedience; Humility; Rend your hearts and not your
garments; fall on the Rock Christ Jesus and be broken and dying to self. All
learn the same lessons but not all learn in the same way. Expulsion only
occurs when a student persists in refusing and rejecting the Teacher, the
Truth and the Lessons.
Self, self everywhere:
It is when we have surrendered our hearts
that we begin to see how that self seeking and self pleasing are woven into
the very warp and woof of the fabrics of our lives. What I am learning is that
it is not a fight of wit or intelligence, but rather a
fight concerning our impulses to either depend upon our own strength, wisdom
and cunning devices, or rather to depend completely upon the total dependence
upon our heavenly father.
I
have yet still so much to learn however. Right now, I am still in the
school of obedience. Still dying to self—daily. Still finding out
how weak we are as human beings. How self-righteous we are
ourselves. We get so busy body attempting to save others, while we
ourselves are not even saved as yet, and that especially from ourselves.
Many have found that about the time we become totally convinced that there is
no way God can ever use such a wretch as we are and we begin to plead in
desperation for just our own soul—that the Lord begins to work through us. We
need to fall each day on the Rock Christ Jesus and be broken in order that we
can see how miserable, wretched, blind and naked we are, and certainly in need
of him.
Boot camp:
Often our first few years consist of many
trial and tribulations, as self must die and be replaced by the mind of
Christ.
Remember, Jesus does not afflict us for
His own entertainment; He will try us and train us as it is needful for us,
and will never suffer us to be tempted beyond the strength that is available
to us.
It is time to grow up, Brothers and
sisters, many of us can’t even assimilate the milk of the Word and these
days we need the solid food under our spiritual belts. Instead we are trying
to live on spiritual cotton-candy.
The wonderful thing is that each one of us
are personally trained one on one by the Holy Spirit! We are trained as if
there was not another one in that great school. Our Teacher gives us just what
we need day by day to fit us up. As long as we are willing students and strive
to learn and progress, walking in the light as He unveils it to us, He will
lead us to spiritual heights we never dreamed of.
He tempers every trial to our needs and
NEVER makes a mistake in our training. NOTHING comes to the Christian by
accident. Satan is not in charge of your training once you have surrendered to
Jesus. NOTHING can touch you without Jesus' permission and He allows only that
which is for our best good eternally.
“He walks with me, and NAUGHT of earth
can harm me!”
One of the most amazing promises to me in
the SOP says that God will never lead us otherwise than we would choose to be
led IF WE COULD SEE the end from the beginning; You see, Jesus PRACTICES the
golden rule!
Oh give Him a chance—TRUST Him dear one—trust the hands nailed to the cross for you!
Weapons—see part
1
Battle dress and
field training:
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of
his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take
unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil
day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand
therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the
breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be
able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 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, and watching thereunto
with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;” Ephesians 6:10-18
“There are to be no secret societies in our churches.
"All ye are brethren." The minister's work is the lay member's work
as well. Heart should be bound to heart. Let all press forward, shoulder to
shoulder. Is not every true follower of Christ open to receive his teachings?
And should not all have an opportunity to learn of Christ's methods by
practical experience?” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 07-09-95.
Enmity against
God? Are you still on the enemies side?
"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:" Psalm
66:18
"But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear." Isaiah 59:2
Do
you find yourself ‘keeping’ Sabbath and then running at the dot of sundown
to go out for a ‘treat’? or entertainment? Or heading for the knob on the
TV or the local video rental?
If
you make statements such as “I can’t think about religion all the time, I
have to relax sometimes”; or “I need a break from all this Bible stuff.”
Need a ‘break’ from your Savior? How could you spend eternity with someone
you NEED a break from to relax?
If
thoughts of God being unfair or a hard taskmaster arise in your heart, the
enmity against Him is still lurking in your heart. Pray for repentance and to
understand God’s aims and character.
Cleanse the ‘camp’—Your Home! Your Heart!
“And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou
thus upon thy face? Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my
covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed
thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even
among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand
before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because
they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the
accursed from among you. Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify
yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There
is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand
before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.”
Joshua 7:10-13
How often are we hearing the story
of Achan talked about these days? And then the people telling it start
denouncing some group or another. But from what I’ve heard it seems a very
important two words in that account are being ignored. It said
“SANCTIFY YOURSELVES”—then they were to find out what was wrong in
the congregation. If everyone who is talking about ‘sin in the camp’ these
days would get busy and ‘sanctify himself’ and his family and home first,
I believe we would see a change for the better.
Did
you know that Satan and his angels claim the right to remain where any of
their stuff is? So if you have videos, music, books and pictures and so on
that are not of light, but from darkness, you will never be able to free your
heart and home from the presence of evil angels.
Are
there still things you enjoy that you would be ashamed of if Jesus were to
walk in as a visible presence? It’s time we saw things as they are; but to
do this we will have to pray earnestly for eyesalve. I have also found it is
impossible to have much spiritual awareness while TV and other worldly
entertainment is being indulged—even a little!
Take
a spiritual cleansing fast. Avoid all worldly entertainment for a month. You
don’t have to ‘get rid’ of anything, just don’t watch, read or listen
to it at all for one month. During this time get the New Testament (KJV) or
the whole Bible, on
audiocassettes or CD, (the best one is read by Alexander Scourby and available
through Amazon. COM) and listen to it all day long, as much time as you can. Play them
when working if you can, (use earphones if needed) when driving, when
relaxing. Pray for the Holy Spirit to communicate with you through the Word.
When
you can actually sit down and read, take the Bible and do so, prayerfully. One
valuable exercise is to read, meditate and pray the psalms, one by one
beginning with #1.The Psalms are formatted to honor our Father in heaven,
instead of giving honor to man on earth. Also spending time each day with
the Testimonies for the Church will do some eye opening for you. This ‘spiritual
cleansing fast’ can change your life forever and will—if you are willing.
Where are your Children?
Are your children involved in programs,
videos, games, sports and entertainment that is in the categories that we have
discussed in this series? If so, don’t you love them enough to care about
their souls? Maybe you didn’t know or hadn’t thought about the dangers,
but they are real, and now that you know, what are you going to do about it?
Will conformity to custom and the fear of being thought ‘different’ stop
you from cleansing your camp?
Tell your Family the Truth:
I
don’t recommend anyone to go on a rampage and snatch the games, videos, CDs
and such out of the hands of children and family members and chuck them out
against their will. You must sit down with all who are old enough to talk and
explain that you have learned that some things are not good and because you
love Jesus and want your family to be in heaven with Him, these harmful things
must be removed. For little ones
it is often enough to explain that the good angels are made sad by such things
and Jesus weeps. Do not be afraid to say to family or children, “I’m
sorry! I thought it was OK, but now I know I was wrong, Forgive me.”
Explain
to them what is in the things that Satan uses to fool them. Tell them that we
are in a spiritual battle; many children do not know this, but are amazingly
quick to understand once it is explained to them. Earnestly, with prayer and
the Bible, express your desire for their good and their salvation. In most
cases children, when once they know what you know, as much as their level of
understanding allows, will gladly relinquish the harmful indulgences.
With
TV and the like set aside, you will be surprised at how much time it frees up
for family worship, communication and even nature walks and such.
"Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent,
and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your
abominations." Ezekiel 14:6
"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to
his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin." Ezekiel 18:30
You cannot be
following any man:
What is the
shortest chapter in the Bible? Answer: Psalm 117
what is the longest chapter in
the Bible? Answer: Psalm 119
Which chapter is in the center of
the Bible? Answer: Psalm 118
Fact: There are 594 chapters
before Psalm 118
fact: There are 594 chapters
after Psalm 118
Add these numbers up and you get
1188
What is the center verse in the
Bible? Answer: Psalm 118:8
Does this verse say something
significant about God's perfect will for our
lives?
Psalm 118:8 KJV. “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence
in man.”
Now isn't that odd how this
worked out (or was God in the center of it)?
The
next time someone says they would like to find God's perfect will for their
lives and that they want to be in the center of His will, just send them to
the center of His Word.
Look & Live!
"Then
said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know
that I am he," John 8:28
"Look
unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there
is none else." Isaiah 45:22
"Neither
is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven
given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12
"He must increase, but I must
decrease." John 3:30
Many
fail daily to keep their hearts, their emotions, their minds, their desires
focused on the wondrous person of Jesus, the Sun of Righteousness. What
does all this amounts to? Would you believe that this simple thought is
the cornerstone of our eternal redemption? For it is by beholding we
become changed. If you glance at Jesus a few minutes and then focus on
the junk we have been talking about above; what will the outcome be?
THIS
IS A LAW THAT PERVADES THE UNIVERSE, WHICH GOD IN HIS WISDOM HAS PLACED INTO
EXISTENCE. It is only when we look to Jesus—when we study and learn of
him, when we dwell on His life, his death, and the power of his
resurrection—then and only then do we receive the power for a CHANGED
LIFE.
Only
then is grace imparted sufficient to change our vile hearts and nature for a
heart full of love and compassion for one another. Only then can we feel
and experience the quickening power of the Holy Spirit as it gives power for a new birth in Jesus Christ. We are changed when we behold Him, in his
beauty, in His suffering, in His obedience, in His triumph over sin, over
death, and over this degenerate flesh; for we are recreated into His
image.
We
are changed like when "In the wilderness when Moses lifted up the
Cross with the emblem of the brazen Serpent, which represented the Saviour of
this World and said, “Look
and live."
Even
so we are to look to Him today in order that we may live a new life sanctified
in His strength. Man in himself is weak, and therefore needs a power
outside of himself in order to live a sanctified life. This ONE AND ONLY
power is received whenever we look to Jesus, and allow His beauty to consume
away our stain. [For God has given to us life, and this life is in the Son.] God could not have made it any easier. Could
He!?
Consider
the bitten victim [victim of the Serpent or the devil, or of sin] as He lay in
the wilderness, all wounded, with the sure faith of death; and as Moses
entreated the victim to simply "Look and Live," in order that their
sure death could be adverted. Simply look and live.
What power, what grace! Just by looking at Jesus, we can find the power
to change our sinful lives. What Salvation! It reminds me of
Peter, who as he looked to Jesus, "He was able to walk on the
water," but as he looked away from the Savior who alone hath life, he
began immediately to sink in despair.
Yes, there is power to be received, simply through faith as we look into the
face of Jesus. Awesome power! I tell you Brothers and sisters,
that there is a power here, that pen has yet to describe; there is power here,
that voice has yet to utter, and which our lives have yet to testify.
And in looking unto Jesus, we need to learn to "be still," and to
know that He is God. Here we have to be patient, ever waiting, ever
trusting, ever expecting, that in his own time, He will give us of His Spirit
and of His life.
How
is the battle fought?
“Then he answered and spake unto
me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by
might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.” Zechariah 4:6 Note the
word Zerubbabel means to have come out of Babylon!
“Saying with a loud voice, Fear
God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship
him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters” Revelation
14:7
"Ask of
me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost
parts of the earth for thy possession." Psalm 2:8
"Ye
shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and
see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor
be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you." 2 Chronicles
20:17
Friends
this battle is to be fought with the Word and on our knees with the power of
the Blood of Calvary’s Lamb.
“God will soon vindicate His justice before the
universe. His justice requires that sin shall be punished; His mercy grants
that sin shall be pardoned through repentance and confession. Pardon can come
only through His only begotten Son; Christ alone can expiate sin--and then
only when sin is repented of and forsaken. Man has severed his connection with
God, and his soul has become palsied and strengthless by the deadly poison of
sin. But there was a time when the proclamation sounded through the heavenly
courts, I have found a ransom! A divine life is given as man's ransom; One
equal with the Father has become man's substitute.” The Upward Look, Pg. 49
“What means it that the
divine Victim hangs there in dying agony?—It means that not one jot or tittle
of the law could be set aside to save the transgressor of law, for whom Christ
became substitute and surety. Christ consented to become man's sacrifice on
Calvary's cross, and in him divine justice and mercy met together, so that God
could pardon the transgressor, and vindicate his justice, and uphold his
throne in righteousness.” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 07-05-92.
God has opened heaven’s resources and poured them out for the
redemption of mankind. All heaven is busy and interested in our salvation—What are we doing? We are so busy with our infighting we seem to see not those
perishing for want of even a bit of the light we have available to us and that we
are often too indolent to even care about. Are we being the proverbial dog in
the manger? He doesn’t want the hay but he won’t let the hungry horse have
it. As one brother said, “We're playing Eeney, meeny, miney, mo with our
eternal salvation and in case people forget...that means our eternal lives.”
Why
does God delay? He is not willing that any should perish. He wants us to take
His kind of love to a dying world. Friends, this world is covered with ‘cho-shek’
misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow and wickedness. The cries and
moans of the abused and the hopeless, suffering humanity, tortured animals and
children arises before God in a never-ending wail of misery.
Do you care?
Your
prayers can make a difference. Your prayers can allow God to reach down and
work for those who do not yet know how to pray for themselves. Put on the
armor—take the sword and claim the promises—throw away every weight that
would hold you back from being fully on God’s side. Pray for HIS WILL to be
done on earth as it is in Heaven.
What is Our Work Once Our Camp is Cleansed?
Throw
out the life line across the dark wave;
There is a brother whom someone should save;
Somebody’s brother! O who then will dare
To throw out the life line, his peril to share?
Throw
out the life line with hand quick and strong:
Why do you tarry, why linger so long?
See! he is sinking; oh, hasten today
And out with the life boat! away, then away!
Throw
out the life line to danger fraught men,
Sinking in anguish where you’ve never been;
Winds of temptation and billows of woe
Will soon hurl them out where the dark waters flow.
Soon
will the season of rescue be o’er,
Soon will they drift to eternity’s shore;
Haste, then, my brother, no time for delay,
But throw out the life line and save them today.
God’s
Grace be with you all!
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