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Saturday, June 6, 2026

Religious Pretender

Heard recently from a leader of a church denomination that one cannot tell the difference between the regular church goer and the one who stays home on Saturday or Sunday. They look the same, speak the same, and sin. In reference to those living in what is considered “last days” we for the most part have not had the famine nor pestilence. Although the word is out in the news that mosquitoes are being bred to be released in Florida and California starting now. My question: Why? Do they want disease to multiply? Then we have a sound barrier broken two weeks ago by a meteorite hitting the eastern seaboard. They had to write about it for the sound it made was “loud”. Have you heard about it yet?

But what part of the pretender dismisses all the alarming news of natural disasters, political upheaval, vicious wars, and indescribable suffering and pain that strikes fear in our hearts. Is this the end of time?

We are not to know the time of Jesus’ return, but there are signs to heed as the time draws near. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all tell how Jesus warned the disciples about the end of time. Jesus told them there would be false prophets, Christ-pretenders who come in His name. Wars and rumors of wars will leave countries desolate, thousands will suffer famine and pestilence, and great earthquakes will tremble across the globe (Matthew 24:3-7). “‘All these are but the beginning of the birth pains,’” Jesus declares ( Matthew 24:8).

As the earth shudders in advance of Jesus’ return, men’s hearts will turn toward evil as well. The apostle Paul writes to his beloved friend Timothy warning the time will be difficult. This is found in 2 Peter 3:1. In this passage, Paul identifies more than 20 ungodly traits that will mark men as the time draws near: pride, arrogance, abusiveness, and un-holiness to name a few ( 2 Timothy 3:2-7).

I John 3:4 defines sin as "the transgression of the law," and John 17:3 defines eternal life as "to know God." Here is a Bible definition of the fear of the Lord:

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil, pride, arrogance, and the evil way. (Proverbs 8:13)

The person makes the choice to do what is right and good and thereby evidences his inward disposition, his inward attitude, proving what is in his heart by what others see on the outside—his conduct. He departs from evil. God is taken into account in his life in every circumstance, in every aspect, and in every situation, and he makes the choice to do it God's way. The person learns to hate evil and to love to do what is right, good, and pleasing to God! Godly living is the fear of the Lord!

We are to hate evil!

Jesus was not soft with evil. He was very tough about it and very confronting. In the same way, in our personal lives we need to have some authoritative confrontations against darkness that is contrary to the life of God. Paul says that we are to "cast down" vain imaginations that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God (2 Corinthians 10:5).

Jesus declared: Luke 10:18-19 And He said to them, "I saw satan fall like lightning from Heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you." Jesus said, "I saw satan fall like lightening from Heaven." That means it was quick and immediate with no delay. These two pictures are much alike. We see the violent throwing down of satan by God. Realize that when you are taking captive thoughts, high things that are evil confronting your mind, you cast them down just as God cast down the devil.

Lift Him Up, Cast It Down! When we are in our times of praise, exalting Jesus, exalting His greatness and authority, there is also a time to cast down those thoughts that are contrary to God's heart and Spirit.

God wants us to experience breakthroughs in our lives. Many people say they love God, but is it equally true that they hate evil? Do they say they hate today’s social gathering to talk with false words, curse words and to wear nakedness instead of what they need to advance in true life. If you dress for church and wear something for a famous singer’s concert, you might consider what or who you serve? We should know the litmus test of true love for God. It is when We demonstrate our love for God by our lack of toleration for evil in our own hearts. It always begins in our heart: The Word of God is the cleansing agent for our lives.

Psalm 119:11 "Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You." When the light of His Word opens our eyes to know what is evil, then that is our opportunity to deal with it. We do not go looking for evil or searching our hearts for sin. We Welcome Holy Spirit to flood our heart/He then brings things to the top of the water. He reveals what should not be there! Yielded to the Holy Spirit, planting His Word within us, we will have eyes to recognize evil. Many times it comes in a form that is pleasant or seems acceptable. Some evil is obvious, while other times it does take Holy Spirit discernment to see it. God will helps us to lean into Him. Let His praise continually be in your mouth and have a joyful, peaceful and glorious day with God!

We can find a fool in the pretender! He is “nabal” found in Proverbs 17:7, 21, Proverbs 30:22. They lack spiritual perception.. They are reduced in their reactions and opinions. They rule their hearts. They do not allow Holy Spirit to have that position in them. The other fool is the arrogant. He is flippant, the morally deficient and very hard in his heart. He rejects God’s wisdom!

Today, New Covenant believers have the conviction of the Ruach HaKodesh to help guide us away from foolishness and being wise, or clever in our own eyes. The righteous of the TaNaKh looked forward to Messiah, today we look back to the cross. But because we have free will, we can choose to ignore His prompting to our conscience. We can say no to God and make it stick! Therefore, we shouldn’t be too critical of these Judeans because we have the same fallen nature. Certainly leaders today want a lot of folks just gone. Too many are acting like children to get their “own” way. What will we do with knowledge? ONE Cannot pretend if the Lord is leading us in a strong character of the saved one. No more pretending. Life will touch you in some way, some form either by sickness or the wicked one searching for you. Looking for life in Jesus is our way through, it is of truth and life eternally. Amen.

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Friday, May 22, 2026

What About Those Chains of Darkness?

In the light of God's Word, is our decision today going to be one in the tradition of men or is it in an expectation of learning about what was gained for us at the Cross? Will we sincerely go by the Word of God and remind ourselves of the day at the Cross, the day at Calvary when everything in the afternoon hour became dark?

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.

1. God’s wrath in history recorded: the Flood Genesis 7

2. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha: Genesis 19

3. Punishment of Korah, Dathan and Abiram seen in Numbers 16:32

4. Korah:led rebellion against Moses and Aaron/supernaturally destroyed: Numbers 16:1-35; Dathan: joined Korah; swallowed by earth seen in Psalm 106:17/Abiram conspired against Moses Numbers 16:1-50

5. God has not left men without a revelation of HIMSELF! Creation demanded the Creator and Design demanded the Designer.

6. Those who reject Him become what is noted in Romans 1:22, they become insufferably conceited and abysmally ignorant at the same time. Romans 1:22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man----and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

7. We have folks dressing up as birds, ducks and geese in Portland. The rest you hear about ride bikes with no clothes. Yikes!

John 3 :19-21 NKJV 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light & does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 but he Who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen that they have been done in God.

1. Expose the unfruitful works of darkness: Ephesians 5:8-14 NKJV 8 for you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 but all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 therefore He says: ‘Awake you who sleep, arise from the dead, & Christ will give you light.”

2. Works of darkness: this is the unfruitful works, they belong to the world of dim lights, thick smoke, drawn drapes and locked doors to secret rooms! Expose the darkness by a life of holiness and second by words of correction spoken under the direction of the Holy Spirit.

3. People today want to keep their doing their "things" that is unholy in that of darkness. They want to swindle millions out of money, health care, food, and life!

As a believer: does our life preach a sermon, does our life expose any surrounding darkness, for it should extend an invitation to all unbelievers to come……come and hear HIM!

John 1:1-5 NKJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

1. Darkness does not comprehend: Matthew 6 22-23 NKJV The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness, how great is that darkness! Is our eye healthy, a generous person or is our eye stingy, that of an Ebenezer Scrooge?

2. Darkness in wicked males or wicked females: Proverbs 2:11-13 NKJV Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, 13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; ( ever tried to watch a funeral on a god channel and found you could not hear them speak?)

3. God gives wisdom through His words, and as we are storing them up, it stores us up for success

4. Success is a competence: Proverbs 8:14 NKJV Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding. I have strength.

5. The Holy Spirit and the Son of God mediate wisdom’s qualities to you and to me who choose to walk with God daily! Isaiah 11:2 The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom & understanding, the Spirit of counsel & might, the Spirit of knowledge & of the fear of the LORD. 1 Cor. 1:30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God----& righteousness & sanctification & redemption ---

Without Him: Nothing was Made…Colossians 1:15-18 NKJV 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities (rulers) or powers (authorities). All things were created through Him and for Him 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

1. The visible Jesus represented the invisible God

2. Jesus is Supreme…His supremacy is over all creation/ He sustains it!

Heb. 1:1-4 NKJV God, who at various times & in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory & the express image of His person, & upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purge our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Sin is darkness. It separates man from the light of God. But men love darkness. We saw this in the angels who left their proper domain, and have now a place in chains under darkness for the judgment day.

Jude 6-9 ……….6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"

Jude is attacking false prophets, and thus men and demons are interwoven in the context. He indicts these false prophets for three sins:

1. Lust: They defile the flesh, allowing a feeling to take them over the edge into sin.

2. Rebellion: They flout authority in general, but primarily that of Christ. It is hidden in the Greek, but the word authority is really "lordship." It normally refers to Christ and His lordship over us.

3. Disrespect or disregard of spirit beings.

This third sin is interesting because he is saying that it is not that these false prophets will not talk about Satan, but their speech is gratuitous, despising, or denigrating of angelic powers. Their preaching suggests that these demons are not something Christians need to be concerned about. They side-step the issue.

Why would they do that? Because a false spirit is leading them, so they downgrade the existence and powers of demons through their preaching. This is clearly seen in Protestant Christianity, especially the mainline denominations have gone to the point that they almost universally agree that Satan, the Devil and his demons do not really exist. It shows how successful the demons have been in their deceptions.

On the other hand, there are evangelical or Pentecostal groups who talk about demons and Satan in a flippant, dismissive way: "Oh, we're going to put down the Devil tonight!" They say such things in their tent shows as part of their evangelistic campaigns. But what they are doing in reality is that they are putting Satan into a position where they seem to have power over him. BUT, they are so deceived.

The truth in regard to Satan is somewhere in between. The true church of God will have that truth, and they will understand that, yes, Satan is, he is powerful, but because of God, they do have power over him in that they can reject him and his deceptions. ( Jesus saw him fall from heaven.) Jude is giving us signs to look for in the preaching of false ministers. They will denigrate Satan and his demons, there will be indications of lusts, and they will flout the authority of Jesus Christ.

Sin of darkness is rampant today as it was in the day of Jude.

Weakened without Christ Jesus: Ephesians 2:11-13 NKJV 11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh---who are called the Un-circumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands---12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

1. We were estranged from our Creator our Father

2. Were without a Savior, living in futility and hopelessness

Believing Power Demonstrates Strength: Ephesians 1:18-19 Amplified Bible 18 By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light; so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), 19 And [ so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength.

1. Strength of God is in us who believe.

2. That strength is demonstrated through us when our eyes for seeing is flooded with His light.

3. That is our hearts must be filled with His thoughts, His ways and plan.

Ability and Freedom: Galatians 5:5-9 Amplified Bible 5 For we, [not relying on the Law but] through the [Holy] Spirit’s [help], by faith anticipate and wait for the blessing and good for which our righteousness and right standing with God [our conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action, causes us to hope. 6 For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor un-circumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love. 7 You are running your race nobly. Who has interfered in (hindered and stopped you from ) heeding and following the Truth? 8 This [evil] persuasion is not from Him Who called you [Who invited you to freedom in Christ]. 9 A little leaven ( a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers) leavens the whole lump [it perverts the whole conception of faith or misleads the whole church].

1. Faith perverted is evil persuasion

2. It is not of God for God is of truth, energized and expressed through love

3. By the Holy Spirit, we are to anticipate and wait for the blessing when conforming to God’s will in our thoughts, our actions that results with hope in our heart

2 Thessalonians 3:5-6 Amplified Bible 5 May the Lord direct your hearts into [realizing and showing] the love of God and into the steadfastness and patience of Christ and in waiting for His return. 6 Now we charge you, brethren, in the name of and on the authority of the our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) that you withdraw and keep away from every brother (fellow believer) who is slack in the performance of duty and is disorderly, living as a shirker and not walking in accord with the traditions and instructions that you have received from us.

2 Corinthians 4: 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:17-19 For He received from God the Father honor & glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.” 18 we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. 19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns & the morning star rises in your hearts.

Darkness is confusion, error, and everything false. It has nothing to do with light. It is like those people under government leadership finding money being looted under namely anything to feed hungry folks, to help in disease and sickness and getting soda pop and cake! But what we need is found in Jesus. Procrastinate and it is too late then to receive Him!

Jesus brought light to reveal error when darkness had appeared through sin! The word confirmed for salvation, healing & deliverance…to live for God by faith in obedience to Him: John 14:6 NKJV 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth & the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. It is the walk of faith in Him! Having Jesus, is sinning no more! And no more darkness appears!

The angels who sinned are not pardoned of their sins. They are awaiting judgment. A person should find Jesus acceptable as His death that shed His blood washed away our sin! Terrible is coming, but for who? One gentleman, ( and I use this loosely) but his hope is to break those of the Republican party and break their spirit as well.) Sounds like ones hope is in violence! Jesus did not come for a party of people, He came to set men free from sin! Are we admitting that sin, repenting and turning to show true light to our neighbors? Terrible is coming, ready or not!

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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Is Impossible to Find or Is it?

In spending time reading in the book of Revelation, one finds the heart of Jesus for mankind to heed the Father’s voice. But sad to say, Christians are the victims of an age that is apathetic to a true relationship with God. Would anybody in all honesty admit that he would not care to eat a meal with and fellowship with Jesus Christ? Yet, He is reporting that in His own church there are some who know that He is at the door, yet will not rouse themselves to answer it and fellowship with Him! They are refusing to fellowship with Him. They are so far from Him that they do not even see their need. If there is no awareness of need, there is no desire; no desire, no prayer; no relationship, and back to no awareness of need. It runs in a vicious circle.

We find such wording found also in the book of Matthew for those to take heed and repent.

In this hour we are to endure. To hold one’s ground in conflict, bear up against adversity and yes to stand firm in our faith! But where does faith lie in us?

“Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be gotten over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon ( All Grace)

Matthew 24:3-14 NKJV 3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying “Tell us when will these things be? & what will be the sign of Your coming & of the end of the age?” 4 And Jesus answered & said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ & will deceive many. 6 “ And you will hear of wars & rumors of wars. See that you are not troubles for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 “For nation will rise against nation, & kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences ( Covid -19 or Hantivirus) & earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, & will hate one another. 11”Then many false prophets will rise up & deceive many. 12 “& because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Matthew 24:15-28 NKJV 15 Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place” whoever reads, let him understand, 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 “But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s those days will be shortened. 23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ! Or There’ do not believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive if possible, even the elect. 25 “See, I have told you beforehand.” 26 “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. 27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 “For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.” 29 “For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. “30 And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (He CONTINUES with The Coming of the Son of Man in verses 29-31, the Parable of the Fig Tree in verses 32-35, No one Know the Day or Hour verses 36-44 and the Faithful Servant and the Evil Servant.)

From the above scripture, repentance is involved. Down below we find no repentance in men or women. Tribulation is evident and His return is certain. Destruction is coming! Earthquakes increase as does famine increase.

Luke 17:20-37 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 “nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘see there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” 22 Then he said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23 And they will say to you; ‘Look here!” or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them or follow them. 24 For as lightening that fleshed out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the son of Man will be in His day. 25 “But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26 “and as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 “They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 “but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 “even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31 “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. 32 “Remember Lot’s wife.” 33 “Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34 “I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed; the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 “Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 “Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left. 37 and they answered and said to Him, “Where Lord?” So He said to them, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together .

Here we find a famine, not of bread, nor for water but of hearing the words of the Lord. Amos 8:11-12 NKJV 11 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD,

"That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water,

But of hearing the words of the LORD. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea,

And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD,

But shall not find it.

Terrible times occur. We can see today, people needing some kind of SNAP program, but it is being taking from the hungry to feed the greedy with green backs on their minds. Unfortunately when God's Word is most needed to help the people come to repentance, it will be almost impossible to find. When the people finally realize that God wants them to repent, it will be too late. The seeds of their destruction have been sown, and the crop is already ripe. The only truth available to them in the tumult of God's judgment is what they can remember. It is for this reason that God warns us in these times to "[redeem] the time, because the days are evil" (Ephesians 5:16). Spend time reading. Spend time rehearsing the words of the Lord’s return.

If our hope is in the Kingdom of God, the resurrection of the dead, and sharing life with God eternally are not sufficient to motivate us to repent, perhaps fear of a terrible calamity, the Great Tribulation, the Day of the Lord, or being spewed from God's mouth as a Laodicean will move us to use the present to secure the future. God prophesies to motivate us to cling to Him and His Word right now, and He is willing to scare us nearly to death in order to save us.

During this famine, "They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but shall not find it" (Amos 8:12). Amos probably refers to the Dead and Mediterranean Seas, east to west, and adds "north to east," describing a triangle with the south direction left out. Why would he do this? It is on a map of Palestine, the Dead Sea lies to the east, the Mediterranean to the west and the nation of Israel to the north. What lies to the south? Jerusalem, where the truth was! In Amos' day, the truth was taught in God's Temple in Jerusalem. It was the Israelites that wanted to be known as seekers of the truth of God. But reality they did not want it. They would not humble themselves.

A tremendous word appears: Wander can be rendered "stagger" like a drunk or "tremble" like lips quivering in agitation because one is so angry or fearful he is unable to speak. It shows the people in a state of panic and intense agitation. They are desperately searching for what they had regarded so lightly: God, the Bible, His truth. But they cannot find them anywhere!

Today we cannot find a truthful headline of news. It is trying to put puzzle pieces together to find truth. Thankfully the Lord gives us His truth in the Bible. For today many are seeking any kind of religion, and many will fall prey to false ones. This scenario is already happening in modern Israel. New Age, mystical, and Eastern religions are growing steadily, and many "Christians" feel free to borrow "truth" from other religions. Additionally, recent years have seen the rise of ecumenical movements within a broad spectrum of religious bodies.

Is it not common to find mosques located in your city? This was a nation built on the Biblical standards of God our Father. Will we speak His truth, repent when sinning and turn from wickedness to righteous ways?

Nuclear missiles anyone? How many missiles would U. S. have on hand? How far will those “old” one reach in a need? And will they do the job or only make a lot of smoke and spread deadly gas? Just from a Michael Snyder writing, I received that Vladimir Putin just tested an area the size of Texas and destroy it in its entirety. The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile has a maximum speed of approximately 15,500 miles per hour. It is roughly the height of a four story building. It can carry up to 10 metric tons of thermonuclear warheads, and those warheads can destroy a land area the size of Texas.

Ah, this is the crown jewel of Putin indeed! Anyone one single Sarmat will release 16 independently-target-able nuclear warheads. One goes up and 16 come down, and will take out sixteen cities. Anyone for toast right now? This can show up at year’s end on the schedule of Russia and its leaders!

What say you? I remember living through the Bay of PIGS: the Cuban Missile Crisis and we need Jesus. We should not wait till one is on the death bed. Your end or mine might be sooner than expected. But thankful the Lord hears our prayers for these Russian leaders. Being school aged and living in central Texas, in the fall of 1962. It was a crisis of weeks. It lasted from October 16 to October 28, 1962. (Hiding under a desk will not help you)

For Jesus, His own neighbors rejected Him. They saw interruption in their lifestyle, in their own thinking, but chose to carry on in their unbelief. They chose sin over Him! Some people just want to be right all the time. But we cannot be that way ….we must have God guiding us with His eye. Certainly those who were astonished also became those who were ready to kill Him. They wanted Jesus gone however they had to do it. But truth ruled Jesus’ life. The truth of God carried Him to the Cross and then to the right hand of God in Heaven.

We are warned in these books. Luke gives us that one will be taken and another left to their sin. What is first on our schedule today? Might REPENTANCE rule over our day when someone is close to hitting that RED BUTTON?

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