“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:…” Deuteronomy 6:4-6 (KJV)

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.” Jeremiah 2:32 (NASB)

Do you think I speak only to you? What I teach or share, you are to teach or share! What you may already possess, give! What you may learn, apply then give. For God is our teacher and the lover of our souls.

We live two lives, one as a nation, the second as an individual. As a nation we are swept into the flow of the majority. As the nation goes so go we. As the nation is perceived so are we. Only as an individual do we separate ourselves from that majority and we must do this or they establish our identity.

God (if you believe in God, really believe) is watching, measuring, and weighing us in light of eternity. It is not to be an oppressive thing in our minds. It is simply a fact that we cannot escape His observance nor should we want to. He looks for maturity in Christ, not perfection as we understand the word.

What God observes could be very positive and much more, very confirming of our true soulful belief and dependence upon Him. This is all the more positive as we turn to Him in our errors and receive the grace or distribute the grace toward others to help us, in our time of need.

In and through Christ there is nothing God does not understand about our lives and our trials. In Christ the Father shows us what He expects of His own, relative to those difficulties. It was hard for Jesus. It will be hard for us. Acceptance can be peace.

Paul said, “…we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, …” Romans 5:2-3 (NASB)

The potential value toward the unsaved or those squandering their “reconciliation,” by disobedience to Christ, is in our withstanding the difficult with and by grace and intercession. The more difficult our trial the more powerful our witness as we reflect Christ. How can Christ be dead or imagined when He is alive in us!

Christ as, the Son of Man seated at the right hand of God, stood and saw Himself reflected in the countenance of Stephen as the understanding of the ages came out of Steven’s heart and then mouth. “…he [Stephen] called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” [Where have we heard that before?] Then falling on his knees, he [Stephen] cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” Having said this, he fell asleep.” Acts 7: 59-60 NASB [added for clarity]

Stephen had just told those who stoned him, “Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.” Acts 7:52-53 (NASB)

Am I the killer or the killed? Better to be killed in righteousness than to be a killer of righteousness!

For I announce the coming of the Righteous One for the righteous. I speak of how we maintain the righteousness freely given, for I speak only what He has already spoken.

In doing so I leave you with what all the prophets left our forefathers. I leave you two choices. No not my choices lording over you but our choices as He is Lord or not. Not one single choice that is sufficient for a lifetime but many choices daily and in a lifetime.

This is hard? We are to have the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead! He should by now have brought to our remembrance the supporting assuring Words of Christ that ease the once sin sick soul. Our hope is in Him and His perfecting His work in us.

What are these immediate choices, be they many, compared to doing right for a thousand years? And what is that compared to right choices forever? How can we except we learn?

If we think it is not possible to be righteous now, with the grace and the gift of righteousness provided us to outweigh our fleshly challenges, to give us help in time of need, why would we think it possible to live righteously forever? Righteousness was given here to be accomplished by maintaining it here first, in preparation for eternity.

“…much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:17 NASB

Paul goes on to say, “.. so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 5:21 (NASB)

He is coming for the righteous, those without spot or blemish, holy and blameless! How can that be if it is not possible for us to walk in righteousness until He comes or we die? He tells us how!

“… so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.” Ephesians 5:26-27 NASB

Notice He cleanses us by the Word, His Words, His teachings given by the Father, by His life as Paul said in Romans 5:10 NASB, and He can only do so if we let Him do so assisted by the Holy Spirit whom God sent to lead us into ALL Truth. Our path to this righteousness begins with the “Alpha” of His death for us and the “Omega” of His finished work in us!

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.” Jeremiah 2:32 (NASB)

As a nation, we know where we stand. How many of “us” have forgotten God and for how long? He did say “My people.”

As individuals, God forbid this would speak of you or I dear loved ones. Still Lord, help us see as You see. Let Your righteous standard of measure be ours as we examine ourselves. This verse is about those it does apply to. Lord, You know who.

“If we remain in His grip, how far from His heart can we be!”

In the guardianship of Christ,

Michael

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Blessed be the name of the Lord. The Lord our God the Lord He is one.”

* “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”  (Written and sung by Bob Dylan, CBS Records)

“The groaning of the tires droned out a consistently dull note. It filled the background of my thought process with white noise but it was more like grey noise. The soft ride of the 69 Caddy Eldorado just added to the hypnotized state I was in. My mind however was anything but comatose. No, this was really happening!”

“A flurry of thoughts and scenarios were flashing on the heads-up screen of my windshield. I am driving but only by seeing the road through a mental map of facts and fears. I had flirted with danger and it had caught up with me.”

“Most of what I saw during that ride was a rear-view mirror full of concrete, a ribbon un-spooling as it distanced me from certain death. Would it be enough?”

“Every mile had comfort in it. A little more peace a little less fear, but was I fooling myself? I know these people. If anything it was a false sense of peace. I didn’t sleep with a gun under my pillow for nothing. I hadn’t slipped away suddenly and in stealth for no reason. I was the focus of their fear.” (Late July 1981)

When it comes to controversy, I have learned that controversy feels like an attack on the heart but it often sets it free!

Besides portions of my story, what you are about to read is very controversial or “outside the box” but so are the times we are in. The content is (from) beyond me but it is absolutely scriptural. In that sense it is not really controversial. It is however far “more” than we have understood. Like you, I am a beneficiary.

As I did you will find, within, important parts of the “all truth” Jesus said the Holy Spirit would show us. (John 16:13 NASB)

In the Word of God we believe we have all truth but there is truth behind the truth, understanding yet to be grasped, and mysteries. “All truth” meant there was more understanding than Jesus explained. He may have told us cryptically but it would be hidden until the Holy Spirit illuminated our way to it. This also meant our awareness of the Holy Spirit would be required in our lives, so we would know for sure we were being enlightened.

When His expanded truth occurs to us, God is kind in that we can simultaneously and without condemnation recognize our former lack while gladly embracing His greater.

We will question the enabling truth necessary to negotiate the final stages of our eternal journey. “All truth” is not grasped except by revelation. Is the Holy Spirit guiding us? If He truly is then yes, we will find what God has intended. His adverse, even distressing truth will spare us and take us into the great beyond that we have believed in if we let His Word accomplish what it was sent to do. It will purge us and purify us, as the Lord intended. (Daniel 12)

There are many areas of concern here. It is my hope they will ultimately validate the whole of this effort. Covering a multitude of interlocking truths, they clarify each other. Things we have looked at separately will now come together, interlocking with each other to become the greater, to become expanded truth. This is fully scriptural understanding that, it appears, has been withheld by God until now. Why are we seeing this now except the times demand our enlightenment and the Holy Spirit is fulfilling the plan?

Like Jesus knew, God knew fear would come upon us if we were exposed to “all truth” prematurely. Back then, there was no supporting environment for what God wants us to know now. Now we must and I believe we will be motivated to seek, accept and walk in the understanding which deals with the prophesied events we are seeing. The scriptural parts and pieces were meant to add up, to bring greater understanding. In “all truth” we will find those added parts and pieces which can then come together in our hearts.

Isaiah tells us who will be taught and how the teaching will come.

“Whom will He teach knowledge? And whom will He make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little.”   (Isaiah 28:9-10 NAS)

“Words such as those found within “all truth” are not meant for the babe, unable to yet discern all their mother wisdom has to offer, as they reach again,  crying for the comforting warmth that must end, not discerning the kind of love to be taught which will endure all things, feeding them, …forever.”  (a quote from “Does He speak?” by Michael Daniel Dooze.)

This book has been written in much the same way it came to me: line upon line and precept upon precept, over 34 years. For those who have learned line upon line, precept upon precept, it is now time for those lines and precepts to gather. They are coming together synergistically, forming the critical mass, the fulfillment of prophecy that has been waiting for us, yes for us and circumstances, since Christ.

You will see just how we are the initiators of the Lord’s return in a Christ-likeness the world has only had a glimpse of. Biblical concepts will now over-lap, coincide, augmenting each other, creating the holy-graphic image that God wanted us to see when it was time. It is a prophecy spoken by Jesus that is yet to be fulfilled. He has pointed the way to our divine assignment and our personal salvation.

Now, just ahead of the darkness that precedes His return, there are things which must be embraced and in some cases cast off by us. We must stand in faith versus fear, grasping the disciplines that eternity requires of us, disciplines which must be taught by the mature, especially by the Five Fold League of Servants around the world.

Casting aside fear, by the Holy Spirit “Followers” everywhere will then embrace our “God-date” (not mandate.)  We will be empowered by our pastor’s in their obedient confidence and concern. Let us all, as God’s watchmen on the walls, blow this Shofar of a message. Let no blood but our own be upon our heads and it be washed away by this baptism in God’s precious grace.

Cruising south along Interstate 95, through the rolling hills of North Carolina, I am alone in my escape. Few cars are seen in the distance in either direction. It has a calming effect as my mind wanders through the moments, the flashes of warning I had experienced in the previous few weeks. In my ignorance I had almost missed them. Some of those warnings were so profound I could not help but ponder my short-sightedness.

If you knew what I did you would not wonder why I frequently checked the rear-view mirror. Their arm had a long reach if they decided to extend it. I knew they would, so I looked again and again until I saw it. The very thing I feared came upon me!

(An opening portion of “Exit Strategy, we initiate the return of Christ!” to be continued)

“If we remain in His grip, how far from His heart can we be!”

In the guardianship of Christ,

Michael

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“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”

Is there a defining eternal life question? 

 “We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man,[Jesus]  we do not know where He is from.” ³⁰The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.”  (John 9:29-30) [added for clarity]

“Measure the message not the man or surely your soul will deceive you.”                                                                                     Michael Daniel Dooze.

We may be the elect but we can disqualify ourselves at the last minute! Remember our will is still in play. What was once thought to be impossible, is, according to Jesus, actually probable for “many!”

Shall we enter eternity naked of the disciplines critical to the governing of our eternal free will?

If we have been forgiven and totally cleansed by Christ’s death, asking Him to BE Lord, do we realize what John, Paul and Jesus said we all must then know and do in order to maintain our new condition, to stay ready to actually be admitted into eternity?

“Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?”  (Matthew 16:2 NAS)

There will be an Apostasy, a falling away of “believers.” Why is John saying that “believing” is not enough?  After all he also says, “He who believes in the Son has eternal life;…” What else does he say in that portion of scripture? (John 3:36 NAS)

We know Jesus but does He know us? You say yes? So did I. Maybe He does but “Many” will say yes crying “Lord, Lord” only to be cast out. Oh He knew them but when it counted, they thought not and refused to repent. “How do you know that?” They were cast out because of lawlessness! When they asked, sought, and knocked about the beam in their eye, God told them the truth, it felt like a rock, so they did not respond in repentance! They basically said to God, “You don’t know me!” So Jesus in making His point demonstrated this reality and replied accordingly by speaking from God’s point of view, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.” (Matthew 7:22-23 NAS)  This verse points to something that we have control over. Does God know us? Does the truth prevail in us despite the pain of discipline? Do we hunger for the discipline of God that teaches us eternal rules?

The Lord is adjusting our understanding, expanding on the truth we have believed. This preparatory act on His part should tell us our time is short. We know God desires that none should perish but that all should come to repentance. Does His expanded effort, as evidenced by the insight He is giving, not speak of urgency. Oh not tomorrow but as soon as a particular message is preached world-wide, as a testimony to Him, “then” things start to happen! The message is in an unfulfilled prophecy by Christ! All prophecy will be fulfilled!

Is this a message from God in the Spirit of Daniel 12? Yes. I am convinced that “Exit Strategy, we initiate the return of Christ” is! Like the man said, “Measure the message not the man or surely your soul will deceive you.” Read the book, read the postings, see if your spirit does not witness to the scriptures and insight found therein. Then decide.

For centuries many of us sincerely and faithfully have studied the Word and served Him. In reading “Exit Strategy” you will all ask as I did, “How could we have missed this?” It now appears to have been purposeful; intentional on God’s part. All of God’s ducks were not in a row yet.

As my header portrays, like a red sunrise heralding the coming Storm, Christ stands before us. Will we see by His Words and those of Paul, John, and the rest? Do we discern the times?

“Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?”  (Matthew 16:2 NAS)

Will we gain understanding or cling to traditional thought? Will we see our destiny in this final revolution of love, this revival of revealing Him to the world by our testimony and by suffering this world and its unjust trials by grace, proving to whomever how real He is to us?

Will we chose His ways personally, running to Him for grace to help in time of need? Or will we run from the inescapable Storm, which is God, drenched not in rain, not in the blood of Christ, but in the blood of “many” we could have helped? Is our running not an abdication of our faith? Are we watchmen or not? Are we even “followers?”

Don’t allow yourself to be offended. If I offend you, and I am for you, then who are you stumbling over? Is it I or the Word of God I quote, the Shofar I blow for your sake? How will you deal with a world of lawlessness; a truth meant to capture your heart and freeze it? I am telling you to turn up the warmth of God’s love, against that cold cruelty.

Danger has come. Our God, our Deliverer, is bringing a critical message meant to awaken and protect our reconciliation and potential salvation against the threatening times. Loss of salvation by those who think they are friends of Jesus but are not, is certain.  [His words not mine]   John 15: 13-14 NASB

Better we acknowledge Him, embrace the discipline that is Him and glory in His grace toward us! God is revealing more to us by extending the guiding hand of His Spirit. This will empower and enthrone His willing children with the lovingly enduring eternal character of the kingdom, as demonstrated by Christ!

Many are moving away from God, or many have never really moved toward Him, even though they had an initial experience with Jesus and God. This exodus was foretold yes but all still have a choice!

That which was prophetically foretold is being told daily on the news. The time has come. His word says, “few” will get this, yet He faithfully offers it to all. We all thought we understood. What you read in Exit Strategy and these posts will likely say otherwise as it did for me. The blessing is that now we CAN get it and have a knowing in our soul that cannot be shaken!

“Remember, even when the prophet hears it he also hears it, for the first time.”       Michael Daniel Dooze

God’s kindness and grace are being offered to us. Let us not miss the uniqueness of this offering nor its eternal repercussions. A great revival will come from the overturning of a false sense of security by the embracing of a scriptural security released by God in a contemporary  environment where our own desire for security will serve His purposes and love for us.

If we are sons of men and sons of God, we will chose now to fervently practice the eternal disciplines of thinking, speaking and reacting as Jesus the Son of Man did. God’s grace has made it possible for us to totally succeed!

Jesus did not guarantee but gave the possibility of eternal life to us. Knowing our reconciliation would be purchased after His death, He taught eternal disciplines, before His death, that could be practiced on earth by those who were to be His followers, illuminating those practices within the Lord ’s Prayer, to carry us safely into eternity!

This is everyone’s test. It is not “can we?” It is “will we?” He has made it possible and by His enduring love has shown us, as a Son of Man, that we can be as generous with grace as He was. Will we be? That is our defining eternal life question! Will there be a revolution of real love across the earth initiated by Him in us?

It is not can we but will we embrace, His Exit Strategy! 

In doing so, WE initiate the return of Christ!  

This post, is an elaboration on the introduction  from “Exit  Strategy, we initiate the return of  Christ.”                                    

“If we remain in His grip, how far from His heart can we be!”

In the guardianship of Christ,

Michael

    Exit Strategy

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“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (NASB) 

“Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered; and being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Hebrews 5: 8-9 (KJV)

Jesus was not perfect until He learned obedience and demonstrated it. “and being made perfect” is the word “teleioo” Strong’s 5048 as in to accomplish, finish, fulfill, make perfect. We had no chance with God until Jesus obeyed even unto death on a cross. His obedience and ours also, accomplishes eternal things!

Jesus left heaven where He was perfect. Came to earth in sinful flesh (impossible to be perfect) resisted His flesh and remained sinless which in God’s eyes is not necessarily perfect since flesh remains, which is why flesh and blood will not inherit eternal life; in the flesh He (and we) learned obedience a requirement in the kingdom, in that obedience He became perfect, He then became the author, the causer (aitios, Strong’s 159) of eternal salvation “unto all that obey Him.”

You are saying, “I am obedient, I do forgive.” Then you miss the point of these posts. OTHERS ARE NOT obedient and you know it. THESE are the ones God and the Devil are seeking now! If you are perfected in these Ways of Christ, you have a responsibility to engage those who are NOT! Out of stubbornness or resistant pride,  they are lost and do not know it.

Having obeyed enduringly and lovingly, evidenced by His intercession on our behalf, even after the horrendous treatment we doled out, He was placed as Lord over all things. We now prove our belief and faith in Him, His loving Way, and the resurrected life He has made possible, by our obedience.

In this life, in our obedience to His Way, we are preparing ourselves for an eternal kingdom existence. Our king will rule. Obedience to Him is expected from a totally willing and forever grateful heart. A kingdom of peace is inhabited by those at perfect peace. There will never be another rebellion in heaven.

If we make Him king while here, as demonstrated by obedience to His Way when we sense Him, feel Him, hear Him, seeing Him only with the eyes of our heart, then He knows and we will know with confidence that He is our God and Lord. The evidence must be there especially for our sake. That which we know to be absolutely a fact cannot be taken away unless we give it away, for He certainly loves us. The only question to be answered is, do we love Him, really…love Him. As we love Jesus we love the Father.

Can you see yourself being spent by Him to accomplish His will toward others? Did the Father not spend His Son for our sake? Oh that our faithful obedience could accomplish such glorious results for His name’s sake, for surely “Jesus: Yahweh saves” is true and can still be true for some part of a lost and dying world which we were once a part. This is our value in God’s endeavor. What He did for us He will do for them but they must turn to Him.

Let us never frown upon a call to obey, or to suffer in obeying. Let us see the glory yes but let us understand the glorious confirmation that takes place in God’s heart as we show Him that His efforts to reach, to teach, and to prepare us for His kingdom have not been wasted. By enduring love we truly are children of God.

 ^“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.” Ephesians 5:1-2 (KJV)

Our destination is sure in the Way, Truth and Life path Jesus has shown us. To follow Him there, we must follow Him here. Do we see what it entails? Let us each seek it and find it. Let us embrace the Law of the Spirit of Life and proceed to heaven under its covering! Let us walk in it to His glory, through the narrow gate, into His loving arms, with a “Well done My good and faithful servant” echoing through the halls of glory as we enter forever!

“If we remain in His grip, how far from His heart can we be!”

In the guardianship of Christ,

Michael

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“Blessed be the name of the Lord, the Lord is One.”

Websters: Paradigm (Para dime) 1. An example or model. 2. A generally accepted concept that explains a complex idea, set of data, etc.

A paradigm shift is a change in that example, model or in the generally accepted concept that explains a complex idea or set of data.

Why would God wait to turn our thinking away from something that seemed so sure and we are talking about Christ here? Is there something new that changes things which necessitates this change in our understanding of Him; an expanded purpose?

I was told (taught) once that a paradigm shift in thinking takes the support of many over time and typically first by those in authority. I thought, “No wonder Jesus had such a hard time.” Then I thought, “But these guys were destined to put Him to death. They were not to get it until later.” Then I thought, “In Christ, once dead and resurrected, the shift in the pattern of understanding about a relationship with God began to take place, one disciple at a time, unto the whole world. All that was needed was the sureness of the end game conclusion. That is what the resurrection proved.”

Another paradigm shift is taking place. We are seeing into how He accomplished His departure and how we to must implement the same plan. As the hour came literally for Him to be obedient to the Father’s will, the hour (figuratively) has arrived for us. Oh Jesus prepared in advance, thinking about it every time He spoke of it. He even rebuked His disciple Peter for not thinking as He did about the death He (Jesus) would “accomplish” in Jerusalem; even after the Mount of Transfiguration experience!

This book is about that very shift. Jesus faced this very problem as He pointed to heart conditions covered by the Law but not grasped in Spirit. It was just as lethal then, for those people as it is now for us, to reject the paradigm shift that is taking place. There is nothing new here except our point of view and the effect of that new view on our eternal lives.

Jesus pointed over and over again to heart condition. He did so because heart condition is the ticket to eternal life.

Wait a minute Mike! The Word says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)

Agreement is the standard that puts Christ in the Father and the Father in Christ and us in Christ and the Holy Spirit in both them and us. We are in them IF we are in agreement with them. Agreement, agreement, agreement!  Grace and our will get us to that place of agreement but we must get there before we depart.

“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV) So who are we? What are we thinking? What are we feeling and does it reflect something contrary to what Jesus taught? Is not our agreement, (with Him) the perfecting of ourselves, the perfecting of our relationship with God? How can it not be critical to our eternal life?

Jesus taught on things that lead to salvation! No? “We are saved when we ask Jesus into our hearts!” No, you are reconciled to God, then by following Jesus you will maintain the righteousness you were given freely. (Romans 5:10, John 3:36) Why did He bother teaching if He was going to do it all for us on the cross? The Cross is our beginning our Alpha experience with Him. Life with Him is our Omega experience, ending with our actual salvation and eternal life. We must have both Alpha and Omega.

This is the paradigm shift. Yes there is more required of us now. It was always there and foretold; the fact that the responsibility is upon us now is as sure as dusk precedes the night. Then again Dawn follows the night!

This Resurrection Day I was reminded. Let us remember there is a life to live, both here and there! One prepares us for the other. We can remain in worldly or carnal thinking or we can embrace the distressing teachings which are however the saving Ways of Christ, in the face of distressing events.” Look away loved ones. Do NOT judge. Only intercede for the doomed that the blind may see.

The teacher that shared his premise about paradigm shifts admitted that this was the first time he had taught this. If any one individual brought a shift in how to think Jesus did. He too was rejected in favor of traditional thinking by leadership. The teacher was sadly correct, in light of Christ. My question is shall we, especially in leadership, learn from our mistakes or not. Do we have to repeat history or can we learn from it?

“But Michael, you are just one man.” I doubt it. Others around the world are hearing from the Lord about this. I cannot be the only one, although I will shout it all alone from the house tops KNOWING He has given me this charge and a heart to rescue.  God knows I am at my best in a crisis.

“Michael how can we change everything on your word alone?” Throughout my posts and in my book, there is an abundance of scripture. All I bring is the inspiration to point you to the scriptures! His Truth contains truth we had to be guided to by the Holy Spirit. It is truth about what is to come and the truth about how we are to weather the storm while glorifying Him. Get your eyes off of me. Look to His Word.

“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.” John 16:13 (NASB)

Dear brethren, Christ is our example, our Paradigm, and He is focusing us forward on forgiveness for forgiveness. This, the last message of the cross,  is being preached more and more around the world. Why?

“For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. “But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.” Matthew 6:14-15 (NASB)

When “forgiveness” expands to a teaching about “enduring love” then the prophecy Jesus spoke in Matthew 24:13 and 14 will be fulfilled, as it must be.

God may have allowed our original understanding (whatever you call it) to exist for so long because of its simplicity or because circumstances were not yet ready for His shift in our thinking to be successful. We did not have to know more at that time and if we died we were still covered by the basic understanding we held. Now things are different.

Today our hearts are being challenged more than ever before. Shall the warning from God not go out? What kind of God would he be, what kind of love would it be, to not warn your children, the future citizens of Your Son’s kingdom?

Concerned over the warnings, some may have a sense that the enemy is approaching but most do not even want to think about it! Many just want to trust God in all this. Is that bad? Not in itself. Trusting in God is good. “I trust Him for my salvation!”

What is trust if not exercised during the challenges of life? He has in fact taught us so that we will trust in His Word of protection. He is the Word! Trusting the Word is the same as trusting the Father or Jesus.

Our protection is in implementing the mechanisms He has provided. These same attitudes of the heart are meant to carry us into eternity where our new “second nature” will rule our souls, where the Ways of God and Christ IN US will mean a kingdom of peace ruled by the Prince of Peace.

There will be no compromise in the choosing of this eternal population. Rejoice that He has made the Way known to us!

Below is detailed posting about the Apostasy. I found it very informative.

http://closingstages.net/2014/01/12/the-apostasy/

“If we remain in His grip, how far from His heart can we be!”

In the guardianship of Christ,

Michael

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   We initiate the return of Christ!  (The E-book)

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“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! Deuteronomy 6:4 (NKJV)

The following is a portion from Chapter 4 of Exit Strategy “The storm of the Lord ….”

“We are waiting for Jesus but God is coming first!”

Does our patriotism overshadow our Christianity? It often does because it (and Christianity) originally had some semblance of righteousness. God will not take a back seat to patriotism when the nation has chosen to forsake Him. The majority voted for a party that wants God to be relegated to the imaginary, the inconsequential or wants all gods to be equal. With no God, they have no sense of consequences. Oh my, we are seeing the consequences, the very dismantling of the system that made it possible for them to choose. Faint not, God knows.

“It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.” John Adams

(Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, 1854), Vol. IX, p. 401, to Zabdiel Adams on June 21, 1776.)

Dare we ask ourselves, in being offended, could both (political) sides be deceived and not just “them?” Is it possible Satan hates BOTH sides (ya think?) and has deceived all of us into ungodly reactions through this turmoil we are seeing? You bet’cha!

Man we have been duped for destruction! The topic or offense does not excuse our angry reaction. It is the biblical hope of our enemy! God’s word is the enemy’s only weapon! If he can get us to violate it, God will be forced to do what He must do. His Word will judge us!

The choice is ours as to the Word of God judging us or not. I would have said, “We know the Word,” but the crux of this book is that we do not understand His words exactly. We honestly thought we did but He is now revealing the proof that we must make a course change. The blessing is that we can be blessed if we will change our thinking, our course. Our destination is still the same.

Once reconciled to God, we are accountable to God. If we do not do as Jesus commands us to do, we are not His friends! He lovingly died for His friends. If I do not do as He commanded, if I did not learn to love as He taught, then I am not His friend, I am an adversary of the kingdom of peace and grace, of God and His eternal will. If this is me then Jesus may as well have not died for me! (John 15:13-14 NAS) He tried to include me but I rejected my responsibility of obedience to His Lordship, His commandments.

As we shudder at the horrendous acts of people that think we have no God, do we wonder where God is? In opposition to His commands, has our hatred or anger been hindering the Lord’s return? I believe it is very likely that it has. Because of God’s mercy and grace, His patience that none should perish in their anger and hatred, in their unresolved family conflicts, He waits. Maybe now we know where He is!

It is God’s grace that He has waited this long! Oh yes. God knows that Satan knows; un-forgiveness can and will rob us of eternal life. Why don’t we know this? Because we have been taught otherwise? Some of us have. Are we “eternally secure” once we make a confession? Is that a relationship? No it is not. God never looked for a confession. He looks for convictions! He looks for commitment based on understanding that, by the power that lies within, sweeps aside worldly and religious understanding for the “saving knowledge” of Jesus Christ; knowing Him yes but much more His intention that, knowing and acting upon what He knew and taught will then save us eventually. What is our will? That will always be the question.

Is there no test to pass, no proof of Christ within us? Even Paul’s instruction, “If you confess,” “if you believe in your heart.” (Romans 10:9-10) is a test! There is no salvation without our involvement, because we are the self-willed subjects of God’s salvation effort.

We must recognize our need for a Savior. We must ask and then make Him Lord by obeying His Ways. Our ways are not His ways. Our ways take us careening off course toward a deadly destination over a horizon we are headed for helter-skelter in our self-righteousness. Like a car racing, air-born over the top of a hill, our brakes are of no use at that point.

His ways and only His Ways, qualify us for eternal life. What are those Ways?

Because, there is a Way, I must follow it. Because there is Truth, I must seek it and know it. Because there is a Life I can gain, I must gain it. (John 14:6 (NASB77)

On talk radio yesterday I heard a moderate Muslim say, “It is ok to deny our faith if our life is being threatened.”

It is our faith that says, “…whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.”

Jesus also said, “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”  Matthew 16:25 (NASB)  [Context: What we believe matters! Which life are we seeking? ]

Paul writing cryptically, about capture and duress, to the believers in Rome says, “…if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; ¹⁰  for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. ¹¹ For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”  Romans 10:9-11 (NASB)

Choose ye this day, which life do you want the most.

Now join the church around the world and prepare yourselves. This preparation will start a revival like none other.

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“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!

It is Palm Sunday.  3-20-16

In prayer I sought. My bible was already randomly opened to Jeremiah 35

I was directed to read it. Then I knew why.

Stop here and read the entire chapter.

How can we cry out Hosanna and not see how He will do it?

Listen to the Spirit and begin to intercede for the church world wide.

Begin, to the extent the Spirit speaks to you, to repent.

You trusted even as a child his father. How much more God?

The reward of standing before the Lord and how to, is spoken of here.

It is God’s grace when He speaks to us, calls to us.

When we listen and answer, in this way, we honor Him as He deserves.

It is not about drinking or not drinking wine. It is about …..

How often has He already shown us?

Michael

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“The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”

Today 3-18-16 I asked and the Spirit said, “Go back to January first.” [in my journal]

I re-post with additions for “…those who should listen.”

On January 1^st, I asked. “Jeremiah 6, was the Spirit’s response.

I read 6 and continued into chapter 7, then went back to chapter 5 also.

In Jeremiah 5:11-13 (NASB) it says, “For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously with Me.” declares the LORD. ^“They have lied about the LORD and said, “Not He; Misfortune will not come on us, and we will not see sword or famine.” The Lord goes on to say, “The prophets [the ones declaring ‘Not He]’are as wind, And the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them!” [added for clarity]

Has the church world wide heard these words? Has the concept of “Not He…” been taught when there are qualifying portions of verse that stipulate why and when “Not He?”

Jeremiah continues in verse 14, “Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, “Because you have spoken this word, [Not He] Behold, I am making My words in your mouth fire And this people wood, and it will consume them.” [added for clarity]

Better we be consumed by the fires of God’s Word here, and be resurrected to new life, than to be consumed forever and ever in an unquenchable fire, wrought by God for those who reject Him by rejecting His ways.

In recognizing destruction as a means to repentance in the camp Paul speaks of one man and says, “ I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.” 1 Corinthians 5:5 (NASB)

Paul knew eternity was more important than this life but that in this life repentance must come before eternity.

What God was willing to do to Jerusalem and His people He is still willing to do to us today, and all the more since we have known His grace, mercy and compassion. We have known His love as well as His discipline. Even the Tares have prospered in this time of waiting. He has been patient but there comes a time.

It is not that each of us has sinned to this point but have we said or have we been taught, “Not He; misfortune will not come on us and we will not see sword or famine.” And yet we stand next to the Tares, the rain falling on the just and the unjust! We have His Word foretelling things clearly. We must see what we see, to avoid what we must avoid!

The world today sees corruption and evil in the midst of our “Christian” nation. Evil and carnality go unchecked by the very “Savior” we proclaim allegiance to. “They are heathens, He is powerless,” they conclude, in their assay of our nation. He is not our God, as some have declared; “We are not a Christian Nation.”  Oh what destruction we have brought upon ourselves! Sadly, the remnant will suffer with the unbeliever but the everlasting conclusions are far removed from each other.

“They [those who say Not He…] have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ But there is no peace.” Jeremiah 6:14 (NASB)  [added for clarity]

“Be warned, O Jerusalem, Or I shall be alienated from you, And make you a desolation, A land not inhabited.” Jeremiah 6:8 (NASB)

BE WARNED AMERICA. If guilty of the same things what should we expect? To be uninhabited by Him is to truly be uninhabited. So,…

“Thus says the LORD, “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; and you will find rest for your souls.” Jeremiah 16:6 NASB

Righteousness was our ancient path. Christianity was our path. In His Ways are the Truth, and Life everlasting. Beginning with our own hearts, we must make the journey back to His Way, Truth and Life whether the nation does or not.

By Jeremiah here is what God said at the end of verse 6:16.

“But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.”

“And I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen.’ 6:17.

We might say about some prophecies, “This has happened already.” However, God is talking about things that He is against and not about events.

I believe He is saying to us again, “I change not. My standards are no different. I delivered Myself into your hands, appealing to your hearts as your means of escape. I did it for My names sake. My name means salvation not judgment.”

“My Word explains how to avoid the judgment that a rebellious heart will bring upon its self. As a nation you have forsaken, personally you who have not embraced My salvation, My Way, My Truth, My Life, have forsaken the gift I have freely given. The real gift is My Sons life in front of you. To the extent you do not obey Him, you have not honored our agreement. I forgave and saved you and you were to obey the teachings, the Way, of Christ Jesus.”

The free gift to us is not the washing and the forgiveness alone. It is the Words of Eternal life, in the lessons by Christ. It is the washing and forgiveness we learn to and do grant others. This demonstrates who and Whose we are.

He is the judge. We must guard our tongues. His righteousness that we demonstrate in the face of persecution, false accusation and trial is what teaches and leads others into the kingdom. Christ proved it. It also delivers us into the arms of our benevolent heavenly Father, as it did Christ Himself.

Do not think trouble is not coming. It is. Whether it does or not, eternal preparation now protects us then, whenever our “then” comes upon us.

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“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (NASB)

• Egypt viewer yesterday, “Children of Abraham or not.” Many in Middle East have read our posts. They should.

3-16-16 In prayer I asked where in the Word I should read. “You have opened it already. See Ezekiel 3:6.” (I did not know what was there. God knows this is true.) “… nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you;…”

The Spirit did not say 3:7 “… yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate.”

I felt the Spirit was not willing to say this through me now (verse 7) because it is time for Israel to listen and all who will, will. Just because He spoke of their being stubborn and obstinate does not mean it is a condition that cannot change. It would seem logical that in speaking through His Word He could omit anything that He no longer wants to be true. Still with all men everywhere, some will listen, some will not.

“Thank You Lord for opening hearts and making Ways.”

I speak to all men for all should listen. Is it possible God is no longer declaring rebelliousness over Israel? For what difference is there between nations when one has believed a lie and another has followed a contradiction. For one nation Jesus is not the Messiah. For the other, God kills when His name means the opposite and His patience has been made known. Yahweh means “Salvation” not destruction. Jesus means, “Yahweh saves” not Yahweh destroys.

When the covenant of Moses is satisfied by a premier sacrifice and is replaced by a new covenant a restoration of Abraham’s covenant, then that which was established through Jesus the Messiah, through the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob must stand. It is the last covenant to be made for eternity.

To cry “We are children of Abraham” and not keep the covenant where God is to be Lord, is to be removed as one who breaks the covenant. See Genesis 17:14. It was not the lack of circumcision it was refusal to be circumcised, refusal to obey the instructions of the Lord through His man Abraham. This breaks covenant with God because one is actually saying in his heart I do not have to obey Him or He is not my God, even though there is evidence that God is in Abraham’s life or later on in the life of Christ and His disciples. And how much more should we now submit to His benign Lordship when uncountable numbers around the world can testify of personal experiences with God.

Submission by self crucifixion? God says vengeance is mine. There is no place for vengeance in the heart of true followers. Vengeance is a privilege of absolute authority, of God the Father alone.

To all men I say the one and only living God does not contradict Himself. You are not to hate or kill in His name, the name that means “salvation.” You contradict the One who says He is, “I AM that I AM”, for by His name He shall be known and not by your actions.

To offer Himself as “Salvation” and to uphold His name through His Son Jesus, whom He named, is the ultimate expression of love.

Yahweh is the God of love. Only those who reject His loving appeals and instructions need fear damnation and eternal judgment and that by their own choices.

For the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. NO ONE shall enter who is of a different spirit or retains a different spirit on purpose.

The days of opportunity are numbered. Do what you can to spare, be merciful and show grace so you can receive the same from Him.

To those Islamic militants who might read this. Listen to the persecuted Christians as they pray for you as you torture, rape or kill them. Ask yourself “How can this be?” Their intercession protects their salvation while it also opens a door to your salvation and true eternal life.

To not respond to the Spirit of God in them, to not call out to the real God of Abraham, to remain on this doctrinal side, is damnation. There are no virgins; only utter darkness and eternal separation from God. How grieving it will be to spend forever in darkness, weeping and gnashing your teeth when such a radical effort was made to reach you?  It was love like you have never known and will not know unless you cry out to God and His Son Jesus the Christ to be rescued from yourself.

To break through your own understanding, to receive His understanding, is eternal life. We all must make that break through, crucifying our own positions for His. He will help if we ask for help. Courage will enter your heart that is simply and profoundly His presence in you. You will know He is real.

As those you kill intercede for you, the God of Abraham places value on their sacrificial interceding efforts by valuing your soul as they did, as Christ did before them. They are the proof of God Himself seeking you. Their testimony, this enduring love that treasures eternity and your soul more than you do, will be a witness to all nations and then the end will come. Salvation will be too late for any who refuse to grasp the gift, who fail to endure in the loving Way of Christ.

All men really should listen. Jews, Christians, Muslims, all men. None are exempt.

To those who rise up against Christianity. You are spoken of as well as your demise. THAT is why this appeal is being made. All men, all men, will bow now or be lost then. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob never loses. He does appeal to all in justice and righteousness desiring that none should perish. Some will.

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If we could know the core problem of mankind, would we do what it takes to remedy our problem? God knows the core problem and God has made it possible for us to “do what it takes” to resolve a condition that WILL NOT enter eternity with Him. No the problem is not man’s depravity, it is not sin. It is the cause of the depravity (“to make morally bad: corrupt” Webster’s New World Dictionary) and the resulting sin! Jesus Himself spoke of it directly.

As I have written before, (Romans 3:25) Jesus died for sins previously committed; for our sins before we met Him. Afterwards, we are to walk in the self-crucifying ways of Christ, the merciful, forgiving, loving Ways of Jesus as a testimony of Him and in order for us to maintain our covering of Christ’s blood. He is not to be crucified again by us. (Hebrews 6:6 NASB)

Via the Way of Christ, we are to maintain our reconciled relationship with the Father. As I have written before, we must “do righteousness” in order for God to give us all that is promised in the Abrahamic covenant. (Genesis 18:19) Again this is not traditional thinking but no less true. It is actually more believable than the Carte Blanch grace and forgiveness that has traditionally been our favorite doctrine.

Can we not see this training by Christ (to actually become Christ-like) as the eternal life kingdom Way which He then showed us both for His and our eternal purpose? Does one become a Marine (for instance) without “doing?”

I volunteered and was sworn in as a Marine in 1969 but was deferred out within a few short weeks for medical reasons. I could say I was a Marine (being sworn in) but I did not go through the training that “makes” one a Marine. I get “sworn in” as a Christian accepting the Lordship of my commanding officer, my obedience to the prerequisite training then makes me one in fact.

It is true, Jesus died once for all but not for all sins. He did not die for sins not yet committed. Jesus died for the sins of all men that turn to Him for merciful reconciliation to God. As I spoke of above, there is a cost and commitment on our part. We must submit our will to His will. This again flies in the face of some traditional thinking but is no less true.

I find no provision for the forgiveness of our future sins except in the good news of the kingdom, the Way as expressed in the Lord’s Prayer. The forgiving by God of our future sins comes as we obey Christ’s teachings to forgive to be forgiven, reaping what we sow, as we climb upon that daily cross, willingly dying to self, forgiving and interceding for our persecutors and enemies, NOT returning evil for evil. We are covered by Him as we cover others by self crucifying grace.

Why would Jesus tell us to pick up our own cross daily if we are not to climb upon it, if our climbing upon it willingly did not have eternal purposes like it did for Him, accomplishing our (eventual) salvation like it did for Him? Or was it only to have us just carry it or hang it around our neck? “Well He died so we would not have to!” Yet scripture over and over says die to old ways, whoever loses his life shall gain it, flesh and blood will NOT inherit the kingdom of God. Any benefit to be received by us will be the result of choices we must make with His help. The more we do not require His help, the more His second nature becomes obvious in us! This is in fact the distressing news of Daniel 12. We must awaken to our responsibility and empowerment in the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings rejoicing in our future with Him.

Think people. If all is done, if Jesus did it all, why pick up a cross at all. Why the teachings that contradict our nature except that our carnal condition must be replaced by a Christ condition? There is something far more than symbolic to be accomplished here! Or have we missed something?

“We’re not good enough are we?” We all would agree but I say we are missing something because of our impaired judgment. This is the problem since Adam. To the extent our thinking is un-renewed our doomed impaired judgment is not healed. Impaired judgment is not healed by Christ’s death. Our ability to judge righteously is healed by the teachings of Jesus life! “We are saved by His life.” (Romans 5:10) Our old ways must die. His new Ways must live!

Jesus, the Son of Man, has shown us the Way to our potential! It is a potential God designed into us, in His image and His likeness, to be accomplished here in preparation for there! Our impaired judgment must be repaired for us to meet our potential in Him.

If we keep saying we are not good enough, then how can we ever overcome when salvation and perfection through reconciliation make us good enough for Him, by His own plan,? We are prophesying against ourselves!

Once reconciled to God through the death of His Son and our surrender to Jesus as Lord, our potential is unlimited. It has never been about doing something to get “saved” or reconciled. That was a free gift from God upon our surrender to Christ and His Lordship.

Rejoice! In being reconciled to God by the death of His Son (Romans 5:10 NASB) we are made perfect by the utter cleansing of our sins, we are made sinless, new born, all unrighteousness removed SO THAT we can have a relationship with the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 1 John 1:5-10 warns us what to avoid afterwards.

From the point of reconciliation forward we stay saved now and in the future by the life Jesus showed us and taught us. Jesus came as a second Adam to repair our impaired judgment caused by the first Adam, by teaching us about our impaired judgment. Impaired judgment is the core problem of mankind.

In John 9:39 Jesus says,  “And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.”

Read it. The Pharisees by their impaired judgment threw the healed blind man out of the Temple and so excommunicated him from God? Jesus hears about it. Jesus comes to the man and says plainly why He came into the world, not to judge but because of our judging! “For judgment…” or “against” (“eis” Strongs 1519) judgment I came…  Remember His last portion of teaching at the Sermon on the Mount.
“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. ² “For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.” Matthew 7:1-2 (NASB)  

I absolutely believe mankind was destroyed the first time, by God and the flood, because of the multiplied upon multiplied judgments mankind had brought upon itself. Those judgments had been measured back to them with exponential effect. The Matthew 7:1-2 principal existed even though it had not been written yet. It is an eternal principal. In each case they became guilty of that which they judged others for. Over the decades all men became poisoned by their own words. God was sorry He had made man. God starts over with Noah and his family. They are not perfect, just righteous through obedient hearts. They built the Arc despite the worldly criticism. Their obedience determined the end for almost all life. Our Arc of obedience to enduring love will do the same!

So Jesus comes to us not just to die for our sins or to pay the ultimate price, as we call it; I call it, the “going” rate, in laying down His life for our sake as we must for Him.

To make His death meaningful in a more far reaching way, He first teaches us new ways to deal with this life. They are the gospel or good news of the kingdom of God, the qualifying characteristics of a child of the king. It is no longer an eye for an eye but to turn the other cheek, walk the extra mile, to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. By obediently following Him we express our submission to and love for God.

In Christ our impaired judgment (through Adam) can be repaired! This is good news! This is what God must see in us after our reconciliation. He must see the righteous judgment of Christ functioning in us. We will see the truth about others but we are to intercede only. Grace must reign over our hearts, toward others. Our eternal life depends on it.
”…so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 5:21 NASB

Jesus also tells us, in Luke 17:26 (NASB) “And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man,…” speaking of the sudden return of Christ like lightening across the sky, verse 24.

We have a responsibility to obediently prepare ourselves. The Holy Spirit will help.

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