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The Ship is Sinking; Save as Many as You Can!

22 Saturday Oct 2022

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All across America there are amazing Conservatives rising up in elections, from Arizona to liberal strongholds like Washington. They are debating the issues well and are like rising stars in the murky midnight of our world. But all their patriotism and bold words and moral stands are like Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie at the Alamo. California has become a state at war with all American parents whose children want sex operations, saying that they will be a sanctuary state for all who come, and schools are bound and determined to usher in family friendly drag queen shows while teaching children that they can choose what sex they want to be. There are parents standing up for truth in meetings, and pastors who are speaking out against the sin of this new Sodom and Gomorrah. Violence is rampant in our streets and spreading like a contagious disease. Ethnicity is rising against ethnicity, and long buried grudges have reemerged with more vitriol than before. There are threats of nuclear war, economic collapse, and whispers of a new digital currency to replace all currencies of the world. Meanwhile illegals longing for the promised freedom and benefits of America are running into hell on earth here and along the way, for too many of the children are likely being sold into sex slavery while others may be utilized for human sacrifices. And though there are would-be terrorists mixed among them, the greatest terror is that which they have found here among those they thought would save them. And now according to the CDC the vaccine is to be required for all children if they want to continue attending school. There is a foul wind blowing through America, and in all nations of this earth. For while the American immune system is on high alert fighting off the overwhelming infection plaguing it from all around, the world is also reeling with war, famine, sex trafficking, slavery, and intensified persecution of Christians and even other minorities.

Along with cruel lock downs in China, upheaval and displacement in Ukraine, threat of conscription and nuclear war in Russia, increasing tyranny and euthanasia in Canada, the immanent economic collapse of the UK, and the increasing persecution of Conservatives and the immoral aim to destroy the God-given sex and minds and lives of children in the United States, there is a little known story unfolding on the continent of Africa. Yes, there is one thing after another these days, and the world is indeed in great upheaval in nation after nation after nation. The why of it all is that we are living in the last of the Last Days wherein the world is being handed over to the “new world order”, a modern day Nebuchadnezzar. Yes, handed over. As for now, that which is unfolding in a nation of Africa is little known by Christians, but ought to be known and ought to be added to our ever-expanding prayer list.

Have you heard of Tigray?

As for myself, I had never heard of Tigray. First of all it is a state in the northern most region of Ethiopia. A small group of militiamen founded the Tigray People’s Liberation Front which fought off a Marxist government years ago and established a new government. Along with this, they have been harboring Eritreans in refugee camps who were fleeing slavery and merciless imprisonment. But, now, since handing over power to their present leader, they are fighting for their lives. “Since early November 2020, the Ethiopian government and Tigray fighters have been exchanging fire in a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and has left more than 400,000 people facing famine, according to a recent UN estimate.” (https://www.dw.com/en/who-are-the-tigray-fighters-and-why-is-ethiopia-at-war-with-them/a-59736874). “A region of six million inhabitants, Tigray, a secessionist state in northern Ethiopia, has been ravaged since November 2020 by a bloody civil war. While the humanitarian disaster is being denounced by various NGOs, they speak less of the annihilation of a whole section of Christian civilization…Lord David Alton, a Catholic involved in several charities, does not have words strong enough to describe the situation: “one part of the people is massacred, the rest are starved, and their heritage is plundered in order to erase an entire culture,” writes the British parliamentarian, in a tweet of February 11.” (https://florida.sspx.org/en/news-events/news/tigray-christianity-may-be-erased-71675) Almost all of them are Christians.

It seems that there are so many leaks in the dyke that all the sandbagging that can be done would not be enough to stem the tide. It seems that there are so many holes in the ship that having sealed one a thousand others open up wider. It seems that the moment one point along the wall is secured, yet another hundred breaches are made.

Like the 276 battling the sea in Acts 27, so is this world right now. Paul along with several other prisoners and sailors and soldiers set sail for Rome, but ran into stormy winds that resisted them nearly the entire way, until the storm blew them far beyond where they had wanted to go. The ship was out of their control. At one point, for 2 weeks they bounced about up and down, north and south, and at one point even with no sun and no stars. They did not even know where they were. Desperate to survive they threw most everything on the ship overboard, including things they’d hoped to make money on like wheat, but all to no avail. At last the Apostle Paul, who had unsuccessfully warned them early on not to sail, stood up and encouraged them with a word of the Lord that the ship would go down but all their lives would be spared.

The ship would go down? Talk about a bad word and a good word bundled into one.

This also happened to Judah back in the days of Daniel and Jeremiah. God told His people in captivity in Babylon to settle down, to plant crops, have children, live their lives, for He desired to bless them. He also told those left behind in Judah to submit to Nebuchadnezzar, that Nebuchadnezzar was His man, and they were to pay tribute to him that they might be blessed. God said point blank in Jeremiah 27, “5‘I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. 6And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him… 8And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,’ says the Lord, ‘with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.” These nations under God’s judgment included Judah, Edom, Moab, Tyre, Sidon, and Ammon (Egypt also, though not mentioned in this passage).

The judgment hangs heavy upon this world, and the ship of each nation is sinking fast because they have forsake God. Thus, the four judgments of God as listed in Deuteronomy 28, Leviticus 26, Jeremiah 15 and Ezekiel 14 are unfolding right now around the world: famine, war, beasts, and pestilence. This is all in preparation for the coming of the modern Nebuchadnezzer of the new world order Babylon: the anti-christ.

But before all that, “…we’re going to see in our time a significant turning to God in a season of crisis. And I’m thankful for that. Without the crisis they would not have turned to the word of God. Without the famine the people of Elijah’s day would not have gone to the top of Mount Carmel. Without the people of Egypt oppressing the Israelites they would not have cried out to God, and when Moses showed up they would not have listened; they would not have believed that God had sent him. God’s mercy will pull out ever carpet of security that’s underneath the people about to perish so that we will consider our ways. And I personally am really thankful for that. I’m an optimist. It’s not about saving the ship and losing the people. Let the ship go down if it needs to go down if the people’s hearts are going to turn.” (Pastor Conlon’s sermon “As the Ship Sinks…”)

Indeed, yes, let the ship go down. Let all the ships go down that the people might cry out, that the people might wake up, that the people might be saved! And the ship is going down. But, instead of bailing water and attempting to patch one of a thousand holes, may we be like Paul and Abraham and do what counts. For, if we like Paul and Abraham do our part as children of God, many more will be spared before the ship sinks into the frigid waters. Sincerely and seriously, more will be spared if we get the old time Holy Ghost fire rekindled in us from the top of our heads to the core of our hearts. For no matter the hardship, no matter the darkness, no matter the storm, God has bestowed upon us as the Church of Jesus Christ an incredible gift – the gift of time. Time to reach those in the highways and byways. Time to preach boldly the unadulterated word of God. Time to reach the children who’ve never heard the Gospel a second in their life. Time to speak to our neighbors. Time to warn our family. Time to lay hands on the sick and they’ll recover. Time to rebuke addictions and send demons fleeing at the name of Jesus. Time to lift up the name of Jesus in our workplace without timidity or reservation. Time to stand for the cause of Christ. Time to die to “myself” today. Time to take up “my” cross now. Time to get my mind off of this world. Time to quit saving money and stocking up on food and going on vacations and instead lay up treasures in heaven. Time to invest our time, talent and treasure into eternity, into souls, into the things of God and the hopes of heaven.

In the words of Pastor Carter Conlon former pastor of Times Square Church and former co-pastor with Dave Wilkerson, “This is the moment for the Church of Jesus Christ to rise up again!!! This is the moment for the people of God. No more living on the edge of society! No more being intermixed and having no testimony. This is the moment to be separated to the things of God! This is the time of a great awakening in our generation! And it is time for you and I; it’s time for us to go in; it’s time for us to rise up! We are the Church of the living God! We are God’s plan for redemption in the earth! We are the ambassadors of the cross of Jesus Christ! We bear in these earthen vessels the Spirit of the living God!!!! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!!! Glory, glory, glory! Glory to the name of Jesus!…I am done with the tepid testimony of Christ. I am done with the mixture in my heart, and I am done with it in yours. We are going into the city, and we are going to make a difference…we are going to open our mouths and not be silent anymore!”

This is it. This is what it is all about. Its’ no longer about running for public office, and I wonder if it ever was. This is not about overturning Roe v Wade. This is not about taking back America or Britain or Australia or China or Russia or Ethiopia or any other nation on this earth. This is not about social media wars or Youtube bans or Facebook jail or Twitter prohibitions. This is not about going to court over free speech or moral issues. Those are just more holes in the boat and the dyke which cannot be shored up. These battles keep us scattered and running and fragmented and breathless and ineffective. Though they are noble battles of the past they are not where our focus as ambassadors of Christ ought to be in the final seconds of human history. Our time for that is gone with the wind. For the ship is not going to be saved, and Judah and the nations are judged and found wanting and are going to go into captivity – and Nebuchadnezzar is advancing. Though we may naturally resist this, this is God’s design. God is sovereign in the writing of the ending of this story.

And we, oh Bride of Christ, have a part to play in this closing act. And it is time to stand. It is time to get up. It is time to arise! For God is calling out to you, “Where are the Pentecostals, full of fire and Spirit and faith? And why are you sitting coldly and idly by while the world freezes without your fire?…Give them fire and give them food, and stop having the appearance of Pentecostals while you deny the power that you should walk in…[for] what will people see in you and in the Church in the days ahead if you have no fire? Where are the Pentecostals, full of fire and Spirit and faith? Because I need you full.” “I need you to work…you must work now… I have anointed you and I will lead you and I will guard you… The setting sun is soon, and the work this side for the Bride will end. Go into the highways and the byways quickly; knock on every door. For I am coming soon.” (from two dreams of Coverstone listed below).

The time is short, Bride of Christ. The time is now. Don’t miss it!

Jesus is coming soon. Let’s be ready.

With great urgency,

Holy Light Ministries

IMPORTANT LINKS AND SOURCES:

“If Sodom Had Miracles,” October 9, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9xspxqoius

Summary: Carter Conlon relates the passage of Matthew 11:23-24 which reads, “23And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.””

If miracles had been in Sodom they could have repented and been spared. Sodom, a city wherein all the men young and old of every age went out with the intention to rape the angels who had come to Lot’s house. That very Sodom, so depraved and so filthy, could have been remained until Jesus’ day if miracles had been demonstrated in their midst. Think of that!

In that story of Abraham and Lot and Sodom, Jesus came down in a “theophany” pre-incarnate appearance to speak with Abraham in Genesis 18. And Jesus was again present in Capernaum relating the story of that previous time. This is disclosed in verse 22 wherein it states that the LORD is the one speaking with Abraham. How incredible is that?!

As for Capernaum, it had been home base for Jesus. Peter was called from there as was Matthew. The centurion’s servant was healed by just a word of Jesus, and Peter’s mother-in-law was healed. It was a place where the friends of a particular man was lowered down through the roof and was forgiven and healed. The woman with the issue of blood was healed there, and a 12 year old girl was raised from the dead there.

Conlon feels that Jesus was waiting for Abraham to say, ‘will you spare the city if I go in?’ He believes that Abraham should have gone down, for if he had, the city would have been spared. Though the story does not relate this, Conlon believes this could be the case.

Thus, if we as Christians let God’s passion be the passion of our hearts, and if we boldly go forth and shine God’s light into the heart of the darkness God will honor it. If we will boldly lay our hands on others to be healed and believe God for miracles, it will revolutionize a city.

We are sent to the oppressed, the tormented, to tell them that there is God who loves them, that this is the moment of you freedom, there is a sovereign plan for your life.

Mark 16:15-18, “15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

This is our mission. In the name of Christ we have power over the darkness and this world. We can speak with new tongues, given abilities to speak what we would not naturally speak, to speak mysteries that people’s hearts will be strangely warmed to the things of God. We have been given power over all the power of the enemy, over scorpions and serpents. If any deadly thing is spoken, raises its voice against us, it will not take us down. We will be where the sick are, and believe that God will deliver them and heal them.

“This is the moment for the Church of Jesus Christ to rise up again!!! This is the moment for the people of God. No more living on the edge of society! No more being intermixed and having no testimony. This is the moment to be separated to the things of God! This is the time of a great awakening in our generation! And it is time for you and I, it’s time for us to go in, it’s time for us to rise up! We are the Church of the living God! We are God’s plan for redemption in the earth! We are the ambassadors of the cross of Jesus Christ! We bear in these earthen vessels the Spirit of the living God!!!! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!!! Glory, glory, glory! Glory to the name of Jesus!…

I am done with the tepid testimony of Christ. I am done with the mixture in my heart, and I am done with it in yours. We are going into the city, and we are going to make a difference…we are going to open our mouths and not be silent anymore!…

I do not know what the future of New York is going to be, but I know that the trajectory is dark. But look who’s here. Look who we’ve got in this house…the potential here is astronomical – if – if we will go…

I’m in. I’ll go.”

“As the Ship Sinks, Tell Me What To Do,” August 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPQZIgW3vFY

Summary: Carter Conlon speaks on the passage of Acts 27 about Paul’s shipwreck. Paul had warned them not to sail, but they continued anyway, trusting the captain over Paul. But, the storm persisted for over two weeks. Finally, Paul told them that an angel had appeared to him and had told him that the ship would go down but every person on board would be spared.

Conlon applies this story to America and the American church, saying that America is not far from hopeless for she is on the edge of immanent economic collapse, the word of God is considered hate speech, the ways of God are seen as bigoted, we are near a social meltdown with increased violence in the streets, and we are so near hope turning into despair.

That being said, he goes on (at about the 12 minutes mark) that after a long abstinence the church will awaken and preachers that people had not wanted to listen to will suddenly be sought, and there will be “a significant turning to God.” However, Conlon goes on to say, “This doesn’t mean the ship is going to be saved. But we’re going to see in our time a significant turning to God in a season of crisis. And I’m thankful for that. Without the crisis they would not have turned to the word of God. Without the famine the people of Elijah’s day would not have gone to the top of Mount Carmel. Without the people of Egypt oppressing the Israelites they would not have cried out to God, and when Moses showed up they would not have listened; they would not have believed that God had sent him. God’s mercy will pull out ever carpet of security that’s underneath the people about to perish that so we will consider our ways. And I personally am really thankful for that. I’m an optimist. It’s not about saving the ship and losing the people. Let the ship go down if it needs to go down if the people’s hearts are going to turn.”

“Get Out While You Can and Take Others with You,” October 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBEJHBaV5WI&list=PLW8JhAzepVMqWXzvYTiWm9sf2xzf1tSao&index=34

Note: Pastor Dana expresses that he feels that this is a “now” dream. Though he had it a year ago and felt it was a “now” dream or then and not for a year from then or two years from then, it is more for right now 2022 into 2023 than it was for 2021. Indeed, speaking for Holy Light Ministries, this dream is for right now.

Summary: The dream opens in front of a hospital with severe storms happening all around. People were rushing into the hospital with bags of food and luggage. Ambulance pulled up, and people jumped out with groceries. A man walked in with a paper bag that said “day old bread”. Lighting was striking the ground. No rain yet. Dana Coverstone entered the doors with everyone, and everyone was frantic. Panic was tangible. No one communicated. Dana went up the staircase instead of the elevator.

Hospital room out the window of which were looming storm clouds. Thunder shook the building. On the bed was the “church”. She was praying and sobbing over the church not being ready. She was afraid of what she saw. She slid down the wall and began to shake. The thunder shook the building.

The man appeared and told her to work. But she was still overwhelmed. He said, “I need you to work”. Then He got down near her and said as He took her face into his hands, “you must work now” with emphasis on the word “now”. He then repeated that as he poured oil over her head. And she said, “Lord, how can I do this?” And He said, “I have anointed you and I will lead you and I will guard you.”

At that point, Coverstone who was an observer in the dream saw smoke rising up at his feet. It was then that the Lord said, “Get out while you can, and take who you can with you.” He repeated this to her. Then, He helped her get up, and then disappeared.

She was on the 5th floor. She began to pound on the doors. People yelled for her to leave them alone. She kept going on down to the next floor. Her hair caught on fire at one point. But she kept banging on doors. Some hesitantly came out. When they came, she said you beat on these doors too.

Few people responded. There were only 6. Finally 45-50 people exited with her. They were moving quickly, frantically, running as fast as they could, begging people to get out. Sweating.

The building got hit by lightning, and the building shook. Ceiling tiles fell along with steel beams down upon the people, but they helped each other. Even with the beams on them they cried out for others to come out and get out of the building.

Finally, they all had exited. The clouds were evil. Demonic sneers were upon the clouds looking down upon the small group. Everything was shaking, but it was not an earthquake.

You could see into the building and people were oblivious, reading, watching tv. There were a few others beating on the windows for them to come back and get them out. But, the group did not go back in, but wept and sobbed and cried over those who would not come out.

7 more came out as the building shook, and embraced those outside.

A severely loud thunder clap struck, and the hospital collapsed like the twin towers. And when the dust settled the 60 people were gone. They had vanished. And standing where they had been was the man who said,

“The setting sun is soon, and the work this side for the Bride will end. Go into the highways and the byways quickly; knock on every door. For I am coming soon.”

“The Desert Road Dream,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eVcvPVOAoY&list=PLW8JhAzepVMqWXzvYTiWm9sf2xzf1tSao&index=36

Summary: Coverstone sees a desert landscape at night. The road he was on was wet and slippery and difficult to walk upon causing him to have to be “slow and purposeful” because he did not want to fall, but all around him was arid desert with mesas and plateaus. He saw 4 billboards each with a different digital scene with videos playing. There were two on each side of the road. Each had a slanted roof. There was drizzling rain that never hit the ground, but just bounced off of the roof. Wolves howled in the background.

The first billboard on the video to his left, he saw grocery store with armed guards out front with people waiting in line to get in. They were then checked out when they exited. 5 went in, then after 5 went out 5 more would go in. The guards documented what they were coming out with in their bags and recorded it in a bright orange notebook. People were in coats and hats – so it was cold.

The second billboard’s video (on his right) he saw portrayed people in a green van with blue letters outlined in white that read Coroner. They pulled up to a house marked with a red X and the number 2 on the door. 2 to 3 inches of snow was on the ground and ice on the windows. The van had a sticker on the front window that read “Minnesota Wisconsin Response Team”.

4 people got out of the van in heavy coats and gloves taped to their coats and wooly hats. They brought out 2 people who were blue and in fetal positions. They appeared to be frozen solid.

The third billboard on his left showed a reporter saying that the east and west coast were under the management of FEMA because of inclement weather patterns that had shut down interstate roads. People were advised to stay home. Gas stations were shut down by executive order. And marshal law was declared in cities with over 45,000 people. There was no rioting or looting. There was a rain/sleet mix coming down. Extreme weather patterns were everywhere.

The fourth billboard showed a small church with a small group of people huddled together, praying. The man walked in and asked loudly, “Where is the fire?” The ten people turned around and covered their faces in shame, and turned away from Him. He then said, “Look at me and stand.” And they did so. And with His right hand in the air He said, “Where are the Pentecostals, full of fire and Spirit and faith? And why are you sitting coldly and idly by while the world freezes without your fire?” And then he said, “Give them fire and give them food, and stop having the appearance of Pentecostals while you deny the power that you should walk in.”

He then opened His right hand and fire appeared and then went to their heads. Some of the fire spread from their heads to their hearts because of an oil sheen, and it roared out of their hearts loudly, a great noise, a rushing wind. 5 with hearts ablaze headed to the door and out onto the streets. The other 5 did not have the oil, and so the fire did not spread to their hearts, and they did not go out into the streets.

Then Coverstone was back on the road where the wolves were closer and howling still. Directly in front of him was a billboard engulfed in flame. The entire scene was on fire and it lit up the sides of the road. And he saw the red eyes of the wolves just beyond the road. The wolves were held back by the flames, but they growled. He was not afraid.

The man walked through the fiery billboard toward Coverstone and said. “What will people see in you and in the Church in the days ahead if you have no fire? Where are the Pentecostals, full of fire and Spirit and faith? Because I need you full.”

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“U.S. Diplomacy Failing at Critical Moment in Ethiopian War,” September 27, 2022, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/09/27/us-diplomacy-failing-at-critical-moment-in-ethiopia-war%EF%BF%BC/

Quote: “The war waged by the Ethiopian Federal Government and Eritrea against Tigray is set for a decision by force of arms. Despite the media’s preoccupation with the conflict in Ukraine, it’s the bloodiest war in the world today, with thousands of soldiers and civilians dying each day in combat and from starvation and disease. How it ends will have reverberations throughout Africa and the Red Sea arena for decades…

In a September 20 press briefing, Mike Hammer, the U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, spoke of “strategic partnership” with Ethiopia, without making it clear whether that was past, present, or future. How he depicted the conflict and the issues in dispute would have been comforting to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and discouraging to the Tigrayan authorities…

As the recent Report of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia makes clear, the Ethiopian Government is committing crimes against humanity targeting the people of Tigray, including systematic use of starvation as a weapon of war. The experts’ report applies the same standards to both sides, finding that all parties violated the laws of war, but only the federal government forces did so “as part of a widespread attack directed against the civilian population” — in other words, a crime against humanity (Paragraph 98). They added “persecution on ethnic grounds” and starvation crimes to the list of abuses attributable to the government…

“In Tigray, Christianity May Be Erased,” February 18, 2022, https://florida.sspx.org/en/news-events/news/tigray-christianity-may-be-erased-71675

Quote: “A region of six million inhabitants, Tigray, a secessionist state in northern Ethiopia, has been ravaged since November 2020 by a bloody civil war. While the humanitarian disaster is being denounced by various NGOs, they speak less of the annihilation of a whole section of Christian civilization…Lord David Alton, a Catholic involved in several charities, does not have words strong enough to describe the situation: “one part of the people is massacred, the rest are starved, and their heritage is plundered in order to erase an entire culture,” writes the British parliamentarian, in a tweet of February 11.”

“Tigray is still in Crisis,” December 3, 2021, https://www.christianitytoday.com/better-samaritan/2021/december/tigray-is-still-in-crisis-here-are-6-ways-to-respond.html

Quote: “After months of phone and internet blackout, bank closures, and tight restriction of the flow of humanitarian aid, the horrific suffering in Tigray has increased even further due to air strikes on Tigray’s capital city Mekelle as well as drone and ground military offensives on other parts of Tigray. Under siege, Tigray’s humanitarian need continues to grow astronomically. A fuel shortage in Tigray has resulted in inadequate transportation and aid trucks are stuck in Tigray without fuel. Millions now face starvation, including hundreds of thousands of children. Tens of thousands of Tigrayan and Eritrean refugees live in camps in Ethiopia and Sudan. Almost all Tigrayans carry the burden of lost, abused, and/or unjustly imprisoned loved ones…

…almost all Tigrayans are orthodox Christians…

Maezer Semay, an Eritrean 24/7 satellite TV ministry based in Dallas, Texas, for example, last week launched a half hour shortwave ministry, broadcasting messages of hope in Christ to the millions living in rural areas of Tigray and Eritrea with no other connection to the outside world. Devout orthodox believers have been invited to participate in the programming. Pray that the Spirit will empower all believers in Tigray and Eritrea to overcome evil with God’s love in the midst of the most severe daily trials.

“Ethiopia is at War with Itself. ” November 5, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/africa/ethiopia-tigray-explainer-2-intl/index.html

Quote: “When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide…In November 2020, Abiy ordered a military offensive in the northern Tigray region and promised that the conflict would be resolved quickly. One year on, the fighting has left thousands dead, displaced more than 2 million people from their homes, fueled famine and given rise to a wave of atrocities. Ethiopia was struggling with significant economic, ethnic and political challenges long before a feud between Abiy and the region’s former ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), bubbled over into unrest…

In 2018, Abiy was appointed by the ruling class to quell tensions and bring change, without upending the old political order. But almost as soon as he became prime minister, Abiy announced the rearrangement of the ruling coalition that the TPLF had founded…

Tensions boiled over in September 2020, when the Tigrayans defied Abiy by going ahead with regional parliamentary elections that he had delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Abiy called the vote illegal and lawmakers cut funding to the TPLF leadership, setting off a tit-for-tat series of escalations between the regional and the federal government…

For months at the start of the conflict, Abiy denied that civilians were being harmed or that soldiers from Eritrea had joined the fight. But reports from international observers, human rights groups and CNN proved both of those claims wrong. Thousands of people have died in the fighting, by many estimates, with reports of razed refugee camps, looting, sexual violence, massacres and extrajudicial killings. Many more have fled to Sudan, in what the United Nations has called the worst exodus of refugees from Ethiopia seen in two decades. They describe a disastrous conflict that’s given rise to ethnic violence. Ethiopia’s government has severely restricted access to journalists, and a state-enforced communications blackout concealed events in the region, making it challenging to gauge the extent of the crisis or verify survivors’ accounts. But evidence of atrocities began to leak out earlier this year…

Separate investigations by CNN and Amnesty International in February uncovered evidence of massacres carried out by Eritrean forces in the Tigrayan towns of Dengelat and Axum late last year. Another CNN investigation published in June revealed new details of a massacre committed by Ethiopian soldiers in the Tigrayan town of Mahibere Dego in January. The report identified one the perpetrators of the massacre, geolocated human remains to the site of the attack. In an exclusive report from Tigray in April, CNN captured Eritrean troops – some disguising themselves in old Ethiopian military uniforms – operating with total impunity in central Tigray, manning checkpoints and blocking vital humanitarian aid to starving populations more than a month after Abiy pledged to the international community that they would leave. All actors in the conflict have been accused of carrying out atrocities, but Eritrean forces have been linked to some of the most gruesome. In addition to perpetrating mass killings and rape, Eritrean soldiers have also been found blocking and looting food relief in multiple parts of Tigray…

The conflict, which erupted during the autumn harvest season following the worst invasion of desert locusts in Ethiopia in decades, plunged Tigray even further into severe food insecurity. In September, the UN said that a “de facto humanitarian aid blockade” was limiting its ability to access more than 5 million people in Tigray – or 90% of the population – in need of humanitarian aid, including 400,000 people facing famine conditions.”

“Origins of Tigray People’s Liberation Front,” https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518491

“Who are the Tigray Fighters, and why is Ethiopia at War with them?” https://www.dw.com/en/who-are-the-tigray-fighters-and-why-is-ethiopia-at-war-with-them/a-59736874

Quote: “In the mid-1970s, a small group of militiamen founded the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). With a left-wing nationalist ideology, they vowed to fight for the rights of Tigrayans, a relatively small ethnic group that account for just 5% of the population and had long been marginalized by the central government.Throughout the 1980s the TPLF emerged as a formidable challenger to Ethiopia’s then Marxist military dictatorship. The group eventually led an alliance of militia organizations, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), that overthrew the Soviet Union-backed regime in 1991.The alliance then began to run Ethiopia under a federal system, with TPLF holding sway over the other groups and dominating politics for nearly three decades…

The EPRDF government led the country through periodic drought and famine, and the 1998-2000 border war with northern neighbor Eritrea. Human rights deteriorated during this time, with opposition groups complaining of persecution and corruption, which fed into growing public discontent…In early 2018…The EPRDF selected Abiy Ahmed…and he was soon elected prime minister. Abiy, a non-Tigrayan politician with little ties to the TPLF, enjoyed widespread popularity. He unseated many Tigrayan officials, charged some with corruption and introduced a set of political reforms which sidelined the TPLF. In late 2019, Abiy disbanded the EPRDF coalition government and moved to create the new Prosperity Party (PP). Refusing to join the group, the TPLF moved back to its stronghold…

After the 2020 general election was postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the TPLF and some other opposition leaders accused Abiy of delaying the vote to stay in power. Despite the delay, officials in the Tigray region went ahead with regional elections in September 2020. A month later, the federal government began withholding funds from the regional administration.In early November 2020, TPLF forces were accused of having attacked and looted federal military bases in the region. Abiy kicked off a military campaign in the Tigray region, known as Operation Law enforcement, and promised to swiftly defeat the TPLF fighters.”

“Ethiopia Orthodox Church,” May 1, 2020, https://www.gorebet.com/ethiopia-orthodox-church/

“The Kingdom of Aksum,” https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/kingdom-aksum

Quote: “A major empire of the ancient world, the kingdom of Aksum arose in Ethiopia during the first century C.E. This wealthy African civilization thrived for centuries, controlling a large territorial state and access to vast trade routes linking the Roman Empire to the Middle East and India. Aksum, the capital city, was a metropolis with a peak population as high as 20,000. Aksum was also noteworthy for its elaborate monuments and written script, as well as for introducing the Christian religion to the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Aksum was situated in the highlands of northern Ethiopia, in a region called Tigray, near present-day Eritrea…

Aksum had become Christianized in the fourth century C.E. and became the first sub-Saharan African state to embrace the new Semitic religion. A figure named Frumentius is given credit for spreading the gospel to Ethiopia.”

“Eritrean Nationals Involved in Slave Trade and Death,” July 18, 2012, http://www.ehrea.org/sel.php

Quote: “Eritreans leaving their country for safety is increasing at an alarming rate. The condition of those who already left home to lead a normal life than what they had In Eritrea is equally appalling. It is estimated that there are about 2,000 of them hold as hostages by the Bedouin in Sinai.  Moreover, the refugee camps in Ethiopia are crowding and some over capacity to accommodate more refugees than what is allowable by the UNHCR standard. Inside the supposedly shelter camps, human smugglers continued with their sinister schemes to entice refugees leave the camps for relatively better living condition existing in the Sudan, Israel and by extension Europe and America. It is no more secret, that the Sudan has become a hunting ground to snatch unsuspecting young people for sale to the highest bidder.  The authorities are helpless and/or unwilling to put an end to the illegal activities of the human smugglers, the majority of whom are Eritreans. The conditions in mainland Egypt if not comparable to the Sinai is still dangerous where refugees are shot point blank and thrown to dungeons for months without due process of law.  Israel, considered the land and honey by some and a bridge to Europe and the USA by many is as cruel as the Siberian winter. The refugees have no homes to sleep, no job to remind them of their man-womanhood, and no respect whatsoever for their humanity. They live under a constant threat of imprisonment and worst deportation to hell-hole Eritrea where they left never to return. There are many blames to go around but for now ICER [International Commission on Eritrean Refugees] wants to limit its accusation to the Eritreans actively engaged in human trafficking…”

“’It’s Just Slavery’: Eritrean Conscripts Wait in Vain for Freedom,” October 11, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/11/its-just-slavery-eritrean-conscripts-wait-in-vain-for-freedom

Quote: “In Eritrea, one of the most isolated and repressive countries in the world, young people have no future…National service [slavery] usually lasts between five and 10 years, but can last for up to 20. Conscripts often work 72-hour weeks in extremely harsh conditions with inadequate food and low pay. No one is legally entitled to take leave, which depends on the whim of commanding officers. Some conscripts have reported going for years without being allowed to visit home. If a conscript fails to return after taking leave, their parent may be jailed until they do.

Eritrean teenagers spend the last year of high school in a military camp before going straight into military service. If they get good enough grades, they might attend college and be given a civilian role. But the only way out is to leave the country…Every month, thousands of young people…sneak out of the country, ending up in Libya, Sudan, Europe, or dying along the way. Visitors to refugee camps on the Ethiopian side say more Eritreans have been crossing…”

“Ethiopia and Eritrean History,” July 18, 2018, https://medium.com/firewatch-solutions/ethiopia-eritrea-history-785d0a1bcea6

Quote: “After many years of hostility between Ethiopia and Eritrea, on July 9th, 2018, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace agreement bringing in a new era of improved relations for the two countries.”

“Christians Persecuted by NeoNazi Kiev Regime: Other Ukraine Security Service SBU’s Raids in Orthodox Churches,” December 2022,
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/12/christians-persecuted-by-neonazi-kiev-regime-another-ukraine-security-service-sbus-raid-in-orthodox-churches/

“Ukraine Raids Monestary and Persecutes Orthodox Christians in Kiev,” https://gorthodox.com/en/news-item/ukraine-raids-monastery-persecutes-orthodox-christians-in-kiev

“Residents in China Scold Authorities for Welding Doors Shut,” April 2022, https://www.ntd.com/residents-in-china-scold-authorities-for-welding-doors-shut_762555.html

“China is to Stop Welding Homes Shut,” December 2022, https://news.yahoo.com/china-stop-welding-homes-shut-110000310.html

“China Imposes New Covid-19 Lockdowns as Cases Triple Ahead of Communist Party Congress,” October 10, 2022, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-covid-19-lockdown-cases-triple-before-communist-party-congress/

“Chinese Cities Rush to Lockdown in Show of Loyalty to Xi’s ‘0 Covid’ Strategy,” September 5, 2022, https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/05/china/china-covid-lockdown-74-cities-intl-hnk/index.html

Quote: “More than 70 Chinese cities have been placed under full or partial Covid lockdowns since late August, impacting more than 300 million people, as local authorities rush to stamp out infections at all cost in the final countdown to leader Xi Jinping’s expected third term. Since August 20, at least 74 cities with a combined population of 313 million have imposed lockdowns that cover entire cities, districts or multiple neighborhoods…”

“China Enacts Law Banning Most Online Christian Content,” March 11, 2022, https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/03/11/china-enacts-law-banning-majority-online-christian-content/

Quote: “Without express government permission, no organization or individual “shall preach on the Internet, carry out religious education and training, publish sermon content, forward or link to related content, organize and conduct religious activities on the Internet, or live broadcast or post recorded videos of religious rituals,” the CCP declared at the time.The new measures went into force on March 1 and the effects are already being felt by Christians throughout China, reported Open Doors, which monitors Christian persecution around the globe…Everything that is posted “has to fit within the social harmony, the progress of society. These things are pretty typical within the communist regime. It especially restricts the house churches,” stated Kurt Rovenstine of the Bibles for China group…During the long lockdowns imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese Christians got used to conducting meetings and worship services online, but these practices will now be severely curtailed.

Over the last two years, “online church meetings have become the new normal,” Open Doors noted, citing an anonymous Chinese Christian. “This new law now brings the church’s extensive use of the internet for evangelism and spiritual nourishment to a halt. Consequently, Christians will be cut off from access to online spiritual resources.”…Open Doors noted that Christian persecution has been intensifying by the year in China under the rule of CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. In just four years, China has leapt from number 43 on the group World Watch List to number 17, a ranking that reflects tightening restrictions on Christian practice in the country.”

“Russians Closing Protestant Churches in Ukraine,” October 14, 2022, https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/14-october/news/world/russians-closing-protestant-churches-in-ukraine

Quote: “PROTESTANT churches in occupied areas of Ukraine have reportedly been closed by pro-Russian forces.Release International, which campaigns against the persecution of Christians, and a partner organisation, Voice of the Martyrs Korea, report that three Evangelical Protestant churches in Melitopol have been shut down in the past month, together with a Baptist church in Mariupol in the south-east of the country.In the village of Chkalovo, on the coast of the Azov Sea, witnesses report that Russian soldiers who entered a Baptist church during an evening service and ordered it to be closed said: “We have only one faith: Orthodoxy.””

“Lost in Ukraine and SCOTUS: 5 Urgent Christian Persecution Situations,” May 6, 2022, https://religionnews.com/2022/05/06/lost-in-ukraine-and-scotus-five-urgent-christian-persecution-situations/

Quote: “The North Korean government recently stepped up its suppression of the Bible and increased its raids on small gatherings of Christians. Those who profess to be followers of Jesus or carry a Bible are regularly beaten and jailed…A newly published report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom states that North Korea tortures and executes Christians and that the country’s citizens are denied the right to religious freedom from birth. Our silence makes their suffering possible.”

“…new AI-powered surveillance software, a serious escalation in the Chinese technology-driven blueprint of persecution. Dozens of Chinese firms are working on programs to monitor the behavior of everyday people… This information is used to target, censor and punish Christians and other religious minorities who are perceived as threats to the state.Worse, China is actively exporting its blueprint to emerging authoritarian states. If you thought Russia was the only totalitarian threat the world is facing, think again.”

“…in Eritrea, gatherings of believers are raided, with believers sent to prison and subjected to inhumane conditions. Some pastors are facing solitary confinement of more than 10 years.”

“Today, more Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than in any other country — and their attackers are expanding their territory further into sub-Saharan Africa.”

“At No. 10 on Open Doors’ 2022 World Watch List, the world’s largest democracy has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for Christians in a few short years. An extremist strain of Hindu nationalism is emerging, fueling a change in attitudes across India… 64% of Hindus surveyed say it’s important to be Hindu to be “truly Indian.” The result is that Indians have become more accepting of systematic oppression of Christians and other religious minorities…While Article 25 of India’s Constitution promises freedom of religion and conscience, the situation for Christians and religious minorities in the country is deteriorating considerably.”

“The UK’s Growing Economic Crisis, explained,” October 1, 2022, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/1/23378515/uk-financial-crisis-pound-truss

“Financial Crash Warning: UK Hurtling Towards ‘Cataclysmic’ Collapse ‘worse than 2008’,” August 13, 2022, https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1653457/financial-crash-warning-uk-hurtling-towards-cataclysmic-collapse-worse-2008

“California Becomes the First Sanctuary State for Transgender Youth Seeking Medical Care,” October 18, 2022, https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care

Quote: “California is the first state in the nation to create a sanctuary for transgender youth seeking gender-affirming medical care. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law in September that ensures transgender kids from elsewhere can safely access hormones or puberty blockers here. The legislation also shields families from child abuse investigations or from being criminally prosecuted for seeking gender-affirming care…“We are going to provide them with refuge and we’re not going to send them back and we’re not going to honor subpoenas,” said Sen. Wiener. “And our law enforcement is not going to enforce the laws of Texas and Alabama criminalizing these families.””

“California School Board Bashed by Mom as ‘Groomers, Activist Pimps’ Over Invite to Halloween Party Featuring Drag Queen Show,” October 13, 2022, https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/drag-queen-halloween-party-invite-by-cali-school-board-hit/

“Over $200K Being Spent on Drag Queen Shows at NYC Schools, Records Show,” June 11, 2022, https://nypost.com/2022/06/11/over-200k-being-spent-on-drag-queen-shows-at-nyc-schools/

Quote: “New York is showering taxpayer funds on a group that sends drag queens into city schools — often without parental knowledge or consent — even as parents in other states protest increasingly aggressive efforts to expose kids to gender-bending performers.Last month alone, Drag Story Hour NYC — a nonprofit whose outrageously cross-dressed performers interact with kids as young as 3 — earned $46,000 from city contracts for appearances at public schools, street festivals, and libraries, city records show. Since January, the group has organized 49 drag programs in 34 public elementary, middle, and high schools, it boasted on its website, with appearances in all five boroughs.”

“Alabama Middle School Teacher Doubles as Drag Queen in Free Time…” October 12, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-middle-school-teacher-doubles-drag-queen-free-time-children-everybody-loves-big-bone

Pentagon: Just FYI,We Have a Nuclear Armed Submarine in the Arabian Sea,” October 21, 2022, https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gxp4/pentagon-just-fyi-we-have-a-nuclear-armed-submarine-in-the-arabian-sea

“Human Trafficking in America Among the Worst in the World,” 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/us/human-trafficking-in-america-among-worst-in-world-report

Quote: “The United States is again ranked as one of the worst countries in the world for human trafficking. According to a recently released report by the State Department, the top three nations of origin for victims of human trafficking in 2018 were the United States, Mexico and the Philippines…“We have a major issue here in the United States” Geoff Rogers, co-founder of the United States Institute Against Human Trafficking (USIAHT), said in an interview with Fox News. “The United States is the No. 1 consumer of sex worldwide. So we are driving the demand as a society.””

“Russ Dizdar on Satanic Ritual Abuse: “I know of kids that are in cages and tortured,” July 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkSAv6XBbek

“Russ Dizdar: Bohemian Grove,” 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQpHOQR3Bp8

Note from below the video: “Russ Dizdar goes into detail about the evil place known as bohemian grove. And exposes it’s secrets and the people behind it.”

“Children on the Move, Smuggling and Trafficking,” May 2019, https://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/tip-and-som/module-12/key-issues/children-on-the-move–smuggling-and-trafficking.html

Quote: According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,“All smuggling of children, and a significant proportion of child trafficking, occurs in the context of child migration. Children, including those who are alone and those accompanied by family members, comprise an increasing percentage of irregular migrants globally. While cross-border movements of children are difficult to measure, data from numerous organizations and governments illustrates the scale of the issue…As observed by the 2018 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (p. 13), “[t]he trafficking of children – particularly girls – remains a key concern”. Like smuggling of children, the true scale of trafficking in children is not known. Nonetheless, the proportion of victims of trafficking who are children is substantial: 30 per cent of detected victims are children…Children on the move are especially vulnerable to being placed in situations of trafficking. This is particularly the case when children are travelling without a parent or legal guardian, even if they are in the company of other migrants. They may be extorted for smuggling fees, forced to work to pay off debts in transit countries, and may be sexually and physically harassed, abused or exploited. Trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is particularly common…”

“US – Mexico Boarder Encounters of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Jumps to 267,000 Since Biden Took Office,” September 26, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-mexico-border-encounters-unaccompanied-migrant-children-jumps-267000-since-biden-took-office

“CDC Could Add COVID Vaccine Requirement for Children To Immunization List with ‘No Clinical Data’: Dr. Makary,” October 19, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/media/cdc-could-add-covid-vaccine-requirement-children-immunization-list-no-clinical-data-dr-makary

Quote: “The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is expected to announce later this week that the COVID-19 vaccine will be added to the list of required childhood vaccines…If the CDC’s ACIP puts the COVID-19 vaccine on the child immunization schedule, children could be required to get it in order to attend school.”

“Euthanasia Is Now A Leading Cause Of Death In Canada, And Ethicists Are Freaking Out,” August 2022,
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/12/canada-euthanasia-disability-human-rights-mental-health/


Quote: “Now, any adult with a serious disease or a mental health reason can seek euthanasia, according to the AP. The policy is also creeping forward to encompass the mentally ill, poor, and soon children, with some experts saying the law is going too far.”

“Canada’s New Euthanasia Laws Carry Upsetting Nazi-Era Echoes, warns experts,” August 15, 2022, https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2022/08/15/canadas-new-euthanasia-laws-carry-upsetting-nazi-era-echoes-warns-expert/

Quote: “Canada’s extremely liberal euthanasia laws, which, next year, are set to be extended to include people suffering from mental health conditions and potentially minors, have been slammed for being reminiscent of the way the Nazis dealt with people with disabilities by a leading academic in the field.In an article published by the Associated Press last week, Tim Stainton director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia said the country’s uniquely permissive euthanasia laws were, “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.”’”

“The Canadian Government is Euthanizing People Who Have Nothing Wrong with Them,” May 2, 2022, https://spectator.org/the-canadian-government-is-euthanizing-people-who-have-nothing-wrong-with-them/

Quote: “In March of 2021, the Canadian Parliament passed the world’s most liberal euthanasia law. The law scrapped the previous requirement that a person’s death be foreseeable. No longer would assisted suicide hurry death along. Now, it would prescribe death to people with decades left to live so long as their disease was deemed “grievous and irremediable.”

“Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide to Be Permitted on the Grounds of Mental Illness,” May 24, 2022, https://righttolife.org.uk/news/canada-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide-to-be-permitted-on-the-grounds-of-mental-illness

Quote: “The Canadian Government is planning to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia on the grounds of mental illness alone and has calculated that these deaths would save the taxpayer money.In 2021, the Canadian Parliament removed the requirement that the death of an individual seeking assisted suicide or euthanasia must be “reasonably foreseeable”. From 2023, the Canadian Government is planning to expand the legislation further for those who are suffering from a mental health condition alone.The legislation will come into force after the two-year sunset clause ends in March 2023. The assisted suicide and euthanasia laws will be expanded to competent adults whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness.”

“Canadian Man says Assisted Suicide is Being Pushed on Me By the Hospital,” November 2022, https://nypost.com/2022/11/08/canadian-man-assisted-suicide-being-pushed-on-me-by-hospital/

Quote: “Assisted suicide has been legal in Canada since 2016. According to Forbes, Canada leads the world in assisted suicides, with 10,064 in 2021 as compared to 7,666 in the Netherlands. Eighty-one percent of global requests for medically-induced deaths were honored in Canada.

Tim Stainton, director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia, described the law as “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.””

“Lockdown – Dr. Simone Gold,” October 5, 2022, https://rumble.com/v1mp1q2-lockdown-dr.-simone-gold-daystar-tv.html

Summary below video: “In her first sit-down interview since her release from prison, Dr. Simone Gold talks about what actually happened on January 6, why her conviction was so shocking, and how her views on COVID treatment protocols may have been why she was targeted by federal authorities.”

“New Information Raises Questions About FBI Raid on Catholic Father of 7,” September 25, 2022, https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252385/mark-houck-fbi-arrest-abortion-clinic

Quote: “Mark Houck, the founder and co-president of The King’s Men, a men’s ministry, faces federal assault charges stemming from an altercation with a Planned Parenthood escort outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic nearly a year ago.Houck, who regularly prays the rosary outside the clinic, maintains he was defending his 12-year-old son from the escort’s verbal harassment, a family spokesman, Brian Middleton, told CNA on Sunday. The man fell when Houck pushed him away, Middleton said…When both the city police and the district attorney declined to file charges against Houck, the escort filed a private criminal complaint in Philadelphia municipal court, Middleton said. The case was dismissed in July when the man repeatedly didn’t show up in court, Middleton said…Sept. 23, federal law enforcement officials arrived outside the Houcks’ home in Kintnersville in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, around 7 a.m.“A SWAT team of about 25 came to my house with about 15 vehicles and started pounding on our door,” Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie Houck, told CNA on Friday, just hours after her husband’s arrest.“They said they were going to break in if he didn’t open it. And then they had about five guns pointed at my husband, myself, and basically at my kids,” she added. “They were pointing their weapons,” Middleton said. “They came in as if they were expecting some kind of confrontation.””

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God-Sufficiency: Have You Learned the Secret?

12 Monday Oct 2020

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With all that is transpiring in our world today and the swift approach of economic collapse, the already manifesting food shortages, violent riots, political unrest, and the arrival of Christian persecution, this is the prescription of Dr. Jesus. The passage of Philippians 4:6-9 covers incredibly powerful, life-altering topics that we cannot afford to miss! Have you read this passage recently? Here are some of it’s topics: “Do Not Worry,” “Thankful Prayer,” “Think on These Things,” and “Habitual Practice of Peace.”

We are going to begin at the tail end of things, the “Habitual Practice of Peace” as found in Philippians 4:9 which says, “9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”

Now, what were the Philippians to practice exactly? That which they had learned, received, heard, and seen of course! So, what was it that they had learned, received, heard and seen? Before we get to some of those specifics, let’s take a look at the Greek behind those four important words: Learn, Receive, Hear, See, and Do.

A Little Greek Lesson

Before proceeding to this passage’s application, it is essential that we take a quick look at what these words mean in the Greek. This will enable us to reach a better, more Biblically sound application.

The Greek word for Learn is not the type of learning that can be attained overnight, but rather, is acquired from experience through a great deal of reflection and discipline. The Greek word for Received comes from the combination of two Greek words which when combined mean, “to aggressively take alongside,” or “to receive with the mind.” In other words, you really want it and readily receive it. The Greek for Hear, literally means “to hear (listen)” and figuratively means, “to hear God’s voice” which leads to inner faith. After all, “Faith come by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” The Greek meaning of to See can mean to physically see, but can also mean to perceive with the mind “with inward spiritual perception” all through experience. And To Do in the Greek means to practice regularly, to “perform repeatedly or habitually” and is not just a one time thing. In other words, what one was discipled in, exuberantly received, heard with their inner ears, and saw with their spiritual eyes, was to be lived out over and over again.

Paul’s Example: “I Have Learned the Secret”

Along with this important knowledge of the Greek definitions, yet another step in coming to the best application is that of knowing what the Philippians had learned, received, heard and seen in Paul. To better understand this, let’s go back into Philippians 3 beginning in verse 8.

“Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ…10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death… forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you….17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.”

And then Paul goes on to say in Philippians 4:4, 11-13, “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice...11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

According to this passage, Paul had learned through experience, reflection and discipline to be content, to be satisfied, to have an “inward sufficiency” that comes from the empowerment of Christ. A God-Sufficiency. Paul also knew how to be “abased”, that is, to be completely humble, even humiliated and God-reliant instead of self-reliant or others-reliant, as well as to “superabound” and to have excess. Furthermore, he had been instructed. The word used here should not merely say “I am instructed,” but rather should be translated, “I have learned the secret,” or “I have been initiated,” for it does include a message of powerful importance. And The Secret appears to have to do with the art of being famished or full, the art of superabounding in goods or suffering in great need.

In every secret society or brotherhood or fraternity there is always what is called an initiation for the newcomer, and nearly if not always, the new initiate has to go through some sort of pain or humiliation or bloodshed of some kind in order to be initiated into the group. The word used for the mystery religions of Paul’s day for doing such an initiation was the word used here for “I have been instructed” or “I have learned the secret,” and meant quite literally “to be initiated into the mysteries.” It is not just a mere instruction that anyone would learn in the classroom, but rather pictures the initiate closing their eyes and mouth in order to “experience [the] mystery” and thus be “initiated into the wonderful “mystery revelation” of learning.”

The Initiation Ceremony of Suffering

What is the mystery in which Paul had been instructed? Remaining in perfect peace while suffering. After all, Paul had gone through and would continue to go through extensive persecution, physical and emotional pain, poverty, severe opposition, and deep disappointments. As it says in 2 Corinthians 11, “in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one [195 lashes].25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.” And yet in all of it Paul goes on to say, “29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.” In chapter 4 states, “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh….14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

Application: Have You Been Initiated?

Indeed, Paul had learned the secret, and been initiated into “Christ’s sufferings” and that secret was resting in Christ and remaining in God’s peace through it and in spite of it all.

Now, how about us? Have we been initiated? Let us learn this secret of how to be unshakably peaceful, this mystery of being content in Christ no matter where we are located, no matter what is in our tummies, no matter what people are with us or not with us, no matter how much or how little money we have in our pockets. Taking up our cross and dying to ourselves daily takes on a whole new meaning with this in mind (Matthew 16:24-26; Galatians 2:20).

Through Paul, the Philippians had learned, received, heard, and seen what to do in the midst of good times and bad times, times of great overflowing abundance and times of little-to-nothing, days of great discomfort and days of a multitude of benefits. The Gospel is not just about the good days, but about the bad. The Gospel, as exemplified through Christ, does not promise us smooth sailing, great wealth, or only good times. Really, it guarantees us the opposite. It says we are blessed when we are persecuted, that we are to take up our shameful cross daily and follow Christ, that we are to rejoice anyway in all situations, and that when we are generous here (whether we have a little with which to be generous or a lot) then we have riches in heaven. The Gospel promises us something more amazing, more mind blowing and more incredible than what this superficial world will ever experience. It promises us rest, whether we are rich or destitute, when we are starving or fat and sassy. It promises us a sufficiency in Christ that nothing can touch! It promises us unshakable peace that nothing can defeat! It promises us that we are more than conquerors through Christ (Romans 8).

We along with Paul are called to count all accomplishments and gains and all that this world looks up to as “dung”. We too are called to fellowship with Christ in His suffering. We are not to be conformed to this world’s standards, but instead are called with Paul to conform to Christ in His death. We are called to follow Paul in his example of following Christ, and are to thus learn the art of suffering well. We are to habitually practice peace in both prosperity and poverty, in humiliation and happiness.

If the stock market crashes, rest in Christ. If you’re favorite coffee is no longer found on the shelves of the grocery store or turkeys are unavailable for Thanksgiving or a pile of presents is not an option for Christmas this year or you lose your job, habitually practice peace. For true peace is not found in things. True peace is not found in money. True peace is not found in vacations or large parties or full refrigerators or brand new cars or any material, fleshly thing. True peace is found in Christ alone! Why? Because Christ is the “Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).

When we habitually practice what we have learned, received, heard and seen, then “the God of peace will be with you,” and Him being with us, changes us, conforms us into the likeness of Jesus, from glory to glory (Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18). As it says in Romans 8:16-18,“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

Sources:

Biblehub, https://biblehub.com/interlinear/philippians/4.htm

Strong’s Concordance

The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament

Interlinear Bible

Notes from word study

“Learned” =3129 manthánō (akin to 3101 /mathētḗs, “a disciple”) – properly, learning key facts; gaining “fact-knowledge as someone learns from experience, often with the implication of reflection – ‘come to realize’ “Also in Vs 11“I have Learned…”

“Received” =“3880 paralambánō (from 3844 /pará, “from close-alongside” and 2983 /lambánō, “aggressively take”) – to take (receive) by showing strong personal initiative…. to join to oneself… to receive with the mind”

“Heard” =191 akoúō – properly, to hear (listen); (figuratively) to hear God’s voice which prompts Him to birth faith within (cf. Ro 10:17). See 189 (akoē).[191 (akoúō) is the root of the English term, “acoustics.”]“Faith come by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”

“Have Seen” =“3708 horáō – properly, see, often with metaphorical meaning: “to see with the mind” (i.e. spiritually see), i.e. perceive (with inward spiritual perception).”A third meaning is “to see i. e. to become acquainted with by experience, to experience…”The first meaning is merely “to see.”

“Do” =“4238 prássō – properly, the active process in performing (accomplishing) a deed, and implying what is done as a regular practice – i.e. a routine or habit (cf. R. Trench)… A primary verb; to “practise”, i.e. Perform repeatedly or habitually (thus differing from poieo, which properly refers to a single act); by implication, to execute, accomplish, etc.; specially, to collect (dues), fare (personally) — commit, deeds, do, exact, keep, require, use arts.”

“To be content” Cognate: 842 autárkēs (the adjectival form of 841 /autárkeia, “contentment”) – properly, self-sufficient, content in the sense of being satisfied because living in God’s content (fulness). This inward sufficiency is as valid in “low times” (suffering) as in “high times” (temporal prosperity). See 841 (autarkeia). 842 /autárkēs (“sufficiency within”) occurs only in Phil 4:11 where it refers to positive self-sufficiency (inward adequacy) – i.e. that comes through the indwelling power of Christ. [842 (autárkēs) comes from autos (“self”) and arkein (“sufficient”) meaning “self”-sufficiency, which is entirely God-produced.]”

“Be Abased,”Cognate: 5013 tapeinóō – make (become) low, to humble. See 5011 (tapeinos).With the believer, 5013 /tapeinóō (“show humility, true lowliness”) happens by being fully dependent on the Lord – dismissing reliance upon self (self-government) and emptying carnal ego. This exalts the Lord as our all-in-all and prompts the gift of His fullness in us.”

“To Abound” 4052 perisseúō (from 4012 /perí, “all-around” which indicates abundance or surplus) – properly, exceed, go beyond the expected measure, i.e. above and beyond (“more than . . . “); “what goes further (more), surpasses” (J. Thayer).

“To Suffer Need” 5302 hysteréō (from 5306 /hýsteros, “last”) – properly, at “the end,” i.e. coming behind (to “be posterior, late”); (figuratively) coming behind and therefore left out; left wanting (falling short). 5302 /hysteréō (“failing to fulfill a goal”) means to be in lack and hence, unable to meet the need at hand because depleted (“all run out“). This state of lack (insufficiency, privation) naturally results when a person misses out on what is vital.

Vs 11, “I have learned the secret…” “mueó: to initiate into the mysteries, hence to instruct”3453 myéō (akin to 3466 /mystḗrion, “mystery”) – properly, shutting the eyes and mouth to experience mystery; (figuratively) initiated into the wonderful “mystery revelation” of learning to be content in Christ in every scene of life – no exceptions! See also 3804 /páthēma (“suffering”).

[The metaphor was also used of “the initiatory rites of the pagan mysteries. ‘I have been initiated’ ” (WS, 893).]”

“With” 3326metá(a preposition) – properly, with (“after with”), implying “change afterward” (i.e. what results after the activity). As an active “with,” 3326 (metá) looks towards the after-effect (change, result) which is only defined by the context… denoting association, union, accompaniment…”

Things are Beginning to Unfold

10 Saturday Oct 2020

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(most sources will be listed below the article for your convenience)

September was an amazing month of prayer, from beginning to end. Several large prayer meetings of repentance were held around the country from California to Texas to Kentucky to Washington D.C.; most of these were aired online and one was on tv. Plus, 2 of the Lord’s 3 fall holidays were in September too. Incredibly, one of those called by many the Feast of Trumpets, was actually fulfilled along with many passages from the book of Joel regarding solemnly assembling together in repentance. Not in all of Christendom has the Church congregated together on a massive scale (worldwide via the internet) and prayed in repentance at that exact time of God’s holiday (https://holylight4u.wordpress.com/2020/09/25/joel-and-yom-teruah-fulfillment-and-call-to-repentance/). My heart is brimming with emotion as I type this. I am overwhelmed by the goodness and mercy of God. The Church of America is awakening!!!!

Yet another call to prayer happened October 6th, this time in Plymouth, Massachusetts at the site of the first house of the Pilgrims. 51 people gathered in person, just as there were only 51 Pilgrims who survived the long, hard New England winter. But all across the internet, thousands gathered in agreement as they prayed in agreement with those who prayed in repentance and in cries for mercy on America. And dear God, how we need it! Indeed, the world needs it.

Then a crusade took place in Fresno, CA., led by Pastor Mario Murillo. Even before everything had been set up by Murillo’s group, evangelistic teams were ministering to people throughout the city, and countless numbers were healed and set free and already dedicated their lives to Jesus. When the tent went up, hundreds overflowed outside the tent and around 300 dedicated their lives to Christ on the first night.

Here’s a snapshot of our world and why it needs this move of God. Here in the U.S. the violent BLM protests rage on – though the news is no longer covering it as they did- and these BLM protests are also encompassing the world. And I want you to know that these are demonically inspired protests. BLM is not about justice or liberty. The leadership has admitted that it is “first and foremost a spiritual movement.” They also admit to calling on the “spirits of the dead” and becoming very close with these spirits (which are demons) and invoking them by “saying their name” in order to empower and inspire them to do what they do. Thus, they are a spiritual movement, into Black Magic, and are Occult in every sense of the word.

But these are not the only ones joining forces with Satan and Satanism and witchcraft and the Occult. According to an astounding article by Mario Murillo, one seemingly normal American woman chose recently to herald Satan as a hero and join Satanism. Please, read the article below.

On top of BLM protests riddling streets around the world, there are people of many nations who are realizing they are losing their liberty, such as in Australia, where patriots are protesting government tyranny. In Australia and New Zealand, marshal law is essentially in place, and Australian police have been given authority to kidnap people for medical reasons and to forcibly give the vaccine, even removing underwear if they must. Yes, this is in official documents.

Meanwhile, Germany has had many protests against government tyranny too; there have been door-to-door killings of Christians in Nigeria, large mobs attacking Christians in India, Chinese authorities intimidating needy Christians in China, for persecution and martyrdom is on the rise around the world; Russia has erupted in riots over their election and the attempted murder via poisoning of the other candidate; Israel is in an uproar over their present lock down during their holy days and even Orthodox Jews are taking to the streets, and Kyrgyzstan is rioting over their elections, while the small, Christian nation of Armenia is embroiled in all out war against Azerbaijan who is backed by both tyrannical Russia and Islamic Turkey. Is it possible that WWIII is beginning? Meanwhile, Israel is signing peace treaties left and right. Somehow this sounds like the white horse of Revelation and antichrist of Daniel 9:27. Such eerie times in which we are living!

I don’t know how to say this, so I’m just going to say it. Bad days are coming to America as a nation–at least in our understanding of bad. According to reputable various sources (Pastor Coverstone, David Wilkerson, and Jeremy — listed below), there will be more violent, murderous riots and more cities burning. There will be economic upheaval, even collapse. There will be voter fraud on steroids. There will be more senseless attacks on innocent people, because the spirit of the age is lawlessness. There will be an assassination attempt, or something that appears to be an assassination but it will be staged. There will be food shortages – there are already. There will be blackouts in various places in the U.S., even an interruption in communication. There will be natural disasters, and events that appear to be natural disasters (like an asteroid–only it will be some sort of nuclear event). I feel that the horses of Revelation 6 have begun to ride. Note that I said, “begun” to ride. Nothing ever happens instantaneously. It progresses. So, the progression has begun. A lot would disregard this for various reasons, but I will not.

Please, be reading Revelation again. Remember, there is a blessing for those who read it! (Revelation 1:3). May we hear what the Spirit is saying.

This is all very weighty. But God….

Don’t you just LOVE the “but God” phrase? I surely do! The enemy has these plans, but God! You feel insecure or afraid or unsure, but God! So, let’s end with a “but God” moment! May this chorus from a modern worship song, Psalm 46 and a hymn encourage your heart today.

Modern worship song:“God is fighting for us, pushing back the darkness, lighting up the kingdom that cannot be shaken! In the name of Jesus the enemy’s defeated! And we will shout it out, shout it out!” (can play it below)

Psalm 46:“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea…Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Hymn:“Why should I feel discouraged? Why do the shadows come? Why does my heart feel lonely, and long for heaven and home when Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He. His eye is on the sparrow. And I know He watches over me.” (can play it below)

– And let me remind you briefly about the background of this song. It was inspired by the inspiring story of two individuals who against all odds were filled with contagious joy. While on a ministry trip, Civilla Martin and her husband became very good friends with a couple called the Dolittles. One day, Civilla’s husband just had to ask the question that had been burning in their hearts: What is your secret to happiness? You see, Mr. Doolittle wheeled himself to and from work in his wheelchair every day, and Mrs. Doolittle had been bedridden for 20 years. Nevertheless, they spread their cheer among their neighbors and shared their joy with others. Mrs. Doolittle looked at Mr. Martin and stated with true happiness, “God’s eye is on the sparrow, and I know that He’s watching over me!” From their very real testimony and this simple statement, the hymn “His Eye is on the Sparrow” was inspired and penned by Mrs. Civilla Martin. –

No matter how bad things get or what may happen or how things may appear, be diligent to remember, God is in control. While He is bringing to light what has been hidden in darkness, while He prepares to judge the world, while He is rallying His Bride, while He is sending out workers into His harvest field that is white unto harvest, while Revelation is beginning to unfold, know this, He has heard and is hearing the penitent and fervent prayers of His people, and He is answering. Fear not. Let’s keep our oil full and our lamps trimmed (Matthew 25). Jesus said, when you BEGIN to see all these things, get up out of a defensive fearful position, lift up your heads with expectation and hope for your redemption is drawing NEAR!!! (Luke 21:28). Hallelujah!!!! God’s Kingdom Come; God’s will be done, on earth as it is in heaven!!!

Looking up,

Holy Light Ministries

Sources:

IT IS THE MOMENT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. Tent Revival Re-Starting – Mario Murillo

“‘For Jesus!!!’ Souls Saved Across America as Thousands Respond from Atlanta Warehouse to Fresno Tent Revival,” https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/october/for-jesus-souls-saved-across-america-as-thousands-respond-from-atlanta-warehouse-to-fresno-tent-revival?fbclid=IwAR0LX7xycDtqz_Aw0mTXOgZgOu7w3kvr8QOu4wfAPOzBam0wVA4P3dIcjI0

“Mobs of Thousands Attack Christian Homes in India,” https://christiannews.net/2020/09/30/mobs-of-thousands-attack-christian-homes-in-india/

“BLM Connection to Witchcraft,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGJSEoirF90

“Founder of Black Lives Matter Admits Occultism at Center of BLM,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVn7US3uOl4

“How Satanism and the Democrats Found Each Other,” https://mariomurilloministries.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/how-satanism-and-democrats-found-each-other/?preview_id=29999&preview_nonce=b3d11e21d8&preview=true&_thumbnail_id=30001&fbclid=IwAR09TttKft9N0w5VsQseHUYOf7BxICM4WNJt4acPfXJAPKYxfBA5CAoRakY

“Pope Francis Pushing Global Government, Trump’s COVID, and More Alarming Developments,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lItq4xjtzqI

“Australian Police Can Kidnap People for Medical Reasons…,” https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-09-29-australian-police-kidnap-people-remove-underwear-administer-vaccines.html

Western Australia’s Public Health Act 2016, https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/prod/filestore.nsf/FileURL/mrdoc_42242.pdf/$FILE/Public%20Health%20Act%202016%20-%20%5B00-i0-03%5D.pdf?OpenElement

https://holylight4u.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/pastor-coverstones-fulfilled-dreams-and-dreams-being-fulfilled/

https://holylight4u.wordpress.com/2020/09/11/words-of-warning-from-ex-32nd-degree-freemason/

David Wilkerson’s books, The Vision and Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth

The Shout of the KING is Among Us

18 Friday Sep 2020

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pic from againstdoubt.com (Joshua and the Battle of Jericho)

Okay Church! We have a part to play right now, and it’s not to roll over and play dead or to be oblivious or to pretend that nothing is happening! This time right now is just like the time when the children of Israel marched around Jericho. Just as the Israelites had been commissioned to march around Jericho once a day for six days and then seven times on the seventh day followed by the blowing of the seven trumpets accompanied by great shouts, even so, we as Christians are called to warfare prayer right now. We are called to march and keep on marching, to press on and press in even when we don’t know how it’s going to help nor understand its significance. The Lord says we are wrestling against “the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12). And yet, the battle belongs to the Lord (2 Chronicles 20:15), and we are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds (2 Corinthians 10). Jesus gave us authority in His name and said that we would trample on serpents and scorpions (Matthew 10 and Luke 10).

There is great warfare right now in America and the world. Persecution and martyrdom is dramatically on the rise from Eritrea to China to Nigeria to Ethiopia to Australia and even here in the United States of America (sources below). In California, Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills has called his congregation to a week of fasting and prayer for California and the nation. And Pastor Dana Coverstone of Kentucky has called on America’s churches to pray harder than they’ve ever prayed and in agreement in the month of September specifically (https://holylight4u.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/pastor-coverstones-dream-of-a-solemn-september-assembly-arise-my-bride/), and is co-leading a two days of prayer/fasting event beginning tonight in Austin, Texas. We are living in unprecedented times, which calls for unprecedented prayer, no matter what month we are in when you read this.

Often Christians will helplessly say, “I guess all I can do is pray.” We never seem to get it through our heads that prayer is powerful. It is our part to play, just like marching was the Israelite’s part to play. They could have said, “I guess all we can do is march;” “I guess all we can do is blow our seven trumpets even though seven is not a lot.” “I guess all we can do is shout with our weak voices.” All they could do?!!!! Do we not know how important our part to play is? Do we not understand the power of obedience? Have we believed the deception of the devil that we have nothing to give and that prayer is weak and unimportant? Did you know that when we avoid prayer or are too busy to pray, we are missing out on the important role God has for us to play and the incredible rush of victory that comes with it.

Seriously, GET UP CHRISTIAN. Get up in your spirit. Jesus said, when you see all these things begin to come to pass, to get up! Rise up, and lift up your eyes! So, arise in your spirit. This is your hour to shine. Arise and shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! (Isaiah 60:1). Get up from your crouching, defensive position, your position of defeat and weakness, and rise to an offensive position on the battlefield of the Lord! Now is the time to charge! No weapon formed against you will prosper and every tongue that rises against you in judgement YOU shall condemn!!! (Isaiah 54:17). This is your heritage. Get your holy dander up! Pick up that sword of the Spirit and use it!!!

I speak to the battle weary, the physically weary. Rise up! Fight on! Press on! Do not be weary in well doing, for in the end you will reap a harvest if you faint not (Galatians 6:9). Persist. You can do all things IN Christ who strengthens you! (Philippians 4:13).

To those who are afraid of what is coming, Fear Not! Christ has overcome the world, and we have too by faith! (John 16:33; 1 John 5:4). Those who seek to save their lives will lose their lives (Luke 17:33). So, do not seek to preserve your life. Surrender all to the Savior. Choose to trust, and remember the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but are mighty through God! God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). “1 The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall. 3 Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident” (Psalm 27:1-3).

“12 From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people have been raiding it,” (Matthew 11:12). This is a passage that most read over quickly, and if they were to say a thing about its meaning they would consider it in a negative light. So, let’s briefly take a look at it.

The word for “subjected to violence” biazo (#971), is all about pressing in and “laying hold of something with positive aggressiveness” to seek it with intensity and zeal. This word is only used twice in the New Testament and is always positive. The Greek word for a “violent” person is of one who shows “positive assertiveness; used of the believer living in faith (“God’s inworked persuasions”) guiding and empowering them to act forcefully.” And what are these eagerly assertive ones putting all of their energy into? Snatching the Kingdom. They are snatching quickly and forcefully and openly. The word is harpazo (#726), which is the word for rapture.

Truly this is a powerful, overlooked passage, and it is time that we understand it. It appears that Jesus is teaching us that the Kingdom is obtained by those who pursue it eagerly, zealously, with great effort, and energetically. It is not for the timid, the distracted, the faint of heart, nor the laze fair (easy come, easy go). The way that many pursue pleasure and vacations and sports is the way we are to pursue the heavenly Kingdom.

The children of Israel who had just crossed Jordan, like Caleb and Joshua, were men and woman of zeal and energy who pursued the Promise Land in faith that God would keep His promise, that He would fight for them, that He would do what He said. The Promise Land was not free. God did not do all the work for the Israelites. He wanted them to stand in faith and in agreement with His plan to go up and take the land and visit judgment on those living in Canaan whose cup of iniquity was full (Genesis 15:16). And so Joshua, Caleb and other mighty men of valor marched in unquestioning faith.

Will we march in faith around these walls of Jericho in our lives, in our locked up churches, in our locked down states, in our crumbling, depraved nation, in the looming new world order? Are we doing our part by praying in zealous, relentless faith?

One day a great war will break out in heaven. Indeed, it could be happening as I write. It’s timing one cannot tell. Revelation 12 relates this, “7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” Satan will finally be thrust out, and all those principalities and powers we’ve been wrestling with in spiritual hand-to-hand combat will be thrust out too. As they are being forcefully expelled, we are forcefully entering in. Can you see it? The picture is one of incredible precision and perfect timing. They are expelled; we are entering!

So, just like when watching your favorite team in the last seconds of the game when the score is tied and your team steals the ball, rise to your feet and shout!!!! For God in all His glory has risen from His throne, and the angels are clad in battle gear with flashing swords clashing. Time to shout, Bride! It’s time to arise!!! The shout of the King is among us!!!!

May we with this in mind, zealously press in to the Kingdom, pray without ceasing and with great fervor, and with every fiber of our being forcefully advance like the Israelites into the Promise Land. Our part may seem small, but do not despise small beginnings (Zechariah 4:10). Just get to marching, shout when it’s time, and see the walls come a tumbling down! This is not political. This is spiritual. We are not defeated! The war is already won! But we must march. We must shout. So, pray with me; pray in the thick of the battle; pray, pray, pray. And, remember, our God has given us the victory!!!

If we have already repented and wept between the porch and the alter (Joel 1-2), then it is time to shout! Let out a shout, Body and Bride of Christ! “…The LORD their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them,” Numbers 23:21b. Indeed, when God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:35). Hallelujah!!!!!

“We Are Able to Go Up and Take the Country”
“The Shout of the King” Hillsong

Sources:

Biblehub, #973 biastes, https://biblehub.com/greek/973.htm

“Why Must the Violent Take It By Force,” http://gloriouschurch.com/Questions-Answers-Details.asp?QuestID=3395 (this author has an interesting take on the Matthew 11:12 passage).

“Christian Persecution in America Has Arrived,” https://holylight4u.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/christian-persecution-in-america-has-arrived/

“Hundreds of Ethiopian Christians Killed in ‘Targeted Genocide’ Since June,” https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2020/september/report-500-ethiopian-christians-killed-in-targeted-genocide-by-muslim-extremists-since-june

“Christians in India See Dramatic Increase of Attacks in 2020,” https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-in-india-see-dramatic-increase-of-attacks-in-2020.html

“Incidents of Christian Persecution Spike as India Emerges from Lockdown,” https://www.persecution.org/2020/06/26/incidents-christian-persecution-spike-india-emerges-lockdown/

“Chinese Government Orders Low Income Families to Abandon Their Christian Faith or Lose Financial Aid,” https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2020/july/chinese-government-orders-low-income-families-to-abandon-their-christian-faith-or-lose-financial-aid

“Chinese Christian Families Flee China Amid Crackdown: ‘No Longer Safe for Us’,” https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-christian-church-crackdown-safe

“Christianity Crackdown: Fury as 250 Crosses Torn Down from Churches and Pastor Threatened,” https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1297067/christianity-news-china-crosses-removed-from-churches-Christian-persecution

“Nigeria Facing Systemic, Planned, Calculated Genocide of Christians,” https://cruxnow.com/uncategorized/2020/06/nigeria-facing-systematic-planned-calculated-genocide-of-christians/

Upheld By The Word of His Power

27 Thursday Aug 2020

Posted by holylight4u in America, Bible Study, Christian History, Christian Living, End Times, IMPORTANT LINKS, Uncategorized

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2 Peter 3:10-14,“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.”

More and more often I find myself in grief over all that is transpiring in this world, the absolute madness, the carnage, the devastation, the pain, the suffering. Since the Fall of mankind these things have been with humanity. But, something is different now. Things are suddenly intensifying and accelerating. Even the persecution of Christians has gotten dramatically worse. It seems to be open season on all called Christian. In China those in authority are withholding checks from the elderly and sick if they do not worship their president; they are also taking children from Christian parents and threatening to place them in reeducation camps. In Nigeria roving shepherds are slaughtering Christian families who are often betrayed by their neighbors. In India they are beating up Christian ladies gathered for prayer, usurping church buildings and placing their idols in them, and killing others. In America they are threatening pastors and churches that dare to obey God by meeting with fines and imprisonment and even bulldozing.

Indeed, it is just like Romans 8:22-23 says, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” Everything is “groaning” which in the Greek means that what is deep inside comes out with frustrated moaning, compressed feelings of grief or anger or desire are vented. Like a tea kettle must let off steam because of the intense pressure inside, and a woman in labor groans in childbirth, we as Christians, and I definitely recently, have been sighing, groaning, weeping over the intense pressure coming upon and from within the world. For the entire earth and all of creation, from continent to continent, from ocean to ocean, from nation to nation, all is simultaneously travailing in great pain. It is everywhere. And I am feeling it, and my spirit is crying out internally and via external emissions.

Have you been feeling this too?

So, what is going on? Two things: A great transition from the kingdoms of this world to the Kingdom of our God, and…. the earth is passing away. The earth passing away is the topic of this article.

Second Peter 3:11 expresses this well when it says, “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved…” In the Greek language, to be dissolved means, “to be loosed, released,” and has a secondary meaning of “destroy, annul.” At first glance, any reader or student may shake their head at the definition of “loosed, released,” but in that definition is great significance!

You see, Jesus holds all of creation together. In Christ the Creator everything created coheres, consists, is adjoined, stands together.

Colossians 1:15-17 reads, “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

Hebrews 1:3 declares the profound truth in this statement concerning Jesus, “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high…”

In science there is the big question, what is it that holds an atom together? They explain it as a force. The scientists at CERN are attempting to blow this “force” apart in order to open a portal, to see what is on the other side of the portal. They are unsure what will lie beyond it, and they fully acknowledge that destruction could follow. But, they are unconcerned about that, and are undaunted by such possibilities. After all, their mascot is Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, who dances upon the ash heap of a fallen world.

But, God has not placed the destruction nor the creation of this world into the hands of a bunch of blood drinking, occultist scientists at CERN, or any other person for that matter, not even the inventors of the atomic bomb. The end of this world will in no way look like the 1959 movie “On The Beach” wherein man wiped out mankind with nuclear weapons.

Why? Because Jesus is keeping everything from flying apart, holding it all together with His word. Think about that!! The force called gravity or electromagnetism, in all actuality, the powerful word of Jesus. Jesus is holding it all together not with His hands, but with His word!

But one day very soon… Jesus will let it all go… and the heavens and the earth will pass away and “shall be dissolved” (2 Peter 3:11-12), which means that everything will be “loosed/released” from the word of Jesus’ power, and everything will liquefy from fervent heat and be annulled.

And thus, the earth and all of creation is groaning collectively and simultaneously and is growing old and wearing out. Psalm 102:25-27 explains, “Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of Thy hands.26 They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed:27 But Thou art the same, and Thy years shall have no end.” The earth is tired and worn out. Just as the physical body of a human being ages significantly through the years, even so the earth has aged and is elderly now and is worn thin like an overused piece of cloth.

Because the earth and all upon it is dying and destined for destruction, the Apostle Peter reminds us that we are to become all the more focused on living godly lives that are completely God-focused and God-centered. Furthermore, we as Christians are to be expectantly anticipating and eagerly desiring the coming of the day of God – Jesus’ return! We are called by God via Peter to expect and anticipate this, and therefore, are to be all the more zealously eager to be found, after intense inspection, to be blameless, without flaw, and with our minds kept in perfect peace in the sight of our great and awesome and holy God is who is an all consuming fire! (Deuteronomy 4:24; Hebrews 12:29).

Think about this one thing a moment: “that ye may be found of him in peace.” This is the peace of God which passes all understanding that will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). This is the peace that Jesus promised to leave with us that was not like what the world gives (John). This is the peace of Isaiah 26:3 which comes to those whose minds are “stayed” on God. This is a peace that holds us together even as the world and everything in it is falling apart. Jesus is returning for His own who are unshaken, undaunted, and at rest as they abide in Him. As Psalm 91:1-2 powerfully says, “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust,” and Psalm 27:1, 3, “The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?…Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.” In what will King David the psalmist be confident? That the Lord is his light and salvation and the strength of his life and that there is no need to fear. This is that peacefully confident state of mind that God wants to find His Bride in when He returns! He does not want us burdened and weighted down in our thinking with the anxiety, worry and cares of this life (Luke 21:34).

A woman of God and fellow Christian named Joanie Stahl who has a channel on youtube, went hiking in the woods with her husband for a few days at the end of May 2020. I don’t recall if this “get away” was preplanned, but either way, she needed the time to clear her head and hoped to hear from God. She kept asking Him different questions about the issues of the pandemic, face masks, test swabbing, lock-downs, failing businesses, the collapse of the economy, the vaccine, etc. She wanted His direction on what to share with others for their benefit. And then… God spoke. Essentially, as I recall, God said to her regarding everything she’d asked, “That’s not going to matter.” She was puzzled. How was it possible for it not to matter? It was affecting everyone’s lives and causing everything to be disjointed and out of sync. But God kept saying over and over to her in the time she was camping that “that’s not going to matter,” and finally, “all those things are not going to matter anymore, forever.”

I want to encourage us today. Everything that seems too big to us such as losing our job, schooling our kids at home, whether or not we have to wear a mask to get our groceries, who will win the election, or even bigger things like intensified persecution of Christians in every nation and the new world order being established worldwide right now via this pandemic, is not as big as it appears.

First of all, I want to remind you regarding the Goliath of our personal problems, God knows what we need even before we ask Him (Matthew 6:8). Remember? God clothes the lilies of the field more beautifully than rich King Solomon was ever arrayed (Matthew 6:29). And He promises to provide for our needs according to His riches in glory (Philippians 4:19). So, why are you worrying? Why are you so focused on the problems of life when God is so much bigger? And remember too, it’s all passing away. Nothing we are going through now compares to our eternal weight of glory (Romans 8:18; 2 Corinthians 4:17)!! Second of all, regarding the Goliath of the new world order, remember what God said in Psalm 2 to the nations and peoples and leaders of the world gathered in unity overthrow God and His Anointed One. God in heaven laughs and holds them in derision!! And He warns the proponents and conspirators of this new world order to kiss the Son lest He be angry and perish in the way when His wrath is kindled but a little! (“The Time is at Hand: Psalm 2 and Where We Are Right Now,” https://holylight4u.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/the-time-is-at-hand-psalm-2-and-where-we-are-right-now/). And thirdly, when it comes to persecution, Jesus guaranteed we’d be persecuted and that we are blessed when we are persecuted (Matthew 5), that His grace is sufficient, His strength made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).

So, I encourage myself and the Christian who is reading this, let’s set our minds on things above and not on earthly things (Colossians 3:2). Take off the glasses of this world, and put on an eternal perspective. Let’s make sure our minds are full of peace, that our lifestyles and behavior are holy, and that we are eagerly anticipating the return of our King, our Beloved, our Bridegroom, Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord! Jesus is coming soon!!! Shake off your depression! Refuse to be anxious! Get up, Bride!!! Make sure your garments are white and wrinkle free, that your oil is full, that your lamps are trimmed and burning, that you are fully awake! This world is not our home! Stand up in elation and triumph and lift up your heads, for your redemption is drawing near!!!!

Sources:

https://biblehub.com/interlinear/

Joanie Stahl, “E277 Heaven Land Devotions – Something BIG Is Coming,” May 27, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/atch?v=tlLQ4uHfL3Y

“China Seizes Children from Christian Parents, Threatens to Send Kids to Reeducation Camps,” July 26, 2020, https://www.christianpost.com/news/china-seizes-children-from-christian-parents-threatens-to-send-kids-to-re-education-camps.html

“Chinese Government Orders Low-Income Families to Abandon Their Christian Faith or Lose Financial Aid,” July 2020, https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2020/july/chinese-government-orders-low-income-families-to-abandon-their-christian-faith-or-lose-financial-aid

“China Orders Christians to Take Down Images of Jesus From Homes,” July 20, 2020, https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/07/20/china-orders-christians-to-take-down-images-of-jesus-from-homes/

“China Withholding State Aid from Christians Who Won’t Worship Communism,” July 20, 2020, https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/36442-china-withholding-state-aid-from-christians-who-won-t-worship-communism

“The Ignored Genocide of Christians in Nigeria,” August 19, 2020, https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/ignored-genocide-christians-nigeria-raymond-ibrahim/?fbclid=IwAR1GrdEQQ2eZVJ-5KeioeOmwXAKd7ulGegO2HmwWMGXD216LJaKoEaLVU_Q

“Christian Persecution in America Has Arrived,” July 21, 2020, https://holylight4u.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/christian-persecution-in-america-has-arrived/

“Chicago Threatens to Bulldoze Churches for not Complying with Coronavirus Orders,” July 15, 2020, https://patriotdailypress.com/2020/07/15/chicago-threatens-to-bulldoze-churches-for-not-complying-with-coronavirus-orders/

“‘Whatever Means are Necessary’: Chicago Threatens to Close Church that Defied Order,” May 26, 2020, https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/whatever-means-are-necessary-chicago-threatens-to-close-church-that-defied-order.html

“Four Christian Women Hospitalized After Brutal Attack In Northern India,” August 17, 2020, https://www.persecution.org/2020/08/17/four-christian-women-hospitalized-brutal-attack-northern-india/

“Hindu Extremists In India Viciously Attack Christians While They Pray,”  August 20, 2020, https://www.bibliatodo.com/En/christian-news/hindu-extremists-in-india-viciously-attack-christians-while-they-pray/

“Christian Families Endure Constant Threat Of Attacks By Hindu Radicals,” August 14, 2020, https://www.persecution.org/2020/08/14/christian-families-endure-constant-threat-attacks-hindu-radicals/

“Church in India Set on Fire by Suspected Radial Hindu Nationalist,” June 15, 2020, https://www.persecution.org/2020/06/15/church-india-set-fire-suspected-radical-hindu-nationalist/

Psalm 8: Childlike Faith Silencing Evil

12 Wednesday Aug 2020

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“1 To the Chief Musician. On the instrument of Gath. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! 2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? 5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, 7 All sheep and oxen– Even the beasts of the field, 8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. 9 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!”

I awoke at 4am this morning very troubled in my spirit about all that is going on and what is coming upon the earth and the persecution of the churches in America and thinking on the return of the Lord. As I sat wondering about the troubles of my heart, God directed me to Psalm 8. As always, I responded to Him, “oh I know Psalm 8.” In other words, I didn’t think it could help me. But, I know by now that I must read it anyway because there really is something there that I either missed or need to be reminded of it.

Since I was upset about the vulnerability of the Church and the hell that is about to break out in the world and has started already –like the red horse of Revelation is already out of the barn and beginning to take peace from the earth and unleashing violence and murder worldwide— I was drawn to verse 2, and comforted in its stability and power. Through it I was reminded of our authority in Christ’s name to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all manner of evil (Luke 10:19), and that no weapon formed against us will prosper, and that the gates of hell will not prevail against us (Isaiah 54:17).

Verse two of Psalm 8 is incredibly aligned with 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 and really conveys it in living color, “27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence.” For indeed, how can it be that God through nursing babies has established His power? How can it be that through infants who gurgle and coo and whimper and cry and barely put words together much less a sentence, silence the enemies and avengers? How can God obtain victory through such weak little beings who are completely dependent?

The Christians taking a stand against tyranny and evil in America are such babes as these. The mayors are against them. The city councils are against them. The governors are against them. The masked masses are against them. The fearful are against them. The protestors are against them. The lower courts are against them. The high courts are against them. The Supreme Court is against them. Even other so-called, fellow Christians and pastors are against Christians and pastors who are taking a stand and assembling together in spite of intense and ever intensifying opposition. They even call the authorities on their fellow ministers who are meeting, thinking they are doing God a favor. Like Daniel was betrayed by those with whom he worked, even so, these are betrayed by those called friend. These vilified, misunderstood, and persecuted Christians are truly these babes, these nursing infants of Psalm 8:2, the foolish ones of the world, the despised of the world, but these are also those who shame the wise, who bring to nothing those who think they are something, who through their innocence and childlike faith, silence the enemy and the avenger. They bring to rest the foul harassment of evil. They prevail against the gates of hell. Their words fell the giant. Their simple faith, like the faith of Daniel, closes the mouths of the lions (Daniel 6).

Even as the Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 3:9b-12, “…the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; 10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, 11 according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.” This is what Psalm 8 is talking about!! Through the babes and infants of the Church, God has made known His manifold wisdom, and in so doing, has shamed them! And in this, the Lord has crowned us with glory and honor!!

Also, as one more point of interest, at least to me, is that at the beginning of Psalm 8 David says this was on the instrument of Gath. The city of Gath was where Goliath lived. It is powerful to note that the chief musician plays this piece, which is all about God defeating evil through helpless infants, on an instrument from Goliath’s town. As I recall, David himself in 1 Samuel 17 was depicted as someone young and inexperienced in war, and yet while all the seasoned men of war huddled in fear, hiding in their tents, he marched out in the strength of the Lord and slew the giant!!! Hallelujah!!!!

Furthermore, remember that it is through our words, out of the “mouths of babes and infants” that God establishes His strength and silences the enemy and the avenger. Thus, no matter how powerless we feel when we pray, do it anyway. For the words you speak as a child of the living God are powerful, even to the pulling down of strongholds. So, do not remain silent. Do not be intimidated by praying aloud. Pray. Pray again. And pray all the louder. For our words, no matter how simple or baby-like, are silencing evil!!! Indeed, unless we become like little children with child-like faith, we will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 18:3).

So, dear Christian reader, stand firm. Do not become weary in well doing. Do not be intimidated by the Goliaths and Leviathans and giants in the land of this world, even though they’re HUGE and formidable and very real. It’s not about how big you are nor about what your title is nor about how educated you are nor about how experienced you are! Thank God for this!!! Rather, it is all about how BIG God is, how GREAT God is, how AWESOME and how MAJESTIC and EXCELLENT God’s name is in all the earth!!! Our Father God is on our side. And when God is for us, who can be against us? We have been given authority in Jesus’ name. We have power in Jesus’ name. At the name of Jesus every demon has to flee. In the name of Jesus every knee will bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!!! There is still power in the blood of the Lamb, even devil busting power. And though it is easy to think of our problems here in America as political or financial, the very real issue is and always has been spiritual. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood!!! So, fear not. Get your armor on and stand in the strength of the Lord, for the battle belongs to the Lord!

After reading Psalm 8 and doing some warfare prayer and some standing in the gap for American pastors who are taking a stand, all fear and questions melted away, I finally fell into a wonderful early morning sleep. May you too be blessed and inspired by this testimony, may you remember who you are in Christ, and may you stay armored up for the days are evil. And yes, Jesus’ return in NEAR!

Looking up,

Holy Light Ministries

Pastor Coverstone’s Dream of Christian Persecution in America

22 Wednesday Jul 2020

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Let Us Not Forget

27 Thursday Oct 2016

Posted by holylight4u in Catholicism, Christian History, Deception in the Church, End Times, Holidays, New Apostolic Reformation/Third Wave

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While the world and most of the Church celebrate the ancient holiday of Halloween, a Satanic and high holy day of Samhain (lord of death), by dressing up in costumes, trick-or-treating, going to harvest festivals, or are participating in dark, demonic practices, a true, holy holiday of remembrance remains mostly forgotten.

Nearly 500 years ago on October 31st of 1517, in the midst of colorful leaves and the fragrances of autumn, 34 year old Martin Luther placed his 95 Theses onto the door of the Wittenberg Castle church in Germany. Indeed, it was the nail and hammer not only heard round the world but that shook the powers of darkness and all of their Halloween evil.

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For hundreds of years (approximately 500-1600 A.D.) through the Roman Catholic Church, Satan had had a strangle hold on the people. Little groups here and individuals there had sought the truth of Scripture, but were persecuted and martyred by those who wanted to keep them in tangible darkness. People like John Hus, John Wycliffe and Jerome Savonarola spoke out against the immorality and unbiblical practices of the Roman Catholic church, and because of this many like them (thousands and thousands) were pressured unsuccessfully to recant and then without trial mercilessly killed.

Let us remember some of those specifically now.

Jerome Savonarola (1452-1498)

(46 years old)

Savonarola was part of Dominican monastery. At the age of 38 he went to the city of Florence. He began to preach and lecture and drew large crowds.

He attacked the evil lives and immoral behaviour of many of the people at that time. In particular he exposed the corruption within the clergy and the laity. But he preached a message of repentance from sin and Florence became a centre of a great revival.

He tried to make the city a model of a Christian community. The Pope at that time was Alexander Borgia and was one of the most wicked men who ever occupied the papacy. He tried to ‘buy’ Savonarola by offering to make him a cardinal.

Savonarola refused this and the Pope used other tactics. He got the monks to speak out against Savonarola and then excommunicated him and arrested him. He was tortured and put to death by burning. Savonarola refused to renounce his beliefs unto death.

Martin Luther regarded Savonarola as a pioneer of the Reformation because of his work to reform public morals.

(From: “Protestant Reformers, Martyrs and Heroes”, http://www.ministers-best-friend.com/Protestant-Reformer-Heroes.html)

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John Huss (1369-1414)

(45 years old)

Huss was the most important of the forerunners of the Reformation within Europe. He was born of peasant stock but he was a gifted scholar and received a good education and became the Rector of Prague University when he was 34 years old.

But Huss was stirred by his knowledge of the Bible. He read the works of John Wycliffe and he started preaching in a chapel in Prague. This chapel was established to allow people to hear the Bible in their own tongue (very few people, even within the clergy, knew Latin which was the only language that the Roman church allowed the Word of God to be heard in).”*

The preaching and reading of God’s Word in the language of the common people was unprecedented!!!

Furthermore, in both writing and by word of mouth he defended the doctrine of the Trinity, and boldly exposed the sinfulness and immorality of the pope, cardinals and clergy.

In November of 1414, John Hus was summoned to appear before a Council where he was accused and called on to recant, was arrested, and imprisoned for months. Instead of a hearing, Huss was eventually hauled before authorities in chains and asked merely to recant his views.*

“Accordingly, the bishops appointed by the Council stripped him of his priestly garments, degraded him, put a paper miter on his head, on which was painted devils, with this inscription, “A ringleader of heretics.” Which when he saw, he said: “My Lord Jesus Christ, for my sake, did wear a crown of thorns; why should not I then, for His sake, again wear this light crown, be it ever so ignominious? Truly I will do it, and that willingly.” When it was set upon his head, the bishop said: “Now we commit thy soul to the devil.” “But I,” said John Huss, lifting his eyes up towards heaven, “do commend into Thy hands, O Lord Jesus Christ! my spirit which Though hast redeemed.”

“When a chain was put about him at the stake, he with a smiling countenance, “My Lord Jesus Christ was bound with a harder chain than this for my sake, and why then should I be ashamed of this rusty one?”

“When the fagots were piled up to his very neck, the duke of Bavaria was so officious as to desire him to abjure [recant]. “No, (said Huss;) I never preached any doctrine of an evil tendency; and what I taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.” He then said to the executioner, “You are now going to burn a goose, (Huss signifying goose in the Bohemian language:) but in a century you will have a swan which you can neither roast or boil.” If he were prophetic [and it sounds like he was] he must have meant Martin Luther, who shone about a hundred years after, and who had a swan for his [coat of] arms.

The flames were now applied to the fagots, when our martyr sung a hymn with so loud a cheerful a voice that he was heard through all the cracklings and combustibles, and the noise of the multitude. At length his voice was interrupted by the severity of the flames, which soon closed his existence.”**

*(From: “Protestant Reformers, Martyrs and Heroes”, http://www.ministers-best-friend.com/Protestant-Reformer-Heroes.html)

**(From Fox’s Book of Martyrs, page 143)

And these are just two such martyrs to be remembered, but the list could go on indefinitely concerning those who spilled their blood for the sake of Christ, the denouncing of sin and the Word of God in their own language.

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Then, on October 31, 1517, David (Martin Luther) met Goliath (the Roman Catholic) on the great battlefield already covered with the blood of martyrs who had come before. But, this bloody battle of Martin Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin did not end with their struggle, but continued on into the Netherlands wherein a protestants in great number including one named Wendelinuta were cruelly killed, in Ireland where thousands were killed en masse, and in England wherein Thomas Cranmer, Lady Jane Grey, William Hunter and a multitude of others, including one of my own ancestors (Edward Wightman) died by the sword and flame and being buried alive simply because they did not want to partake of Mass or simply because they owned a Bible in their own language.

“The light of the Gospel having successfully spread over the Netherlands, the pope instigated the emperor to commence a persecution against the Protestants; when many thousand fell martyrs to superstitious malice and barbarous bigotry, among whom the most remarkable were the following:

Wendelinuta, a pious Protestant widow, was apprehended on account of her religion, when several monks, unsuccessfully, endeavored to persuade her to recant. As they could not prevail, a Roman Catholic lady of her acquaintance, desired to be admitted to the dungeon in which she was confined, and promised to exert herself strenuously towards inducing the prisoner to abjure [recant] the reformed religion. When she was admitted to the dungeon, she did utmost to perform the task she had undertaken; but finding her endeavors ineffectual, she said, “Dear Wendelinuta, if you will not embrace our faith, at least keep the things which you profess secret within your own bosom, and strive to prolong your life.” To which the widow replied, “Madam, you know not what you say; for with the heart we believe to righteousness, but with the tongue confession is made unto salvation.” As she positively refused to recant, her goods were confiscated, and she was condemned to be burnt. At the place of execution a monk held a cross to her, and bade her kiss and worship God. To which she answered, “I worship no wooden god, but the eternal God who is in heaven.” She was then executed, but through the before-mentioned Roman Catholic lady, the favor was granted that she should be strangled before the fire was put to the fagots.”**

**(From Fox’s Book of Martyrs, page 172-173)

The persecution spread even to England as perceived most sadly in the stories of two youths. One 19, and the other merely 16. Though so very young, these two teenagers put modern Christianity to shame! For they knew God’s Word and loved it even unto death. How many Christian teens know God’s word today? How many would die for it? Here are the stories of those two godly, English young people: Lady Jane Grey and William Hunter.

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Lady Jane Grey

(16 years old)

When King Edward VI, son of King Henry VIII, died at the young age of 16, he named Lady Jane Grey to the throne of England. “Lady Jane Grey (July 1536 – February 12, 1554), a granddaughter of Henry VII and a grandniece of Henry VIII of England, reigned as uncrowned Queen Regnant of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Ireland for nine days in July 1553, and for that reason is called “The Nine Days Queen”.”*** Though Mary was by law the rightful successor to the throne, King Henry VIII had declared her to be illegitimate and so forfeited her right, and because of King Edward VI’s wishes to keep England under Protestant leadership, Lady Jane in July of 1553 ascended to the throne.

“Lady Jane had a reputation as one of the most learned women of her day. She was also renowned for her beauty…[and] at 15, she had little choice but to comply with the wishes of those who advised her. Her execution attracted considerable sympathy, especially among Protestants. She has the distinction of being the first regnant Queen of England, despite the brevity of her reign (the shortest in English history).”**** She was a godly young Protestant woman who would not cave to the persuasions of Roman Catholics.

Death Of Jane Grey

According to Fox’s Book of Martyrs, page 207, “The next victim was the amiable Lady Jane Gray, who, by her acceptance of the crown at the earnest solicitations of her friends, incurred the implacable resentment of the bloody Mary. When she first mounted the scaffold, she spoke to the spectators in this manner: “Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. The fact against the queen’s highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me: but, touching the procurement and desire thereof by me, or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency before God, and the face of you, good Christian people this day:” and therewith she wrong her hands, wherein she had a book. Then said she, “I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness, that I die a good Christian woman, and that I do look to be saved by no other mean, but only by the mercy of God in the blood of His only Son Jesus Christ: and I confess that when I did know the Word of God, I neglected the same, loved myself and the world, and therefore this plague and punishment is happily and worthily happened unto me for my sins; and yet I thank God, that oof His goodness He hath thus given me a time and a respite to repent. And now, good people, while I am alive, I pray you assist me with your prayers.”” **

Then after she quoted the Psalm Miserere mei Deus and after the executioner asked her forgiveness and she gave it, she was blindfolded and guided to the chopping block where she knelt, “laid her head upon the block, and then stretched forth her body, and said, “Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit;” and so finished her life, in the year of our Lord 1554, the twelfth day of February, about the seventeenth year of her age. Thus died Lady Jane…” **

***(“Lady Jane Grey” http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Lady_Jane_Grey#cite_note-royweb-0 [this site also referenced the Official Website of British Monarchy, Lady Jane Grey (r. 10-19 July 1553). Retrieved May 17, 2008.)

****(“Lady Jane Grey”, The New World Encyclopedia, http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Lady_Jane_Grey#cite_note-royweb-0)

** (Fox’s Book of Martyrs, page 207-208)

William Hunter (1535-1555)

(19 years old)

“William was an apprentice silk weaver in London and he was a Protestant when Mary Tudor took the English throne. England had broken away from the Catholic Church under King Henry VIII. Edward VI had then become king but he died at a young age allowing his Catholic half-sister Mary to become queen. She was determined to return England to the Catholic Church and a period of persecution of the Protestant believers began.

William was singled out by the authorities because he refused to attend mass despite an order having been made that everyone in the City of London had to attend the Catholic mass. By refusing to obey, William lost his job and he returned to Brentwood.

It wasn’t long before William was found reading the Bible for himself. The local priest became involved and soon established that William had a basic protestant belief which totally contradicted the Catholic doctrine. William was soon arrested and sent to be interrogated by the Bishop of London.”*

He was put into stocks for two days, and refused to eat. Still refusing to recant after two days, the bishop had him thrown into prison where he was laid up in as many irons as he could bear, and continued in prison for 9 months.

Again William refused to deny his faith in Jesus. By his actions he was denying the validity of the teachings of the Catholic Church. Because he had refused to partake of mass and because of reading the Word of God in his own language, young William was condemned to die.

After reading the 51st Psalm, he handed his Psalter to his brother who encouraged thus, “William, think on the holy passion of Christ, and be not afraid of death!” To which William answered his brother, “Behold, I am not afraid!” Then, “he lifted up his hands to heaven, and siad, “Lord, Lord, Lord, receive my spirit:” and casting down his head again into the smothering smoke, he yielded up his life for the truth, sealing it with his blood to the praise of God.”**

William was burnt at the stake because of his beliefs and because he refused to deny his beliefs. It would also seem that the authorities were incensed by the spiritual maturity of someone so young. There is a monument to William Hunter in Brentwood with the following inscription:-

WILLIAM HUNTER. MARTYR. Committed to the Flames March 26th MDLV.*

* (“Protestant Reformers, Martyrs and Heroes” from the website http://www.ministers-best-friend.com/Protestant-Reformer-Heroes.html)

** Fox’s Book of Martyrs, page 219-220.

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In spite of the fact that after 500 years the Lutheran Church has recently found common ground with the Roman Catholic church and believe in the words of Tony Palmer that “the protest is over” the echoing of the hammer and nail of Martin Luther resounds still today. Though more and more Protestant church leadership is being mesmerized by the siren call of the Roman Catholic church, as one by one Protestants and Catholics seek ecumenical unity, the truth for which Luther stood and for which so many mercilessly were tortured and died, still stands, and those who believe it still stand for it.

Let us not not forget what the protest was about and is still about:

Purgatory, Papal Infallibility, salvation by works, prayers to and worship of dead saints and angels, the sale of indulgences, the grave and disgusting immorality of the church leadership, and the veneration of relics to name a few things being protested then and still ought to be protested now with addition of the elevation of Mary to that of equality with and even superiority to Jesus.

Let us not forget that following Luther’s 95 Theses the militant Jesuit order was established by Roman Catholic Igntius Loyola, and with the blessing of the Pope, tormented, tortured, bribed, and murdered countless Protestants and Catholics who dared to questioned Catholic doctrine. But, the tactics of the Roman church did not stop with violence against human life, but turned to violence against the Word of God itself which is felt more deeply today than most know. For, most translations of the Bible come from a polluted Greek text written in 1881 by Westcott and Hort, and seminaries are full of Jesuit professors who teach students to question Scriptural authority. And now the modern ecumenical movement focused on the unity of Protestants and Rome is relentlessly striving to peacefully tear down all that Luther and the Reformers fought and died for.

But the hammer and nail still is pounding in the hearts of those who believe in sola scriptura (Scripture alone) and sola fide (faith alone).

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As we REMEMBER the Reformation on Reformation Day, October 31st, let us also recommit to stand for the truth of the Reformation such as Scripture being our only source of authority, and faith in Jesus as the ONLY way to heaven. And may we say with Martin Luther,

“as to the article of faith, if I gave way in the least, I should be denying Jesus Christ. On this head, therefore, I will not and cannot yield; by the grace of God, I never will”

“I am not frightened at any of their threats. I am not to be led away by their promises.”

“My resolution is taken. I despise Rome’s fury, and I despise her favour. No more reconciliation, no more communication with her forever! Let her condemn and burn my writings. I, in my turn, will condemn and publicly burn the Pontifical Law, that nest of all heresies. The moderation I have shown, to this hour, has been useless; I renounce it!”

In these words and in the hearts of true believers the Protestant Reformation lives on, the hammer of Luther still resounds, and God’s Word will never fail! Indeed, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but the Word of God will never pass away!”

Other Sources Not Yet Documented:

The New Common Ground of Protestants and Catholics:

(http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/catholics-and-lutherans-find-common-ground-as-reformations-500th-anniversar,

https://www.lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/From%20Conflict%20to%20Communion.pdf,

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/after.500.years.can.catholics.and.lutherans.at.last.make.peace/76593.htm, and

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/after-five-centuries-of-division-catholics-and-lutherans-consider-their-com)

Tony Palmer:

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/christians.mourn.death.of.bishop.who.was.friend.of.pope.francis/38973.htm,

Protestants Leaders Answering the Siren Call of Catholicism:

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/44555-why-did-copeland-robison-meet-with-pope-francis and http://www.cfnews.org/page88/files/a66a02dd472db2aa376bfd82c0b22724-109.html

The Pursuit of Ecumenical Unity:

http://www.thebereancall.org/content/ecumenism-catholicism and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFhGQ4Do9s

Sources Regarding the History of Rome’s Cruelty Toward Protestants and the Bible:

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE MIDDLE AGES: Reformation Men and Theology, Lesson 1 of 11 by Dr. Jack L. Arnold: http://thirdmill.org/newfiles/jac_arnold/ch.arnold.rmt.1.html

THE CAUSE AND RESULTS OF THE REFORMATION
Reformation Men and Theology, Lesson 2 of 11 by Dr. Jack Arnold:
http://old.thirdmill.org/newfiles/jac_arnold/CH.Arnold.RMT.2.html

A Lamp in the Dark, DVD documentary by Christian Pinto and Adullam Films, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndb0z0jGQk0

Tares Among the Wheat, DVD documentary by Christian Pinto and Adullam Films, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aiHcghIdjM

Quotes of Martin Luther:

MARTIN LUTHER:
FROM STRUGGLE WITH ROME UNTIL DEATH (1517-1546)
Reformation Men and Theology, Lesson 4 of 11
by Dr. Jack L. Arnold

http://thirdmill.org/magazine/article.asp/link/http:%5E%5Ethirdmill.org%5Earticles%5Ejac_arnold%5ECH.Arnold.RMT.4.html/at/Martin%20Luther:%20From%20Struggle%20with%20Rome%20until%20Death%20(1517-1546)

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