Thursday, December 29, 2011

The Flagstaff Arizona Revival Meetings

The Flagstaff Arizona Revival Meetings: Since returning back from Africa, our ministry, Safari Through the Word Ministries, has been involved locally in Miami, Florida.
We are assistant pastors at our church,

Monday, April 4, 2011

Japan, Chernobyl, Wormwood, and the Book of Revelation











I do not see myself a Christians who attributes every  occurrence in the world to the end times and the Book of Revelation. At the same time it is a mistake to leave Father God out and credit all to mother nature  and the expected course of the universe.  Ultimately, mother nature is subjected to the control of Father God. 


Once in a while, something jumps out from the book of Revelation. It is significant enough that I deliberate if maybe, just maybe, this thing could be what John saw on the Island of Patmos sixty years after the death of Christ.


This morning a story from the Business Insider, regarding the nuclear tragedy in Japan caught my eye. TEPCO is the Japanese power company which owns and operates the stricken nuclear plant.

“While TEPCO tries to stop the leak, strangely they are also trying to dispose of less radioactive water. TEPCO said Monday it will release approximately 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean in an effort to clean out the plants, according to WSJ.com.
The material is being let into the ocean because TEPCO needs to move even more toxic material from the turbine room of the plant, into the processing facility.
This news comes just a day after the government announced it could take months to stabilize the situation at Fukushima, and TEPCO released an image of radioactive water flowing into the ocean.”

Today, I also recalled a conversation with Pastor Ralph Gomez who told me that Chernobyl  is a translation for “wormwood” in Russian.

Chernobyl was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Wikipedia describes Chernobyl.



The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and it is the only one classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.”
 

I then did a Bible word search on wormwood and found it in Revelations 8:11.

Re 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

So what is wormwood?


The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia on the etymology of the word.

“Artemisia (pronounced /ˌɑrtɨˈmiːziə/)[2] is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardyherbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils. They grow in temperate climates of the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere, usually in dry or semi-dry habitats. The fern-like leaves of many species are covered with white hairs. Some botanists split the genus into several genera, but DNA analysis[3] does not support the maintenance of the genera Crossostephium, Filifolium, Neopallasia, Seriphidium, and Sphaeromeria; three other segregate genera Stilnolepis, Elachanthemum, andKaschgaria are maintained by this evidence.
Common names used for several species include mugwort sagebrush, sagewort, and wormwood, while a few species have unique names, notably Tarragon (A. dracunculus) and Southernwood (A. abrotanum). Occasionally some of the species are called sages, causing confusion with the Salvia sages in the family Lamiaceae.


Wormwood is a plant, one of the species of the large genus of plants termed Artemisia. We note from this article that mugwort is also another species from the genus Artemisia, just as is wormwood.


Wikipedia has this to say about  mugwort.


“Mugwort is called chornobylnik in Ukrainian, and has given its name to the abandoned city of Chernobyl (Chornobyl in Ukrainian). The name chornobyl has an interesting history, meaning "place where mugwort grows" in the related Indo-European languages.”


Re 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.


Is John telling us that the one third of the oceans will become radioactive?  Is the wormwood of this verse a connection to the Ukranian word for Chernobyl?  I don’t know.  I get the feeling that TEPCO @ Fukushima will be forced to dump more radioactive water into the ocean after its initial dump tomorrow of 11,500 tons.  Could I be wrong? Absolutely.  I will not blind my eyes though, and dismiss and downplay all warning signs as “things that just happen”. The book of Revelations, is unfolding itself before our eyes. Keeping a healthy balance of God in our daily events is most important, since all comes from Him, goes through Him, and the end of time, will go back to Him.


I find the connection between Revelations 8:11, Fukushima, mugwort, wormwood and Chernobyl  thought-provoking , to say the least. This is something that I will watch.

Now more than ever as sin increases, and darkness with it, and as man gropes in its blindness, we need to turn back to God.  Only He, is our source of bright light and protection. If we are entering into Revelations 8:11, may I suggest to you that your remedy is found in Psalms 91.



Psa 91:1  You can go to God Most High to hide. You can go to God All-Powerful for protection.
Psa 91:2  I say to the LORD, "You are my place of safety, my fortress. My God, I trust in you."
Psa 91:3  God will save you from hidden dangers and from deadly diseases.
Psa 91:4  You can go to him for protection. He will cover you like a bird spreading its wings over its babies. You can trust him to surround and protect you like a shield.
Psa 91:5  You will have nothing to fear at night and no need to be afraid of enemy arrows during the day.
Psa 91:6  You will have no fear of diseases that come in the dark or terrible suffering that comes at noon.
Psa 91:7  A thousand people may fall dead at your side or ten thousand right beside you, but nothing bad will happen to you!
Psa 91:8  All you will have to do is watch, and you will see that the wicked are punished.
Psa 91:9  You trust in the LORD for protection. You have made God Most High your place of safety.
Psa 91:10  So nothing bad will happen to you. No diseases will come near your home.
Psa 91:11  He will command his angels to protect you wherever you go.
Psa 91:12  Their hands will catch you so that you will not hit your foot on a rock.
Psa 91:13  You will have power to trample on lions and poisonous snakes.
Psa 91:14  The Lord says, "If someone trusts me, I will save them. I will protect my followers who call to me for help.
Psa 91:15  When my followers call to me, I will answer them. I will be with them when they are in trouble. I will rescue them and honor them.
Psa 91:16  I will give my followers a long life and show them my power to save."

Friday, April 1, 2011

Don't Get Duped By the Wrong Bank Deposit




Col 2:4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile <3884> you with enticing words.

Jas 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving <3884> your own selves.

The word  # 3884 is "paralogizomai" in the Greek.

Logimai # 3049, "logizomai" which I have listed in the verses below, is one of the most critical words in the NT Testament.  It is the process of reckoning, counting, crediting, inheriting, or depositing something to ourselves. If we have $ 20.00 and we logizomai $20.00 more, we now have $40.00. 

The process of logizomai, is the sole course which God uses with people to deposit, credit, or inherit His treasures from His invisible kingdom, into our visible life.

The formula of logizomai with God is faith which comes by the rhema word.

Because faith is a universal law, it always functions. The human being is always logizomai, whether he know it or not. If he has a negative faith and reckons negative things, he will credit or inherit negative consequences.

Any time that we disobey God’s laws, we logizomai something that will result in an injurious outcome.

The Bible is our instruction manual that teaches us how, and what to logizomai, that will benefit us in this life and in the one to come.

When a nation denigrates the Word of God and finds it of little value, it becomes blind as to what to logizomai. It logizomai, some good with the bad.  It ends up sowing to the wind and reaping from the whirlwind.  This is what we see occurring now in the USA.

To beguile or to deceive # 3844, found at the beginning of this blog entry, is the word paralogizomai or to “reckon to the side” or miss the mark of what we reckon. In other words, to beguile or to deceive, is to cause someone to inherit, deposit, or credit what is wrong. Can you imagine that?

As long as we as people and as a nation continue to put little worth on the Word of God we will inherit to the side, or miss our inheritance, and reap harmful and wicked things.

Don’t be beguiled and deceived.

Here are some instances of # 3049, “ logizomai.”

Ro 4:4 Now to him that worketh is <3049> the reward not reckoned <3049> of grace, but of debt.

Ro 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted <3049> for righteousness.

Ro 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth <3049> righteousness without works,

Ro 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will <3049> not impute <3049> sin.

Ro 4:9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned <3049> to Abraham for righteousness.

Ro 4:10 How was it <3049> then reckoned <3049>? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

Ro 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed <3049> unto them also: 

Thursday, March 31, 2011

I AM















Matthew 28:20  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you (I with you am (present tense) alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.


The fullness of the essence of God in Christ  as “I AM” is always found in the present and immediate tense.  God supersedes the dimension of time.  As with faith, in ministry, God’s power will not be sent to us in the future.  His healing will not take place in the future.  His fire will not be poured out upon us in the future. At the moment that He reveals that these things are for us in a ministry situation they are forevermore and immediately there. The “I” of Jesus is presently always with us in the am of time. 

Mark 14:62  And Jesus said, I am (I am (present tense): and ye shall see the Son of man sitting(continually and constantly ruling and reigning….) On (Christ’s energy/ fuel source is power; the world in which Christ operates is God’s power; and God’s power  does the work through Christ)  the right hand of power, and coming(continually and constantly) in the clouds of heaven.

As we live and minister in the timeless dimension of the immediacy of Christ’s continual “I AM ness”, His presence is always coming and is constantly present, in the sphere of God’s power. 

His “I” always come sin the AM of time rooted in God’s power, continual ruling. and reigning.

John 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came (Defined as :”Arrival” Christ is in a present and continuing and continual state of arrival ) from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

“Came” – This uncommon word describes to come in its dimension of arriving or arrival. Christ has arrived from God into our world, or more correctly because it is in the present tense, Christ is in a continuing state of arrival, confirming the timeless immediacy of the continual now of His presence. It is imperative that we ask God to deliver us into His world of the dimensionless- ness of time. As long as see God as doing things for us in the future we will never operate in miracles.


John 8:58  (AV) Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

§        In the am of time Jesus always is in the mode of I

John 10:30  I and my Father are one. (Present tense)

Greek: “I and the Father one are” A perfect and continuous exchange of location in the father and the instrumentality of the father’s works back through Jesus.

The “I” and the “Father” are one in the same

John 10:38  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Greek: That in THE ME the Father just as I am Him

The I being in Jesus allows complete accessibility for all that Jesus has. Jesus now in this I allows for full effectiveness of His power and so forth.

John 14:7  (AV) If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

From now on you know Him progressively and have seen Him with perfect discernment

9  (AV) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

The one perfectly discerning me , perfectly has discerned the Father

John 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in(Locative- in the world of) me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth (present participle- the continuing abiding in the world of the Spirit; necessary to produce miracles)  in me, he doeth(Present tense- the father performs the miracles in proportion to our abiding in the world of the Spirit)   the works

§        We have the timeless immediacy of faith at our disposal, as well as the continual and timeless immediacy of Jesus’ presence.  However, the continual and timeless immediacy of Jesus’ presence is also with the Father at the same moment that it with us. This guarantees the absolute effectiveness of our ministry, in that it is the Father who originates, energizes, produces and executes the works through Jesus. Christ’s presence with us in its timeless immediacy generates the works of the Father in their absolute perfection and effectiveness through us. This is because His presence is also in the timeless and continual fellowship with the Father.

§        The “I” in the Father allowing for access of all that our position in Christ has attained to.

§        The Father in ME is the I allowing for total effectiveness.

§        The Father which is now the ME does the works in the ME
Greek: The Father in or inside of  “ME”, is.

John 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Greek: I in my Father, and you in me and I in you.

Jesus now teaches us that the believer lives with the Father and the Son in the same perfect exchange of location and instrumentality as the Father and the Son themselves enjoy. This is because Jesus lives in the world of the Father so that the Father simultaneously executes His works back through Jesus.

Now we also see that the believer has been placed in the world of Jesus so that Jesus can instrumentally work back His works through the believer. In reality God works through Jesus and back into us because we are in the world of Jesus and Jesus is in the world of the Father. The believer is God’s channel for God to take the invisible works of His kingdom and manifest them into them through Jesus and then visibly through them into the world order. The exact and same ability to perform miracles just as Jesus did dwells in us.

John 16:28 ¶  I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: (I have come into the world system Perfect Tense)  again, I leave (I am constantly and continually releasing the world system) the world, and go (I am constantly and continually journeying to  constantly and continually fellowship with the father) to the Father.

The perfect tense describes an event that has been accomplished and fully carried out in the past, but that its occurrence has an influence and an impact for us now and eternally forevermore. Jesus coming onto our world system is described in the perfect tense. His coming and presence for us is therefore in the timeless immediacy of the continual now.  At the very same moment that Jesus is timelessly and immediately here,
He is timelessly and immediately releasing Himself from the world system to timelessly and immediately fellowship with the Father.

John 17:11 ¶  And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Greek: In order that they may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way as us.

As the Son lives continuously from moment to moment in the world of the Father, the Father superimposes back upon those very same moments His works back through the Son. We must remember the timeless immediacy of the continual now in the workings of God.  In Jesus priestly prayer in John 17, He asks of the Father that the believers could operate in exactly this very same fashion. The present subjunctive tense is one that emphasizes the will of the person.  In other words the believer is not guaranteed that automatically he or she will operate in the timeless immediacy of continually dwelling in the world of God so that God can continually work His works back through them. Though positionally this is the true for every believer, the manifested reality of God from moment to moment flowing in His works back through the believer can only come as the believer out of his or her will dwells in the world of God from moment to moment.

To abide in Jesus is the same as living from moment to moment in the world of Jesus.

John 17:21  That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Greek: that the may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way that you Father in me, and I in you…

The prayer of Jesus is that the believer will from moment to moment live in the world of the Spirit so that the same perfect exchange of location in God and God instrumentality working His works back through them exactly as Jesus has with the Father, can take place in the believer. The believer has the same exact ability to work the works of Jesus to the degree that he or she lives as closely and dependently as Jesus lives in the world of the Father.

22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

Greek: That the may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way that we one are (Present).

John 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Greek: I in them, and you in me, that they may become matured and completed into the same finished product manifesting our exact oneness; so that the world system might from moment to moment learn and know that you sent me into it with a mission, and that mission being that you loved them in exactly the same way that you loved me.

To the degree that every believer operates from moment to moment in the world of God of God so that God can simultaneously and from moment to moment work back through the believer will be the same degree that the church will become matured and completed in the oneness that the Father and the Son have.  This oneness as we have learned is the perfect exchange of Jesus being located in God and God instrumentality working His works back through Him.  As the church operates in this oneness with God, He then has absolute liberty to work His miracles in His church, revealing Jesus and His mission to love the world in exactly the same way that the Father loves Him, and thus drawing the world unto Himself through the church.
  
Gal 2:20  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.

Greek: Yet no longer I, but lives in the world that defines “ME”, Christ.

Matthew 28:20  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you (I with you am (present tense) alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The fullness of the essence of God in Christ  as “I AM” is always found in the present and immediate tense.  God supercedes the dimension of time.  As with faith, in ministry, God’s power will not be sent to us in the future.  His healing will not take place in the future.  His fire will not be poured out upon us in the future. At the moment that He reveals that these things are for us in a ministry situation they are forevermore and immediately there. The “I” of Jesus is presently always with us in the am of time. 

Mark 14:62  And Jesus said, I am (I am (present tense): and ye shall see the Son of man sitting(continually and constantly ruling and reigning….) On (Christ’s energy/ fuel source is power; the world in which Christ operates is God’s power; and God’s power  does the work through Christ)  the right hand of power, and coming(continually and constantly) in the clouds of heaven.

As we live and minister in the timeless dimension of the immediacy of Christ’s continual “I AM ness”, His presence is always coming and is constantly present, in the sphere of God’s power. 

His “I” always come sin the AM of time rooted in God’s power, continual ruling. and reigning.

John 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came (Defined as :”Arrival” Christ is in a present and continuing and continual state of arrival ) from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

“Came” – This uncommon word describes to come in its dimension of arriving or arrival. Christ has arrived from God into our world, or more correctly because it is in the present tense, Christ is in a continuing state of arrival, confirming the timeless immediacy of the continual now of His presence. It is imperative that we ask God to deliver us into His world of the dimensionless- ness of time. As long as see God as doing things for us in the future we will never operate in miracles.
  
John 8:58  (AV) Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

§        In the am of time Jesus always is in the mode of I

John 10:30  I and my Father are one. (Present tense)

Greek: “I and the Father one are” A perfect and continuous exchange of location in the father and the instrumentality of the father’s works back through Jesus.

The “I” and the “Father” are one in the same

John 10:38  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Greek: That in THE ME the Father just as I am Him.

The I being in Jesus allows complete accessibility for all that Jesus has. Jesus now in this I allows for full effectiveness of His power and so forth.

John 14:7  (AV) If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

From now on you know Him progressively and have seen Him with perfect discernment.

9  (AV) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

The one perfectly discerning me , perfectly has discerned the Father
John 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in(Locative- in the world of) me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth (present participle- the continuing abiding in the world of the Spirit; necessary to produce miracles)  in me, he doeth(Present tense- the father performs the miracles in proportion to our abiding in the world of the Spirit)   the works

§        We have the timeless immediacy of faith at our disposal, as well as the continual and timeless immediacy of Jesus’ presence.  However, the continual and timeless immediacy of Jesus’ presence is also with the Father at the same moment that it with us. This guarantees the absolute effectiveness of our ministry, in that it is the Father who originates, energizes, produces and executes the works through Jesus. Christ’s presence with us in its timeless immediacy generates the works of the Father in their absolute perfection and effectiveness through us. This is because His presence is also in the timeless and continual fellowship with the Father.

§        The “I” in the Father allowing for access of all that our position in Christ has attained to.

§        The Father in ME is the I allowing for total effectiveness.

§        The Father which is now the ME does the works in the ME
Greek: The Father in or inside of  “ME”, is.

John 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Greek: I in my Father, and you in me and I in you.

Jesus now teaches us that the believer lives with the Father and the Son in the same perfect exchange of location and instrumentality as the Father and the Son themselves enjoy. This is because Jesus lives in the world of the Father so that the Father simultaneously executes His works back through Jesus.

Now we also see that the believer has been placed in the world of Jesus so that Jesus can instrumentally work back His works through the believer. In reality God works through Jesus and back into us because we are in the world of Jesus and Jesus is in the world of the Father. The believer is God’s channel for God to take the invisible works of His kingdom and manifest them into them through Jesus and then visibly through them into the world order. The exact and same ability to perform miracles just as Jesus did dwells in us.

John 16:28 ¶  I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: (I have come into the world system Perfect Tense)  again, I leave (I am constantly and continually releasing the world system) the world, and go (I am constantly and continually journeying to  constantly and continually fellowship with the father) to the Father.

The perfect tense describes an event that has been accomplished and fully carried out in the past, but that its occurrence has an influence and an impact for us now and eternally forevermore. Jesus coming onto our world system is described in the perfect tense. His coming and presence for us is therefore in the timeless immediacy of the continual now.  At the very same moment that Jesus is timelessly and immediately here,
He is timelessly and immediately releasing Himself from the world system to timelessly and immediately fellowship with the Father.

John 17:11 ¶  And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Greek: In order that they may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way as us.

As the Son lives continuously from moment to moment in the world of the Father, the Father superimposes back upon those very same moments His works back through the Son. We must remember the timeless immediacy of the continual now in the workings of God.  In Jesus priestly prayer in John 17, He asks of the Father that the believers could operate in exactly this very same fashion. The present subjunctive tense is one that emphasizes the will of the person.  In other words the believer is not guaranteed that automatically he or she will operate in the timeless immediacy of continually dwelling in the world of God so that God can continually work His works back through them. Though positionally this is the true for every believer, the manifested reality of God from moment to moment flowing in His works back through the believer can only come as the believer out of his or her will dwells in the world of God from moment to moment.
To abide in Jesus is the same as living from moment to moment in the world of Jesus.

John 17:21  That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Greek: that the may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way that you Father in me, and I in you…

The prayer of Jesus is that the believer will from moment to moment live in the world of the Spirit so that the same perfect exchange of location in God and God instrumentality working His works back through them exactly as Jesus has with the Father, can take place in the believer. The believer has the same exact ability to work the works of Jesus to the degree that he or she lives as closely and dependently as Jesus lives in the world of the Father.

22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

Greek: That the may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way that we one are (Present)

John 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Greek: I in them, and you in me, that they may become matured and completed into the same finished product manifesting our exact oneness; so that the world system might from moment to moment learn and know that you sent me into it with a mission, and that mission being that you loved them in exactly the same way that you loved me.

To the degree that every believer operates from moment to moment in the world of God of God so that God can simultaneously and from moment to moment work back through the believer will be the same degree that the church will become matured and completed in the oneness that the Father and the Son have.  This oneness as we have learned is the perfect exchange of Jesus being located in God and God instrumentality working His works back through Him.  As the church operates in this oneness with God, He then has absolute liberty to work His miracles in His church, revealing Jesus and His mission to love the world in exactly the same way that the Father loves Him, and thus drawing the world unto Himself through the church.

Gal 2:20  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.
Greek: Yet no longer I, but lives in the world that defines “ME”, Christ.