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Vision for the timeline of God and Prophesy are determined and based in part on which rung of the ladder you are standing on. Not all believers have the same God vision as we are all in different places with Him. This is important to say because what happens is that we fall into the idea-trap that we are smarter than others without a full and complete assessment of where they are with God.

I will tell you a mystery that is usually excluded from the judgement calculation used by the rambunctious little Christian kidletts. 

Matt 6:5-7 - “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

There was once a guy who was challenged by a Pastor and invited to a prayer meeting. Oh the Pastor thought he might just well pray that Evangelist right under the table. Oh now come on, you know that you yourself may have been inclined to impress someone or a group at a prayer meeting in that you could, you know, pray real good prayers, and since no one waited around to see if those prayers would ever get answered, it may well have just been assumed, that the exotic prayer from you was good enough, and that there would be no way that God would overlook such an oratorical display and simply ignore such requests. Ha, but not in this prayer meeting. You see the Evangelist had a secret place prayer time in which no one was invited, and it was in such a place that he got ahold of Gods heart and would get God responses. Gods presence would show up and all the while, no one was there to see the display given in private. Oh they saw the secret-place-prayers manifest in public ministry and this is why the secret place holds all the value within your personal relationship with God.

So the Evangelist showed up last to the prayer meeting as it must have been thought that perhaps, given the Evangelist reputation, they should get a jump start you know as if this was a contest to see who knows God better. Korah and his clan along with Meriam and Arron attempted to play the same game. You can read all about it in Numbers chapter 12 and 16.

Now they were all making their usual prayer noises which is common amongst those who think God is deaf. But when the Evangelist, who by practice, brought his secret place with him, started to pray, one by one they crawled out of the “public prayer room” until know one was left but the Evangelist. Smith Wigglesworth probably knew was these game-player Pastors were up to and though it would be a good idea to use the opportunity to humble them. Whether it worked or not was not disclosed in the story but perhaps by our hearing the story it will help us. 

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This is just one more testimony of a financial breakthrough that God had thought of and sent to me to invoke. Now I will have to provide some background as this is a testimony journey that has sub-testimonies, and will eventually culminate into a life-changing testimony in which one could consider it a promotion from the Lord. Now do I seek to be promoted? No nor am I receiving these things from God that I might be promoted heavenward. 

I am however sharing:

2 Tim 4:2 - 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 

Ha, now you might say what Podcast Preacher, this doesn’t say anything about telling people the great things that God is walking them through. Oh quite contraire but it does. You see I am called to be a teacher, and well I see the word teacher in the scripture and so it is that I am teaching you how to get into the flow of receiving from God:

Ps 66:16 - Come and hear, all you who fear God, And I will declare what He has done for my soul.

How about this one. Do you think this gives me permission to tell you of the great things He IS, IS, IS doing in my life. Not will be, but is right now is doing in my life. The same that He does for me He will do for you:

1 Peter 3:15 - 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; 

But no I could go on and on with this support. But what if I just wanted to let you know of the benefits above and beyond His wonderful Salvation that is available to you if you will receive them? Ok so let’s do an in-depth study of the word benefits in Psalms. Ha, there is just three scriptures I will refer to and then get on with the getting:

Ps 68:19 - Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation! Selah

Ps 103:2 - Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits:

Ps 116:12 - What shall I render to the Lord For all His benefits toward me?

So I was asked to share my medical benefits with the church because the pastors wife felt that we need to give God more glory for what He is doing in these very days. I agreed and did so. Then I was compelled to share this financial benefit to continue to prove that God is alive and well, not broke as some would try and convince you:

Acts 17:28 - 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

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What throws us Christians off in our walk in life is that we don't immediately receive the love-of-God-correction or perceive it and so we develop the nasty habit of assuming, be it intentional or from a position of ignorance, that we did the dastardly deed while God was sleeping or, what is even worse, which is nothing more than avoiding, dealing with the mold on our cheese, is that we work our excuse into the scriptures, justifying it using such words as Grace, Mercy, or or His Love that would of course ignore the sin and allow us to continue moving forward in His will all wiggly-piggly. 

So I did say two things in that word run. The first is that if you did something wrong and someone who is in a mature position to bring correction approaches you as in the way the bible says we should, but even then when they do, you disregard their position, brotherly love and/or responsibility to make disciples. The second is that you stick up the place with that sin leaving it unchecked nor checking itself which could be due to a lot of reasons of which we may or may not get into. I am not 100 on where God is going to take this message or any message for that matter so here we go.

Matt 18:15-17 - 15 “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.

Now but we could just say, “ya but Podcast Preacher this is just our sanctification process and sinning is expected.” Well let’s look at all the sanctification scriptures, which is four, and see if piggin’ is allowed:

1 Cor 1:30 – But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—

1 Thes 4:3 – 4 – For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

2 Thes 2:13 – But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,

1 Peter 1:2 - elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

So I have taught that we have been sanctified, are being sanctified, and will be sanctified. 

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So this isn’t your typical message that will make some feeble attempt to try and explain what hell will be like and why you will see nobody there if you choose to go there. It isn’t going to be like, “hey bro what’s up?” Now we can do whatever we want now that we are in this place. Nope, Bud Light isn’t going to give to a life time, oh wait, you will be there for all of eternity, so we know that no way is Bud Light going to give you a party trailer full of free beer. Nope, No confetti. No piñata, and but also and it is what makes this place absolutely fully of terrible terrors is the fact that it has no back door. One way in, your choosing to go there, and no way out….ever. No back door, no second chance, no hoping God might change His mind about how much you expressed hatred for His unending love. 

And but hey now allow me to enlighten you before I get to the getting’, I was heading to this “no way Hollywood could ever come close to reproducing what hell will be like, place by choice for 34-years of my life. Then one day I realized that, not only were people really messed up with little to hope for finding someone or even an organization to provide a sustainable and lasting solution, but that I was also in unsolvable problems. 

In the movie Battleship there was a line that went something like this, “It time for a new plan of action.” Yup it was definitely time for a complete overhaul. Alcohol would whisper in my ear, “everything is just fine; right as rain”, but then the next morning the same voice would whisper back and condemn me for my actions, and my body would cry out in hang over agony, not again.

When I understood that just because the devil is silent and appears, by all human accounts, to be a fable, doesn’t mean he is not behind every addiction, good or bad deed done for the wrong reasons and under the wrong motivation, doesn’t mean he doesn’t exist, but in fact was hoping, in your spiritual ignorance, that you would actually believe that he is non-existent. Ha, imagine having an enemy that hoped you would just believe that you disregarded their intents:

1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Sound like the voices you hear in the night under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or the sounds in the corridors of a miss-spent youth?

John 10:10 - 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Every wonder who is behind stealing your stuff, dreams, or purpose? Yup no person comes up with such evil on their own, satan is back of it. Who is behind suicides and murder? Satan influencing the very people that God created who because they reject God have no protection from the influence and results of satan’s diabolical schemes. The destructor might make for a cool Hasbro superhero but this is actually a real demonic strategy and many people unknowingly have had a part of or most all of their life destroyed. Now in all these groups the spiritually ignorant, that is those who are make-believers, fake-believers, non-believers, or those who are stuck in the valley of indecision always blame other people who are also in one way or the other going through something similar because the devil loves to destroy human relationships by using those groups of people.

1 Cor 4:4 - 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

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Well I am back from San Diego visiting my sister and it as usual was a great time of filling and overflowing refreshment. And so but then after getting another ten messages yet to be recorded to my near 700 still waiting to be recorded, I picked up a book titled, “The Four Horsemen Of the apocalypse the greatest warning of the next 10 years, written by Steve Cioccolanti, and feel like I should be teaching for the next 365 days 24-hrs a day. Nope, I am not saying that for dramatic effect, but because I asked God for more fire and I got it, and don’t you know that when you ask God for more fire, the fire will come and it compels you to do things outside of the natural? Look:

Jer 20:9 - Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him, Nor speak anymore in His name.” But His word was in my heart like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, And I could not.

Jer 23:9 - My heart within me is broken Because of the prophets; All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine has overcome, Because of the Lord, And because of His holy words.

I have got some great messages coming up including such titles as “Friends in Hell”, “The fruit of your lips is as important as the fruit of your hands”, “LLListeners = Life Long Learners who are humble & Willing listeners”, “Crocodile Teeth”, “God's Going To Break You Or The Devils Going To Take You”, and many, many others. This is going to be a breakout year in which God is moving and the book of Revelation is being fulfilled right before the eyes that are spiritually open. Oh the other eyes, that is the natural eyes will also see it, but they wont be able to comprehend with any type of spiritual discernment what is happening. But if you stay tuned it I will do my best to equip you saints for the work of ministry, I stake my life on it, because Jesus died on a cross shaped stake Himself, and so I reciprocate because while I did not believe in Him or love anything about Him, he died for me:

Rom 5:8 - But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Ok so much blessings to you, and if you are situated near Paradise Ca please come into Paradise Arise Church on Wednesday’s 6pm to 8pm and on Sundays beginning at 10am to catch the fire life and in the person of the Holy Spirit. Remember you will Have no excuses for attending a church full of deadness and luke warmness. God already told us in Revelation 18:4, Is 52:11-12, and in 2 Cor 6:17 to come out of her.

Well, anyway it is great to be back doing what God called me to do and what I love to do. I hope you were able to get caught up on some of the past messages and but to also preach them by sending others the link to listen to them. We are all called to preach and therefore should be doing so at one level or another. There is no such thing as isolated “gifted Preachers.” Preaching is not an office gift nor reserved for the well educated or great speakers, or whatever. Just preach at your level, and in so doing you will level up. 

We have been teaching at least one lesson in 64.6% of the entire planet. So at least one person on over 64.6% of the planet has heard a message on this Podcast, and it is because you are sending it out to those in whom you desire would grow in the Lord. No I am not saying that you are a hater if you don’t send them out but in my next message titled, “Friends in hell”, you will understand why it is that we do not want to miss our opportunity to spread the good news in what appears to me the time in history in which we encounter in the USA the least amount of resistance to the gospel. To my friends abroad I understand that it is not the same way in all places,

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I am getting ready to visit my sister and spend sometime refreshing and growing spiritually. I leave you with a message that I came across in a little booklet titled, “I Am An Idea written by Dr Jack Hyles. But before I get into this, I would recommend you can use the next 8-days beginning Nov 4th to get caught up on some of the previous messages. You will feel right as rain I guarantee it. 

I am an ideas person because God is. This is how I got a patent, created museum quality cars, and done did a bunch of other creative things. 

A friend of mine shared with me about a couple of ideas that he once had had. He told me that once he had shared them with some other so called friends, after hearing their perceived wise counsel he decided not to move forward with them. The thing about listening to advice from pigs who live in the very thing you are trying to escape is that you risk actually believing them over the word of God and what He instructs you to avoid:

Matt 7:6 - “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. 

What were his ideas podcast Preacher? He thought of bottling water before anyone else was bottling water and of all places, within the lake arrowhead region. Those wise oinkers told him he was crazy because after all what fool would buy water in a bottle when you can simply turn on your tap. The other idea was to sell bagels in a shop that just sold bagels.  He also came up with this idea before one bagel shop existed in America. So, you see, if God gives you a creative idea and you decide to have a pork counseling party than you can expect the same results. This man could have been a billionaire x’s 100 with these ideas. Instead he is living nowhere close to that mark. 

Oh now I know we might have listeners who will say but Podcast Preacher life is not about the money. Ah and I could with some certainty predict that you are not living your life to Gods expected full potential, and also that you are in all likelihood not a very generous person. Don’t live by the “me, myself, and I” currency. Broke is not another word for Holy, and poverty is not a spiritual gift:

Eccl 10:19 - A feast is made for laughter,
 And wine makes merry;
 But money answers everything.

Or

2 Cor 8:9 - For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

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Ok so if we grab a hold of this concept it could keep us from becoming hyper-religious like the Pharisees, Scribes, Sadducees, teachers, lawyers, and some Samaritan's in the days of Jesus. Oh, and if you think anything has changed in humanity in these days you would be mistaken. 

Where do you think the Catholic Church, denominations, and non-denominational churches came from? They came from our eventual disagreements on our locked in view of the bible and what we think it states for all time as if it were a static book. Those well-entrenched logs in our eyes. 

Now but this way of thinking isn't just or totally about our interpretation of the scriptures which when interpreting scripture this process is pregnant with the opportunities to create confusion, but that it actually comes from the fact that we are completely and totally blind to the scriptures all together. Lets build our case:

Micah 5:2 - “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
 Though you are little among the thousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be Ruler in Israel,
Whose goings forth are from of old,
From everlasting.”

Location, location, location. They should have known where this spiritual King was going to come from right. Nope they missed this little detail.

More:

Is 7:14 - Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Behold the Son of God will be born from a virgin woman. Who in all of earth could say such a specific thing and have it come to pass so precisely? They missed this detail as well:

 More X3:

Is 53 - Who has believed our report?
 And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
 And as a root out of dry ground.
 He has no form or comeliness;
 And when we see Him,
 There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
 A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
 And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

4 Surely He has borne our griefs
 And carried our sorrows;
 Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
 Smitten by God, and afflicted.
 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
 We have turned, every one, to his own way;
 And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
 Yet He opened not His mouth;
 He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
 And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
 So He opened not His mouth.
 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,
 And who will declare His generation?
 For He was cut off from the land of the living;
 For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
 9 And they made His grave with the wicked—
 But with the rich at His death,
 Because He had done no violence,
 Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
 He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their ini

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Welcome back to part four of a four-part series on the 7-raptures. 

So no doubt you have learned that there have been and will be raptures. It’s not magic or escapism. It is the plan of God as He is building His kingdom for all of eternity. I hope you have paid close attention to some of the scriptures provided as if you continue in ignorance for no other reason that you are closed minded and/or are even hard-hearted then you will miss it on more than just these scriptures which as the bible states you will be unstable and unlearned. Here is just one scripture to consider how you would respond if it didn’t specifically speak of a rapture or catching away:

Luke 21:36 - 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

What is it talking about if not the rapture? Ok one more:

1 Thes 5:9-10 - 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

If you think you want to hang around during the wrath of God being poured out then you are in for quite a surprise. Preaching the gospel to angry non-believing hornets will be the last thing on your mind, unless you came to the conclusion that you did not need to miss the rapture but did so out of ignorance and stubbornness. If in fact you have that revelation then you will preach.

Rom 1:18 - 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Ok so continue to follow this series and send the links out to any of your friends who are open to the idea. 

This message represents the light that I am moving in at this current time so if I do another message on 10-raptures you can be assured that I will support that claim with scripture leaving the decision as to whether to believe it or not in your hands. 

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Welcome back to part three of a four-part series on the 7-raptures. If your noodle hasn’t been at least a little excited by the revelations contained in this series of messages then I recommend listening to them again with your bible open right up beside you.

Continue to follow this series and send the links out to any of your friends who are open to the idea. 

Please be sure to listen to all four messages as this book is the most complete picture of the rapture event that I have read thus far. This message represents the light that I am moving in at this current time so if I do another message on 10-raptures you can be assured that I will support that claim with scripture leaving the decision as to whether to believe it or not in your hands.

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Welcome back to part two of a four-part series on the 7-raptures. In truth the totality of these scriptures is a 100% completely supported activity which will take place. Continue to follow this series and send the links out to any of your friends who are open to the idea if they in fact currently believe they will incur a second judgement for their sins from God when to my knowledge we are only judged once. ha

Again, please be sure to listen to all four messages as this book is the most complete picture of the rapture event that I have read thus far. This message represents the light that I am moving in at this current time so if I do another message on 10-raptures you can be assured that I will support that claim with scripture leaving the decision as to whether to believe it or not in your hands.

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