The Word of God is moving on with pace and we dare not sleep on what is transpiring around us. I know it can be difficult to keep your eyes on the fast moving fulfilment of prophecy so here is a suggestion, do some introspection and cut off all those things that a robbing you of your prayer time and study time. Subtract those things that are of no real eternal significance and add, even multiply the Biblical practises that will build and ground you in The Truth.
While we keep our eyes on The Man of the cross and in the courtroom, the man Christ Jesus, He has also encouraged us to keep an eye on the rapidly changing times around us, the actors that His Word highlights and the direction of travel we are heading.
Not to listen and take appropriate action of His words will only end in disaster for us.
Ephesians 5:14-16
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Romans 13:11-12
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
The first beast of Revelation is doing just what prophecy said She would do. Not only that, but the whole world is doing what prophecy said they would do too.
Revelation 13:3
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
While the whole world is being mesmerised by the proceedings that are taking place in Canada, "the children of Issachar" have a clear view and undimmed vision of what is really going on.
A few statements from the article, if you will:
"During the first full day of his visit with Canada’s Indigenous communities, Pope Francis attended a “healing dance” that appeared to direct worship to “Mother Earth.”
Prior the ritual, which took place in Maskwacis, Alberta this morning, the Master of Ceremonies for the event explained that a “healing dance” was about to occur, while outlining that the drum involved is “the heartbeat of Mother Earth, the drum is life.”
Gathered in a circle around a large tree branch, Indigenous people began chanting and playing the drum as people dressed in feathers and other traditional outfits started dancing.
Francis, along with four Indigenous Chiefs donning traditional headdresses and garb, sat on a stage slightly above the dance, giving them a view of the happenings.
The MC for the event spoke about the importance of the number “four” as the ritual continued, referencing the “elements,” the “four directions,” the “four stages of life” and the “four living life forms.”
[Four is indeed important but not for the reasons above stated. Revelation 7:1-3 brings to view four winds that even now, we can feel the angels straining to contain.]
“We have a sun rising from the east, and we also have, from the south, we have the Thunderbird,” explained the MC.
[Again, the Bible gives the real meaning behind the east, the sun and the meaning -
Ezekiel 8:16 - Interestingly, Ezekiel 8:16 will be the thing that releases the reality of
Revelation 7:1-3]
“From the west side we have the wind, the oxygen that we breathe, this is the government of Mother Earth.
And on the north side we have Mother Earth, Mother Earth is who we are,” continued the Indigenous leader.
[The Bible knows nothing of mother earth being on the north. Who it does know is The Father God - Psalm 48:1-2 - The Bible does also know of a mother who is assuming the prerogatives and power of the north - Revelation 17:5]
“Mother Earth is all the plant life, Mother Earth, our mother, is also the mother of all insect life, Mother Earth is also the mother of all animals on the ground, in the water, in the air.”
“Mother Earth, is of course, the Mother of all humanity,” added the ceremonial leader, as the dancing continued with Francis and the Chiefs looking onward at the ritual.
If we are not avid students of the Bible, more specifically students of prophecy, we cannot know just how close we are to the end. It is true, we cannot know the exact day and hour, but we must know when it is near:
One saying of the Saviour must not be made to destroy another. Though no man knoweth the day nor the hour of His coming, we are instructed and required to know when it is near. We are further taught that to disregard His warning, and refuse or neglect to know when His advent is near, will be as fatal for us as it was for those who lived in the days of Noah not to know when the flood was coming. [Great Controversy 370.2]
The is another aspect of the papal visit to Canada that uncovers who and what we are dealing with, and that is this:
You may be reading this as a non Seventh-day Adventist, a member of another faith, or identify as someone with no religious affiliation and be why the writer seems to be so scathing in his writing. That's totally understandable given that Pope Francis seems to be doing what all good Christians should do. I would probably be thinking the same if I hadn't read what I'm about to share with you now:
The Roman Church now presents a fair front to the world, covering with apologies her record of horrible cruelties. She has clothed herself in Christlike garments; but she is unchanged. Every principle of the papacy that existed in past ages exists today. The doctrines devised in the darkest ages are still held. Let none deceive themselves. The papacy that Protestants are now so ready to honor is the same that ruled the world in the days of the Reformation, when men of God stood up, at the peril of their lives, to expose her iniquity. She possesses the same pride and arrogant assumption that lorded it over kings and princes, and claimed the prerogatives of God. Her spirit is no less cruel and despotic now than when she crushed out human liberty and slew the saints of the Most High.
[Great Controversy 571.1]
Daniel 8:23-25
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Friends, it is because God loves us that He lets us know what is going to happening before it does, so that we can be ready and prepared to go through. It is because of His great mercy that He gentle knocks on our hearts door asking for entrance. It is because He loves us that He exposes every danger that will separate us from Him. It's all because He loves YOU!
Christ promised that He has gone away to prepare a place for you [John 14:1-3] He also promised that while he is away He will send The Comforter to prepare you for that place [Ephesians 1:13-14 - Galatians 5:22-24]
Do you want to receive Christ, for the first time or again today?
The Promise:
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Maranatha!
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