The Grapes of Wrath

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Prophecy – Signs Monday, August 21, 2017 Pete Garcia “The non-intervention of God bears very heavy interest, and He is greatly to be feared when He does nothing. He moves in long orbits, out of sight and sound. But He always arrives. Nothing can arrest the judgment of the Cross; nothing shake the judgment-seat of Christ” (PT Forsyth in The Justification of God) Convergence has been a popular buzz-word within prophecy circles over the past few years and rightly so. With so many prophetically-charged events now running simultaneously, it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of them all. You’d think with …

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Our Heart’s Desire

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“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.” -Philippians 3:10-11 God has created us with the ability to love and express ourselves. We, having been created in the image of God, can truly have no fulfillment in our earthly pursuits apart from knowing Him. The Apostle Paul having lived a life of achievement, notoriety and wealth found himself emotionally and spiritually bankrupt. It wasn’t until he encountered Jesus Christ in a face-to-face meeting …

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I recall a time when I was so hopeless..

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Life just exsisted and I felt it was just as good as it was going to get.. I was SO shattered and full of no self worth.. I lived my daily life with regret and I wanted a way out.. Slowly God started revealing His amazing plan but I didn’t realize it was Him.. My dreams filled my heart but I was far from feeling they would ever come into play.. One step at a time I kept walking.. Though the road was dark and lonely it brought me to a point where the bottom hit. What seemed like the …

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The Trees that are Slow to Grow Bear the Best Fruit – Molière

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How patient should we be? To what extent is godly patience practiced? How many chances should we give to someone who knowingly has bad intentions and wants to harm us? Very often, we act hastily at the first hint of an offense, and we are quick to condemn. Is our patience contained in a shallow vase that needs only a few drops more to overflowing which then pulls the trigger of condemnation? To bring truth even closer to the surface, we need to question the extent to which partiality plays in our rush to rebuke one and not the other. …

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Building Muscles of Faith

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1 Kings 18:22-23 22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: “I wish I had great faith.” These are words that almost every Christian has said at one time or another. But faith is …

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Joseph, A Type of Christ

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from Care for God’s Fruit-trees and other Messages by H. A. Ironside The story of Joseph as given in Genesis (chapters 37 to 50) is perennially fresh and delightful. Young and old alike revel in it. Looked at as an old-world picture of customs and people long-since vanished, there is a freshness and charm about it that stirs the heart and holds our attention in a remarkable way. But in studying Scripture there is not only the literal application, which is always important, but every part of the Word of God has a spiritual, typical, and dispensational application as well, …

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Who Were The Magi?

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The Magi As part of the birth of Jesus we read an account in Matthew’s Gospel of Herod the king of Judea receiving some people from an eastern land who were alerted that the true “King of the Jews” had been born. As a result of their visit Herod and the general population of Jerusalem were threatened. Just who were these people and why was Herod threatened? God was bringing His long awaited Messiah to the earth and the ungodly were going to try but would not be able to stop His plan. Matthew 2:1–12 Now when Jesus was born …

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As in The Days of Noah Were -Corruption and Demonic Activity Part I

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The Demonic Interruption of The Messianic Seed Line Genesis 6: 1-8 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose. And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the …

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Servant-Hearted Leaders

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Esther 2:10-20 10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it. 11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her. 12 Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with …

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Defeating False Teachers

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2 Peter 2:1-3 2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. Outside a grocery store one evening, I watched two young …

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The Wonder of God’s Love

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Imagine for a moment, that you are planning to go see a 3-D movie. You have heard so much about it, all the special effects and pop-ups that have made this movie a must-see. However, once you come to the cinema, you choose to watch the film without the 3-D glasses. Much of the dazzling effects will be missed and you will leave the theatre disappointed, cross and cross-eyed! Similarly, we as believers stand to lose out from seeing the marvelous and awesome wonders of God when we forget to see Him through the wonder of His love. This is …

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As In The Days of Noah Were Msg II

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As the Lord is explaining the circumstances of the period just before the Great Tribulation and His return to this earth He mentions several activities, which one could reasonably view as normal day-to-day living. He further refers to two periods of human history wherein these activities were taking place just prior to a cataclysm of huge proportions. One was the Flood and the other was the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. People are dining, drinking, getting married, conducting business activities, and farming as well as constructing buildings. On the face of the comments these activities seem innocent enough and don’t …

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“And they gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but He received it not.”—Mark 15:23.

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A golden truth is couched in the fact that the Saviour put the myrrhed wine-cup from His lips. On the heights of heaven the Son of God stood of old, and as He looked down upon our globe He measured the long descent to the utmost depths of human misery; He cast up the sum total of all the agonies which expiation would require, and abated not a jot. He solemnly determined that to offer a sufficient atoning sacrifice He must go the whole way, from the highest to the lowest, from the throne of highest glory to the cross …

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