The Future Of Roman Catholicism (Part V) :: By The Gospelist

Whenever the church of Rome desires greater temporal power, it starts making outlandish and deceitful claims about itself. It invents false doctrines such as the idea that Peter was the first pope, purgatory, that the pope is infallible, Unam Sanctum, that the church has the authority to kill heretics, that only the Roman church can interpret scripture, and that one can only be saved by submitting to Rome.

When the Church of Rome is ready to make its final move on the world, we will be introduced to their ‘anointed ones.’ Jesus warned that many would come in his name and claim to be the Christ and lead many astray. The Jesuits, who will likely be our ‘anointed ones,’ are called “The Society of Jesus” even though their loyalty is to Rome alone. They are imposters.

Ignatius believed that he was called forth by Jesus to serve the Lord. God himself allegedly told him that his favor rested upon him in his service to Rome. The disciples of Ignatius take these false revelations very seriously and will ‘insist’ that the rest of us do so as well.

According to the Book of Revelation, a day will come when Satan calls forth an evil spirit that will come out of the earth. This spirit will inhabit a pope who will be leading the Roman Catholic Church at that time in the future. This pope, unlike any other in history, will be able to perform miraculous feats because he will be possessed by a demon.

Therefore, the world must be prepared in advance to give total spiritual allegiance to the future pope that Satan will choose as his false prophet at his coming.

The Roman church has been training people in obedience to the pope for the last 1,500 years. They have managed to convince about one-sixth of the world population that the pope is ‘The Holy Father.” As they are aligned with the Globalists and the ultra-wealthy, that is the only foothold they will need to bring the world under their spiritual and temporal dominion.

Before this occurs, the world needs to be placed in crisis. Even without the demonic indwelling of the beast out of the earth, the Globalists and their lovers will have great success in causing fear and confusion the world over. They have inculcated false and destructive ideologies into Western societies that have weakened their faith and sown incredible discord.

Everyone feels this cloud of evil that has engulfed the earth, but few have been able to put their finger on the source. The wickedness of man is growing great on the earth, and the heart of many is only evil continually.

Jesus warned us that the time before the rapture would be like the days of Noah. Life will be going on ‘normally’ but will be characterized by terrible violence. This violence has begun even now by the undermining of our law enforcement institutions which have lost the moral fortitude to punish real crimes.

We now know that this terrible brutality will be brought about by warped ideologies such as Critical Race Theory (CRT). Due to our faithlessness, our law enforcement is moving away from punishing evil to punishing those who shun evil. CRT has forced law enforcement to prioritize the ethnicity of an offender over his criminal behavior. When this occurs, those who object to this foolishness are labeled ‘racists’ and become the target of law enforcement.

This virus allows the various communist front groups operating in the country to falsely accuse legitimate law enforcement agents of racism in an effort to prevent them from enforcing the law. This false ideology has been highly effective in punishing the police while the criminal goes free. When this occurs, violence becomes out of control as the criminal is perceived as the victim and the police the perpetrators.

Our law enforcement agencies now fear the retribution of the criminals, and justice is turned on its head.

Now that this ideology is being inculcated into many societies, it will corrupt our law enforcement agencies and turn them against law-abiding citizens. When these agencies start fighting against ‘hate speech,’ ‘homophobia,’ and climate deniers, the deluded citizens will wonder in vain why rapists and murderers are roaming the streets unafraid.

Jesus also warned us that the last days of the church age would be like the days of Lot. The LGBT has had great success in eliminating the Christian sexual morals that once guided the country and the world. Since the church has refused to call homosexuals to repent, this sin has led to even greater rebellion against God. Gay marriage, ‘transgenderism,’ and the sexual mutilation of children are only the latest manifestations of extreme sexual perversion.

The Globalists and their Jesuit paramours have not only latched on to false ideologies that are destructive to society, but they have also managed to undermine the vast majority of our churches as well.

The Emergent Church movement (ECM), which began not long after Vatican II, did severe damage to the Protestant Churches in America and around the world. The purpose of this ‘movement’ was to deconstruct the Gospel in order to empty it of its meaning. It deemphasized the Bible, turned worship into a fiasco, and brought into question belief in absolute truth.

If this is not an example of counter-reformation, nothing is. Causing discord in Protestant churches is the Jesuits’ specialty.

The church has now broken down into the last three types of churches as described in the Book of Revelation. There are those congregations who are characterized by the Church of Sardis that represent the ‘dead church.’ They are the foolish virgins of Christ’s parable of the Ten Virgins. They have forgotten the Gospel and preach self-centered ideologies that were allowed to infiltrate the church through the ECM.

If they do not wake up, they will be left behind when the Lord calls us home.

The church of Laodicea can best be described as the ‘bought off’ church. The leaders of this church write lengthy discourses on ‘climate change’ and how we need to fight ‘racism.’ They love the agenda of the Globalists while ignoring the law of God and his Gospel. This church preaches a different Jesus and a different Gospel, which leaves them wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

Jesus told us that the gates of hell would not prevail against his church. However, we do know that the true church of the last days will ‘have little strength.’ Its numbers will be small, but it will stand firm on the Gospel and not deny the name of Jesus. This church will keep Christ’s word about patient endurance and will be kept from the trial that is coming on the whole world.

The Jesuits were created to institute a counter-reformation against the true church of Christ. To the Jesuits, the Protestant Reformation was the equivalent of ‘Nakba Day’ to the Muslims when Israel was recognized as a nation. Their entire history has been dedicated to reversing the reformation that culminated on October 31, 1517.

To think that the Jesuits did not have a hand in derailing Protestantism in the modern age would be naïve. They have a long history of bringing heresy into the Protestant churches and causing confusion and turmoil. This spiritual chaos makes people much more amenable to the church of Rome and its ‘stability.’

While the Jesuits are undermining Protestant churches, they are also purging any of those who might be faithful from their own ranks. The latest victim of this purge was ‘Father’ Frank Pavone. He was a well-known pro-life activist who was falsely accused of blasphemous communications on social media. His alleged blasphemy was so great that he was not offered any opportunity to appeal.

His sacrilege involved placing an aborted fetus on the church altar. He then posted it online to protest those who heartlessly kill their infants so they can continue to fornicate without consequence.

Even Catholicism’s child molesters do not get treated this poorly by the Vatican.

When the Injustice Department (ID, formerly the DOJ) prosecuted a pro-life Catholic group for staging a sit-in at an abortion clinic, the Vatican was silent. As pro-life clinics are attacked mercilessly and their employees threatened, the ID has sided with the Globalists and declared this is perfectly just. However, if a Roman Catholic stands against killing unborn children for the convenience of fornicators, this is a crime worthy of prison.

If the ID or the KGB ever prosecutes one of the Vatican’s loyal minions, I can promise you we will hear harsh words and severe condemnation from the pope.

The ID and the KGB have now targeted Roman Catholics who are not on board with the Globalist agenda for prosecution. They are even now working on ways to falsely accuse them of being terrorists or insurrectionists. This tactic has proven very effective at instilling fear in those who are not on board with their agenda. We can all rest assured that the Vatican will not rush to their defense, even when they are brutally attacked, but instead will support these efforts or remain silent.

In 1995, the Republicans introduced the ‘Contract with America’ that significantly weakened the Democrat Party. After this occurred, the Democrats, instead of being chastened, no longer supported moderates in their ranks. Just like the popes of old, they became even more extreme in the face of declining power.

The Roman church is engaging in this same type of purging. Only the zealots who are willing to employ any act of evil to secure the power of Rome will remain. All others, who will not have the moral sense to leave this church, will be cowed into silence to avoid being persecuted themselves.

They will become like the ‘peaceful’ Muslims who sit idly by while their extremists murder without consequence or condemnation.

The people of the world, especially in Western civilization, have begun to notice that their elected representatives, bureaucrats, and judges no longer seem interested in serving the people.

They have a new master in the form of the Globalists and their religious advisors. These people have nothing but disdain for the bulk of humanity. They are joyful when criminals run free while the law-abiding are thrown into prison. They, and the media that they own, are in the process of creating a society that is more conducive to totalitarian control. It is a completely wicked society that will be impossible to escape once it is fully implemented. Isaiah described the kind of world that they will create in the Book of Isaiah:

“For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived. So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey” (Isaiah 59:12-15).

Due to its lack of faith, God is turning the world over to new masters as an act of judgment against it. God uses these people in the same manner that he uses Satan; they are acts of judgment against a wicked and faithless world. When God is done with the ‘overlords’ of the earth, he will dispose of them in the Lake of Fire.

The Jesuits have had great success in undermining Protestantism. Scripture alerts us to the kind of triumphs they will enjoy in the last days. God warned us that:

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers [pastors] to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths” (II Timothy 4:3).

There is really no excuse for the church, which is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, to fall prey to this kind of deception. Any pastor who refuses to preach the Gospel because it will depopulate his church is making an eternal mistake. Those who preach a different Gospel, thereby taking the Lord’s name in vain, are accursed.

There is no hope of salvation for them.

We were warned by God himself of the great falling away in the last days and of its consequences.

“Now the [Holy] Spirit expressly says that in later times [of the last days] some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits [false teachers] and teachings of demons, through the sincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from food that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth” (I Timothy 4:1-3).

To become a Jesuit, one’s conscience must be seared in order to oppose the Gospel. When the Nazis recruited for the SS, they only admitted people who were malleable and willing to obey authority without question. Regardless of the order, they were required to carry it out without conscience. According to the Nazis themselves, they were just following the same process used by the Jesuit General when he recruits his minions.

After the purging, the entire Roman Catholic Church will be filled with people who are malleable and obedient.

The half-brother of Jesus alerted us to the scoffers who would come so that we should not be surprised by their evil. Every sound doctrine will be held up to ridicule with the backing of the Jesuits and those who have been deceived by them. These Satanic liars will be joined by the churches of Sardis and Laodicea.

“But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They said to you, ‘In the last time [of the church age] there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions. It is these people who cause divisions [in the church], worldly people, devoid of the Spirit” (Jude 18-19).

Our pastors were warned that Christ would demand an accounting from them regarding how well they preached the Gospel. The ‘one talent’ pastors of Sardis and Laodicea are going to fare well in the world but not so well in eternity.

“He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man [your law and your Gospel are harsh], reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed [you are unjust], so I was afraid [I had no faith in you], and I went and hid your talent in the ground [refused to preach the Gospel]. Here, you have what is yours.’

“But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant [false teacher]! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed [You think you are doing the work that I should be doing]? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers [You should have shared the Gospel with someone else who might have used it wisely], and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

“For to everyone who has [faith] will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not [no faith in the Gospel], even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness [Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel]. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth'” (Matthew 25:24-30).

As occurred before the Great Persecution of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, Jesus said that pastors will turn on one another with violence at the end of the church age. Their pitiful desire for worldly wealth, prestige, and power will be their undoing.

“But if that wicked servant [false shepherd/pastor] says to himself, ‘My master [Jesus] is delayed,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants [those who are faithful to God’s Word] and eats and drinks with drunkards [to curry favor with the world], the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know [because he does not understand eschatology] and will cut him to pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place [hell] there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 24:48-51).

When we survey the prophecies about the church in the last days, we can easily see that the counter-reformation of the Jesuits will be extremely successful. Amidst all the turmoil that they have created, they will begin pointing people to Rome and to its pope. They will have complete control over the Roman Catholic Church, and they will be extremely hostile to the true church of Christ.

They will have so much success, in fact, that there will be no more opportunity for people to come to salvation at the end of the church age.

The Globalists and their media will use the Roman church to help them secure power over the whole world. However, as the Roman emperors found out seventeen hundred years ago, they will need their religious authority to help them control a large portion of the world population.

During this time, the Globalists will be attempting to create ten regions of the world over which to rule. A king will be appointed to rule each of these regions as they attempt to set up their totalitarian world government.

If history is our guide, we can expect the Jesuits to proclaim a ‘divine right of kings’ for the new rulers of the world. It will be asserted that these kings derive their authority from God and cannot, therefore, be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority.

What the Globalists will not count on is their extreme need for the religious authority of the Jesuits. There will be great turmoil during this time, and they will find that they will need to subject themselves to the Jesuits if they want to hold their new system together.

As the Jesuits and the Globalists will control all media throughout the world, and their deceptions will be so great, all avenues for the Gospel to be proclaimed will be eliminated. When the last Gentile has been saved at the end of the church age, the Holy Spirit will withdraw, and Christ will rapture his church so that God can turn to fulfilling his promises to the Jews and the people of Israel.

The rapture sets the stage for the final seven years of human history. The world population will do anything for the false promise of safety and security. Many false prophets and false Christs will arise and perform great signs and miracles that will bring a sense of security to the faithless. Their deception will be so great that it will threaten to deceive even the elect of the tribulation saints.

Even the 144,000 will have to work to resist this deception.

The kings of the earth are going to need a champion to bring the world under control. A great leader will arise and confirm a covenant of peace and security that will be a framework for the inept Globalists’ total control of the world.

This act will begin God’s time clock of the last seven years of Daniel’s prophecy.

Not long after this covenant, Jesus will open the first seal of judgment. The kings of the earth will give their ‘rider on a white horse’ a crown of authority. He will ride out, imitating Christ as best he can, as he goes forth as a conqueror bent on conquest. He will be a king in the sense that he will struggle to exert civil power over the world in his attempt to exercise total authority.

Despite his eloquence and strength, he will still face great resistance for the next three- and one-half years. There will be wars and rumors of wars, along with great death and destruction. The economies of the world will be stuck in hyperinflation, and many people will die of starvation, disease, and war. Since he has not yet received his demonic indwelling, he will be controlled by the Jesuits.

Then Satan himself will stand on the shore of the sea of humanity and call forth the demonic spirit he will use to inhabit his rider on the white horse and deceive the nations. He will place this demonic spirit in the one whom the kings of the earth have chosen to rule the world with an iron fist. Satan will draw the Antichrist spirit out of the sea like a great Leviathan, and it will inhabit the one who was chosen to imitate Jesus. No one will be able to make war with him as he proclaims that everything under heaven belongs to him.

The ‘John the Baptist’ of the Antichrist will then arise to assist him. The demonic spirit of the False Prophet does not come from God, but instead, he comes out of the earth. He, too, is called forth by Satan. He wields great religious authority, and the world will be in awe of his power.

Unlike John the Baptist, this pope is not filled with the Holy Spirit but with the spirit of the beast out of the earth. He will speak visions from his own mind instead of the mouth of the Lord. He will blaspheme the way of truth and perform great signs and wonders to deceive the world, blocking the path to salvation and pointing people to the Antichrist.

When the false prophet speaks, he will claim that his word is final as he stands in the place of God. He is a prophet who proclaims ‘God’s word’ to the people, and therefore he has unquestioned authority. Instead of pointing to Christ, he will point to the Antichrist as the savior of the world. He is of the earth, and he speaks from the earth, and those who are of the earth listen to him.

He has two horns like a lamb, but he is a false apostle, a deceitful workman who disguises himself as an apostle of Christ. Just as Satan disguises himself as an angel of light, he will disguise himself as a servant of righteousness. However, he will bring in destructive heresies and claim that the Antichrist is the long-awaited Messiah.

The Book of Revelation is clearly describing a future pope. Although the next pope will probably not be a Jesuit, his loyalty will be to Satan and his Antichrist. It will not be known who the Antichrist and his false prophet are until they are each indwelt by a demonic spirit at mid-tribulation. Fortunately, Christians will have been removed before the world witnesses this demonic possession.

If we are in the age of the Antichrist, the next pope, if he is the last pope, will be the False Prophet of Revelation. Otherwise, the reign of the next pope will be very short to make way for the final ‘pope.’ He will be the one, by demonic power, who will be able to make fire come down from heaven and perform other great and miraculous signs.

However, this future pope will not be loyal to the Roman Catholic Church or to the Jesuits who control it. His loyalty will be solely to the Antichrist.

The Roman church and its Jesuits will actually control the Antichrist (prior to his being indwelt by an evil spirit) as they use each other to attain worldly power. The woman rides the beast and directs its movements for the first three- and one-half years. Her colors will be purple and scarlet, which are the colors of the Roman church, and her wealth will be unparalleled. She will identify with Mary rather than Christ, which is why she is depicted as a woman in the Book of Revelation.

God calls her the Mother of Prostitutes rather than the Mother of God due to her fornication with the kings of the earth. She will be drunk on the blood of the saints and all those who bear the testimony of Jesus.

The Jesuits will be extremely confident in their position of guiding the beast and will not be aware that they are perceived as a nuisance. The Antichrist will hate the prostitute because he intends to rule the earth alone.

In case there is any mistake as to who this ‘woman’ is, the woman is that ‘great city’ that rules over the kings of the earth. She sits on seven hills, and there is only one religious institution that fits that description.

We can assume that this city is ‘Vatican City’ and the ten kings will decide, at mid-tribulation, that they no longer need her.

Under the Antichrist, the Roman Catholic Church will be brought to ruin and left naked. The Antichrist and the ten kings will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. She will be stripped of her wealth and humiliated before the world.

The religious system will continue, however, and morph into “Mystery Babylon” for the last three- and one-half years of human history. The Antichrist will be the head of the new church, which will leave Rome and find its place in Babylon, Iraq.

The Jesuits will finally reap what they have sown. The Roman Catholic Church will have met its end.

At this time, the newly possessed Antichrist will enter the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and proclaim himself to be God. He will oppose and exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped.

The ‘pope’ causes to be set up an image of the Antichrist and now has the demonic power to give breath to the idol of the Antichrist. This allows the image to speak and cause all who refuse to worship him to be killed. The people of the earth are in awe of this miracle, and the inhabitants of the earth are utterly deceived.

The pope of the Antichrist’s new ‘church,’ Mystery Babylon, then forces everyone from every stratum of life to receive a mark on his right hand or forehead so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark.

An angel flies forth to issue a final warning about the beast and his mark. He informs the world that those who receive the mark will be beyond redemption and will drink the wine of God’s fury. Their eternal home will be the lake of fire.

After three- and one-half years of terrorizing the planet, Jesus returns and puts an end to their evil.

The Antichrist, his false prophet, the kings of the earth, and their armies then align themselves against the King of kings at Armageddon. They have actually deceived themselves into believing that their military weapons and false miracles will be able to defeat Christ.

God is amused by this absurdity. He asks the throngs of heaven, “Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his anointed one” (Psalm 2:1-2).

These kings and rulers believe they can throw off the chains and fetters of God’s law and become gods themselves.

When their laughable boast fails, the beast, the false prophet, and their armies are easily annihilated by Christ. This occurs on a single day called ‘The Day of the Lord.’ The Antichrist and the False Prophet then bypass hell and are thrown directly into the lake of fire.

This is what God has in store for the Church of Rome. It was a church that was supposed to proclaim the Gospel and call sinners to repentance and the forgiveness of sins in the name of Jesus. Instead, it craved worldly power. It fornicated with the kings of the earth, became drunk on the blood of the saints, and became one of the greatest evils to ever plague humanity.

The destiny of Rome has been predetermined by God. God will crush the ten heads of Leviathan and bring woe to the earth and the sea, including the monstrosities that came out of it.

It will not be long before we hear the cheers of heaven. Hallelujah! will be the cry of the saints.

Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth by her adultery. He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.

In the meantime, we are called to stand firm in the faith and not be led astray by false doctrines and ‘Christian’ imposters that annihilate our faith. The last days of the church age are going to be perilous, but with the Gospel as our guide, there is no way we can be deceived.

If this treatise on Roman Catholicism serves no other purpose, it will hopefully protect its readers from being deceived.

Now that we have an uncensored understanding of the history of the Roman Catholic Church, and a proper understanding of eschatology, we need to examine some undeniable truths regarding the Jesuit pope.

  1. The last two popes have written about the need for a totalitarian world government.
  2. The pope is completely aligned with the Globalists who are creating a totalitarian world government.
  3. This Jesuit ‘Holy Father’ is completely on board with the LGBT agenda in his effort to undermine God’s law.
  4. This Jesuit ‘Holy Father’ is completely on board with ‘gay marriage’ in his effort to undermine the sanctity of marriage as created by God.
  5. This Jesuit ‘Holy Father’ is completely on board with transgenderism in his effort to undermine human sexuality as created by God.
  6. This Jesuit ‘Holy Father’ is completely on board with the sexual mutilation of innocent children in his effort to undermine God’s directive to be fruitful and multiply.
  7. This Jesuit ‘Holy Father’ has joined the race cult in his effort to cause chaos in various societies and cause ethnic groups to rise up against each other.
  8. The Jesuits have never abandoned the counter-reformation or their desire to subject the world to their pope.
  9. This ‘Holy Father’ has thrown the full weight of his religious authority behind the climate cult.
  10. The Vatican has joined with the Globalists to convince the world to enslave itself to the worldwide climate cult.

For those who think what has been written in these five articles is just a conspiracy theory, please wake up. Laudato Si is not a conspiracy theory; it, along with a host of other wickedness, is real, and it is actually being enforced right now.

The Jesuit pope who wrote it is not playing around; he intends to use his spiritual authority to force it on the world.

If you do not recognize Laudato Si as the evil that it is, you may want to reexamine your faith.

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Mark 6:48 – Yeshua Walks on Water :: By Mark A. Becker

“And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea…”Mark 6:48

Everyone seems to know the account of Jesus walking on the Sea of Galilee. In fact, I think we are all so familiar with the story that we may tend to overlook what I believe to be the most important aspect of the narrative.

We naturally get caught up in the exciting accounts of the disciples’ distress in battling the wind of the sea.

“And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.”John 6:18

And the waves that were generated by those intense winds!

“But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.”Matthew 14:24

And who could look past the miraculous fact that Jesus was actually walking on water?!?

“And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.” Matthew 14:25

When His disciples saw Him, they were terrified:

“So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.”John 6:19

They thought they were seeing a spirit!

“And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.”Matthew 14:26

The comforting Words of the Creator to His disciples captivate and calm even us!

“For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.”Mark 6:50

The original Greek, translated “it is I,” is ἐγώ εἰμι “egō eimi” and is the eminent Name of God, “I AM” (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה “‘eh-yeh” in Hebrew). Christ often used this Name of God (John 8:58) – as revealed to Moses (Exodus 3:13-15) – when referring to Himself, as He did here to comfort His disciples in their fear.

Finally, our attention is drawn to the amazing conversation between Peter and Messiah Yeshua:

“And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

“And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?” – Matthew 14:28-31

Such a beautiful and well-known discourse between Peter and His Lord. From the faith of Peter, to the doubts of Peter, to the shout of Peter to the Lord for deliverance — our Lord graciously saved Peter in the midst of the storm!

Jesus went into the ship, and the storm ceased to the bewilderment of the disciples:

“And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.”Mark 6:51

They willingly received Him and reached their destination — immediately:

“Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.”John 6:21

An Important Observation

This was just a quick trek into this wonderful account from three different gospels, all of which should be so familiar to us. But are we missing something that the Lord would have us know – something that I intentionally omitted?

Let us look at our study verse and see if we can glean what the Lord may want us to consider this day and every day in our journey of faith.

“And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.”Mark 6:48 (emphasis mine)

Why? Why would Yeshua “have passed by them?” Why, indeed!

Context of the Event

Jesus walked on the water the night after He fed the 5,000. This should be significant to us because the disciples just witnessed an amazing miracle of creation:

“Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.”John 6:14

But their witnessing and recognition of this miraculous event seemed to have faded quite quickly. Storms have a way of doing that.

Storms in Our Lives are Like the Storms on the Sea

The analogy of storms on the sea to the storms of trials and tribulations in people’s lives cannot be missed. We often find ourselves “troubled” by what life’s storms throw at us, and we all have the tendency to want to take those storms head-on, within our own power, forgetting – just as the disciples seemed to have done – that we have the Creator of the universe at our disposal.

What an unfortunate and common truth found at times in the lives of all believers. This is something that, if we are honest with ourselves, we all need to work on. Faith must be put into practice as it grows.

Putting our faith and trust into action, though, can often be a daunting task for the believer who is used to taking on the storms of life on their own. And this is the real issue: We are not alone!

Calling on the Name of the Lord

In our story, the disciples were toiling under their own power without calling upon the Name of the Lord. The Lord “saw them toiling in rowing, for the wind was contrary unto them,” and yet their focus was not on the One who could help them. And because they did not call upon the Lord in the midst of their storm, He “would have passed by them.”

But our loving Lord did respond to their fear without their calling out to Him for help. In their case, the sight of Him was very “troubling” to them, for He was doing something they had never seen before, and this, in turn, gave rise to the notion that He was a disembodied spirit (Matthew 14:26).

What we should appreciate here is that our Lord would have passed them by because they were insistent on fighting the storm on their own. But when it came to their fear at the sight of Him walking on water, they discovered that He was there – He is always there – to respond in their moment of dreadful anxiety, and He did just that.

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”Romans 10:13

The Lord will always respond to the cry of His children. In the saving of Peter as he sunk into the sea, He demonstrated this truth again.

Do Not Let the Lord Pass by You in Your Trials and Tribulations!

“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.”Psalm 34:18-19

Our Lord is always with us whether we sense Him or not. Even though He is there, He can pass us by if we are not seeking Him, and we can miss the blessings that we would have otherwise received. This is not to say that He abandons us – He will never leave or forsake us – but He is a gentleman and will leave us to our own devices if we so insist, yet He is still there waiting for us to call unto Him.

But why should we even get to that point? If He is always available to us and, even more importantly, desires to constantly be with us, then why should we ever seek to do anything in our own power apart from Him?

The Lord is Always Waiting for Us to Call Upon Him in Every Situation

“The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.” Psalm 34:17

Again, our Lord is a gentleman who will not force Himself upon anyone and will often wait for us to call upon Him in our times of need.

But if we were honest, wouldn’t we have to admit that it is most often only in those apparent dire times of need that we call upon Him at all? Shouldn’t we be calling on the Creator, Savior, and Redeemer of all in every situation, no matter how mundane the situation may seem to us to be?

We should not see our Lord as a “situational God of distress” but rather as a God that should encompass every facet of our life. That is, a God who desires to not only be there for us when we need Him but desires to be with us in constant perpetuality and continuous fellowship! How could we not yearn for the same?!?

Do Not Allow Your Lord to Pass by You in Any Situation!

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”Galatians 2:20

For Christ to live in us, we must first allow Him to be Lord of our life. And for Christ to be Lord of our life, we must allow Him access to every feature of our lives. Our Lord wants to be involved in every phase of our lives – and I mean every phase!

As fallen creatures, we have this tendency to only look for our God and Savior when we need Him after we have exhausted our own power and human resort. This is a tragic mistake that we all have made, for our Lord and Savior desires to be an integral part of our lives in every circumstance. If we do not allow Him to partake in fellowship with us in every stage of our lives – alternatively resting and depending on our own devices – just as He might have done with His disciples when He walked on water, He could very well just pass on by.

We should never let Jesus walk on by at any point of our lives. He desires to be present in every way and at every time – from the important to the mundane, in times of ease and comfort, in times of trials and tribulations, through our joys and in our griefs – He wants to be there for us, and with us, through it all.

Conclusion

When we ponder our God and Savior’s creation, we should stand in awe of His immense power.

Our sun and its planets comprise our solar system and are one of billions upon billions of other stars and their solar systems that inhabit our Milky Way galaxy. Moreover, there are billions upon billions of galaxies in the universe, and within each one of those billions upon billions of galaxies reside billions upon billions of solar systems. These numbers, because of the recent images of the James Webb Telescope, are appearing to reach into the trillions!

Subsequently, consider biological virology and the molecular biology of all life. Then contemplate quarks, hadrons, and atoms that are the building blocks of all matter. When it comes to the basic science of our material universe, here is what we observed in A Study of Zechariah 14:12-21:

“…the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”2 Peter 3:10b

Peter, in this passage, is telling us what will happen to the earth and the heavens when the Lord prepares to recreate the new heavens and the new earth. Scientifically, this appears to be the releasing of the atom.

The atom, the building block of all matter, has a proton and a neutron that should repel from each other, but they do not. When I was young, the “substance” that held the atom together was unknown, as it is today, and was referred to as “atomic glue.” Today, it is known as “strong force,” and science has no idea what this “force” is. But we do! Jesus Christ, Himself:

“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”Colossians 1:16-17 (emphasis mine).

The Greek word for “consist” is “sunistanó” with the following definitions: to place together, to set in the same place, to bring or band together; to put together (i.e., unite parts into one whole), to cohere, hold together.

Our amazing God and Savior holds everything together by His absolute power. He is the “strong force” and the “atomic glue” of His entire creation that He spoke into existence!

Is it any wonder that our Lord was always challenging His disciples – and, by extension, us – for their utter lack of faith at times? Look at what our God and Savior has done just in relation to His immense and incredibly complex creation, not to mention the incredible bodies our souls and spirits inhabit!

His omnipotence is unfathomable to His creatures, and yet He desires those who know Him to trust Him in everything, including our very lives. And this trust in Him, at times, is somehow too difficult for us? How could we not trust Him and desire His fellowship in everything?

In the end, the personal message of Mark 6:48 – Yeshua Walks on Water is this: The Lord wants all of you, beloved child of God! He holds your every heartbeat and very breath in His infinitely powerful hands. Your every thought and every action were already known to Him before He ever created you, and your very life and death were divinely harmonized by the triune Godhead in eternity past for your benefit and His glory.

Never, ever, let Yeshua – your amazingly powerful and loving God, Creator, Savior, Redeemer, Lord, and King – ever pass on by in any circumstance of your precious life.

Beloved Saint, as Jesus demonstrated upon the cross, Yeshua loves you more than you could ever know, and He would walk on water through any of life’s raging storms to rescue you. Just never allow Him to pass you by when He does.

May we all keep Answering the Call of The Great Commission and giving an answer to every man and woman who so desperately needs Jesus and asks us, “Why Am I Here and What Is It All About?

Love, grace, mercy, and shalom in Messiah Yeshua, and Maranatha!

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