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From: MSN NicknameJonbob77  (Original Message)Sent: 12/23/2002 3:59 PM
Prophecy for the Last Days
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‘WORSHIP GOD: FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY�?(Rev19:10)

Firstly, before talking about the rest of the articles in this section, I would like to tell you a story. It is about two Amish, father and son, who discover an elevator inside a shopping mall. Having never seen one before, and barley having time to take in the new and exhilarating things around them, they watch intently, as the numbers light up above the door, then fade one by one as the doors slide open for people to go in.
Not saying a word, they both watch fixedly as one old lady disappears before their eyes, and the numbers light up, stop, then fade as it reaches ‘ground�?floor. The doors slide open again to reveal a beautiful young woman, happily coming out, apparently to the ignorance of the people inside the shopping mall. Open-mouthed, the father turns to his son and exclaims, ‘son. Go get your mother!�?BR>
This reflects beautiful innocence, not ignorance in the sight of God. Instead of having this beautiful analogy in a church, where the old man of sin is left behind in the baptismal waters, and the new creature in Christ emerges, we have ignorant people going into churches, and emerging from them even more ignorant than before, which is extremely backward in God’s sight, and not to mention very hurtful.
A time IS coming soon when a churches perception of God will be tested, as far as to the limit their souls can endure, and death will result for a church who do not worship the eternal, but a clever counterfeit Christ. My own testimony is one that I would like to share with you, to show just how dangerous playing with fire, and people’s lives can be.

I begin my testimony in a shopping mall, where I was going home after a night out with friends. After loosing a close member of my family, I had prayed to ‘Jesus�?the previous night to show me if he truly existed. The person who died had a strong faith in the Lord, and before she died, she saw Christ welcoming her into ‘paradise�? I always has a previous ‘relationship�?with God, but was still very young (about 15), and could never understand how ‘born again Christians�?could claim to have seen God.
Two very smart men were walking towards us, and one held out their hand and introduced him-self. ‘We are out tonight talking to people about God. Where are you from?�?We all gave a brief description of ourselves, one was a Jehovah’s Witness, one had no church background, and I said I had a belief in God. His own background was that of a gang member, and they had just been talking to a few of his ‘old mates�? I saw this as an answer to my prayer, as he challenged us about our own relationships with God, and told us of Jesus love for us. I was so touched by this that that very night, I made a commitment to Jesus, and my testimony of Christ in my life had begun.

All of two years passed, and I thought that I had better find a church to go to, and I considered the town I had been in, and something the man had said that night. I had read my bible by this time, about twice, and I prayed again to my God to show me a fellowship that I could attend. About this time, a couple my mother knew were attending a Baptist church, and as the bible said that you have to be baptized, I considered this the place to go. After a few times of backing out, I finally phoned them back and asked if I could go with them. I had what I would describe as a normal working life, and went to the pub regularly at the end of the week. I knew I may have had to change that when going to ‘God’s House�?to learn more about God, and Worship, and meet new Christians.
I was impressed at first, and I thought that the preacher was very good. I knew that it was good for me to go there, and eventually I would get baptized and be part of ‘the family of God.�?But the more I went, the more I began to realise how ‘the family of God,�?was no more than a country club for people with a ‘tendency�?to attend church, and socialise, and put down those who had any genuine faith in the living God. My relationship with the Eternal continued, however, and seven people, possibly a record for that time, were proposed to be baptised in March 1995. After attending ‘baptismal classes�? one woman dropped out because she found the pastor to be ‘overpowering�? She was only there because she admired God’s creation, and wanted to obey his command of baptism. I found myself at the service, going over the suggestive questions the pastor had been asking me, like, ‘do you think this is the right time for you? Do you think it wise to be considering church membership too? Any offerings would be appreciated; fill out this form so that we get the tax back from the government. Are you sure you want that hymn played?�?BR>If I stop to look at it now, I could have moved church and looked for a better congregation, but my relationship with God was more important than any details man could throw at me. I was going to meet my promised saviour, and to finally see what all the fuss was about. I shook with the presence of God, and came out of the waters perfectly calm. I went to a little party afterwards, but hardly touched anything. The Lord Almighty was talking to me for real in a powerful way.
I caught a look of my image in a mirror, and my countenance had been elevated to somewhere that gave me great understanding and made me shine in a way I had not known or experienced before. More importantly, I felt closer to God than ever. My repulsion for food stayed with me, and I prayed to the Lord all that night. I was commanded to fast for 7 days and nights, and that I did, only questioning God with regards to my work. I may have taken milk early on occasion, but I didn’t know at that time what true fasting was like Moses or Jesus had done, but I never ate. I would pray all night, never sleeping once in that time with God, who spoke to me and showed me great visions of Heaven, when I was resting, and when I was studying his word.

After this, and when the pastor wasn’t busy, I met him and told him I had a message to give to the church. He asked me where I was being sent from, and I answered, ‘from God.�?I noticed the look in his eyes as I told him, and they were very hard and unresponsive. Was this the great preacher who had been barking out these powerful sermons each week? ‘Just what type of message is it?�?he snapped. ‘From revelation, and to read out one of the seven church letters to the congregation,�?I said. ‘And which one will you read out?�?he enquired. ‘Sardis,�?I said, in a low voice.
I noticed something entering his spirit, a talent perhaps you can only have when you fast or God gives you an eye about spiritual matters and truths. As the Lord’s spirit had grown strong in me, and I felt blessed like never before, he began to slant the idea of ‘his�?congregation being like this description in the bible. And he didn’t stop there. He was subtle at first, but as it became more obvious to him that the things he was saying were not from God, and when he began to tremble, he resorted to bare faced lying, and slandering even members of my family that he had never met. This was as clear an indication to me about 1) the spirit which exists in those churches, and 2) the fact that Satan does not want God’s people to repent and return to him.
I will not disclose exactly what these things were he said, but they were brazen attempts by the enemy to rock and destroy my relationship with God. As I look out now to all of those so called churches, I can pass most of them off as synagogues of Satan, and the leadership in the churches has gone from being a strong ‘Philadelphian�?spirit, to a week kneed, spineless and easily corrupted heap, as described in ‘Heavenly Temples�? Later this pastor prophesied, and told his congregation, ‘After I have moved on, God is building up another to take this job,�?and I told them in contrast, ‘Christ will leave you barn and desolate of a pastor for 10 years due to your stiff necks concerning God.�?I also told someone I will call down fire on it from heaven so that the people could see how God is not happy with them, but the person argued that it should be my local church that should suffer this rebuke. And so it happened, as the Angel of the Lord commanded it.
The next time you see anyone in you local church prophesying that there will be no prophets until the return of Jesus, or telling you that your church are all good and right in the sight of God; here is a check list for you to go over in your hearts before you pat his back, and thank him mildly at the door (not checking the spirit from which he is from), or hold him up by the hair of his head, and kick him as far off the church grounds as your number nines will allow. 1) are most of the congregation true believers, and baptised into the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? 2) which version of the bible does he use each week, a watered down version, or the King James or better? 3) do they believe ALL Jesus teachings? 4) is what he is saying glorifying to God, or men? 5) what day does he normally observe, Christian Sabbath, or Pagan Sunday? 5) Does he only give lip service, making constant references to ‘the trinity�? rather than, ‘Christ came in the flesh�? 6) that Christianity continues before and after baptism? 7) that the Christian religion is not mysterious itself, but does reveal the mysteries of God’s plan of salvation?

A good reader and perceiver of this will be able to interpret that along the way, I have learned more and more about God from day-one. Like in the New Testament, it is obvious that the early church observed all the feasts of God for a good reason, as taught and described by teachers like ‘Brother Sal�?and ‘Garner Ted Armstrong.�?Since my experience with that particular church, I have discovered that they have dwindled in numbers, and there is a spirit of confusions amongst them, which is scriptural when you read about groups who are blessed listening to God, and groups who reject God, and are like ‘the blind leading the blind.�?Since walking from the waters of baptism, I have prophesied to the U.S. about Sept 11th, lesser political events, all warnings to repent and turn to God. I have spoke about the 3rd world war, seen as early as in Daniel, the destruction of Babylon the great, and how people MUST repent NOW to be taken by rapture, death or be delivered by Christ himself at his second coming in Jerusalem, which will be revealed at its set time.
The Lord has shown me ‘the seat of America burning�? ‘the tree of life, from which the Saints will eat of�? ‘where the pagan king will emerge from�? ‘the falling of Manhattan�? ‘the darkening of the sun and moon thereof�? ‘how the king of the north will rule the nations�? ‘everything else and more listed in this site.�?MY MESSAGE IS SIMPLE, ‘REPENT, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NEAR!�?BR>
This is an ongoing work, and any enquiries are welcome. By realising how the people in Jerusalem had to repent before its destruction after Yeshua’s time, Yochanan (John) taught that baptism was necessary for the remission from transgressing against God. My testimony is a response to my fear for the Lord, and continued relationship with the Eternal, the God of the Universe. Nothing happens by chance, or in secret, as God knows and sees all who are before him, as the earth is his, and he will be claiming it and reshaping it from the mess it is in now. I do not know all the answers, but believe that they are in God’s word, and that if you continue to seek God’s face, new things will be shown you, and you will be more at ease in his presence. DO NOT FOLLOW ANY MAN, OR BE PART OF ANY FALSE CHURCH IN THESE LAST DAYS. Obey Christ; he will be the lamp into your feet, and show you the direction you are to go. For God’s spirit is free, and like the wind, it moves through the hearts of men, and plants it’s seed amongst the lawless, the prostitutes, the murderers, the lost and lonely, and will eventually bring them, in his grace, to his very throne. Christ was, and is, and is to come; his ways are hidden from all the greedy, the treacherous, the blasphemers, the church leaders, the catholic priests, all orthodox religions, and those who look for acceptance only amongst men, forgetting their creator. It is not that the seven feasts of God are not orthodox, but the very teachings of God are shown now as representations of the ‘tabernacles in the wilderness,�?and how all the symbolism taught about God’s redemption plan (silver chain), judgement (brass), and salvation (gold) around and inside the tent of meeting, and raiment of the laws and statutes of God in baptism, like gold, show that our hearts are the very alter in which we are to honour God, the temple being the body, and the spirit the sustenance and fruitfulness of our very lives and being. Christ says that he was above the ‘temple tax�?as his ‘temple�?was higher than the one they honoured. Is there a church around these days that meet and discuss these facts about God; or are they ALL out to glorify themselves? I fear, for their sake, that it will take 10 plagues to get them moving in the right direction, more draughts, and more famines, perhaps much closer this time to those who think they are in the ‘safety zone�?according to what they think and believe about God.

Perhaps the fear of the Lord has led me through many churches, and people in the hope that some would repent and be saved. Once it is clear how ALL Christian churches have compromised in some way regarding Christ’s teachings, one can judge with a pure heart amongst them, and ask God for the right church for them at that time. As the Baptist church was the one for me at the time, I do not hold to their teachings. And even though Ted Garner Armstrong’s church is good, there is an in-clarity as to how to understand ‘the trinity�?and ‘the immortal soul�? to which I hope this site can help clear things up a little.
So by staying focused on the Lord who brought us out from our own particular forms of ‘Egypt�? we find yet that there is no place to hide in the judgement, and only those who are found, not in the church, not pondering over Christ’s existence, but actually IN CHRIST will be saved from the wrath of God to come, most possibly in our lifetimes. It remains a difficult task to find anyone you can say is speaking from God in these days, but I have selected 2 out of 2000000 that I believe I share my salvation with; teaching from Brother Sal, and Prophecy from Dumitru and his colleagues. May God bless you all, and may he find favour with you through his son, Jesus Christ.


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