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“ And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”-Daniel 12:2

What’s interesting in the above verse is that it doesn’t say All. Instead it says Many. And while there are many who suggest a variety of interpretations, I think it is safe to say that if God said Many, He meant Many.

But one thing we can be sure of, whatever the answer, He will use it to our good because He loves us 🙂

Mark of the Beast

“It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,”- Revelation 13:16

 “so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.”-Revelation 13:17

Some members of the American government appear to be working towards a “cashless” society, as are a number of other countries.  CNBC wrote an article in which it said, “Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell hinted this week that a digital dollar is a high-priority project for the U.S.” (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/27/op-ed-a-digital-dollar-would-help-the-us-and-its-allies-keep-china-in-check.html)

This is a very dangerous step for all Americans as it would be the end of Freedom as we know it.

Imagine, if you will, a future in which only those with debit or credit cards can purchase food.  Imagine a future where ALL expenditures, including food, are monitored by the government.  A future where you need the government’s permission to purchase anything.  Want to eat that Pizza-sorry you weigh to much. Want to purchase head phones, sorry they are too loud. And the list goes on.

A future where you need to be a member of the politically correct political party or church to purchase anything…

Now imagine that in order to make any purchase of any kind, you need an RFIC chip implanted, perhaps in your right hand?

Once the government removes all cash from our monetary system, it’s only a few steps to a complete loss of freedom.  And perhaps the Mark of the Beast  We can’t let that happen.

In Daniel 12:4 it says, “even to the time of the end many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased”. We do not need to do this! Call or email someone today.  Tell them no!

And Pray!  We need more time.  There are too many who have not accepted Jesus!

May our Lord be merciful and give us the time we need to bring as many as possible to Heaven with us. In Jesus’s Name. Amen. ?

Many ask, “how can we pray that God’s Will be done, when His Will may not match our own”?

A good example of this is when we are praying for someone who is very ill.  We want so badly for that person to get well.  For their suffering to end!  Because we love them so.  But we need to trust that God loves them too.  And His solution may not be ours, but it is the better solution.

Sometimes the person that we love and want so badly to get better-goes to Heaven.  And we cry out in anger, because we want them to be here!  And that is a natural part of grieving.  God understands that.  But at some point, we must realize that they may be far better off in Heaven than on earth.  The person that we love so much, will no longer suffer, no longer cry.  They will be filled with a joy that we can only imagine.  It’s not the person we love who is suffering, it’s us.   Because we miss them.  And that is where we need to put our trust in God’s Love for all of us.  And perhaps we also need to have a little faith in ourselves and in our future.  For one day we will be with the people we love forever ?

Another example is, sometimes a person that we love seems to be trapped in a life style that only brings them pain and destruction.  We pray constantly that they will make better choices, but our prayers seem to go unanswered.  But are they?  Perhaps that person needs those struggles to make that final turn to Jesus.  Perhaps they need those struggles so that in the future they can help others.  “God uses all things to the good of those who love Him”.

We should never stop praying for the people we care about.  God hears our prayers and loves them too.  But we need to understand also, that God will act in their best interest.  He loves them even more than we do and He knows more than we do…

Because God knows not just yesterday and today, but all of our Tomorrows.  Trust Him.

So, should we pray for those we love?  Absolutely!  But pray for them and pray for God’s Will to be done in their life as well.  We can trust God, for He loves us all ?

Charles Spurgeon once said, “the Holier a man becomes, the more he mourns his unholiness”.

I think this is true.

When we first become Christians, whether as a child or as a grown up, we are in one place.  After we have pursued a relationship with Jesus for many years, we are often in another. This is the way of life.  It’s no different than the fact that we are in a different place in life when we are 60 than when we are 16.  

There is good to be had in both places.  Newer Christians often bring much needed excitement and devotion to our faith.  Those who have grown for many years in our faith, often bring wisdom.  We need both!

And because of this, we must also be patient and loving with another.

We are not always going to be in the same place at the same time.  We will not always agree with each other.  But we always need to Love one another.

And we all need to ask our Father to forgive us through His Son Jesus, for the sins we do not recognize and the sinful behavior that may come about because we don’t recognize some of our sins.

No matter what, don’t stop praying ?.  As Christians, we need prayer like we need to breathe ?.  Pray when you feel like it and pray especially when you don’t.

As one of my Pastors often said, “Prayer changes things “ .  We must let it change us ?

There are many who love the Lord and yet support abortion and gay marriage, this is wrong.  But yet, there are some who love the Lord and continue to support it anyway because they believe they are right to do so. 

We all fall prey to sin at sometimes. Sometimes we recognize that sin right then and there, and sometimes we don’t. But other than ” blasphemy against the Spirit”, all sin can and will be forgiven through Jesus Christ.

And so we can pray to our Father and ask Him to show us any sinful behavior that exists in our lives, and ask forgiveness through His Son Jesus. 

We can ask the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to the truth.  Is there any conflict in this?  No.  Because we all want the truth.  And if we believe some actions to be right,  then there should be no fear in asking God for The truth.

But be prepared, because Truth by it’s very nature, can only have one answer.

Our God is not a God of confusions, if we ask Him to lead us and He will, because He loves us ?

Mary, The Lady of Fatima, gave us a picture of what Hell is really like because she loved us.  Because Jesus loved us.  They didn’t want us to go there, so they warned us of just how truly awful it would be!

Sister Lucia said:

 “As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands once more, as she had done during the two previous months. The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke now falling back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. (It must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me). The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. Terrified and as if to plead for succour, we looked up at Our Lady, who said to us, so kindly and so sadly: You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.” – Sister Lucia

Heaven is as real as the earth we stand on, but Hell is too.  It’s a fact we would be unwise to ignore.  Mary showed Hell to Sister Lucia for a reason, so that we could choose the path that would bring us happiness, because Jesus and Mary love us all that much!