Song 4 -- You Are My Neighbor

This song is just a very basic message.  It came about by just a desire to present a simple gospel message.  Jesus summed up the 10 commandments with 2.  One was, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind."  "This is the great and foremost commandment".  "The second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."  " On these two commandments depend the whole Law of the Prophets."  Everyone is my neighbor and if I love them like I love myself, then I am going to want them to know the gospel message, so they can make their decision for themselves if they want to recieve Jesus into their heart so that they can have eternal life.  Jesus died and shed His blood so that our sin nature could be forgiven by putting it to death on the cross with Jesus.  Jesus rose again to put in us the power of His Eternal Spirit, that allows us to have Eternal Life.  Jesus will come again, and when He does, He will caught the believers up to where He is, and in the twinkling of an eye their eternal Spirit will join a new Glorious ressurected body.  They then will be greater than the angels.  It is written that, " For the glory set before Him, Jesus endured the cross.  The glory that Jesus saw was not His for He always had it.  The glory that Jesus saw, was Glory of the New Glorified Creations that would come about by His death and ressurection.  If you do not know what these songs are about, I have a youtube account at Yeshuasfriend1 where I am introducing a song once a week for 52 weeks.  Peace to you.

Revelations Chapter 1 (Part Two)

The Book of Revelations is not just the revealing of the events of the end times to John from Jesus.  It is also the revealing of who Jesus really is.  You might say that it is the Revelation from Jesus and the Revealing of Jesus.  John will be sending this revelation along with individual messages to seven churches in Asia, which were all in the region near Greece, that is now Turkey.  Starting in verse 4, John tells them this,

            "Grace to you and peace, from Him who is and who was and is to come; and from
            the seven Spirits that are before His throne;" 

So we see Jesus on a throne with seven Spirits before it.  Spirits was capitalized, so these are the seven Spirits of God.  Verse 5 continues,

             " and from Jesus Christ , the faithful witness, the first born of the dead, and the ruler
             of the kings of the earth.  To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by
             His blood, and He made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father; to Him be
             the glory and the dominion forever and ever, Amen.  Behold He is coming in the clouds,
             and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and the tribes of the earth
             will mourn over Him.  Even so, Amen."  I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the
             Lord God, who is and was and who is to come, the Almighty."

Jesus is:                                                                           Saints (Believers) are:
He who is and was and is to come                                      Released from their sins by His blood
The faithful witness                                                            Made to be a kingdom
The first born of the dead                                                    Made to be priests unto God
The ruler of the kings of the earth                                       Loved
The One who has the glory and dominion forever
Coming in the clouds
The Alpha and Omega
The Lord God
The Almighty

When it talked about Jesus coming in the clouds and they will look at Him whom they pierced, this vision was even seen by the last prophet of the Old Testament.  In the Book of Zechariah, Chapter 12, verses 9 and 10, Zechariah wrote;

             " And it will come about in that day that I will set about to destroy all the nations
             that come against Jerusalem.  And I will pour out on the house of David and the
             inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will
             look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns
             for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a
             first born." 

This prophecy, by Zechariah was a double prophecy.

First, it foretold of the One who would be pierced, not only was Jesus pierced through His side on the cross, but I am sure that the biggest pierce was the pierce He must have felt in his heart by the rejection.  Although, it was His plan all along to come and die to create a New Creation.

Second, it foretold of Jesus second coming, when He will come and defend the remnant of Israel that He will bring back to Jerusalem.  This will happen after the anti-Christ comes against Israel and scatters them from the land, half way through the seven year peace covenant.  Jesus will bring a remnant of Israel back to Jerusalem.  When Jesus comes in the clouds, there will be two groups of people left on the earth, mourning for different reasons.

 One group will mourn at the wrath that Jesus will bring upon the earth because of those who were destroying the earth.  Jesus said that if he had not shortened those days, when man was destroying the earth, that no flesh would have survived. 

The second group is the remnant of Israel that will mourn because they will realize that Jesus was the Lord that they rejected.

There is a third group.  These are the New Creations that will be with Jesus in the clouds, to execute the wrath with Him.  They were caught up to meet Him in the air at the end of the tribulation.  The only people left on the earth, at this time, are the remnant of Israel and those who refused to believe the Truth as to be saved.  Jesus is the Ark(The Love Train), that if you are in it, then you are saved.  Everyone is invited, get on board. They are preserved from the wrath of God.  You can read more on this in previous blogs.

Revelations Chapter 1 (Part One)

Before I return to the conclusion of Daniel, I would like to go through the Book of Revelations.  I am going to go through Revelation, one chapter at a time.  It is not as hard to understand as people try to say it is.  It is not a book of misteries.  In fact it is a condensed version in places and expanded versions in other places, of scripture in the Old Testiment written by the prophets.  It is intermingled with new insight also.  I will reflect back to Old Testiment correlations as we go along.  The first thing to understand about the Book of Revelations is that is the Revelation of Jesus.  Jesus reveals, to His Apostle John, the things that will take place on the earth and in Heaven, just prior to His return and what that means.  The human mind can not understand the things that are written in scripture without the Spirit of God living in your soul.  In earlier bloggs I explain how that is possible and what that means.  You might want to read some of the bloggs about the new creation.

                                                              Chapter One

Chapter one starts off saying what I have just said about the revelation given to John by Jesus.  It says that it was given to His bond-servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.  I guess that is one of the reasons why Jesus trusted John with the revelation.  He new that he would not keep it quiet.  You have to put John into the right perspective.  He was an apostle of Jesus.  He was taught by Jesus about receiving Eternal Life.  He witnessed the thousands of miracles that Jesus did.  John even conlcuded his writting of the Gospel in Chapter 21, verse 25,

             " And there are so many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written in  
             detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain books which were written". 

John was one of the three apostles that witnessed Jesus transfigured in all His Glory.  He was at the foot of the cross when Jesus died.  John was with Peter when they discovered Jesus' tomb empty.  Jesus was with the disciples off and on for forty days after His ressurection.  John experienced the infilling of the Spirit of God, on the day of Pentecost.  Which is meant by, born of above.  After all of these experiences, John could not help but tell all who he saw about Jesus and all he knew to be true.  John was the perfect person to be intrusted with this revelation from Jesus.  This is the only book in the Bible that says what is written in verse 3.

            " Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed
            the things which are written in it; for the time is near".

 There is a special blessing that comes with reading and heeding the Book of Revelation.  It is not a book to fear, as many would think.  The truth shall make you free.

Song 3 -- Jesus Thank You

With a collective day of thanksgiving coming up, I only find it fitting to do the song, Jesus Thank You.  This song came about when I was considering just what people seem to give thanks for.  I noticed that people where always ready and wiiling to give thanks for all of the blessings.  That is good, the problem is that most of those blessings were things that were happening in peoples lives that were visably good.  What about the things that seem visably bad.  Are those a time to give thanks?  I say, more so.  One of my most favorite passages of scripture are found in Paul's second letter to the Corinthians chapters 4 and 5.  They explained what Jesus said and what he meant when he said "In this world you will have many trials, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world." In Chapter 4, verses 8 -11, Paul writes, "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.  For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh".  Verses 16 -18, "Therefore we do not loose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.  For momentary, light affliction is creating for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal".  Although the trials may not look like they are a good thing, they are being used to create, in a believer in Jesus, what they will be forever.  The hard times that you go though are like weights to a body builder,  as the weight increases your muscle grow and the more you can carry.  So I find it very important to give thanks in both the good things that happen in our lives and more so the things that seem to be not so good.  Good or bad, it's all good.  Paul wrote in his first letter to the Thessalonians, Chapter 5, verse 18, " In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus".  Peter wrote in his first letter, Chapter 1, verses 6 and 7, "......even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, that the proof of your faith is more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  Have a great collective day of thanksgiving, but more importantly remember to give thanks everyday, whether good or bad, for it is all good.  Peace to you .

Song 2 -- Jesus is the Same

This song comes from Hebrews Chapter 13, verse 8, " Jesus is the same, yesterday and today, yes and forever."  If you live long enough, you will find that life is always changing.  There is not anything that stays the same.  Things in life are one minute going great and on a dime it can turn and become very challenging.  There is a place where it is possible to have an existence where a part of you is in an unchangeable place.  Jesus died to put a New Life inside the soul of anyone who would let Him.  That New Life is transformed into a realm that is not effected by what the body goes through in this life and all of the changes.  The only effect the changes and trials of this life, that the body has to experience, has on the New Life, is that it will determine what the New Life will be forever when it comes into the Heavenly Kingdom of God, when the body is shed off.  For a New Creation, the changes and trials that they go through are the building blocks that will determine what they will be forever.  For if you put yourself in Jesus you will be eternal for that's what He is.  To veiw the video, Google search Youtube, key Yeshuasfriend1. Peace to you.

Song 1 -- Wandering Joe

For my regular readers wondering what this is about.  I just started a Youtube account to introduce songs that I have written.  The last song was written in 1999.  I have around 52 to introduce.  Hopefully, one a week for 52 weeks.  I am directing viewers of the videos to check my Blogg to get some history about the different songs.  Wandering Joe was first a poem I had written about a guy who was out wandering and wondering.  Like all of us, Joe was going through life avoiding the unknown.  When we avoid the unknow, we just wander through life relieing on everything we see to determine what we do.  Joe never realized that he had the opportunity to inherit possessions that his Dad had left Him.  He avoided reading a letter that told him about his inheritence.  He spent his life unsure of where he was going in his life, beiving that he had no worth, he would seek things that were just mirages and never really knew what he was thought of.  We all have worried about such things at one time or another in our lives.  Joe could have avoided all of that, if he had done more wondering about the unknown than wandering according to how he percieved things.  If Joe had read the letter he had gotten, which for him was the unknown, it would have answered all his questions he had had about his life.  The direction in his life would have changed, he would have know his worth, he would not have dangerously saught the things that fade away, and he would have know what he was thought of.  We all have that opportunity in our lives to avoid all the waisted time.  Jesus made the way for all of us and He provided us with a letter for Life, the Bible, that shows us the way to the inheritence and what He thinks of us all.  Read Jesus letter though the apostle John, in John's Gospel.  It shows the Way.  To see the videos, just Google search Yeshuasfriend1.  Peace to all of you.

Racing Toward The Beginning

Jesus said that He would rap up His work quickly.  I need to explain what I see happening, now in the world, that has definitely been speeding up.  I came to know Jesus, 34 years ago.  Although I was raised in a church that is based on a form of Christianity, I didn't know Jesus.  I believed  that Jesus came and knew about Him, but I didn't know Him.  I was taught that salvation was based on what I did and how good I could be.  Born with a sin nature, it was very frustrating, because it was impossible to do all that was required, having a nature that was contrary to how I was required to be.  Fortunately, I came across the Truth.  Man's righteousness is filthy rags in the sight of God.  All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.  Sounds hopeless, but what I learned next transformed me from the kingdom of darkness and into the Kingdom of Light.  When I learned that, by Grace we are saved through faith and not of works, so that no man can boast, I was freed from the mindset that I had to earn salvation.  I learned that, God so loved the World that He gave His only begotten son, that WHOEVER believes in Him should not perish but have Everlasting Life.  Also, If we confess with our mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead, then we shall be saved.  In the book of Revelation, Jesus said that He stands outside the hearts door and knocks and if anyone opens the door and lets Him in, that He would come in.  That is how I went from knowing about Jesus, to actually knowing Him.  At that point I was freed from the deception of darkness and now know the Truth in the Light.  I read the Words of God.  I absorbed myself in the Prophets and their writtings and the Book of Revelations, which is the revelation of Jesus about the end of the age, that He revealed to the apostle John.  At the time I started learning about how it would be in the last days, there was a lot that had to happen to line up the events.  I learned, in the book of Revelation, about two witnesses that will come on the scene with much power and a sharpe word of prophecy to the world, for three and a half years.  Many who try to kill them will be devoured, until they are finally killed by the anti-christ when they go to Jerusalem.  The whole world at that time will celebrate like it was Christmas morning and they will exchange gifts to one another.  This is what was impossible at the time I first read this.  It says that they will lay in Jerusalem three days and on the third day they will raise from the dead and be caught up to the heavens and the whole world will see.(Revelation Chapter 11).  The part that looked far off to me, was how the whole world could witness this as it happened.  We know now, that today, with the new technology of the cell phones and other devices, that anyone, almost anywhere, in the world could see this all at the same time.  I told people that one day the world will be united economically, which sounded rediculous 34 years ago.  There was no euro, all Europe had their own currencies.  I also told them that one day the world will be united in their monetary currency.  This even sounded more rediculous.  Not even ever possible.  But, looking at things that have been happening, in recent weeks, throughout the world, with difficult economic situations in many countries, one of the solutions might be to unite currencies.  If not now, then it is quickly heading in that direction.  I wrote in earlier blogs that this is bigger than man.  Everything  is being orchestrated from the kingdom of darkness.  To the people involved in bringing this about, it seems to be a good solution and maybe the only one.  Getting to this point took very many unwize decisions by countries, that were either orchestrated or insane.  What made me believe that the world had to get to this point, was that the anti-Christ, in the second half of the seven year covenant, will require every man, woman, and child to need a mark on their hand and forehead to buy or sell. (Revelation Chapter 13, verses 16 &17).  This would require a connected or electronic monetary exchange.  Charge cards were just for individual stores and there was no debit cards when I first started reading about these things.  In finishing, I will close with warnings. First, if you get the mark, there will from that point be no way for you to obtain eternal life, it is an eternal death sentence.  Second, there is a possibility that people will be inticed to turn in Christians for credit to their accounts during that time, and you will probably need the mark to be credited the money.( Matthew Chapter 24, verse10, and Mark Chapter 13, verses 12 &13).  Many of the betrayed will be family members. Such a sad time, ultimate greed.  If you take the bait, you better spend it quick, for Jesus will soon be coming.  For some the beginning, for others the end.  The choice is yours.  Knock knock!  Peace to you.