Hello, John and Doves,What about a "bouquet list?" LOLBaruch HaShem Adonai Roi,Mike C.______________________________________________________Jimmy Lishman (21 June 2012)
"my non-bucket list........"
Hi beloved Doves, I had to share this which is the great blessed hope of you all – bless you as you read.
One of my brothers came up with this request, “what would you like to attain or see/do before you kicked the bucket, calling it a ‘bucket list’, asking each of the siblings to compose a bucket list and share this with all by return mail.
Bucket List … hmmm now that’s a concept for those who have not been there (behind the bucket as it were) – as they might think that the bucket is where it stops – they would be seriously deluded.
Speaking as one who passed the bucket stage on November 5, 2004 at 22h30 and saw a glimpse of the awesome beauty as cannot be found anywhere on earth, after the bucket, but was also given a second chance by HIM who has all life in HIS hands, to embrace my loved ones, lead them as priest in my household to repentance and service and learn firsthand from the Holy Spirit, as I walked in faith these 8½ years with a growing expectation and learning all there is to learn of that place and the path to that which is irrefutably promised in the Scriptures to all who truly repent and are born again, walking in HIS ways and being led by the SPIRIT to become a watchman on the wall, as to the dawning of this event prophesied 2000 years ago and indicated to me and many other watchmen and women around the world as to when this will be revealed.
I have the following to add to my families ‘bucket-list’ which I expect to come into fruition in the extremely near future as we are living in the times when the most awesome prophesies are taking place – 14 May 1948 when Israel was born again in 1 day, where JESUS spoke of HIS coming in Mathew 24 to coincide with the generation that sees the rebirth of Israel – I am one of those children and the generation is almost at a closure.
The sound of a massive trumpet spoken of in 1 Thess 4:16-17, the glorious voice calling “Come up here” in the blink of an eye,
1Th 4:16 Because the Master Himself shall come down from Heaven with a commanding shout of an archangel's voice, and with the trumpet of YAHWEH. And the dead in Messiah will rise again first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who remain alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet with our Master in the air. And so we will always be with our Master.
Followed by joy unspeakable, new white clothes, a body ever young, never to experience pain and sickness and fit for eternity. Travel in the blink of an eye, where walls and doors have no meaning knowledge that cannot be contained on earth with all its present resources.
A full knowledge of all past and present and things that cannot even be comprehended in the mind or sight of humanity on earth today or ever.
I can imagine, for example, that He will magnify and perfect our gifts. I can imagine that vocalists will sing as they have never sung before with a voice so clear that it can attain all the musical notes in the universe, and artists will paint with a majesty they never thought possible, all will be done for the glory and honour of our Creator the One and Only God, Elohim, YWVH. The love of true friends whom you know intimately and love unconditionally evermore and the true fellowship in sharing and experiencing and meeting up with those who have gone before us.
And so we have a great glimpse of that eternal state where we will live eternally with God in new bodies in the New Jerusalem on the New Earth, it's only a glimpse, but it's enough to make us yearn for the glory that is to come, promised in the scriptures by HIM who NEVER breaks HIS covenant and word, particularly when you consider what is said in Revelation 22, verse 4. That verse says, “That we shall see God's face.” The Bible tells us that no one has ever seen the face of God. But shortly we, the redeemed, will see His face! That means we are going to have intimate, personal, eternal fellowship with our Creator, seeing the ONE who made it all possible, face to face, touching HIS wounds and marveling at what HE has done for me, a sinner who is completely forgiven and hearing HIM, the King of Kings Jesus Christ say “Well done my faithful servant, come into my house for all eternity”
To see the incredible New Jerusalem that Jesus is preparing now. It will be shaped like a cube, 1,500 miles in every direction. It will be a city of incredible beauty. Its foundation will be made of precious stones, its gates will be giant pearls, and its streets will be made of gold. God the father and His son will live in the city with the redeemed, and the Shekinah glory of God will illumine the city. A Mansion in this city of natural beauty where we will eat the everlasting fruit with senses so acutely tuned as no man on earth has ever experienced. To see other incredible wonders and worlds in the blink of an eye, never to tire or be subject to boredom, to be taught by the Teacher of all Teachers, HE who has made it all possible and to learn new things that are unfolded to us under HIS personal tutelage.
To live for all eternity in a city where the streets are paved in gold, to rule and reign with HIM over the new earth where HE sees fit to place us, To rule and reign with HIM in a new earth created afresh as it was in the garden of Eden, before sin entered and where all traces of decay and corruption have been removed.
Where animals are in perfect health and living with us and not consuming or hunting one another, as it is said the Lamb will lie down with the Lion and a child (Note there are children) playing in a vipers nest without fear.
The blessed hope and the starting gun:
"Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place." (Matthew 24:32-33 NKJV)
The starting gun has sounded. As David Reagan says, “We are that generation. The fig tree has blossomed. Jesus is at the gates.”
No argument here.
The verse also says that this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. The Olivet Discourse starts with the signs described as “the beginning of the birth pangs” and ends with the coming of the Messiah in which all men see Him arrive in glory.
The generation that sees the beginning of the birth pangs will be the generation that sees all these things—the entire last days and the triumphant return of Christ—come to pass.
Seeing and experiencing the LORD remove the abominations of this world from the back of a white charger coming on the clouds and following HIM who lives forevermore, come in judgment on those who refused HIS gift of everlasting life. We will be dressed in everlasting white garments as we witness the permanent lockdown of Satan and his hordes into the lake of fire, never to plague people again.
This is but a short version of my ‘NON-BUCKET LIST’ as I will, along with many born again Christian brothers and sisters – not taste death, but be called up. – may I meet you there!
Maranatha to the Glory of JESUS CHRIST and GOD THE FATHER
Jimmy Lishman – 20 June 2012