Mustard Seeds?

Followers (Of Christ),

In our prior writings, we warned you of a rising "Anti-Church" soon to be pulsing through the internet. Some of you doubt this. At times we do too, but that is only because we are no better than you when it comes to faith,...it is after all, such a small thing. Tiny...say, about the size of a Mustard seed. Yet, "Wait, you are going to create a Church, and yee have no more faith than me or anyone else out there?". We'll, sort of. Follow us further below...

“And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."-Matthew 17:20

Also see; Luke 17:5-6

Yee of Little Faith If Only As Big As Mustard Seeds

Jesus Christ spoke of the Mustard seed related to "faith" twice out of three times he spoke of Mustard seeds, in Matthew and Luke. He analogized our faith to be small as the Mustard seed which in his time and regions, was one of the smallest of the seeds known and used in that culture. Tell us Master, if the seed is small, and the faith that small of something that grows big, what was the meaning then we are to grasp? Roughly 40 men who write the Bible, and not a single one of them teaches us this as well as thee Master...

There is another example where Jesus Christ uses the Mustard seed paradigm. Speaking of the Kingdom of Heaven, and in a sense, ways we hope the Anti-Church coming will be like offering shade of his words under.

Matthew 13: 31-32 He presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; and this is smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR come and NEST IN ITS BRANCHES."

We compare the coming Anti-Church to that, as it is so small, like a Mustard seed, it is small as a micro-chip and born out of nothing but God's promises with a tech twist about it.  How big among you all in the planet do you think the new Church coming could grow from something so small as a microchip giving it the whirl in the internet to all the computers and devices on the planet? (alternate comparison to a mustard seed).

We ask you to develop you own answer about the seed, and faith. Is it  possible our faith of our own selves in God is not what is to be great, large, or of volume? Jesus said Mustard seed,...so tiny.  Is it possible we ask for the wrong things of our Father to want massive, gargantuan and copious quantities of powerful faith?  Rather, we need to see the seed (pictured above) see how small and tiny it is? It is not a question of how much or the object,...it is about simply having faith...even in the tiniest amount. It seems we should not should project outward from ourselves to move massive mountains so God can use us a examples to the world and applaud us "how great thy faith!".  No. It is not about us. Totally about God and his promises..."how great thy promises!" instead (In Jesus, how great they fulfillment, hence faith in Jesus).  Not to be of large faith, but a question of reducing ourselves to just, simply, in the smallest heart nudge way possible....simply have any faith at all...on God's promises. The faith is on his promises in his word. Not something we develop and train, but upon what we focus as ...faith. His promises. Him, him, not us, him.

Ever wonder the real difference between American Christians praying, and American witchcraft, conjuring? Well, the latter is too much "power and control" oomph from ones own inner will as the will sought to be thrust against and bend or alter the elements of God's formats. Jesus Christ mastered the elements and gives it all unto you in his name, yet the prior and first is surrender to God's format and God's will and greater than ones own, and the prayers are to humbly ask God for HIS will be done, and "if it be thy will". Asking God for his will. God and his promises are what is in command, not ones own self.  Big ol' powerful "self empowered" you surrenders to Mustard seed sized faith, instead on God's big, big promises in his word. It keeps God in his throne without you and Lucifer trying to ascend and topple him your own ways.

Some still do not "get it" about the kingdom of heaven, or the Church to come as not being at or from a "location" or a "place" in being universally in the internet and from many locations, any location, no location.

Faith is not based on you, your power of positivity, or public proclamations of faith, or what you have in terms of "faith greatness" of your maturity in Christ. Fall into the words, land on the seed of his written promises and watch those promises grow.

It is commitment to see God reveal his promises. His will, not yours. You can have all the "faith" in the world, but if it is not based on his will, his promises in the word, then it is not even faith at all nearly as big as a Mustard seed. It is us who is small, and the seed that is big when you gain the right perception.   Faith does not prosper the works of the flesh, it actually goes contrary to and sort of kills it (literally) because we make the mistake of what greatness we are wanting to fulfill in "faith". Faith is not a Ouji board on stale parchment.  It is living less of you, more of him, reliance of Christ in that word that the flesh became to fulfill the promises in the words...that is the greatness, is him and his promises magnified. Then you have faith when that is your focus outwardly to Gods written promises no matter your sufferings and persecutions endured to see only the promises.  He never promised you wont suffer or won't be persecuted.

Strip away your life, your world, and think the Seed so small, is rather the size of our understanding of Gods promises in his word. Focus to his promises in his words. So, if anyone wishes to follow him, grab your tweezers, and let us find our Mustard seed faith together in his words promises.

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Anti-Church Rising

Followers (Of Christ),

Anti-Christ rising, Anti-Church rising, whatever....same thing right? Well, no. Anti-Church is not as evil as it sounds, in fact, it is the Anti-Anti-Christ. If you stand with the Anti-Church (the one coming from this Ministry at least), you stand for Christ, and are against that which is Anti-Christ. In the internet war between good and evil, the Anti-Church shall (and has already) prevailed against Anti-Christ, and well, even  has against the "gates of hell" already.

Anti-Church? Yes, this is almost a word game. The phrase "Anti-Church" was not developed by us, but we will define it. As you know, this Ministry in it's founding's had the idea of reaching out to all people, to include the elderly, disabled, rural displaced and mobility challenged or those with  vehicle use conscience. In time, raise the bar and bring them up on equal terms and treatment as you and others even world wide, leveraging the internet to eventually bring "church" straight into all our devices (smartphones, computers). You might recall how this is "just" a Ministry in it's formulation starts that will do many many things, and then eventually also start a actual Church. That this Ministry will infuse that Church once founded, and project it outward to the world through the internet through this Ministry.

Ok, Do Some Explaining, What Is A "Anti-Church"?

Any Church building has a design and planning phase. The Church this Ministry will be building, is not like any Church you have ever imagined before, and not designed or planned like this picture. It is a Church built around, and upon real people, but on a rock.

We do not especially like the phrase Anti-Church, but it is sort of cute, so we decided to roll with it for purposes of having fun. Anti-Church, is the idea of remote or "on-line" Church.It is not new, except the ways we will seek to adapt it, where others have left off.  The phrase when developed, was meant to to describe "on -line only experiences with no real pastoral or community presence". That is how the phrase "Anti-Church" got going, and is a confusing phrase at that denotes bias by those who re being left behind in the dust who insist "Church" is only a white picket fences with brick buildings and filled with tithing members.  The root theory behind Anti-Church is the idea that it is so bland, so electronic, and totally devoid of human interaction that it has nothing to do with people in real life and simply "pushes out" it's communication at you.  That the early examples of it some tried, lead people to feel it lacks personal interaction with them or lacks their inputs...so they went overboard and called it "Anti-Church" in context of "anti-people".  That however, is not what the Church this Ministry will assist found is about or like.

The actual Church that will spring forth like a water well in the desert from this Ministry. The punfully stated Anti-Church we will create (already has some people ordained), and will feature genuine interactive presences (digitally interactive you can appear on and interactively two way with the church, using your smartphone or computer remotely through the internet) with genuine pastoral presence. Actual communication between people. One way to in portion visualize it, is as a sport of "zoom" Church, with interactive abilities.  Some call it "virtual" Church, but we will take it steps farther than. Speaking of steps, if Jesus was the type to confine himself to a Church of 4 walls, why did he preach from boats, mountain tops, porches, and when he was roughly 30 years old, did abut 100 events is "1000 days"  recorded in the Bible over a 3 year period throughout the greater Galilee regions? We rather suspect, went actually worldwide during much of his missing years. In almost none of those 1000 days and 100 events,....were things done inside the 4 walls of a church building. Let that sink in, the real works of Christ.....were all outside of the Church buildings.

You want to know one of the most adverse arguments against the form of Church this Ministry will found? Control, orthodox "control". Whereas we say, that is it's strongest point, because so many people of today don't like "overly controlling churches", and in this sense, really don't much care for "organized religion", when so many  prefer decentralized and new concepts accepting technology for what it is.

We hold the view, and will elaborate more in future post, that the true meaning of what Jesus built his church on, has been lost to vague, nebulous lack of clarity through the ages. It is not what many large churches in the ages have claimed or thought. "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it"-Matthew:16-18

This Ministry is sort of described as the "media group", that in turn will in turn "carry" or "broadcast" through the internet, the Church to come. The Ministry will still be a non-denominational Ministry and do the Ministry things, yet the church that is coming, will be a separate, yet valid church this Ministry will carry the traditional yet high tech sermons and do all the same functions as regular church you can think of, ranging from Baptisms, marriages, etc.. The main difference to you and your experience...is it will have impressive reach and get into all the hard to find spots where people are,....onto their devices and allow you the flexibile to "attend" just as you are, as you can, through you devices.. It will be a church, that wont stay contained to the insides of 4 walls. Think about this for a minute,  did Jesus spend his life staying compressed inside of 4 walls, or did he get out and beyond....indeed travel walk, boat, and appear in many places appearing before many? There is little difference to the Bibles roughly 8 times it speaks of Jesus and the clouds,   "And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight."-Acts 1:9 , to cloud sermons broadcast to your devices. Yet at least with the Church to come, you will get to actually interact with it and the Pastor through your device. In Acts 1:9 Jesus was in the clouds, then vanished. You will see us, and be able to actually see us, and actually type with us or speak us, "fighting off the lies that no one cares"...

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 Blessings and Goodwill,

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Your Ministry Type...

Followers (Of Christ),

Have you ever really set at your desk (assuming you have one, many don't anymore with today's smartphones and laptops) and given more than 45 seconds of deep thought wondering, what really is a Ministry? What kind of people are allowed to do one? And, really what do Ministries do? Well, today, we want to take some of the mini-ministries-mystery out of that. And if you can say "mini-ministries-mystery" real fast 10 times without tongue-tying,....then yes, you might better than us even.

You will recall last Sunday, we write about the return of The Great Commission Is Returning. It may have raised the level of expectation that Ministries in America, may really only just be getting started, or even re-invigorated in the near future. It is true, and if it did not get you excited, then that is perhaps our own fault for not stating strongly enough. Especially with technology upon us, the age for Ministries to develop and even augment churches with technology, is now.

Usually a Ministry is derived from or related to a specific church or denomination. At least that is how it used to be perceived by some thanks to the "establishment religions of control". Yet, not always, and not required. In fact, all studies seem to suggest the less "attached" to a church or denomination it is, the better if totally independent as it conforms to what people feel comfortable with. People of today tend to feel more comfortable with less "religiousness", less "denomination", and more just root scriptures, teachings of Christ they can see for themselves and the actually applied "love" and "caring" side of things actually applied (as a doer of the word, or a person reaching out to seek)  First the what's, ...then the who's...

What Do Ministries Do? 

This does not seem too bad, Free coffee and Soup-Dounts?  Well, no, we don't do that. Sort of wish we did. Yet, this was a response to a human need and want, and free to the unemployed. Our point is, this was a response, an outreach to human needs. Ministries are for humans, reaching to needs.Our second point made, and don't get the wrong idea here, but it seems mighty Christian to help people right?  Well, this outfit pictured was owned by Al Capone, yes, the crook. If a crook can do this, can't and shouldn't followers of Christ do even better? (let's hope so).

Ministries as an outreach of Christ, can be virtually anything, and in the modern sense, that meets and fills a need or service. That also in modern terms, should keep in mind that people are resentful of Ministries being "all overhead" and all "expenses" then seeing the dollar that went in, being only a nickel on the way out. So whatever it is, the new philosophy is , be reasonable and efficient. Yet Ministries typical are what typically comes to mind. Hospice ministry, hospital visitation, prayer ministry, elder care, missions programs, food pantries and clothes closets. Those are only the smallest limitations however based solely on "in the box" concepts. It is that, and so much more. It is also about what your skills are, what you "can do" and then just "give it" to people. By example, Goodwill sometimes helps people fill out resumes for employment, or there are Ministries that put together a labor force and helps clean up after disaster for the elderly and disabled, or delivers hot meals, or helps people with rent assistance, utility payments, access to health care services, find raising for crisis or disaster relief, providing services to the elderly and the disabled, travels to other area and helps with children's health and welfare.There are "men's Ministries", "women's Ministries" , "marriage Ministries", "singles Ministries". Do not be limited by others imagination, rely on your observation skills to see the needs in your own community.

You see we said the words "you". We are talking to you. If you ever wonder who can do a Ministry, we have an answer for you. You. The answer is you. You may recall from earlier post we break down the word of "Saints", which are not extra special equipped followers of Christ beyond committed in their excellence to The Spirit, and now, in Christ. Within the Christian belief system, while Ministries are often founded or run by so called Ministers, so called clergy, and so called ordained,...the unique thing about Christianity is, you do not have to be ordained or a Minister of a "church authority", or all churches will claim they are the only real authority, though some do (for their own). You can be a Christian Ministry, non-denominational, and be a "lay person". The biggest myth out there about Ministries that keeps people from starting or running a Christian Ministry, is the misunderstanding that you must be ordained or clergy and operating as a offshoot of a religious recognized church. Not true and can also be other religious organization, and even started by "just a regular Christian".

Now, in other religions, using Jewish Rabbis and Muslim Imam as example, while they are not "ordained" as Christians are in their own 501 C3 context and word implications, they slightly differ (not less than or greater than as a legal thing) in that they are usually needed to be "educated" of their religious system (just a slight wording difference, but quite similar), yet not in Christianity, where even the "lay" can found, direct operate and be the ministry in whatever it is it does non-denominational, and typically also involves eventually recruiting others. No, it is does not require being established by a church "per se", and yes, if you are a follower of Christ, you do your Ministry work unto him in service, to the needs you are led and called to do that is his work  (In original Greek, the "work" or sometimes "Ergon" is δουλειά), inspired to do, can do, or see the needs of. This sense of service or "Ministry" is sometimes translated in Greek as "Diakonia", or if you like it Greek as is,...διακονία, from 2 Corinthians 4:1; 5:18, and others such as "  Romans 15:16 "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. ". You just might even see a need in your community and region, and then apply yourself to filling those needs. In Christianity, your "church"...is the people. Your Minister you serve under, is Christ. He is the head of the church of his peoples.

Now that you know you can start or be a ministry, have you thought which Ministry are you, about what kind of Ministry and service you can reach to the needs in a community for? Have you given long range thought to how you might potentially serve even in this Ministry in years ahead? For us, it is always, and always will be about Christ.

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Blessings and Goodwill,

MMM
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The Great Commission Is Returning

Followers (of Christ),

Today's message is to us exciting in that we continue to meet our development goals, secured our 501 (c) (3) religious charity status to begin advancing the Ministry objectives on the legal and paperwork side of things behind our actions and commitments to us all. What is our interest, stake, and objectives?  We have started to update our trademarked website and outreach project to share just that, so please check it as you can at the donation page, and the Ministries Outreach page when you can as we will soon be stating, posting and updating how we will be securing and advancing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth in how we help one another in furthering Jesus Christ. Even how you can partake in this NGO Ministry excitement. With so many pro-active and community involved projects coming, you won't want to miss staying informed through these blogs, and our websites many pages.

Today's message gives a focus to a reason of thinking and planning about ways you personally can fulfill John13:33-34, to " A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."  Have you ever wondered, what is the "purpose", the "reason" to being a follower of Christ? Aside from "salvation", aside from "knowledge", the promise secured of being granted access to eternal life. Okay, lets keep going...aside from power and leverage to ones own personal healings, growths and developments even from your higher power found in Christ,...aside from knowing your faith and direction is opened up in him and getting the power of all creation on your knees before him. Has it ever occurred to you...there is reasons you are a follower of Christ that go far beyond your own self?

OK, Tell Us, We are Curious, What Are Those Reasons In Two Pictures Or Less?

This public domain image is actually Lambart Lombards works in oil on panel called "The Miracle Of The Loaves And Fishes" estimated to have been dated early 16th century following his possible date doing it around 1566. What was the core message of that miracle?

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes....feeding 5,000....Jesus did it, to show us an example what he expects us to do for one another in his name. Read Matthew 14:13-21,....how do you feel about it?

This public domain picture from the Library of Congress, a actual picture from about 1950-1977, look and study the human interactions over the resources at hand they have before them, and tell yourself what you see? It too refers to the "miracle" of the Loaves and Fishes.  No, this is not a message of socialism or collectivism.  This is about a miracle though, of renumeration in the Kingdom among Gods people being good stewards in goodwill to good purposes, started with so little yet abundance between themselves, yet wound up feeding great crowds and numbers of people.

The Great Commission is the end of a Gospel as "empty words" of "just some Bible verses" we are all so tired of reading and seeing without applied reality and effective translation of impact to people, and the beginning of faith in action actually helping one another for all Followers of Christ. Even to those who don't even personally know Christ yet. Also, as many of you know, under President Trump he has been in process of curtailing the past many years of non-sensical and destructive "government taxing and Government aid and help distribution" to instead reconfigure those roles back to it's' rightful place as NGO/Church/ Ministry functions. Well, here we are.  The time is at hand for The Church (the followers of Christ), to step back up to the plate and take it's lead in America once again.

Do you want to serve Government (be taxed to death in socialism and lose your rights and future), or do you want to serve the God in common between all men and help uplift us all together between ourselves?

The benefit to you also means when you instead of being taxed to death and forced to "help" people in ways you likely don't even approve of, can instead actually get a tax deduction benefit to donations and gifts to Ministries as this and with a meaning and intent from you about it.  To shift the balance back to Ministries to help people more directly, more efficiently and more logically, and less so of "the govt." under a harmful socialist banner of forcing you to "help". Trump is essentially stopping socialism's destruction, putting help trust back in you to help people, and re-empowering the American people as a whole, restoring ministries and rewarding you in the process to teamwork with organizations like us, to make it happen. Let's leave big Government as put behind us, and put the love and care ministries works of Jesus Christ back into our own helping hands to fulfill the acts of love, caring, helping, building up and helping one another "²⁰ Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you" as found in the Great Commission of Jesus Christ found in Mathew 28:18-20.

This Ministry is maturing just in time to help us all grow together in our infinite abundance of Gods love in our own "5 loaves and two fishes" each according to his/her ability, to carry forward. If you have ever wondered what The Great Commission means and how you can help, we want you to contact us because in a world of hate and neglect reversing the ill effects and damage of socialism in America of the past many years, that is re-discovering The Great Commissioning of Jesus Christ, we are not backing down and neither should you. It seems he just wanted us to do our best, and help others in appreciation that he helps us.

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Blessings,
 
MMM
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Memorial Day Forever...

Followers (Of Christ),

 

Memorial Day. It is very ignorant of us when we say  "we 'celebrate'" Memorial Day, or see it as excuse to BBQ weenies. It is better as a genuine pause and reflection of those who died. Most of us are used to hearing it started off as Memorial Day as a day to remember those who’ve fought and died serving in the U.S. military. 

 

Civil War veteran General John A. Logan called in 1868 for Americans to decorate the graves of those who fell during the “War Between the States". While true, Memorial Day as honoring the fallen soldiers of wars is of course celebrated by a great many countries in their own ways and times. For the USA, it actually goes even deeper and further back in history than most give recognition to. Especially if you view that as followers of Christ, the spiritual history of these lands might carry us all back to a process that honored the fallen clear back to lands and spiritual foundations the Hebrew speaking people claimed. Yet, carried on by us here in these lands if our foundation onward truly is Jesus Christ. 

 

We actually find the Biblical accounts of early Memorial Days clear back in Joshua 4:29
“Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from right where the priests are standing, and carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.” — Joshua 4:2-9 (NIV)

 

Joshua ( ספר יהושע‎ Sefer Yĕhôshúa) is known to us as the sixth book of the Bible. We sometimes humorously think of it as more like a part of the Star Wars series  in the wars, battles, conquest, protecting the lands and belief foundations, etc.. It is a very well researched and studied book of the Bible, the more it is assessed by experts, the date ranges vary wildly from 1244 BCE to 1383, 1485 yet roughly 544 BCE, it's author is said by some to be Joshua, while others say it had anonymous author(s) somewhere in the mix of writings threaded together. We tend to disagree, but agree it is a pretty good account of some of the battles and those who died fighting and were memorialized. We see in the book the battles fought...and they were quite the role-play of defending the foundation of the early Old Testament styled church that lead us to modern Christian faith concepts. That to us, is what memorial days foundations are really about. 

 

 What Is It Really About?

A 2014 picture of he Alton National Cemetery, thanks to the US DOD for the precious picture. "Precious in the sight of the Lord, is the death of his Saints"-Psalms-116:15

Aside from Joshua, there are references to memorials in Numbers, Exodus, Nehemiah, Zechariah, Isaiah, Malachi, Esther, Job, Ecclesiastes, Leviticus, etc and not in that order. Yet our citation above of Joshua is where we really see the battle killed, and specific designations given for combat deaths in such importance. Not glamorizing war at all, or saying war and battle is good, but protecting "the foundation" (Psalms 11:3  "if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?") is what others sometimes fight and die for. Not all wars or battles are what they seem or what we are told they are for, this is not our role on Memorial Day to discuss, rather each person that died, did so to serve, and to protect our foundations (John 15:13-Greater love hath no man than this, than a man lay down his life for his friends".) We "memorialize" to "endure hardness as a good soldier of Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 2:3 to the ones that died, so we can instead live.

 

We do not glamorize war, we also know not all or even most wars have much to do with righteousness.  Yet all who fight, and died, served and paid the ultimate price to defend our foundations and deserve their eternal rest and honor. We close with what we regard as a beautiful verse of the yearn of those who served before dying, and died. 

 

 3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

 

 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. Psalms-27:3-4

 

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The ἀποκάλυψις Meaning Please

Followers (Of Christ),

Today' message is addressing one small part of The Great Commission of Jesus Christ (Mathew 28:16-20), and this ministry.  The prophecy in action from Revelation12  that writes to us about "over-comers" of this world.

The phrase "Book of Revelation" as is titled in recent times commonly (if not needlessly) evokes fearful "doom" imagery. Some designate meanings to words (apocalypse) that are not as theologically or originally defined. The Book of Revelation was first written in Greek, alleged to be inspired by Jesus Christ using angelic intermediary process being written down by a Jewish-Christian man named "John". John associated it being done on the Island of Patmos in the Aegean possibly around AD 61-89. Even then, who that particular John was, and the time period is not agreed by all.

In those time periods, they did not have book or chapter titles like now. People took the first words of the text being arranged and those first words formed the basis of the book name or chapter "titles," that is how it got called "Book Of Revelation" (apocalypse). No special reason it was called by the  word revelation or apocalypse (other Bible books have prophecy too). The Koine Greek word  "apokalupsis"  ἀποκάλυψις simply means "revealing", or "uncovering". Some person named John wrote letters from Jesus to churches as "revealed" or "uncovered"...hence the book got titled "Revelation".  There was no special "destructive" significance or "doom" meaning to the word apocalypse (revelation/reveal) and held at the time no eschatological/dispensation context some now assert. Over the many centuries, changes began to occur to now-days some have completely altered in American culture more so than others, to mean something totally different than simply "reveal" or "uncover". The theological definition of "apocalyptic" is radically different than how the same word has totally different context to today's society in mental health professions use of the term.

We do not hold an adverse interpretation, certainly have well studied opinions of our own, yet are here to share today what is a key issue of impact to the whole "Revelation 12" point to be made...

 Share With Us The ἀποκάλυψις Prophecy Meaning Please...
   

Shown is a detail of a page from William Morgan's 1588 translation of the Bible into Welsh (this is the preface, which is in Latin with one Greek word). One single Greek word. Just. One. Single. Greek. Word. And none of us even knows what it means. Yet one single word, apocalypse (revelation), we do actually know what it actually means, and yet so few has it right. One word, one verse however is all we are focused to and share the meaning....

 
Revelation 12 is the entire Bible story from the beginning to the end, and includes the here and now in a summary of age old classic struggle between "good and evil"..reduced to the most substantial event in all human history...Jesus Christ.  The "meaning" of it all...is it wants your testimony, a recent example you may recall last weeks blog featuring Lilly Smith's testimony. Revelation 12 is for you to testify about Christ. The meaning is to do, the revealing...the uncovering, the revelation of your testimony of Christ. Give an apocalypse of your testimony. Are you apocalyptic?  :)


We look to the Bible for what it says,...yet we got it backwards, it is rather the Bible that is looking to us for what we (you) have to say. Testimony of Christ is what we are supposed to be doing.

Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony..." (emphasis added). You win against good and evil, giving testimony. Many people have accepted the blood of the lamb.  It is just that minor detail that is the whole focus about Revelations 12 ...that there is the second half following the word "and" that says "testimony".

It is virtually the meaning and purpose of your life...to give testimony of Christ. You can be a guest writer and doing contributory articles, a guest speaker on our podcast show and talk about all kinds of things, and all focus of the meaning....boils down to giving a word of testimony.

The ministry does and will do many things and services you can click here and go to our website to start learning more as it keeps growing an developing, and sharing a way for us all to give testimony to the whole world, is part of why we are here and you can find out clicking here.

This weeks you tube video song to share...testify.

Blessings,
 
MMM
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Mothers Day Messege (To The World)

Followers (Of Christ),

You might recall we promised this ministry is about you being given a platform with YOU as a ministry unto the world. We stated we would post on the ministry website how to submit your own testimonial to Jesus Christ to share with the world (as Christ asked his followers to do). We finally did post those instructions on the web site still under construction, and at the very bottom last page you can find it by clicking here.

We dared not forget it is Mothers Day and we hope you did not either! As soon as you are done reading this, please, if your mother is still alive, won't you please surprise her to reach out to her and tell her you love her and wish her happy Mothers Day? And if she is not still alive, give a quick solitude thought of thanks to God for the moms of the world, as they so often are the ones who guided us to Gods words and His love for us in Christ.

Today we feature a very sweet mom's testimony shared to the world about God's words. The Bible has about 45 special and unique references about mothers that we now celebrate Mothers Day in America, and none so good as a mothers own Mothers Day gift sharing. Even the Book of Mormon provides great tribute to the mothers who taught their sons about the value of Gods words and knowing God, as found in Alma 56:47-48 "And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it.”. The King James Bible is a powerful testament of the mothers who loved and respected God, whether you are Christian, Mormon, Jewish and/or otherwise another faith or still seeking Christ,  the worlds developing Kingdom of Heaven come into us...we love our moms for they birthed us, and helped point us to God. The local Christian guest writer today has a pen name of "Lilly Smith", here is her mothers joy to share...

Lillys Smith's Joy Of The Lord On Mothers Day
 

This public domain picture is called the "Lilly Of Life", from a July 12, 2007 State Fair picture of water lillies. The guest writers article below is from "Lilly" as she shares her source of life from the Living  Waters of God's words this Mothers Day...

"Foremost in my mind is the verse that turned into a song, John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son..." ..."Jesus Loves Me; This I know for the Bible tells me so!". This (Jesus Christ) is the center of all Scripture, yet even as adults we have to be reminded of that love over and over and over....these finite minds find it hard to grasp the depth of that love.......the sacrifice for each of us individually to accept so that we boldly approach the Heavenly Father with our praise and request.

Someone said there are 9000 promises from God in the Bible! I have heard of "promise keepers", but I am an unapologetic "Promise Claimer". I love to read God's Word and claim promises for myself for daily living, Psalm 51:10 "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Yes, that needs to be a daily request for me. Seems when you have a critical spirit, as I am guilty of, I need to pray that verse to get me back on track.

Then for my family as example Psalm 33:11 "The counsel of the LORD standeth forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations."  I like to pray that verse for my family. God is faithful through all the generations. How do I know?  Because the Bible tells me so and I believe it! That is a necessary step to living the Christian life...first believe and accept Jesus invitation, and believe His word! because Jesus is the Word! As he states in John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.".

"Off now with Lilly Smith's Words....until next time!''

 Please enjoy this Gena Hill Mothers Day song (used with permission).

Blessings,
 
MMM
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