Subject: God is ruling Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:03:21 -0500 From: Jesus Christ is the ONLY Way to God To: tracy@jesus-is-lord.com Jesus Christ is the ONLY Way to God - Powered by InJesus Subscribe Unsubscribe Change E-mail View Archive God is ruling sis. tracy Nov 27, 2002 Dear Christian Friends: Greetings in the name of the ONLY wise God and Saviour Jesus Christ. Many Christian people write to me afraid. Many in the professed church are consumed with politics, 666, petitions, blah, blah, blah. And who knows what they are watching on hellivision...The news itself will make you nervous, yet people people watch the 5 o'clock news, 7 o'clock news, 11 o'clock news, the morning news, and then read the newspaper. The devil runs this world and its news. Don't assume that the news you get is the important news or even that it is all true. They manipulate what you see. When is the last time ABC/CBS/CNN/NBC ran a feature story that somebody got saved and is living a righteous life? You've never heard it and you never will even though it happens all the time. The devil is the father of lies, don't think his children are just sitting there telling you the truth. They loveth and maketh a lie. Evil men and seducers deceive and are deceived their own selves. They can' t school you into righteousness. Why hear ye them? All that said, those who belong to the Lord and are fearful, there is something for you here--if you make lifestyle adjustments, read the scriptures for yourself, and let them sink down into your understanding. ************A WORD FROM DANIEL************* God is ruling over the kingdom of men. He is overtop of ALL men, not just some of them. I don't care how wicked a man seems, God is ruling over him too...and that man's foot shall slide in DUE TIME. Believe it. I am currently reading/studying the book of Daniel for the second time this year and this is one of the great truths (among many) that the Lord has ministered in my spirit on this reading. HE is ruling. Nebuchadnezzer was prideful heathen king, whose kingdom was glorious. It seemed like he had it all. Nebuchadnezzer took vessels from the house of God and put them in the treasure house of his heathen god. Yet God called Nebuchadnezzer, "his servant" (Jer 27:6) before Nebuchadnezzer ever besieged Jerusalem. Why? God USED Nebuchadnezzer to teach a disobedient and rebellious Judah. God set up Nebuchadnezzer AND He took him down. When Nebuchadnezzer remained puffed up after God's warning, God gave him the heart of a wild animal, a beast. He no longer had the reason that sets a man apart from a beast. The once glorious king was driven out from among men. He wasn't sitting up in a palace boasting anymore. He was with the beasts of the field, eating grass like an ox, his body wet with dew, hairs grown like eagles's feathers, nails like birds' claws, ruling over nothing. Why? Daniel 4:17 ...that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. [read this whole chapter for the story] And in the end, Nebuchadnezzer was testifying and praising and giving God the glory. Read it for yourself. The last verse reads-- Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride HE IS ABLE TO ABASE. It was not by Nebuchadnezzer's greatness that he was king. GOD ORDAINED IT. God is the one that setteth up kings and removeth kings (Dan 2:20-22) according to the counsel of His own will. This has NOT changed. Many Christians are listening and reading about all the latest news and are scared to death (they are just like the Athenians of Acts, just newsmongers wanting to hear or tell some new thing). God is overtop of Yasir Arafat, the illuminati, the devil, Charles Manson, George Bush, every prime minister, president, killer, rapist, child abuser, priest, liar, whoremonger, dog, sorcerer, everybody and everything. If you are going to fear, fear the one who after he hath killed hath power to CAST INTO HELL, YEA, I SAY UNTO YOU, FEAR HIM! Let the Lord your God be your dread and your fear. What about Nebuchadnezzar's son, Belshazzar? He was partying back drinking wine out of the vessels of the Lord with his lords, wives, and concubines. The big man on campus (bmoc). But when those fingers started writing MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN on the wall, his proud countenance was changed and his knees started knocking together and the joints of his loins loosed like he was falling apart. He wasn't partying back anymore. He soon after got the interpretation from God's man, Daniel, but it was too late. MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PERES--God numbered his kingdom up and finished it, God weighed Belshazzar in the balances and found him wanting (God is weighing us in the balances of his word today and many of us are found wanting) and finally, he let him know that his kingdom was divided and given to the Medes and Persians. That night Belshazzar was DEAD. God numbered him and finished him. A man's days are NUMBERED no matter who he is. God has EVERYBODY ALL FIGURED OUT. You don't have to worry about wicked men. The Lord has them under control. If YOU are wicked, He has you under control too. Your foot will slide in DUE time. Given that God is over top of all things, we can honestly say, "Praise the Lord" and "Thank you, Jesus" ALL THE TIME BECAUSE ALL THINGS ARE ALWAYS WORKING FOR HIS OWN GLORY. We fear not the wicked. God the Father and King Jesus are not scared and they are not worried. They shall SURELY make a short work in righteousness upon this earth. Read Psalm 91 and let that sink down into your spirit. *************REVELATION IS A COMFORT******** If you are obedient to the gospel, you don't have to be scared of six hundred threescore and six (666) or the events of Revelation. If fact, Revelation is a comfort book to you. It is not, "The Revelation of Antichrist" or "The Revelation of Saint John the Divine", it is "The Revelation of Jesus Christ". See the first five words of Revelation 1:1-- Revelation 1:1 **The Revelation of Jesus Christ**, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: God gave Revelation to King Jesus TO SHEW TO HIS SERVANTS THE THINGS WHICH MUST SHORTLY COME TO PASS. Revelation is NOT to mystify, it is TO REVEAL THE COMING OF THE LORD. The coming of the Lord IS OUR COMFORT (I Thessalonians 4:17-18). Revelation is not a scary book to the believer, it is a COMFORT BOOK. Revelation should make you feel GOOD. On the other hand, Revelation is a TERROR to the disobedient, whether they know it or not. As one preacher said, it is a warrant for their arrest. It surely describes their long home. For those who think they have to have some slick "prophesy teacher" teach them some incomprehensible eschatological scheme, I am here to tell you that YOU can understand Revelation by the power of the Holy Ghost. The Lord did not leave us comfortless, He sent us the Holy Ghost. Praise the Lord. Keep reading your Bible and praying and obeying. You will get the results, but you have to tarry. We are not pitiful little scared orphans, either, God is my Father now. We need to rise up to what the word says concerning who we are in Christ. We are to be holy, blameless and unrebukable, wise and kind. The church needs a revelation of Jesus Christ. WHO he is, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened. We need to read Romans and Ephesians and Hebrews with clear eyes. We need the whole Bible. Those that don't understand what I am saying, you need to keep on reading AND OBEYING until you get it. Your Christian life will never be the same. There is more to the Christian life than your church's "statement of faith". You can hear God for your own self. King Jesus took me off the trash heap in the spring of 1991 and over these 11 years, He has put His word in my mind and my heart building me up in the knowledge of Him IN SPITE OF MYSELF. All He asks is that we agree with His word and have a mind to cooperate with the work that He is working in our souls. A lot of this Christian life is me being rended from my own corruptions. The other side is me learning the kingdom of God system. Highly stimulating...but how often do you meet somebody hot? Lukewarms abound. Let us pray to the Lord to give His people a revelation of Himself... There is much to say concerning Revelation, I still don't know it all, but I'll leave you with another incentive to read it-- there is A BLESSING BOUND UP IN THIS BOOK IF YOU READ IT AND OBEY IT-- Revelation 1:3 BLESSED is he that READETH, and they that HEAR the words OF THIS PROPHECY, and KEEP those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: BLESSED is he that KEEPETH the sayings of the prophecy of this book. Next time you read Revelation, look for what it is telling you to do! Then do it and you will be blessed. I'll give you one example--the everlasting gospel which is preached in Revelation 14:6-- Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the EVERLASTING GOSPEL to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS. Let us look at just one aspect of the everlasting gospel, "worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters". This scripture incentivized me to teach my two year old daughter about GOD AS CREATOR. At least once a week, I've been reading Genesis chapters 1 and 2 aloud to her that she may understand that we worship the God that made heaven, earth, seas and all things. I'm talking about the true and the living God, not little idols and statues and made up gods and made up Jesus'. WE WORSHIP THE ONE THAT MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS. When I started out doing this (reading Genesis), I thought I was just ministering to her, BUT WHAT A BLESSING MY SOUL HAS RECEIVED! I find that I am getting more and more fearless. We recently went to a drive through zoo and I giraffe stuck his head in the truck. I was glad about it. My mentality is like, "My Father made this". I am in awe about what God hath done. His capabilities captivate me. Genesis 1 and 2 have expanded my mind in a number of ways. What will it be like when I expand my grasp of God as Creator in the books of Job, Psalms, etc.? Wow! My point is just read Revelation with your eyes wide open for how you can keep its sayings. You will be blessed--and you will know that you are. Revelation is a comfort book. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. for Jesus' sake, tracy ------ www.JESUS-IS-LORD.com Ezekiel 2:4, 6 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. 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