Armageddon :: By The Gospelist

Reduced to its bare essence, the battle of Armageddon is a conflict between the God who created the universe and a planet filled with deluded morons who think they can beat him in a fight.

Given the complete stupidity of this endeavor, why exactly do the heathen rage and the peoples plot in vain?

The answer is that the ten kings who rule their own kingdom for one hour during the tribulation have taken counsel together against God and his holy Son.

The complete arrogance of this effort is stunning.

It seems that they are opposed to the Millennial Reign of Christ because its establishment necessitates the destruction of their kingdom. Due to their faithlessness, Satan has deluded these kings into believing that they can prevent the establishment of Christ’s Millennial Kingdom through force of arms.

The wiles of Satan have no limits.

The ten kings of the earth will take counsel together and form an alliance against the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. These people will have convinced themselves that they have sufficient demonic power and military capability to take down the Lord when he appears in the clouds.

There was even a ridiculous movie made by a bunch of clowns in Hollywood where this idea was actually successful. I am certain that they thought it was awfully funny.

As it turns out, God has a sense of humor too.

The heathen intend to take a stand against God by overturning his moral law. God’s law is a chain and a fetter to the godless that interferes with their licentious designs. It is their full intention to break these chains and change the set times that God has established since he laid the foundation of the world.

God finds that amusing.

As the battle of Armageddon is beginning to heat up and its set time draws near, let’s take a look at some of the bold combatants who believe that God is a paper tiger.

There are too many people and institutions who have lined themselves up against the Lord to count. There is the UN, the WEF, the Blackrock investment group, the Alphabet Brigade, the Democrat Party, the leadership of the vast majority of the nations on the planet, and the list goes on.

These people actually believe that the law of God can be supplanted with their pathetic values.

There are also those who suppress the truth, such as wicked organizations like the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), and Newsgard.

You have to hand it to these people; they are excellent at coming up with high-sounding names to hide their sick ideology.

These people do have an awful lot of money, and they have purchased or intimidated powerful politicians and judges all over the world. Those that they cannot purchase or intimidate, they simply assassinate when they begin to have political success.

Apparently, the only two politicians they have not bought yet are Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s easy to tell who has not been bought because they spend most of their time under indictment.

Or dodging bullets.

The heathen have also invented a social construct that will help them reverse everything that God has established.

They will bring about the days of Noah and Lot, as predicted by Jesus, through the avenue of Social Justice.

There has never been a more pernicious theology that completely undermines the truth and righteousness of God than this new way of inventing evil.

They will also convince enough of the world population to give up their freedom and submit to Satan’s kingdom through the totalitarian ideology of Climate Change. Once they control all aspects of human existence, no one will dare to rebel against them.

God will need a daring battle strategy to challenge these formidable demonic ideologies.

When the Globalists’ leader comes on the scene, he will read God the riot act. He will speak boastfully against the Lord and his anointed. He will even wage war against the post-rapture saints of God and defeat them.

Their success will delude them into believing their kingdom is indestructible.

Their Antichrist will be a master of lies and intrigue, maybe even better than Barack Obama. He will become very strong by the power of Satan and will cause astounding devastation.

Even the Biden administration will come to realize that they are only pikers when it comes to wrecking a nation, compared to the pure destructive power of the Antichrist.

Like a true leftist, he will cause deceit to prosper and consider himself superior to Christ himself. Once he brings about a false ‘peace and safety’ under his kingdom, he will destroy many in his quest for unquestioned power.

Then he will take his futile stand against the prince of princes.

In the meantime, Satan and his minions are hard at work setting up their kingdom. He still has a lot of work to do, and his time grows shorter by the day. The Lord of Darkness himself has busied himself lining up his pawns for this war to end all wars.

The first nation that needs to fall before Satan can set up his kingdom is America. There are still some faithful Christians who have presented themselves as an obstacle. They have ‘little strength,’ but what they have is more than enough to cause the Beelzebub problems.

To combat this thorny issue, he has enlisted the aid of the Godless liberals such as those on our courts, especially our Supreme Court. Although this court has improved somewhat due to Trump’s appointments, we can be very confident that this is not going to last.

If the Democrats win the next election, they will expand all our courts with so many reprobates that any hope for a fair verdict will be lost.

And even if the Democrats do not win, the members of the Supreme Court may not have the moral fortitude to stand against the terrible evil Democrat voters are prepared to perpetrate to get their way.

The liberals who sit on this bench (and the lower benches as well) are of their father, the devil, and will work to change the laws so that good is evil and evil is good. Instead of ensuring that real crimes are punished, they will issue judgments that will further empower the wicked.

In many of our lower courts, State and Federal, rapists and murderers are released without bond in our liberal cities. The faithful and those who care about the truth and what’s right can be held indefinitely without a hearing.

One need only examine the plight of the January 6 political prisoners to see how this is going to work out for the rest of us. This is what happens when our corrupt courts turn the law upside down.

Our illustrious Supreme Court has already laid the groundwork to ensure that anyone who seeks righteousness will become a prey.

In Lawrence vs. Texas (2003), the court ‘discovered’ that State anti-sodomy laws were unconstitutional. Although these laws were upheld in 1986, and since the founding of this country, the court had to invent a new right so that the perversion of homosexuality could infiltrate every part of our culture.

Homosexuality became virtuous, and opposition to it became a vice.

God certainly took it on the chin with that ruling.

The liberals on the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that:

  1. Anti-sodomy laws violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
  2. Such statutes violated the Equal Protection Clause, according to the elitist Sandra Day O’Connor.
  3. The Right to Privacy ‘Clause’ of the U.S. Constitution was being violated even though this right does not exist in the U.S. Constitution.

The relevant portion of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as found in Section 1, states:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws.

These liberal ‘justices’ read the law just like our emergent church ‘pastors’ read the Bible. They just made stuff up and then waited to see how many people were dumb enough to believe them.

They were not disappointed.

The purpose of the fourteenth amendment was to ensure that all people born in the United States had the privileges and immunities of a citizen, especially those who had been slaves. Six members of the Supreme Court decided to pervert this right and twist it into something that was unrecognizable when it was passed in 1866.

The intention of these black-robed fiends was to endow those who engage in Godless sexual behavior with rights that they can assert against those who are actually protected by the U.S. Constitution.

The actual purpose of the fourteenth amendment was to protect innocent persons, not people who engage in sexual behavior that deviates from the will of God.

As for the right to privacy, that was never defined in the U.S. Constitution. The court made up this right so that it could slowly chip away at it in the future.

A totalitarian government understands that if it can make up rights, in an effort to appear magnanimous, it can begin to use the minutia of the law to violate that right later when it suits its purposes.

The fact that our churches were dying at this time made it much easier for the courts to get away with mocking God through this ruling.

With this new right intact, the courts could then begin to render the First Amendment of the Constitution obsolete. This amendment protects Christians from corrupt and perverse Federal, State, and local governments from violating the rights of Christians.

Once they created a new right, the Supreme Court opened the floodgates for the heathen to attack Christians with impunity.

When the court awarded those who engage in homosexual behavior special protection, their rights could slowly take precedence over the legitimate rights of Christians. Christians can now be hauled into court by those who are in rebellion against God in their never-ending effort to malign and bankrupt us.

So much for “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech….” The 2003 ruling laid the groundwork to overthrow freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Ten years later, the liberals on the ‘Supreme Court’ decided to take mocking God to a whole new level. In fact, they decided to profane his law in such a way that there would be no turning back for the country.

In 2013, The majority on the Supreme Court argued in United States vs. Windsor that section III of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional. This lawless ruling unleashed a torrent of perversion that went even beyond ‘gay marriage.’

After this silly judgment, any ridiculous relationship combination could be referred to as ‘marriage.’

Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Boulder, CO, has been repeatedly set upon by the wicked and Godless Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Instead of making cakes, he has repeatedly been forced into court because he did not want to make a cake for a same-sex wedding.

He wants to celebrate real marriages, not Godless ones. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects that right. However, since Godless sexual behavior now has equal protection under the U.S. Constitution, according to six Nimrods, he has to fight for his rights until the end of time.

The U.S. Constitution was designed to protect us from the Colorado Civil Rights Commission as it is currently constituted. The people who run this organization have no interest in the truth or what is right. They want to punish Mr. Phillips because he refuses to participate in the undermining of God’s moral law.

The courts have now successfully overturned God’s law in the minds of a majority of people. This is how the wicked go about setting up Satan’s kingdom. If they can get enough people to believe their idiotic ideology, they can grow their numbers until no one else honors God’s law.

Those few who hold out can easily be eliminated by the majority.

The same mentality that attacks Mr. Phillips is the same mindset that makes these people think that they can go to war with God and survive. They are so deluded that they believe they can eliminate God’s righteous law through the court process.

It is not just our courts who use the ‘law’ to mock God, but our corporations have now decided that they can use their vast wealth to put God in his place.

Especially when it comes to suppressing truth.

According to the heathen at the New York Times, God and his followers are completely out of line when it comes to their rejection of ‘transgenderism.’ The fact that the acceptance of this new ‘social construct’ would have been outrageous for the last 6,000 years until about three years ago is lost on the Times.

Even Sodom and Gomorrah didn’t pull that stunt.

Amanda Holpuch of the New York Times lets us all know that mocking God is a sacred right and that if God does not like it, he is suffering from ‘divine’ privilege.

She writes:

“Some conservative commentators and celebrities began calling for a boycott of Bud Light after the beer featured in a social media promotion by a transgender influencer, Dylan Mulvaney, on April 1.”

It seems that ‘Ms.’ Mulvaney, who is still equipped like a man, is a very popular figure on TikTok. TikTok offers advice and entertainment that is on par with the advice one gleans from watching the movie ‘Jackass.’

In other words, it is mostly a social cesspool.

Bud Light’s sales slumped because, unbeknownst to the marketing executives of this corporation, most drinkers of beer do not identify with Dylan Mulvaney. In fact, most are disgusted by him. And they certainly do not want to be ridiculed by their friends for drinking a beer that identifies them with a guy who dresses like a girl.

Due to this misguided marketing campaign, two of its executives took a leave of absence from Anheuser-Busch.

This did not set well with the God-haters who see this as an obstacle to the building of Satan’s kingdom. Even now, they are plotting their revenge against the men who dared to put testosterone above their sick social agenda.

The heads of the WEF and the investment firm Blackrock have deemed that society had better start conforming to their new sexuality ‘or else.’ They, and their other Globalists allies, have a lot of money and will not tolerate disobedience from the unwashed masses while they are busy reversing God’s law regarding sexuality.

Larry Fink will dictate right and wrong for the rest of us, and he will use his vast wealth to financially ruin, and probably pay some governmental authority to incarcerate those who stand on God’s law.

It takes a lot of dead churches for these people to demand that we submit to their wicked ‘religious’ authority and get away with it.

Dylan apparently has 10.8 million followers on TikTok, and this app has been documenting his descent into cross-dressing for some time online. The question then arises: what would possess someone to want to watch a man defile himself in an act of Godlessness and faithlessness?

That is an awful lot of people who love it when God is mocked.

Dylan, now 26, has been celebrating his “Days of Girlhood” series for a full year now. All the while, he was cheered on by upwards of 10.8 million reprobates, each one doing so with the full knowledge that they are one heartbeat away from an eternity they do not want.

Dylan recently spoke with none other than the most corrupt president in American history, Joe Biden, about the newly created ‘transgender rights.’ They celebrated these new rights and the fact that they will eventually supersede the religious rights of the people of God.

The evil reprobates who promote this wickedness have developed an effective social strategy against those who resist the perversion of the culture. Anyone who dares speak out against this abomination is guilty of ‘violence’ against those who do not think it worthwhile to retain a knowledge of God.

Of course, there is no real ‘violence’ against these people. The violence against them is as imaginary as the existence of a ‘transgender.’ There is, however, plenty of violence from these people. Swimmer Riley Gaines learned about that the hard way.

These people like to accuse decent people of violence when they resist their ideology when they are, in reality, the aggressors.

Sort of like Islamic terrorists who claim you are an aggressor and worthy of death if you resist their faith.

Dylan went on the Rosie O’Donnell Show to lament how poorly he is being treated by conservatives. Rosie, the ‘Queen of Nice,’ was very sympathetic to his plight.

I didn’t even listen to her show, but I could make that call with 100% accuracy.

If he were more experienced as a ‘transwoman,’ he lamented, he would better be able to deal with the criticism from people of faith. He was completely in the dark regarding what the goal is of those who resist his ideology.

“But what is their goal?” he asked.

Well, Dylan, it’s real simple. We do not want your perversion exposed to our children, we do not want your ‘rights’ taking precedence over our rights, and we believe you should keep your rebellion against God in the back alleys where it belongs.

Unfortunately, breaking down the morals of society is the main purpose of your behavior.

It’s OK, Dylan. One day your side is going to completely win the culture war. You can then rejoice in your victory and move on to even greater conquests. It won’t be long before our Supreme Court codifies child molestation and bestiality.

Then you and your followers can really rub in God’s face your filth.

Once this occurs, you can face down God along with your father, the devil. He will convince you that you can take God on because he is kind and merciful, and you, and your over ten million followers, are not.

Since you did not think it was worthwhile to retain a knowledge of God, you can join with those who have been given over to a depraved mind.

We now have an entire month that is dedicated to bringing millions of people together to mock God. Imagine that: thirty days of watching every kind of wickedness, evil, and depravity each night on our televisions and in our towns.

Men and women dressing up in outrageous garb, exhibiting their various fetishes and perversions for all of us and our children to watch. Each one a gossip, slanderer, a God hater, insolent, arrogant, and boastful.

June is Gay Pride Month all over the world as people everywhere celebrate, and take pride in, the breaking of the chains of God’s moral law.

Pride month is held in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots that the communists used to cause sexual discord in our culture fifty-five years ago. The Stonewall Inn, where the riots began, was named a national monument by Barack Obama.

In 1999, another corrupt Democrat president, Bill Clinton, officially declared June Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. Being a very close friend of Jeffrey Epstein, with numerous junkets with the child trafficker, it should come as no surprise that Bill would make this declaration.

Jeffrey Epstein had a portrait of Bill in his home that was completely indicative of this president’s character.

In order to mock God properly, the ‘Alphabet Brigade’ (let the reader understand) decided to adopt the rainbow as its emblem (I had to come up with my own term since ‘Alphabet Mafia’ has already been taken). The rainbow was a covenant between God and Noah. It was a promise that God would never again destroy the earth by flood.

According to the rainbow flag designer, the rainbow is the “rainbow of humanity” and is designed to represent all genders and races. What it truly symbolizes is all those who have taken a stand against God and his anointed.

Pride month is an exhibition of rebellion and treachery against the Lord. Its participants and supporters have turned their backs on God and have hardened their hearts against his Spirit. Every year for thirty days, they foment oppression and revolt and utter lies their hearts have conceived.

They take great joy in the fact that justice is driven back and righteousness stands at a distance. Many of our law enforcement personnel now eagerly do their bidding. They arrest street preachers calling people to repentance while perverts gyrate in front of innocent children.

And many dead and Laodicean churches have joined in this rebellion to their eternal shame.

They cause truth to stumble in the streets so that honesty cannot enter. Our social media and Hollywood have enthusiastically taken up this cause.

They, and the mainstream media that loves them, see to it that truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes their prey.

They are feeling really confident that God is helpless to stop them. It seems as if all of these globalist organizations have achieved complete success taking down Western Civilization to make way for Satan’s kingdom.

However, God has set a day when he will look upon this wickedness, and his patience will come to an end. These people are ecstatic about his displeasure and will align themselves against him because they view his patience as weakness.

They know that God’s primary goal is to bring sinners to repentance, and they will use every means at their disposal to see that does not happen.

They have convinced themselves that because they have gotten away with evil for so long, God is powerless to stop them. They intend to show their hatred for everything God loves and how much they love the things that God hates.

The battlefield they will choose to meet God in a death match is in the land of Israel. There is no nation on the planet that is hated by the Godless more than this nation.

All of the rebellion of the world culminates in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and they are armed and ready for a fight to the finish.

God beckons to them:

“Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O Lord. Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full” (Joel 3:11-13).

God will put on righteousness as his breastplate and place the helmet of salvation on his head. He will put on his garments of vengeance and will wrap himself in zeal as in a cloak.

According to what they have done, he will repay.

“‘Therefore wait for me,’ declares the Lord, ‘for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed'” (Zephaniah 3:8).

God will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth in the form of blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the Lord.

The good news is that during this time of destruction, those few who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.

There will be deliverance among the survivors of those who did not join in the battle of Armageddon. God will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and humble the pride of the ruthless.

In doing so, he will make man scarcer than the gold of Ophir.

However, we can see the battle lines being drawn even now. Time is growing far too short for people to turn from their wickedness and to the Holy Son of God.

It is time for everyone to consider the challenge that Joshua issued to the people of Israel, “…if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve….’

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Christ has issued his warning to the kings and rulers of the earth. Instead of preparing for a hopeless battle, he commands that they serve the Lord with trembling.

“Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him” (Psalm 2:12).

All of the heathen should think hard about this before they take their children to another gay pride parade or drag queen story hour.

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Agape :: By Nathele Graham

What is the definition of “love”? In Greek, there are various words that are translated as love, and each is used for a specific type of love. The one most commonly associated with God is agape. It’s the caring type of love that all Christians should display for the world to see, especially to each other. That word appears 116 times in Scripture, but the first place it’s used is in a negative sense.

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” (Matthew 24 12).

Jesus used agape in describing the way life will be as we draw nearer to the Tribulation. There will be false prophets who deceive people, and persecution will be great. There will be very little agape evidenced around us. Do we see any of the “iniquity” today? The Greek word “anomia” is translated as iniquity, and it means a condition without law either because of ignorance or because of violating it. It’s also translated as “unrighteousness” and “transgression.” We are moving quickly into a very wicked time. As the final seven years of life on earth draw near, agape is growing cold.

Brothers and sisters, we need to stop allowing the wickedness of the world to negatively affect how we serve Jesus. Christians are very, very blessed in that our sins are forgiven, and we have hope in Jesus. We are the ones who need to share God’s perfect love with the people who live in this wicked and evil world that’s under the control of Satan.

“Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin” (Romans 4:7-8).

Because Christians have accepted Christ for salvation, our sins are forgiven. Even King David understood this blessing. In a psalm of praise for God’s mercy, he wrote, “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12). David wasn’t a Christian, but he truly understood repentance and turning from sin. It’s a blessing that God agapes us so much, and we should humbly show our gratitude to God by living to please Him.

King David was an excellent king. He loved the Lord, and his desire was to honor God with his life. Was he perfect? Hardly, but when confronted with his sin, he was broken over it. He never committed that sin again but told God how sorry he was.

I see many so-called Christians giving lip service to Jesus but not truly repenting of their sin. They continue to hold tightly to the sin from which they claim to have repented. When we accept Christ, our sins are forgiven, but in accepting Christ’s forgiveness, we need to repent. That means to change your mind about the sin you embrace and turn from that sin. If you continue to lust after fleshly desires and give into that lust, then you haven’t truly repented.

As long as we live on this side of Heaven, we will always struggle against sin in order to honor God, or even give into the sin and lust found in the world.

Jesus forgave a woman who had been having a sexual encounter with a man she wasn’t married to. He forgave her, but He told her to stop sinning. We can’t accept His forgiveness and then mock Him by continuing to sin. The Apostle John assures us of God’s forgiveness. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us” (1 John 1:9-10).

Everyone sins. Gossiping is a sin, disrespecting parents is a sin, sexual activity outside of a one-man/one-woman marriage is a sin, and there are more. The closer you draw to God, the more broken you will be over sin. Today it’s common to hear someone try to justify their own sin by saying that Jesus would have been a part of the sin. That’s so wrong. I’ve even heard people say that Jesus would be leading gay pride parades. First, pride is a sin, and second, those parades glorify sin, and Jesus would not participate. He would absolutely love the sinner, and if they repented of their sin, He would forgive, but He wouldn’t celebrate the sin.

As Christians, we need to stand firm upon God’s word. Nations may “legalize” sin, but that doesn’t make sin right in God’s eyes. How do we, as Christians, show God’s agape to a world that embraces sin and promotes ungodliness? It isn’t agape to allow another person to die in their sins because they love that sin so much. It isn’t agape to allow Jesus to be slandered and mocked by people who say He would accept sin and even promote it. We can’t expect people blinded by sin to know who Jesus was and what He did for us. On the other hand, we need to show agape to those who are lost in sin.

Paul was a very wicked man who thought he was serving God by arresting and murdering those who embraced Christ for salvation. While he was on a mission to punish Christians in Damascus, he met Jesus. Paul repented of his way of life and became a true follower of Christ. It is Paul’s example of missionary work that we should follow. It was Paul who wrote letters to Christians to encourage them and keep them grounded in the faith. Paul was bold in his witness for Christ and didn’t fear prison or being beaten, but he loved people enough to spread the Gospel. His letters are inspired by the Holy Spirit and stand today as Christian doctrine. Each letter should be used for information about Christian life.

Our first and foremost example is Christ, but Paul’s writings are full of instruction for us. His letters to the believers in Corinth give us some important information. The attitude of the Corinthians was what today would be called a “seeker-friendly” congregation who were proud of the sin they accepted. A man was in a sexual relationship with his father’s wife. Paul told them to expel him from the congregation until he repented. He eventually did, and they accepted him back. Today we see many pastors who claim to be homosexual, and congregations hosting drag queens to preach from the pulpit. Should we, who honor God, get angry? We shouldn’t accept any of this.

Paul had a lot to say about “charity,” which is also translated from the Greek word agape, often translated as love. “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1). We can talk and scold and make ourselves very annoying, but if our words aren’t spoken with agape, we are just making noise. We might be the most “perfect” person in our walk with Christ, displaying spiritual gifts, but without agape, we aren’t serving Him.

“And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing” (1 Corinthians 13:2-3).

Our simple human minds like to think that doing things (works) is enough. Works are good, but works don’t save anybody. If the Gospel isn’t shared with lost souls, you aren’t showing love.

Jesus is our example. He loved people, but that love didn’t mean accepting their sin. Jesus shared the Gospel, but although He was a carpenter by trade, He never built a house or planted crops for anybody He met. He healed many people, but He didn’t just throw money at them. It was up to those that were healed to then earn their living and not accept welfare. When they were unable to work, it was acceptable to beg, but once healed, welfare wasn’t acceptable.

The Apostle Paul goes on to give a picture of agape love. “Charity suffereth long, and is kind, charity envieth not, charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away” (1 Corinthians 13:4-8).

A respected Bible teacher once said to read through these verses but place your own name in place of “charity.” That is very humbling. The word “charity” is translated from agape. If you show God’s perfect agape love, then you serve Him well. Don’t boast or brag about all the wonderful things you’ve done, but give God the glory. Don’t do good works for what you will profit from them, but for what the Kingdom of God will gain.

Remember, water is wet because that’s what it is. Honey is sweet because that’s what it is. God is agape because that’s what He is. God is love. If we love Him, then we need to follow Him and live to please Him.

God bless you all,

Nathele Graham

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ron@straitandnarrowministry.com

Recommended prophecy sites:

www.raptureready.com
www.prophecyupdate.com
www.raptureforums.com

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