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The world is blind to these SEVEN, pivotal facts:

1. The Bible communicates Heaven’s 'Multi-millennial Strategic Plan for Humanity'.

2. There are SEVEN ages appointed for humanity.

3. We are nearing the end of the THIRD age, a pivotal turning point in this strategy.

4. A GREAT falling away from the Christian faith is predicted during the closing days of this THIRD age, as a result of backsliding, general lukewarmness and outright apostasy among the heretofore faithful. Look around and this you will clearly see. News reports from around the world ATTEST this SPIKED during the Covid pandemic, and continues to increase. Selah~

5. Biblical prophecies have been and remain seeds of human history. By any count, the majority of them have become HISTORICAL!!! The odds are against anyone who disbelieves the rest. 

6. Yet-fulfilled prophecies, unfolding apace, are worthy of diligent study. 

7. NoW is the time to get, and stay on ‘the right side of Bible prophecy’.

 

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Lots of Spinning Going On (Poem)



Then God said, ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens
to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons,
and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament
of the heavens to give light on the earth’; and it was so.   
(Genesis 1:14-15)
  
The Designer, Architect and Maintainer of everything,
Must really love and enjoy things that spin.
Consider how many things there are in life that are spinning.
Ever since the start, that’s how it has been.

Gravitational orbits are the engines of the universe.
Everything out there is in perpetual motion,
And most things are in an axial spin and orbits they traverse.
To us, what great message does this intend to mention?

Rogue things that break away from their orbits
or their parent rocks,
May defy the ‘law of orbital spinning’, but not for long.
They crash into other rocks that obey their ‘orbital clocks’,
Or are captured by another’s orbit where it’ll then belong.

One thing we have learned from science and engineering,
Is that spinning ‘generates’, turns one thing into another.
So what’s generated by universal spinning,
Or what message are we to get from ‘universal clutter’?

God created the heavens well before life on earth.
When creating us, His ‘spinning wisdom’ was still present.
Genesis says God’s ‘sign language’ is the universe!
So what key messages to us via it has He sent?

We know it says He is awesome, vast and immortal,
That planetary positions may correlate with earthly events,
And that He speaks through these, and His nation, Israel.
But are there other points we’re missing,
or must we remain in suspense?

Man has long pondered signs the universe sends to us.
Come, let’s take a short trek across its vast expanse.
All aboard, grab a seat on my celestial bus,
Let’s see if our understanding we can enhance.

As solar systems are ‘building blocks’ of the universe,
Families are the ‘building blocks’ of our societies.
As solar systems integrate into galaxies,
Families integrate into societies.

As solar systems’ planets orbit a common sun,
Children are to ‘orbit’ the ‘God Light’ of their father.
As galaxies collide and merge into one,
Families collide, merge and grow.

Galaxy clusters are clusters of unmerged galaxies;
Super clusters are clusters of galaxy clusters.
Could these correlate to societies and nations?

As galaxies are trapped into the swirling, gravitational pull
of a black hole,
We are trapped into the swirling, gravitational pulls 
of destructive family proclivities.
As suns deplete their energy source and
destroy their solar systems when they implode,
The ‘God Light’ of fathers can be depleted, 
imploding the father figure and, as it spreads, societies.

One part is missing in this, my ‘celestial calculus’.
In my analogy, of it there is not one mention.
To you, is the part that is missing so very obvious?
This celestial part has a stabilizing mission.

A body’s moon(s) help(s) to stabilize its wobble,
As it rotates yearly, and daily on its axis spins
In the darkest part of a body’s spin cycle.
Can you guess its earthly corollary, its human twin?

The moon so closely reflects the motherly appointment.
Their close relationships help children stabilize and mature.
In dark times, children turn to mothers for enlightenment.
Mothers reflect fathers’ ‘God Light’,
as moons reflect suns’ grandeur.*

Spinning ‘generates’, turning one thing into something else.
Out there, spinning generates gravity that sustains an orbit;
Down here, life’s one orbital rotation that God has dealt.
From God’s Spirit we each came,
and each will complete our circuit.**

Each life spins on a good or evil axis,
And each spin is equivalent to a day.
Living your life with a keen ‘God awareness’,
Means in Heaven, God will put you on display! ***
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*   According to God’s original design
**  Ecclesiastes 12:6
*** Daniel 12:3

Hey, Where Did Christmas Go? (Poem)


Seems like every year, Christmas comes and goes so much faster!
Right after Halloween, Christmas lights begin to flicker.
Before you know it, in the Christmas rush we’re all encumbered.
Then we blink, and January is practically over!

‘Where did Christmas go?’, I look around and wonder.
With this question, I remove my ‘Christmas blinder’--
The blinder that blocks that day’s Godly intent,
About His Son Who into our world was sent.

Christmas was God’s first step toward The Lord's cross,
On dusty roads so far from that Christmas gloss.
Into some mean, ugly and hateful parts of our world,
One-by-one, Jesus’ life giving words would impearl.

Then one day, Christmas came to Calvary’s hill.
Where God wrote a story with a blood-filled quill.*
‘I LOVE YOU ALL THIS MUCH!’, began the story He wrote.
Then He sacrificed His Son with one great final stroke.

Ahhh, but to His awesome story, this was not the end,
Look around, take a peek at what His story began--
A Church worldwide, reaching across the ages,
Whose start is recorded on Bible pages!

His story continues today with ink that’s still fresh,*
Writing redemptions of lives that in sin were enmeshed.
Writing our visions of a future so glorious,
And why, in Him, we can live lives that are generous.

...Generous in giving Him all due praise and honor.
...Generous in sharing with our sister and brother.
...Generous in spreading far and wide His Good News,
...Generous in warning others of satan’s ruse!

Into our world, en route to the cross is where Christmas went,
Then into a tomb, doorway to hades, Christmas was sent.
Resurrected from hades, Christmas victoriously raised,
So His Holy Spirit into hearts, one-by-one, would then blaze!

Now it is your turn to tell me, where did your last Christmas go??
Decorations, cards and gifts, is that all the Christmas you know??
If so, may you trade in the outward glitz, glamor and the glow
Of your Christmas, for God’s year-long presence
I have come to know.

For more on Christmas, please see:
Christmas Reflections
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* The blood of Jesus Christ

Picturing Your Spirit - How? (Poem)

(This is #3 in a mini-series) 

  Long ago...
God always knew it would be a major challenge,
The sins of every person one day to expunge.
He also knew how unbelievable one day it would seem,
Telling Adam, ‘You’ll die due to sin’,
yet with life he’d still teem.

God overcame the challenge of our breaking His command,
By using the power of His arm, not finger or hand.*
But ever since Adam and Eve seemingly outlived their sins,
God has tried to convince man that
in his spirit, death begins.

Today...,
Carnality still robs us of perceptions of our spirits.
Many deny we are created as one, yet like triplets.
As a spirit and soul, in a body each is designed,
But only through our spirit is Divinity divined.

Across the ages, respect for this truth has diminished,
Thus, many live as if, after this life, they are finished.
Are there tips to help avoid ending up in this group,
So a keen perception of spirit we can recoup?

Apart from daily spending time in God’s Word,
Here is the best tip that I have heard.
While God communes with each person in our spirit,
It’s our imagination that is the bridge to it.

Through imagination, we pursue, perceive and practice,
His awesome presence that He there extends to us, gratis.
Through imagination, we connect, convey and confirm,
To our other parts what we received as spirit’s ‘seed germ’.

There, as you behold Him, you will come to see…
He looks just like you!
Created in His image, your most inner part…
looks just like Him, too.
To this part, you will then assign the greatest of value,
And learn to cultivate your ‘imagination venue’.

Cleaning out the junk and accumulated clutter,
Your spirit can then cross this bridge… in Godly fervor.
You’ll learn your spirit is truly limitless,
And greatly enhance your own God-consciousness.
*   Isaiah 52:19, 53:1 and Ephesians 1:19-20

Picturing Your Spirit - Why? (Poem)

(This is #2 in a mini-series) 

‘Je’, ‘Ich’, ‘Io’, ‘Yo’, ‘Eu’ -- ‘I’ , in some world languages,
May be the most overworked word across world villages.
But let’s pause to ponder this significant fact,
And consider what into this one word we all pack.

Me, myself and I, is what I say to reference who I am,
But mostly into ‘I’, my spirit, soul and body I cram.
If into three parts, by God, I am attributed,
Is it fair that, in one word I’m abbreviated??

When I say, ‘I’, the reference is to my parts physical.*
When God calls me, ‘You’, He references my part spiritual.
Whenever I pray, and my prayers He answers,
Into my spirit, the answers He delivers.

This sets up a dilemma, as past each other we talk!
Answers unperceived, devils whisper, ‘Away from Him...walk!’
But I wait, and my body continually survey,
Hoping God’s answer I will know one day, somehow, someway!

As I wait, slowly my faith begins to slip,
Until a few words of doubt fall from my lip.
With little-to-no perception of my spirit,
His answer I will eventually forfeit.

But....
With knowledge of how to unpack and distinguish,
My three attributes, and how each one to nourish,
My dilemma I then greatly diminish,
And avoid such deadly traps, so devilish.

God’s doorway to us is our spirit, some call it our heart.
Via this way, He reaches out to touch our other parts.
If of this port we remain in-perceptively ignorant,
All this God talk will be met by many....with a simple grunt.

Friends, your spirit and soul are your parts eternal,**
Your body’s just a temporary shell or hull.
So why in the world should God give preeminence,
To that part of you to which you give dominance?!

He won’t!

Perhaps the greatest trick played on all humanity,
Is to make each of us think, ‘I’ am just only ‘me’,
When into three distinct parts we are all created.
Satan, with this one trick, our spirits has abducted!

So since in words we all communicate,
And into pictures these words we translate,***
Finding creative ways your spirit to envision,
Will greatly aid you in your... ‘three part division’.

God’s Word, The Bible, is very uniquely designed,
To ensure your attributes are properly aligned.
Time spent daily absorbing its great stories,
Ensures you’ll be among God’s greatest trophies.

See also:
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*  Typically. What about you?
** Your eternal spirit is your real essence that possesses a soul comprised of your mind, emotions, intellect, will and imagination.
*** Generally. Some people reportedly do not think in pictures.

Picturing Your Spirit (Poem)

(This is #1 in a mini-series) 

We humans are designed to think in word pictures --
Programmed to translate words and thoughts into posters.
But if asked, ‘What image of your spirit comes to mind?’
I wonder… what picture to this word would you assign?

This question I posed to myself on many occasions,
And I hope for you it’s not an unwelcomed obtrusion.
But to this question, I could find no adequate answer.
I pose it sincerely, not just as some cleaver quipster.

The greatest personality ever to exist,
Long ago had no clear picture to explain His gist!
So He sent His Son, Jesus, to us as a Man,
To show us The Father, and to explain His plan.

In His explanation, He gave a stark revelation,
Which for all us believers is a great promulgation!
He said in the resurrection, ‘like angels’ we will be,1
So with this insight, come along, I’ll show you what I see.

Tripartite beings, in God’s own image we are thus.
Our spirit and soul are the hidden parts of us,
Housed in a body with a brain, serving as our earth suit,
Yet lacking any picture of our hidden attributes!

‘Angel like’. It has a nice ring to it. Yep, I must admit!
But…
Could this future designation have a present benefit?!
We know that by time and distance, spirit is not bound.
Thus, ‘angel like’ is a concept I wish to expound.

To God, our ‘angel like’ designation is now the present.
His Word prompts us to see us now,
as in our future raiment.2
So since ‘angel like’ is what He now sees, I am satisfied,
That in THIS, the answer to my question… is signified!

So just how are we like and unlike holy angels?
This I searched to understand what The Bible counsels.
In sum, I found angels do four (4) principal things.
See how this compares to your own righteous leanings.

They bless The Lord!
We, too, as we repent and live by faith
in His salvation  plan!
They excel in strength!
We, too, as in JOY, on His great Word promises
we learn to stand!
They do His Word!
We, too, as we study and learn His Word, and then
apply it in our lives!
They heed His voice!
We, too, as we obey, after training our spirit
His voice to recognize!3

Unlike us…
With a physical body, angels are not blessed.
Thus, by mere earthly limits, they are not stressed.
Unlike us…
They behold ‘The Face of God’, and are not consumed.4
We behold Him through His Word,
and thus are we ‘groomed’.5

Jesus became a human to personify God’s merit.
Angels are beings that personify The Holy Spirit.
Your body-life personifies your spirit and soul essence,
So allow your spirit to reflect your shinning ‘God brilliance’.

If saving faith in Jesus Christ you have declared,
In Heaven, ‘like angels’ you are being ‘compared’.
I suggest you to ponder your future ‘angle like’ designation,
And incorporate this picture now into your imagination.

So interesting that, in word pictures,
God designed us to think,
And then He provided a great image
with which we could sync.
So if asked, ‘What image of your spirit comes to mind?’
Tell me… what picture to this word would you now assign? 6
1 Matthew 22:30, Mark 12:25
2 Raiment and placement, seated with Him in Christ. (Revelation 3, 7,  19:14, and Ephesians 2:6)
3 Psalm 103:20
4 Matt 18:10
5 1 Corinthians 13:12, 2 Corinthians 13:18, and James 1:23
6 As you ponder this incredible message, consider this: All who reject God’s salvation through Jesus Christ may also have ‘angel like’ status throughout eternity, based on their dark lord, satan, whom they now bless; in whose sinful strength they now excel; whose word they now do/perform; and whose voice they now heed. The Bible iteratively affirms they will likewise share the eternal reward reserved for him and God’s fallen angels.

His Eyes Say It (Poem)


In Eden’s Garden, I pronounced the death sentence
on Myself,1
To reclaim My creation, and for your spirit and your health.2
On Calvary’s hill, I fulfilled My sentence one dark afternoon.
My work completed, as promised, Father raised Me,
then I left My tomb.

All of this was just a seed I planted deep in the Earth,
To grow, then extract the fruit of humanity’s true worth.
A remnant, a sample, to whom I could grant life eternal,
A people with whom I could have ‘relations spiritual’.3

Of all My holy angels, I have lost one third,
Due to a great rebellion Lucifer once stirred!4
So you might say there are ‘Vacancies’ in Heaven,
Some that are advertised, and to you are ‘Now Open’.

My Bible spells out the few, minimal qualifications,
For interested candidates to complete their applications.
It also details a long list of impressive benefits,
And NO application will be denied from him who submits.5

To all who apply, and follow My ‘Pre-arrival Course’,
From all their sinful, worldly ways, they will have to divorce.
To help them fulfill this charge, My Spirit will betoken,
And upon their arrival, they will hear Me say, ‘Well done!’ 6

To all who arrive, I will award ‘Like Angel’ status,7
And thus our lives together will be totally boundless.
They will come to know the eternal darkness they trampled,
Reserved for lost angels... and the people they bamboozled.

So please consider My vacancy. I hope you will apply,
So we can be together, both now and in the ‘by ‘n by’.
I hope that seed I planted in the Earth so long ago,
Will produce its fruit in you, so you I will come to know.

To all your friends who decline My invitation,
And decide to not submit their application,
At their end, I will declare to them in their disdainfulness,
‘Depart from Me,
I never knew you who practice sinfulness’.8
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...And whosoever was not found written
in The Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
(Revelation 20:15)
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1 Genesis 3:15
2 Isaiah 53
3 Revelation 19:7-9, Daniel 7:27, 12:3
4 Revelation 12:3-9
5 Romans 10:9-11
6 Matthew 25:21, 23; Luke 19:17
7 Matthew 22:30, Mark 12:25. The BIG difference is we will have physical bodies, unlike angels.
8 Matthew 7:23, Daniel 12:2, Revelation 21:8