Tag: Jerusalem

“Does God have a friend in Israel?”

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“But as for you, Israel my servant, Jacob my chosen one, descended from Abraham my friend,” (Isaiah 41:8)

“He (Abraham) was even called the friend of God.” (James 2:23b)

“For he (Abraham) looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:10)

Here’s a simple question. Who is acting more like their father? The Jews who are still determined to rebuild their earthly temple made of stones and brick? The Muslims praying in their Dome of the Rock? Or the Christians who recognize there has been a major change of High Priest, a major change of Covenant, and are no longer looking for a physical earthly building or kingdom?

>Who is the friend of God, in Jerusalem?<

(John 15:15) “I (Jesus) no longer call you (the disciples) slaves, because a master does not confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.”

“Revelation” is a key sign of being a friend of God!

I repeat, REVELATION (UNDERSTANDING) is a key sign of being a friend of God!

Is there an “awakening” in the House of God? Are the Ten Virgins waking up? Who will be taken, and who will be left behind to face all the horrible trials of tribulation? Who will miss the wedding feast, miss out on being part of the Bride, and miss being a part of New City Jerusalem? My eyes are not on the old temple, (or old Covenant!), but on the New City Jerusalem, a heavenly temple, a heavenly Bride, and the new earth God has promised! That’s where Abraham’s eyes would be, and one might even say already were, and he was the friend of God! But a Jew by physical birth only, is still looking for an earthly kingdom! And this is not God’s friend. At best, still a servant, having no true revelation of what his master is doing.

Jesus hung outside the gates of their city, paying the price for our sins, and they did not see. But some did see. Maybe not till the Day of Pentecost, but sight would come! And now, we who are God’s friends, spiritual descendants of Abraham, we know the future, for God has revealed it to us! And we watch with great groanings, desiring that our mortality be swallowed up by immortality, knowing what great promises all these things are working toward. Also knowing what great pain and suffering must be endured first, before Christ Himself sets upon a Jerusalem throne, reigning in love and peace for 1000 years.

Be of God cheer, brothers and sisters, we have a friend in God, and he has revealed to us how the story ends, and God says, “It is good.” Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

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(Romans 4:11b -12) “… So Abraham is the spiritual father of those who have faith but have not been circumcised. They are counted as righteous because of their faith. And Abraham is also the spiritual father of those who have been circumcised, but only if they have the same kind of faith Abraham had ‘before’ he was circumcised.” (Certain notations added by me for emphasis.)

Brothers and sisters, it is so important we fully embrace the New Covenant of our High Priest, Jesus; and leave behind the lesser promises of “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth”. God has called us his friends if we “know Him”. Jesus told some he did not “know them”, depart from me.

My heart is for this blog site, and my teepee, to be a place where we constantly desire to know Him more. To seek better understanding, and always be spiritually growing. We are seeking an awakening. Not only seeking it, but insisting on it, if we are to be ready when the call for the Bride comes. Scripture plainly shows there will be an awakening, and a dividing, and a leaving behind. For some, this awakening will lead to a sad revelation of “too little, too late”.

I would like to leave you with a final thought. We see there are “2” Covenants. One is called “the old”, and is supposed to be replaced by the success of our Lord’s mission here in earth. The other is called “the new”, and we should not mix the old with the new! Causing rupturing wineskins. And we see “2” judgement thrones. The judgement seat of Christ, and the Great White Throne judgement seat of God. And we see Ten Virgins, divided into “2” groups, on that day. We even see “2” temples, an earthly one in Jerusalem, and a spiritual one waiting to come down out of heaven. There are also “2” resurrections.

“2” Covenants…”2″ judgements…”2″ sets of virgins…”2″ temples….”2″ resurrections. We should see that both Covenants are still in effect depending on what we have personally decided about Christ, our personal relationship to Him.

Now we see “2” people, Mary and Martha, and the words Jesus spoke to each. Could Mary and Martha be a picture of those Ten Virgins? Has half the modern church become Martha? Have we inverted the order of the “2” greatest commandments as given by Christ? Have we become more concerned with serving man, than seeking the strong Presence of God? I leave you with these thoughts.

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“I did not want to vote for Donald Trump”

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Believe it or not, this is going to tie into “Jerusalem, a city of 3 Faiths”, but I want to start by saying: I did not want to vote for Donald Trump. As a matter of fact, I had already made up my mind I was not going to. I live in Indiana, and when my guy finally fell, defeated in my own state, I thought the race was over for me. I voted against Trump that day, but my guy lost anyway.

At that point I told my wife, the race is over for me, Dear. I definitely can’t vote for Hillary. I see no need to list the multitude of reasons. But neither do I want to vote for a worldly man, such as Trump. He may be successful in the world’s eyes, but as far as I’m concerned, he’s just another ungodly man. I no longer had a horse in the race. I wasn’t going to have to go to the trouble of voting again on that day. It was over for me.

There had been other years I “considered” not voting, but this was the year I was finally going to do it. But then the liberal media kept coming at him, like a bunch of wolves trying to take down a bull. The Trumpster didn’t just cave like so many others, but he fought back, and I do like a fighter. Finally, someone was fighting back against the evil agenda of those who could care less about something called: The Word of God! My heart began turning as I watched this man stand his ground, and not cave. But I still was not blind as to what I was voting for.

I am surprised at how many Christians believe President Trump is a Christian. Whaaat? Definition of the word Christian is a devout follower of Jesus Christ. Does the Donald fit that definition? Not at all! So how do so many Christians seem to add 2+2 and come up with something other than 4? How are they blind to what he makes no effort to hide?

Just because a man may have some morals that happen to line up with “some” church values, and he gives favor to the church, doesn’t mean he is a Christian. What about all the blatant disregard of our Lord’s teachings, and I’m not talking small violations. I won’t guess at what is hidden in his closets, but just the obvious things we all can see. If he has had a true conversion to Christ, then how does such a man continue making millions of dollars off of Casinos, gambling, alcohol consumption, misfortune of others, scantily dressed women, and beauty pageants? These are just the things I know off the top of my head!

The church needs to “awaken” and realize we do have an ungodly man in that office, and we voted him in! Yes, we saved ourselves from Hillary, and we’re making a last ditch effort to drain the D.C. swamp, but don’t kid yourself on who the Donald is! This is just another example of the worldliness infesting the modern church. In Revelation 3:18, Jesus challenged the church of Laodicea to buy ointment for their eyes, so they might see!

But it’s true, many Christians have somehow become convinced the Donald is a Christian. There was a Roman emperor named, Constantine, who claimed to be a Christian also, and in that time gave much favor to the Church! Before his reign was over, he set in motion several changes to the church, some of which we still are entangled in to this day! Constantine marks the greatest diversion from what the early church fathers had been doing for 200 years! It led to the Catholic church, which eventually led to Martin Luther, but when we Protestants came out of her, we still brought baggage with us going all the way back to Constantine!

So…I continue watching. I watch the media who helped me vote for him. I see them frothing at the mouth like the insane, in their desperation to get him out! But I also see a man keep on fighting against the insane! And what shall the result be? Who knows, as the world turns. But he is setting some things in motion, of which Jerusalem is a major event.

Politics have always been such a dark arena, because there is power there, and lots of money, and human nature being what it has always been, it has a powerful pull on the kingdom of man, like the “one ring” in the movies: “Lord of the Ring”. Unless the “heart” is changed and the vessel filled with the Spirit of God, then human nature corrupts everything it touches. This brings us back to Jerusalem, the three faiths, and the children of Abraham.

Those who have become the children of Abraham by way of birth through Jesus Christ, they know God no longer requires a temple in Jerusalem, not really. Yes, if you’re still in that old covenant, then yes, you are still under laws saying Jerusalem is the one place of true worship, but if you have not rejected Christ, as they did, then you have been enlightened by what Jesus told the woman at the well!

(John 4:21) “Believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. (VRS 23) But the time is coming – indeed it’s here now – when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way.”

We will continue looking at how us children of Abraham through Christ differs from Abraham’s other children. We take after our father Abraham in some very important ways! One of which is this one more scripture I will leave you with, concerning our father, Abraham. I hope you too, take after Abraham in this:

(Hebrews 11:10) “Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God.”

This is the temple the followers of Christ are looking for in Jerusalem. It shall come down one day, the Bride of the Lamb, the city Zion! New Jerusalem! But in the meantime, we will watch all those who still do not understand the revelation Jesus gave to a simple woman at the well. A woman who certainly was not a religious scholar, but had such an encounter that day, I’m convinced it changed her life! She had a life changing conversation with Jesus, and rose far above in her understanding, than the religious experts of her day.

We have become the temples of the Holy Spirit. We shall watch all those who still wrestle with the Law, and material things. Look not at that which is seen, but at that which is not seen, and worship God in spirit, and in truth. For the Father seeks those who worship him in “that way”. Selah. (And let us set a proper table while we’re at it. Amen.)

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Jerusalem / City of 3 Faiths

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Merry Christmas everyone, and welcome to another episode of “Path Without End”. I have been very honest from the very first article about how God has me on a journey. I was with family yesterday, and a brother-in-law, three years younger than I asked: “Don’t you get tired?” I had to answer, “Yes, I do.” It has not been easy at the age of 62, still working almost full time, and begin building a large teepee, AND some kind of a ministry God is revealing day by day. A spiritual retreat? A church? A writing ministry? All three? I’m still not sure.

It has not been easy, and I do get tired, but a fire still burns in my belly! This blog site is a living record, complete transparency, on what God is doing, and something I call: “Path of the White Feather”. Jesus walked the Red Path, so we could walk the White. It’s by his power, and not our own; a very supernatural walk, powered by fire! Holy Ghost fire.

I’ve been honest in sharing my dissatisfaction with modern church, how I did not fit, mostly got in trouble, and finally left feeling like something must be wrong with me. My wife and I went on a nine-day “God Seek”, mostly in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and I found a new vision, new name, new mission, new passion. And now here we are. More details of this journey have been written in earlier articles for anyone interested.

But as I have looked back over recent articles, and the direction God has had us on, I see a very powerful teaching opportunity here with “JERUSALEM”. Our teaching started with me having to decide if I were going to ignore certain scriptures contained in our New Testament Covenant, like other ministries I know. I soon realized this has been part of my problem with them, the “adding to” and “taking away” from the N.T.. I decided I must not do as they have done. This is why God is developing a “School in the Wilderness”. What hath God really said? And we can discuss these things in a reasonable way, and learn from each other in all humility and honesty, like responsible adults.

Secondly, our journey turned into a close inspection of what really happened when Christ became our High Priest. What really happened when “he who was not of the tribe of Levi“, (Jesus), took the place of the high priest who had always been of the tribe of Levi? We discover Christ birthed us into a powerful new Covenant, freed from the Law that always condemned us, and birthed us into a Relationship in which we all became “Priest of God”! With the Holy Spirit living in us! The Old Covenant fulfilled for all those IN CHRIST! WOW! (So what does all that have to do with Jerusalem, a city of 3 faiths?)

Current events in Israel, and specifically Jerusalem, is an excellent teaching moment for where these articles have been going all along. (Imagine that.) Three faiths collide in Jerusalem! Yes, there is spiritual civil war in that city. These three faiths have been trying to coexist as best as possible, but it has been a coexistence in which Jerusalem has not been recognized by the world as the capital city of Israel, and the Jews have not been able to rebuild their sacred temple on the holy Mount, even though the Muslims have their sacred “Dome of the Rock” upon that very Mount. This coexistence sounds rather one-sided, especially considering Israel’s right to that land.

All eyes of the world are once again upon the city in which the Son of God was nailed to a rugged cross outside its gates. (Have the eyes of the world ever really left that city? Just another coincidence?) Many try to say he was just a common man who was a great teacher, and yet we see the world continue revolving around the evnts of this city, for at least 3,000 years, all the way back to King David! Why can’t this place be ignored! Hhmmm. This city touches a nerve with one and all.

The Muslim faith, the Jewish faith, and the Christian faith, all three collide in Jerusalem, and all three trace their linage back to a man of faith called Abraham! WHaaat? What a wild and crazy coincidence! And all of this has a whole lot to do with the God who hung on that cross, whom we Christians accepted, and the other two faiths did not.

WHO ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM?

It seems the Jews, the Muslims, and the Christians are all children of Abraham, but how we became so is such an important spiritual lesson to understand! Not only for the people in Jerusalem, but the people in the Church, wherever they may be! To understand it is an insult to God when we drag things from the Old Testament and try to force them into the New! Putting a burden on people God has set free! And when we leave out New Testament scripture, taking it upon ourself to judge it outdated, when God hath not said! This results in us setting an improper table for God, in his sanctuary, and creates a condition very simalar to the church of Laodicea, whom Christ said he would spue out of his mouth!

I may have went a little long on this one, but… we need to look at these three faiths, and fully understand what kind of “child of Abraham”, we who are Christians, are called to be. Path of the White Feather.

I find it interesting, in Psalms 122, David specificaly prayed for the peace of “Jerusalem”. Even 3,000 years ago, David pinpointed the need. He did not ask for prayer for Bethlehem, Nazereth, any other city of Israel, or even Israel as a whole! He pinpointed Jerusalem!

Over the next few episodes of “Path Without End”, we too, are going to pinpoint Jerusalem, and what it means for all of us who desire to be Godwalkers in Christ, fulfilling the Priesthood we have been called to. Let there be an awakening with the children of Abraham! (To be continued.)

“AS THE WORLD TURNS”

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20171117_161644So I get up this morning and I’m trying to fix my black coffee, (I like it black), after bathing my mind in white thoughts during morning prayers. As a Priest of Christ walking the “White Path”, one of my mottoes is “Prayer Before Coffee“.

“White thoughts before black coffee”. When we sleep, we are in a state of fasting. The wise Priest will offer his first-fruits to God before breaking that fast. Very powerful. Very good medicine, strong medicine, Path of the White Feather.

So I’m fixing my coffee and I turn on the radio to see what the “kingdom of man” is doing? In no time at all, I learn President Obama made a speech comparing President Trump to Hitler, (without actually using his name). (Would Hitler have supported Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel? Hhmmm.) (Who’s Hitler?) So a past President not respecting a present President is a man worth listening to? That alone should tell us all we need to know, something about honor, but be that as it may, the news of the day went on, as the world turns.

Then I learned Australia legalized gay marriage. Okay, fine and dandy for you, this is the kingdom of man, but they didn’t stop there? They also passed laws forcing all ministers to have to perform the gay wedding ceremonies?! This is like forcing a devout Jew to eat pork! This is the civil war we have spoke of! What churches will bow the knee to the kingdom of man, and what churches will not! Who will have oil in their lamps and who will not! With the biggest baddest guy coming, if we continue our Avenger comparison, with Thanos coming, can anything pull a divided church back together to face the END TIMES? Who will stand against even our own government? Captain America was the ultimate patriot, and yet even he had to rebel! (And become Nomad!) Hhmmm. Selah.

Next came the news of the first casualty of the Jerusalem Battle. A 30 year old Palestinian man was shot dead by live fire in a protest confrontation. First blood had been drawn! And all in the name of religion.

Add to all this, of course, are all the recent sexual assault revelations; a thinly veiled plan to still get Donald Trump. Do they really think we don’t see their true motives? Why can’t they just be honest about “anything”? The Democrats were strangely silent on all these matters, covering up a world of filth, (Bill Clinton?), until it became politically advantages for them. Now all of a sudden they are the white knights in shining armor? I think I need to eat some grass. (Real, in my yard, green grass like you mow with a mower!)

Looking back on it, I now understand why I looked out in and saw my 100 pound black Lab eating grass, just before she began to upchuck something! No kidding! This really all happened while I was fixing my coffee!

Good medicine, bad medicine. Okay, I get it folks, the news is not the best place to go expecting anything “uplifting”. Spend too much time there and you will become a very negative person, but we do need to be aware. We do need to have conversation about these things. We need to draw together and encourage each other. We have brothers and sisters in Australia who are now having their lives turned upside down by new laws suddenly enacted! Who’s next? Where can we go? What are we going to do? Are you really ready for such religious persecution? Will your faith stand up to the threat of jail, or law suits? We have business owners right here in our United States of America who have already had their livelihoods, and lives, turned upside down by this very same stuff! Are any of us really safe in this new world coming? What kind of thoughts are you having? Are we preprayed and prepared? Is there enough oil in our vessel?

Well…I have seen how a teepee that I began building as a way of connecting with my grandchildren, of which I took on the name: Grandpa White Feather, teacher of the White Path in Christ; I have seen how that teepee has become a symbol for this website, a structure of coming together, and a website I did not know I was going to be creating. (This site is relatively new to the blogging community.)

You may not live where my teepee is, but this website is a connecting point. We can lean on each other here, as we enter the Truth Storm of the last days. I have decided I do need to touch on politics at this site, but only in a way for us to lean on each other and be encouraged. This planet is the kingdom of man, and we are the everlasting Kingdom of God. The bad medicine of this world cannot overcome the good medicine flowing in me from the Kingdom of “my” God. “The Lord”… “IS”… “MY”… “Shepherd””!”

Jesus walked the Red Path so I could walk the White. Jesus says, “Walk with me.” The Father says, “Learn my ways.” The Holy Spirit says, “I will teach you.” We are called to be an Enoch people, Godwalkers! We have this Covenant with God through the blood of His Son, and we need to live in the Praise, Prayer, and Promises of that Word. This is good medicine, strong medicine. The world speaks with a forked tongue, snake’s tongue. I will tread upon the lion and adder! There is a Truth Storm, and we are “Called” and “Empowered” to be “Spiritual Storm Troopers”! Our feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace!

Let this place be a place of coming together as we face these very black storms. Let the white thoughts, white prayers, and white ways (spiritually speaking, no reference to skin color), be a light in this world’s darkness. My thoughts are pure in this matter. If it were not for the darkness of this world, I would not have even needed to make a clarification on what I meant by “white ways”. Everyone would have assumed the best, instead of the worst, unless otherwise “proven”. But it is no longer so in the kingdom of man. This is the world we now have, as the world turns.

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“Trump and the Temple”

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My my, things are getting interesting now. Everyone hates the guy finally making a meaningful move. There are none so blind as the willingly blind who refuse to see any truth contradictory to their personal uneducated agenda. These people see evil as good, and good as evil. They see the man who’s finally ready to get his hands dirty as the problem, and all those who were too cowardly, or stupid, or lazy to do anything, as the good. They live in a false reality as evil as Neo before Morpheus. My God, what is wrong with these people?

Many statistics show the more educated someone is, the less likely they are to accept the Bible as the true Word of God. Neo was a pretty smart guy as he lived in his world of computer hacking, but he did not know the illusion he was living in, and he had a real hard time accepting reality after he chose that red pill! I wish I had a red pill for them. If only it were that simple. (Sigh.)

Lets consider a few things here, just off the top of my head. 1). Now President Trump “is” a highly educated man, even though people don’t like to admit it. Just ask the President. He’ll tell you how smart he is, and he has credentials to prove it. Not the kind of credentials I’m necessarily impressed with, but as the world goes, they should greatly respect him.

2.) For decades now, every President has tried to stay neutral, regarding Jerusalem, believing it was the best path to peace. How long do you keep doing the same thing expecting different results? My education only goes to 12th grade, and I know that one! These people think Trump has ruined the progress made towards peace? What progress! There has been no real progress! Anyone with any true knowledge of Israel knows they will never accept a peace treaty without Jerusalem as their capitol! President Trump is taking one large step “towards” peace, not away from it! These are hard things that have to be dealt with before there can be any treaty!

3.) I told some good friends when Trump got elected, look out middle east! This is the man who wrote the book on: “The Art of the Deal”! Do any of us think he can resist trying to be the one who finally helps negotiate peace in the middle east? What proof that would be of his skills! What a trophy that would be on his shelf! This is a treasure he cannot resist! But our moronic media, and Hollywood riff-raff, living lives of pleasure, sin, and excess, think they know better. People who make a living being other people. It makes me want to laugh-out-loud.

4.) Israel has claimed Jerusalem as their capitol for 3,000 years! They don’t care what anyone else says or thinks. It is their most holy city, the City of David! Who doesn’t love David? History proves their claim to Jerusalem. A truly wise man knows he who blesses Israel will be blessed in return, but that comes from a book our “stars” no longer study or recognize. Oh yes, they are all very “spiritual”, but there sure is a lot of filth in Hollywood for such “spiritual” people. Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works! We see your works, Hollywood. We see how spiritual you really are living in your mansions of fame and wealth, while you worry so much about the poor people.

5.) This deserves being reemphasized: There will be “never” be a peace treaty without Jerusalem being the capitol of Israel! Our President Trump just had the backbone and courage to move the ball towards a touchdown. All these other wannabees have just been revealed as kings having no clothes. If they truly did not even understand this much, then no wonder we have failed to accomplish peace in Israel.

6.) I read where our allies are not standing with us on this one. Finally, America is leading again. Whether doing the right thing brings pain or gain, America has just begun blazing a trail others need to recognize and follow. Thank you President Donald Trump!

Now what does this mean if President Trump eventually succeeds in being the one in the president’s seat when peace is finally achieved? Is he the Antichrist? Hhmmm. Wow. I don’t think we can jump to such a conclusion. The Holy Temple must be rebuilt. I will be more on guard when I see that happening. They say it could be done very quickly, once they decide to begin.

What a day we are living in. I don’t normally like to get into politics much, but this was more than I could resist. Anything having to do with the peace of Israel should be on the radar of any serious child of God. “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” (Psalms 122:6)