The Real Last Move of God

The real last move of God doesn’t need a man to lead it, doesn’t need a band to hype it, doesn’t need a building to corral it, doesn’t need a billboard to promote it, doesn’t need intercessors to pray it in, doesn’t need a TV show or even a microphone to barker it, doesn’t need a PR program to defend it. Can’t take up an offering for it or seed into it, can’t hype or manipulate it, can’t own it.

It has already begun in the secret places of men’s hearts, men who rarely even know one another. It is already taking place in the hidden corners of David’s cave of Adullam where a few misfits and malcontents have hidden out in Jesus and are being quietly shaped into a might army of glorified sons. A few here and there are being knitted together in love whose light, when they cross paths, becomes greater than the sum of the two, or three, or four, or whatever number they are.

It is the light of life, the very life of God they radiate, exposing the darkness and causing turmoil everywhere they go—unspoken, but spoken against; loving, but hated by the world; merciful, but treated unmercifully; strong through brokenness; powerful in weakness; mighty men of valor without guile or malice; strong and powerful in the Lord without gender.

Released one by one, becoming two by two, becoming four by four, then eight by eight—on an exponential curve. Yes, a movement to end all revivals.

Can’t start it, can’t stop it, can’t own it, can’t harness it, can’t telecast it, can’t alter it, can’t do anything about it. It is already in motion and is bigger than any man or collection of men. It is the coming forth of Zion, the ushering in of Tabernacles—the feast of Ingathering; that is, Jesus gathering into Himself His true assembly of called-out-ones.

These are those who are called, chosen, and will be found faithful. Nevertheless, whosoever will may come. Either way, all were known before the foundation of the world. 

Charles Newbold, Jr

Just catching everybody up

Adam Elrod sent me this link to a newsletter by a dude named Sam Soleyn.  Sam is a guy I trust (I know of him through people in Texas who've known him personally for years), and it seems he has a rather salient word for today.  He thinks the world we live in today is not the world we lived in just 10 or even 5 years ago.

Is it annoying if this page just becomes a place where I put links?  I hope not, because I just wanted a place to string together what's in the air.  Tonight.  O lord.

The End of Suburbia

This is a film first recommended to me by Adam Elrod.  I found it incredibly educational and enlightening.  Made me want to repent of my Americanness (not that I needed a film to make me feel that way).  I encourage everybody to view it if you want to know the times we live in...

The End of Suburbia.  Click that and you'll link to Blockbuster's page.  Also, they use Helvetica for their titles, which is a-ok.

Email from Mom

Yup, mom, all the way from Texas, emails me this strange end-time stuff out of nowhere, today (mom is not typically into this sort of goings-on).  

I'll just quote the email directly (she was forwarding it), and you take it for what it's worth.  I know, it's just one guy's opinion.  But aren't there a lot of these 'one guy's these days?

Today I feel most overwhelmed.

Every day I sit down and scour world events for signs of the soon return of Jesus Christ. Some days, I have to pick through dozens of articles and stories to find just one happening that has prophetic significance. Whether it be the growing apostasy in the Church, the rise of a one-world government, the solidification of the Ezekiel 38-39 Gog-Magog Muslim alliance, the reviving of the Roman Empire, the rapid decline of American power or the ongoing restoration of the nation of Israel — there is usually some event that, like a gold nugget, can be panned from the media stream.

But, not today. Today every rock I pick up is a gold nugget. Every story I begin reading screams about the soon return of Jesus Christ. As soon as I'm halfway through one article, another comes into my Inbox or RSS feed to interrupt and shout its report.

The combined yelling of all these prophetic stories is a cacophony that has overwhelmed my ability to process all that is going on. I'm forced to cover my ears with my hands and close my eyes tightly shut.

Here are just a few examples of today's headlines:

• "For the media, it's un-Holy Week"
• "100,000 secular Britons seek 'de-baptism'"
• "Rick Warren disavows support for Prop. 8"
• "Obama's G20 plan kisses off Declaration of Independence"
• "IDF planning largest-ever drill to prepare Israel for war"
• "Italy earthquake death toll rises to 283"
• "The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency"

And the headlines go on, and on, and on, and...

From a great falling away from the faith (2 Tim. 4:3), to the siding of the United States with Islam against Israel and God (Rev. 19:19), to a consuming apostasy in the Church (Rev. 3:14-22), to Israel's fight for its very survival (Ps. 83; Ezek. 38-39), to prolific natural disasters (Matt. 24:6), to the ongoing formation of a one-world government whose leader someday will be called "The Antichrist" (Rev. 13:7) — Bible prophecy is being fulfilled at a fast and furious pace. It is all simply overwhelming.

And yet, the ever-increasing pace of end-time events is itself a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. During one of Jesus' most detailed descriptions of what the world would experience before His imminent return, Jesus stated in Matthew 24:8 that "All these are the beginning of birth pains."Birth pains increase in frequency and intensity the closer to the actual birth. So, too, will Jesus' Second Coming, as the end-time events increase in frequency and intensity until He returns.

At the overwhelming pace of end-time events these days, the "birth" is about to occur.

Just Catching Everybody Up

This is from David Wilkerson's blog.  If you don't know David, he's been a faithful man since 1958 and is the Cross and the Switchblade dude.  He's no fly-by-night wacko that catches you in the parking lot and tells you some half-baked 'prophetic word'.  He's been tested.

Anyway, take a look at what he has to say.  Curious!

Wasn't Power Great?

My mom just sent me, two days ago, a clip from a book that talked all about ElectroMagnetic Pulses.  EMPs were used in, I believe, Oceans 11 and the Matrix.  The idea is that they send out a signal that neutralizes all electrons- so all electricity goes dead and all motors that require electricity (your car, for instance) go dead, and all batteries go dead.  Many of these exist as tactical weapons and cost a mere $100K.  Any number of countries could detonate several EMPs around the USA and send us into a tailspin in no time.  Imagine: in 5 days, all our food (and our ability to heat it, largely) is gone.  Computers- dead.  No transportation (all airplanes in the air would also go dead and crash).  That's... um... an unsettling picture.

So is this article that just came out today about presumed Russian or Chinese spies that have infiltrated the U.S. power grid and embedded software that could be activated later to dismantle our infrastructure.  All right!

The New World Order

I grew up with the prophesiers of doom telling us that a New World Order was coming: we'd have a one-world currency, America would get enveloped into a much larger and more powerful government and economy, and everybody would be getting bar codes, or ID chips, implanted on them somewhere as a tracing and credit mechanism.  Yikes, I wanted none of that.

Well, the G20 Summit just wrapped, and Gordon Brown said the New World Order is officially here.  Get ready for fun time.

Post-Christian America

Here's an article in Newsweek that outlines America's becoming "post-Christian".  If this article is right, and what Francis Schaeffer predicted 30 years ago is actually happening (i.e., America's following Europe into a post-Christian state), then it won't be pretty.

Lived in Europe lately?  Yeah, big fun over there.