Saturday, 21 June 2014

YOU HAVE TO BE CRAZY!

Insanity is preferring to believe a lie because you think it sounds less crazy than the truth!

We gather each week as fellow believers ... but believers in what? A particular "worldview" and lifestyle? A doctrine? The ideals and teachings of a man who lived around 2,000 years ago?

If we believe these things we are doing better than many. But if this is the extent of our belief, if we have put "realistic" limits and boundaries on our beliefs, if we have settled for living a different ideology but not a different REALITY we have not understood the mind boggling truth Jesus has revealed to us about the actual reality in which we live and the amazing destiny for which we were created.

To be a true follower and believer of Christ you HAVE to be as "crazy" as He was. You cannot escape being regarded as totally bonkers and nuts by non-believers. You have to believe crazy things are actually real and true AND you actually have to live and act as if they are.

Here are some of the crazy things I, as a follower of Christ, believe are actually real and true.

I believe the Earth and the universe were created by a being who exists outside of and independent from both time and space. That very dead people can be raised up bodily and restored back to life. I believe in non-terrestrial, non-human, beings who have invited me to join them. AND I actually look forward to them literally "coming to take me away".

I believe it is possible to walk on water unaided, to turn water into wine, to divide the waters of seas and rivers without mechanical intervention, that all medical conditions, disabilities, and injuries can be totally cured without medical intervention SHOULD The Lord will it. And many even crazier things.

In short I live with Christ Jesus as the CREATOR, REVEALER, and CONTROLLER of the REALITY I live in, and as if, by HIS will, all things really are possible even when science and "realistic common sense" want me to believe they are not.

After all, if everything the Bible says is actually true you'd be crazy NOT to ..... Right?

With Love from Christ in IslandBard


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Friday, 20 June 2014

THE GOOD GUYS COME LAST!

If you browse around YouTube and the Internet you will find an ever increasing plethora of alien invasion, alien visitation, and " they're already here" conspiracy theories. Should we believe them? Well ... generally I would say no. But if you ask me should we ignore them I will say emphatically not!

Your first thought would be "didn't he just contradict himself?” Rest assured I haven't. You see what is important to note is not the individual reports but the overall pattern of the reports. If I were not a follower of Christ I might surmise that it COULD appear that MAYBE the mindset of the population of the world MAY be getting groomed and prepared to accept the idea of non-terrestrial beings as a reality. However, being a follower of Christ means I am almost certain they are. You see Dawkins may think that the world is dancing to its own DNA. The truth is it is dancing to the tune of the very Biblical prophecy it claims not to believe in. The irony is that more often than not nothing proves the truth of the Bible more than the words, actions and behaviour of those who claim not to believe it. Even they fulfil the very prophesies they do not believe in.

I have been casually observing this increasing focus on things non-terrestrial for some time, noting the interesting patterns and trends in it. For instance have you ever noticed that in Sci-Fi movies involving aliens it use to be that anything coming from space was bad news for the Earth. Yet somehow, against vastly superior technology, strength, size, numbers, etc. the good people of Earth always won because somehow they were always deemed more worthy of winning and more noble and good than the aliens.

But in more recent times there has been a subtle shift and it is that the FIRST aliens to arrive or are already here (usually because they were kicked out of "there") turn out to be the good guys who help to defend earth and defeat the aliens who come next who, not surprisingly, turn out to be the real bad guys. More recent and noticeable are the movie "Thor" in which Thor is first exiled to Earth and then helps to defend it against the imperious "baddie" Loki who comes later (and later again in a sequel of similar pattern). Also very noticeable (if you are expecting it and keeping an eye out for it) is the recent TV Sci-Fi series simplycalled "V". In this show the aliens are actually reptilian but disguised as human-like good-guys but secretly with evil intentions. But wait there are already some of them secretly on Earth already and surprise surprise, they are rebels and enemies of those who arrive later and, yes you guessed it, they join forces with the Earth people to valiantly defend the Earth against the secret evil of the SECOND arrivers. But more on that shortly.

While I have been casually watching this expected pattern emerging slowly for some time now my ears really pricked up recently when I came across a whole lot of internet discussion about the “real reason” the Vatican is running a highly advanced deep space observatory on Mount Graham in Arizona, USA. The pattern, it seems, is much more advanced than I thought.

There is a well known and used ploy when politicians want to test and perhaps mold the public reaction to a plan before officially announcing it. It is called “leaking”. Significantly in this case, it usually means the plan is not inevitable or unavoidable but rather an optional choice based on the perceived public reaction to the “leaked” idea. If the public don't like it the politician can always deny it was ever their plan. Merely some story cooked up by some unknown, unnamed, "person or persons" with an over active imagination.

While I would not declare it to be true or to be totally believed on current information this Mt Graham, Vatican observatory story does bear all the hallmarks of a skillfully leaked story. There is just enough factual evidence to make it believable, and yet at the same time a sufficient lack of facts and confirmations to make it deniable and instantly "killable" as nothing more than yet another "conspiracy theory" if the need arises.

If you watched my Reality Bender. video No. 11 "Renaming TheElephant" you will understand that what the Bible calls "Heaven" science calls "the Universe". In addition if you are familiar with the Bible you will also appreciate that Jesus never claimed to be FROM the Earth, but from HEAVEN. He was always making it clear that He came TO the Earth FROM Heaven (aka the universe.). What's more He made it abundantly clear that that is where He returned to. Not only by declaring it but by the very visible ascension UP into the atmosphere until hidden by the cloud layer. Jesus could have chosen to simply vanish as if into another dimension. However I believe He wanted His disciple to be in no uncertainty as to WHERE Heaven is and where He was going. He was leaving Earth and returning to Heaven by going UP. And as science is now able to tell you the only thing UP THERE is .... the rest of the Universe. But only the name of the destination has been changed (hence "Renaming The Elephant"). The Universe is just Heaven by another name. The Bible is very clear that in the beginning The Lord created the Heavens and the Earth, not the Heavens, the Universe, and the Earth. Just the Heavens ... and the Earth. The Lord called EVERYTHING above the surface of the Earth "Heaven". Even the earth's atmosphere.

So how does this all relate to all this increasing talk and speculation about aliens both already here and coming that is filling the internet, the airwaves, and TV and movie screens more and more these days? And why is this talk about the Vatican, the Mt Graham observatory, and the need to "revise" and alter the Bible such a significant development?

ALL the mass of accumulated evidence points undoubtedly to the Bible being true which means Satan has a huge problem if he is going to try and pull off a powerful deception to deceive vast portions of the Earth's population as the Bible warns he will try to do. When Jesus ascended back UP into Heaven (aka the rest of the universe) angels ( who are also non-terrestrial) told His disciples that when Jesus returns to the Earth it will be in the same way He left it. In other words, having gone UP into the rest of the universe, He will, in like manner, come DOWN to the earth from " up there" where He went . Only next time He will not be alone. I also strongly suspect from what I read in the Bible,that hovering somewhere above the Earth will be a massive object roughly the size of the moon called the "New Jerusalem". If you watch my Reality Bender No.7 you will begin to appreciate the significance of why Revelation is careful to explain just how long, wide AND high the New Jerusalem is. John never saw it land on THIS earth, only on the NEW Earth.

Why is this a problem for Satan? Well he wants people to worship him and not The Lord, and especially not Jesus. That means He is going to have to pull off a pretty spectacular non-terrestrial stage show AND do it BEFORE the real Jesus returns to totally upstage him. His only hope in deceiving large portions of the world's population is to cause havoc throughout the world until it is so desperate for a Saviour that it will jump at the first non-terrestrial to arrive with what seems to be all the answers to Earth's problems and seemingly restore order and "re-educate" the world away from the revelations and warnings of the Bible, and give the world an excuse to divest itself of the Bible's God given commands and instructions . Like any good illusionist Satan will show the people what they want to see and hear, and in their eagerness to believe it they will ask few, if any questions.

Of course, knowing it is only a matter of time until the real Saviour arrives, the only thing left for Satan to do is try and convince everybody that the next one to arrive is the real baddie who is going to destroy the Earth and the only hope for mankind is to help him defend it. But, of course, Jesus never hid the truth that the Earth will not survive His return. Jesus returns to rescue those who are to be saved FROM the destruction of the Earth not to save the Earth itself. That is why Satan has to convince people that what is clearly written in the Bible is somehow not true or not inescapable

It is significant therefore that not only are we hearing these stories about the Vatican monitoring and expecting non-terrestrial visitors who somehow must automatically be considered less "fallen" than man and should therefore be revered as closer to God, but also speculation that their arrival will somehow necessitate a reappraisal and revision of what is written in the Bible and what we believe it teaches to be true.

It could miraculously all be merely coincidental of course. But as a believer in Christ I believe in miracles but place little credence in miraculous coincidences. I am way too skeptical for that. I will continue to watch what happens, but I already know the One who will be the last to arrive, in who I believe and who is able to save me from EVERYTHING else that is coming before AND after then.

And because I know Him NOW I will know Him THEN. But even more importantly I will also know when it is somebody just pretending to be Him.


With the love of Christ in IslandBard