The Bride of Christ

Today I would like to speak about the Bride of Christ as opposed to the Body of Christ.  I will attempt to explain my reasoning why I believe that they are two distinctly different entities of the Church.  The Body of Christ consists of all who have confessed Christ as their savior.  The Bride of Christ are the ekklesia or the sold out bond-servants of Christ.   Let me explain.

I do not believe there are different levels of Christianity.  Some worship Christ for salvation only, and still enjoy  worldly desires.  They may even be oppressed in mind or have certain desire or lust they are trying, but unfortunately not able to completely overcome.  They settle for a good Christian life, but with fleshy struggles.  Their Bible study and prayer is sporadic and their discipleship is non- existent.  The growth track they are on keeps their desire in the milk of the Word, not meat.  They have not exercised their learning beyond the simplistic doctrines of the Church.  They live in the elementary aspects of basic Christianity.  To grow in Christ, find a mentor, get into a good Bible Study, find someone you trust to be a battle buddy to share and pray with.  Most importantly read the Word!  Neglecting the Word is neglecting Jesus. (John 1:1)  Remember Jesus was not a man that became the Word, but the eternal Word who took on flesh and became a man.  (Philippians 2:5-11)  Fully God and fully man.

In Matthew 25 we have a parable of the wise and foolish virgins. The wise virgins are a type of the true Bride of Christ.  They have a full supply of oil (Holy Spirit) and are ever watching for the Messiah to come back.  May I ask, are you full of the Spirit, and longing to be filled every day? Their desire is to follow and please the Lord Jesus.  They are aware of the time we live in, meditating on Christ and praying even if it is just a few minutes several times throughout the day.  Following Paul’s admonition to pray without ceasing. The constant desire of  bond-servants of God is to be pleasing to Christ and walk in submission to the  Holy Spirit.  They aren’t perfect, but they long to be transformed into the very image of Christ, “partakers in the divine nature of God”.  (2 Peter 1:2-3),

The church is to be, sanctified, cleansed and presented to Christ without spot or blemish. (Ephesians 5:26-27)

A glorious church. 

There are two priorities of the Bride, the Word and the Spirit.  Worshiping in Spirit and Truth. (John 4:24)  Live in the Word, and walk in His Spirit!

 The Spirit and the Bride say “Come!” (Revelation 22:17)

 You were born for such a time as this.  Be strong and courageous for God chose us for this particular time.  If He chose us, He will sustain us!

Maranatha – Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus.  Amen!  Rh

Obama/Biden & Jewish Prejudice

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday issued an executive order that targets Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in the occupied territory, imposing financial sanctions and visa bans in an initial round against four individuals.

Biden’s order is a rare step against America’s closest ally in the Mideast who, Biden says, has the right to defend itself. But the Democratic president has pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to show greater restraint in its military operations aimed at rooting out Hamas. Netanyahu denounced the U.S. penalties, which his government was notified in advance, U.S. officials said.

Palestinian authorities say some Palestinians have been killed, and rights groups say settlers have torched cars and attacked several small Bedouin communities, forcing evacuations.

Obama/Biden have a history of involving themselves in Israeli politics. Maybe they should concentrate on the United States, instead of nation building. Wow to those who try to divide the land of Israel Rh

Counter Culture

For those of us who were born in the mid 20th Century, what we see happening in our world and especially in the United States of America is an affront to liberty, morality, and the rule of law.  What are we thinking?  Such nonsensical dribble that is spewed out by self imposed single digit IQ social and governmental advocates is enough to drive one to  a high mountain to escape.  Many times I have thought of a more tropical environment.  

Society tells us that men or women can change their sex with an operation.  Really?  Can men give birth?  What used to be considered a mental illness just a couple of decades ago now is not only accepted but must be celebrated with flags, monthly celebrations and an acquiescence to a “Gender Mafia” worldview.    Have we lost all sense of reason and intelligence?  The damage being done is incalculable.  

Global climate change enthusiasts warn of the destruction of the world if our temps climb one degree.  But as a former farmer, a few extra days of warm temps without frost could increase production.  You predict global temps to the exact degree, but a 5 day forecast is unpredictable?  But, but, the computer models.  Yeah junk in, junk out. The mid 70s brought a fear of a mini ice age.  Check out the front page of Time and Newsweek magazines popular at the time.

Rule of law tells me that all are created equal under our judicial system, but how do we explain the poor without access to high end law firms taking plea deals that benefit the system not justice.  Politicians go to Congress and become multi millionaires on a salary of less than $200 thousand dollars a year.  Insider trading, bribes and book deals along with the never ending campaign fundraiser that siphon off $ to put in their personal coffers are the culprits.  Let me mention just a few names to illustrate, Clinton’s, Biden, Pelosi, McConnell, and of course Obama (who started this class warfare) are just a few.  Above the law and also older than dirt.  Dare I mention the FBI, Trump dossier, Neo-Cons never ending wars and shh, Hunter Biden?  The defense rests!

Finally open  borders, can we even conceive of a government openly ignoring their own laws to allow an invasion on our Southern Border and going so far as to threaten a sovereign State with military action??  We are being infiltrated with a purposeful invasion to destroy the very fabric of our Republic.

I choose not to participate.  Morality and right has not changed, I still believe in the American Way, the golden rule and hope for a better future.  However as long as we are living in the days of Noah where society does whatever it deems to be their right, I see a rushing headlong to destruction.  

I am officially part of the CounterCulture.  Today that means I am a proud Christian Conservative who believes in morality and the infallibility of the Bible.  Viva the Resistance!

I Stand With God! You were born for such a time as this!

WHO Chief: Nations Must ‘Counteract Conservative Opposition’ to Abortion, Promote Transgenderism. Ben Johnson

A global government body has told nations it is “imperative” that they “counteract conservative opposition” and “enact progressive laws” that legalize prostitution and intentionally infect people with AIDS. At the same time, the international body has indicated it plans to roll out guidelines normalizing transgender cross-sex hormone injections worldwide.

The World Health Organization (WHO) ushered in 2024 with a bulletin titled “Advancing the ‘sexual’ in sexual and reproductive health and rights: a global health, gender equality and human rights imperative,” co-written by WHO’s director-general, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, a former associate of Ethiopia’s repressive Marxist government.

“Political leaders at all levels must champion sexual health as part of sexual and reproductive health to counteract conservative opposition,” states the WHO Bulletin released on January 1. “Policy-makers must enact progressive laws and policies to expand access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services,” it says.

“Countries must repeal laws that criminalize homosexuality, sex work and HIV transmission,” the bulletin advises. Ghebreyesus calls on world leaders to “foster societies where all people can experience their sexuality safely, positively,” couching the advancement of the Sexual Revolution as a moral imperative.

IMO – Just remember folks this is the group under the United Nations that could well be in charge of world health policies in a few months. Even here in the states our pretend president has signed over American sovereignty to WHO. (At least for the time being.). The WHO is already speculating on a new virus call “X” that will kill millions. Interesting that they already know it is coming. Can anyone say “plandemic #2.” We are in the midst of the biggest world takeover of Marxist and Globalist since the beginning of time. Pray and resist evil!! Rh

WEF/A Gift That Keeps On Giving

The introduction of biometric, digital identity cards could be used by governments to track “who actually got a vaccination or not,“ queen Maxima of the Netherland said at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos last week.

The Dutch queen has also been one of the leading proponents of the introduction of Central Bank Currencies. (CBDCs) to increase “financial inclusion “. While CBDCs function similarly to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, they are not based on a decentralized network, but rather controlled by a central bank, which critics argue could potentially give the government the ability to track all financial transactions made by the public.

Critics of CBDC’s have also warned that if used in tandem with digital IDs, they could be used to impose a Communist China style social credit score system in the west, in which the government can manipulate the spending habits of the public.

IMO, this is exactly what the left wing Luciferian globalist desire for those of us they deem as unworthy serfs. A coming identification process is coming. (Revelation 13:15-17). Remember time is short, but things are progressing toward the Rapture of the church.

Ex-Terrorist Confirms Mass Visions of Jesus in Gaza, Says Thousands of Muslims Will Come to Christ reported by Talia Wise/CBN News

A former Palestinian sniper turned Christian believes revival will break out in Gaza and thousands will come to Christ after the end of the Israel-Hamas war.

Taysir “Tass” Abu Saada, a former aide to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, recently told CBN News’ Global Lane that God’s Holy Spirit is already changing Palestinian hearts through dreams and visions. 

“Many Muslims are looking for an alternative to Islam,” he said. “My team is, naturally, sharing Christ. So we are looking at a good revival going on already in the Gaza Strip.”

It has been 104 days since Hamas terrorists carried out the savage massacre of hundreds of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, marking the start of the Israel-Hamas War. 

And many Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have been caught in the cross-hairs. Evidence has shown how Hamas has prevented evacuations of Palestinian civilians, keeping them in harm’s way and even using them as civilian shields against Israeli attacks that are only intended to target terrorists.

As a result, the Hamas-run government of Gaza claims more than 24,000 people have been killed there since the war began, and thousands more are injured or presumed dead. 

But Saada believes good can come out of the destruction and pain. 

“Despite the destruction that is taking place, I believe God has a purpose to get the Palestinians in Gaza (to) wake up and look at a different alternative to what they believe,” he explained.

Let us pray for revival among the people of Gaza. Rh

Klaus Schwab predicts AI will make elections obsolete

Klaus Schwab, founder and chief of the World Economic Forum, has spent his career promoting the globalist ideologies that organization pushes, and hobnobbing with the world’s wealthy, the elite.

Those who travel to his annual Davos, Switzerland, parties on private jets, and ostentatiously consume fossil fuels and unleash global-warming emissions en route.

Now he is suggesting the end of free elections.

It is investigative reporter Leo Hohmannwho is reporting on the comments, and suggested online, “Schwab showed his true Nazi colors today at Davos, saying that nations will soon no longer need to bother holding ‘elections’ because voters could easily be replaced by artificial intelligence.”

He reported, “AI is more than capable of choosing a nation’s leaders, he said.”

The report explained Schwab’s “bone-chilling comments” came during a talkfest with Google co-founder Sergey Brin and was posted by Ezra Levant of Rebel News.

Schwab called for AI to go into a “prescriptive mode” “which means you do not have to have elections any more because you can already predict … and afterwards you can say why do we need elections because we know what the result will be.”

The report charged, “One thing about technocratic globalists: They aren’t bashful. They speak boastfully as if everyone shares their excitement about all of the death and dehumanization they envision.” By World Net Daily.

In my opinion, the electorate in our country are deaf, dumb, and blind to anything that’s going on with our elections. Those of us who know the elections are being stolen have no power to do anything about it. We are truly being led by politicians, who have a single digit IQ. They see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. They definitely know how to cash the big money checks though. It is time for a revolution. Get the pitchforks out!! Rh

Joel – A Prescription for Revival

Below is a short devotion in outline form for the need and the steps that God proclaimed to the prophet Joel to bring revival to the land. Anyone can plainly see America is on the brink. We need morality and Godliness in our nation. God is so merciful to hear and forgive out sins. Please take a moment to read and pray through the devotion. Remember mercy is not getting what we deserve. 

    A Call To Repentance (Joel 1:13-15)

Warning

a. Gird yourselves and lament, you priests: Joel called the religious leaders to lead the nation in repentance. He told the priests to gird yourselves for repentance, the idea being “prepare to do the work of repentance.”

i. Joel also told them how to do the work of repentance.

· Consecrate a fast: Make getting right with God so important that even eating isn’t significant.

· Call a sacred assembly: Call for God’s people to come together and repent.

· Gather the elders: Bring the elders together to lead in this act of repentance.

· Into the house of the LORD your God: Come to the place where you should meet together with God.

· And cry out to the LORD: Finally, simply cry out to God and trust that He will respond in mercy.

Joel 2:12-17

Action

a. Now, therefore…turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning: Because they heard the warning of judgment, God’s people should repent. It doesn’t make their repentance less valid because they had to be scared into it. The important thing is that they turn back to the LORD in sincerity, and God tells them how.

i. Sincere repentance is to turn to God, and therefore away from our sin.

ii. Sincere repentance is done with all your heart, giving everything you can in surrender to God.

iii. Sincere repentance is marked by action (with fasting) and emotion (with weeping…mourning). Not every act of repentance will include fasting and weeping, but if action and emotion are absent, it isn’t real repentance.

Rend your heart, and not your garments: One expression of mourning in Jewish culture was, and is, the tearing of the clothes. It was a way to say, “I am so overcome with grief that I don’t care if my clothes are ruined and I look bad.” Joel knew that someone could tear their garments without tearing their heart, and he described the kind of heart-repentance that really pleases God.

Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not give Your heritage to reproach: Joel puts a rich prayer of repentance into the mouths of God’s priests. It’s as if the priests should pray with the thought, “How can we persuade God to have mercy on us?”

i. Spare: This implies that God’s people deserve judgment, but they plead for mercy.

ii. Your people: This reminds God that they belong to Him and provides another motivation for mercy.

iii. Do not give Your heritage to reproach: This tells God that mercy to His people will bring Him glory among the nations and that judgment may bring His name into discredit.

Joel 2:28-32

Result

It shall come to pass afterward: After the restoration Joel spoke of previously in the chapter, there will come a time of ultimate restoration and blessing. This latter time will be marked by an outpouring of God’s Spirit on all flesh – not only selected men at selected times for selected duties. Rh