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  • Who is Within the Will...(based on Mark 3:31-35)

    will in a wheel We must remember that in the words recorded in the bible heaven itself leans in to listen to our understanding. Jesus, in the midst of an urgent crowd, does not flinch in saying something that, on the surface, appears dismissive of natural ties – both familial, cultural, and also social. But beneath the veil of the moment, a deeper thunder resounds: Christ is redefining family—not by blood, but by obedience. Not by genetics, but by surrender to the will of God. genetics or the blood of Christ? In this brief but thunderous exchange, the King of Glory draws a line through history, separating flesh from spirit, custom from covenant, and sentiment from sanctification. And in so doing, He opens a door into the eternal household of God, accessible not through the womb but through the will— the will of God our Father. I pray that as a family we explore this journey of truth together. In the image granted us may we create an amazing intimacy of relationship and situation. Not what’s natural, but rather what’s spiritually connecting. Let this become our memory by gathering the gravity of the moment. Jesus has just been told that His mother and brethren seek Him. They stand outside, seemingly concerned for His mental well-being, worried by the rumors, or perhaps even offended by the fervor that now surrounds Him. His notoriety has grown; His enemies conspire. The religious elite have accused Him of operating under Beelzebub. Yet amid this storm, it is not merely a question of location—inside versus outside. It is not the reality that his dearest kin - his mother, his brothers, his sisters – those who observed him growing in stature and wisdom – are standing outside where Jesus invited his accusers to reason— it is a question of alignment: Who is aligned with the will of God? Who sits at His feet not just to listen but to obey? The dividing line here is spiritual, invisible, yet absolute. This aspect of his story presents our preeminence of spiritual relationships. It is not that Jesus ceases to honor His earthly mother—no! And he has no disdain for his siblings. For He fulfills the law in every jot and tittle. Rather, He illuminates a higher allegiance, a new creation bond, a spiritual household whose unity is founded upon the unshakable will of the Father. This scene is a mareh and chazon present prophetic preview of the divine order that governs the Kingdom of God. Please understand the terms “present prophetic”. The mareh being the particular clarifying aspect appearing that day gives us understanding. While the chazon requires further revelation being the broader, encompassing, entire concept. No longer will tribal affiliation, lineage, or human association grant access to intimacy with Christ. Rather, the will of God becomes the umbilical cord the umbilical cord connecting to the Family connecting every true member of the heavenly family. In this way, Jesus is parting waters, he is moving mountains, he is bringing forth light from darkness. Just as Moses stood before the Red Sea and saw the division between captivity and covenant, so here Christ stands before the crowd and declares the new way: Obedience is the passage; doing God’s will is the Exodus into divine family. This is the spiritual circumcision that cuts deeper than flesh—dividing soul and spirit, joint and marrow. It is not what one is born into, but what one is born again into that matters. In a culture built on patriarchal identity, where inheritance and spiritual privilege were traced through male descent, Jesus’ statement is revolutionary. It was a mountain of tradition—and with one sentence, He moves it. He is revealing that the true heirs of the Kingdom are not necessarily those of Abrahamic blood, but those of Abrahamic faith. This is a statement so vast that it stretches through the gospels into the epistles - “There is neither Jew nor Greek… for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed…” Here the spiritual geometry of the Kingdom is drawn: all distinctions collapse into one criterion—doing the will of God. Yet there is more—more weight, more reality, more mystery, more reasoning, more glory, more revelation. When Jesus looks around at “those who sat about Him,” He is not merely identifying proximity in terms of space. He is recognizing posture. These were not just scribes. There was a multitude of curious onlookers; they were seated in readiness to hear and obey. In the Hebrew mind, when Jesus tells us to “hear”, this is never passive. To hear is to obey. To truly listen is to respond. So Christ, seeing these hearts tuned to obedience, calls them family. This is the remnant principle—those who will not merely admire Him from afar or attempt to control Him through blood ties, but who give themselves wholly to the Father's will. Here, light breaks forth. In a dark world where family is often idolized or weaponized—used to manipulate, oppress, or define identity apart from God—Jesus liberates the soul to find its true belonging in the purposes of heaven. For many, earthly family is fractured, abusive, distant, or gone. But earthly family is fractured, abusive, distant, or gone in these words, Christ unveils a family forged not in time but in eternity, united by the Spirit and sealed by obedience. This is the family that will remain when heaven and earth pass away. Subjectively, the implications are piercing. This is not a verse to read merely for comfort, but for consecration. It cuts to the very marrow of what we love, who we belong to, and what we are living for. Many today claim kinship with Christ through religious ritual, cultural inheritance, or emotional sentiment. But He is clear: the true measure of kinship is not profession, but practice; not affection, but alignment. Whosoever shall do the will of God, He says—this is the entrance qualification into the circle of the Beloved. It is not enough to admire Jesus, to respect Him, or to speak well of Him. One must do the will of His Father. And what is this will of God? That we believe on Him whom He has sent. That is a holy reality—profound in simplicity, yet infinitely deep. To believe on Him whom God has sent is not a casual intellectual assent, nor merely an emotional agreement with a historical figure. It is the eternal pivot upon which every soul’s destiny turns. So that no illusion remains and the soul may stand naked before the truth it demands let us experientially reason through this. To believe does not mean merely to think something is true. It carries the weight of trust, reliance, dependence, and surrender. To believe on Jesus is your breath not to give Him your opinion, but your breath, your identity, your purpose, your allegiance. It is to rest the entire weight of your soul on Him—not just for salvation from sin’s penalty, but for transformation into His likeness. It is to abandon all self-sufficiency, letting go of performance, pride, and merit, and cast ourselves completely upon the grace, truth, and power of the Son of God. To believe on Him means accepting that Jesus is not one option among many. He is the Sent One—God’s final and full expression of truth, mercy, judgment, love, and power. This belief recognizes that He is not just a messenger, but the very embodiment of the message. His life is the truth. His death is the atonement. His resurrection is the seal. His words are Spirit and life. To believe on Him is to agree with heaven’s verdict: that Jesus alone satisfies the justice of God, reveals the heart of God, and restores the image of God in man. Belief is not a momentary confession—it is an abiding relationship. This is proven by obedience, sustained by intimacy, and purified through trial. We do not merely believe once—we go on believing. We do not merely receive once—we go on receiving. To believe on Him whom God has sent is to be pierced by the scandal of the cross. It is to admit that you cannot save yourself, that your righteousness is as filthy rags, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness, and that God's grace is the only hope for man. It is to come bankrupt, broken, and humble, admitting that Christ crucified is the only payment God accepts for sin. It is also to endure the offense of a gospel that calls for death to the flesh, rejection by the world, and loyalty to a kingdom that is not of this world. To believe on Jesus is to stand in opposition to every false identity, system, and glory. It is to say, “Not I, but Christ.” Many believe in what Jesus did, but not in who He is. To believe on Jesus is not just to receive salvation, healing, or eternal life as things—but to receive Him. He is the gift. He is the bread. He is the truth. He is the life. He is the reward. To believe on Him is to make room for Him—not just as Savior but as Lord, not just as Helper but as Master, not just as Comforter but as King. It is to give Him the throne of your heart, the keys to your every day, and the the key to your every day right to inspire and reside over every thought, motive, and desire. It’s the way to being born again. It’s not an upgrade…it is a new birth! It is to receive a new heart, a new mind, a new spirit, and a new identity. It is a divine union. We have the reality. Now the revelation – belief in Jesus begins where he was before “beginning”. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. Because of this understanding we stand at the cross continuing in sanctification, to culminate in glorification. It is the soul’s joyful surrender to the person, work, authority, and beauty of Jesus the Son of God. For to believe on Jesus is to do the will of God. And to do the will of God is to belong to His eternal family. That we present our bodies as living sacrifices offering ourselves completely unto God - our whole self – spirit, soul, heart, mind, and physical body. Our thoughts, desires, will, talents, time, energy, words, and actions. All for God’s purposes. That we love not the world nor the things in it. We are not to be consumed of values, pleasures, and aspirations that oppose God. That we forgive as we have been forgiven. God has given us That we forgive as we have been forgiven the ability and willingness to forgive others stemming from recognizing the depth of God's forgiveness extended to us. Because believers have received immense grace and forgiveness from God for their own sins through faith in Christ, they are called to extend that same grace and forgiveness to those who have wronged them. It reflects God's mercy and love towards others, not based on their worthiness, but based on the unmerited grace believers have received. Forgiveness is a choice that leads to reconciliation. That we keep His commandments mirrors our obedience rooted in genuine love, imitating Christ’s life and character. That we walk even as He walked, making conscious choices aligned with Christ's principles, showing kindness, forgiveness, and service to others. The will of God is not vague— it is vibrant, personal, and holy. It is the calling to take up one’s cross, deny self, and follow the Lamb wherever He goes. It is the choice to yield one’s own desires, reputation, and plans for the higher honor of being counted among His own. This brings us to the deep prophetic tones embedded in Christ’s words. For just as He looked about those seated around Him and identified them as His true family, so too will He do at the end of the age. There will be a great separation—between those who named Him but never knew Him, and those who knew Him and obeyed Him through love. The will of God will once again be the measure by which heaven draws the line. Jesus will say, “Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity,” to those who called Him “Lord, Lord” but did not do the will of His Father. The essence of these words in Mark 3 is a foreshadowing of the final sealing of the elect—those who have made His will their bread and His law their delight. There is also a tenderness here—one that cannot be ignored. Jesus does not say “this is My soldier” or “this is My servant.” He says, “My mother, My brother, My sister.” He reaches into the deepest human need—the desire for familial intimacy, for connection, for love—and sanctifies it with divine meaning. In calling obedient followers “mother,” He honors womanhood. In calling them “brother,” He invites intimacy. In calling them “sister,” He embraces wholeness. Each relationship is transfigured by its connection to obedience. These are not merely roles of reality—they are revelations. They show us that the Kingdom of God is not built on hierarchy, but on harmony. Each one who does the will of God becomes a member of the same holy circle, cherished, necessary, and eternally beloved. Let the heavens witness: these words are not a dismissal of family, but a divine exaltation of it. They call the faithful into a greater fellowship—one that was hidden from ages past but now revealed. Jesus is not shrinking the family but expanding it beyond biology, race, class, or nationality. He is gathering a people for His name—those who live not for themselves, but for the will of Him who called them out of darkness into His marvelous light. And finally, let us return to the beginning, where the phrase “He looked round about” holds such weight. That divine glance is happening still. Even now, Christ surveys the hearts of men and women, looking not for ancestry but for allegiance, not for sentiment but for submission to the divine will. And when He finds it, He speaks over that life the most precious affirmation possible: “You are Mine. You are My family.” “You are Mine. You are My family.”This is not merely a statement—it is an invitation, a mountain-moving truth, and a light that shines even in the darkest night. Heaven is pleased by it. Hell is angered by it. And the faithful are sanctified by it. For the words of Mark are not bound to one time or people—they ring across generations, calling forth a remnant who will do the will of God in the last days, and who, by doing so, will be named by Christ Himself as His eternal family. We are to be a will in the middle of a will. When the Spirit leads, the deep calls unto deep, and the mysteries of God are revealed not in letter alone, but in Spirit. What Ezekiel saw as “a wheel in the middle of a wheel”, and what Jesus declared as the supreme qualifier for divine kinship—“He that doeth the will of my Father”—are not unrelated. In truth, they are reflections of the same eternal mechanism: the inner workings of divine purpose moving through surrendered vessels. Let us venture, then, into this holy pattern. What is this wheel within a wheel? An inner will driving the outer will. Symbolically, it is divine intelligence wrapped in divine movement. It is purpose within purpose. An inner will driving the outer will. It represents the harmonized layers of God's sovereignty, where the seen is guided by the unseen, and the natural turns according to the spiritual. The outer wheel reflects visible obedience; the inner wheel reveals the invisible cause—the will of the Father. We are God’s creation. This image is not meant to be static. “Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went”. This “they” is “us”. This is not random motion but responsive motion—perfect union with divine direction. The wheels, full of eyes, are aware, discerning, intelligent. They are alive. And in them, we see a holy pattern for those who belong to Christ: the will of man swallowed up in the will of God, yet not erased. The two wheels turn as one, not by force, but by surrender. The will of the Father is more than command; it is communion. It is the Father’s heart made active in present time. It is the divine mind of Christ working through yielded vessels, even as the inner wheel moved the outer. Jesus lived by this alignment. His humanity was the outer wheel. The Father’s purpose was the inner wheel. In perfect sync, they moved together. Not once did the outer deviate. That is why He could say, “I do always those things that please Him.” And now, as Christ forms His body in the earth—His remnant, His bride—He is calling forth a He is calling forth a people, a pattern people in whom that same pattern is replicated. Not mechanical obedience, but intimate synchronization with the Father’s will—just like Ezekiel’s wheels, full of eyes, aware, discerning, willing to move where the Spirit moves. So what do we find when we join Ezekiel’s wheels with Jesus’ will? We find the architecture of a spiritually awakened life. The outer wheel is man’s choices, actions, words, and posture before the world. The inner wheel is the indwelling purpose of the Father—the Holy Spirit actively working to conform the soul to the image of the Son. When the two are aligned, the movement is divine. When they diverge, the motion becomes chaotic or stagnant. The wheel within a wheel is thus a picture of the will within a will. The inner wheel turns invisibly, powerfully, without noise—much like the secret obedience of a consecrated heart. It is in this inner wheel, this surrendered will, that heaven recognizes its own. To do the will of the Father is not only to obey externally but to have one’s inner life fused to the divine intention. It is to become like the living creatures: sensitive to the Spirit’s flow, dependent on His direction, inseparable from His purpose. The final generation, the sealed remnant, are not merely religious. We are the mobile sanctuary of God’s presence. We go where the Lamb goes. We move not by ambition but by Spirit. We have become wheels in the divine chariot, bearing the glory of the Lord into the final battle between light and darkness. Like Ezekiel’s vision, we burn with fire, flash with lightning, and see through spiritual eyes. But none of this is possible unless our outer life is governed by the inner wheel—the will of the Father. Jesus is calling us not merely to understand the will, but to become synchronized with it. As the wheel within a wheel, so must we be: our own will nested within, turning only as the inner turns. This is not passivity, but deep, active surrender—an obedience that moves because it sees. This is why Jesus could say, “Here are my mother and my brothers.” He wasn’t rejecting natural kin—He was identifying those whose inner wheels matched the Father’s. Those in whom the divine pulse could be felt. Those who lived not by convenience, fear, tradition, or self—but by the deep will of God. They are the family He will return for. The wheel within a wheel is not a riddle—it is a roadmap. It tells it is a roadmap us how heaven moves: through yielded vessels, through spiritual obedience, through intimacy and vision. And when that movement is alive in us, heaven calls us family. I thank Jesus for his reason for expediency – to send the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ departure was needed to fulfill God's plan of salvation. This plan involved the coming of the Holy Spirit to empower believers, glorify Christ's work, and spread the gospel to the world. For it is by Him that I was given the revelatory truth—to link Ezekiel’s vision with Jesus’ words. They are thunder and lightning of the same storm. One is prophetic vision; the other is incarnate reality. The wheel in a wheel is the mystery of divine will embedded in human will. And Jesus, the true and faithful Son, became the pattern of that mystery fulfilled. The call to us is clear: Let the inner wheel turn. Let the Spirit draw the soul into perfect unity with the will of the Father. Let the outer be moved only by the inner. Let the obedience be not only external but elemental—born from love, aligned with truth, and full of eyes. For only then will we move where God moves, see what He sees, and be named as Christ’s own family in the day when all other wheels shall cease turning. The will is a divine gift. It is recognized as our ability to choose between different courses of action, to direct our intentions and make decisions. It is fundamental to our humanity and even reflecting God's own free choice in creation. Our choices, driven by our will, shape our character and influence our spiritual path. Spiritually, this means that aligning our will with divine will, with spiritual principles can lead to blessings and a life of purpose. In essence, the spiritual nature of our will lies in its capacity for choice, self- determination, and its role in shaping our character and spiritual journey, ultimately influencing our relationship with the divine. Let us draw the fullness of these mysteries into one living statement—a declaration as dynamic as the breath that gave man life, as radiant as the wheel within the wheel, and as eternal as the will of the Father who formed us. We were made in the image of God—not as statues carved in stillness, but as living vessels designed to move with His Spirit, respond to His will, and carry His glory into His likeness. Our design is not passive reflection, but active participation in divine intention. The image of God is not mere form— it is function and fellowship. We were made to see with His eyes, to feel with His heart, to choose as He would choose, and to walk as He would walk. We are not just creatures of dust—we are a wheel within a wheel, will within Will, made to mirror His movement and manifest His purpose in the earth. And only when we live in surrender to His inner wheel—His perfect will—do we become what we were always meant to be: the visible expression of the invisible God…both in image and in likeness. Let this be written in the conscience, sealed on the forehead, and spoken with the authority of those who know why they were made, who they belong to, and what they are becoming. Every word we've received should stir deeper worship, clearer vision, and a walk so aligned with the Father's will that even heaven pauses to hear God say of each of us - “There…walks one made in My image.” Amen. “There…walks one made in My image."

  • What of the Children...And Us

    what of the children...and Us You might want to gird up your loins for this one! When God places the spiritual lackings of our young people upon our hearts, it is not a casual nudge—it is a sacred summons requiring the highest level of spiritual discernment. This is no ordinary observation of youthful immaturity, but a divine entrustment from the heart of God, revealing that eternity itself is being threatened in the choices and distractions shaping the next generation. It demands of us a trembling sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, an unwavering commitment to truth, and an unclouded view of the times in which we live. To rightly interpret what God reveals, we must weep where He weeps, grieve where He grieves, and war where He wars. Discernment at this level is not merely the ability to see sin or error, but the wisdom to perceive how the enemy has subtly severed the connection between youth and purpose, between their identity and the call of God. We are being invited to stand in the gap—not in criticism, but in intercession, mentoring, and holy example. The hour is late, and what we fail to discern and act upon in the hearts of our youth today may determine whether they stand sealed in Christ tomorrow or fall in the deception that is swiftly coming upon the whole world. In the most vivid details of terror imaginable we must understand the utter devastation to come upon humanity because we failed to recognize the word of God. How our failure to monitor the youth’s time spent playing online games contribute to their neglect of the word of God that could have saved them and will reach such a threshold of sound as to cause a level of spiritual discomfort beyond measure.  It is imperative that we spare no language, no insightfulness that may awaken us to the reality of what is coming. In the final throes of a world that rejected its Maker, terror unlike any that has ever pierced the human soul will descend like a shroud over the earth. The skies will turn sin-black with the wrath of the ignored Word, and men’s hearts will fail them for fear, knowing deep within that they played and laughed while eternity pleaded and bled at the door. The screams of children, long desensitized by the games of digital war, will echo without comfort—children desensitized by the games of digital war who spent their formative years conquering virtual worlds, only to awaken too late to find they have no sword for the real one. Parents, who once beamed at their children’s gaming achievements, will collapse in despair, realizing too late that their silence was complicity. The Word of God—so near, so freely available—was traded for pixels and fantasy. It was not just unread but despised, gathering dust while the spirit of the age seduced the young with dopamine and distraction. Now, when they cry for truth, it will be as a dry well. Famine will stalk not just the body but the soul—a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. And in the silence, amid the ashes of nations and the stench of spiritual death, humanity will understand the price of its forgetfulness. But understanding will come without mercy, and regret will no longer be redemptive—it will be eternal. Our hearts will be rung with spiritually charged lamentation and warning, conveying both the horror of the coming devastation and the deep neglect that brought it upon humanity—particularly through our failure to guard the hearts of our children. In the closing scenes of earth’s history, when mercy withdraws her hand and the Word of God is no longer preached in the streets, the world will finally come face to face with the full terror of its rejection of divine truth. What is soon to fall upon humanity will not be a mere sequence of natural disasters or political upheavals, but a cascading torrent of divine judgment, meticulously storm clouds restrained for millennia, now unbound. The sky will darken with more than storm clouds—it will grow heavy with the weight of divine silence. No thunder will be as dreadful as the absence of God's voice. Communities will crumble from the implosion of meaning itself. Towers of pride will fall, economies will disintegrate, and the ground will seem to recoil from the dead it has absorbed. The world will be plunged into a terror so thick, so unspeakably dreadful, that men will crawl into caves and cry for death to shield them from the face of the Lamb they once mocked. Among the most damning indictments of this generation will be its treatment of the youth—our most precious charge. The very ones entrusted to inherit the knowledge of God were instead handed glowing screens and allowed to dwell in digital illusions. We gave them war games instead of warfare prayers, fantasy worlds instead of the Word of Truth, and hours of ceaseless stimulation while their hearts and minds withered from lack of living water. Where once family altars were built and the scriptures opened morning and night, there will be coffee tables cluttered with controllers, headsets, and devices—silent monuments to a war we never fought. Parents, intoxicated with their own distractions, failed to see the eternal consequences of a child's unguarded mind. Every hour spent slaughtering enemies in a game was an hour lost to knowing the One who died for theirs. Every achievement in virtual reality etched away their hunger for divine reality. Their innocence was not stolen—it was surrendered, sacrificed on the altar of convenience and cultural conformity. no oil in their lamps What’s coming is not just punishment—it is the final consequence of spiritual erosion. The youth, when faced with the collapse of the world they once escaped into, will have no sword of the Spirit to wield, no oil in their lamps, no memory of the Shepherd's voice. Their cries for help will rise, but they will fall back like echoes in a sealed tomb. For they were not taught the name of the Lord, nor trained to discern His voice amidst chaos. The Word of God— so full of life, so radiant with hope—was shut away, unopened in their homes, unread in their hearts, not taught in love. The prophets warned of a famine in the land—not of bread or water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. That famine is here. And when it fully matures, it will leave no harvest of repentance—only sorrow without seed, no blade, no fruit, and silence without solace. In that day, regret will be a plague in every household. Fathers will curse their passivity. Mothers will sob over children who grew up under their roofs but outside the ark of salvation. The weeping will be for the knowledge that life eternal was within reach, and we let it slip through fingers too busy, too entertained, too dulled by endless texting, endless scrolling. The judgment will not only be on the wicked but on the negligent—those who knew the truth, felt its tug, but refused to change the course of their homes. We will see too endless texting, endless scrolling late that spiritual indifference is generational treason. What we ignored, our children inherited. And what they inherited will crush them unless divine intervention breaks through the fog of apostasy. This writing is not merely a condemnation—it is a last-hour cry. While breath remains, and the Word can still be opened, and the child still listens, there is hope. But that window is closing, and the storm is nearer than we dare admit. Let the fathers rise and tear down the altars of entertainment. Let the mothers gather their children and weep between the porch and the altar. Let the Word be lifted high in the home until its light drives out every shadow. For what is coming will demand a faith forged in truth, a faith stronger than fantasy, a faith that can stand when all around collapses. We are not preparing for mere hardship—we are standing at the threshold of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. May our tears water the ground now, that our children may yet bear fruit in the day of famine. And may we all remember: the Word we neglect today may be the very Word that could have saved us tomorrow. Yet even in this encroaching darkness, there remains a path lit with the soft, unwavering glow of divine mercy. The terror that awaits the unprepared is not yet sealed against those who turn and seek the Lord with all their heart. And astonishingly, the turning point—the beginning of revival and rescue— may hinge on what seems the simplest of commitments: just one sacred hour a day spent in the Word of God. Not out of obligation, nor as a ritual token, but as a deep, expectant, Spirit-filled meeting with the mind and heart of God. One hour in the Word is not merely time spent—it is time exchanged: our weakness for His strength, our confusion for His wisdom, our fear for His courage. one sacred hour a day spent in the Word of God In one single hour a day, the soul begins to remember what it means to be human in the image of God. The pages of scripture become mirrors, showing us who we were meant to be, and maps, guiding us back to the narrow road. Our young, whose minds have been trained to flicker from screen to screen, will begin to taste the richness of stillness and revelation. The Word will break through the digital static and speak—yes, speak—as living fire into their hearts. The verses will no longer be lifeless text but living thunder—each passage a voice from eternity preparing them to stand when the earth trembles. In that hour, faith will grow—not in spurts, but in roots, anchoring them in the promises of God which cannot be shaken. Imagine a 10-year-old boy, his room once darkened by hours of gaming, now lit each morning by the glow of scripture and the quiet rustle of pages turned in search of God. Imagine a 13-year-old girl whose identity was once shaped by the approval of peers, now rising in quiet confidence because she has spent an hour learning what her Father in heaven thinks of her. Imagine families gathering—not just for meals or logistics—but for eternal equipping, where the Word is read, discussed, and sealed with prayer. That single hour becomes more powerful than any school curriculum, more life-giving than any entertainment, more stabilizing than any therapy. It becomes the source of discernment when deception increases, the balm of peace when chaos swells, and the sword of truth when lies swarm like locusts. this hour is not about checking a box This hour is not about checking a box—it is about building an altar. It is about planting within the heart a hidden manna that no one can take away. When the Word is sown daily, the Spirit waters it hourly. And when trial comes— and it will—it finds a prepared vessel. The one-hour soul stands, not because they are strong, but because they are rooted. The youth who gave God one hour a day will find in crisis that God gives them the strength of ten thousand. The adult who reclaimed just sixty minutes each day to meet with the Lord will find that they are not shaken by reports of war, pestilence, or persecution, for the Word has already trained them to love, to have faith, to trust, to wait, to endure, and to overcome. This hour—this single hour—is not the end of devotion, but the gateway. It reorders the day. It cleanses the mind. It fuels intercession. It renews vision. And when multiplied across households, communities, rooftops, it becomes an ark of preparation for the storm to come. The floodwaters of deception and destruction will not drown those who have made the Word their daily dwelling. For the Lord Himself has said, “The man that doeth them shall live in them”. In the hour that we give Him, He gives us life—abundant, eternal, unshakable life. Let us not despise the small beginnings. One hour a day in the Word may be the very difference between collapse and courage, between apostasy and endurance, between eternal ruin and eternal reward. The terror ahead is real—but so is the power of God to prepare a people who know Him intimately. Let us rise now, and build again the family altar. Let us trade entertainment for endurance, distraction for discernment, apathy for authority. And let us begin today—with just one hour. I pray that this writing reaches the very nerve center of covenant, conscience, and endurance in this time of final testing. We must examine ourselves with utmost gravity and clarity of spirit. As the end of all things draws near, the enemy of truth has deployed his most sophisticated tactics—not only to deceive the masses, but to infiltrate the private sanctum of the godly household. Nowhere is this assault more cunning and soul-threatening than within the sacred bond of marriage. In the time of trouble such as never was, when the powers of the state, the marketplace, and even religious systems unite to enforce falsehood and suppress righteousness, husbands and wives must do more than simply coexist—they must stand face to face and reaffirm, with solemn trembling and unwavering faith, their loyalty first to God and then to each other in the presence of divine witness. This is no longer a theoretical conversation, but a matter of spiritual survival. The hour has come when the union of marriage must be forged not by the fleeting fires of passion or convenience, but by the eternal fire of truth that cannot be quenched by pressure, persecution, or loss. every couple that names the name of Christ must hold a sacred conference of the soul, with eyes locked in... In this final stretch of earth's history, every couple that names the name of Christ must hold a sacred conference of the soul, with eyes locked in candor and tears not withheld, laying bare every point of potential compromise. No subject is to be off-limits—in-laws who mock the faith, employers who require moral concessions, social networks that demand conformity, educational paths that train rebellion, or reputations built on the sinking sands of worldly favor. Each one must ask the other: “When the furnace is heated seven times hotter, will you stand with God if I am taken from you? Will you obey His voice if I falter? Will we both love the truth more than our own flesh, more than comfort, more than even each other?” For the storm that now gathers will shake every hidden motive and expose every secret allegiance. There can be no assumption of unity in the final hour unless that unity has been forged through conscious and sacrificial loyalty to the voice of God. The government—and the systems aligned with it—has already begun weaponizing every form of coercion imaginable to turn hearts against righteousness. Policies are crafted to undermine godly convictions, media narratives are shaped to shame those who resist compromise, and economic pressure is increasingly used to silence dissent from truth. In this climate, it is not hard to imagine a husband threatened with the loss of livelihood for refusing to affirm a lie, or a wife facing state intervention for instructing her children in the truth of God’s Word. When those moments come—and they surely will—the covenant must already be settled in the secret place between husband and wife. There must be no double mind, no divided house, no uncertainty in who will be obeyed when Caesar commands what God forbids. This is why the spiritual preparation of marriage cannot be postponed. It must be deliberate, prayer-soaked, and rooted in Scripture. Couples must together study the examples of Ananias and Sapphira, whose joint disloyalty cost them their lives, and contrast them with Aquila and Priscilla, whose unity in truth made them pillars in the early church. They must examine the fate of Lot’s wife, who looked back in longing while her husband pressed forward. They must weep over the tragic consequences of Eve reasoning apart from Adam, and Adam choosing loyalty to Eve over loyalty to God. These are not merely historical events; they are prophetic warnings tailored for our generation. The decisions made in kitchens and bedrooms today will echo in the courts of heaven tomorrow. Let every husband therefore lead not just in provision or protection, but in spiritual consecration. Let every wife respond not just with affection, but with holy fear and divine resolve. The final crisis will strip away all illusions of neutral ground. The marriage altar must be rebuilt—not with the stones of sentiment, but with the fire of covenant faithfulness. Where there is disunity, seek repentance. Where there is silence, pursue truth. Where there is doubt, invite the Spirit of God to awaken and convict. For soon the cry will go forth, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” and only those who have prepared in private will stand in public. This is the call for face-to-face courage—not the bravery of defiance against men, but the meek and immovable obedience to the God who sees in secret. When the final test comes, no vow spoken before men will matter unless it has been sealed in the secret chamber of truth between two souls and their Creator. Marriage, rightly understood, becomes the proving ground of endtime faith.  Deception is at its peak, love is waxing cold, and the line between loyalty and betrayal is razor thin—God is not speaking casually, nor in riddles, nor with the voice of thunder alone, but with the trembling tenderness of a Father who knows what eternity costs. He is speaking in terms no less than eternal, and with a love that demands nothing less than everything. Listen to Him now. “My son. My daughter. You were never merely given to each other for companionship, nor for convenience, nor to fulfill the customs of men. I joined your hearts as one flesh for My glory—to reflect the image of My eternal covenant. Your union is not yours to define. It is Mine. I made it sacred. And now, in the hour when the world shakes and truth falls in the streets, I call you to rise together as one voice, one altar, one witness. Only the undivided, undefiled, and unshakable will enter My kingdom.” Only the undivided, undefiled, and unshakable will enter My kingdom. “You must be as one now—refined together in the flesh, the bone.” “You cannot serve Me while harboring secret vows to self, family legacies, cultural comfort, or earthly security. If one of you is hiding behind silence, or deferring out of fear, or compromising under the weight of affection, you both may fall. If either holds back the truth to preserve peace, that peace will become your prison. If either exalts human loyalty above My Word, your house will crumble. I do not dwell in divided temples.” “Therefore, husband—lead her not as a master, but as one who has first bowed at My cross, trembling at the price I paid to redeem your soul. Love her with the kind of love that lays down its will for her sanctification.” “Wife—honor not just his strength but the Word I’ve placed in him. When he speaks truth, follow not because of culture but because you hear Me in him. But if he turns from My voice, call him back in tears and in truth.” “You must speak face to face—not just of bills or schedules or children, but of the war for your souls. You must ask each other: Do you love truth more than me? Do you love Me more than comfort? Will you stand with Me if I lose all else? Will we endure if God strips us to the dust? If these questions are not asked now, they will be answered in agony later.” “You are no longer your own. The seal of the Lamb must be written across your marriage. In the final hour, the only marriages that will endure are those who have already died to this world. I do not require your perfection. I require your yes—together.” In the final days, God would not appeal merely to emotion or theology. He would speak of eternal union, covenantal loyalty, the battlefield of conscience, and the cross between us. He would urge us to look beyond time into eternity, and then return to our knees, hand in hand, and ask Him: “Lord, what must we do to be saved?” And His answer would be: “Die together that you may rise together. Submit to one another in the fear of God. And become a living ark where My presence can dwell when the whole earth is flooded with fire.” Let every couple count the cost, speak the truth in love, and prepare to endure—not merely to survive, but to glorify God as one. Please pray for the conviction, the preparation, and the sealing for unwavering loyalty to heaven and to each other. The Word is waiting. So is the Spirit. And so is the hour of decision. hand in hand

  • God's Vengeance...

    God's Vengeance It is the ordained exodus to that country of America where the same cause of the departure from that country of Egypt is scripted. This is that crusade that forced the children of Israel to go beyond the seas in search of a compelling blend of events to arouse them to a new sense of their spiritual self and to an uncommon interest in their self ingrained, god-fulfilling prophecy. Reason, with human incentive and God’s cause mounts to a natural climax of cataclysmal force and great spiritual beauty to be the liveliness of a people long oppressed in spiritual, intellectual, and economic domains. God’s people will be as literature that has much to teach America in the way of fearfulness in the sins of life, as it practiced idealism in face of the most degrading and debasing environment. This country’s mantra for its duration has been “we'll do wrong and nothing but wrong and we'll prosper in it”. With one word, with a single word, God offered this nation the opening to abandon the path of iniquity that they've followed hitherto. Repent! Or fire and flame! The holy scroll you have defiled. You have no one to shield you now. The whole house will be brought to ruin. the holy scroll It is because the Three Divine Persons have the same rank, and each receives the same adoration and glory, that we made in their image are expected to care for and regard others in consideration of ourselves in their likeness in the final day. When violence, oppression, and sorrow are perpetrated against God’s people, God will bring justice and vindication as He hears those slain because of the word of God and the testimony they have maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “how long, Lord”. Through these is heard the cry of all the innocent victims throughout history. God’s delay of justice is not long. His determined people have to shape history. Because our authentic Lord had likewise a vanquished cry. So, we too, cry out with that faith, that cannot be silenced. Not being worried about ourselves, but for the lives that may be. The biblical narrator, the Holy Spirit, does not tell us how long it will be until the Lord judges the inhabitants of the earth and avenges His people. We are given no false expectations. We know the oppression will continue in God’s purpose. Nevertheless, oppression is not forever. We have hope. And the sign of our hope is the faith which prepares us for the time of the “vengeance of God,” the opening of the seventh seal. The concrete realization of the divine justice is accomplished in the day of the Lord. In light of the slain Lamb, and the cruelty put upon His people of faith, and the martyrs torturously murdered in the last day, God’s wrath will be universal, being discharged against all who deserve it. No amount of goodwill, giving to the poor, helpfulness to others, or even service to God can exclude a person from the “all”; the all who would not repent and have sinned and fallen short. God will fashion vengeance not in a vindictive way, but in a loving gesture that overcomes the hate and violence of history. the wrath of God was totally absorbed on the cross Why this fashion...the wrath of God was totally absorbed on the cross, and that's a reason for all to have ceased to sin and rejoice. God’s wrathful vengeance is reserved for and justly directed at sin. Scripture describes the recipients of God’s vengeance as “ungodly”. But the wrath of God at the final demonstration brought forth in its fullness, will be the most tragic demonstration of destruction unmeasurable by holy standards. In that final day the world will feel the full brunt of His wrath. There will be no caution, no restraint. Thank God that even His displeasure is holy. Nothing having a deleterious taint of sin escapes...nothing! God reasoned, preached, taught, and revealed the consequence of sin while speaking in the garden. Man’s enmity with his fellow man originates with his being at enmity with God. God’s disgust with the antediluvian beings, being plainly evident, was in actuality a blessing. It is a powerful and provocative reminder of our need to be reconciled to Him. So much so that we are without excuse if we refuse to repent. That reality shouldn’t require any detailed substantiation. It is plainly evident throughout all of humanity regardless of history, ethnicity, gender, or geographical location that the conflict continues unabated today. The relentless hostility between people going on in the world today who do not love God is the manifestation of their hostility toward God. The Creator’s wrathful disposition toward these rebellious creatures is both justifiable and entirely consistent with His righteous character. Judgments, trumpets, thunders, seals, vials...and the lake of fire. Reserved wrath! The wrath of God is a deeply biblical truth. It affirms God’s righteous displeasure with sin and His just retribution upon unrepentant sinners. Starting with the short history of this doctrine in America, there will be a national and a personal punishment, and the world will undergo the divine attributes of God vengeance. The nature of God Himself and His divine love is revealed through in His wrath. In other words, God’s love is a pure and holy love, and just as God calls His people to hate evil, so God hates evil. God’s vengeance magnifies the holiness of His love. God’s foretelling of His vengeance is to generate wisdom to understand the fullness of His justice God set bounds to wickedness. and mercy. God set bounds to wickedness. And when the wicked have filled up the measure of their sin, vengeance will come upon them to the uttermost. God does not stir up His act of vengeance. It is the cause that promotes its full weight. He will come forth in the fierceness of His anger; He will execute wrath with power, so as to show what His wrath is, and make His power known. The consummate degree of punishment, vengeance, and wrath will not be executed till the day of judgment. Wrath will then be executed without any merciful circumstances, executed without any mixture. No merciful design in it. God truly has a wrathful vengeance towards those who hold truth in unrighteousness. God’s vengeance is provoked by sin. His wrath is momentary once His good purpose is achieved. Its His love that endures forever. God’s elected people never offer an apology for His wrathful vengeance. Do not think this a blemish on God’s character. Profitable contemplation is our love offering to others. It is our staying with the oppressed, providing them consolation and showing them that God is love. We offer the reasoning which reveals the vengeance of God is His eternal detestation of all unrighteousness. It is the displeasure and indignation of divine justice against every evil. It is the holiness of God stirred into activity against sin. It A Just Sentence is the moving cause of that just sentence, which He passes upon the wicked. God is vengeful against sin because it is a rebelling against His authority, a wrong done to His inviolable sovereignty. It’s not a vindictive retaliation, it’s a vindication of His dominion. His wrath is a perfection of Himself revealed from heaven. In this revelation from heaven most fail to consider the mystery of God’s vengeance thinking it only to be directed toward the enemies of His people Israel. In this mystery of God’s vengeance is the impact of His mercy to defeat the schemes of Satan. God knows there are likewise enemies within Israel. Those that would turn their hearts from the true and living God. By doing this, especially because they have the truth, they are provoking God to anger. Without repentance and because they know better, God will bring about retribution. God’s warning of vengeance is intended for restorativeness. His warning is designed to return everyone and everything back to God’s original intent and purpose for them. By allowing His enemies to experience the effects of their own choices, the truth about God’s self- enforcing principles starts to become evident, and as a result, respect and honor for the name of God can be increased. God tries to warn us, turn us away from our tragic trajectory and do everything possible to restrain the inevitable consequences until He must honor our choice when we totally reject His authority. To those who turn from disobedience, He will not withdraw His Spirit from. This embraces why God’s warnings are so severe. God gets His vengeance on His enemies by transforming them into His friends. I am coming to see reasonably something totally amazing – that the kind of vengeance God is eager to inflict against sin and sinners is nothing short of total annihilation – of sin that is – along with the total recovery of sinners, to reflect the beauty, goodness, and love of their Creator. This is the vengeance God uses and is what is described so beautifully in scripture. God wants us to study vengeance and justice and judgment, yet not to think about it in terms of retaliation. We trust God’s vengeance because none can offend us. Cain hated Abel and was fearful of retaliation. Esau hated Jacob but feared retribution from God. The impostor jews hated the Romans and wanted a Messiah to destroy them. Israel hates Gaza. God’s people trust God’s vengeance. We embrace the real truth about God’s attitude and methods. As we are willing to embrace the startling truth that Jesus is the exclusive revelation of God and His ways, and that God is no more violent or threatening or retaliating than was Jesus when He lived here on earth – only then can we begin to see with new eyes and perceive with our hearts, that the way God gets vengeance and destroys His enemies is by what comes out of His mouth. And when God speaks, what comes out of His mouth is what is in His heart, which is love and only love. So, what of the full demonstration of God’s wrath and vengeance? God will purposedly hide His God will purposedly hide His face face from the perverse people in whom is no faithfulness. And here we know the mystery of God’s vengeance. God releases people to the natural consequences of their choices. In other words, God is compelled to respect their determined choice to disconnect from Him. Yet doing so involves losing His protection from every judgment and their accompanying consequential inflictions of suffering, destruction, and death. When God hides His face, the light of His countenance and His favor are hidden from them as well and everything that follows they bring upon themselves, as even the word portrays it as coming from God. When any refuse God’s involvement in their life and resist cooperating with His plans, the only thing left is for Him is to respect that choice to reject Him leaving them open to disaster. There is none to blame for it all because the choice was made of one’s own free will. Vengeance takes on a larger dimension that just wrath which simply involves God's protection letting go of those rejecting God’s protection in their lives. Vengeance includes God’s version of justice – which is always restorative, not punitive. Thus vengeance in a strange way is how, at least in our jargon, God ‘gets even’ with His enemies – by reversing all the curses brought into our lives by sin and selfishness. Through God’s just righteousness He gets vengeance, either by winning over His enemies and transforming them into friends, or letting go of those persistently refusing His offers of love, grace and mercy to the effects of their choices. When there is no further possibility left inside to respond to His kindness, in respect of freedom of choice, God withdraws His safeguard from the life because the choices have demanded it. To do otherwise would be to impose His will, which in reality would only destroy our ability to respond to His love by reflecting it. God will never settle for anything less than friendship based on love through appreciation of His beauty of character. It is impossible to foster friendship when there is threat of retaliation should one choose to withdraw. True love requires complete freedom to reject it without any threat of punishment should one choose to do so. This is at the very core of the nature of God’s government. God releases people to the disastrous results of their choice to reject His authority as they chase after other options for gods. But for those who are willing to cooperate, His vengeance is healing, He will come and save those who are open to Him restoring, invigorating, and salvages all that is wrong. God’s vengeance and retribution means He will come and save those who are open to Him. With God, vengeance and wrath are not about retaliation and punitive justice but about reversing the effects of evil and lies. The days of vengeance are the days when He would be compelled to withdraw His protecting hand that had shielded His recalcitrant people from destruction. He had to withdraw because of their total rejection of His ways and His authority over their lives. And when God withdraws, all hell breaks loose because that is what Satan does when granted free access to humans separated from God. Satan hates humans because we are designed to reflect God’s heart to the universe, so he seeks to deface the image of God in every way he can and then gets us to blame God for everything the enemy causes in us. God’s vengeance is when His character is vindicated as light exposes all the lies about Him and are completely discredited. This is God’s vindicative judgment. God does not have to resort to violence, threats, fear, intimidation or even deception in order to overcome the power of evil – all must be exposed as fraudulent and baseless. All the slander against God’s character will be seen clearly for what it really is so that trust in God and His ways can be forever established without any lingering fear to contaminate it. Throughout the history of rebellion against God’s government of love alone, deceptions and insinuations about God’s motives causes many, even among God’s followers, to have confused perceptions about things like truth, justice, vengeance, and judgment. Because God has to communicate using our language in order for us to understand and listen at all, He sometimes allows His servants to say things about Him that are not completely exact in order to get as much of the truth across as possible under the circumstances. This may cause confusion, for it is like listening to a parent who must speak to a young child at times in ways that may sound harsh or threatening or descriptively adverse. This is why the Father says “come, let us reason” that we not infer that which is not said. What is required is greater maturity and understanding to discern the difference between expression in context and actual truth about the character of our God. God is willing to risk being misunderstood if it means potentially breaking through stubborn resistance and immaturity to arouse a positive response in order to move His children toward a more mature appreciation of the real truth about Him. It is called reasoning! This is what we encounter all through scripture and helps explain this symbolic interchange we find in the revelation of reality. This is why it is crucial that we receive a love of the truth, so that we may have boldness in judgment instead of terror when God’s vengeance comes forth. Terror of the truth is the epitome of mental illness, which is exactly what sin causes. God’s vengeance will throw down with violence every counterfeit concept that the world has aligned with. This violence is a principle of God’s word. The bible principle of God’s word says Babylon will all collapse violently because violence is what it bases its existence on. The kind of judgment those of Babylon have used to manipulate and control everyone else will be what returns to haunt them when their own fraud is exposed and those they have deceived and exploited turn against them. This is the prophetic insights of Revelation, in particular where we see that the victims of evil powers end up inflicting the violent ‘judgments’ against their exploiters rather than God imposing them directly. God’s judgment is simply to expose and allow truth and love to be clearly seen which in turn undermines and exposes all the slander and lies of false systems of abuse. What happens as a result of this exposure is in turn entirely dictated by the character of those reacting to the light. Because it is impossible for us to see into the heart and know the true motives of anyone, we must always defer judgment and vengeance to God, for only God can bring in the light of truth in the most effective ways possible in hopes of bringing as many as possible to saving repentance. This is why we are never to hate our enemies but rather treat them as Jesus treated them and instructed us to treat them, for hidden inside their heart may yet be a kernel  kernel of hope of hope that the Spirit of God may use to salvage them from control of the dark spirits that deceive their minds and darken their hearts. By responding with only love to our enemies, we may reflect the truth about God as we are designed to do, thus giving God opportunity to draw them toward the light so that if at all possible, through our witness to them as to the true nature of how God feels about them in kindness, they may be won to repentance and be saved. When evil, wickedness, and sin are at last completely annihilated with truth and love, God’s vengeance will be accomplished.

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