Run With It: God's Holy Temple

Monday, December 29, 2014, 7:00 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song, “Fully Ready.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Psalm 79:1-4 (ESV).

A Psalm of Asaph.

O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;

they have defiled your holy temple;

they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

They have given the bodies of your servants

to the birds of the heavens for food,

the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.

They have poured out their blood like water

all around Jerusalem,

and there was no one to bury them.

We have become a taunt to our neighbors,

mocked and derided by those around us.

As recorded in Revelation 11, John was told to measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but to not measure the court outside the temple, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

The temple of God is now the church, the body of Christ, the city of God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and the altar a reference to our personal worship of God, a place where we meet God in prayer, and a place of personal sacrifice, i.e. of giving our lives to God in surrender to his will and his purposes for our lives (See: Ro. 12:1-2). We are now the holy city, as the physical city of Jerusalem is now of Hagar, the slave woman, but we, as followers of Christ, are of the free woman and are the children of promise. As well, the Word of God is the measurement by which this temple, the body of Christ, was to undergo spiritual examination (See: Rev. 2-3 for examples). It is also believers in Jesus Christ who are being trampled by the nations. And, this is happening right now in our day and time, though certainly I don’t know where we are exactly in God’s timetable concerning the last days.

What I can tell you is that Christ’s followers – his servants and witnesses - are being persecuted severely and are being put to death throughout the world right now, and by the nations. So, who are these nations? They are comprised of the USA and their NATO allies, though I believe that is expanding. For the past 8 years the Lord Jesus has been opening my eyes and he has been making me aware of what is truly going on in the government of the USA, the UN, and with our NATO allies. I believe that these nations together form what is commonly referred to as the New World Order (alias the beast), and that they are under the authority of a group of elitists who basically are the ones who rule the world.

As well, what the Lord Jesus has been opening my eyes to see these past 8 years is how these nations, primarily the USA, which leads the way in power and in military strength, have created crisis situations and chaos in various nations, including inside our own nation, in order to justify going in to other nations (and now into our own, too) to kill and to destroy at will, to overpower existing governments, and to consume the natural resources of these various nations so that they have complete control of the world’s natural resources, which is why we won’t be able to buy or sell unless we have the mark of the beast. The US and their allies also create “terrorist” organizations and financially support them so that they also have an excuse to go into other nations to kill and to destroy at will.

One of the latest creations of the US/N.W.O. is “ISIS,” which they blame for creating all kinds of havoc and for killing (beheading) Christians and journalists, et al. ISIS just so happens to be the name of an Egyptian goddess who, according to mythology, was the mother of Horus. The All-Seeing eye above the unfinished pyramid on our great seal and on our $1 bill is the Eye of Horus. Supposedly the Statue of Liberty was patterned after this goddess, as many of our statues and buildings in Washington D.C. are also patterned after Greek, Roman and/or Egyptian gods and goddesses, including the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the statue which sits on top of our Capital Building. Many of our winter storms of the past two years, as well, have been named after these mythological gods and goddesses. And, we are supposedly a Christian nation.

So, not only has the US government invaded the Lord’s inheritance in the USA via the 501c3 not-for-profit corporation status of churches, thus regulating what churches can and cannot do or say, they have wielded a strong influence, I believe, over what is being taught in our churches today, which is a soft-sell gospel, which is no gospel at all, and which purposefully targets the world, serves to entertain, and shies away from talking about sin, repentance, judgment, hell, punishment and obedience, because it does not want to offend or to make people uncomfortable, and because it wants the world to like coming to its meetings. Yet, the US government also, I believe, are directly or indirectly responsible for the persecution and murdering of Christians throughout the world, and are moving in that direction within the USA itself through the use of fake or orchestrated crisis situations, which then allows them to change our laws, but not in our favor. See the National Defense Authorization Act 2014 as one example of this (link provided below).

Basically, I believe the US government and their allies (the nations) are presently involved in doing exactly what this passage of scripture speaks of, which is the trampling of God’s temple, his church, and the murdering of those who hold to the testimony of Jesus and who keep the commandments of God/Christ. Yet, I also believe that through the church undergoing such severe persecution that it is bearing fruit for the gospel and for the salvation of souls, and that many people will come to faith in Jesus Christ as they see these believers in Jesus Christ stand strong in their faith and not bow to the beast. I believe we are destined to be persecuted and to even be killed for our testimonies for Christ before Christ returns for his bride, but that through this suffering the adulterous church will be revived, and that many will flock to God’s holy mountain, Jesus Christ, and to his gospel of salvation (See Isaiah 2, which is a prophecy about these last days before Christ’s return).

Yet, we are not to fear what is happening and what is about to happen, because all these things must take place. They were all prophesied about in scripture, so they will happen.

Instead, we should be ready to suffer and to even die for the sake of Christ and his gospel of salvation, because our suffering will not be in vain. God will use it to strengthen our faith and our resolve, and to move us to share his gospel of salvation with others, so that many can know the way of salvation and can be saved before the end of time. Yet, we should not wait until things get really bad before we get off our couches and away from our TV sets and we begin to take God and his word seriously, and the salvation of lost souls seriously, and we stand for the truth of God’s word in this perverse generation, rather than join in with them or rather than just entertain them so that they die without hope.

Oh, how I pray that we will take this seriously and that for those of us in the USA, that we will inquire of our Lord concerning the goings on inside the walls of our government, that we will ask the Lord what our government is doing in all these other nations, and that we will seek the Lord concerning what they are doing in our own nation. I pray we would also inquire of the Lord concerning the shortness of time, and that we will get serious about God, about his word, and about sharing his gospel, because time is truly short.

Fully Ready! / An Original Work / June 19, 2013

Based off Acts 20-22, 26; Mt. 28:18-20; Ac. 1:8

Why are you weeping and breaking my heart?

I’m fully ready to suffer for Christ.

If I must die for the sake of His name,

I am convinced it will not be in vain.

Glory to God and to His Son Jesus,

Who has redeemed us; bought with His blood.

May I speak to you? Jesus came to me;

Asked of me, “Why do you persecute me?”

He said, “Now get up and stand on your feet.

Go, and you’ll be told all I have for you.