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God is Not the Author of Confusion

December 22, 2011

Here it is, the Christmas season, and though it is a time of family gathering and festivity everywhere, there is a solemnity that many are feeling… like a calm before a huge storm.  Something is about to happen that will shake our world and test our faith.  I believe that what’s coming will either result in a ‘falling away’ or a ‘getting closer’ to God in the next few months.

2012 is a year unparalleled in the amount of speculation about some soon-coming calamity.  Books have been written, movies made and a great deal of talk shows produced in efforts to get a glimpse into the projected events of 2012.  Will the world end?  Will some cataclysmic event destroy our planet?  Will millions perish of some world-wide pandemic?  Will volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters rearrange our world’s landscape?

What can we know for sure about this highly anticipated apocalyptic year? 

Some people go to psychics, some go to the scientific community, some to the writings of ancient civilizations to determine what will happen to our world in 2012.  As for me, I go to the Word of God, the Bible – that ancient text authored by God himself through his holy people.  Then I go to the Lord in prayer and listen for His voice.  That’s the voice we can trust and the Bible the final authority.  The Lord said “my sheep hear my voice,” and I know that to be true.

As a watchman of the Lord, he has given me several specific words for 2012.  The first and most outstanding  word is “CONFUSION.”  2012 will be a year of confusion beyond anything we have ever experienced before in our nation and in our world, not just confusion, but mass confusion.

Yet, the Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians 14:33 that “God is not the author of confusion…”  The Church, that Body of Believers that are born again and listening to His voice, should NOT be confused!  If God is not the author of confusion, that means it’s coming from satan.  The spirit of the anti-christ is disorder.

It’s almost ironic that 12 is the Biblical number for perfect order, just exactly the opposite of confusion.  God needs His Church to be in full force and in divine order so that we can be winning souls in the midst of a confused world.  The Church will be the new ‘ark’ in the confusing days ahead.  This could be the last full year we have to get our house in order and to get prepared for what’s coming!

In 2012, confusion is going to manifest in uncertainties, misunderstandings, good being spoken of as evil, disorder and turmoil of every kind.   If ever there was a time to “know what we know,” it’s now.  It’s time to get in the Word, because deception is coming!  The Word of God is truth and it leaves no room for bewilderment or perplexity.  It will dispel any darkness with its Light!

The Lord told me that first, there would be a great earthquake in Japan, and then total collapse of the world’s economy.  I can’t tell you the day, I can’t tell you the month or the week, but I can tell you that an economic collapse is imminent. 

Get your house ready and get your Church ready to be that ark of safety as the confusion swirls all around.  Be fully persuaded in your heart and in your mind that you will be steadfast and sure because the Word of God lives within you, and you know His voice.  This is going to be a year of soul winning because those who know God’s voice will have wisdom to guide them and love to sustain them.  They will not be confused – but instead, they will be steadfast and sure.  Jesus is coming soon and we are looking for Him!

God loves YOU, He really does!

Woe is Me – Conclusion

November 21, 2011
It really saddens me when I think of the way much of the church is handling the Book of Revelation.  Though in verse 3 of the first chapter of the Revelation we are promised a blessing if we read and keep (to watch over, to guard) those things within it, there seems to be a reluctance to preach it even though we are right now experiencing it!

The denial of what is going on in our nation and our world as Revelation Day Events is unprecedented, and this denial will cause people to be unprepared.  We should be shouting from the rooftops and pleading with and warning people that this current age is coming to a close.  But before it does, there will be hard times in this natural world – followed by the supernatural return of Jesus Christ to earth!

The return of Jesus to earth is a blessed event that everyone who is born again looks forward to with joy and great anticipation.  But, while we love the idea of seeing Jesus come, we want none of the discomfort or pain that precedes His return.  In the Bible, it says the days preceding His coming are like birth pains that increase in frequency and intensity.  These pains are going to come and they’re going to hurt, whether we deny them or not.

Anyone who has a measure of God in them, must be grieved by what they see in the behaviors of the societies of  our world.  Man has managed to either corrupt or destroy altogether, the plan of God for His creation.  We are certainly not a God-honoring society at large, and the Church doesn’t get a pass either.  Revelation 3:1 comes to mind:  “Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked…”

But none of this takes God by surprise.  He knew what would happen and He provided a Way out and that Way is Jesus.  Jesus came to earth the first time to suffer for the sins of mankind and to redeem them.  When He comes again, it will be with great Glory and Power to establish the kingdom of God on earth as we read in Revelation 1:15: “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”  When that happens, there will be no more sorrow or grieving for the sins of the world, but there will be great rejoicing that Jesus reigns!

God gave us the Revelation to tell us about the time just before Jesus comes a second time.  He told us so that we could get ready.  He told us so that all these things would not take us by surprise.

It reminds me of the parable of the ten virgins.  They ALL knew He was coming, but only 5 were wise and ready when He came.  They were the ones who were prepared.  They were ready.  They were not in love with the world – they were in love with the Savior of the world.

Revelation Chapter  8 tells us what will happen to those who are not ready when He comes:

“And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!” Revelation 8:13 NKJV

Even so, come Lord Jesus!

Woe is Me – Introduction
Woe is Me – Part 1
Woe is Me – Part 2
Woe is Me – Part 3
Woe is Me – Part 4
Woe is Me – Part 5
Woe is Me – Part 6
Woe is Me – Part 7
Woe is Me – Part 8

Woe is Me (Pt. 7)

October 22, 2011

Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit.

There’s an abundance of rhetoric in today’s world.  It comes at us through many different voices on our televisions, computers, and other electronic media.  We hear rhetoric of all kinds from the media and the politicians of our day, especially since we are approaching another election year.  A lot of it sounds like they make it up as they go along, speaking things they don’t really believe or mean, in order to win favor with the voters and to be elected.

A sinister joke I heard once asked this question:

“How do you know if a politician is lying?”

Answer:  “If his mouth is moving!”

Yet, most people have been conditioned to accept the world’s political rhetoric as ‘normal’ and their candidate’s veracity takes a back seat to individual bias.

Could the same be said of our “Happy Church” leaders?

Could the Church be so accustomed to a lukewarm, watered-down gospel, that the real message from the Lord for the hour is perceived as abrasive or even offensive?

“Thus saith the Lord God ; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!”  Ezekiel 13:3 KJV

I get letter after letter saying; “Jim, you’re the only one preaching Revelation today.  Keep up the good work!”  Why don’t we hear the Revelation message preached when the days of Revelation are unfolding right before us, and any other message should be secondary?

All too often, it’s because preachers are afraid of being labeled “prophets of doom” and they bend and sway with the demands of the people.

Jeremiah had experienced this phenomenon when he had tried to warn the Israelites that they would be judged for their sin if they did not repent!  His warnings were met with derision, but he prophesied anyway.

Jeremiah 23:33-36 says; “When one of the people or one of their ‘prophets’ or priests asks you, ‘Well, Jeremiah, what is the sad news from the Lord today?’ you shall reply, ‘What sad news? You are the sad news, for the Lord has cast you away!’  And as for the false prophets and priests and people who joke about ‘today’s sad news from God,’ I will punish them and their families for saying this.  You can ask each other, ‘What is God’s message? What is he saying?’  But stop using this term, ‘God’s sad news.’ (or Prophets of doom!)

Warning others from the Word of God that these are indeed the Last Days is not a well-received message.  Many people make fun of us for doing it.  Others accuse us of some ulterior motive.

We are compelled to preach!  You have to know which voice to listen to – and then you have to obey!

We must hear from God in this day we’re living in!  Hearing from God often means shutting out the world and getting alone with Him and His Word to hear what He wants to say to us personally, and corporately.

The leaders of God’s Church must not be lax in seeking the message that is relevant for the day and hour at hand.  It could mean life or death to the flock, spiritually speaking.  “Feed my sheep!” was not a request, it was a mandate.

Feeding God’s sheep means to give them something that will nurture them.  It means hours spent in the Word and prayer so that you know that you know you are feeding the Lord’s manna instead of giving them some regurgitated old dried up ear-tickling slop!

Going on-line an hour before church to get your sermon from someone else is not exactly hearing from God.

A serious follower of Jesus wants more, and they deserve more.

And the serious leader in God’s Church can, and does, feed the flock of God what they need to survive and thrive!

Jeremiah 23:29-32 says; “Does not my word burn like fire?” asks the Lord. “Is it not like a mighty hammer that smashed the rock to pieces? So I stand against these ‘prophets’ who get their messages from each other-these smooth-tongued ‘prophets’ who say, ‘This message is from God!’ Their made-up dreams are flagrant lies that lead my people into sin. I did not send them, and they have no message at all for my people,” says the Lord.

Woe is Me – Introduction
Woe is Me – Part 1
Woe is Me – Part 2
Woe is Me – Part 3
Woe is Me – Part 4
Woe is Me – Part 5
Woe is Me – Part 6
Woe is Me – Part 8
Woe is Me – Conclusion