Do You Feel Like You Are Being Sifted Like Wheat?

“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers” (Luke 22:31-32).

Hey Gang:  I do not know about you guys, but I feel like the past month, since Mr. Donald J. Trump became President Donald J. Trump, has been a time of some deep shifting.  Did you ever get up in the morning with a tune running through your mind that continues to repeat itself as the day progresses? 

It has not been a song in my mind but rather the words of Paul in Ephesians 6:12 “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against; principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph. 6:12).

Billy Graham wrote the following in his book The Reason For Hope, written in 2013. “It is a time to take the news of the day in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages come together.  This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive….It is not just Christians that sense something is about to happen.  The world knows that it cannot survive if it continues down the same path. History has reached an impasse.  This world is on a collision course.  Something is about to give.  With increasing frequency, commentators from secular media speak of Armageddon”.

Never in my memory in eight plus decades on the earth has a new year appeared, at its beginning, to be more prophetically interesting to watch, but, most in the world are not into the Word, therefore, they tend to have their heads in the sand pertaining to God’s program for these days. In the times I have been priviledged to share what God has taught me over the years about what is coming, I get the feeling that many times I am talking to door knobs.

I find two great truths that were very important to Jesus, the first found in 2 Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance”.  He wanted every soul that received the breath of life to one day be with Him in the New Jerusalem for all eternity.

The second, that no one be left out in the dark. He taught in Mathew 24 and 25 what is to come in the last days of the Age of the Gentiles. He gave divine wisdom to the prophets and disciples to share the word of what was to come, so that we would not live in a confused state.

In a recent message from a prophetic guru, who I have found to be a no-nonsense type of person and have gained much respect for, made this statement after he had done some informal research involving more than a dozen prophetic Bible gurus and found all agree: “Never before in history has the sign of the times lined up as clearly as they are lined up today.”   What does that mean? You best check he oil in your lamp.

 

I have had people say, they think it is time for packing.  Forget it, the will be no time for packing and what in the world would you take to heaven?   

There is a story about one man who was informed by an angel that his life was about over and he should prepare to go.  He asked the angel for permission to take one suitcase with him.  Permission was granted. When he got to the pearly gates, Jesus asked him what was so important.  He opened the suitcase and it was full of gold. Jesus said, “You brought paving material?”

Blessings,

Gramps