SURE and STRONG

 

JESUS said:

Matthew 7:24-25

King James Version

24 Therefore whosoever heareth 

these sayings* of mine, and doeth them, 

I will liken him unto a wise man, 

which built his house upon a rock:

25 And the rain descended, 

and the floods came, 

and the winds blew, 

and beat upon that house; 

and it fell not: 

for it was founded upon a rock.

What makes us certain about life?

What makes us strong in this world?

The world is filled with tons of temptations.

And tons of traps, that aim to ensnare us all.

We all need to be born again, to have a robust heart.

SPIRIT, through Scripture, will guide us every moment.

We will know the things that matter.

Such as being aligned with GOD's will.

We will know the commands we need to obey.

That our life, and our family's life, can be secure.

Not through fame, or fortune, but through FAITH in GOD.

Unless we follow JESUS, we cannot survive this world.

We need the strength of His mind, that we may survive.

Satan will wear us out, every chance he can get.

Unless our foundation is rooted firmly in CHRIST, we will succumb.

A TRUE BORN AGAIN is steady.

Because of these things:

We LIVE by the BIBLE.

It is the NONNEGOTIABLE gospel.

It is NOT a gospel of accommodation.

We are FREE from ambivalence.

We live FREE of distraction.

We are CONFIDENT in CHRIST.

We are HAPPY with JESUS.

We have VICTORY through JESUS.

We are SOLDIERS of CHRIST.

We are ROCK steady.

We know GOD's PLAN of SALVATION.

We have PEACE through JESUS.

He is our CHIEF Corner Stone.

GOD is STEADY.

JESUS is CONSISTENT.

The ONLY thing that will REMAIN is GOD's WORD.

GOD's WORD stands forever.

As WATCHMEN, we are STEADY at our posts:

"We remain steady, at our posts.

Waiting for our Master's command.

That we may know what to do, where to be, how to act.

We rely on His EVERY command.

Thus, we wait, watch, warn, worship.

His will, ways, and wisdom are planted upon our hearts."

-- "The WARRIOR's protection"

Our pillar is CHRIST.

Our pillow is the WORD.

Our peace is JESUS.

Our homes are fortified with GOD's TRUTH.

Our souls are safe from sin.

Our hearts belong to GOD.

Our minds are fixed on JESUS.

We wear the FULL ARMOR of GOD.

We sleep good nights because of the LORD.

Confident, and grateful, in His LOVE.

We are His.

John 10:27-28

King James Version

27 My sheep hear my voice, 

and I know them, and they follow me:

28 And I give unto them eternal life; 

and they shall never perish, 

neither shall any man 

pluck them out of my hand.

*NOTE:

Matthew 7:1-23 refers to what JESUS said about "these sayings of mine" .

The things we need to do.

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FORTIFY your HOMES

 

Jeremiah 51:12

King James Version

12 Set up the standard 

upon the walls of Babylon, 

make the watch strong, 

set up the watchmen, 

prepare the ambushes: 

for the Lord hath both devised and done 

that which he spake 

against the inhabitants of Babylon.

I had been dreaming, the past two days.

Had an urgent dream about the Rapture yesterday.

Today, I dreamt of securing my family's "house".

Three black-shirted men wanted to enter the house.

One pushed aside the screen door and made his way in.

Of course, I got angry, and asked him to leave.

When they left, I secured the two sliding screen doors.

Instinctively, I headed for the back door, aiming to secure it.

But first, I needed to check the front of our house.

There was a balustrade, whose design seemed all wrong.

The workers had not constructed it well.

It should have been parallel to the front wall.

Thing is, it was shaped outwards.

That was a no-no.

The wider gap would invite people to squeeze in.

Giving them access to our windows.

Funny, even in my dream, I was thinking architecturally.

The significance of the dream?

It's all about "fortifying".

Is our whole person secure through JESUS?

It's about "alignment".

Is our whole person aligned with GOD's WORD?

It's about "family".

Is our family one with GOD?

It's time to fortify self, and families, now.

More than ever.

For the enemy lies in wait.

1 Peter 5:8

King James Version

8 Be sober, be vigilant; 

because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, 

walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

We must be FULLY aligned with the LORD.

Look where "thieves" can come in.

JESUS spoke of parables, to that effect:

Luke 8:4-5

King James Version

4 And when much people were gathered together, 

and were come to him out of every city, 

he spake by a parable:

5 A sower went out to sow his seed: 

and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; 

and it was trodden down, 

and the fowls of the air devoured it.

Luke 8:11-12

King James Version

11 Now the parable is this: 

The seed is the word of God.

12 Those by the way side are they that hear; 

then cometh the devil, 

and taketh away the word out of their hearts,

lest they should believe 

and be saved.

John 10:6-8

King James Version

6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: 

but they understood not what things they were 

which he spake unto them.

7 Then said Jesus unto them again, 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, 

I am the door of the sheep.

8 All that ever came before me 

are thieves and robbers: 

but the sheep did not hear them.

John 10:9

King James Version

9 I am the door: 

by me if any man enter in, 

he shall be saved, 

and shall go in and out, 

and find pasture.

John 10:10

King James Version

10 The thief cometh not, 

but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: 

I am come that they might have life, 

and that they might have it 

more abundantly.

John 10:11

King James Version

11 I am the good shepherd: 

the good shepherd giveth his life 

for the sheep.

John 10:12

King James Version

12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, 

whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, 

and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: 

and the wolf catcheth them, 

and scattereth the sheep.

John 10:13

King James Version

13 The hireling fleeth, 

because he is an hireling, 

and careth not for the sheep.

John 10:14

King James Version

14 I am the good shepherd, 

and know my sheep, 

and am known of mine.

John 10:15

King James Version

15 As the Father knoweth me, 

even so know I the Father: 

and I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 10:16

King James Version

16 And other sheep I have, 

which are not of this fold: 

them also I must bring, 

and they shall hear my voice; 

and there shall be one fold, 

and one shepherd.

John 10:17

King James Version

17 Therefore doth my Father love me, 

because I lay down my life, 

that I might take it again.

If you're a born again parent, this you must do.

That you, and your family might be safe:

Deuteronomy 11:18-21

King James Version

18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words 

in your heart and in your soul, 

and bind them for a sign upon your hand, 

that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

19 And ye shall teach them your children, 

speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, 

and when thou walkest by the way, 

when thou liest down, 

and when thou risest up.

20 And thou shalt write them 

upon the door posts of thine house, 

and upon thy gates:

21 That your days may be multiplied, 

and the days of your children, 

in the land which the Lord sware 

unto your fathers to give them, 

as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Lastly, be aware of the "black-shirted" ones.

What we call the "copycat".

Observe how he copies --

GOD has His TRIUNE GOD.

The enemy tries to have his, too.

Secure your homes.

Secure your families.

Secure your souls.

Pray to be born again now.

That SPIRIT may teach you how.

The Rapture is imminent.

It can occur, any moment GOD chooses.

I'm not dreaming these dreams in a vacuum.

There is real urgency, dear brothers, and sisters.

Only through JESUS are we safe.

And saved.

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The FISH gate

 

JESUS declares:

Luke 11:11

King James Version

11 If a son shall ask bread 

of any of you that is a father, 

will he give him a stone? 

or if he ask a fish, 

will he for a fish give him a serpent?

What is the significance of Jerusalem's "Fish Gate"?

SPIRIT led me to this verse today.

Definitely a Bible prophecy.

Which we must pay attention to.

Zephaniah 1:10

King James Version

10 And it shall come to pass in that day, 

saith the Lord, 

that there shall be the noise of a cry 

from the fish gate, 

and an howling from the second, 

and a great crashing from the hills.

What "day" was that?

Zephaniah 1:7

King James Version

7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: 

for the day of the Lord is at hand: 

for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, 

he hath bid his guests.

Why was the LORD angry?

Why was judgment to be meted out?

What must Israel expect?

These I found:

Zephaniah 1:2-6

King James Version

2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, 

saith the Lord.

3 I will consume man and beast; 

I will consume the fowls of the heaven, 

and the fishes of the sea, 

and the stumbling blocks with the wicked: 

and I will cut off man from off the land, 

saith the Lord.

4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, 

and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 

and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, 

and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;

5 And them that worship 

the host of heaven upon the housetops; 

and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, 

and that swear by Malcham;

6 And them that are turned back from the Lord; 

and those that have not sought the Lord, 

nor enquired for him.

Zephaniah 1:14-16

King James Version

14 The great day of the Lord is near, 

it is near, and hasteth greatly, 

even the voice of the day of the Lord: 

the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

15 That day is a day of wrath, 

a day of trouble and distress, 

a day of wasteness and desolation, 

a day of darkness and gloominess, 

a day of clouds and thick darkness,

16 A day of the trumpet and alarm 

against the fenced cities, 

and against the high towers.

Zephaniah 1:17-18

King James Version

17 And I will bring distress upon men, 

that they shall walk like blind men, 

because they have sinned against the Lord: 

and their blood shall be poured out as dust, 

and their flesh as the dung.

18 Neither their silver nor their gold 

shall be able to deliver them 

in the day of the Lord's wrath; 

but the whole land shall be devoured 

by the fire of his jealousy: 

for he shall make even a speedy riddance* 

of all them that dwell in the land.

The fish gate must be that important, if the cry, during the day of the LORD, would originate from there.

I remembered SPIRIT and I wrote an earlier post about the fish gate.

Which was the second gate rebuilt by Israel, through Nehemiah:

Nehemiah 3:3

King James Version

3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, 

who also laid the beams thereof, 

and set up the doors thereof, 

the locks thereof, 

and the bars thereof.

Another verse about the fish gate could be found here:

2 Chronicles 33:14

King James Version

14 Now after this he built a wall 

without the city of David, 

on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, 

even to the entering in at the fish gate, 

and compassed about Ophel, 

and raised it up a very great height, 

and put captains of war 

in all the fenced cities of Judah.

That verse referred to the builder as Manasseh, the 14th king of Judah.

He began to rule at age 12, and did so for 55 years.

Only thing, he did evil in the eyes of the LORD.

So, GOD sent him judgement.

But was brought back to his kingdom, when he repented of his sins.

That's why he built the outer wall of Jerusalem, even to the "entering in at the fish gate".

We also learn that his son, Amon, did evil in the eyes of the LORD.

After which, his son, Josiah, became king.

2 Chronicles 33:25

King James Version

25 But the people of the land slew all them 

that had conspired against king Amon; 

and the people of the land made Josiah 

his son king in his stead.

The connection of king Josiah to prophet Zephaniah, can be found in this verse:

Zephaniah 1:1

King James Version

1 The word of the Lord 

which came unto Zephaniah 

the son of Cushi, 

the son of Gedaliah,

the son of Amariah, 

the son of Hizkiah, 

in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, 

king of Judah.

Interesting how Jerusalem's "fish gate" witnessed her sins, ruin, other nations' oppression of her, and will witness GOD's future wrath.

Another interesting revelation is what will happen to the Levant during that "day of the LORD".

*NOTE: there will be a "remnant" of the people of Israel, as this verse says:

Zephaniah 2:7

King James Version

7 And the coast shall be 

for the remnant of the house of Judah; 

they shall feed thereupon:

in the houses of Ashkelon 

shall they lie down in the evening: 

for the Lord their God shall visit them, 

and turn away their captivity.

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BREACHING of walls

 

Isaiah 30:13

King James Version

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you 

as a breach ready to fall, 

swelling out in a high wall, 

whose breaking cometh suddenly 

at an instant.

What causes GOD's wrath?

What causes towers to fall?

What causes walls to be breached?

Whether spiritual, or physical walls, and towers.

GOD tells us more:

Isaiah 30:1

King James Version

30 Woe to the rebellious children, 

saith the Lord, 

that take counsel, but not of me; 

and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, 

that they may add sin to sin:

Isaiah 30:8-11

King James Version

8 Now go, write it before them in a table, 

and note it in a book, 

that it may be for the time to come 

for ever and ever:

9 That this is a rebellious people, 

lying children, 

children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

10 Which say to the seers, See not; 

and to the prophets, 

Prophesy not unto us right things, 

speak unto us smooth things, 

prophesy deceits:

11 Get you out of the way, 

turn aside out of the path, 

cause the Holy One of Israel 

to cease from before us.

Isaiah 30:12-14

King James Version

12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, 

Because ye despise this word, 

and trust in oppression and perverseness, 

and stay thereon:

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you 

as a breach ready to fall,

swelling out in a high wall, 

whose breaking cometh suddenly 

at an instant.

14 And he shall break it 

as the breaking of the potters' vessel 

that is broken in pieces; 

he shall not spare: 

so that there shall not be found 

in the bursting of it 

a sherd to take fire from the hearth, 

or to take water withal out of the pit.

GOD's people did not listen to Him, thus, His wrath.

When He had an infallible solution.

The strategy, of all strategies.

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PROPHETS and APOSTLES identify the enemy

 

1 Peter 5:9

King James Version

9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, 

knowing that the same afflictions 

are accomplished in your brethren 

that are in the world.

We are being given an arsenal of truth.

The born again has one, specific enemy.

JESUS identifies this enemy in the previous post.

Now, the prophets and apostles do the same.

In accordance with GOD's laws.

Here's what GOD's faithful have to say about the enemy:

Isaiah 14:12-17

King James Version

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, 

O Lucifer, son of the morning! 

how art thou cut down to the ground, 

which didst weaken the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, 

I will ascend into heaven, 

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: 

I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, 

in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; 

I will be like the most High.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, 

to the sides of the pit.

16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, 

and consider thee, saying, 

Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, 

that did shake kingdoms;

17 That made the world as a wilderness, 

and destroyed the cities thereof; 

that opened not the house of his prisoners?

2 Corinthians 4:4

King James Version

4 In whom the god of this world 

hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, 

lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, 

who is the image of God, 

should shine unto them.

Galatians 5:16-18

King James Version

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, 

and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, 

and the Spirit against the flesh: 

and these are contrary the one to the other:

 so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, 

ye are not under the law.

Galatians 5:19-21

King James Version

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, 

which are these; 

Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, 

emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, 

drunkenness, revellings, and such like: 

of the which I tell you before, 

as I have also told you in time past, 

that they which do such things 

shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 2:2-3

King James Version

2 Wherein in time past ye walked 

according to the course of this world, 

according to the prince of the power of the air, 

the spirit that now worketh 

in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation 

in times past in the lusts of our flesh, 

fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; 

and were by nature the children of wrath, 

even as others.

Ephesians 6:12

King James Version

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 

but against principalities, 

against powers, 

against the rulers of the darkness of this world, 

against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Colossians 2:8-9

King James Version

8 Beware lest any man spoil you 

through philosophy and vain deceit, 

after the tradition of men, 

after the rudiments of the world, 

and not after Christ.

9 For in him dwelleth 

all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

1 Timothy 4:1

King James Version

4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, 

that in the latter times 

some shall depart from the faith, 

giving heed to seducing spirits, 

and doctrines of devils;

2 Timothy 3:1-7

King James Version

3 This know also, that in the last days 

perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, 

covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, 

disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, 

false accusers, incontinent, fierce, 

despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, 

lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, 

but denying the power thereof: 

from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, 

and lead captive silly women laden with sins, 

led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, 

and never able to come 

to the knowledge of the truth.

James 4:4

King James Version

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, 

know ye not that the friendship of the world 

is enmity with God? 

whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world 

is the enemy of God.

1 Peter 5:8

King James Version

8 Be sober, be vigilant; 

because your adversary the devil, 

as a roaring lion, walketh about, 

seeking whom he may devour:

Revelation 12:12-13

King James Version

12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, 

and ye that dwell in them. 

Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! 

for the devil is come down unto you, 

having great wrath, because he knoweth 

that he hath but a short time.

13 And when the dragon saw 

that he was cast unto the earth, 

he persecuted the woman 

which brought forth the man child.

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