Heaven Is Our Destination Where We Will Be ONE With The Lord Forever

Today, we are in The Season Of The Last Generation. The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the Church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

Today, it is critical that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy. I encourage you to read David Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call at davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com. Also, Google, Tommy Hicks Prophecy, 1961 for a view of the End Times.

Tom's books include: Called By Christ To Be ONE, The Time Of The END, The Season Of The Last Generation, Worship God In Spirit And In Truth, Daniel And The Time Of The END, and Overcoming The Evil One. They are available at amazon.com. They can also be read without cost by clicking on link: Toms Books.

To receive Christ Jesus as a child by faith is the highest human achievement.

Today, the Bride Of Christ is rising up in every nation in the world! Giving Glory to Her Savior and King, Christ Jesus!
Today, the world is Raging against God, Rushing toward Oblivion! Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation!
Today, America is being ground to powder because of it's SIN against God!

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Monday, August 14, 2017

WE NEED DIVINE DISCERNMENT TO SEE THROUGH THIS FOG OF DECEPTION

We Need Divine Discernment to See Through This Fog of Deception

We live in an age of mass deception and in an "anything goes" society. 
"If it feels good, do it" is the motto of many. 
Evil is called good while good is called evil. 
When asked what the signs were of His Second Coming and the end of the world, Jesus declared deception was the number one indicator. 
Before mentioning wars, natural disasters and other calamities, He said, 
"Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come . . . and will deceive many" (Matt. 24:4-5). 
He predicted deception will be so pervasive that it will "deceive, if possible, even the elect" (Matt. 24:24b). 
Keen spiritual discernment is needed to see through the fog of deception that blinds our secular society.
God asked the Prophet Jonah, 
"Should I not, therefore, be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people, who do not know their right hand from their left" (Jon. 4:11). 
This figure of speech meant the Ninevites could not tell the difference between right and wrong. Millions of people today are in a similar situation because they have no moral compass. 
D. L. Moody said, 
"The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it." The Bible is the "straight stick" we lay beside all the crooked views circulating in our corrupt culture.
The Apostle Paul described the symptoms of a sick society. 
After a long list of indicators of the moral breakdown of the last days, he summarized, "always learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Tim. 3:7). 
Jesus said, 
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free" (John 8:32). 
You see, it is spiritual truth that sets us free from error, not merely facts, data, trivia or general knowledge. We need more than human information and education; we need divine revelation and transformation.
Discernment is
"the ability to distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, to perceive, to detect or to recognize." The more familiar we are with a genuine item, the easier it is to spot a fake. We've all seen cashiers use a detector pen to test the authenticity of a $20 bill. The detector pen contains an iodine solution that reacts with starch in wood-based paper. A black mark will appear on a phony bill made on cheap paper, while a yellow mark appears on a genuine bill. The Bible is our detector pen—the best spiritual counterfeit detector known to man.
In Old Testament times, God gave Aaron, the High Priest, a unique way to determine His will on various issues. There was a pocket on the breastplate he wore that contained two objects (probably stones) called "the Urim and the Thummim" (Ex. 28:30), also translated as the "sacred lots." 
Apparently, if the High Priest needed to know God's will on a given matter, he would pull out one of these stones. Presumably, one meant "yes," while the other meant "no." 
Personally, I'm glad we don't have to carry around two rocks in our pockets to discern God's will. Now, we have a much better method. 
"But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things" (1 John 2:20). 
We have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, our personal tutor, to guide us into all truth and help us discern right from wrong.
We also have the Bible, God's revealed will, which, like a fog light, penetrates through the hazy ideas in society to help us see issues more clearly:
  • Society accepts evolution as a scientific fact; the Bible teaches intelligent design—creation has an all-wise Creator.
  • Society considers an unborn child as merely fetal tissue to be disposed of if a woman so chooses; the Bible informs us that "the fruit of the womb is a reward" and infants are "made with fear and wonder" in the womb (Ps. 127:3b; 139:14).
  • Society views drugs and alcohol as a desirable lifestyle; the Bible warns, "Wine is a mocker ... and whoever is deceived by it is not wise" (Prov. 20:1) and "Do not be drunk with wine, for that is reckless living. But be filled with the Spirit" (Eph. 5:18).
  • Society says premarital sex and adultery are tolerable and that abstinence and monogamy are unrealistic; the Bible counters "Marriage is to be honored among everyone, and the bed undefiled. But God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers" (Heb. 13:4).
  • Society thinks viewing pornography is harmless "adult entertainment;" the Bible says, "I will set no wicked thing before my eyes" (Ps. 101:3) and "But I say to you that whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart" (Matt. 5:28).
  • Society promotes homosexuality as normal and acceptable; the Bible decrees, "You shall not lie with a man as one does with a woman. It is an abomination" (Lev. 18:22).
  • Society says it doesn't matter how you live; the Bible declares we will reap what we sow and eventually all stand before the judgment seat of Christ (Gal. 6:7; 2 Cor. 5:10).
Some might object and say, "We should be more tolerant and open-minded" or "The Bible is too narrow and restrictive." 
One author noted, "Open minds, like open windows, need screens to keep the bugs out." There are many views and opinions floating around, but the Bible is the screen that helps us filter out truth from error. 
By the way, no passengers on an airplane complain that their pilot lands on a narrow strip of pavement called a runway. All passengers are grateful for a safe landing. 
Jesus called His way "the straight and narrow way" that leads to eternal life—the ultimate safe landing. May God grant us discernment to see through the fog of deception and help us always be open-hearted toward sinners but never be open-minded toward sin! 
Ben Godwin is the author of four books and pastors the Goodsprings Full Gospel Church. His weekly telecast, The Word Workshop, airs on TV-16 and Charter Cable #10 on Mondays at 9 p.m. and Tuesdays at noon and live streams on TV16HD.com. To read more articles, visit his website at bengodwin.org and take advantage of his 4-book bundle for $25.00.
https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/66785-we-need-divine-discernment-to-see-through-this-fog-of-deception
My comments: Every Christian should realize that the Fog Of Deception we are currently encountering will be Magnified in the Future. Listen: "The coming of the Lawless One (the Antichrist) will be in accordance the the Work of Satan displayed in all kinds of Counterfeit Miracles, Signs and Wonders, and in Every Sort of Evil that DECEIVES those who are Perishing. They Perish because they Refuse to love the TRUTH and so be Saved. For this reason God sends them a Powerful DELUSION so that they will believe the LIE and so ALL will be CONDEMNED who have not believed the TRUTH but have Delighted in Wickedness. (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12) 

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