Hello, John and Doves,Nicole, you make a Holy Spirit-inspired observation at the bottom of your letter.MOST PEOPLE QUIT RUNNING BECAUSE THEY LOOK AHEAD AND SEE HOW FAR THEY HAVE TO GO....INSTEAD OF HOW FAR THEY HAVE COME.You may be referring to the passage [in a reverse sort of way],"12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.15All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16Only let us live up to what we have already attained."
Philippians 3:12-16 NIVLikewise, you may be referring to:"1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation."
Or, maybe this:"We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy...."Or:"13It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”b With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
Indeed, on the road to encouraging oneself, one might say,"5Why are you downcast, O my soul?Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God."
When we are looking for God, we hope to find Him already on the throne of our hearts, for it is written,"1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.3 Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
4 In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
5 To you they cried and were rescued;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame."So, to all Doves I say, when you are going through rough times, begin to praise God, as King David did:"4 In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
5 To you they cried and were rescued;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.""Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault."~Blessings,Mike C._______________________________________________________Nicole (26 July 2012)
"To Neil Lipken: Regarding 2013"
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/july2012/neill725.htm
Thank you for your letter. IF the 2013 is the beginning of the microchipping...then that means from what I have read on Alex Jone's website, as well as listening to the testimony of Ken Peters I Saw The Tribulation....that the NWO needs 6 months between the rapture and the new government to be able to implement everything.
IF 2013 is the target time, then that means the rapture would need to happen by September...and then that COULD mean no elections, and then a massive celebration by the NWO ushering in a new era. I would not be surprised at all if they celebrate freedom from Christians being gone, and the arrival of "peaceful" entities.
If 2013 is just the start of the healthcare ID card system that slowly gets the biometrics of people and has the microchip in it...then we could easily get an idea of a timeline based on the biometric implementation of India since we have 2/3 less the population in the USA.
2017 could be a false flag date of the microchip implementation so that everyone is caught off guard....or they may be behind on their plans. In any case I believe it is somewhere between 2012-2014 for the rapture.
MOST PEOPLE QUIT RUNNING BECAUSE THEY LOOK AHEAD AND SEE HOW FAR THEY HAVE TO GO....INSTEAD OF HOW FAR THEY HAVE COME.