Are We There Yet?

This is the question of a child, seeking answers from the parent. My asking of this self same question caused Him to point out to me that the answer has been with me all along, surrounded, as I have been, with the number 17, and it’s accompanying meaning. Now, Jesus said to look to the days of Noah to see the pattern and it’s ending (for us) and to know the Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord is only a surprise to those who have not been watching, and it will come in like a flood. However, Elijah knew when he would be leaving, and kept walking with the Lord.

It seems the door to the ark was shut on the 17th of the month, and God broke up the fountains of the deep, and opened up the floodgates of heaven, on that selfsame day. Noah had a week to bring in the animals and then God shut the door (Gen. 7). That same door of heaven is in the power of the Redeemer who holds it’s key (Rev 3:7, 4:1 and Is. 22:22). The church of Philadelphia is told that they will have this door placed in front of them. Not to worry, little flock, because only HE can shut it!

Those left behind have been cast into outer darkness, the place of hypocrites, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. These are the five foolish handmaids, the Laodicean church, and the wicked, lazy servants. They have been “vomited” out into the Tribulation, these who have heard but do not believe. You see, the surprise day is the Day of the Lord, not the rapture, for those who are faithless! That Day comes as a thief in the night for them, but Enoch is long gone when this Day arrives! They will long for one of the days of “The Son of Man”, as it says in Luke 17, but will not see them (The Son of Man is Jesus, Lord, right now, of a mostly gentile church). They will long to have gone up with Elijah!

For the final days, the prophesies do speak of America, but as the second beast, the daughter of Babylon, which instigates the mark of the beast. There are two end time gentile powers, the beast and his prophet. After marriage and the “honeymoon” for the bride, the next Passover season comes round again, after a year has passed, with the thief in the night. Judas betrayed the Lord as a thief in the night on Passover, so this is the prelude, where the seals are opened (and also the time of the sealing of the 144,000),to enable the antichrist to set up his reign, first, by deceit, in the vacuum of power left by the Gog, Magog war (provoked by annexation, Psalm 108) and by the man of sin finally agreeing to the Trump peace plan. This “Deal of the Century”, allows the man of sin to set up his palace between “the holy mountain and the seas”, as it says in Daniel, where there are three cities in a triangle, of “Palestinian” settlements (mentioned specifically in the Trump deal as part of the new “state of Palestine”.) He will build the temple of Kabalah for Israel, just as the Jews have planned, thus sealing his reputation as “messiah”, with them.

The Song of Songs is about the rapture (As Eph. 5 marriage advice is about Christ and the church). Remember how the “watchmen” on the walls of Jerusalem take away her “shawl “? They deny who this gentile woman is, take away her mark of Jewishness as His bride, and wound her to deny her Messiah.

I have watched with delight the coverage, during the season of Passover, this headline saying “Let My People Go!” How appropriate that the deliverance from slavery begins with His people crying out because of the severity of their oppression! And how fitting is this confinement (of undeclared martial law) before the onset of the birth pangs! These sorrows and pains begin before the birth of the born again Israel! “She cried out in pain to be delivered”!

Right now, I am asking The Judge to avenge me of my adversary. (Luke 18:3,7) God’s Throne is established on justice and righteousness, so I ask Him to make things right, as He has promised! Our prayers ascend to His Throne, from His people, and He judges the world accordingly, for HE will answer every prayer! (Rev. 8:1-5 and 7:17!)

The Choice Set Before Believers

I used to think that anger was the strongest motivator that competes with love, but now I am seeing that it is fear. Now I can see why He is always telling us to not fear, for fear, in the flesh, will absorb our focus. Fear will distract us from the awesomeness of what He has waiting for us. As John said “There is no fear in love” and “fear has to do with punishment.” So when we make a decision from anger (and when you suffer, you WILL have anger), it is, in reality, a lack of forgiveness, and then of course we have been subjected to the spirit of fear by assuming our justice is in our own hands. Fear is how the enemy controls us, sows violence and disease into our lives! Fear is the chain in our soul, which binds us to defeat and failure.

All of this is a totally separate path from His, which consists of mercy and grace. We must put aside childish, fleshly things, as believers, and put on the mind of Christ, who could face suffering and death because He had the same goal as His Father! His eye was on what His Father wanted, instead of temporary pain!

I understand THIS, that if He is not sufficient IN all and FOR all, then He is not sufficient AT ALL! Therefore, I affirm You are sufficient for me (in all things and at all times)! My endurance through pain and sickness has sharpened my focus and my hope, and my bond with You! I am victorious because I trust in You! Peace comes from this realization! The light of Your justice will come! I will be justified, in the presence of my enemies, and I will be satisfied to be found in YOUR likeness in Glory!

I choose to reject fear and all its exhaustion, refuse to be distracted from the Face of Jesus! Instead of fear, I choose trust! So, while I still walk in this land of shadows, I carry only my joy and praise of Him with me! I choose to be grateful for what He has ALREADY accomplished!

The Mystery of the Person of God

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. 1 Tim 3:16

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. Hebrews 1:3

God made a visit to this world, in the same manner that the rest of the race of mankind, but this more than Man took on a temporary tent of flesh, stepped down into four dimensions, became His own Messenger (called an “angel”), to create a way, a narrow gate (which is in His Flesh and Spirit), back to the Throne of The Father. The Tetragrammaton expresses the multidimensional nature of His person, of a mind which fills up the sum of existence. This is The God who was, and is, and is to come, as expressed by the Seraphim in Isaiah 6:3, and from His Own Mouth, in Revelations 4:


I have revealed Your name
to the men You gave Me from the world.
They were Yours, You gave them to Me,
and they have kept Your word. John 17:6

I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to You.
Holy Father,
protect[c] them by Your name
that You have given Me,
so that they may be one as We are one.
While I was with them,
I was protecting them by Your name
that You have given Me.
I guarded them and not one of them is lost,
except the son of destruction,[d]
so that the Scripture may be fulfilled. John 17:11-12 Christian Holman

Resurrection Revelation

I turned a new page in my calendar to see a new picture of the holy land, a depiction of an ancient olive tree that just might have seen the face of Jesus. In this photo, the light of dawn streams through it’s branches, coloring it, and the ground around it, a translucent gold. How appropriate that we should see the light of the world shining through the olive tree and it’s branches, as they represent the law and the prophets, and also, the law and prophets speak of Jesus to us. He is coming to us as the dawn, He is the Light of the world, and only He can inform us on the meanings of scripture.

This was the sight greeting me as I turned to read the next chapter of the book of Matthew, chapter 17, the number that means resurrection revelation. This gospel was written to the Jews. On the day of the resurrection of the body of Christ, the light shown will come from Him and His white clothing that He also gives to us. We will see His glory because we will be like HIM! He will also, by snatching away His Elijah, and taking him to the top of the mountain, be revealing His identity to the Jews, at least those capable of seeing or hearing, who might not have taken to heart His first resurrection.

The chapter starts out with the words “after six days”. Here, there is no preceding event, to link to the six days, so as to be able to answer the obvious question, “ six days after WHAT?”  The six days, then, are the six days of creation, letting us know when the son of man will be revealed to believers, those who are His Body. He had taken them up on the mountain to reveal Himself.