Giving Consideration

Many of us are sensing change is imminent.  Many of us are feeling the need to prepare for the change.  Some are downsizing and cleaning.  Others are harvesting and preserving.  Interesting how some of us are doing the exact opposite things, yet we know we are preparing for the same purpose, ultimately.  This is how the body of Messiah is to function.  Those who are house cleaning and looking for tents are doing what they are called to do, just as I am harvesting and preserving in preparation.

Unless Abba leads me differently, there will be a brief hiatus in the production of "BEFORE It Was HEADLINES It Was PROPHECY."

As we watch the end of days unfold, we must remember the Revelation was given to John about the return of Messiah and what would be taking place.  I have spoken before that the riders on the horses have been released.  Not that I know the date of their release, but simply that they have been released.  It was today that I realized, they were released probably not long after that revelation was given, and they're simply gaining speed and traveling west.  If we consider history, that's why so many believe history is just repeating itself with war and disease, and will once again rally and reset, but that is not the case.

With each expansion of humanity, the problems have not been resolved.  The Middle East and Africa were not made better as society spread through Europe.  The legs of iron, mentioned in Daniel, which is Rome has only annexed further west and mixed with clay . . . From the Vatican throughout the world, there is promise of religious solution.  From the Gaza strip around the globe, there are wars and rumors of wars.  The entire world is facing economic collapse an has literally been propped up on debt for years.

Pharmaceuticals seem to be the newest addition to the man-made solutions, which is probably why there was only one Scriptural reference to pharmakeia prior to the Revelation.  We can see evidence of the rider on the palor horse through the Bubonic Plague and other widespread diseases, but never before has the previous "cure" become the new problem.  As we have only begun to see, the reality now exists, to spread antibiotic resistant super-bugs, globally.

 Even considering the headlines, I believe this is "the calm" before the storm that will only end when Messiah returns.

Just a Couple of Questions?

If Israel is the problem in the Middle East and the aggressor . . . Why does Hamas have a stockpile of rockets in their schools instead of bomb shelters for their children?

Now that Hamas is killing Palestinians, where is the outrage?
http://www.newsweek.com/tel-aviv-diary-public-executions-gaza-reveal-true-nature-hamas-266271

World Missions

The world is truly becoming tumultuous at every hand.  I receive private messages daily from people in other countries wanting to come to America to get jobs and have freedom.  They tell me how terrible it is where they are.  Now, let me clear this up immediately.  I'm not talking about people in Syria or Iraq.  I'm going to say this outright.  I saw it when I traveled in ministry.  Much of the teaching the people receive is how to solicit Americans for donations.

Years ago, I was told by indigenous pastors, that was the method of operation.  Many foreign mission fields have take the Good News of the gospel, but that was years ago.  In the last thirty years, much of what has been taught is a dependency upon mission trips.  Many of the poor in these countries literally wait for the mission trips to see to their needs.  Mission trips are big business, similar to tourism.

Please don't get me wrong.  Many Americans do have more than enough, and it's wonderful to donate clothes and Bibles, even money; when a local church is planning a mission trip.  The problem is, the people on the other end of these mission trips are being taught ten days worth of American Christianity . . .  It isn't anything that is sustaining for them.  It becomes a matter of scheduling different groups to speak, rather than the people actually being taught to seek YHWH in covenant.  As for the practicality of these mission trips, they aren't.  They take supplies to their ministry destinations and have actually created a very dependent religious welfare state abroad.

Of course, I believe in helping people, but giving them something and just leaving them in their hopeless poverty is not really helping.  At this point in world events, it seems it will actually lead many to accept a false messiah with promise of provision, for those who will bear his mark . . .

It's time to come out from among them and be separate, and part of proclaiming the Good News, is to teach that truth, as we "minister" next door and around the world.

A Serious Consideration

I've tried to shake this urgency off, but I simply can't.  Several years ago, I saw modern mainstream medicine for what it truly is.  Many may disagree, and that is your prerogative, but I still have to say this.

The term sorceries or sorcerers in the Revelation, was translated from the Greek term "pharmakeia," "pharmakeus," or "pharmakos."   One term refers to the practitioner, one is the product and one references the practice itself.  Every time the term sorceries or sorcerers appears in the Revelation, it is a reference that obviously bears the root word for the English word pharmacy, yet the English King James translators chose sorcery.

When sorcerer is used in the book of Acts, the Greek term was a reference to magician or a person intriguing entertainment.  There is one other passage in which the Greek term pharmakeia appeared in the original and that is in Galatians 5.  The King James translators used the English term "witchcraft" in that passage.  Witchcraft is generally equated with mind control.  Which brings to mind a question.  Why would the English translators use two very different words to translate the same Greek word and avoid the obvious English term of the same root?



Here are the first two definitions for PHARMAKEIA as given in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance:
1. the use or the administering of drugs
2. poisoning

We are all aware of the reason medication is carefully labeled, monitored, and given in measured dosage.  It is poison.  An overdose can cause death.  Health care is the most valued commodity in this country, the most expensive and the least effective.  When the Revelation speaks of no buying and selling without the mark, a very deceptive way to administer this mark could very well be through health care.  As for making the choice, signing a consent to treatment form is verification of having made a choice.




I would urge every believer to research this yourself.  Our Creator has promised us good health if we are obedient to His Word.  Mixing holy with profane will not protect us from the plagues that are being introduced.