In This Issue
1. God’s Love and Mercy vs. Judgment
2. TIME FOR LOVE
3. News Headlines
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- God’s Love and Mercy vs. Judgment
By Ron McGatlin
God’s Love Gift
Jehovah, Father God, the creator and sustainer of all creation is fully present on earth in the Holy Spirit by His only begotten Son Christ Jesus preparing many Sons, joint heirs with Christ Jesus, to redeem man and restore the earth to the garden kingdom of God.
It is insanity to reject or ignore this indescribable love gift in favor of striving independently to rule our own lives and subsequently the world, our own way without God.
Fully receiving and embracing this love gift of God with heartfelt humble gratitude and total love, admiration, and worship to the one and only true God is sanity and wisdom.
In an attempt to rule the world, a powerful anti-Christ spirit that we call Satan or the devil lifts up other schemes of other gods that are false masks of himself to deceive and inflame the world against the true love and provision of God for His people and His world.
Some of the devils most deceptive masks are secular humanism, secular democracy, godless communism, godless capitalism, fascism, and perhaps the most cunningly deceptive of all is infected religious systems. These are used to combat and attempt to destroy the love gift of God, the fruitful garden of the kingdom of Christ through His people on earth.
Sanity is restored in the world by the return of the saints to sanctity in Christ Jesus.
The deepest move of God on earth is presently seeded into the earth. It is now growing a sound root system and is sprouting through the soil of the burned out ruins of the world’s religious and secular humanistic systems. The sprout of the love gift of God’s kingdom rule is gaining strength and growing into place. Roots are spreading underground and sprouting up into view of the world.
The appearance of the growing reality of the pure love gift of the kingdom is extremely frightening to the anti-Christ spirits. In wild panic the demonic forces are going all out in an attempt to conquer all the world and destroy every sprout of the true kingdom and the very name of Jesus, Yeshua, from the earth.
The extreme efforts of the evil one to destroy the growing kingdom of Christ Jesus is exposing the true nature of anti-Christ behind the many masks of false gods. Many deceived people are now beginning to recognize that they have been deceived by the false masks and are awakening from their deceived slumber. The false super heroes of their chosen “isms” or being exposed as self-oriented flagrant egotistical and boasting of super strength that they do not truly possess.
Finally, the people of God are awakening to the reality that no religious form or “ism” with all its striving can sanctify them and keep them pure and holy.
ONLY THE GIFT OF THE LOVE OF GOD MANIFESTING WITHIN AND UPON US BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD CAN BRING US TO SANCTITY.
In the sanctuary of love, all the treasures and resources of heaven are made available to us to destroy the deceptive and murderous works of the enemy, and to re-plant the earth with the pure holy love of God producing the pleasant garden of the kingdom of God on earth.
Spirit-led Apostolic Forerunners
Forerunners are the first to die to their false gods and self-governing systems and become fully alive in Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus in His kingdom apostles are ordinary people of God serving as forerunners of the now manifesting Spirit rule of love. God’s love is consuming our past and planting the precious seed of a virgin church untouched by the ways of man and the “isms” of false gods.
Love is the answer. Love for God is the difference between a decaying world on fire and the beautiful garden of the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Christ Jesus is the full expression of the Love of Father God for the world and all people. The true passion of God’s love is unquenchable and will never end. God has never and will never do anything apart from His pure holy love. His love is beyond natural understanding. Please understand that we cannot, with our natural minds, fully understand the absolute love of God.
Let me say that again. God has never and will never do anything apart from His pure holy love. It may be difficult for natural minds to understand that the severe judgments of God were not outside of His love. The great flood and Sodom and Gomorrah, two of the many corrective and cleansing judgments upon the earth, were from the love of God just as much as the birth, life, and cross of Christ Jesus were from the love of God. God is good and all that He does is good.
MANKIND’S NATURAL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS BAD IS NOT THE SAME AS ETERNAL GOD’S ALL-SEEING AND ALL-KNOWING UNDERSTANDING.
Some acts of God that may seem bad to our natural minds from our very limited perspective are truly acts of love if seen from the eternal perspective of God. If we are devastated about anything, we may yet be in need of the greater fullness of the Spirit of God resting upon us and arising from within us to manifest the pure holy love and the sanctity of God that bring us to sanity in God.
Where then is the culprit of the evil on earth that demands the cleansing judgments of God’s love?
THE FAULT IS NOT WITH GOD AND NOT DIRECTLY WITH THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL IS DEFEATED AND CAN ONLY DO WHAT WE (mankind) CAUSE TO BE ALLOWED. THE FAILURE IS ON THE PART OF MAN.
CLEANSING JUDGMENT IS ONLY ALLOWED BY MAN’S FAILURE TO RECEIVE AND RESPOND TO THE AFFECTIONATE LOVE PROVISIONS OF GOD. MAN’S TURNING AWAY FROM GOD AND REFUSING TO TURN BACK TO HIM PREVENTS THE ARK OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD FROM RESTING UPON THE PEOPLE OR THE FAMILY, TRIBE, OR NATION. THE LOSS OF THE PROTECTION AND SAFETY OF THE ARK OF GOD’S PRESENCE UPON PEOPLE LEAVES THEM OPEN TO THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF THE ENEMY.
The cleansing judgment is to cause people to quickly turn back to God with our whole hearts and again be restored in the pure love and protection of His presence upon and within us. Only after refusal to turn back to God are the destructive severe judgments allowed to cleanse the earth by removing all who will not turn from their evil way to God, thus making room for those who will turn to God with their whole hearts, thus the humble people of God inherit the earth, and the kingdom of God grows on earth.
Neither God nor His people have any pleasure in destructive earth-cleansing judgment. It is never the will of God that any should perish. However, God has given free will to man to choose to become His pure holy Bride people or not. Man’s choice to reject God and serve another god is to his own peril and has an effect on the world.
Each person has some effect on other people around them. The love of God will eventually stop the progression of those who cause others to stumble with their worship of other gods. If it is not stopped, true faithful children of God will be affected by their ungodly ways. The destruction of evil is in part for the protection and safety of the true people of God. It is better for a man that a stone be tied around his neck and cast into the sea and drowned than to offend one of God’s little ones. When the blind lead the blind, they both will fall.
DEATH AND LIFE ARE SET BEFORE US; CHOOSE LIFE!
It is set before us this day to choose whether to turn from our false secular or religious gods of self-rule to the true and living God with our WHOLE HEARTS. To continue in the mixtures of seeking to serve God and at the same time continue to serve other gods will not prosper and cannot continue into the fruitful garden life of the kingdom.
Choose God’s way with your whole heart and life and step into the circle of His Spirit ark of safety and protection in His garden kingdom.
We are not responsible for others decisions. However, we are each responsible for the influence that our life has upon those around us. A choice to remain involved with religious or secular false gods instead of turning to the one true God with our whole heart will have a negative effect on others. Just as our decision to turn to God with our whole heart will have a positive godly effect on others around us.
Let us yield to the love of God to have its full affect in our lives and encourage those around us. The miraculous healing power of God’s love will flow through us to the world around us. The pleasant peaceful garden of God’s kingdom life will grow and prosper in us, and we will be seeded into the world to grow and multiply the love and glory of God on earth as it is in heaven.
Love wins, and it never fails!
Do not fear little flock; it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Ron McGatlin
www.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
- TIME FOR LOVE
By Ron McGatlin
Father God desires that you and I and all mankind experience the fullness of His total love. All of life exists in and from the love of God. The beauty of all creation speaks of the love of God. All life illustrates the unending love of the Father of all life. Only by the experience of His love does life on earth and in heaven exist in order and peace.
Peace is the presence and order of God’s love. Joy is the highest expression of the experience of love.
Christ Jesus is the anointed Son of Love. He is the expression of God’s love, the ultimate sacrifice of love resurrected as loving King and Lord of all to rule and reign with love that contains all truth and justice to all and in all of His heavenly kingdom on earth.
A life lived apart from personally and intimately experiencing the love of God is a life of death, a life that never knew real life. To truly live is to abide in the love of God experience, fully connected as one Spirit, one life.
The love of God is all comprehensive and all consuming. There is nothing in creation that can prosper in its existence apart from the love of God. Death and failure is the absence of the love and life of God.
All life is potentially redeemed in the cross and resurrection life of Christ Jesus, which is the ultimate expression of the love of God. All true life in human beings is by the love of God in Christ Jesus by the indwelling Spirit of God. All existence of human beings without the indwelling Spirit of God is ultimately death and failure.
The world is in desperate need of the love of God. The last great move of God on earth that will never end is the love of God consuming the hearts of people by the invasion of the Spirit of God within.
Religion and politics carried on by men and women without the love of God can only lead to more death and failure. Armies and weapons are useless against death and failure without the love of God. Death and failure come to every person, family, tribe, and nation that lifts itself without the love of God.
All life on Planet Earth will come into peaceful and prosperous order when by the Spirit of God the love of God invades and consumes the hearts of the people.
Even in this time of turmoil and disorder of transitioning toward peaceful world order, every individual can fully experience the peace of God by the love of God within by the Spirit of God.
IT IS TIME FOR LOVE!
Love never fails.
Ron McGatlin
www.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
3. News Headlines
| Could These Young Victims of War Change Syria’s Future? – 2/11/2016 With no end in sight for the refugee crisis, the truly innocent victims of war are the children. Hundreds of thousands of refugee children face an uneducated and lonely existence inside refugee camps. One Christian group in Lebanon is working to educate refugee children and minister to them. Despite initiatives thousands of these children remain out of school. Full Article » |
| Genocide label thrown on ISIS persecution – Islamic Genocide of Christians – 2/11/2016 The European Parliament voted unanimously to label the Islamic State’s persecution of Middle East Christians as “genocide.” It’s a step in the right direction. Genocide? Europe says “yes” “Determined action at the UN on this genocide is long overdue.” now that Europe has spoken, “it’s increases the likelihood that America will do more to help these Christians.” Full Article » |
| Mideast on Fire: Jerusalem the Center of a Coming ‘Perfect Storm’ – 2/11/2016 Since the Arab Spring in 2011, the Middle East has gone through profound and historic changes, killing hundreds of thousands of people and forcing millions of others from their homes. “You’re watching the Russians and Iranians rushing into the vacuum of the American retreat.” “You’re watching Isis – Iran rewarded for its belligerence now has two ways to nuclear weapons.” Full Article » |
| West Virginians Covet Prayers of Fellow Americans in Their Fight for Religious Freedom: “The People Have Had Enough” – 2/11/2016 “That freedom has been severely curtailed in recent years with the growth of gay rights and mandated contraception coverage under Obama. “The Constitution doesn’t guarantee anyone’s right to not be offended. It doesn’t guarantee anyone’s right to have any particular kind of lifestyle or behavior protected, but it guarantees the free exercise of religion,” Full Article » |
| 2016: The Year of the Rising Remnant – 2/11/2016 During this next seven-year season, the Lord is bringing forth His rising remnant as the Joshua Generation, who will accompany the King of Glory, the Lord of Armies, into battle. Indeed, the remnant church is entering a season not only of blessing, but also of glory and of war. Intimacy to Authority – Knowing to Doing – Revelation to Revolution – Waiting to Warfare Full Article » |
| Liberal France Approves Hardline Measure Stripping Terrorists of French Nationality – 2/11/2016 French parliament voted Tuesday on a measure which would strip citizenship from those convicted of terror-related offenses. The vote passed by a narrow margin of 162 to 148, with 22 abstentions. The controversial measure is one of several proposed by President Francois Hollande following the jihadist rampage on Paris in November which claimed 130 lives. Full Article » |
| Chinese pilgrims flock to UK town – Yorkshire-born Hudson Taylor was a spiritual father to millions – 2/11/2016 Coach (bus) tours are now being conducted around a UK town to enable Chinese pilgrims to pay tribute to James Hudson Taylor. He established hundreds of churches and nearly 200 schools in China. “No other missionary since the Apostle Paul has had a wider vision and has carried out a more systematized plan of evangelizing a broad geographical area than Hudson Taylor.” Full Article » |
| A Growing Force to be Reckoned With: Iraqi Army Gains More Female Fighters Who Have Escaped ISIS’ Slavery – 2/10/2016 “Now we are defending ourselves from the evil; we are defending all the minorities in the region. We will do whatever is asked of us.” Hundreds of Iraqi women who were tortured and kept as sex slaves by the Islamic State have escaped and joined the Kurdish forces to exact revenge on the terrorist group. Thousands of women starved to death or died of heatstroke. Full Article » |
| News From British Isles, Ireland, Europe and Worldwide – 2/10/2016 Sudan: pastor is released – Queen’s 90th birthday – Netflix introduces televangelist show – Europol – public information on IS – Italy: protests and debates on same-sex unions – China: conflicting signals – World horrified as scores of children massacred – Egypt: Christian students on trial for insulting Islam – Syria: churches responding to atrocities Full Article » |
| Radical “Unprecedented” Revival Sweeps China’s Government-Controlled Churches – 2/8/2016 “We were seeing something unprecedented. We had no theological training in the move of the Holy Spirit. This was completely new for us.” You’re about to hear first-hand testimony and see video of an unprecedented Christian revival happening in parts of China. What is unique about this story is how God is moving among communist-controlled government churches. Full Article » |
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