Who understands the “Wages of Sin”? :: by Don Twobears

I am intrigued by a question that was asked of me. “Do you think President Barack H. Obama is an antichrist?”

I replied that I believe he is an assistant to the fact, in that we know the Antichrist is already alive in the world somewhere right now. We know that this president does not love this country of ours. We also know that he is inviting every calamity he can think of in order to destroy this country from the inside out.

If you see a dog walking down the street, you know that it is indeed a dog according to its looks, and that it barks. This is not difficult to understand, right? It’s the same as saying; a rock is a rock and will always be a rock. This is how the Lord created it to be.

Man has been the harbinger of “rationalization,” I would have to believe from the beginning. I can hear Adam talking to Eve one day after the garden expulsion: “Well…this may seem difficult right now sweetheart, but I believe this is how it should be. Man is the one that should be out hunting and foraging for food,” his chest sticking out, prideful.

Eve, standing there with her hand on her hip and the other wrapped around a baby with sweat rolling down her face. Her feet are dirty, her back aches and the child is crying. Her eyes narrow with every word coming out of Adam’s mouth.

“I am presently cooking your supper, the baby is hungry, I haven’t swept the floors yet, my back is killing me, my feet hurt, I need a bath and I haven’t had a single moment to myself! Now, if you want to be able to walk for the rest of your life, you’d better disappear!”

Adam makes a quick and quiet exit. You should never try and rationalize a woman. That is a task that will end in utter failure. Besides that, they are quite adept at knowing what is what, despite our every effort to the contrary. As of today, this scenario has not changed one bit.

According to that “rationalization” we see many people today walking about with signs expressing their dissatisfaction with the “status quo.” Far too many people are willing to forgo accountability of our officials, in lieu of making more money. Ask yourself a question here; if the one percent wants all the money, where will this money come from? They will say from the middle class and the poor!

Think on this for a moment. If there are no jobs for the poor and middle class, where will the one percent turn to when they want something built or made? Do you really think the one percent will forgo their $1000 suits for a pair of work boots and overalls? Do you really think they will swing a hammer or lay asphalt? I would love to be standing there when that takes place!

So what do you think is really happening? The one percent are continually sitting and “rationalizing” on what they believe. We (the poor and middle class) are thinking about the whole situation. They are acutely aware, that if the entire middle and poor class people stood up one day and yelled, “ENOUGH” that their empire would crumble all around them! They would be forced into becoming accountable for their actions, they would have to provide more jobs, and they would be forced to “take a cut!” And a big one at that!

Oh…the horrors of it (they would exclaim, as their bank accounts take a huge hit). Therefore, their only option is to make the best for all three classes. Notice I stated, “make the best for all three classes.” I did NOT say “make things equal for all three classes.” Obviously, there’s a mountain of difference there. They endeavor to “give us a taste” of what we want, but never to equalize the situation. Thus, they continue to gain more and more. This is the world we live in today!

Have you ever noticed when someone is truly in dire need — for example, they lost everything in a fire. Who is it that is always giving up for someone else? The poor and middle class! And the reason is that we know what it’s like to have nothing. And when it is absolute, we work to help them out. Can you say this for the one percent? Few, if any at all!

Why is it that this is the norm? Don’t they have feelings about the situation for those who have lost everything? Yes they do! They also know, “We take care of our own.” They have rationalized this out and then use it against us. And the whole reason is that they don’t want to loose a single penny of profit!

Matthew 16.24-28:

“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

Somewhere along the way, the one percent believes they can buy their way into heaven.

Acts 8.22:

“Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.”

This is a statement. And by no means is it a thought to be considered by anyone. According to the Word of God, there are going to be a lot of people (actually the majority) that are going to be severely surprised when the Rapture of the church of Jesus Christ takes place. Yet, they will “rationalize” what has happened and give it a different twist. Many have said they will believe a lie and so does the Bible.

It says in 2 Thessalonians 2.11-12:

“And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

I can’t think of any other way to put it. The truth of this verse is obvious. Trust the Lord in that, if it is written in God’s holy Word to us, it will happen.

Back to what I was saying concerning, Obama. Let it be known that he is one of the one percent. And we all know this. He is under condemnation; he is following Satan and not Jesus Christ! That is what I believe according to the Scriptures.

1 John 4.1-3, emphasis added:

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God:

Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.”

There it is in black and white. And there is nothing I would change for one second. I am so happy that I belong to Jesus Christ. I don’t have to worry about these occurrences. All I need to do is make sure that I test everything in life against the Word of God. If it looks like a fish, smells like a fish and tastes like a fish, it’s probably a fish.

I see very few people in places of power that are using the Word of God for direction. Obama has placated the Islamists of this world to our detriment. And I have never seen one single action or heard one statement from him that is about God.

I am of the opinion that everyone, including Barack Obama, needs Jesus Christ! I know from the Word of God, that this will never take place. They are called by and follow their master, Satan. How utterly sad it is to know this truth! How sick and diseased this world is! Praise the Lord for HIS mercy and love for us!

Maranatha, Lord!

What is our Worth? :: by Don Twobears

I worked in the medical field for forty years, working day in and night out on human hearts. At the time Jesus Christ had not yet saved me and I thought that we, who did this form of work─were beyond reproach. We were on the cutting edge of cardiac restoration and rehabilitation; we were for three years, at the top in Texas. I have even worked on the heart of the president of Ecuador…Ooo!

Today, I am 61 years old. I am afflicted with arthritis in my hands and knees to the point that I will never be able to hold an instrument again, or be able to stand at the table for hours on end. I have diabetes II as well. Yet the one saving grace in everything in my life comes from the Lord! It is the knowledge of my Lord and the future existence in heaven with HIM! Praise my Lord for all HIS blessings!

We humans have afflictions of our fleshy hearts that would curl the hair of most! Things that seem to simply go wrong often did, and we would have seminars to address these things on a continuous basis. After all the school I went through to gain this position, I was still in school every week, without fail. We truly live in bodies that I like to refer to as a “flabby bag of fluid and bones.”

Oh, and we must make sure they are stout and hardy. We must run marathons and exercise without fail everyday! That way, we live longer! What a bunch of whoweee! Runners of notoriety these days are dropping like flies from cardiac problems, and they’re supposed to be the elite!

We had a saying, more of a joke actually. “Hey, cut it out! Can’t you see that I am busy saving lives here?” We were actively taking a stance against the Lord! The Lord saves lives. Not us! I know this to be a fact. We would work our collective butts off using every technological advantage we possess and still, some would die right in front of us!

It was God telling us that only HE can save. No matter the situation. And when He calls someone home, they come! It took forty years for that to get through my head. And when the Lord humbled me, it was the hardest lesson I had to learn. Here’s an example:

The patient presents himself with a Cardiac Tachycardia of 220 bpm, quickly followed by a Syncopal episode of less than a minute. Somewhere in his past, the patient had the flu with possible earmarks of yellow fever. Therefore, we can assume that there was some scaring of the cardiac tissue.

Upon further investigation, with an advanced 12 lead ECG, we discovered there was an AV Nodal Re-entrant Tachycardia (electrical signal would reach the scar and the signal would start running in a circle at that point).

The idea was to place a special catheter in the heart, find the circular signal and then ablate the tissue (create a small burn spot), thus stopping the circular signal and allowing it to continue on to the Hiss-Perkingie fibers of the heart and a normal heart rate. This usually worked and the patient would be released to a normal life there after.

Oh wow! We had saved another patient! WRONG! As Jesus Christ has said, “Ye can do nothing without me!” We were running about with big heads, we were so awesome and never did we give credit, or the praise to the Lord that HE deserved.

Think on this for a moment! These flabby, baggy, bodies full of fluid and bones are nothing to fix. We all still die one day! It is the LORD God almighty that takes us to heaven or to hell.

Somewhere along the way we have been taught that “this life” is so “all important!” We have been flimflammed into believing this by Satan, and yet the various bacteria of our bodies kill us everyday by staph and strep, to name just two.

Research sometime, “MRSA” (Methicillian ResistantStaphylococcus Aurous). We have staph bacteria on our skin and inside our bodies, like in the bowel for instance, and yet when it gets into a sterile area it can kill us…dead! strep causes strep throat. And if left untreated, can kill you. Now look at these things and cancer as well, as a form of SIN. You will quickly see that SIN is the cause of all this illness and death.

How about AIDS? It first shows up in gay men and kills them within a year. There is a resulting pronouncement for actions that the Lord calls an abomination. Let there be no mistake here. If it is in anyway against the LORD God Almighty or HIS Holy Word, it is SIN and it will kill you.

Maybe not today, but in the future it will. Jesus Christ is the onlyway to life everlasting! HE is the Creator of each of us and HE is the true physician. And only HE can heal eternally. Am I saying all medical personnel are worthless? Absolutely not!

The pickle here is this: Where do you think all this knowledge came from? Who is it that sustains us until we humbly come to HIM? Who is it that has created a “spirit” within us that continues on into eternity? I say “spirit” rather than soul; look up the difference between the two in your Bibles using Strong’s Concordance for assistance.

We know the soul is more like that person inside your body that provides the voice that speaks to you. It is also that voice that tells you what is right and what is wrong but there is a difference. That difference is for another article though.

Suffice it to say that if the Lord calls you home, there isn’t squat we can do about it! God is the ultimate authority in every single part of our lives. Man on the other hand, would love to elevate himself to the level of God.

For just a second I’d like to remind you, that this is the same thing Lucifer did that got him thrown out of heaven. And we call him Satan today. I’m reminding you of this fact so as to make sure you see that rebellion against God, in any manner whatever, is to be against God and deserves death.

It says in Romans 3,23-24, emphasis added:

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”

Somewhere along the way, we have been deceived (by Satan) into thinking we are all important. It is not us, but God that is important! God created us to be a people that HE could love and care for and that we could love HIM in return so that we would be HIS people and HE would be our God.

There is no other way to say this. It is the absolute truth! Once we understand where and by whom we were created, and then understand why we are here, then we will forever be free. That makes it a great truth. We simply walk a certain path and one day the path forks.

One goes to the left, and the other to the right. Jesus Christ stands opposed to Satan. It is our responsibility, and our only purpose to choose which side we wish to be on. Once our human bodies die, there is no changing our minds.

It is eternally written in God’s book of life which side we chose. Our existence in eternity is dictated according to that one choice! Choose Jesus Christ and you will be in heaven for eternity. Choose Satan, and you will eternally die in hell.

There is one hitch in all of this! Like I said, you must choose before you die, right? So, when are we supposed to die? Will it always be like grandma and grandpa, when we are old? Absolutely not, only the Father knows! So…if you have no idea of when you’re going to die, which could in 50 years or two minutes after you read this, where would you go?

I remember the “teen tragedy” songs of the 50’s and the 60’s. Do you? Therefore, it could be at any age, that my friends, is a very sobering thought indeed! The manner in which we go has no bearing on the situation either.

All of this is up to the Lord. Being that I am 61, and a diabetic with arthritis, I can’t wait to shed this corrupt and problem infested body and be given my new “incorruptible” body!

I know that if this article were to be read by the majority of the world, they would scoff and call me every possible name they could think of. This for me is just fine. I am not here to gain popularity with humanity; I am here to follow my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to give HIM all my Love and devotion. HE deserves the glory and the blessings because he does everything. Not us!

Trust me when I say, it is ultimately strange to me, that the majority would rather receive the glory for themselves. Yet, what is it that they have accomplished? Man has never created anything new! It doesn’t matter who a person is, God is no respecter of anyone!

I will not humble myself in front of any man, for any reason, even if it results in my death. They will be sending me to the place I hope for─heaven for eternity! It doesn’t get any better than that! My Lord and Savior…Jesus Christ!

Maranatha, Lord!!

P.S. It doesn’t matter how much you rant and rave. It doesn’t matter what you say. One thing is a for sure! Accepting the gift of Jesus Christ is the only way to life for eternity! Once you’re gone from here, there’s no coming back. There is only one true Lord and Savior. You may want to get to know HIM, before your date with death.