tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18700706966138797722024-03-09T18:46:59.795-08:00bvaliant4him רבקה אראל
These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
אַךְ־אֵלֶּה נִכְתְּבוּ לְבַעֲבוּר תַּאֲמִינוּ כִּי יֵשׁוּעַ הוּא הַמָּשִׁיחַ בֶּן־הָאֱלֹהִים וּלְבַעֲבוּר יִהְיוּ לָכֶם חַיִּים עֵקֶב אֱמוּנַתְכֶם בִּשְׁמוֹ׃ JOHN 20:31bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.comBlogger345125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-70200437206655887442024-02-05T02:04:00.000-08:002024-02-05T02:04:36.546-08:00When Love Comes In<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">I remember, He said it before, that we will be grateful for just these very things, the things that hurt us the most. We WILL praise Him, for them, in heaven, because then we see why, why this has opened us up to receive more absolute joy, the joy which is His nature. We will see why this has let us conquer the world for Him and through Him. He redeems us so very thoroughly to Himself..</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">From a brother, “when we are broken, that’s how His light gets in” and I remember, He said, when I wrote, “When our hearts are broken, that is how Gods law of Love gets in, because it’s already been written on our hearts and God is not a bully to come in until He is wanted.” He has redeemed us and now sanctifies us as the sign of His overwhelming love. He satisfies the longing within us to understand and participate. We need fear NOTHING. Hasn’t He commanded us not to fear?</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-16445681904372225292024-01-10T23:34:00.000-08:002024-01-11T00:25:51.886-08:00This could be it! <p>It’s still the tenth month, the month Esther entered the house of the king. Tomorrow, on the eleventh, the asteroid Esther will be crowning the head of Virgo, just a handful of days before the end of the month. Springtime is beginning, the time of life in Israel. The plants are starting to grow. I just used the first tender plant from my garden, today, for the first time this year. </p><p>Today, I saw thousands and thousands of Jews praying at the western wall and in a huge synagogue. All Israel prays. </p><p>The main thing, though, is news of a hostage deal. This hostage deal was negotiated by the families of a hundred or so hostages, through an official in Qatar. The idea was that the Hamas leaders would stay alive in exchange for the hostages. Can these families be the many, and this be the Daniel covanent? It even seems that one of the three leaders might be the candidate for the “idol shepherd” or antichrist, as he has a “withered right eye.” His whole right side is affected, so he has a “withered right arm” just as scripture says. His name is Mohamed Deif.</p><p>Hang on to your hats! We’re about to find out!</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-16876812674663254212023-12-11T13:08:00.000-08:002024-01-10T23:13:09.326-08:00Soon Comes The Reward of Our Patience<p>I looked up, this morning, the date of my vision of myself weeping abjectly for Israel. At the time of my seeing of that vision, I had not yet reached the same depth of emotion, in my prayers for my older sister. Since October 7th, I have been praying that way every morning. Yet today, for some reason, I looked up the date I received this glimpse of the future….and it was December the 14th. It’s been a year….</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-870450615629608902023-12-05T17:05:00.000-08:002023-12-11T13:13:49.063-08:00Patience<p>He gives us a challenge to test our patience to still be watching and waiting. No wonder HE said,”I will put before you an open door, because you have kept the word of My patience.”</p><p>I think there are still the fourteen Israelis to fill up the number to one hundred. (But three of the ones freed are Russian.) I am recording a request ahead of time, so that it will be known that I am asking HIM who can do all that we ask, for the release of seventeen more. I am praying for a miraculous intervention that defies logic, that His angel releases them without the aid of the IDF, that HE blinds the eyes of the enemy to the passage of these innocents. Hasn’t He called me to be persistent and persevere, witnessed by the name He gave me? (As He reminded me just yesterday to keep asking, in Luke 11?) Let me then be a witness to and for Your faithfulness, my precious Lord! Fulfill it ALL according to Your promise of THIS year. </p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-14527061444370813342023-11-29T19:50:00.000-08:002023-12-05T16:54:39.433-08:00But Wait, There’s More!<p>A month after the abductions, after continuously crying for the abused captives, I was inspired to bargain with my Lord for their freedom, as our father Abraham bargained for the cities on the plains. Our certainty is the audacity of faith, in the face of the proven goodness of Him whom we serve. If getting them all out at once seemed too much or too grand, how about just part of them, and right away, and also as a sign that we were within twenty four hours of the harpazo? But wait! There’s more!</p><p>I asked for a hundred to be released. I heard nothing. The next day, I asked for at LEAST fifty. That is the number I stayed with. Four days later, I heard there was an exchange being discussed for, get this, EIGHTY hostages that Israel wanted released. Hamass countered with seventy. I knew this was HIS answer because this was exactly BETWEEN the two numbers I had randomly chosen! At this point, I told my son, on the fourteenth of November, to prove my Lord answers the prayers of His people! But wait! There’s more!</p><p>As of today, the twenty ninth of November, we are at one hundred and two total hostages freed. So tomorrow is our day of deliverance, if we go by that number. Or we can be gone the day after the sum total of one hundred Israelis achieves release. Right now it’s at eighty six. But wait! Here’s more!</p><p>What happened before this to help me know what to pray for? How did I know what was the good and acceptable will of the Lord? After all, I have followed Him for a couple months shy of fifty years. At the beginning of this year, I told the Lord I was tired of getting excited, passing on what I had heard, and then being disappointed that we were not there yet (and of being called a false prophet, even though I was careful to state I’m not a prophet, but was just interpreting as best as I could.). The psalms express it so well, “But You, oh Lord, how long?” I asked Him, to let me hear my newest daughter in law was pregnant, if this is the year. I knew that they didn’t want a child yet, but I wanted a grandchild from them if we were leaving this year. It was right after that, that they found out they were pregnant, on my birthday. Best present EVER! But wait! There’s more! </p><p>Because of His faithfulness, I was bold enough to tell my Jewish friend that the Messiah would be revealed on the weekend of second Passover. That is my understanding of the beginning of the season of His return. He woke me up that Friday morning with the sound of a silver trumpet blast, the sound of a lamb, and Him speaking, “Daughter, I’m coming!” Not exactly what I was hoping for, but even better, in that He is faithful! But wait, there’s more!</p><p>The new baby is named Judah! How did Rachel know? She didn’t, but Jesus does! I was to drive the twelve hours to go see him, but three days before I was to leave (by myself), a huge “hurricane” hit us dead on! Because JD Farag had had people pray when they were in the path of one, and it had just went POOF and dissolved, I prayed and our little storm was shredded by the mountains behind us. All it did was leave a huge mud flow over the freeway I needed to use, to get to where my new grandson was, but it was cleaned up by the time I left to see him. But wait, there’s more!</p><p>I drove overnight, and when I got up in the high desert, I wound up in a blowing sandstorm! I started praying right away for the Lord to be my shelter and shield. While I was praying, I noticed a very bright light behind the hillside directly in front of me (middle of the night, okay?). I was fascinated, thinking that it was a huge mall or gas station. Imagine my surprise when the biggest moon I have EVER seen emerged from behind the hill, looking just like it was sitting on the ground directly front of me! I was amazed. Then, when I remembered about what I had been praying for, I saw that here was no more wind or blowing sand, and that the horizon was clear of debris and dust! What a beautiful light!</p><p>So, are we going to be in the Throne room tomorrow? Or, will we be watching and waiting two more days for the number to reach one hundred, and then go the day after? I tend to think tomorrow. Just look at my previous post to see the reason why. I can hardly wait to see what the Lord will do!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-61467924492081425962023-11-29T14:44:00.000-08:002023-11-29T14:50:48.595-08:00Prophetic fulfillment<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBppaawZqc7bKOH50Qf5Ima4LwxP6HOjlywL_lNLtSrXjaHFpjxhzQ3xM90vbuOCGP5nn6Gh5Hvjf9wysKw34DIgVEARR2YxpHTBL8tPKb7SLb0QdqVe0kxpd9zKuzGjPLA7016m5VoXPHDifM5ug8COOm6fwlQ87bR7OXvQ53Ok2fEQQtqGmJQz7RhMWI/s2048/IMG_3945.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBppaawZqc7bKOH50Qf5Ima4LwxP6HOjlywL_lNLtSrXjaHFpjxhzQ3xM90vbuOCGP5nn6Gh5Hvjf9wysKw34DIgVEARR2YxpHTBL8tPKb7SLb0QdqVe0kxpd9zKuzGjPLA7016m5VoXPHDifM5ug8COOm6fwlQ87bR7OXvQ53Ok2fEQQtqGmJQz7RhMWI/s320/IMG_3945.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQm2KTpPxO_NJwP6SgTqlwaOomrdAQ7aaKv0Zj1wte58BN1iCfk7jXUI1VSvYDmxUK5qQTyoHPp8vmwmZy-H0lyL1_P0hxktNPs-eqBB7393S37ETexH96dI5Qveb-1zz0FANnrhwS9ihF55x9mmITm7W9Igqr5-hTz5hQLXQWVce8WUSY8J9sLZX9cNWh/s2048/IMG_3950.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQm2KTpPxO_NJwP6SgTqlwaOomrdAQ7aaKv0Zj1wte58BN1iCfk7jXUI1VSvYDmxUK5qQTyoHPp8vmwmZy-H0lyL1_P0hxktNPs-eqBB7393S37ETexH96dI5Qveb-1zz0FANnrhwS9ihF55x9mmITm7W9Igqr5-hTz5hQLXQWVce8WUSY8J9sLZX9cNWh/s320/IMG_3950.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNLdXmBiCpG7otaU3rwbQhdEDo03gHXesawVY0ApOCZm_Qco8uJhAkkkTX0AxfqX506Wy0FLeuqQOZ4F2hCL3Swxn5wtQzTH56MwHWK4fpEy8mDndnNugSDSaewr0cCx0NmrRiF24fjMhOiJMUMdmQGRAXwH0Bgoj0hBmO7iNJurLCithccWSws_V6q-v/s2048/IMG_3951.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNLdXmBiCpG7otaU3rwbQhdEDo03gHXesawVY0ApOCZm_Qco8uJhAkkkTX0AxfqX506Wy0FLeuqQOZ4F2hCL3Swxn5wtQzTH56MwHWK4fpEy8mDndnNugSDSaewr0cCx0NmrRiF24fjMhOiJMUMdmQGRAXwH0Bgoj0hBmO7iNJurLCithccWSws_V6q-v/s320/IMG_3951.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y3FT1Z7THS85wxrIzzM8CJRfyl1yw5SbXCiH_C_8vuVH5IwCdbuhfmbRBLM9rB0hG6tUPhkMyy_LrZhXm4TwDKjKBiRjl28StGOpCax_uiNBf8MXWzgTdJOxYaESH3GUOUCDsJ9ivoQiACEpilJkWR9d8JwX6diBNWUz9yxIDOcjY1Atr-jgOmW5BVCd/s2048/IMG_3952.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y3FT1Z7THS85wxrIzzM8CJRfyl1yw5SbXCiH_C_8vuVH5IwCdbuhfmbRBLM9rB0hG6tUPhkMyy_LrZhXm4TwDKjKBiRjl28StGOpCax_uiNBf8MXWzgTdJOxYaESH3GUOUCDsJ9ivoQiACEpilJkWR9d8JwX6diBNWUz9yxIDOcjY1Atr-jgOmW5BVCd/s320/IMG_3952.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-72163793769405201682023-07-12T05:06:00.006-07:002023-07-12T09:48:46.665-07:00The Consuming Fire<p>The reason we call our God a consuming Fire, is that all of our regrets, our grief, and our pain, are burned up in His Presence, never to be thought of again. Hasn’t He already carried those for us, just as He said He would? It’s all for Him. Dead works are over and past. He IS our fulfillment. He is passionate, zealous, in His pursuit of us, and has promised that it is never from anger, once we trust Him. His is, instead, the realization of flooding joy and peace, full of life, and the only tears, those from healing and grateful release. No regrets, now. None. I am satisfied in that He has appointed me an overcomer.</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-83373820966118865022023-07-09T19:55:00.002-07:002023-07-12T05:08:25.875-07:00Holy, Holy, Holy<p>Only HE could create us, make a grand space for us, then inhabit it in a way we could understand. “We saw His Glory” as the “only begotten of The Father.” Only our Yeshua (salvation) could become what we needed. A single Being, one Person, the most exalted and all powerful, could and did manifest as THE highest and most sacred, The Supreme King, in every part of His creation, and in all of it’s dimensions. He is the Father of all, who gives the law, the visible Son of the covenant, and the Spirit which indwells each temple of consecrated (sealed) flesh. He carries each of our griefs, burdens too heavy for us to bear, and at the same time, maintains our very reality and consciousness. Thus is He ,THE Person who is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, in each office, this One who “Was,” who “Is,” and who “Is to come”! All of this at the same “time” because He is One!</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-76702036065477201892023-07-05T21:08:00.002-07:002023-07-10T19:05:29.715-07:00Self Deception<p>The last days are known primarily by the presence of multiplied forms of deception. That is something the New Testament is clear on, something that we are to expect, in the words of Jesus, and warned of also by Paul. By far the most insidious and unnecessary manifestation is the person who thinks they are good with God, but when brought to judgement, are told,”I never knew you. Away from Me, you workers of iniquity.” Instructions of what is necessary to please The Judge of all flesh and spirits is already available. It’s called the Bible, and needs to be read by everyone, and I do mean everyone. Allowing someone else to interpret it for you, creating an office of priest, is a path to destruction. We are all our own “priest” in that only we, ourselves, can work out our relationship with God, and only in the Way He has prescribed. Therefore, there is THE instruction manual.</p><p>Such self deception is the “form of godliness” warned of in Timothy. At first I assumed it was this religious expression of secularism called “tolerance” which I consider to be nothing more than self torture. Then I realized that the antichrist cult of death called islame (yes, I spelled it that way on purpose) could be accused of masquerading as a religion, or a form of “godliness.” Now I have a new candidate to add to the list of all these lies of the enemy (plenty of choices available to lead one astray).</p><p>There is an essentially lazy person who wants an authority to tell them how to get to God. They’re not choosy. Any kind of works based salvation message will do. Doing it this way makes reading and studying unnecessary, and they still get to feel good about themselves. They also have a calling, apparently, to whip others into shape and into following the same path. More glory for them. And pride. But no actual salvation.</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-63960882808429004942023-06-29T20:24:00.001-07:002023-07-05T20:23:35.264-07:00Confirmed <p>Since I am one of the watch”men” on the “walls of Jerusalem”, the Lord has been gracious to respond directly to my question. On the Friday of the weekend of second Passover, I received a message, from Him, upon awakening from sleep. I heard the sound a lamb makes, a short blast on a silver trumpet, and the words, “Daughter, I’m coming.” This only happened after I had sent a card to my Jewish friend, Laura, telling her messiah would be revealed on the weekend of second Passover. The reason I felt so comfortable laying it on the line with her that way, was because the Lord had previously, and specifically, answered my prayer for a sign if the rapture was this year (my question). Since my name, that HE gave me, means, as Boaz said, “I will do all that you have asked” this specific indication I requested, was that I would hear my new daughter in law was pregnant, even though they were not planning on having a child yet. She literally found out she was expecting right after I prayed the prayer. These were personal confirmations.</p><p>Out in YouTube land, there are videos basically proving that the messiah’s second coming is in the year 2030, all using different but biblical calculations ( We understand His return should be on the feast of trumpets that year). Before that, there is the seven years of Jacob’s trouble, what Christians call the great tribulation. That means the rapture is THIS year. I had told my son that the season of rapture is from second Passover to the ninth of Av. That would make the last day on July 26th…726, the Strong’s Concordance number for harpazo….rapture.</p><p>Here are the videos…..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/aw2p06bgyKg">https://youtu.be/aw2p06bgyKg</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/4AG_nJNcTjM">https://youtu.be/4AG_nJNcTjM</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/VaazK76enNk">https://youtu.be/VaazK76enNk</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-84701872156450990712023-06-20T06:05:00.002-07:002023-06-20T06:14:33.957-07:00At the Transition of the Ages<p>The enemy seeks to grind me down into the dust, but in the darkness, what little light there is, stands out ever more clearly. Utilizing creatively the little strength left to me, hope still provides a way to document the revelation and inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord. Isn’t that why I still draw breath in this dimension, to provide an outlet for the visible grace of the Lord? Yes, I myself am weak, but it leaves space for the working of grace. My own strength was never sufficient for HIS tasks. Nevertheless, He still works through me.</p><p>The method is about to change, and in between Second Passover and the ninth of Av, occurs the journey of the despised (by Israel) nation called the church: That contemptible one (Leah) with the “weak eyes” because there are no prophets in it. That which was born of Israel, through the offered body of messiah, THE Body that was carried through this worldly wilderness like Joseph’s body, shall be visibly (to Israel) given the reward of faith (born in weakness, raised by HIM, to power). Strength shall be increased, in a moment of time, at the deliverance. Eyes shall be unveiled, in a moment of time. The judgement comes, to separate the camp, in a moment of time (when the priests move to the side of Moses).</p><p>Realize that even judgement, in His hand, brings with it increased grace. Do not be afraid, you whose eyes are to be opened. You will be given twice the power of the Spirit of the Living God, to do the work to which He has called you, and separated you out for. There will be the satisfaction of being HIS vessel, the joy of seeing your own voice used to accomplish His purpose. And because of the suffering you have undergone, you shall be a fit instrument and conduit for SO much more of His power, that which has yet to be seen, beyond all you could even think or imagine. His strength will be yours, irrefusable. He loves you. You are His Rachel.</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-49350552041359021982023-02-24T04:56:00.004-08:002023-02-24T05:24:33.419-08:00The Great Apostasy is in Progress<p>The Great Apostasy is in Progress</p><p> I have stated earlier that I believe the great apostasy in second Thessalonians, which others call the falling away, is already in progress. While I concede that the Lord respects His called people by acceding to that interpretation and it’s ramifications (of abandoning the faith of the fathers), yet there is One who’s position is more relevant to our condition, then what is our own opinion (of our centrality to the question). </p><p>God has His appointed times. He has His Plan. What I am seeing, I feel by saying it, is just repeating what preachers have always said, that our culture is circling the drain, before the plunge into the abyss of being handed over to satan. Preachers may have always said it because rebellion is in our nature, but we all know this time is different. For instance, there is the culturally unpopular Romans chapter one, which specifically says that a people in rebellion will suffer the symptom of sodomy. That is what happens when the Lord withdraws His Spirit. Only His Spirit can provide the spiritual sight and faith necessary to bring repentance and belief (and He will not be gracious forever). The specific sin is the result, not the cause. When He says it’s time, it’s time. His patience DOES have its limits. He will “turn him over to the tormentors” and “appoint him a portion with the hypocrites”, by leaving “ that wicked servant” to satan’s devices. Great apostasy indeed!</p><p>These times bring much greater pressure from the enemy, for he senses his short window is coming. There is heartbreak and oppression surrounding us. We can no longer fight in the natural, in a world which has only contempt for HIS Love. Let us pray for deliverance, for ourselves and those enslaved. Let us pray for the power of the Almighty to manifest, that His Name and identity be unveiled to His elect. Let us pray that HIS will be done, and His kingdom come! Let Him find faith on the earth!</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-77111960762176380522023-02-22T10:26:00.004-08:002023-02-22T10:28:23.658-08:00Shaken (by the power of the Almighty!)<p> Just before the birth, the birth pains get more intense. Maybe if life were somewhat normal, we could question why, and God is very patient to answer our questions, and then by the reading of the Word, we learn how to recognize His answers. Be what it may, right now is the battle and the war, and prayer is not an option, it is a necessity! We who are His, are privileged and honored to be a part of His merciful plans. He develops us as warriors willing to fight. He gives us the strength and faith for the conflict! He welds us as His weapon! We are called out of, for this, because within the very word “fight,” there is also the word “gift.”</p><p>As the messenger pointed out, the closer we get to God, the more we are persecuted. “All those who would live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” We can rejoice that we are counted worthy to suffer for Him (who is more than worthy to receive our offering).We are His Body, “regarded as sheep to be slaughtered,” just like Him. We are the gentile Ruth to the kinsman Redeemer, Boaz. And what did Boaz tell Ruth? He said to her, “I will do all that you have asked.”</p><p>We have the authority to ask for anything, when we want what HE wants, and place our very life on the altar, as He did. In the courts of heaven, our prayers plead for justice, and the God who is THE judge, is now also, our Son given for us, and our Prince who gives peace.</p><p>I offer an overarching example in my own life. I remember when I was young, I prayed the Lord would wake me up in time to get the kids ready for church. Well, there was an earthquake right on time. (I told the Lord His sense of humor was amazing.) More recently, I was praying and praising Him, and rejoicing in what I knew He would do, soon. The earth started moving and shaking and at first I was laughing in joy, but it went on and on, so then I rebuked it and it was still. Around the same time, when I was praying with my sisters in the Lord, the whole house was rocked, gently, and all of us in the house felt it. The most recent incident happened the first day of a two day fast, the purpose of which was to ask the Lord deliver His people Israel from their unbelief. That was the same day of the recent violent shaking in the Middle East. Hasn’t The Lord said He will shake heaven and earth?</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-75971958984196267542023-01-30T21:04:00.005-08:002023-01-31T12:55:30.847-08:00Forsaken <p> <span class="text 2Thess-2-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">2 Thess 2:2 </span>Now we ask you, brothers <i>and sisters</i>, regarding the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-29650a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-29650a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2&version=NASB#fen-NASB-29650a" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 2Thess-2-2" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" id="en-NASB-29651" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>that you not be quickly shaken from your <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-29651b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-29651b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2&version=NASB#fen-NASB-29651b" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-29651c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-29651c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2&version=NASB#fen-NASB-29651c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 2Thess-2-3" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" id="en-NASB-29652" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>No one is to deceive you in any way! For <i>it will not come</i> unless the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-29652d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-29652d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2&version=NASB#fen-NASB-29652d" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 2Thess-2-4" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" id="en-NASB-29653" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>who opposes and exalts himself above <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-29653e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-29653e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2&version=NASB#fen-NASB-29653e" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 2Thess-2-5" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" id="en-NASB-29654" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 2Thess-2-6" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" id="en-NASB-29655" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>And you know what restrains <i>him</i> now, so that he will be revealed in his time.</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><span class="text 2Thess-2-7" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" id="en-NASB-29656" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-29656f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-29656f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2&version=NASB#fen-NASB-29656f" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>He who now restrains <i>will do so </i>until <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-29656g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-29656g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2&version=NASB#fen-NASB-29656g" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>He is <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-29656h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-29656h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2&version=NASB#fen-NASB-29656h" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>removed.</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 2Thess-2-8" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" id="en-NASB-29657" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Then that lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will eliminate with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-29657i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-29657i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2&version=NASB#fen-NASB-29657i" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>coming.</span></p><p><span class="text 2Thess-2-8" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span class="text 2Thess-2-8" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">This passage is just one more which has the brethren disagreeing as to its interpretation. I have long held, that the apostasy is better served, by being understood to be the departure. However, I watched a video on YouTube in which a very learned brother pointed out that nowhere in Ancient Greek literature is a physical departure, of human beings, able to be inserted into the meaning of this word. The intrinsic understanding supported by the word, in the text, is a political, emotional, or religious displacement. The exact same word is used one other time in the New Testament, where the religious Jews complain of the Christian’s teachings, saying that they are teaching Jews to “forsake Moses.” </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">One of the root word’s conjunctions is even used for the word meaning divorce.</span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">Clearly, the passage’s subject and context is “the coming of our Lord….and our gathering together with Him.” </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">The one thing standing in the way of the revealing of the identity of the “son of perdition” is the One who restrains, this phrase “restrains, removed, revealed” being a repeat of the same idea of “apostasy, then the unveiling,” of who is the antichrist.</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"> Paul’s repetition of the same exact idea, twice, in two different ways, is how he is making plain what is to happen, and in what order. His students thought the day of the Lord had already arrived (judgement) and he was saying that this ONE thing must happen FIRST, because the man of sin was God’s wrath and judgement.</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">Paul’s argument about “the day” was that first there is THE turning away (a singular, identifiable event), then Antichrist is revealed, and after that would be the feared “day” of the Lord. The one-time event of the restrainer removed, or THE apostasy, had to come before anything else. His whole argument hinges on only this one thing, occurring just once (unlike rebellion, which is continuous.)</span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">Perhaps the “apostasy” can be better understood, as the removal of God’s Presence. Maybe He needs to abandon those who do not love the truth, to the development of their plans, which results in their own destruction (Rom 1). Is there anything that would drive home the fact of impending judgement, and signify the end God’s patience with the world, more than the removal of HIS presence, manifested by the withdrawal of the ambassadors of His grace? He will not judge the righteous with the wicked. Remember Lot and Enoch? His Spirit will not always strive with man.</span></p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-53321324250467870072022-09-18T09:01:00.003-07:002022-09-19T07:06:56.578-07:00Remember Who You Are<p>Oddly enough, and contrary to established practice (with me), the Lord gave me a message, that spoke directly to my need, through three dreams. Let me fill out the background to this story, so the foundation is established (gotta have THAT, huh? I mean JESUS, of course!)</p><p>I’ve been pleading with the Lord to speak to me through my dreams. He seems to do it so easily through others, what with them seeing Him, and speaking directly to them, in their dreams. MY dreams, however, were ones harried and pursued of tasks to be fulfilled, and failure. An oft repeated one, has been of myself in school, with horrible grades and disapproving teachers (and in one, it was the devil, himself, and these kind of messages are from that one, anyway). In truth, the Lord has reproved my discontent, in the past, by telling me that He speaks so easily, and with such familiarity, during the day, to me, with a still small voice, with His Word, and with my circumstance, that He has no need to use my dreams. Still, I have longed to be like others (Who can fathom?)</p><p>Well, yesterday, a man was telling about a dream he had, where he died and was in heaven (so now it’s OTHER peoples dreams, huh, Lord?) The angel speaking to him asked him what his ten most important miracles, that he had been given by God, were. The gentleman had a message from this dream for himself, but there was one for ME, in there, too! I had a response to his angel’s question! I immediately thought of my greatest, miracle, blessing, and gift, which is the Lord’s heritage, that new name that He has given me! My acknowledgment from God, that of my identity IN HIM, has meant more to me than anything else I can think of! (But wait, there’s more!)</p><p>My dreams last night were the usual, where I revisited my past from the security of my present. I went back to my job site for some event or something, and got hit with memories of angry supervisors, isolated me with no one to talk to, and meaningless tasks. I walked away. Then I was with my youngest brother for some family thing (he wants nothing to do with my Christianity, not even to hear about it). We talked at each other and achieved nothing. I left my brother at the hotel and went to my former high school. I didn’t recognize the place. They were promoting “justice for palestine”. Just when I started to feel really sorry for myself, and was telling my self that I was always an outsider, that I’d never had friends, I decided I wanted to leave that place, and then came the horror part. It dawned on me that I had lost my purse, with my phone and wallet, I had put them down somewhere, who knows where, and without them, I was stuck in that wasteland.</p><p>In the dream, I prayed (because that is HIS calling that makes all the difference). I actually found my purse, with everything still inside, including the money, exactly where the hotel clerk had put it, hanging under a strip of fabric to conceal it for me, because I had walked away from him without it. It still had my wallet and ID, and I knew, then, that I would still be able to function in a broken and alien world. I was happy, then. It was like a deliverance.</p><p>The message seems obvious, now that I’ve written it down, but I still wondered, as I usually do, after the dream. The Lord brought back a memory of another dream I had, to flesh it all out. In this other dream, from a couple weeks ago, I was trying to inform others that I was royalty. They just looked at me like I was crazy, same as they do when I talk about JESUS (like He’s here, with us).</p><p>These dreams fit right in with the other things the Lord has been telling me, like the book “This Present Darkness” (how I feel about the world), where the prayers of Christians are the real battle in the war we fight, and the book “Girls with Swords”, in which the Word is our only weapon. In the second book, she was telling how the Egyptian pharaoh decided to oppress the Hebrews because he was AFRAID of them and WHO THEY MIGHT BECOME. When I got out my Bible for my daily reading, it was the EXACT SAME passage of scripture that was next. However, in the next chapter, there is one other important fact, that the Lord wanted me to know. BECAUSE of their oppression, the Lord heard their cries, and sent them a deliverer! It was time for Him to remember those who were His inheritance.</p><p>This last fact is integral to my own identity. The Lord has affirmed, because of my name, that HE hears my cries. And what have I been crying out for, but the coming of our Deliverer?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-89901224567837174912022-08-06T09:20:00.002-07:002022-08-15T20:54:34.849-07:00The Lord’s Timing<p> I was reading where a bride is Divinely selected for Isaac. This was the very section that prompted me to visit Israel and the holy city after my mom passed, three years ago, these verses and the one that says “you will be comforted in Jerusalem, like a mother comforts her child.” When Rebecca is brought to her spouse by “The Servant”, Isaac makes her his wife and “is comforted after the death of his mother” as God did for me. One of the study notes pointed out that the servant brought her to Isaac three years after the death of Sarah, his mother. Why didn’t I know this before? It’s now been three years since my mother died. Will the bride now be comforted by Mashehenu?</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-1222810470117940852022-07-30T19:24:00.003-07:002022-07-30T19:27:22.692-07:00A Question of When<p>You seeker of The Lord, and His righteousness, I have somewhat of a mystery to unload on you! Diligence is about to bear fruit and your faithfulness will be rewarded! This seemingly abandoned dead zone is going to be quickened and wakened to awareness! </p><p>The season of harvest and it’s festivals is in view here. The feasts of The Lord are memorials before the fact, and appointments for HIM to show UP! Israel is the covenant nation of His revelation!</p><p>Remember the story of Elijah (Eliyahoo). He is the prophet of unstated ancestry ( a gentile?) who represents all of the prophets (and I believe, one of the two witnesses of the “unveiling” Revelation, when he comes back to finish his work). His preselected replacement was Elisha, because The Lord had Elijah scheduled for a rapture! All the prophets even KNEW the day he would depart! HOW did they know? There were signs along the way, of course!</p><p>The only sign of THOSE times we, here in THIS time, are left with, from THAT time (besides the division here of the two books of the kings) is the first event in Second Kings, the death of the king called Ahaziah, who was seeking counsel from one who was (in reality) the enemy. The traitor king was condemned to die, by the word of The Lord. The significance of this death was in his name, the name of this king. His name means “God has taken”! I believe this was the sign for Elijah. It’s how Elijah knew.</p><p>Fast forward to the twenty fourth chapter of Mathew (yes, THAT chapter)! For a little background to flesh out where my conclusion is derived from, Chuck Missler, that revered scholar of scripture, said that Revelation has an outline at it’s beginning, of how Jesus told John to order the book, that helps us to understand (what you have seen, what is, and what takes place after). Mathew’s chapter twenty four (this chapter is a condensed version of the book of Revelation) has just such an outline, but is in the form of three questions from the disciples. (“When will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”) Jesus answers the questions IN ORDER! </p><p>First, I believe Mathew is a gospel for Jews……</p><p>When will the these things be (the temple)? He gives many signs to watch for leading up to it’s desecration. Then, what will be THE sign of your coming? The Abomination which causes desolation, committed by the son of perdition, after which there is a day count down to His second coming (“do not awaken love before it is time….” Because they will call HIM to come with the blessed is He who comes in the Name of The Lord!) The third question is, what is the sign of the end of the age? I believe the answer to THAT is “the coming of the Son of man is thus wise…one will be taken and another left” (behind). The rapture ends the age of the church, the same as the authority of Elijah was given to Elisha when his teacher, “God has taken”. (Israel will be given a double portion because she has paid double for all her sins). </p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-32312572075706905632022-06-19T16:27:00.008-07:002022-06-19T20:11:15.948-07:00The Fall Revisted<p> What does Paul mean when he says “the woman was deceived?” And that Adam was “not deceived” and is the source? There is also the discrepancy, in Genesis, between what Eve told the serpent God had said, regarding the prohibitions of the fruit of the tree, and what God had actually said. Some embellishment had crept in. Where did she get this additional information? Who had told her this? How did the serpent know what question to ask, that would get her to doubting the veracity of the instruction God had actually given?</p><p>Eve was created as an individual, conscious being, some time after the original warning was issued. Since Adam was created first ( the source), and Eve came out of his body, it seems the Lord might have left the task to Adam, of passing on this crucial bit of information. Adding an additional restriction might have served to emphasize the imperative nature of the boundary, but it also might be revealing of the man’s actual desire regarding the forbidden object. (God was warning the man about the horror of being cut off from the SOURCE.)</p><p>It seems, from the story, that the serpent was familiar with the discussion between the man and his wife, and the man’s warnings to her about what God had said. It seems obvious that he overheard them talking. The scene at the tree (as the one at the cross, the second tree) did not occur in a vacuum, without context. This cunning deceiver was able to “read between the lines” and decipher Adam’s true desire (before there is sin, there is the desire with it’s decision: The want of understanding “wisdom” and the choosing of an action). The reason the serpent picked the woman to speak to, and also the reason why Adam was silent at the scene, was because what the serpent said naturally followed and added to what Adam had already said. The woman volunteered to be the “guinea pig” for the first human experiment. </p><p>Eve’s sin was placing her husband’s wishes above those of God, instead of inquiring of The Lord. What Adam said, and the twisting lies of the deceiver, are what dictated what she did. This was how she lost her personal relationship, with God as her friend. This is also why God’s pronouncement of her consequences was so precise and so very personal, when HE said, “Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” (basically saying that if you want Adam as your authority, it’s done!) The first man’s reach for more authority had the result, of him losing what authority he already had, over the earth, with the woman becoming the recipient of his twisted desire for dominance. </p><p>The horror The Lord would have protected them from, had arrived, but God also left them with the promise of redemption. His graciousness allowed the woman to still be a helper, this time, of God, because of HIS promise that she would be a part of the redemptive process. By her submission to the pain of childbirth, God would redeem her, and all of humanity. The results of their sin was God stepping back for a time, so their education would be complete, and HE could bring them both to full understanding. Adam would get what he had so deeply desired, but God, himself, would bear the full burden of the horror that they had unleashed upon themselves.</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-71428132257356098042022-06-08T10:45:00.004-07:002022-06-19T12:34:11.877-07:00New Vision<p>After seeing the number 717 on the clock (I see it everywhere these days), the number which has come to designate the Leader of the elders of Israel, and who is THE Victor (who we become, in Him, as our identity: a victor). The number means “to gather: pluck” in Strong’s Greek. It means Harmageddon, the judgement of The Lord, in Hebrew. The song playing on my radio told me, “It’s not about us, it’s about HIM. It’s about GOD showing up!” When I looked to see the title, it said, “It’s About Time.”</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-16779025699025691462022-05-29T17:44:00.006-07:002023-01-31T13:07:17.897-08:00Intersectionality<p> (I found this blog, which I had written some time ago, and decided to go ahead and post it here.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I was reading Widburg, who was writing about a young jewess that was shocked to be canceled for her political views, because it was leftists who are the ones supposed to be doing the canceling. The author called the young lady in question “self loathing,” but that was not my assessment. I felt she loved her own lies all too well.</p><p>Next, I read Spero’s article, and he voiced exactly what I had been thinking, and drew it out into excruciating detail. He says THEY consider themselves to be THE moral authority, these leftist Jews, but “right” and “wrong” are based on their own inner narrative, not THE transcendent Source. He used the term virtue signaling as if it was invented just for this type of person, the one who would betray their own blood just as long as they felt it made them look good.</p><p>Lastly, I heard from Geller. She seemed angry and confused and went on and on about it, how Jews used to fight for the little guy, but now social justice seemed to be only for the lbgtq crowd, or for those opposed to Jews. I certainly very much sympathized with her. I, too, have been angry a lot recently.</p><p>I have since read claims by two Jews that the Jews are THE political scapegoats. Their claims have some merit (although by sheer numbers, Christians are the lambs readied for slaughter).</p><p>If victimhood is made the source of political power because of a compassionate judeochristian society, then victimhood should NOT ALSO be the definition and source of morality as well. It’s like making a slave king. The standard would be coming from the very bottom, dredging the lowest expectations up, and placing them on the shoulders of all the rest of us, holding society hostage to the worst parts of human character. We would be conceding to the lowest common denominator, to those with whom we have no commonality. How can anyone excel, at anything, in such an environment?</p><p>When someone is a victim of suffering, he is not automatically endowed with the equivalent of a moral imperative. He might be in pain for the wrong reasons. He might be a psychopath. All sufferers are not equal. Some might not be capable of being rescued, or even want to be. If they were “saved” then they might lose the empowerment being a victim has given them, what they feel are entitlements to what they have received from others. One who has been brutalized and victimized, currently or historically, might have lost the ability to distinguish between what is legitimate oppression, and what is an organized drama of mental illness, or murderous plotting, when listening to someone else’s narrative. After all, not everyone who says that they are a victim, are in reality, any such thing.</p><p><br /></p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-85057313402311697402022-01-10T10:55:00.006-08:002022-05-29T16:53:28.541-07:00The fourteen harvest seasons of Joseph’s Interpretation <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirn6LTiyEtL_m5OSLE3W77ySyktV2oBxFl6uteVlu0t3_hK-rUGD2kD7os_J4UU_6nkmzI6O3jfw2cxj8ldwVejU_MrYm8hu3KdNosIdWpTjMUTRxVxFR1dlOr9VSbxbUD5IkhcAfX6kKtABOKUL4Cgi_ZtQrBaTDnqm2qi_ZLMqIJ-tYCeTHvPo42Hw=s1530" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1530" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirn6LTiyEtL_m5OSLE3W77ySyktV2oBxFl6uteVlu0t3_hK-rUGD2kD7os_J4UU_6nkmzI6O3jfw2cxj8ldwVejU_MrYm8hu3KdNosIdWpTjMUTRxVxFR1dlOr9VSbxbUD5IkhcAfX6kKtABOKUL4Cgi_ZtQrBaTDnqm2qi_ZLMqIJ-tYCeTHvPo42Hw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCrpU6dGHGwhZSx2RngG2vkQCri_vVW8GRJYixekUY7GqbWohB97_EyUSCLLB4ZV9LxCNt8ZQcxWkuNAFAj7xxhYvDmRNNHkXr-yWNmzcgbrc-UcJvp99onSMRuoz0-jtF6-FNLFl6MbSEdFRt_K6Mv--RkqmGcZ3SKgbG9u3VftMA6AXRrSZHEz9Wfg=s4000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCrpU6dGHGwhZSx2RngG2vkQCri_vVW8GRJYixekUY7GqbWohB97_EyUSCLLB4ZV9LxCNt8ZQcxWkuNAFAj7xxhYvDmRNNHkXr-yWNmzcgbrc-UcJvp99onSMRuoz0-jtF6-FNLFl6MbSEdFRt_K6Mv--RkqmGcZ3SKgbG9u3VftMA6AXRrSZHEz9Wfg=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /> The yellow dots are the spring and fall feasts, where Pentecost is the changing of the ages. Passover is in the second month for the nations, and is the rapture season, as it was also the season of Noah’s entrance into the ark. The messiah’s season of second coming (back) to earth, is possible, by the graph, up until the harvest season in 2029.<p></p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-86278653224336264632021-12-20T11:53:00.001-08:002022-02-15T11:04:19.152-08:00A hidden Message<p> The Lord gave me an insight into the mysterious story in John, chapter twenty one. The drama played out by the Sea of Tiberias is definitely an end times resurrection prophecy, as a foreshadowing of things to come. It has no complicated cast of characters, but it does have many seemingly unnecessary details.</p><p>Now the disciples had seemingly gone back to normal life, and to what they had been doing when they met Jesus. It might have been because these prophetic things just seem to take so long to happen, and they needed some work to occupy them. Only after the long dark night (as we see now, happening) and a fruitless seeming effort, does Jesus show up, and tell them to try one more time. It is only because the Lord rewarded their work, that they were able to have any results. The Lord is the one who brings the harvest, as the end times are called.</p><p>What came to my notice, was the fruits of their labor came as a gracious gift from the Lord. When He rewards, He does so in abundance. When the disciples came “ashore” they came “dragging the net full of fish”. I see those fish as those we have prayed so earnestly for, for their salvation. Jesus tells them to “bring some of the fish you have caught”. And it says, “even though there were so many, the net was not torn.” When He blesses (and our work at the harvest He WILL bless with increase) He makes sure none of our efforts are wasted by losing what He has blessed us with! We will bring our blessed inheritance, the souls of those we have cared enough about to witness to (even through their resistance) to the feast that He has prepared for us! The number of fish in that net…....153….. is the number of the Victor, times the number of resurrection, twice, because it’s been two “days” between His rising and our soon coming One.</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-58408366522977203782021-12-20T11:22:00.003-08:002021-12-20T11:22:48.170-08:00The Arm of the Lord<p> In John’s gospel, John clearly states that the Isaiah 53 title of “the Arm of the Lord” is referring to Jesus. Jesus is the visible manifestation of the invisible God, His Arm which does the great deeds of the Father. John says this in John 13:38, that the Arm of the Lord is revealed to those who teach His message.</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-58861772440211119752021-08-18T14:12:00.003-07:002021-08-18T14:26:41.510-07:00Prophetic Ponderings<p>Who would have thought, that a profession, that was supposedly one of caring and compassion, could be wrested away from, and perverted from, the purpose it was put to by the church? I am speaking, of course, of medicine, whose path was diverted to serve and care for others, during the timespan of the church era. Of course, in our allegedly “modern” era, a byword for “science” is evolution. Science has become a religion in it’s own right. This religion of medicine has its own faith confessions and dogmas, which we are told to follow, and if you do not subscribe, you are labeled uneducated and described as intrinsically evil. And suddenly, this field has produced something “new” that was, nevertheless, foretold in Revelation and the book of Daniel. Man, created in the image of God, has been instructed, by men, to submit to having that same image altered, has been told, that he must let his dna be reprogrammed, because the “facts” have shown it to be necessary. “Science” has decreed it, so it must be so. Sounds just like the iron and clay toes of the “image” in Daniel’s book. It also calls to mind the “sorcery” (pharmakia just like pharmacist) of Mystery Babylon (that city and world religious system), by which she DECEIVES the world (whom I believe is the U.S., also known as the virgin daughter of Babylon and the second beast of Revelation, whose ruler is the false prophet).</p><p>These events have set me thinking. It occurred to me that the beast, the man of sin, could be a doctor, or be associated closely with them, when he is “raised from the dead” (or appears to be) according to the Bible. Doctors, in my experience, consider themselves to have a godlike authority, as we have witnessed with the man called Fauci. The angel in Daniel does say that a “despicable person” will be the one to rise to power by deception, not by being given a kingship. He will not be asked to rule. He will assume the rule by his own will. That sounds like some doctors I have talked to. I also believe he will come from an islamic background, as these areas are the ones discussed when the Bible teaches on the last days. That mindset is also self entitled, like that of doctors.</p><p>I believe those who have already accepted the needle, are a ticking time bomb. I believe that they will die within the prescribed amount of time, as planned by their betters, unless they are administered a “cure”. Thus, the false prophet causes the world to receive a mark (to be cured you must worship the beast) or perish. They do not need internment camps. They do not need bullets. They call the mass of humanity “useless eaters”. They care nothing for those whom they consider to be using resources rightfully owned by themselves.</p><p>Now, for a timely word from Amos chapter five. The Lord has a lamentation for Israel because of the day of the Lord.</p><p><span class="text Amos-5-2" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" id="en-NASB-22426" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">She has fallen, she will not rise again—</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Amos-5-2" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">The virgin Israel.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Amos-5-2" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">She lies unnoticed on her land;</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Amos-5-2" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">There is no one to raise her up. </span></p><p><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;">For</i><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">those who turn</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">justice into wormwood, </span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">And</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-22431e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-22431e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos+5&version=NASB#fen-NASB-22431e" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">throw righteousness to the earth.”</span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">They hate him who </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">rebukes in the</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-22434g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-22434g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos+5&version=NASB#fen-NASB-22434g" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px;">gate,</span></p><p><span class="text Amos-5-10" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">And they despise him who speaks <i>with</i> integrity.</span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Therefore at </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NASB-22437k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NASB-22437k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos+5&version=NASB#fen-NASB-22437k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">such a time the prudent person </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">keeps quiet, because it is an evil time</span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">(Now, the word silent is literally number six in the concordance. And are we not, now, silenced by big tech for “misinformation “?) </span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">You also carried along </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Sikkuth your king and </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Kiyyun, your images, </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.</span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">(The star god is Saturn, the sixth planet in the solar system. Is there not an image, in Israel, now, of a six sided star?)</span></span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870070696613879772.post-67282502476238910832021-06-16T09:59:00.003-07:002021-06-16T10:20:43.566-07:00All About Family<p>I have a little story to tell, that was given to me as a gift of grace, by a benevolent Abba, the One who wishes joy on His children. It’s an idealogical reference to the meaning of security, and the comfort of family.</p><p>One busy workday, which just so happened to be my birthday, I walked out towards my car after the long day was over. There were three young men waiting for me outside, who told me to get in their car, instead, because they were taking me somewhere, and I had no choice in the matter. I was being “kid”napped (literally!) I was happy to do so, because, you see, these three wonderful and handsome youngsters were my sons, coming to take me on a birthday adventure (in their dad’s car, which they took over for the occasion, since the dad was far, far away, at the time!) It was an unplanned and happy diversion and satisfying to this mother of men. This is a very joyful memory, a bright and shining point of time, which I have stored away in my heart.</p><p>The Lord brought this beautifully arranged gift from Him (because who else could give so great and perfect a gift?) back into my mind, recently, as an answer to a prayer. I had been pondering our upcoming change of location, which will be unplanned by us, but has had it’s appointed time since the beginning. I was wondering what it would be like, since my nature is of the kind that is afraid of change and wants to be able to control circumstances. He brought back this precious memory as an answer to my question. Our Father doesn’t give us the ticket until it’s time to leave, and now HE has given me enough understanding to look forward, with great love, to the next great adventure!</p>bvaliant4himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014034783096299654noreply@blogger.com0