The UN-CLAIMED PROMISE

The Martyrdom of St. Timothy

Of more value than gold in the bank, the "Promises" from the Bible are well-known by most Christians. We have heard them proclaimed repeatedly whenever problems and troubles arise which plague the human heart.

Great they are, too, and exceedingly precious to the hearts of all Believers. They are TRUE words, as is the constant testimony for those who follow The LORD JESUS CHRIST, The Most Beloved SON+ forever.

These promises of GOD bolster our faith.

However, there is one UN-claimed Promise that no-one seems to claim for himself.

This one, UN-claimed Promise --- for those who recognize its worth --- is faith-stretching. It carries within its very essence the means for us, Followers of JESUS CHRIST to measure our walk.

Using this UN-claimed Promise, we can readily see the answers to these questions; 

·                     Are we truly attached to the TRUE VINE+ ? 

·                     Are we operating directly within HIS+ Will ?

·                     Are we compromising His+ Truth?

·                     Are we indulging ( and kidding ) ourselves in "friendship evangelism" and thus, hiding the TRUE LIGHT+ ... which is able to save souls ... under a bushel basket ?      

WHAT is this Precious, UN-claimed Promise, the one that is ASSUREDLY as PRECIOUS as all the other promises of GOD ?

It is the Promise that makes us all shudder, and hence, avoid it at all costs. 

Here it is:

"And indeed, all those desiring 

to live GODLY in CHRIST JESUS 

will be persecuted." 

2 Timothy 3:12, Jay P. Green's Greek Interlinear.

 A Peek At the Greek...

In English, "persecution" is commonly understood as life-threatening harrassment or imprisonment or torture.

In Greek and Hebrew, however, it has the BASIC meaning of being driven out.

"Persecution" in the New Testament stems from the root of two Greek words, one of which means "to flee" and the other one "to pursue." ( See 1375 and 1377 in Strong's Concordance. )

Interestingly enough, the ONLY time "persecution" in the New Testament comes from a different root word  is in Acts 11:19, and that word accurately means "tribulation." (See Strong's # 2347.)

"To chase out or pursue hotly after" is the consistent meaning of persecute / persecution in the Hebrew language ,with all word forms stemming from a Hebrew root word which means "to pursue."  (See Strong's, #7291 and Young's Concordance for persecution.) 

Now, then, herein lies a problem... a BIG problem.

No-one LIKES persecution and no-one WANTS it as a daily companion. No-one chooses to be persecuted !

Scripture indicates, however, that persecution was the Daily Cup put before the Followers of JESUS. 

That Daily Cup worked many good things:

·                     The Gospel spread across the inhabited world through these persecuted Christians.

·                     Many received the Martyr's Reward, sealing their testimony with their blood.

·                     The persecuted Followers of JESUS founded many churches... with the blood of the martyr's becoming the seed of the church.

·                      The Gospel was translated into languages and tongues for all to have.

In today's world, the persecuted Followers of JESUS become the strongest Christians on earth.

Their cries, pleas, supplications, and intercessions are ANSWERED, as they endure the persecutions as Followers of The LAMB+ of GOD.

They are humble, knowing how to pray for their enemies, loving them and requesting their enemies to be delivered from the father of lies. 

These STRONG Christians have lost all, for the most part, even family members. They know full well that at any moment they could seal their testimony for CHRIST JESUS with their blood.

Some of them live in despair, barely clinging to life from the blows of loss of loved ones, home, health, and income. Our LORD sees their LIVING sacrifice: after all, they did not DENY HIM+ and turn to the world or pagan, demonic religions to avoid their plight. They stood the TEST.

Yes, when they recover from shock, these persecuted Christians become STRONG Followers of CHRIST.

Search out the testimonies of the church in North Korea, established in the midst of prison camps. Read about the Sudanese Christians living in the Nubian Desert, clinging solidly to The LORD and to each other. The Syrian Christians who have been ousted from their homeland are bearing the LIGHT of CHRIST to the muslim world.

What are WE DOING for the Kingdom of GOD, in comparison to these persecuted Followers of JESUS CHRIST ?

Yes, we all do what we can, but we have not been TESTED through the fires yet.

 JESUS said: 

Mark 9:49 ...

For every one shall be salted with fire and every sacrifice salted with salt.

Matthew 5:13 ...

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor,

wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but

to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

 Dear Salt ... let us NOT LOSE our Savor... and thereby lose our SAVIOR+.

Now is the Day of Preparation. We prepare for Persecution by drawing closer and closer to Our LORD JESUS CHRIST... now !

Now is the time --- when all is quiet (on the surface ) to spend QUALITY QUIET TIME with HIM+. Now is the time ( in relative safety ) for each individual to learn to hear His+ Voice ... UNMISTAKABLY.

If we are diligent to do these things, HE+ will guide us into Spiritual exercises that will help us retain the Salt HE+ has given to us. Hours of prayer, fasting, reading or reciting of Psalms, of our LORD’S Words, of the Apostles writings. Seeking to never be out of HIS+ Presence.

When the fire of persecution comes, then we will not be in shell-shock, but rather we will have our faces "set like flint" --- as HE+ did --- to determinedly go to Jerusalem and face the fire.

JESUS said, 

" Behold, I+ give unto you AUTHORITY to tread on opheON, sharp-eyed ones ( serpents ) and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and NOTHING shall by any means hurt  you. " 

Luke 10:19

JESUS said, 

"All AUTHORITY is given unto ME+ in Heaven and on earth." 

Matthew 28:18

Will the fire of persecution hurt us? 

Only... only... only if we fail 

to Follow our LORD JESUS to the cross.

Pleasant to the flesh? NO... But the rewards are INESTIMABLE and  the fruit lasting unto Eternity.

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The Words NOT SPOKEN...

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To Whom Does The Pope go for Confession ? 

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The silence is deafening.

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Listen to the words NOT uttered by the Pope on his visit to the US last week.

These words were NOT spoken, NOT uttered, and NOT even alluded to by The Roman Catholic Pope, the loudest spokesman and highest head of the largest Christian religious organization.

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The Words NOT SPOKEN To Mr. Obama:

 ... Repent and be baptized EVERY ONE of you in the name of JESUS CHRIST for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT..

Acts 2:38

JESUS SAID... Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Matthew 26:52

He that rejecteth ME+, and receiveth not My+ words, hath ONE+ that judgeth him: the Word that I+ have spoken, the Same shall judge him in the last day.

John 12:48

The Words NOT SPOKEN To the United Nations:

Jesus said ... I+ am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto THE FATHER, but by ME+.

John 14:6

The Words NOT SPOKEN  To the Bishops and Cardinals:

 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please HIM+ WHO+ hath chosen him to be a soldier.  

2 Timothy 2:4

The Words NOT SPOKEN To the Adoring Crowds:

Why do you call ME+ "LORD, LORD" and do not the things I+ say ? 

Luke 6:46

And whosever does not bear his cross, and come after ME+ cannot be My+ disciple.

Luke 14:27 

The Words NOT SPOKEN To Madonna and her ilk:

Get thee behind ME+, satan: for thou savorest not the things that be of GOD, but the things that be of men.

Mark 8:33

The Words NOT SPOKEN to Mammon-serving Planned Parenthood and its Abortionists:

It is appointed  unto men once to die, but after this,  the JUDGMENT. 

Hebrews 9:27

 Then said HE+ unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Luke 17:1-2

The Words NOT SPOKEN to both 

• the Lgbt-ers with broken lives and to 
• the Lgbt-ers who are proud and arrogant about their sin:

O LORD, THOU+ hast searched me, and known me.  THOU+ knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, THOU+  understandest my thought afar off.

THOU+compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, THOU+ knowest it altogether. 

Psalm 139:1-4

The Words NOT SPOKEN to the Highest Court in this land, the US Supreme Court:

 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Isaiah 5:20-21

The Words NOT SPOKEN to the  10 Kings of Revelation 17:

And JESUS came and spake unto them, saying, ALL POWER is given unto ME+ in Heaven and in earth.

Matthew 28:18

 And HE+ said unto them, I+ beheld satan as lightning fall from Heaven.

Behold, I+ give unto [My+ Servants] power to tread on serpents ( opheOns-- sharp-eyed ones, not herpetons , snakes) and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you [My+ Servants].

Luke 10: 18-19

The Words NOT SPOKEN to Monsanto and its ilk, as well as to the CERN power base:

And the nations were angry, and Thy+ wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged,

and that THOU+ should give reward unto Thy+ servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy Name+, small and great; 

and should destroy them which destroy the earth.

Revelation 11:18

The Words NOT SPOKEN   To the REFUGEES, both the homeless ones and the paid infiltrators :

Come unto ME+, 

all ye that labor and are heavy laden, 

and I+ will give you rest.

 Take My+ yoke upon you, 

and learn of ME+; 

for I+ am meek and lowly in heart: 

and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 

For My+ yoke is easy,

 and My+ burden is light.

Matthew 11: 28-30

 The Words NOT SPOKEN To his own mirror:

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy+ sight, O LORD, my Strength, and my REDEEMER+.

Psalm 19:14

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This is a Christian leader who does NOT speak the Words of CHRIST ? Have we ever seen such ?

Is this a world-renown leader of a large part of Christianity... who does NOT quote the Highest Authority there is and ever will be , the HOLY SCRIPTURES, using them to correct and admonish, to exhort the world to leave their sin-filled ways .... and Follow JESUS CHRIST ? 

Alas, the Pope did not correct, he did not reprove, he did not bring to light those most evil things done in darkness.

Rather, he pretended to bring peace BY NOT ALLUDING to the SINS --- yes , sins --- committed by these present evil-agers.

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Did he bring peace ?

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Not for the 60 million aborted babies. Not for the REAL homeless refugees from the needless and contrived wars.

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Nor did the Pope show the way to repentance and thus, peace with GOD, to the sin-sick entertainers, destructive seed-producers, dangerous electron-beamers,  clever politicians, and the whole raft of un-Holy judges directed by the 10 kings of Revelation 17.

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As it is written to Babylon of old:

You are weighed in the balance and found wanting.

GOD has numbered your kingdom and finished it.

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Come out of her, My+ People

and touch not the unclean thing. 

TURNING the TABLES of PERSECUTION in IRAN ... the CHRISTIAN WAY+ !

PASTOR SAEED ABEDINI

There is concerted Christian prayer being made
this Saturday, September 26, for this courageous Follower of JESUS. 

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Brothers and Sisters …  LET US TURN THE TABLES in this Spiritual battle being waged via Pastor Saeed in one of Iran’s worst criminal prisons.

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Pastor Saeed traveled to Iran hoping to establish a Christian orphanage, we are told. Instead, the LORD re-directed his efforts, involuntarily, and allowed Pastor Saeed to be placed into a terrible season of imprisonment and torture. It is continuing this day and the governments of our world are ignoring this innocent man’s imprisonment.

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BUT, GOD IS NOT!

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The GOD and FATHER of Our LORD JESUS CHRIST is NOT IGNORING the cries of HIS SON’S + Beloved Follower nor is The LORD ignoring the prayers of the Saints.

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We forget that the blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the CHURCH+ of JESUS CHRIST.  

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Brother Saeed’s testimony to CHRIST JESUS in the Iranian prison is NOT being ignored by the other prisoners, either, in that hard-core incarceration camp.  For years now, they have watched Brother Saeed’s Christian behavior, heard him speak, and witnessed his testimony about the Risen CHRIST JESUS, bringing hope that they do not have. 

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Those men ALL KNOW he has harmed no- one nor stolen anyone’s property

… yet he is suffering.

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What they DO NOT KNOW is that The LORD JESUS CHRIST allowed Brother Saeed to be sent there — expressly to them — to give them opportunity to choose Eternal Life+ through JESUS instead of eternal damnation.

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It is likely that few of those men had ever heard the truth about The LORD JESUS CHRIST and fewer still had ever witnessed the behavior of a true Follower of JESUS first-hand. 

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So then, let us agree together …. as we beseech the Throne of CHRIST for Brother Saeed… to also supplicate for an out-pouring of the Blessed HOLY SPIRIT to pour down upon the prison inmates incarcerated with him…

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that the labor of Brother Saeed’s

 imprisonment will not be in vain.

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Where do we stand, in this spiritual warfare ? Let us stand with CHRIST and see His+ Great purpose in allowing the suffering of His+ Faithful Servant Saeed and then, Scripturally apply HIS+ Word … in unison and accord. Hear it: 

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JESUS said:  ” All AUTHORITY is given unto ME+ in Heaven and in earth.”

Matthew 28:18  

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JESUS said: ” Behold, I give unto YOU authority to tread on serpents [Gk.= OpheOn = Sharp-eyed Ones , not the animals which are herpetons ( reptiles, snakes) ], and scorpions , and over ALL THE POWER of the enemy and NOTHING shall by any means hurt you. ”  Luke 10:19

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Let us AGREE to :

• Bind the demonic spirits of islam which are keeping the prisoners bound

• Pray WITH ALL the AUTHORITY that The BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST gives us

• Pray WITH ALL the AUTHORITY that the Name of JESUS grants us

• Pray according to HIS+ WILL, Who+ desires ALL MEN to be saved

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LET US PRAY… 

O LORD JESUS CHRIST, THOU+ Who+ desireth that all men come to the Light of Thy+ Salvation, we pray for the OUT-POURING of the HOLY SPIRIT upon the men in Pastor Saeed’s cell, his block area, his hallway, his building, and his prison complex.

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We bind — by all the authority the Blood of The LAMB+ gives us and all the authority granted to us by the Name of JESUS  and in accordance with HIS+ Will — all the demonic spirits that are hindering these prisoners from coming to JESUS as LORD of their lives.  

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In the name of JESUS, we ask for HEAVY conviction of sin and shame of face to fall upon every inmate, every staff worker, and every official connected to this prison or who has anything to do with Pastor Saeed. 

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Let the fire of Thy+ Blessed HOLY SPIRIT fall upon these men and bring them to salvation, every one of them. Empower them to become evangelists, leading their families and friends across Iran unto THEE, O CHRIST. 

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And Grant, O FATHER of MERCIES, a miraculous deliverance of Thy servant Pastor Saeed, and bring the joy of Thy HOLY SPIRIT upon him this day, healing Thy Servant of every wound in his body and spirit, which are Thine. 

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This we ask for the Sake of Thy Beloved SON+ JESUS CHRIST, Who+ lives and died for us and ever reigns on High, with thee, Heavenly FATHER, and thy Blessed HOLY SPIRIT, one GOD, now and forever to the Endless Ages.

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And the Congregation said: “Amen!”

Ah, LORD GOD,

THOU hast made the Heavens

by Thy great power and stretched-out arm and there is NOTHING too hard for THEE !

Jeremiah 32:17

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Has the World Lost Its MIND ? .... Are the Nations MAD ?

Is  Shariah Law more palatable 

than 

the 10 Commandments and the GOSPEL of CHRIST JESUS ?

REMBRANDT'S   MOSES
Courtesy of Wikipedia

What Unthinkable MADNESS 

Has Overtaken This World 

in which we live ?

It makes NO sense to foment civil war in "other" countries... and then ship 35 million refugees or so from these war-torn areas into cultures as foreign to them as the refugees are to the native citizens.

Yet, this was planned about 4 decades ago BY WORLD LEADERS.

It makes NO sense for Shariah Law to be “welcomed” into nations which have rejected, refused, and mocked the Ten Commandments, nations which have had them for centuries.

Is it reasonable that the Western Civilized woman will accept a burka and cover her head… when she barely covers her body parts in public and stridently defends her “right” to be naked wherever and whenever she wants ?

Yet, that dichotomy of values is being foisted upon Western Civilization. Is anarchy REALLY being courted by the government as a “good” thing ?

It makes NO sense to purposefully cause anarchy amongst the citizenry.

Yet, the conflicts are rampant in every nation receiving the influx of people from these pre-planned refugee crises.   

It makes NO sense to arm both sides of a war ... or to create an armed conflict out of hired mercenaries of young people who are out of control and thirst to shed blood.

Yet, it is being done daily by clever collaborators in the "RainBow House" in the city of baal, District of Controllers.

It makes NO sense to agree to allow Israel’s AGGRESSIVE and diabolical enemy to develop nuclear weapons … and to censure Israel for having the same for protection of its country.

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Has the world NO sense of fair play… and are there NO global leaders who are ASHAMED of that un-fair treatment ? Not toward Israel, it seems.

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It makes NO sense to spend $500 MILLION a YEAR to remove babies from the safety of their mother's womb, chop them up, harvest AND SELL their little parts... when that much money could have given the babies a safe and caring place to live and grow.

Furthermore,  if each baby had been awarded ONE MILLION DOLLARS since Wade vs Roe ... that would have only amounted to 60 MILLION DOLLARS ... a mere 12 percent of ONE YEAR’S Planned "Parent"hood budget ... and a one-time expense, at that ! 

That would have provided a tremendous savings in public monies and a tremendous savings in these little lives... and a tremendous weight against the Judgement about to fall on this "RainBow" Nation, BABYlon the Great. 

It simply makes NO sense ... not morally nor spiritually nor financially. The "dollar" somehow is not "speaking" nor making itself heard in this case, is it ?

It makes NO sense for the Supreme Court to CHANGE the definition of marriage in this land ... in order to grant to same-gender unions the same income tax "breaks" which are offered to NORMAL, married couples.

It seems this "issue" of UN-Christian unions should have been dealt with by the IRS, not the Supreme Court of this land, which is NOT SUPPOSED to be making "laws" of this land ... nor enforcing them.

How difficult could it be for the form-loving IRS to make yet another bracket for domestic households called "domestic unions" or "domestic partnerships" ?  That would not be GODLY, but at least it would not be termed a "marriage" ... and confused with the entity recognized and sanctioned by Holy Scriptures.

The IRS does this for commercial endeavors at will. The IRS could set up "licensing" or certification for such same-gender unions.  If every thing else under the sun can be regulated by licenses and certificates and fees ... from hunting and fishing through birth and death ... it should be no problem. 

It is simply a matter of forms. But, do not use a Biblical word and concept to describe an UNHOLY and deformed union!

It makes NO sense.

Yes, morality can NOT be legalized... 

and thus, neither should IMMORALITY.

Therefore, if IT MAKES NO SENSE to do these things, then WHY are they being done ... across the globe?

Even WORSE, these senseless things have been agreed upon by the nations which have the HIGHEST levels of education, health, and wealth that the recorded WORLD has EVER SEEN !

HERE IS WHY:

A golden cup is BABYlon in the hand of YWHW, making drunk all the earth, of her wine have the nations drunk; therefore the nations are MAD.

Jeremiah 51:7

Now, it ALL MAKES SENSE.

Scripture does NOT lie.  

Scripture cannot be broken.

Men lie.  

Men break their word.

YWHW of the Divine Heavenly Armies DOES NOT BREAK HIS WORD ... ever.

Scripture is being fulfilled... just like HE+ said it would be.

And there followed another angel, saying, BABYlon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Revelation 14:8

And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great BABYlon came in remembrance before GOD, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of HIS+ wrath.

Revelation 16:19

Weep not, Behold, the LION+ of the TRIBE of JUDAH has prevailed to open the BOOK and to loose the 7 seals thereof.

THOU+ art Worthy to take the BOOK, and to open the seals thereof, for THOU+ wast slain and hast redeemed us to GOD by Thy+ Blood out of every kindred, tongue, people and nation.

And has made us unto our GOD a Kingdom of Priests and we shall reign upon the earth.

Amen! The LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT reigneth !