Tag: Eschatology

Braving the Coming Global Storm—Hope into Victory

by James G. Owen

The disciples were sailing on a ship on the Galilean Sea. It was nighttime and very dark, and I can imagine only a candle lit for light inside the ship on a lower deck. The disciples were on the main deck when the storm began to rage. The ship was listing side to side and being tossed. The front of the ship going up high over the waves. The waves of the sea were very rough. The voyage was treacherous, and the disciples were afraid because they knew that some ships were not successful in making the journey across the sea. Before them, many men had died in similar storms. Peter is watching the storm on deck, and then he sees Jesus in the distance walking toward them on the water. He beckons Jesus to let him walk on the water, to come to him. In those days it was reported by sailors seeing a spirit walking on the water. They believed it was the spirits of the dead who had lost their lives of storms past. In the culture of their day the people thought the storm god Baal was angry and caused the sea to rage.

After hearing Peter’s call, Jesus tells Peter to step out of the ship and walk on the water. Peter obeys while keeping his eyes on Jesus while he walked on the water. As he looked downward at his feet he began to sink in the sea. He began to cry out for Jesus to save him. Jesus was there at the very moment Peter began to be taken down into the sea. Jesus reaches out his hand, Peter quickly grabbed his hand and was pulled upward to safety within the storm. As Jesus and Peter walked together on the water to board the ship, the wind ceased, and the sailors on board saw and believed what they had just witness and saying among themselves, Jesus who walked on the sea is the Son of God. Why? Because no man can walk on the sea without the help of God or being God.

All of us have storms that come into our lives. The storms are various throughout our lives, and these storms either causes us to mature, or they bring us down to destroy us. Many of the storms we encounter is our fault because of sin, lack of faith, or just a circumstance in life. But I am here to tell you after going through many trials and storms in my life there is hope. Where is the hope many may think? They have looked to and fro on this earth while not regarding God our creator. People have looked for peace, love, and hope in the ways of the world, but could not find it because they were looking in the wrong place, and their hearts were not on God. God is the place, the person in which we find hope and we can trust him to get us through. All we must do is obey his commandments and live in his covenant. He takes care of his children. We may go through storms, trials, and tribulation but he is always present. We reach out to him through prayer, fasting, and believing up on his word as we read the scriptures and believe.

The hope that we are looking for to give us peace within this world is a peace of mind knowing we have eternal life as we live our lives. This peace gives us strength to carry on. We receive this hope and peace in giving our lives to God by accepting his son Jesus. This is called salvation because we are redeemed by the blood of the lamb Jesus. When we believe upon Jesus, accept him as Savior, and are forgiven of our sins then we have been given the spiritual tools to victory. The tools given us we will need to learn to use. The tools begin with faith, even though a small measure is given to us at birth we must learn to exercise our faith to see and bring greater things in our lives. To trust and believe what our faith has spoken, and realizing it is the grace of God that has saved us. When the storms come, we should remember our faith and then become determined in our mindset to endure because as we endure, we are working towards an inheritance, a blessing, and a blessing even I cannot comprehend because it is so large and continuous. God loves us and wants us to be victorious! It is his children, those who know him and have given their hearts to him to serve him on earth. Through the salvation process is how we become to know God, and he to know us. Together we enter a relationship of friendship, intimacy, and finally marriage when he returns to receive his bride —the Church.

The spiritual way to victory here I will list to summarize, so that all can see in one place to receive it in our hearts and mind. They are faith, trust, grace, salvation, redemption, peace, hope, Jesus, endurance, and blessings. Jesus is always in the middle of the process. For it was through him we have been given the victory! Through him we have found liberty, peace, and hope to endure.  The prize is eternal life.

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. “

Philippians 3:14  

This process we have been given throughout scripture will get us through any storm, battle, trial, or tribulation. We Americans, and the world are in a global storm. It is a physical and spiritual storm, but the spiritual storm is the largest aspect. We must realize we are seeing evil like we have never experienced. I believe evil will increase as time and days go by until we see our blessed Savior returning in glory and majesty on the Last Day. The last day is spoken of by John in his gospel,

“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:40

As I conclude this group of scripture presents the truth and the hope to us all. It is only through Jesus that a hope is given that will bring us joy, peace, love, and understanding. Through him hope has become life.

“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”

John 7: 37-39

As of Acts 2 the Holy Ghost has been received and has continued until our present day. Jesus sent his Holy Spirit to strengthen us to serve, to empower us so that we can do the same ministry as he did while alive on earth. It is through his Spirit that the rivers of water flow when we receive the Holy Ghost at the time of salvation, and has we experience the living water flowing in our prayers and life. It is the witness of the Holy Spirit to others who see the hope and that God lives within because the Holy Spirit is our witness. Those of you who do not have Jesus in your life you can receive it today. Just reach out, pray, and ask him for forgiveness. This is how you receive hope. Those of you who know Jesus have hope knowing you have him in your life. Arise and live a holy and victorious life!

Notes:

All scripture used is taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, BibleGateway.

THE PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES COME TOGETHER IN UNITY

by James G. Owen

There are more denominations than choices of fishing tackle. Since the Protestant Reformation the Protestant Movement has grown in number of denominations. Churches split over various reason, but one reason is doctrine.

The denominations have different views for:

  • Water baptism.
  • Different millennial positions, such as Premillennialism, Amillennialism, and Postmillennialism.
  • Pretribulation, Mid-tribulational, and Post-tribulation.
  • Trinitarian or non-Trinitarian
  • Eternal Security
  • Predestination differences
  • Dispensational vs Non-Dispensational
  • Belief in the Speaking of Tongues and Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues.

There are more differences in the denominations than the list I created I think, but we will carry on to making my point of unity. In today’s world, a bizarre year has unfolded, and there is an attack on the Christian Church—Christianity. The churches are not united in doctrine, nor united in spirit and the spiritual battle we are facing globally, and especially here in the United States must be defeated. This means that all differences in doctrine and of any kind must cease and find common ground in fighting this battle together. In numbers we will have victory, being split we are defeated.

The Protestant churches should respect one another and come to the basic of doctrines in scripture, and that is to preach Jesus born of a virgin, ministered, taught, healed, delivered, and raised the dead as spoken in the Gospels of the New Testament. We are called to make disciples of men. We are not to bicker over eschatological opinions and views, or for any other doctrine. Lay these differences down and preach Jesus as the Messiah the only way to salvation and eternal life. This is my point for unity. There may be other avenues for unity among the Protestants and Evangelicals, but we must stand together to fight the spiritual battle we are in globally. We are in a battle for the very soul of the nation of the United States of America. What happens here in this year of 2020 will determine the outcome for the whole world. In the last few months, I have seen reports of using a virus to bring global change, and that change has a name—the Great Reset. A name that I believe has changed from the original term I saw earlier in the year, and that was Tikkun Olam, meaning to fix the world.

To fix the world from the globalist view is to reconstruct the economy, set new rules for environmental issues such as climate change. I see an attack on the Christian churches of shutdown, and the outlawing of bibles. I am aware of the vaccines being produced that have been fast tracked and not taking the usual number of years to develop. For years I have been watching for a new world government to arise, and a new world religion, all set to become a One World System, and I believe I have seen the fundamentals being established using a virus to attain their goals.

So, I am making a clarion call to all Protestant Churches to assemble and to unite in a battle of good versus evil, a spiritual battle that will affect all mankind. Push back the differences and put on the Ephesians 6: 11-18 armor.

“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;”

Centuries ago, there was a Dark Age and there were differences of doctrine and beliefs. Martin Luther came to the forefront of the Reformation Movement and wrote his 95 Theses. Today, we are seeing a New Dark Age coming now being called a Dark Winter, and I have heard this term from a presidential Democratic candidate. The result is the same, but I believe we are into a more difficult time, an indignation because of a political ideology that was not present in the current form we have witnessed in my lifetime.

So, concluding let all Christians who love Jesus project, teach, preach, and evangelize Jesus. Fulfill the evangelical call and go into all the world and preach the gospel.

Notes: All scripture used was taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, BibleGateway.

Portion Five: Planting the Seed of Deception into the Generations of Man; The Teachings of the Noahide Law Emerge

Even though deception entered the Garden of Eden by the serpent, the seed of deception I am referring for this article began with Abraham and Sarah. They journey into another land where Abimelech is dwelling because of their displacement from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot and his daughters fled to Zoar that was a small town but far enough away from the destruction. As Abraham and Sarah meet Abimelech, Abraham tells him that Sarah is his sister, and Sarah concedes that he is her brother. Abimelech, a Philistine king has a dream from God, and God is telling him that Sarah is another man’s wife, and judgement is going to fall on him if he doesn’t return Sarah to Abraham. He is warned not to touch Sarah. (Genesis 20:1-18)

Time goes by, and Abraham and Sarah are reunited, and in their older years they have a child named Isaac. Isaac journeys to the same land, Gerar, in which Abraham and Sarah went during the destruction. Here Isaac repeats the same deception of his mother and father. He is fearful he would be harmed because of Rebekah’s beauty, but Abimelech intercedes before sin is committed in his camps. (Genesis 26:1-16)

More time flies by and we see the story of Jacob and Esau. Isaac bids Esau to go to the fields to hunt for venison so that he may have a bowl of venison stew. While Esau is out in the fields hunting Rebekah goes to Jacob and tells him to go fetch a lamb in which to make the savory stew. Jacob questions her after hearing her plan, and he obeys wearing the hairy skin of the lamb on his hands and neck. Jacob goes into Isaac’s tent and brings him the savory stew. Here, after Isaac asks Jacob who son he is, if he is Esau, and Jacob replies with the answer of I am. Through deception Jacob receives the blessing of the first born and becomes the supplanter. (Genesis 27:19)

Deception is now in the ranks and takes its root into generations of Israel through Jacob. Mind you that not all people have deception in their hearts, nor in their generations, but I am taking us through the ranks into how the Noahide law origin, its kept secrets, and now its rise into current times. The Noahide law is written into the Talmud, the traditions of the oral law, the law that the New Testament the Pharisee and Scribes followed. It is the traditions, that is, their law away from the scriptures, the Old Testament, in which some Rabbi’s follow. Also note that not all Jewish people, nor Rabbi’s follow the Talmud, but I am speaking of those who do. Its rise as far as I can tell, becomes known after the Jews establish a state in the Levant after World War II in 1948. The Noahide laws were not known by all Jews, but kept secret especially from the world, until the Jews began to make Aliyah to the land.

And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 11:9-19 KJV

The Noahide law has found its way passed into law in the United States in 1991 standing ready to be enforced as the opportune time arrives. That opportune time, currently my era that I am living in. These set of laws were passed into law under the Education Act that also commemorates a Rabbi’s birthday and is mentioned by the signing President that these are the values of the American people, which they are not. The values of the American people are the Christian values that derive from the Ten Commandments and the scriptures of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The very act of speaking of the bill that the Noahide law are the values of the American people is deception and false.

Look within your government legislation and check to see if a similar bill has been passed into law. As to my understanding laws of this kind are to be passed into law in every country. These seven laws, which has sub laws are supposed to bring peace to the world through a court system that is under the Sanhedrin jurisdiction. My thoughts are that peace will never come through the efforts of man, but their efforts will only bring control and dictatorship. The only peace, the true peace that man will ever know is not only of having accepted Jesus into our hearts and lives, but in through the kingdom on Earth that Jesus the Messiah will establish. The kingdom that is coming through the Noahide law is not the messianic kingdom, nor is it the true light.

The deception of the Noahide law is that it will bring peace, but also of being “one” throughout the world, but that oneness is not achieved because these laws will keep separate the Jew and the Gentile. Peace is not achieved because in enforcing the seven laws will bring death to many. Most definitely those who will not make a declaration to these laws, those who will not denounce Jesus, and will bring death to the Christians. The deception is also one that will bring a depopulation of the world.

There is only one peace. He is Jesus the Messiah. He broke down the partition of Jew and Gentile, thus placing all mankind back to one group. There is no separation of the Jew and the Gentile, but we are one new man.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,  having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace

Ephesians 2: 14-15 ASV

Could these Noahide laws and the courts they create possibly be the One World Government we have heard about all our lives? It certainly looks like it. What makes the emerging of these laws into a World Government system are also the agreements between religious entities that will bring all people under one system that agree and accept these laws for living righteous.

The way to righteousness is through Jesus the Messiah, by grace and not of works. The interpretation of the Noahide laws of repentance is that one can pray to the “hand of heaven” and ask forgiveness, but if one sins and then does a good work, then that good work cancels the sin. This is another falsehood. Only through Jesus is sin forgiven and by his blood. Salvation is by grace and not of works, though we do good works for witness, works cannot save.

Using ambiguous wording like the “hand of heaven” is deception because my thoughts are one does not really know who we are addressing. People any think it is God but could be addressing Satan because it is also written that Satan is the prince of the air. His throne is in the second heaven, which we know as space. My position is to call God by his name, which he has many, but he is known to us as I AM, Jehovah, and Jesus. Recognize him when you pray by calling his name, and acknowledge him as God, Lord and Savior. His name is not ineffable!

So, since the Noahide laws originate in the Talmud and are purported to bring peace and oneness how could the Talmud be “truth”? How could it be “truth” when chaos breaks out in the world?  There will be chaos because people will see the deception. How could it be “truth” when it brings death, war, and destruction? The only truth we know will be in God’s word, the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. I implore everyone to read the Bible so you will know the truth and recognize the deception that is here! The more I study, the more I am convinced that the World Government will make its final rise enforcing the Noahide law, thus bringing oppression, destruction, famine, and other destruction to the world. The One World Government system may comprise of the agreements formed, that will affect honest non-Talmudic Jews, Messianic Jews, Christianity, and Coexist religions, thus bringing all religions under the same umbrella. This government may be a triad of the major religions. Its leader will be one that will be a counterfeit to the Messiah Jesus.

Of all the religions, there is only one way in which to reach eternal life, and that is through the blood of Jesus who bought our salvation for our souls by the final sacrifice! There is no need to sacrifice, to return to the Law of the Old Testament because of his sacrifice.  For Christians it would negate what Jesus did on the cross providing salvation to all mankind. It would be going backward and not forward bringing Christians back to the Law. We are under grace and live by faith just has Abraham did. The law reveals the sin, and grace, faith, and the blood of Jesus conquers the sin.

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