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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part VIII)

WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part VIII)

“I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Rev. 19:10, KJV. “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Rev. 12:17. “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they who keep the commandments of God, have the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14:12.

From these three verses alone, all pointing to the last of the seven stages of the church since after Pentecost(Rev. 2, 3), clearly says that the church and people who are identified as keeping the commandments of God (not man) and have the faith of Jesus (not their “own faith”) are the “remnant of the church’s “seed,” therefore the remnant of the original church the 12 apostles founded with Christ, not Peter, as it’s Corner stone. The Rock of ages.

How but natural, proper and true to form and substance, that it is to this remnant of the original that Jesus Himself entrusted, as a divine bestowal, the last gift of prophecy, especially qualified as equal to the demand for the closing messages and work of the final revival and reformation to prepare the literal spiritual final generation of the church as well as warn the world of the close of probation, followed by the second advent of Christ. It is called “the Spirit of prophecy, which is the Testimony of Jesus.”

I share with countless sincere, diligent, prayerful seekers of the advancing light of “the present, testing truths” “as it is in Jesus,” the well-studied, proven-beyond doubt, experimental knowledge (still in full progress) that this last gift of the Spirit of PROPHECY, which is the TESTIMONY of Jesus was given to and through a humble, simple, grade 3 educated, sickly woman, when two apparently much more older, educated, and qualified men, one black the other white, declined the calling—-again, as the last of the special line of messenger-prophets (not in the class of the minor or major prophets, and certainly not in the line of the godly Protestant reformers of the Reformation whose main work was to fulfill Christ’s own prophecy recorded in His own mini apocalypse in Matt. 24.

Verses 21, 22 reveals “the great tribulation,”’ (not to be mistaken for the “times of trouble” in Revelation) would be “shortened for the elect’s sake lest there be no flesh saved.”

The Reformation in the 16th century brought the bloody Dark Ages of the papal rule over the world about 5o years before it ended, according to the 1260-day prophecy with the capture and imprisonment of Pope Pius VI by Berthier, general of Napoleon’s French Republican army.

To be continued as to what the Spirit of prophecy says His people should expect, prepare for, and not be blind-sided again, as the Covid pandemic shamefully revealed, exposing our lack of knowledge of God’s word, and the consequent faithless faith! Bless all, NMF

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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL,’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS?

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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL,’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS?

The end-time, line of prophecy, combined Elijah-and-John- the-Baptist messages and work, in their respective dispensations, generations, times and places, one following and building up on the former, are the cumulative, prophesied magnified content and burden of the worldwide closing messages and work of the Third angel of Revelation 14 for these last days.

Their messages and combination work of revival and reformation, either as a last attempt to “snatch” Israel (of the ten northern tribes) from the brink of their terminal-stage apostasy, or to warn the Jewish nation, the chosen people, whose religious leaders were called a “generation of vipers” (deadly venomous snakes). John the Baptist “warned to flee the wrath to come,” by bringing forth fruit meet (worthy) of repentance.” This was the necessary preparation for the promised-by-way-of-prophecy Messiah to come.

They had to be “purged” by the “fiery baptism of the Holy Spirit or else be reserved to be “burned as chaff with unquenchable fire” in the cleansing fires of the last days as the final reward of unjust and wicked. (Note: both messenger-prophets accomplished their work but those warned, rejected them and their messages, in fact and truth, they rejected God, the Giver of the messages. The few of accepted it, carried forward the lighted candlestick of truth, its flame “a light to the feet and a lamp to the path ahead in march of time).

These two messenger-prophets’ messages-work were so pivotal in the preservation and progress of the plan of redemption in the Old and New Testament dispensations that the they were designated by God himself as “messengers” first, then, prophets, in that order—describing the solemnity, gravity, and time-sensitive nature of their messages and the specific work it entailed in order to accomplish a specified divine purpose.

The Bible repeatedly emphasizes the necessity of establishing the truth “in the mouth of two or three [credible, harmonious] witnesses,” at the very least. These two, in this context, are Elijah followed by John the Baptist. (Note: the New and Old Testaments are also symbolized in apocalyptic prophecy as “two prophets” and “two witnesses” (Rev. 11:1-13 that belong to a distinct and separate line of prophecy within the 2300-days of Dan. 8’:14) and are never to be misapplied to either Moses and Elijah, as the hyperliteralistic Rapture, Premillenial, Zion-centric interpretation teaches, nor to Moses and Elijah (who appeared with Christ at the mount of transfiguration, to reveal to Peter, James, and John, three witnesses and thus to the world through their testimony, a miniature representation of the future kingdom of glory made up of both resurrects and translated saints).

Therefore, following the “two or three witnesses” rule in the continuum of the specific and special messenger-prophet line, who, in these last days, is the third and last of them—-to help prepare a people and warn the world of the events on earth and in heaven, leading up to the close of earth’s probation just prior to Christ glorious second advent?

It is absolutely essential to know who, based on the same Bible and its prophecies, as well as church and denominational history of the advent movement, because it is from this third and last messenger-prophet that we are basing our information and enlightenment as to what to expect and prepare for, post Covid pandemic or simply moving forward from hereon.

To be continued. Bless all, NMF

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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL,’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part VI)

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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL,’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part VI)

“The time of thy visitation.” Yesterday we read that “these VISITATIONS will become more and more frequent and disastrous.” When Jesus went to visit the city of Jerusalem for the last time, the Bible says (emphasis mine):

“And when He was come near, He beheld the city [symbol of the world in the last days], and WEPT over it, saying, IF thou hadst known, even thou, AT LEAST in this thy day, THE THINGS WHICH BELONG UNTO THY PEACE (Needed for peace, margin) but NOW they are HID from thine eyes. But the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee about, and keep thee in on every side, and lay thee even with the ground [leveled], and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because THOU KNOWEST NOT THE TIME OF THY VISITATION.” Luke 19: 41-44, KJV.

“Visitation,” as translated to English in the KJV from the Hebrew in the Old Testament or from the Greek, both particularly mean, “go and official account; reckoning; inspection.”

When Jesus wept over Jerusalem, then made the mournful announcement of its impending desolation, 40 years later, by the Roman armies, led by its commander Titus, He added that it also was because “they knew not their time of visitation.” They did not pay attention to the ominous signs of the times, fails to heed and even rejected the warnings mercifully sent through His chosen messengers.

They were given the precious opportunity to be warned and prepared but they did not grab their early, merciful “time of visitation” and therefore God’s “day of visitation,” God’s “purposed time” of reckoning” for that time and people, was soon upon them. Consider the following prototypical examples and their final application-fulfillment in these last days!

“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees [enact man-made religious laws, specifically the coming Sunday law], and that (who) write grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from judgment, and TAKE AWAY THE RIGHT FROM THE POOR OF MY PEOPLE [the inalienable rights, freedoms, and liberty to worship God according to dictates of conscience]……and what will ye do in THE DAY OF VISITATION, and in THE DESOLATION WHICH SHALL [not may or might] COME from far? To whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?” Isa. 10: 1-3, KJV.

In short, too late. You were given opportunity after opportunity but you despised the life-and-death (not peace-and-safety) messages, the messengers, and actually, the divine Giver Himself!

Here’s another:
“THE DAYS OF VISITATION ARE COME, the days of recompense are come; Israel [both ancient and literal, and modern, antitypical, spiritual Israel] shall know it; the (false) prophet is a fool, the (counterfeit) spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity [transgressions of God’s law] and great hatred [towards the faithful Sabbath-keepers].” Hos. 9: 7.

Here’s the last example for now:
Micah 7: 1-5: “Woe is me! For I am AS when they have gathered the summer fruits….there is no cluster to eat: my soul desires the first ripe fruit. The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is non upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood: they hunt every man his brother with a net. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince [civil powers-that-be) asketh [for bribes], and the judge [justices, jurors, etc.] asketh for a reward; and the great man [even “the man of sin,” “the son of perdition”], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so that they wrap it up. The best of them is AS a BRIER [like a thorn]: the [counterfeit] most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge.

[Therefore] THE DAY OF THY [false] WATCHMEN AND VISITATION COMETH [is coming] NOW SHALL BE THEIR PERPLEXITY.” Micah 7:1-5, KJV.

To be continued. Bless all, NMF

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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part V)

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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part V)

We often forget that Satan is at least six thousand years older than any mortal, was next to Christ in heaven, that is, among the angels who were created before man was. Lucifer was made as a covering cherub of “great white throne” of the invisible Father. Through his unparalleled wisdom, beauty and endowments that somehow got corrupted by “the mystery of iniquity,” he succeeded in convincing, through his consummate cunning and subtlety, one third of the angels IN HEAVEN to join his rebellion against Christ and the law of God.

Cast down to yet-unfallen EARTH after his defeat, Lucifer-now-turned-Satan (“that dragon and serpent of old called the devil”) proceeded to tempt Eve, in her perfect, sinless state in Eden using the same deadly cunning he used on the angels. All too sadly, he succeeded. Since that fateful day of the fall in perfectly beautiful Eden, the history of mankind and the earth fearfully and graphically reveals his work of devastation and ruin, and how man seems to have never learned to this very moment that “the enemy of God and man” is the mastermind and central power, working unseen in the spirit world on earth, working the ruin of man and God’s creation—but only as far as God allows.

We now read a revelation of what God’s commandment-keeping people should expect and be braced for spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically (which the rewards of faithfully practicing the true health and diet reform, will prove invaluable.:

“While appearing to men as a great physician [in his many disguises and impostures wrought through his agencies of both spirits and modern-day counterfeit faith and natural-remedy healers, etc.] who can heal all their maladies, he will bring DISEASE and DISASTER, until POPULOUS CITIES are reduced to ruin and destruction.

“Even NOW he is at work. [How? Where?] In ACCIDENTS (so they are not after all really “accidental] and CALAMITIES BY SEA AND LAND, IN GREAT CONFLAGRATIONS, IN FIERCE TORNADOES AND TERRIFIC HAILSTORMS, IN TEMPESTS, FLOODS, CYCLONES, TIDAL WAVES [tsunamis], AND EARTHQUAKES, IN EVERY PLACE AND IN A THOUSAND FORMS, Satan is exercising his power.

“He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and FAMINE AND DISTRESS follow. HE IMPARTS TO THE AIR A DEADLY TAINT, AND THOUSANDS PERISH BY THE PESTILENCE.”

If you think this is terrible news, see what follows:

“The visitations are to BECOME MORE AND MORE FREQUENT AND DISASTROUS. Destruction will be both upon men and beast. ‘The earth mourneth and fadeth away,’ ‘the haughty people…..do languish. The earth is also defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have TRANSGRESSED THE LAWS, CHANGED THE ORDINANCES [of God, not of man or the Church], and BROKEN THE EVERLASTING COVENANT [The Ten Commandments, Deut. 4:13]. Isa. 24: 4,5, KJV.”- Great Controversy, E. G. White,(1911 ed.), pp. 589, 590.

To be continued. Bless all, NMF

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THE COVID PANDEMIC, THE INTERNET, AND PRAYER

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THE COVID PANDEMIC, THE INTERNET, AND PRAYER

This is a personal interlude in our running topic, as the title already suggests. It’s definitely not off-tangent nor non sequitur but rather parenthetical to it. Let me lead it off with this quote from Brian Stelter of CNN, which caught my eye as I made my quick morning scan of internet news on my smart phone. He wrote:

“On the internet, everything looks the same….Warping the public discourse, creating less space for the big stories and the big debates that we need to have.”

And I quickly add, “not only warping the public discourse”merely, “but creating less space” for God Almighty’s last merciful warnings of the everlasting gospel, contained in the most comprehensive and all-embracing messages of the Third angel of Revelation to the churches and earth’s inhabitants, before the only door of probation closes forever!

I have a rule which I now follow carefully (and recommend to you) which is based on the Bible principles of how and why we must “eat and digest the manna” of God’s Word, specially the joined-at-the-hip prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. The final edition of the gospel is not in Psalms or Proverbs, or Parables or the synoptic Gospels, not even the he epistles of the New Testament but in Prophecy!

The first angel “flying in the midst of heaven” with his message, meaning covering the whole earth, is introduced as “the EVERLASTING GOSPEL” announcing that “His hour of judgment has come,” imploring and warning all to worship the Creator of heaven and earth, as Adam and Eve worshipped Him on the day He rested from His completed, perfect work of creating. He blessed, sanctified, set apart, and gave this day a proper name, the Sabbath.

This rule is:
Never interpret prophecy by current events (particularly in these last days, as portrayed in the internet and digital platforms). Instead, interpret current events by the Bible’s prophecies (of which you must first be knowledgeable of, through diligent, continuous healing and progressive study, not merely in cadence with the drumbeat of the times, but ahead of it, as it was divinely-designed to precisely do for God’s faithful people).

This is how I have learned to discipline and allow my “feet” to be guided, when scanning the internet for late-breaking news headlines and stories—-which to quickly ignore, or what may be worth the time and effort to check out.

To this moment, I haven’t YET seen any real need to open any social media accounts. I will do so ONLY if and when unmistakably moved by the Holy Spirit, as experience has taught me. How many lies, false narratives, misinformation and disinformation-by-design, wild Bible-contradicting conspiracy theories that shockingly have gained a mysterious, bewitching, strangle-hold on, of all people, politicians, lawyers, law-makers, and worse although also prophesied, church-attending, praying, Bible-reading Christians! God have mercy!

I have resisted from the beginning, suggestions from well-meaning friends to go on social media. Thus far, I am not missing anything essential! And yet grave concerns of responsible members of society are decrying over the long, sinister, corrupting tentacles of another even deadlier “pandemic” that is steadily corralling the minds, actions, and aspirations of both young and old alike, as has never been witnessed before.

Influences and influencers of all stripes are leading unnumbered millions father away from the testing truths for the last days into a dark and bleak spiritual wilderness, another kind of “black hole” on earth, not in deep space, where the silent and unspectacular, yet salvation-giving light and “still small voice” of the Holy Spirit is at once blocked and silenced at the only entrance to the conscience of man.

By the spiritual template and testing standard of “the law and the testimony” (Isa. 8:20), the word of truth of the living Word, revealed through the written Word, “It is written, is the only safe way we can negotiate through the hazy maze of Babylonian confusion in these last days.

This includes how to be “wise as serpents and harmless as doves” as we move among “wolves in sheep’s clothing,”discerning in alacrity and dispatch how, where, and when to “launch” into the swirling waves of the internet’s ocean of information and disinformation—-lest Eve-like, our eyes be dazzled, ears titillated by countless lilting voices, and our imaginations fired up to activate the brain powers to move the fingers, Ouija board-like, to follow the invisible lead, entranced, mesmerized, and ensnared by Satan’s unnumbered schemes.

Satan, working desperately “knowing his time is short,”’ through his evil spirits and wicked human agencies, working in tandem, knows where, when, and what our weaknesses and vulnerabilities are, even if we think we are doing things under the cloak of secrecy in the darkest part of the night. We forget that “the night has a thousand eyes”closely watching our every move. And they are not high-resolution, military-grade surveillance cameras!

Nehemiah, like Daniel (or vice-versa) knew the science of answered prayer. He followed the principle enunciated where God said He has “a time and place for every purpose.” When faithfully followed, God promises to “make all things beautiful in His and it’s TIME” and His WAY.

I recall our present lesson on how Nehemiah engaged in a LONG PRAYER period. Lasting four months, seeking and ascertaining God’s will, and claiming God’s promises since certain requirements of God had already been complied with. All these were the preparations leading up to the SHORT PRAYER at the precise moment of opportunity, which I call the CRISIS PRAYER OF A COMMANDMENT-KEEPIiNG SAINT.

As prophecy clearly reveals, it is certain that we are facing “more and more calamitous and greater disasters” as we near the final crisis. Instead of cringing in fear, discouragement, self-pity, and murmuring like the Israelites, we should rather take all these in the spirit of the working “faith of Jesus”’and view them as “special opportunities” to upgrade our prayer life and practices by “examining and proving ourselves”—not others “whether we are really in the faith” or just endlessly discussing or even pontificating upon it, to no avail.

Remember that Christ’s life of power was inextricably intertwined with His life of prayer. As the Life giver in the flesh, every breathe He took while on earth—with all the weaknesses and passions but not the pollutions of our fallen human nature—was both a prayer and a breathe of life!

This is what is meant when “He breathed His spirit”’upon the 70 disciples” before His death, resurrection, and ascension whence He sent the Holy Spirit, His “other Comforter” who descended upon the 120 disciples in the upper room, in the appearance not of “burnished-color dove,” but of “cloven tongues of fire.”

The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Godhead or the “Trinity” which is not a Biblical term but used by the churches to describe the Godhead, which is a Biblical term used in the epistles of Paul.

The Holy Spirit is not merely a Spirt “spirit” or “the breathe of Christ” as some who teach the fearful, Holy Spirit-grieving blasphemy that there is only the Father and Son that make up the Godhead!

Christ, our Pattern Man’s life was the quintessential model of a living, walking Prayer itself. Enoch’s life came closest to it; and he was translated to heaven without tasting the first death, as the very special reward for such mortals, even before receiving the “crown” that is eternal life.

Like Daniel, Nehemiah and the righteous men and women of the Bible, who “lived, moved, and had their being” constantly working for God through crisis after crisis, he knew how, when, and what to pray for——LONG periods of prayerful seeking of God’s will, in preparation for both revealed and therefore anticipated crisis to come, or unanticipated and unknown ones, and then the SHORT but “effectual fervent PRAYER of a righteous man that avails much,” at the precise moment of the crisis. This is also the more comprehensive explanation of what it means “to pray without ceasing.”

If for any reason whatsoever you may find yourself unable to pray as you used and ought to do in the morning, before taking on the “evils of the day,” here’s a short one I recommend from the pen of inspiration:

“Take me O Lord, as wholly Thine. I lay all my plans at Thy feet. Use me today in Thy service, Lord. Abide in me and let all my work be wrought in me.” Amen.

To be continued. Bless all, NMF

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WILL LIFE “RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part III)

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WILL LIFE “RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part III)

Jesus said that following the “trodding down of Jerusalem and the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke 21:24)—a triple application prophecy—this one referring to the Dark Ages when the “Gentiles trod down spiritual “Jerusalem” of the “Israel of the Alps,” the Waldenses, and the rest of the unnumbered millions of faithful Sabbath-keeping saints of the ages, persecuted and martyred by the Roman papal church by the Church of Rome onward for 1, 260 years ending in 1798.

After this, in this broad outline of the end-time prophecies given in its details in Daniel and Revelation, Jesus said. “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth DISTRESS OF NATIONS, WITH PERPLEXITY; THE SEA [of peoples, humanity] AND THE WAVES ROARING; MEN’S HEARTS FAILING FOR FEAR, AND FOR LOOKING AFTER THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE COMING ON THE EARTH; FOR THE POWERS OF HEAVEN SHALL BE SHAKEN.” Luke 21: 25, 26, KJV.

Note that Jesus was declaring a prophecy, and therefore used prophetic language. “Spiritual things are spiritually discerned.” Following the prophetic chronology after the end of the 2300-day prophecy in 1844, to the present time of a disturbingly unsettled state in the world, then consider the following excerpts from the book The Great Controversy by E. G. White, 1912 ed., ‘The Impending Conflict,’ ch. 36, pp. 589, 590 (be sure to read the whole chapter for yourself).

“Through Spiritualism, Satan appears as a benefactor of the (human) race, HEALING THE DISEASES of the people, and professing to present a NEW AND MORE EXALTED SYSTEM OF RELIGIOUS FAiTH; but at the same time he works as a destroyer. His TEMPTATIONS are leading multitudes to ruin. INTEMPERANCE dethrones reason; sensual indulgence, strife, and bloodshed follow.

“Satan delights in WAR: for it excites the worst passions of the soul [the whole living person], and sweeps into eternity it’s victims steeped in vice and blood. It is his object to INCITE NATIONS to war against one another; for he can thus DIVERT the minds of the people FROM THE WORK OF PREPARATION TO STAND IN THE DAY OF GOD [the pre-advent, investigative judgment currently taking place in the heavenly sanctuary with Christ as both High Priest and Judge of all the earth].

“Satan WORKS THROUGH THE ELEMENTS also to garner HIS HARVEST OF UNPREPARED SOULS. He has studied the SECRETS OF THE LABORATORIES OF NATURE, and he uses all his power to control the elements, as far as God allows. When he was suffered to afflict Job [read the book of Job], how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, his [ten] CHILDREN were swept away, ONE TROUBLE SUCCEEDING ANOTHER AS IN A MOMENT.

“It is GOD that shields His creatures, and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer [Satan].”
To be continued. Bless all, NMF

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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL,’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part II)

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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL,’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part II)

Here’s one take, among countless others and counting, in hindsight, sadly, yet understandably a common assessment shared among the whole spectrum of humanity, this side of the pandemic:

“The most menacing, disruptive, psychologically aggressive period that our world has been in since the ‘60s.” – Sharon Stone, as told in The NY Times story and quoted in People, on-line news, Mar. 24, 2021.

Experts, pundits, preachers, modern, self-anointed, self-sent, time-setting prophets and seers of all stripes and different, dissonant, and even conflicting religious persuasions, will divine their individual “tea leaves” and either “see a bad moon rising” and the start of the “battle of armageddon, or the “dawning” of another “Age of of Aquarius (since the first, touted in the Hippie generation, proved to be an illusion) that finally ushers in global peace, love, unity. and untrammeled liberty to whatever desire dictates, etc. that finally ushers in the long-awaited global peace, love, prosperity, and untrammeled liberty to indulge whatever desire dictates.

l dare not hazard any personal opinions, insights, or interpretations on a subject that is increasingly moving up, front and center of the global discourse for it not only impacts the present but shapes the trajectory of everyone’s future and plans. In fact there is absolutely no need for all these vain efforts of mortals with finite minds! The divine Revealer of secrets and the eternal destiny of mankind has already “revealed His secrets to and through His servants, the prophets” (Amos 3:7).

Here is perhaps one the greatest of opportunities to test and prove beyond a doubt whether the writings of Ellen G. White are truly inspired by the Holy Spirit and is “the gift of prophecy given to the remnant church” of Revelation.

All by now, nationally and globally, are expecting that the worst is soon to be over and that light at the end of the dark pandemic tunnel is already getting brighter and brighter and that soon this pandemic will enter the books of history with whatever degree of ignominy the historians and writers assign it but was conquered by the wisdom, innovative and creative powers of man.

Now, here’s what the book, The Great Controversy reveals, in the context of all Biblical prophecies of the last days of the major and minor prophets of the Old Testament, the mini apocalypse of Christ recorded in Matthew 24 and Luke 21, particularly the last part of Daniel and amplified in greater and end-time detail in Revelation?

Read it here tomorrow, then test it’s truthfulness and reliability by the coming events on the horizon, anticipated or otherwise. Be patient, remain calm, pray as you never did before and place your souls in God’s hands. Remember that salvation, has, and always will be individual to the close of probation. God bless all, NMF

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WILL ‘LIFE RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID VIRUS PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part I)

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WILL ‘LIFE RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID VIRUS PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part I)

Before we hastily and perhaps presumptuously answer either YES or NO, we need to “count the cost” by first arming our minds with the principles expressed in the following:

Firstly, no “good news” is truthfully good, no matter how “positive” or “reassuring” it sounds or looks if it is too-good-to-be-true, irrational, too far deep in either extreme ends of the reality spectrum, highly speculative, with many loose ends dangling, sensational, fanatical, is a confirmed conspiracy, contradicts common-sense and causes confusion, anxiety, fear of phantom-like enemies that leads to panic mode decision-making.

Desperation under intense and prolonged duress renders those who are not firmly grounded spiritually to become virtually sitting ducks for any “duck-hunter” to shoot down with hardly any effort or skill. It’s open season in Satan’s enchanted hunting grounds.

In fact, paraphrasing the original saying, many who look strong and unflinching in their faith, will, when this prophesied crisis finally comes, surrender their God-given inalienable, thus ESSENTIAL freedoms and rights in exchange for TEMPORARY safety. As the saying concludes, such compromising cowards do not deserve to enjoy either the inalienable essentials nor the temporary safety and conveniences extended by fellow mortals and sinners who act as though they were Gos in earth.

Remember that “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” To fall asleep and fail to be a trustworthy spiritual “watchman in the tower” is suicidal and exposes the helpless and unwary around you to the predation of the “ravenous, night wolves in sheep’s clothing.”

Let’s all be be thinkers, with the mind God has given us, not mere reflectors, automaton-like of other men’s ideas and assertions. To be continued tomorrow, God willing. NMF