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Oh boy up at 3am to drop this message into the world of social media. I could not sleep on account that I believe this needed to be shared with my listening audience and because like you I too am at times fighting battles near to home. Why? Sometimes we all, at one point or the other, have trials, struggles, go through persecutions or even God pruning’s (John 15:2), and are fighting tremendous battles on behalf of our Christianity. Look and listen maybe this will help:

2 Tim 2:3-4 - 3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.

Ha, I know that may not have helped but it needed to be said so that we stay sober and fight.

Now I have noticed that many of my recent messages are telling you what the end times looks like and what kinds of things will be taking place and even how you as a believer should be on the lookout for believing and doing things that could get you in spiritual or even salvation trouble. But, and I say this carefully, I haven’t touched some of the potential battle wounds out there. And this message will do just that. Why Podcast Preacher? Healing, and to encourage you to continue in the things of faith and for the authentically born-again believer, all things are in faith. But and if you haven’t figured this out yet, operating in faith also brings with it suffering. Oh yes the very thing that perfected our Lord and King will also perfect us so to speak:

Heb 2:10 – 10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Heb 5:8-9 - 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

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Ok so I am finishing up on my message titled, “A Man’s Enemies Will Be Those of His Own Household” which interrupted my finishing my message titled, “The Benefits of Hard Heartedness, Drawing Back, Backsliding, And All-Out Leaving All Things God”, when I got a text asking me to listen to a YouTube message which essentially was trying to disprove the rapture thingy. Now I have been working with someone on the idea that this event is described in the bible, but to no avail. And I had been getting quite a few questions on this as well, so it is the combination of interests, that I decided to set aside my message which was interrupting my other message and pull this one together. 

Whew, I know it’s a lot of background, but it is important to know when God is redirecting you for a moment or so to deal with an issue. Now the rapture is not really an issue, it is understanding the whole picture which include being caught up, the different purposes of tribulation, and to whom each one applies, and Gods judging sins. You see without giving too much away up front, the tribulation which is to occur over a 7-year period, and will be triggered by Israel signing a 7-year peace treaty with the anti-christ, unknowingly of course, is also a sign that the last 2000-year period of the last 6000 years of earth existence, is coming to an end, and in so doing, and the rapture will remove the mostly gentile church before or just after that 7-year peace treaty is entered into by Israel, is to judge the sons of disobedience. Yes to remove all of the middle part, the tribulation is to judge the sons of disobedience, the non or un believers, those who flatly reject Jesus as God, the unrepentant sinner, and the willing sinner. Yes, you will be left behind if you fit into any of those categories. This double interrupting message is to support the idea that authentically born-again believers who know God, and have obeyed Him will not have to go through the 7-year tribulation period. Now let’s see if I can do that. 

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Don’t despise small beginnings…

Zech 4:10 - For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see The plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord, Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.”

Job 8:7 - Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.

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So, you might ask hey Podcast Preacher when are you going to finish your top ten messages? And I would say eventually, but because time does not stand still and I try with everything in me to provide “right now” needed messages to my listeners and doers, and God is the decisive one in whom I try and follow. My past looks like the Mulholland drive as I tried to as much as I could be the Christian I was called to be. I will tell you now, that, no doubt many of my listeners are stronger Christians than I. God didn’t reveal this Podcast opportunity to the most qualified. Hey, I didn’t even know what a Podcast was, when I got the word to launch it by three different people. So, but also so that you do not underestimate my calling and purpose, God uses people like me to do the extraordinary, and I know I better place a reference least some of you think I just fell into pride:

1 Cor 1:18-31 - 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

How can someone who depends on their degree and higher education understand this without some level of feeling some futility in the whole educational mess. I am not against schooling, just the institutions that are not really in it to equip all people in their strengths and talents equipping them to be the best version of themselves.

20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 

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OK so Apostasy is a word I have always disliked and do you want to know why? Because 1) I didn’t have a reply when someone threw it out to describe someone that they claimed that they knew, who had fallen into the Apostasy mess, and 2) because I didn’t actually know what it meant. And but I didn’t have enough interest in what it meant because it well didn’t interest me. It sounds like an ugly word right, and who wants to look up an ugly word. Ha, but so in my retirement I thought, being as difficult as it has been, difficult because I am a doer and in my first days being retired, I have found I should also be a waiter, no not like at a restaurant but, to be resting with the Lord and waiting for further instruction as to what this next season looks like, and because I am not good at this it is difficult. 

Back to “I thought”, I thought I should get back to the basics of reading the bible for me and not so much to develop my next message. What a concept right? Well being a doer can distract you from Him and your relationship with God, not that this has happened, but I am concerned that it could happen to me, so I will do what I need to do to keep it happening by learning to be a waiter. 

So today I started reading out of the book of Isaiah and came across his statement about the book of Jasper round about in Is 28:21 which stated 

Is 28:21 - For the Lord will rise up as at Mount Perazim,
He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon—
That He may do His work, His awesome work,
And bring to pass His act, His unusual act. 

So but because I saw butterflies in that I got distracted with the statement, “unusual act”, I chased the referenced scripture which led me to read Joshua 10:10, 12 so I looked that up thinking I could find something related to an unusual act. 

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Using the blasphemous last supper decretched display during the Olympics and all of the laws that now support behaviors that God had judged Sodom and Gomorrah for, and then ask the question how we can expect anything different other than fire raining from heaven or starting right on the ground and burning as they do in these days? God will judge sin, or rather the sins of the nation, whether you believe it or not. And but you should know that the role of the Christian these days is different than the non-believer. The non-believer is subject to go sideways in the things of sin. But the believer is to be a bright light, a bucket of salt preserving Gods ways on this spinning rock. We are to do Christianity until the Rapture, and if you are bible ignorant and no nothing about this very soon to happen event then just continue to do Christianity and also read your bible so that you do your Christianity proper. 

If you go to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and take a look at the fires ripping through the US and Canada you might just be a bit concerned that it isn’t just due to possibly man made climate change which if we really are experiencing climate change, not the kind of climate change that dumps truckloads of dollars into the waiting e-car industry, but just simply the change that comes with the ravages of sin that have come upon this planet because of well us, look:

1 John 5:19 - We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. 

The WHOLE world, not just people but the whole world. Yes, we turned over the authority of this planet, which God gave to Adam, to mankind in the garden, and we in our sinning against God gave it to satan. You see, in our sinning, death didn’t just fall upon mankind but upon everything including the very earth itself. Listen to this series of scriptures and see, not what Adam did, but and although reversable by the blood of Jesus, what we continue to do in our rejection of God and His Son today. May this message have a wake-up impact on the Christian community 

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The title of this message is: Faith, Faith, Faith, Faith, Faith, Faith, Faith

I guess I could have just titled it faith X 7, ha but no way as seven is the number of perfection and operating in faith perfectly is earth and heaven shattering. Why, it would have the potential to ignite a revival of epic proportions, if we could operate in faith 24-7 lined up with the perfect will of God. 

So then Ken or Mr. Podcast Preacher if faith is so necessary to be a part of our spiritual DNA then why are we as Christians not having a greater impact, a more necessary influence on the world events of our small world?   

Well so let’s briefly look again at today’s church in 2024. I don’t want to spend too much time (ha, ha) on these things because I speak upon them moocho mucho. Let’s line them up shall we:

No Holy Spirit in most churches today - 

Mark 3:29 - but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation” —

Luke 12:10 - “And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.

So if we do not have the Holy Spirit, we cannot operate in miracles, signs, and wonders, healing no one anywhere near to us. What a selfish way to think about those who most need to see the power of God so that they could get healed and see the power and glory of God in whom they need to pass from this life into all of eternity spent with Jesus the rest of us firebrands. Look before we get vomited out of the mouth of Jesus as we are truly running out of time.

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Welcome to my 7th topic of ten which is titled, “Stop With The Excuses & Lies”. And but you should know why I am doing a message on this topic and that is because I feel like so many of us including me, have a quiver full of excuses for why we initially respond to God requests with a strange series of statements like, “ God is that You”, or “what’s going on”, or “hey did you hear that”, or “That wasn’t God” or “we go to binding the devil” or we just ignore the voice of instruction and try to go on about our way. Now the other lane of institutional prepackaged vocals is to come up with excuses as to why, the God who created everything, cannot work through us to get His instruction to us accomplished.

Oh, I know you want an example out of the bible and so well I will give you one, in fact I will give you the one that motivated me to do this message in the first place. 

So, I discovered a Moses journey that is actually quite funny with the exception that he really at some point in time, really irritated God to the point that he needed help to escape death. Yes, and this was even before he went to Egypt to tell pharaoh to let the people go. With all of the Christian excuses we have today regarding God asking us to do stuff, aren’t you glad He is not, at least right now, in the snuffing business? The unfortunate part of the affair is that you end up wasting your Christan life by not entering into your calling and purpose He has written on your very heart. You will need to read your bible and press into God so that you can find out your purpose and spiritual life calling, be ready to be clipped and snipped. 

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We know that James states to be hearers and doers (James 1:22), and well the entire bible is based on an active Christianity, and unfortunately many, many, many take that to mean church attendance. Fact! The building may be called a church but is, in fact, not the church by biblical definition. You are the church, so going to an address does not address your Christianity in the fullness of what Jesus intended, based on His revelation in the book of Revelation chapter 3. My friends we must relearn what it is to be a Christian for these days least we be drug away by the sweet words of the false prophets and teachers who have every intend to magic you away from the reality of Gods purpose for your life (2 Peter 2:1-3, Matt 24:24).

2 Tim 4:3 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

Listen to me the time is now and has been. Unsound doctrine is the sweet meal of the day and it sits on the religious menu right next to the Cinnabon and filet mignon ha. 

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Today is take your Father to work day. No it isn't, you're supposed to take your Father to work everyday. Now but you know that I am talking about God, His holy Spirit, and Jesus who dwells in you right? 

 My Dad is better than your dad if your dad is not my Dad, ha. No but so I have heard for a good part of my Christian walk that you cannot and should not manifest your Christianity at work, and oh especially if you work a Government job. Oh the legal knuckleheads have so many people confused and deceived regarding the statement, there must be a separation of church and state. And but my concern is not for the God haters and earth-rebels, but for the ignorant Christians who are daily silent in a world of opportunity to change lives like nothing else can for all of eternity. Oh excuse me Eternity, I cannot right now lead anyone to you as I am instructed not to do so while I am managing their short-term journey to hell. Oh I care just not between the hours of 8am to 5pm. And but if I am a ruler of many then those hours are extended to on many days more than 12-hrs per day or more. That I know is a lot of silent time but boy do I get the work done and by the way, I don’t know if you have noticed but I am really making such a big difference in peoples natural lives, and but….bink, bink, bink we interrupt this message to bring you some breaking news. It appears as though people have been disappearing, not a lot but it is significant enough to notice that they definitely just vanished…

 Ha, and what is happening these days? They are trying to join all of the religions of the world into one. But in order for this to work, and many of us will buy into the idea even though we have been given advanced warning, they, we will have to remove Jesus as God. Yup we will have to relegate Him to a man-status. Why Because He is the only way to salvation and for whatever reason satan seems to know this more than the crowds that will agree to this insanity. You see Jesus and His true followers will get blamed for all of the unrest and spiritual wars so of course it stands to reason if we are to have peace, He must go. It’s the work of the anti-christ and the majority are ignorant of his working things out to his end-time advantage. One Government and one church that lines up with Government. 

 1 Thess 5:3 - For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

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