I saw “The Road” yesterday with my 14 year old son. I knew I was going to be for a tough time because his mother, who knows the steps of my heart, had warned me about the novel. I couldn’t get through 15 pages of the novel, before I had to toss it.
Ever since I was a young boy, I have “seen” the end times, in dreams, in history, in the Bible, in visions God has given me. When I was 7 I began instruction in my synagogue, Torah, the Five Books of Moses, instructed and taught Hebrew, and at 8, they showed us a film called “Night and Fog”, a 28 minute B/W French documentary on the Shoah, which is what the holocaust is called, the systematic murder of 6 million Jews by the hitlerites. (but us Jews weren’t the only ones to die at the hands of these demons given flesh, millions of Gypsies, tens of million of Russian civilians, hundreds of thousands of American GI’s, the list is long and terrible)….anyway, after I left the classroom, and went to my grandmother’s car, my young mind, my soul was becoming distilled, crystallized, and I was thinking in my child mind” what would I do?” It was a very very powerful PIERCING documentary.
I thought, “I would get a gun and fight these hitlerites until I died or won”. I didn’t know at that time that one of the last things Jesus said to His disciples was to sell your cloak and buy a sword, maybe the Messiah was talking to me, I don’t know, all I knew was that when I became a man, and in control of my life, I would have weaponry and be the best marksmen I could ever be, whether it be rifle or bow. I also knew that I would join the military so as to be one of the defenders of my country, in case these demons ever rose their heads again…….sidebar, as a child I wanted to be a policeman, because the words, “to serve and protect” on the sides of our police cars meant a lot to me, “to serve and protect”…those words are important to this post of mine. I also was very serious about someday “aliyah”ing to Israel. “Aliyah literally translates to “go up”, which means to immigrate to Israel.
At the same time, for some reason, maybe this was the Holy Spirit laying it upon a young boy, but I sought out every survivors account, or book I could find on the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even though I was 8 thru 11 years of age, I could read at early college level, and I read everything I could find starting with John Hershey’s book, “Hiroshima”. This was during the height of the Vietnam war and the Cold war. One of my earliest memories is of Oct 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and listening to my mother cry and beg my father to build us a fall out shelter, he laughed at her. Then and today I never laugh at such things, the hearts of man and leaders and the powers of this world and the “god of this age” are dark and wicked and cruel. God the Holy Ghost has testified to this, and history has testified to this, and wisdom, she has testified to this ugly fact.
Given this fact, I believe we must always be prepared, in two ways, the obvious way, be prepared in a physical sense, not only so you can live in the FLESH, if it is God’s Will, but so that in such terrible times that are coming, you can remain IN Jesus and reflect Jesus, to those who not only need help, physically, but to live the Kingdom of Heaven OUT, even in the midst of days of hell on earth, if they come to pass in my lifetime. Let my heart and soul and mind love God, cleansed by the Blood of the Last Pascal Lamb Jesus, Son of God. Two preparations, one of the physical, and the other to cling to the Hem of Jesus
That’s what I left the theater with, that we have a two choices, and Matthew 25 outlines it, except Jesus refers to “sheeps” and “goats”….another way to refer to it, and they did so at the Essenne community at Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scroll’s were found, one can either be a Son of the Light or a son of the darkness….thats why its called “free will”, and I am not talking about “works”. I am talking about remaining in Jesus and being a Son or Daughter of the Light, Jesus’ Light. Even in a time, where man will eat the flesh of other men, or dash infants upon rocks, or where leaders of this world hurl weapons with the power of the sun at each other. A cruel day, a red day will the Day of the Lord be, and it is coming.
and just testifying to my own heart, I fear no man, no demon, no son of the dark, because the Lord of Hosts is at my right hand, they can take my body, but they cannot have my soul, it belongs to Jesus.
As to the testimony of others, I won’t comment individually except to say this: nothing has changed and everything has changed. There were never any “good old days”, it was an illusion, maybe we in our nostalgia or mere sentimentality, we NEED to rest on this illusion, but the truth is, while these great exhorters and preachers of yore that we venerate, maybe even lift up to saint status, this nation had to actually pass an “anti-lynching” law, so that the sin of murdering hapless black men by lynching them would be a crime, instead of just the foul pastime of the son’s of darkness doing the devils bidding, or soldiers out west in the frontier gave Indians blankets laced with smallpox to clear them out, so they could dig in the ground for their silver.
Long LONG before the devilish “Roe V. Wade” was passed, long before homosexuals started agitating for the right to be married, our country has been stacking national sin upon sin up to the heavens. Disagree with that assessment as is your wont, but I speak the truth in Christ.
The Day of the Lord is coming, ……….THE CHOICE IS OURS, Son of the Light, or son of the darkness.
