And have “no clue” why I didn’t sent it to John Tng asking him to post it on Doves (?)  I’ve intended to post at Doves for a good long while now and yet the weeks zip by so fast, I never get it done!

 

Friends:

Do you even KNOW of any Christian who is not “under attack”…. Who is not enduring some kind of persecution right now?   For many of us, it’s like BAM, BAM, BAM!! ~~~ all coming in rapid succession!  Just maybe get past one hurdle then have to get up and face new, harder challenges. 

No use droning on about my own list, because in various ways and forms, it seems we’re all being “beat up on” right now  (and if you’re one of the very few who’s not, well keep your spiritual armor on good and tight… because your day is coming!)

I thought our spiritual attacks have hit super hard (and they have) but that was till my husband spoke with someone who’s under even GREATER attack (coming from right within the church walls…. From uh, “christians”!!.... “no capital “C” on purpose, because who knows if they are TRUE Christians or not, I’d think NOT …simply by the way they act.  Bad trees do not produce good fruit.  Yet “tares” LOOK like wheat, don’t they?  Look LIKE Christians, Dress LIKE Christians, and (at least put on anà ) Act LIKE Christians…. For a while anyway…. 

And also I even felt for Pastor J.D. Faraq ~ as he, too, had mentioned, “what a week he had had!!” ~ (being “beat up on” with intense persecution from people vehemently attacking the pre-trib doctrine)  Which he sees as meaning the rapture is literally staring us in the face!  {AMEN!! To that!}

Is it any wonder that the Philadelphia church (that’s about to be raptured out of here) has LITTLE strength left??

 

Have you also noticed that many of the “attackers” use Scripture to wallop us over the head?  Except they twist & turn it to their own demise!!  What’s up is down, what’s down is up….  Yes, OF COURSE, the worker is worthy of his hire  (IF s/he “actually works”!!)   DUH… what part of that do people not get??!!  satan knows very well that you can take any part of Scripture (out of context) and make it “support” or say anything you want it to say.  Do you want to be like satan?  How many people (“in church”) are acting just like him?

We are either WITH THE LORD or we are against Him; cannot ever have it both ways.

 

Tng, I LOVED that you ended last week’s Doves articles with Kevin’s, “we have to be close” post.  What thrilling news to be reminded of our BLESSED HOPE!!!   It’s all many of us even have left as we endure being surrounded by bad news DAY AND NIGHT!!

 

So it’s true, the Philadelphia church has LITTLE strength left!

So what are we to do, till we at long last hear that trumpet & shout?

·        Work for Him,

·        Watch for Him,

·        Wait for Him,

·        Witness for Him,

·        And….

·        WALK WITH HIM!!!!  ß this is the REASON Enoch was raptured!!!   This is, by far, the most important of the “w” list!

And as such, we should always be inspecting the Scriptures to see how we are to treat our enemies (I know I am more “at peace” when I actually pray FOR my enemies, but until I actually do – it’s easy to obsess and my blood pressure climbs!)  Just because we pray for them, does not mean they are going to change their ways.  Keep that in mind.  How they decide to paint us and how they choose to think of us is solely up to them.  But by praying for them, we have done what we are supposed to do.

I full well agree with Pastor J.D. in that the attacks are going to GET WORSE ~ up until the rapture!  I know:  “big sigh”, right?

But hold tough, because what we go through now is miniscule compared to what the Trib Saints are going to have to face!!  Aargh, would not want to be in their shoes!  They, too, could ESCAPE (ref: Luke 21:36) (ALL these things to come upon the earth) along with us, if they would LIVE FOR THE LORD now!!  But instead, they will have to DIE FOR HIM then…. And a very painful death, too.  Nothing will be June Cleaver orderly & perfect …. Certainly nothing will be easy then.

Oh by the way, I will be VERY surprised if we are not “Home” sometime this summer!!!  The TRUE watchers are extremely few at this hour, but the ones who are on high alert are all saying we are literally there!!!!   I so agree!!  Ultimately, we leave the timing in the Father’s Hands, yet it surely seems to us that it is time to go.

So as always, MARANATHA!!

By 1 Cor 10:31