Saturday, May 6, 2017, 9:46 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Full Release.” Speak, Lord, your words
to my heart. I read Acts 4 (Select
vv. NIV).
Proclaiming Jesus (vv. 1-2)
The priests and the captain of the temple guard and
the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people.
They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people,
proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
The Lord Jesus is giving me a
picture here of today’s modernized institutional church here in America, which
is in partnership – an unholy alliance – with the U.S. government, via the
501c3 tax code. Via this unholy alliance with the U.S. government, the church
has incorporated the body of Christ, and has turned God’s house into a
marketplace (a business) where it is marketed to the public just like any other
human-based business, with all the trappings of the world as its base, i.e. its
foundation is marketing schemes and techniques for how to grow their “churches”
(businesses). And, the world and the naive are its customer base, i.e. its
targeted audience. In addition, the government is its head, i.e. this unholy alliance
has been added on top of our covenant relationship with Jesus Christ, so this church
is, thus, in a spiritually adulterous relationship with the U.S. government.
Because the restructured
institutional church has turned God’s house into a marketplace, it has also
diluted the gospel of Jesus Christ to make it more appealing and acceptable to
the world. The gospel message, thus, has been altered to fit with the felt
needs of the customer base who clamor for feel-good messages which tickle
itching ears. So, largely they teach that all one has to do is pray some words
after someone else, or else they just have to have a human belief in Jesus
Christ and in what he did for us in becoming our substitutionary sacrifice on a
cross for our sins, but which does not require repentance, submission or
obedience to Christ and to his Word. Thus, the adherent to this faith has the
impression that God’s grace gives free license to continue in sin without guilt
and without remorse.
So, if any followers of
Christ teach the full gospel message (the whole counsel of God), teaching what
Jesus and his NT apostles taught with regard to our salvation, which includes
the necessary requirements of repentance, submission and obedience to Christ
and to his Word, then the contemporary and worldly institutional church leaders
are upset by this, and so is the U.S. government, and the New World Order
beast, or the shadow government, which is the de facto government of these
United States.
And, if we call to people’s
attention the adulterous relationship the church is having with the U.S.
government/shadow government, and if we call the church to come out of her (to
separate), and/or if we confront sin, warn of judgment, call for repentance
(and obedience), yet promise hope for the repentant, we are being singled out
as intolerant, bigoted, and hateful, etc. The same applies if we oppose the
plans of this fashionable institutional church movement and the plans of our
government to get all people to agree to ridding ourselves of all which divides
us (the gospel divides), and to unifying with the world in being accepting of
all religions and of all chosen lifestyles. They are unhappy with us, and so
they tag us as dangerous.
Against the Lord (vv. 25b-28)
“‘Why do the nations rage
and the
peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth rise up
and the
rulers band together
against the Lord
and against
his anointed one.’
Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the
Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy
servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided
beforehand should happen.”
Here the Lord Jesus is giving
me a picture of this New World Order beast, in particular in relation to the
USA, but to the world, as a whole, too. The U.S. government is not the true
power in America. There is a shadow government of the elite of the world (the
wealthy and powerful) who are the de facto government of these United States,
and who are the ones truly ruling the world. Our government works for them,
i.e. they are in subjection to them, and serve as their right-hand man and
military force throughout the world in conquering nations, peoples and
Christians; in raping, pillaging, and murdering innocents, confiscating and
destroying property, and in taking over sovereign nations, and in bringing them
into subjection to the beast New World Order of the Elite of this world. And,
then they deceive the American public into believing that the US government is
the “good guys.”
This New World Order beast is
in the process of taking over America, too, and bringing our nation into full
subjection to this beast, as well. And, our government is party to this
takeover. Just as we have done to other countries in the world, so is being
done to us in order that the New World Order beast may rule supreme over all
the world, and that we might be under a one-world totalitarian government and
one-world religion, unless, of course, we refuse to bow to this beast, but then
we can expect to be persecuted and/or imprisoned or even killed for our faith
in Jesus Christ and for our testimonies for him and for his gospel of
salvation.
This New World Order is being
built upon the graves of the dead, including upon the graves of our sons and
daughters in the military. All these wars and political upheavals are all part
of the plot of this beast to take over sovereign nations and to bring them
under the authority of this beast (New World Order). So, this beast is also
being built upon the deaths of independent nations. From the ashes of the old
order of things a new order of the ages is dawning (rising), which is this
beast New World Order. A new holocaust is in the works, but this time it is the
extermination of Christians who hold to the tenets of the Christian faith and
who hold strong to the teachings of Jesus and those of the NT apostles. We are
being strongly opposed both in this modernized institutional church and by the
government.
Yet, this time was prophesied
in scripture, in particular in Revelation 13. So, it must take place. Our God
is going to allow evil to reign for a short period of time, and he is allowing
this beast to conquer peoples, nations and the saints of God. So, things are
going to get much worse, and this world is going to get even more evil and
immoral than it already is. Yet, I believe that scripture teaches that during
this time our Lord is going to revive his adulterous church, spread his gospel
to all nations, and bring many people to faith in Jesus Christ. He is going to
purify his people (his bride) in order to prepare her for the consummation of
her marriage to Jesus Christ. And, all this must take place before our Lord
returns and takes us to be with him forever. God’s purposes will prevail, and
Satan and his hordes are defeated already. They plot evil against us in vain,
for we belong to God.
Consider Their Threats (vv. 29-31)
“Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your
servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal
and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
After they prayed, the place where they were meeting
was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of
God boldly.
When the reality of all this
hits, particularly in America, and we are under serious persecution, we need to
pray for strength and courage to keep speaking boldly for our Lord and for his
gospel, and to keep following him wherever he leads us, and to never compromise
with the enemy.
Full Release
/ An Original Work / April 15, 2012
Walking daily with my Savior
brings me joy.
Loving Father; precious
Jesus;
He’s my Savior and my Lord.
Gently leads me; follow Him.
I’ve invited Him within.
Now abiding in His presence,
oh, what peace.
From my self-life
He has brought me,
By His mercy, full release.
Hope and comfort,
peace and safety Jesus brings
When I daily bow before Him;
Obey freely; do His will.
Follow Him where’er He leads.
Listen to Him; His words
heed.
Now obeying his words fully,
oh, what love
That He gives me
through salvation,
By His Spirit, from above.
Loving Father; precious
Jesus,
He’s my friend.
With my Savior, by His
Spirit,
I will endure to the end.
Share the gospel, tell what’s
true.
Witness daily; His will do.
Tell the world of how their
Savior
bled and died.
On a cruel cross He suffered
So that we might be alive.
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