God Is in Control.

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God is in complete control of the world today, always has been, and always shall be. The tenth and eleventh chapters of the Book of Revelation should be considered as one chapter. They tell of the period of time during which the seventh angel is about to blow his trumpet, and then when he does sound his trumpet. It is our point of view that we now are in the days when the seventh angel is about to blow his trumpet.

(12/9/3007) At the beginning of the tenth chapter a mighty angel has his right foot upon the sea and his left foot upon the earth. This angel represents the authority of God’s rainbow Throne.

The “sea” symbolizes the spirits that operate in the world and the behavior they cause. The “earth” symbolizes our environment—all that can be weighed and measured, including our physical bodies.

This symbolism is telling us that God is in control of the spirits in the world, and also of our natural environment.

Before I go further, let me describe what I believe the Spirit of God is saying. First, in the political world: The leadership of the world, the power of the world spirit, will move from the Western nations to an Eastern nation. This is because the historically-Christian Western nations have traded their Divine covering for the killing of foetuses, and sexual excesses.

Second, in the Christian world: The Spirit is speaking to those in the Christian churches who have ears to hear. Christ is ready now to remove from each saint our worldliness, our various lusts, and our self-determination. We must forget the past and listen to Jesus carefully. He has new and surprising things for those who will listen to Him and obey Him diligently.

As soon as all sin and those who continue to sin have been removed from His Kingdom, the sons of the Kingdom will shine forth in the glory of their Father. The main burden of the morning and evening services had to do with the prayer of relinquishment. It was taken from Revelation 14:13:

“And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, ‘Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.’” Please notice the expression, “which die in the Lord from henceforth.”

This means the blessing will begin when Antichrist and the False Prophet become prominent. This is happening now. The spirit of Antichrist is that of man becoming his own god. The spirit of the False Prophet refers to Christian people who are seeking the power of Christ but who are not following the Lord and patiently bearing their cross of denial.

To “die in the Lord” means that we let go of everything the Lord calls for. We relinquish to Him our very life. He will bring to our attention those relationships, circumstances, and things that we treasure; that we grasp; that we clutch. One by one they must be given to Him without any hope of getting them back.

I am not speaking of passivity, of becoming an “empty vessel” such that we have no desires. We are to keep our desires, our decisions, strong and clear. We always are to be thankful and to praise the Lord, meanwhile letting our desires be made known to Him. If we float about in double-mindedness, not being able to make up our mind what we want, we will get nowhere with the Lord.

We become ill. We lose our job, our money. A coveted relationship is destroyed somehow. We are living in a situation we detest. We are not receiving what we desire fervently.

What do we do? We pray. In the case of illness, we go to the elders of the church and have them pray over us. We keep our desires firmly before the Lord. But nothing happens. Then we “let go and let God have His wonderful way.” We cannot figure out why He is treating us like this. But having done all, we walk forward in trust, hand in hand with the Lord Jesus. This is what it means to “die in the Lord.”

I believe the Lord has spoken clearly to me, I believe that we in America are entering a period of chaos. Our land is becoming filled with the demons of sexual indulgence, with drugs, with entertainment, with violence with the lust for more and more money. We will see chaos in our educational systems, in our military, in our government, in our financial institutions, in our health, in every political, moral, mental, physical area.

One example of educational chaos is today’s dilemma in one of our public schools as the choral director is choosing to include Handel’s Messiah in one of their presentations, and people are questioning whether this is suitable. Imagine, is Handel’s Messiah suitable in a public school presentation! How ridiculous! If there is better music I have never heard it.

Also, the current emphasis in California, and other states, on doing away with gender, such that men and women, boys and girls, share the same restroom facilities in schools and in public facilities. What can the officials be thinking of? Do they have any idea what this will lead to? This is chaos.

And these two examples are just the beginning. The monster that is arising on the horizon is that of enabling people of all ages to experience every human activity via virtual reality on the Internet and television. Can we possibly imagine what this will lead to? It will be graphic pornography raised to the tenth power.

The Lord Jesus warned us that the hour is coming in which no man can work. Such an hour is close at hand. We humans will not be able to combat the coming evil in our own strength. We are going to have to “die in the Lord” so that the good works He will perform with and through us will follow us in the midst of the darkness.

The secret of survival throughout the coming age of moral and physical horrors will not be an unscriptural “rapture,” a fleeing from the battle. Rather it will be that of relinquishing to Christ all He requires of us, understanding that He is in control of the spirits of the world and also of the earth and all its resources.

Realizing that Christ is in control of the flood of evil, our strength in the coming days will be in quietness and confidence in Him.

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