God is Still in Control!!!

Nothing that happens is out of God's hands.

He closed the churches using wicked people because the churches have been disobeying God's word in most things for many years.

Most people who say they are Christian lack the fruit of the Spirit because they have never been born again and yet they are the example of Christianity to the unsaved world. Because of this there are many false converts within the church today.

God is removing the lampstand because our country has attempted to bring its own gospel into the church gatherings rather than worshiping the real Jesus Christ.

Most churches are disobeying more of God's Word than they are obeying, repeating paganistic mantras as well as fighting with authentic believers in their quest to modernize the church.

Satan is present in most gatherings as he influences the ungodly to mock and demean those who wish to stay true to the Word of God.

Sensationalism has taken over the church gatherings. The desire to be special and superior to others drives the mentality of many church attendees.

We are living in those end times spoken of in 2 Timothy 3. It is vitally important that we refrain from listening to those who are deeply rooted in the ways of the world to the point of defending sin and false doctrine. We must rebuke this false doctrine. Be aware that if you stand firm in God's Word you will be verbally and emotionally attacked and there will be no one to come alongside and defend God or you.

Do not feel bad or depressed because of this, rejoice that you are counted among those who remain faithful.

Matthew 5:10-12 "…10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. 12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.…"

There are some of you who enjoy friendship on Facebook but are not finding the same friendship in your communities. This might show us how few authentic believers there are left in the world. We are finding one another on the internet but lack close friendships in our own hometowns. We are too radically in love with Jesus Christ to be enjoyed by those who love this world.

If you have one friend in your town that you can trust and who loves Christ as much as you do then count yourself fortunate and blessed. Some people have no one in family or community that comes alongside. These people must be very strong to remain joyful. Just like Noah and Lot in their day.

Matthew 24:37-39

"37 For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be."

The Era of Raging Insanity

Just as many in our culture today, narcissists interpret our responses in terms of how they would feel if they were responding instead of us.

For example; when we ask a friend to correct the date on a paper they are giving us, rather than smile and do it with gladness, they become irritated as though we did something wrong in asking for the correction.

Why would this happen, why the angst instead of the loving compliance? The reason is that if the narcissist were asking for a date change they would be angry that we were stupid enough to make a mistake and they would demand that we fix it while they are shaming us for the mistake.

They think that we are doing what they would do if the situation was reversed. Narcissists cannot see what is really happening, they will interpret everything in terms of shame and guilt as a means of control over the emotions of others.

If we were asking a narcissist to do something for us, they would assume we were attempting to control them. They believe we are attempting to control them because if they were asking us for something they would be attempting to control us.

This is why they have so much anger expressed continually. They are angry and assume we are angry. They have hatred when they do things with others and assume the others are angry at them.

If we were to give a gift to a narcissist they assume we are trying to manipulate them because if they gave a gift to us they would be manipulating us.

If a narcissist says we are lying, its because they lie all the time. If a narcissist says we were angry at them, they are revealing they were angry at us.

These are all ploys of the devil. Those who are full-on narcissists are being played by the devil. He is controlling their emotions and their words. When we encounter them and the encounter seems irrational and untrue, then we can assume it is the devil in control.

This is why we have no need to feel defensive or respond to it, we know where it comes from and it is not about us or toward us, it is toward the Holy Spirit Who lives in us.

We can expect to experience more of this irrational thinking and response in these last days. As 2 Timothy 3 states very clearly what we are watching in these end times, we are watching "raging insanity" take place, growing more blatant every day.

2 Timothy 3

1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these.

6 For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless in regard to the faith.

9 But they will not make further progress; for their foolishness will be obvious to all, just as was that also of Jannes and Jambres.

10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,

11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!

12 Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

13 But evil people and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness;

17 so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work."

As born-again believers, we have overcome the devil by the power of the Holy Spirit. We need not fear him or those whom he uses.

Hallelujah!!!

False Teachers in this Present Day

Matthew 24:24 "For there shall arise false christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

In these last days, we are seeing thrown at us many deceptions and many false teachers who are detracting from the Word of God through concepts added from the book of Enoch to the Bible. This book is demonic and full of contradictions to the Bible.

Sadly one of the means used these days is the attraction to "sci-fi" ideas that titillate the minds of those who lack faith.

When you hear phrases like; "I think it could be" followed by "since this is true", we know we are dealing with someone caught up in the ideas of their own mind and their own desires to be seen as having special knowledge, this is Gnosticism, that is any kind of knowledge for its own sake.

One of the tricks of the devil is to make an assertion based on desired thinking and then speak from that point on as though it is fact.

Many preachers today are adding to the word of God by concocting bits of information they choose to believe attaching "God" to it to make it sound like credible Biblical information. This ploy is common now and very deceptive.

One of these preachers is Billy Crone. He has an over-emphasis on sci-fi without credible evidence. His evidence is based on snippets of conversation by government authorities taken out of context to influence others to believe what he is saying. Billy has been of the "entertainment" mindset living in Las Vegas and has used sensationalism and levity to influence others into his false assertions. In short, he is an entertainer by nature.

By his own testimony, he states that he was heavily into the occult as a young man. Then he became a Christian rejecting those cults. However, I notice that he retains his "sensationalist" desire for outlandish unbiblical sci-fi, often adding to scripture, leaving out scripture, and stating his assertions as though they are facts.

The most used argument today that has influenced many Christians is the assertion that angels impregnated human women creating giants. This came from the book of Enoch and is blasphemy.

The reason it is blasphemy is that it asserts that devils have the same power that God the Father did when He impregnated the body of Mary.

Let's take a look at the nature of the devils. God conveyed clearly that angels do not procreate, they have no gender nor do they have a seed. They can appear as men in allusion but they do not become men. Luke 20

God also said that He created each after its own kind, a cat does not mate with a dog, nor do other different species of animals mate with each other. Angels are spirit beings without physical bodies, nor do they have a seed for the purpose of procreation.

If a man was possessed of a devil and that devil caused the man to impregnate a woman then the seed is the man's seed and would be a human baby.

In order to make the "Nephilim" be the product of spirit human interaction, one would have to add to scripture from other books that are demonic.

God said there were giants in the land at the time the men of God came to the daughters of men, that is godly men who slept with pagan women, that there were giants in the land at the time. Nowhere does it convey that the giants had anything to do with the union of the men of God and the pagan women. The bible does not state that the Nephilim were the offspring of the union of godly men and pagan women.

I am becoming more shocked all the time about all the popular and famous preachers who are believing this nonsense.

Now we are watching well-known preachers camping full-on with the sci-fi beliefs in which they are twisting Scripture as well as adding things to scripture to make it palatable with their desired sci-fi beliefs.

Much of this information about the Nephilim is "false knowledge" to influence people to buy books as well as exciting with pleasurable information that distracts them from God.

The deception is all around us now, probably more deception than truth is flying everywhere to deter believers from worship and faith in Christ.

1 Timothy 6:20-21 " 20 O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,” 21 which some have professed and thus swerved away from the faith. Grace be with you all.…"

We are becoming few now, those who desire the pure Word of God unadulterated. We are satisfied with seeking Christ as revealed in the Bible. We have no need for sensationalism or other sources outside the Bible for our truth.

Every book we read we read with the mindset to evaluate it according to the Bible. If the book we read does not match what God said in His Word then we discard that book and remain faithful to the Bible.

Brothers and Sisters beware of those who bring "new revelation" without strong Biblical evidence. Beware of those who snatch pieces of the Bible out of context to fit their desired belief. Question all things and discard anything that is contrary to God's Word.

Please do not be deceived by all these fanciful beliefs that only take us away from Christ. And, please do not be influenced by the popularity of the preachers who teach this silliness.

Popularity does not equate to truth, actually just the opposite. Often the most popular preachers are the ones deviating from the Word of God to entertain their flock.

Galatians 6:7-10

"7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. 9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith."

We will become like those we follow, books we read and people whom we hear regularly. Be careful to stay close to those who love the Word of God in actions not only in words. Watch what they love and who or what they speak about most, this will tell us where their loyalty lies.