Dear Sherry
 
I appreciate when you and Phil post comments and observations from scripture and try to tie them to current events.  Both of you, it is my opinion, bring forward insights you have gleaned by listening to the Spirit, especially when you reference scripture.  I look forward to seeing more of your posts.
 
I am disappointed by some comments that were made in Phil's post and your recent post as well.  I do not think you know enough of others to make the conclusions you do about their motives based upon how an outward choice(s) did not meet your expectations.
 
I am grateful to God that during these difficult times I have access to the internet and that there are websites such as five-doves where believers can talk openly about how they are making sense of scripture concerning the return of Jesus and how it might be reflected in current events.  I wish I had many at my church who were this open.
 
I think a problem that arises in these types of websites, however, is that even though we get to know each other in some ways, we really do not know each other that well simply because we are so removed from one another.  For example, I do not get to observe how Phil chooses to respond to others while he is stuck in traffic, for example, or how you might respond if you were teaching a Sunday School class and on a particular Sunday I was the only one to show up to listen to you.
 
People are very complicated.  Even though believers are new creations in Christ, one with God in their spirits (I Cor 6:17), this reality is revealed to each by God slowly and gently and usually over many years and even decades.  In other words, we are in process.  Though the promised land is ours, so to speak, it is not fought over and possessed in a day.
 
It is my opinion that revelation from God to a believer is given to a person in their spirit, and that it takes the mind a while to make sense of it.  For example, a believer may just "know" that Jesus is coming back soon, but if someone were to hand them a Bible and a newspaper and say "prove it", that person may not be able to at all.
 
One reason they may not be able to is that, like I said, their mind has not had the time to understand the revelation.  Another reason they may not be able to articulate a defense is that the person's mind does not click very well.  They may have Down Syndrome for example.
 
That is why people who have a strong mind as a gift from God need to be extra careful and wise.  For since revelation is from God, who is Spirit, and is given to a person's spirit, then without this, revelation will not take place from one person's mind to another person's mind.  I think it is not uncommon for preachers and teachers to misunderstand this, hence they resort to impugning motives and emotional manipulation to try to bring about a response that they themselves have experienced as a result of God's individual revelation to them.
 
This brings up another truth.  There is one Body.  As a member of that body of Christ, I am interdependent upon all other members.  We are one since we each are one with the same spirit of God. (I am not saying as the New Age teachings do that we are then God as well).
 
Because of the interdependence, then I have a right to others insights.  For example, even though MJ Agee has done decades of study on end time prophecies, I get to come along and benefit from the truth behind one of her insights in less than a minute, the very same insight God has been teaching her over years through much study, wrestling, and prayer.
 
And MJ may never get a insight from me.  The interdependence is one member with all other members.  Benefit does not have to be directly and mutually reciprocated between those two members (though it often is).
 
My point of the latter is that when you and Phil have insights, make them known as the Spirit directs you, and explain it as best as you can because God may wish for some to benefit.  But do not impugn motives just because the level of others' outward responses are not according to your expectations.  People look at others in terms of the outward, God knows each where their true essense is known, at the heart level.
 
If our knowledge does not result in us manefesting the person of Jesus in greater measure, then who do our insights truly center upon?
 
Sincerely, Douglas Henney.