The Killer -pride?

The Killer? Patriotic and religious pride. The sickest thing currently- And Andrew reads it with genuine cadence- is when the Christian Radio quote King Solomon saying ‘If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and..’ And then the last radio announcer I heard and she has been around for decades- tells us that the verse if from 2 Corinthians 7 verse 14 which shows she has completely no idea as to who said, the context that it was said, that Elijah was the first prophet to comprehensively out work that curse from the Torah but he would not have known it was from the Torah and so on- Not a clue- Just some nice sounding religious stuff which is what Christian Radio is all about –and we find ourselves reaching for the dial and turning it off again! THINK- how did six and there were much more seven is more realistic- Seven million Jews get themselves killed in the 12 years of Holocaust 1934-1946? Well simple word for it- Pride. They always thought that they were exceptional in some way or other- precisely the right and wrong message we can obtain from the Bible. Look I don’t like what I am going to do next here- Right! But I am doing it- And I could be accused for what I am going to say next of being a friend of Balaam or you might immediately give up reading- but pressing on only in Faith- nothing else- I am going to quote from Rick Joyner’s 1988 book ‘The Harvest’ because despite he and I agreeing on practically nothing – Nothing! Never the less he says what needs to be said best of anyone- in fact I have never seen or heard anyone say as a prophet what I quote from him now: ‘There will be a time of increasing controversy in the church about the position of Israel and the Jews and the plan of God. This contention will polarize much of the church into extreme positions. These positions will basically be those who only see the natural Jew and the nation of Israel in God’s purpose to close the age and bring in the end times harvest and those who only see spiritual Israel… The natural see of Abraham, the Jew according to the flesh, and the spiritual seed, the Jew according to the spirit or heart both represent God’s purposes in redemption. Similarly the church is torn apart between two opinions of those who see the promise in heaven and those who see the redemption and restoration of the earth. Both of these positions are verified in scripture and both have truth…. After the Lord’s resurrection even his own disciples had a hard time recognizing him… we are more dependent upon forms of recognition than we are spirit… It was for this reason that Israel was commanded to love the foreigner –Duet 10:19; is is the natural tendency to reject and despise those who are different from us, or our ways and if the Israelites were to walk with God and reveal His ways they had had to receive and care for those who are different (Isa 53- especially the first verse and Matt 7:23 for a Christ who acts and looks differently to what we think) When the Lord returns He said he was going to divide between the ‘sheep’ and the ‘goats’… one of the primary characteristics he will use to distinguish between the two groups is the sheep invited him when he was a foreigner (On this Jeremiah goes to the point of being killed twice- first time thrown down a well; Both times he is saved by the direct intercession on his behalf of Sex Change Officials- Jeremiah had friends in high places but exactly the sortd of people currently condemned by Christianity despite Matt 19: 12) … In fact one of the primary reasons for God’s blessing of the United States has been our policy of receiving foreigners. Whether a nation or a congregation or an individual can be doing many other things wrong if they take care of the ones God cares for, orphans, widows and foreigners God will take care of them. One of the primary reasons for getting us to love those who are different is to bring down a principality which is a stronghold which fortifies the position of the ‘spirit of death’ (Spiritual jargon speak for what I speak of as finding the fatal flaw in American Myth culture) That Principality is Racism… To repeat one of the central themes upon which the last day purposes of God are meant to reveal and establish forever- God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble’ –James 4:6 …those who are called are called because of their inadequacy their foolishness and their weakness… From Chapter Six The Harvest Rick Joyner 1988. There are four vital elements in this passage. First controversy- You will always find some reason why you reject what people who wish to save your life I’m telling you- your intellectual and religious pride in that will be the killer. Second the real Jew- Yeshua- Mr Salvation is a hard man to catch. As a translator I have found him literally hiding all over the Torah and Prophets in the least likely places- the very worst circumstances and there he is! He is the all time most difficult person to find and recognize when he is up to something- Religious Pride and our ethnic pride and we miss him at the critical junction and thus die as did those in the previous Holocaust. Thirdly as –Hebrew word ‘Stranger’ –Str 1616, 2114, 5237: We must work with Anyone, Anywhere- only deep love and humility will allow us to be doing ‘His Will’ because the people and place will be utterly unlikely- If we are looking for people who are the same thinking and religion… Religious pride and intellect will be our killing- Who are the people you despise and hate the most? Yes work with them! And finally Only when we know that we cannot beat the computers; the system; - only when we have given up because it is an impossible situation where there is no hope left and all our human ability is inadequate and we are failures anyway- That is where and when Mr Salvation and his Salvation Army will be hard at work and be found an we as failures like them can join them and come out alive in something to fantastic to talk about- IT was a Miracle- We survived!