May Israel be Blessed after the Rapture

The Lord brought an idea to mind just recently while listening to a born-again Jew. He said he was going to leave his inheritance to Israel.

So many people have rebellious children who have no regard for them. God will only give an inheritance to those who love Him. He will not give an inheritance to those who reject Him. We can live by this same example.

Children who despise us will not suddenly be softened by getting an inheritance from us. If money softens them, then it is not the love of us but the love of the money.

We know the love of children is authentic when they expect nothing from us but treat us with honor and respect anyway.

Perhaps this is a lesson for born-again believers. Instead of leaving our assets to children who despise us, we could bless Israel with it.

When we are raptured out of here and our assets are left behind we can bless those who will be born-again in Israel during the tribulation. God will know where to send the inheritance and to whom it must go.

Now the prayer has to be asking God how to carry out leaving the inheritance to bless Israel. If this is God's will for believers.

We are living in times in which adult children have no or little interest in their parents. They want to be left alone without their parents to have fun and earn their fortunes. Perhaps this is the time to make our inheritance useful during a time when believers will need the resources.

After all, money is not important for eternity, only salvation is vitally important and how we spend that money to help believers, especially those who become born again after the rapture in Israel.

I have never been fond of the idea of leaving an inheritance to children who will spend it on their pleasures and foolishness when it could go to serve those who love Christ.

Just a thought to pray about. Since unsaved family members are not our real family because we belong to the family of Christ, we are free to pray for them as we walk away to live our lives for Christ, even after the rapture or death whichever comes first.

Everyone has to seek God on this, I am not even sure myself how this could be done, but God can show me when the timing is right.

Praise Him for His direction to us through the Holy Spirit.

We Will One Day Rule With Christ

Guiltlessness Through the Holy Spirit is our Comfort

When we owned an ice cream business we went to fairs, festivals, and high schools to sell our cups of ice cream, I noticed from time to time that the young girls who were dressed immodestly would pull their clothes together as if to hide a little when they interacted with me in the booth.

I was smiling, happy, engaging, and non-judgmental, but something about our interaction caused them to want to cover up what they had exposed.

I believe it was the Holy Spirit in me that convicted them and nothing about me personally. Those who are dressed immodestly are convicted by the Holy Spirit when they encounter Him.

They either hide as Adam and Eve did or they become angry and try to find something wrong with the person who has the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.

Mankind knows what is modest and what is not, even unbelieving men will show more respect to a woman dressed modestly than they do to a woman who is showing too much. They sort of sense the immodest woman wants them to lust after her, that's why she dresses that way.

This principle of Holy Spirit conviction is also true of narcissists who act rudely but want to despise those who do not act this way.

When a narcissist encounters someone who is hospitable they use rudeness, sometimes covertly to intimidate the believer into responding in anger. Their purpose is to cause a sinful attitude in their target so the narcissist can feel good about their rudeness.

When we do not respond in anger or rudeness to the narcissist their contempt grows worse as they escalate their attempts but in such a covert way that it could have plausible deniability. If confronted they can feign the victim to make the real victim seem guilty.

One example of this is when you have decorated your home in a way that pleases you and your husband. The narcissist comes to visit and the first thing out of their mouth is; "why did you paint these walls, I don't really like the color."

The first question in my mind would be; "why are you telling me that, after all, you don't live here. Should I change my walls to suit you?"

We know there is no real purpose in making a rude comment like the narcissist expresses because the color of the walls is not their business and not in their home. The only reason to say such a rude thing is to make the owner of the home feel foolish for their own taste in decorating.

A kind person might not like the color but would not say anything because they know the home does not belong to them, and it is not their business to like or dislike it. The kind person who didn't like the decorating would not say anything or would choose one aspect they did like and comment on that.

It has been my experience that kind people don't notice decorating or how a person is dressed. They are interested in visiting with the friend they love, not too much else matters.

For the narcissist politeness, kindness and hospitality are embarrassing. They do not show kindness and hospitality so they hate when someone else does. In other words, the narcissist hates anyone "upstaging" them in good deeds. Since they are not generally hospitable and do not have love they are challenged by those who do express love and kindness.

This is one of the reasons we must keep our distance from those who have no manners because they like to be rude. We operate from the Holy Spirit love, they hate it and attempt to destroy it in us by their responses to it.

We must resolve never to become like the narcissist by allowing them to goad us into acting the way they do through terse and dismissive remarks. Often the best way to handle those who act rudely is to ignore the rudeness with a smile or no expression at all.

Silence can be golden when we are being poked by the narcissist. They do not have anything to hold against us and we maintain the love in our Spirit. The Holy Spirit can remove the desire to teach the narcissist anything through a response.

A response to narcissistic rudeness is food for them, they will continue to poke as long as we continue to respond. Remember we cannot teach the narcissist anything, they are literally "hell bent" on ruining their target.

The devil uses the narcissist to upset the Christian into sinful responses, it teaches the narcissist that they can be rude because the Christian is also rude.

Narcissists are angry people all the time. The anger dwells inside the narcissist floating around in there for an opportunity to rise to the surface at any moment.

James 1:20

"For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God."

Proverbs 22:24

"Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,"

Proverbs 14:29

"Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly."

Remember a man given to anger full of themselves is not able to learn a lesson from us, so just don't even try to teach them. Leave room for the Lord to handle them while you allow the Holy Spirit to support you.

Proverbs 19:19

"A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again."

Proverbs 15:18

"A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention."

Never give the narcissist what he wants, that is a frustrated and angry reaction from us. The Holy Spirit can help us with this. There is nothing more satisfying than remaining calm and kind in the face of personal attacks, our guiltlessness is our comfort.

Time to Grow Up

What is Better!

Karen Puff Rosenkrantz said this!

"It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

There is only one Gospel."

End Times People - A Biographical Prophecy | Dr. David Jeremiah

The Dramatic Growth of Apostsy in the Church in these Last Days

We are watching apostasy grow dramatically in the last few years.

Most people I knew who attended church regularly did not know their Bibles. Many of those who did know some of the Bible misused it according to the culture.

Creeping into the church are ideas that come out of paganism such as psychology based on Darwinism, the book of Enoch, as well as other resources written by men that were not authored by Christ.

The Bible was the only book that Christ authored. When "Christians" begin searching out other books and news sources for their training they will interpret the Bible in terms of those sources instead of evaluating those extra sources according to the Bible.

We are watching most people ready to believe many things that are against the Word of God and Christ Himself because they are placing their trust in man instead of God.

How can anyone say they trust in Christ when they are so willing to be taught by man worldly ideas while neglecting the very book Christ authored.

Deuteronomy 32:18

“You neglected the Rock who begot you,

And forgot the God who gave you birth.

Job 33:14

“Indeed God speaks once,

Or twice, yet no one notices it."

So many people are willing to listen to sources other than the Bible while acting angry when the Bible is spoken to them. Most who say they are a "Bible Believer", really are not because they do not search the Bible for themselves asking the Holy Spirit to give them wisdom.

My prayer many years ago as a new believer was that God would show me the truth even if it meant discarding everything I was taught. An amazing thing happened, my eyes were opened to many things the modern church says and does that negate the Bible while believing their interpretation is what God says, when it is merely man's desire to change God's word to fit their own and the cultures desires.

We should not be surprised when the churches are moving into "WOKE" and other apostate thinking, after all the culture has been changing the meanings in the Bible for a couple of generations to fit their desired belief systems based on Darwinism.

Most of us in the United States were raised in government schools that taught the theory of evolution as written by Darwin. Most people taught this were so influenced by it that their minds cannot wrap around the truth when it is spoken to them.

Even those who say they don't believe in evolution will believe and use many things promoted by Darwin without realizing it.

Psychology gets some things right because they are observing actions, but because the whole idea of psychology is based on Darwin's theory that man is nothing more than animals, it has wrongly assumed that people respond to stimuli the same as animals. The observations are often right but the interpretation of those observations are wrong.

Because animals and humans are very different and respond to stimuli differently the same principles that are used on animals cannot be used on humans. This is why we have such a mess in society today.

Luke 11:42

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others."

Proverbs 8:33

“Heed instruction and be wise,

And do not neglect it."

It would be good to take a good look at all the mantras people use today evaluating them according to the Bible. If we use our own cultural thinking to evaluate what we read then we will negate the Bible.

If we pray and seek the Word of God for truth, then much of what we thought was true will be proven to be false.

One saying that sounded kind was used for a couple of generations to silence correction and disagreement. That saying was "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all."

It sounds good on the face of it but if someone does not bother to analyze it according to Scripture they very likely will come to the conclusion that we ought never to say anything that will make another person uncomfortable, this would eliminate all correction and instruction because prideful people will feel bad when they have been shown they need to evaluate themselves.

2 TIM 4:2 "Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction."

When we read the word we see that God instructs us to use correction regularly to keep one another on the path to wisdom. Without this correction and instruction we become the culture we are right now. Hypersensitive to correction and rebuke, ignoring and worse violently rejecting and exhortation rather than embracing it to improve ourselves.

The idea that we must forgive unrepentant persons for our own sake, is not from the Bible, it is straight out of the psychology handbook. God requires repentance for us to reconcile with Him and He requires confession of sin to reconcile human relationships true. Even just a cursory study of the Bible on this subject easily dismisses the forgiveness without repentance concept.

Many things like these two examples have infiltrated our gatherings, causing Christians to act more ungodly than godly as well as causing angst among the brethren.

Satan is very clever, he sneaks in phrases and attitudes that sound good but only leads believers away from Christ. His goal has been to get mankind to focus almost entirely on feelings, when this happens the culture can no longer think rationally. Feelings are not a measure of truth, often they are based on our personal desires and cannot be objective concerning God's truth.

2 THES 3:14 "And if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of that man and do not associate with him, so that he may be put to shame, 2:15 And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother."

When we begin searching for truth through the Bible and Holy Spirit direction we see just how apostate our Christian churches have become.

Bottom Line: Trust Christ and His Word, not the teachers, they are all tainted by the culture now. Some may be squarely on without teaching error bu those teachers are rare. Keep focused on Christ.