Our country is in a turmoil.

One side against the other.

Donald Trump has been appointed by God for such a time as this. He is not perfect but has been selected by God to accomplish His work.

Joe Biden has been appointed by Satan to accomplish his dark works on Earth. Dark and sinister full of malice. An undertow of unrighteousness things.

The Democratic Party does not honor God with their political platform. Abortions. Gay marriages. Are the two that catch in my throat and which are condemned by God in His Word the Bible.

They spout socialism, one world government, everything free for all, uprisings

This presidential election is a fierce battle between Good and evil. The Dems hate the republicans with a vehement hatred. Their teeth are barred and venom spews out of their mouth. Kill him. Impeach him. Burn riot destroy. Here is not my President.

Jim Gregg

November 7, 2012

What happened last night? Did America loose? Are we going to become a socialistic country? These and many thoughts ran through my head the moment Fox News gave Ohio to Obama pushing him over the 270 electoral votes needed to remain President of The United States of America.

At work today Dick said that he was going to teach on Colossians 2:8 this Sunday. Read it.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

Do you realize how close we came to doing exactly that! We were so committed to ousting Obama that we bent our scruples and put our hopes behind a very high member of a cult (Mormonism) to become our President.

Never mind the fact that Obama still has not convinced us that he is a citizen of the United States. Nor the fact that he is a professing Muslim, and a Socialist. Nor that he said we are not a Judeo-Christian nation, or his refusal to accept Israel or her Prime Minister.

We were so focused on firing Obama that we blinded our eyes to Romney’s false beliefs. Yes he was for Israel, family, sanctity of marriage, balanced economy, jobs, and etc. BUT! If he would have won we would have all taken a deep breath of relief and sat back on our laurels.

Romney’s win would have been the end to our struggle. Now it would all be in Mitt’s hands to do his managerial control of our countries woes. Ahh! What a relief. Not to worry. Things are going to be all right. I think I will just curl up and go to sleep.

We Christians would have all fallen asleep one more time. We are good at this, we do it so often. One day we wake up as see that prayer has been banned from our schools. We wonder “how did that happen?” We again wake up and find that abortions are available to any and all who want them. We again wonder “what happened?” 9-11 comes and goes and we stare in awe and say “what happened?”

Not this time my friend. We cannot fall into blissful slumber and let the country grind on its merry way. We are still at war. The enemy has regained a strategic foothold and is bunkering in for a fierce fight. A fight that apparently only the awakened, enlightened, spirit filled Christians can see. Over half of the country thinks that things are going Great or they would not have elected Obama to the second term.

Re-read Colossians 8.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 

We almost accepted that which seemed right at the time but was not according to Christ. Even Glenn Beck said that yesterday he knew he was right but now he sees that he was totally wrong. We cannot win by substituting a man for what God can only do.

The fight that we are about to wage war with is evil in its purest form. We battle against powers and forces in the spirit realm. Our country has succumbed to the whiles of Satan bit by bit as he belittles our moral structure and gets his fingers entwined around our throats ready to choke the life from us.

Did you notice how easy it was for Obama’s charismatic character to entrance most Americans into his web? They did not even notice. The News Media fell full sway into his enchantment, embellishing every word and action he made as coming from, quite possibly god.

Yet when faced with the starkness of reality they chose to ignore it, wanting rather to hold on to the enticing words of Hope and Change. Not to worry about the $4, $5, $6 Trillion in debt. That is such a massive number it will surely just go away. Obama will wave some more magic dust our way and Poof it will vanish.

Now those poor people who got wrapped up, oh yea – killed, in that Benghazi uprising. That was just unfortunate. Obama said he knew nothing about it, I believe him. I think some more pixie dust is in order. Sprinkle, sprinkle.

The Bible tells us that in the end times a powerful charismatic man will become ruler over the whole Earth. He is called the Antichrist. I am not inferring that Obama is that man. I just want to show you how easy it will be for us to welcome Mr. 666 into our opened arms. Hitler rose to power with the blessings of the German people.

The President we currently have, if left unfettered, will break Americas back and drive us into socialism. The war we face is real and eminent. Yet we can’t fight the President. Just try it and you will end up with a bunch of Secret Service Agents on top of you.

On our knees is how we must fight. Only the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob can see us through. He is our strength and shield. He is our strong arm, mighty to face the foe.

Now that we have been whipped into a frenzy over the election and have lost handily it is time to take a stand for that which is right. Pray, my Christian friends, that God’s hand will reveal the evil in our country. That He will expose the sin that has entrenched itself deep within the fiber of America. That truth will prevail over lies.

The God I serve is more than mighty enough to whip this foe. The battle is just beginning. The fray is just starting. We did not lose yesterday…

“I have not yet begun to fight” – John Paul Jones  

Prayer, belief in the might of our God, and commitment to the Lordship of Jesus Christ is the only way. This is a silent war waged in the spirit realm. You will not hear the clashing of swords but you will feel the darts of the enemy. Pull them out and trample them under your feet for you are “the head and not the tail.” Mighty is our God.

Jim Gregg

January 23, 2012

The other night I had a dreaming vision of my Spirit.

It is all of me. It was the same shape and size of me. My skin seemed to be a covering over it. It was sort of transparent and yet it has a slight glow to it. Sort of like the aliens in the movie Cocoon. But that was a secular movie and had nothing to do with the real existence of Spiritual beings. Even though – they sort of slipped on a skin covering over their real selves – glowing spirit like creatures.

It is me. You know that part of you that knows who you are. That part of you that is timeless and ageless. I feel now like I did when I was 17 and in High School. I can remember my mother saying this when she was near 90 years old.

Our spirit was made for eternity and that is too long to even think about. The song says “When we’ve been there 10,000 years…’” That is a long time also. In comparison to 10,000 my mere 65 years is just a title’s worth. No wonder I feel so young in my Spirit. It is the body that is growing old and soon to expire. Not my Spirit.

My Spirit is the part of me that goes either to Heaven or Hell when I die. I am going to Heaven by the way. No ifs ands or buts. I have already purchased my ticket through the Death, Burial, and resurrection of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I heard a Christian ex-martial arts preacher say the when they smashed their hand through a board or brick that it was the human spirit that did the breaking and not the physical hands. Pretty powerful stuff.

When combined with a true faith in Jesus Christ it is even more powerful. I have been transformed by my acceptance as Jesus as my Lord. The same Spirit that raised Him from the dead is within me.

Watch out Satan. I am a lean mean fighting machine. Jesus has already died for me and conquered Life, death, and even hell for me. I am victorious through the Blood of Jesus.

Jim Gregg

January 16, 2012

Did you get caught up in the Broncos Mania the past few weeks? I know that we did. It was great. All of the cheer and comradery. We are headed for the Super Bowl. Yippee!

The city of Denver hosted an Orange Friday with many companies following along. All things were about Broncos going to the Super Bowl, something that has eluded Denver since Elway led the team on back to back victories so many years ago. Their performance had been rather lackluster since then.

Not now though. We have made it into the playoffs. Championed by Tim Tebow. The miracle maker, the pass thrower, the goal runner. Tebow! Tebpw! Tebow! Chants the crowd.

It has been a long time since the city of Denver had a hero to hold up high with great expectations to do the miraculous, to take us again to the elusive Super Bowl. YES!

What a rush. All of the excitement. Everyone is Tebowing, not out of it’s real meaning of reverence to God, but a sort of mockery of the magic associated with the man himself, Tim Tebow.

Let me add right here and now, Tim Tebow is the most honorable and God fearing NFL player that there ever was or may ever be. When he gets down on his knee (Tebowing) he is praying his heart out to the living God of the Universe. That is Tebow’s life, one of honoring his King and Lord and Savio)r.

It is that aspect that most of the fans do not catch. Christians on the other hand know this and get behind Tebow ever more so. Knowing that honor and glory are being lifted up to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

It is this total unwavering admiration that I want to address. Tim Tebow has become a savior of such to the city of Denver. He has single handedly made it possible for the Broncos to make it to the Super Bowl. All praise and honor is now thrown to him in hopes of a Lombardy trophy.

Denver was loosing again this year. Suddenly in steps Tebow with some seemingly miraculous 4^th Quarter wins. Four in a row in fact. This got the fire going in spite of the next three losses in a row. The uncanny outcome was winning a place in the playoffs.

The lot was cast. The fever began to rise. Could we possible be in position to win again? Yes! Tebow, Tebow.

The first playoff game had a miraculous win in overtime sending the crowds in a frenzy. Win! Believe! Miracle! Tebow! All bets were off, the city turned loose in revelry. Expectations were high.

Tebow Mania was born. All eyes were on him. Every news cast contained much about him. Even the national news was full of things Tebow leading up to the second round of playoff games.

The excitement has now all abated. Tebow can get back to his Christ honoring life and the fans can say “Wait until next year.” In hopes of an even more productive football season. One that assuredly will take us all to the Super Bowl and a win, rings included.

Here is the example point I want set up.

Notice how the entire city of Denver rallied behind Tim Tebow? He is just a rookie quarterback with an air of something special about him. He came in at a time when the Broncos were in dire need of a savior. At a time when the city of Denver was in need of a winning team to rally around. The fields were ripe ready for harvest.

This is when the magic appeared. A spark ignited and the city came ablaze with excitement. Tebow became the miracle man. The one to pull us out of our dismal sports performance. A bright and shining star.

Charisma overflowed and a frenzy erupted. Hopes abounded. Trophies were envisioned. Life regained meaning. Something good was about to happen. Tebow! Tebow!. Super Bowl! Super Bowl!

Man raised this man upon high, rallying around him in hopes of seeing meaning brought back into their drab dull lives. The masses of people were united in a single bond of dreams come true. Life again was worth living.

Here is the real point I want to make.

Man lives in a world where all hope seems to be gone. Most live dull listless lives without a bright future in store for them. They question the meaning of life. There is nothing to grasp hold of to pull them out of the pits.

Man has a spiritual problem. They have a gaping hole in their spirit that yearns to be filled. The world tries to fill it with trash from the pits of hell but that does not resolve the problem. Only the Spirit of God in the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ can fill that void and make man’s life full of hopes, dreams, and meaning.

The story above is a real life example of how man will follow after someone with promise to fill the void in their lives (actually their eternal souls). Following the hopes of something meaningful drive people together in a common bond that defies explanation. The charisma of one person can unite a large group of people.

What I am about to say is in no way meant to bring a bad light on the life of Tim Tebow. He is a Christ honoring person whom I have the utmost respect for. God had just revealed to me the comparison of the Tebow Mania that just occurred to the real menace that is about to come in the End Times.

In the End Times (possibly just days, weeks, months, or years away) there will be released upon the earth a man of lawlessness known as the Anti-Christ. His lord and god is non other than Satan himself. His role on this planet is to usher in the end of times.

With a cunning spirit of the craftiness of Satan he will be established in a seemingly calm fashion. Special privileges will be honored upon him as he does marvelous works. In short order the whole world will rally around him as the savior of all that is wrong in the world.

In the real life story about Tebow, a frenzy broke out to fulfill a need to have a Super Bowl win.

In the soon to be real life story about the Anti-Christ, an even greater frenzy will break out covering the whole world. Governments will relinquish control to him in an effort to bring peace to the globe. This will happen for a time…

To see the outcome read the book of Revelations. If you a re a born again Christian you will love the ending, if not… (you gota read it to find out).

Jim Gregg

January 9, 1012

Have you ever read the following?

Mark 11: 12 The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.

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 20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. 21 Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”  22 Jesus answered them,

“Have faith in God.  23 For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.  24 Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

Pretty neat promises don’t you think? “all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them”.

I have read this many times and marveled at the power of God that is available to us. Yet is that really what Jesus meant to tell us? Could I possible ask “ all things whatever you pray and ask for” and receive them “ and you shall have them”?

Then I jump down to the commentary at the bottom of my Study Bible. Lo and behold! This guy sure doesn’t think so. So I go to another commentator on theWEB. Wow! He has an even more restrictive answer as to what I can ask for. Yikes! It seems like Jesus didn’t really know what He was saying.

Why according to these learned professional theologians I have to do this and that and only ask for this under this circumstance. My head is dizzy trying to unravel the very thought of it. You can never seem to find a unemployed tax lawyer to give you a hand when needed. I have read contracts with less verbiage.

Jesus put it so simple “Have faith in God”, “Ask”, “Believe”, and “Receive”. That is the way Jesus’ life was. Simple yet profound. It seems to take a theologian to confuse it. Jesus was speaking these words to common fishermen. They were crude, unkempt, smelly, and assuredly not highly educated. Jesus Kept His messages simple.

It is in that tone that I choose to read and understand these verses. Simple and to the point.

One commentator said that speaking of the withered tree symbolized our withered self before we came to Christ. Did they ever read v.13? Jesus went to a real tree looking for real fruit.

Matthew tells us a this story a little different.

Matthew 21:18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away. 20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?” 21 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.  22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Jesus said “you will not only do what was done to the fig tree”. So he is relating the fig tree in a real way when He gave us the promise. I don’t believe he was talking about some spiritual state of our being. He said do you remember that tree? Well you can do the same thing to this mountain.

They were standing on the Mount of Olives at the time and could see the Dead Sea off in the distance. There was no need to come up with some mental image. This was a simple object lesson. Plain and simply Jesus meant the Mount of Olives that He was standing on. Not some ethereal representation of a problem in your life that looms over you like a mountain. Yet this is exactly what preacher after preacher says. Why you can say to this mountain of despair in your life to be removed and cast into the sea and it will.

In real life you do not see too many mountains being thrown into a sea. What a CNN event that would be. EPA would be there as well as Greens Peace and Al Gore. What a calamity. What about the thousands of people who lived on the mountain, how are they. Not to mention the tsunami that would be set off by this massive amount of rock being pitched into the deep.

Why does this not happen if Jesus said that it could. Trying to answer this question is probably the reason so many have opted out for the less meaningful rendition of it being a mountain in your head and not a mountain of solid granite. Quite frankly I do not think that anyone has the faith to believe it. Pure and simple. You can believe a lot of things, but to cause an actual 14,000 foot mountain to be ripped out of the earth and cast into the sea seems totally impossible. So it does not happen.

Possibly to the very assured Christian who does posses the true faith needed to cause this natural disaster, other things become more important than causing a natural terrifying event. These are the ones off feeding the hungry, raising the dead, leading lost souls to Christ.

I can see several 14,000 foot mountains on my way to work each day. I have a lot of faith in God and power given to me by Jesus. Yet it does not occur to me to want one of these splendid pinnacles of Gods nature to be ripped out of its socket just to please my thoughts. What possible good or end could there be in such an undertaking?

Yet because that Jesus told me that I could do this if I wished, it to be gives me great comfort in the strength of the faith I have in Him. I can do all things because of Christ, not just trash prime skiing terrain.

I started writing this to help unravel the meaning behind what those verses of Scripture said. I believe I have accomplished what I set out to do. Yes we can move a physical real hard rock mountain and cause it to be cast into the sea. It has to be, Jesus said it.

But why would I want to do it? Just because I can. Having such great power direct from God I would much rather use it to do a greater amount of good in this world. I know that I can move Mount Evans, but I would rather minister to the needy in a 3rd world country. With such power available to me just by asking nothing can stand in my way as I seek to serve the living Savior with my life.

Stand back Satan. You can not pass, you can not thwart me, you have no power over me. I have Jesus Christ watching my back with His hand on my shoulder. I am invincible through Christ who strengthens me.

Jim Gregg

November 30, 2011

I woke up thinking about “on the fence”. Just what does that mean? Several WEB dictionaries state..

on the fence [Informal] Undecided as to which of two sides to support; uncommitted or neutral.

on the fence [adj.] – characterized by indecision; “some who had been on the fence came out in favor of the plan”; “too many voters still declare they are undecided”

on the fence – not able to decide something

We just watched the Broncos win over San Diego last Sunday. Several people in the audience held up signs with a big D and a piece of a fence. D Fence, D Fence they chanted.

No that is not quite it.

Tim Tebow was playing and some were chanting Tebow, Tebow.

No that is not it.

My vision of on the fence was about Christians who are indeed Christians but who are on the fence. The profess Christ but not much else.  Jesus talks about the Church of Laodicea in Revelations…

Rev 3:15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

On The Fence Christians are those who do not take a stand on critical issues facing the Church today, or own up to the fact that they know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. If they would just jump back off the fence they would not clog the arteries of the church as it struggles to move forward. Better yet if they would jump forward into belief and action they would help move the church onward.

Just sitting there is a nuisance to believers and God. We are in the end times and things are happening at an accelerated pace. Soon we will be facing the wars, troubles, persecution, Anti-Christ, and terrors spoken of in the Bible. This is not a time to be a pew warmer. Now is the time to be “Who God Says You Are”.

After the broncos game on Sunday Tim Tebow was interviewed by a channel 9 sportscaster. He said “First off I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for allowing me to play with the Broncos.” WOW! What a testimony. Tebow is not a fence sitting lukewarm Christian. This young man is on fire for Christ. I wish we were all as motivated to speak out in favor of what Jesus has done in our lives.

During the game he is often seen on one knee crying out Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. He lives and breathes the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

This moment of honoring Christ and calling out to God for help has been labeled Tebowing. Some of the news media have tried to make a joke out of it, but Tim continues to honor God by his kneeling in front of millions of people acknowledging the God and Creator of the Universe.

Are you on the fence? Are you just a lukewarm Christian waiting to be spewed out of Gods mouth?

Spew:

intransitive verb 1 : vomit

2 : to come forth in a flood or gush

3 : to ooze out as if under pressure : exude

I pray that you are not in such of a condition. To be vomited up by God does not seem to be what any normal human being would want to happen.

Jump off the fence NOW! In the direction of Jesus Christ. Re-commit your life to following Him in all that you do. Take a stand for righteousness. You don’t have to stand before millions of people and tell them about Jesus Christ. BUT – maybe you should!

Have you ever witnessed to anyone about the saving grace of Jesus Christ? I struggled with that for many years. The right time just never came up. In fact the right time never comes up. It just so happens that Satan is fully able to keep that right time totally out of the picture.

You get all fired up to tell someone about Jesus. You get tensed up inside.  You mouth the very words you want to say. Sweat starts to form on your brow. Your fist clenches up tight. Your heart beats like you just ran a marathon. You walk over to the person and just as you open your mouth to say… A friend walks up. Someone walks between you. The person walks away. You stutter, cough, sneeze, anything at all. And poof! The moment slips away.

Like I said. I struggles with this most of my life. It seemed that anything would keep me from talking to my friends and family about Christ. One day I was at a business convention downtown and my wife told me to take some tracks along. When I got off the train in downtown I walked along the mall and started talking to strangers.

Many listened to me and took the track. Each step gave me more confidence. Suddenly I was praying with a man about accepting Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. WOW! It was not me but The Holy Spirit who spoke through me.

Since then I have witnessed to my boss and led two co-workers to Christ. Just getting off the fence and making a bold move for Christ is all that is needed. Rely upon Him and take no thought of what others think. For it is what God thinks about you that has any real meaning in the end.

Now that you have a start. How about tackling the myriad of other problems facing the Christian life and walk with God.

Abortion

Gay marriage

Apostasy

The plight of Israel and the Jewish people

Human trafficking

Pornography

Drugs

. . .

Way too many to list here.

Get off the fence. God will direct you if you open up your prayer life to Him. He wants to talk to you, but you must first listen for his still small voice. He is a gentleman and will not shout you down.

You do have to ask Him though. He told us the “we have not because we ask not.”

Matt 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Remember above all things that Jesus Loves You.

In Christ,

Jim

Jim Gregg
November 24, 2010

I titled this “Hell or Heaven”. Most people say “Heaven or Hell” but I want to stress a point. The point being that we are already destined to Hell from birth. We do not have to make a decision to go there it has already been arranged by Satan sort of a free gift from the father of lies.

Heaven on the other hand is something that we have to ask God for. We get Heaven by asking Jesus Christ to become Lord of our lives and to take control of our very existence. When we do this Heaven becomes a free gift from God the Father of Light and Life.

I just finished reading 2 books that have moved me to speak out.

“23 Minutes in HELL” by Bill Wiese.
“In Heaven: Experiencing the Throne of God” by Dean Braxton.

HELL

The first book “23 Minutes in HELL” was an account of Bill being tossed into Hell by God so that he could warn people about it. The first part of the book jumps right into Hell.

One morning he found himself being thrown into hell naked. He smashed onto the rough hewn rocks which were fiery hot. He was in almost total darkness (the light of the World – Jesus – was not present).

The smell of putrefying and rotting flesh should have killed him, but of course he was already dead. Already dead and destined to be there for all eternity. The thought of never seeing his wife again tormented him tremendously.

He was all alone. There were many other people there all crying out in anguish but they could not approach each other or comfort each other. The were just left all alone without the companionship of one another. Think about that. All alone for all of eternity.

He was not truly all alone, there were beasts there whose job it was to torment him. They were grotesquely shaped with long dirty claws they used to tear into his flesh. The pain was unbearable and it should have killed him, but of course he was already dead. Constant excruciating pain with no relief for all eternity.

In the distance there was a vast cauldron of molten lava and fire. The temperature was unbearable. People were in the lava and fire yet did not burn up. They could not die and escape this eternal fire for they were already dead. His thoughts went back to 9/11 when people chose to jump to their deaths rather than suffer the 15 seconds of excruciating pain of being burnt to death. This was much worse than that since it went on forever.

He saw thousands of small pits of molten lava each one with a single soul immersed in the fire all alone. He longed to give them a hand to crawl out but was denied that ability. They were destined to remain in that torment for all of eternity.

The dark walls all around the pit were covered with thousands of beasts of every size. The gnashed their teeth and tried to claw at his flesh but were attached to the wall. The screams of people being tormented and the snarls of the beast were deafening. A constant roaring of evil and pain.

He was burning hot and thirsty. He sought out a drop of water to cool his tongue but there was none to be found. There was no grass or trees or flowers in Hell. Everything was dead. All of Hell was filled with death nothing lived there.

Suddenly there was a bright light as Jesus came and pulled him out and showed him Heaven. While in Hell he did not know that he was a Christian, Jesus kept that from him so that he would experience the utter despair of knowing that this was his doom for all of eternity.

Jesus told him to go and tell others about the reality and extremity of Hell. Jesus also said “I am returning soon.”

HEAVEN

In total contrast the second book “In Heaven: Experiencing the Throne of God” shows a glimpse of the beauty of Heaven.

Dean actually died on a hospital table after complications following a medical procedure. The doctors documented that he was dead for 1 hour and 45 minutes.

He said he saw himself leave his body and was immediately in the presence of Jesus in Heaven. In response to being there all that Dean could say was Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. He said he could have continued saying Thank You for a thousand years.

He said that every thing in Heaven was RIGHT. Everything was Right. Everything was Right. This is quite a contrast with the experience in Hell where nothing was right.

The colors of Heaven were intense in hues indescribable. In fact many things in Heaven defied his ability to describe them. You see the same thing happening when John wrote about what he saw in Heaven in the Book of Revelations. I love colors and can not wait to see the rainbow of new fresh colors splashed out everywhere.

Everything in Heaven was alive and pulsating with life. Everything praised God who set on His Throne. The wind the grass the rock all were alive and sang Praises to the Father. As they sang their very essence radiated worship and praise.

There were many beasts of various sizes and stature. They praised God Almighty in a never ending chorus. A very tall beast rose up and sang out individual notes starting with “A.” He said that he could see the notes as they twirled around on a melodic pathway to God.

The Sea of Glass was there and was alive and pulsated with song. The Sea rose up and grasped around the notes being sung by the tall beast altering their sound ever so slightly so that the melody was even more worshipful.

Everything praised the Father. Everything was pulsating with vibrant colorful life.

He saw the Prophets, Saints, and Apostles of old. They were all doing their part in Heaven. Every creature there had a part to play and went about it tirelessly and effortlessly. He met Angels and communicated with them. They did not speak but downloaded information to each other. You could not listen in on another conversation without being invited.

Jesus was there talking with some Angels. He gave them orders of tasks to perform and they flew away on their assigned mission. Many were sent to Earth to minister to souls and fight battles against the darkness.

He met his ancestors and family who had passed on to Glory. He was surprised at some he saw there that he thought should not have been and missed some he thought would surely be there. No one knows the heart of man, only a heart given totally to Christ will be there with Him.

Family is important to God and he wants all of our relatives to find Salvation in the Redeeming Blood of Jesus Christ. God does not want anyone to perish. It hurts Jesus deeply when just one soul looses his faith and falls into Hell.

He said that God sang songs aimed at just him. He could feel and see the notes enter into his Spirit and enliven him. God’s songs are aimed at each soul on the Earth. Those that know him receive these songs in their Spirit and rejoice. Those who turn a deaf ear on God do not hear or receive these songs into their inner being and loose out on blessing from above.

He mentioned over and over that Every thing was just Right in Heaven. Just Right.

Jesus then told him that it was not yet his time and that he had to return to Earth. Jesus told him to tell everyone about the reality of Heaven. Jesus also said “I am returning soon.”

Hell or Heaven

So there you have it. Both sides of the coin. You can just flip the coin and let it fall wherever it will. But it will always fall on the HELL side every time unless you take an active step in your eternal life. That step is to ask Jesus Christ into your life to be Lord of your life. Nothing else will do. NOTHING.

Do not pass this on as something not worth thinking about. Your eternal soul’s destiny rides on what you do right now. God is a gentleman and will not force Heaven on you. But Satan is a fiendish tyrant and has already forced Hell on you.

To not make a choice is to openly accept the choice that is your birthright – Hell. You do not have to choose Hell you get it as a consolation prize for living on Planet Earth.

On the other hand receiving the free gift of Heaven from Jesus Christ is a choice that only you can make. No one else can make that decision for you. You do not get Heaven by being a good person or living a rightful life. Only by accepting the Redeeming work performed by the Blood of Jesus can you gain eternal existence in Heave.

Pray this short prayer to receive Jesus as Lord of your life:

Dear God, I confess I am a sinner. Thank You
that Jesus took my punishment upon Himself
when He died on the cross for my sins, and
then rose from the dead, defeating death.
Today I repent and place my trust in Jesus
Christ alone for my salvation. In Jesus’ name
I pray. Amen.

Your future is in your hands. Handle it with care. My prayer is that you choose Heaven over Hell.

Jim Gregg

Jim Gregg

November 23, 2010

Psalm 91:7 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

A few weeks ago I had a dream. It was one of those dreams that is so moving that it stays with you. It never finished but was just a quick glimpse. Never-the-less it so impacted me that I can not get rid of it. This remembrance compels me to tell the dream.

There was something to the dream that is timeless yet of great importance to us right now as we live this very day. It was a dream of pending doom and terror that is quickly being mounted upon the remnant of believers still hanging on to the hopes of Christ and His Salvation.

If I could make a movie it would be so easy to convey what I saw. There would be special effects galore just to portray the fright and magnitude seen. Being saddled with just words I will do my best to tell the tale as I experienced it.

The Dream:

I was on what seemed like a remote planet somewhere in the far reaches of the galaxy. Like in one of those space movies where the traveler was stranded alone amidst the strange climate and rock formations. Black volcanic looking rock. An eerie looking sky, not the beautiful blue we see on planet Earth.

I was huddled in a small outcropping of rock. There were others there who were busy scurrying around to find protection as I watched.

Suddenly out of the sky from the left came a myriad of darts. I mean thousands upon thousands and ten thousands upon ten thousands. Screaming in from above to the left in an arch as if shot from somewhere far off. The darts were of various sizes and colors. Some of them streaked with fire.

I inwardly sensed that they were deadly poisonous and should I be touched by even one I would perish. Yet I was at peace under my shelter. Nothing could touch or harm me where I was.

The barrage of weapons smashed into the ground all around us in one big splat. There were no trailing darts nor any that came early, they were all in one group like a flock of starlings gathering in the fall for their migration South. The projectiles even hovered and turned in unison as the do the birds.

Once they hit the terror was gone.

For some reason I ventured out into the open. I had a piece of cloth like material in my hand. Big enough to cover over my entire body it spread out like a sheet. Instinctively I knew that it was a protective shield made as thin as silk.

Suddenly as before, the sky was black with another onslaught of darts streaming towards me from the left. They flew deftly straight towards me in a arch as if I was being targeted.

I threw the shield into the air out and around me as a fisherman casts a hand net. I flew out perfectly and covered over my entire being as if guided by a hand I could not see and settled down just on top of me in the nick of time.

The screaming hoard of darts hit with a vengeance as before. I could see them pushing into the material trying to reach me. Their points showed through yet were stopped by the might of protection that had overshadowed me.

As quickly as they came they all dropped dead and spent to the ground. I was safe.

The funny thing is that I never felt threatened by the darts even though I knew they meant instant death. The protective shield gave me a peace that passed understanding.

I suddenly awoke.

I knew this was a spiritual message to me. As I prayed God revealed:

The darts were from Satan and were target to destroy me.

The strange place was the bareness of life that we must walk through at times.

The cloth shield was the shield of faith Eph 6:16.

The hand that guided it over me was Jesus.

Psalm 91:1-8

1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” 3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence. 4 He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart. 5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day; 6 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. 8 You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

Ephesians 6:10-18

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace; 16 above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Dear Pastor,

You have been chosen by God to lead, instruct, teach, uphold, and bring enrichment to the sheep that God has graciously placed in your care.

I have been chosen by God to give you these words brought to me out of my deep desire to do His work. So I enjoin you to read through this message and not delete it prematurely or mark it as spam.

My name is Jim.

I am basing what I do on a scripture out of the book with my name.

James 2:14-20 (NIV) ¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? ¹⁵Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. ¹⁶If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? ¹⁷In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. ¹⁸But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”  Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.  ¹⁹You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.  ²⁰You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?

I need to be doing, right here and now, and not just sitting by waiting for Heaven to come “In the sweet by and by.”

America Has Fallen

America has fallen away from the Faith based Bible believing country that our forefathers designed 200 years ago. This has been a country that has prospered under God’s blessing until the past few years. In a 1996 poll 85%, or 224 Million, of Americans profess to be Christian.[1]

That being so then how did we let Prayer be torn out of our schools? Or how did we let Abortion kill 40+ Million of our babies? Or how did we let Gay Marriages wreak havoc on our society?

Since 1973, over 45 million legal abortions have been performed in the United States.[2]

America has fallen asleep. She has been asleep for quite some time. We awoke for only a brief moment right after 9/11 when destruction was forced upon us by radical Islam. Seeing a newly released Discovery Channel documentary on this terrible day prompted in me a restless night. God awoke in me my need to tell church leaders to wake up their congregations.

Only a sleeping nation could let a small, seemingly insignificant, group of people force the silent Christian majority into submitting to such atrocities as we have had dumped upon us. If we were awake in 1962, and fought against the court ruling against prayer in school,  then our children would still be blessed by God’s presence every morning as they prayed to Him.

Solution:

• Start an Intercessory prayer group/meeting to uphold America before God. The sins of our nation are many and deeply rooted. Prayer is the most powerful avenue we have to turn us around.
• Sign petitions in protest of atrocities being set into motion by our government. Once you start becoming involved many opportunities will be opened to you.
• Write letters to your Congressmen and Senators. Once you take a stance on an issue the feeling of contentment and peace comes over you.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV) if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

The Nation Of Israel

The nation of Israel is being bombarded from all quadrants of the compass. Thousands of rockets bombard Israel from Gaza, The West Bank, and Hamas militants in Lebanon. Iran’s tyrannical leader Amadinejad has stated “this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”[3] Then he will set his sights on America.

The Palestinian government coupled with President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are on a march to force the division of Israel and Jerusalem. America will be judged by God for such acts against His chosen people the Jew’s.

Joel 3:2 (NIV) I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.

Here is a quote from Dr. Mike Evans newsletter concerning our Presidents plans for dividing Israel with the Palestinians.[4]

“President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton will pressure Israel to divide Jerusalem and hand over Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians. Mr. Obama has promised King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia that he will force Israel to make this unthinkable concession…and that he plans to do it next year once the mid-term elections are over to avoid political consequences here at home.”

God promises to bless us if we support Israel in any fashion. In the book of Acts Cornelius was visited by Peter because he had built a Synagogue for the Jews even though he was a gentile.

Genesis 12:2-3 (NIV) “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

Solution:

• Start an Intercessory prayer group/meeting to uphold Israel before God.
• Join Christians United for Israel www.cufi.org. Pastor John Hagee has a heart on fire for the support of Israel for over 30 years.
• Attend one of the many “Nights to Honor Israel“ held in various churches around the nation. Join others as they bring song, dance, and praise to Israel.
• Join Jerusalem Prayer team jerusalemprayerteam.org. Dr. Mike Evans has been involved in all things concerning Israel and Jerusalem for decades.

Radical Islam

Soon after the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001 we were informed that this was an attack on the Unites States of America by Radical Islamic Terrorist orchestrated by Osama bin Laden, the then leader of an Islamic movement called the Taliban.

I subsequent years there have been many foiled terrorist attacks on America.[5] Many successful attacks have been done in other countries.[6] Radical Islam is a threat to our way of life.

America is feared as an advisory to Islam. The Radical Islamists hate Israel but hate America even more. Israel is viewed merely as an extension of the West (America) which must be conquered at all cost.[7]

“In this connection, we must grasp a crucial distinction between Iranian attitudes to the “Great Satan” of the United States and to the “Little Satan” of Israel. Iranians may chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” with equal fervor, but from a tactical standpoint they well understand that the Great Satan is . . . great. The leaders of the Islamic Republic, even the fiercest ideologues among them, are under no illusion that the United States is about to be conquered by and for Islam in the near future.”

The last time we were in Juarez we saw truck loads of heavily armed federal police roaming the streets to bring order. The shopping market was almost empty where we use to walk blocks just to find parking space.

My wife was told in a vision that the Taliban were behind the drug lords wanting to take over the Mexican government. She also heard that they were already in America planning to do destructive things to us. It is their goal to gain free access to the borders into the US so they can bring in weapons to attack us with once again.

The recent skirmish over Arizona’s immigration law only points out the problems actually facing America over the uncontrolled borders we now have.

In John Hagee’s book “Can America Survive?” Pastor Hagee mentions plots uncovered that have identified seven major US cities as sites in which suitcase nuclear bombs will be simultaneously set off. This united mass destruction of 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 American people will throw our country into terminal shock. Are you ready for this. He also mentions a potential plot of setting off a nuclear blast in the atmosphere over central America. The resulting EMP[8] will cripple all electronic devices, cars, computers, power plants, water wells, thereby critically crippling America.

This one small act, costing less than $100,000) will instantaneously throw us back into the 19^th century. Food will disappear from the grocers shelves in hours with no more available since delivery trucks will be inoperable. Even if you could start your car there would be no gasoline since the gas station pumps would not work.

Are you ready for this?

Solution:

• Start an Intercessory prayer group/meeting to pray for the salvation of Islamic people everywhere.
• Get informed on what is happening. Pick up a copy of John Hagee’s “Can America Survive?: 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are The We Are The Terminal Generation” at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Can-America-Survive-Prophetic-Generation/dp/1439189854
• Set up an emergency supply shelf in your house. Food, water, candles, whatever you need to exist for as long as you can exist.

The Third Great Awakening

If the above material is already common place for you then you are to be congratulated for being well informed. If not I hope it was a place to start becoming better informed. We live in perilous times and need intervention from God to proceed.

The last part of my message is to bring hope for a future that is sure and great. God’s hand is about to be reveled mightily upon planet Earth. Get ready.

Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

We are entering into a period of Christianity called the “Third Great Awakening.”  George Bush mentioned this on September 12, 2006.[9]

President Bush said yesterday that he senses a “Third Awakening” of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation’s struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as “a confrontation between good and evil.”

Glenn Beck has been presenting a series on “Faith, Hope, and Charity” called “Founding Fathers’ Fridays.” On September 3, 2010 he revealed to his audience that many Christians he has talked with believe that we are entering into the Third Great Awakening in Christianity. Here is a quote from his broadcast.[10]

“Something huge is happening in America. I believe it’s the third Great Awakening. George Whitefield, the first one, led to the American Revolution. The second one started with the churches and led to the freeing of slaves with Abraham Lincoln. This one I think is going to change just as much.

It is — an awakening happens when people realize the stuff that they built their life on is meaningless. And there’s corruption and everything else. And it’s nothing political. It’s spiritual in nature.”

There is change in the air. Our church and our Pastor has had numerous prophecies spoken over them concerning a great revival that is about to break loose upon the land. This is not a tent revival put on in an empty lot by a church, rather a whole scale revival of peoples everywhere. The Prophet’s have seen people pulling into church parking lots and running into the sanctuaries to receive the outpouring of the presence of God.

This will be an explosion of the filling of the Spirit that has not happened since that Pentecost morning spoken of in the book of Acts.

Acts 2:41 (NIV) Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

We have ministered in Mexico for many years working with orphanages and in building up small churches. In the past two years those doors have been closed to us by the drug lord terrorism ravishing the land especially in Juarez.

On of the pastors we have worked with in Juarez and in Orizaba, Vericruz told us that a revival encompassing all of Mexico was spoken to him in prophecy. He put this on a banner hanging in his church showing the State of Mexico with a large arrow going from Juarez to Veracruz and the words Revival emboldened across it.

As we approach the end times and evil overtakes us a revival of the greatest scale is needed to wake people from their sleep and bring them to their senses. A renewing of the Spirit of God within us is needed to prepare us for the end of all things. God’s Holy Spirit is afoot roaming across the land. Great things are beginning to happen.

I had a vision that we are approaching the crossroads of eternity where the past, present and future all meet. The revelations of the Bible are unfolding before our very eyes. Miraculous happenings will be common as the Spirit of God empowers us to reach out to the rest of the world. People are seeking answers to all of the turmoil.

Even the Earth is travailing with birth pangs as we have seen Hurricanes, Fires, Floods, Oil Spills, Earthquakes, and on and on just this past year.

Matthew 24:7-8 (NIV) Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.

God is ready for the revival, He is waiting for us to take action. God does not bring the revival, people bring the revival. When the firestorm of revival breaks out the evil of this world will know it’s place and flee from the Anointed Majority (formerly the silent majority).

Solution:

• Start an Intercessory prayer group/meeting to pray for the unveiling of revival in your church and area.
• Start a revival. The match is already lit, pick it up and fan the Spirit of God into flames.

Prayer

Here are a couple of prayers that I copied from John Bevere’s book “Extraordinary.”[11] I felt that were appropriate to share with you. It is my prayer that you become who God says you are.

“Lord thank You for my pastor and church leaders. I pray that the fire to valiantly proclaim the pure truth of Your Word would persistently burn bright in their spirits. I ask that You give them a holy boldness to continually walk in the fear of the Lord and not the fear of man… in Jesus’ name, Amen!”

“Rise up, leader! Rise up, Christian! Our God is calling you to make a huge difference in our generation. We’ve been called to go against the grain of the spirit of this age, the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience, the spirit of this world. We’ve been called to bring heaven to earth!”

What Will You Do With This

• Nothing since you have already deleted the email and marked my address as Spam.
• Nothing since you think that I do not know what I am saying and this is worthless.
• You read the email with some interest but think it not worthy of consideration.
• You read the email and thought some things of interest, possibly to be followed up later.
• You read the email with interest but do not have time or commitment to do anything more about it.
• You read the email with interest and want to make a difference in the sheep placed under your care. You are the reason God prompted me to write this in the first place. He does not give visions to people to perform just to give them something to do. He always Has a plan to unfold in the hearts of man. Nothing is wasted by The God of the Universe.

Isaiah 55:8-12 (NIV) 8″For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

P.S.  I am sending this using a newly created email address so I can control the potential Spam and inappropriate mail it may produce.

If you email me with reasonable questions I will respond if led by God to do so. My time is limited and I am not looking for pen pals.

I will not respond to arguments. God led me to write and send this to you through His Holy Spirit. If you want to argue then argue with Him. I will not.

Respectfully Yours,

Jim (a humble servant of the Most High God – Jehovah)

[2] Jones RK et al., Abortion in the United States: incidence and access to services, 2005, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2008, 40(1):6–16.

[3] Arash Norouzi Explains the “Wiped Off the Map” Controversy, huffingtonpost.com, January 19, 2007

[4] http://middleeastmediagroup.com/articless4.php?command=viewArticle&ID=94&currentFeed=1

[5] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335500,00.html

[6] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jul/07/terrorism.uk1

[7] https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/eradicating-the–little-satan–13900?page=all.

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

[9] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091201594.html

[10] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,600802,00.html

[11] http://www.messengerinternational.org/Display.asp?Page=Home

Israel 2010

Jim

March 17, 2010

Israel. What about it?

How does this small nation (called a state) cause such a stir in world politics? It is slightly smaller than New Jersey with 20,770 sq km or 8,019 sq miles; containing 7,026,000 million people.

What on Earth could cause such a stir over this piece of turf? I know. Hopefully I can relay that to you in a meaningful manner; having just been there and experienced it in its grand blessed glory.

Amnon, our tour guide, revealed a lot about the tension the residents of Israel live with on a daily basis. At times he became almost angered about what is happening. At one point he said that he wished that the Palestinians were not allowed to live there at all.

Amnon stated that they live with fear constantly. When he goes to work he is never sure if he will see his kids once he returns home. They may be hit by a suicide bomber or other terrorist activity. The children in schools are trained to find cover within the 15 second warning received for an incoming rocket.

Israel accepts freedom of religious as part of its core beliefs. They allow any person of any religion to worship, live, and prosper in their country; much as we do in America.

Yet some of those religions have relatives, just over the borders of Israel, who wish to do terminal harm to the Jews living there.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, has vowed on many occasions to wipe Israel from the map of the Middle East. He calls anyone, not a Muslim, an Infidel worthy of a quick and decisive execution. His country is in active pursuit of nuclear capabilities and will soon have a bomb to use just for that purpose.

As we toured across the beautiful land we constantly were aware of the smallness of the state and the closeness of their enemy. We would cross over into Syria, then Jordan, then the West Bank and back; all in just a few hours of touring.

Several times we were told of a place where there was a wall which has been torn down as the borders constantly change. Amnon was quick to point out the ever present bullet holes in the sides of Limestone buildings.

As we drove through the country side and within the cities we could see Jewish Synagogues on one side of the bus and Muslim Mosques on the other side, their towering minarets standing tall against the sky line. Some times they would be in close proximity.

As we walked along the Via Delorosa the street was jammed with Palestinian shops and Palestinian people all wearing their shemagh headdresses and burka dresses; living in a seemingly peaceful existence with the Orthodox Jews.

Yet we could sense the tension between them. We were given many evil eyes as we passed by. Amnon shied away from these shops and only took us to ones run by his fellow Jewish friends.

Throughout Israeli history nations have been warring against the Jews, In several instances the Bible tells us of periods of time where the people have been taken into captivity and subsequently restored to their land.

When Moses led the people back to the Promised Land it was after a 400 year exile. Some other exiles were shorter in time. The in 70 AD the Romans sacked Jerusalem and the Jews were scattered in the Diaspora.

This destruction of Jerusalem pushed Jews all over the world and led to populations in German, Russia and Poland. These were the victims of the Holocaust of WWII. Those who survived started immigrating back to their home land after Israel was once again opened up to the Jews in 1948.

Many times since then there have been skirmishes and wars that pushed and pulled at the borders of Israel. But in all of this the Jewish people never lusted after the lands of other nations. They just wanted to regain their on land promised to Abraham and his seed thousands of years ago.

All of the other surrounding nations want to annihilate, destroy, enslave, or destroy all of Israel and the Jewish people. The Jews only want to retain what is theirs from the beginning of time.

A quick search on my computer Bible reveals that Israel is mentioned 2,319 times. A lot of those are for the patriarch Israel, but not all. Some of these references are for the nation of Israel. I get 767 hits for the word Jerusalem, all of which are for the city of God that we visited.

The Quran does not mention either Israel or Jerusalem. So it is funny how the Muslims want to claim it as theirs when it has been so well documented in the Bible as being the home of the Jewish people. Jerusalem has always been the undivided capitol of the nation of Israel, since time immortal.

I told you earlier that I knew why this little piece of land was causing such a stir in the world we know today. Part of it is because of Abraham; but not all. The real reason goes way back in time. I will tell you about that later on.

Abraham is a key person in the state of the Middle East of today. God had promised that he would make a mighty nation out of Abraham’s seed; too numerous to count, like the sand of the sea and the stars of the nighttime sky.

But good old Abraham could not wait for God to accomplish this. Being of many years he and Sarah took it upon their selves to give God a helping hand. Go lay with my handmaid Hagar and we will then have the offspring God promised to you.

Well this little ploy worked, but it was not in Gods will for them. God intended for Abraham and Sarah to produce the offspring of promise. This began the clash of nations that we are now living in today. The entire Muslim nations stem from Ishmael born of Hagar; whereby the Jewish nations all stem from, the true born offspring of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac.

God blessed both sons of Abraham and would make them both mighty nations. Ishmael’s was to be a warring nation always at odds with his neighbors. Isaac was to be the one who would produce the Salvation of the World, Jesus Christ.

The Bible tells us that Abraham went to Mount Moriah to sacrifice his only begotten son Isaac. The Quran says that it was Ishmael. So both nations claim the same father in Abraham, as well as much of the history that follows. They both claim Israel and Jerusalem as their own place of worship.

Satan has a way of taking the blessing of God and making a carbon copy imitation of it to lead many lost souls astray. Out of Ishmael came Allah and his prophet Mohammed. Hence the war began. Good against evil.

We found the Jewish people to be very peaceful and loving. Have you ever seen a picture of a radical Muslim who did not have his face covered, or waving his fist in anger at the camera, or holding a grenade launcher, or an automatic rifle shouting hatred and kill, kill, kill at the press?

The Bible teaches peace, tolerance, love, compassion, hope, forgiveness and conversion. The Quran teaches death to all who do not believe. Which way seems to be from God? Would a benevolent God want his people to love each other as He loves them? Or would he want his followers to be murderers and terrorists?

So this little story is getting back to the real problem; the original problem that goes way back into time.

In the beginning God created….

Lucifer was cast out of Heaven…

That is it. That is the beginning of the trouble we are experiencing on Planet earth in 2010. It is the age old battle of Good vs. evil, God vs. Satan.

Since the fall of Lucifer from Heaven Satan has been at work trying to stop or delay his eventual casting into the lake of fire.

He tempted Eve causing the fall of man. He brought about Ishmael to be in control of the lineage of Abraham. He tried to kill Moses, stop the flight to Israel, kill David, mess up the lineage with Beersheba, stop Joseph from marrying Mary, kill Jesus on the cross, destroy Israel and the Holy city of Jerusalem (so there would be no new Tabernacle to worship at), and on and on.

He has tried to stop you from accomplishing the calling God has placed on your life. He has tried to stop me. I spent over 40 years wandering in the desert of confusion and apostasy.

He tried to stop us from going to Israel or returning. Each day is a battle to keep our eyes on God and not the evil working on Earth.

BUT! God is in control. His will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. The end times will happen as God has laid them out and the prophets have predicted. The city of Jerusalem will once again house the Holy Temple of God sitting on the Rock where the Dome now sits. This must be accomplished so that the Antichrist may desolate the Holy Place and usher in the last 3 ½ years of Earths history.

We toured Megiddo where the last and final battle of Earth will be wages. It is called Armageddon. What a blessing it was to stand on this mountain where the end of all evil will happen. I have been to places where there had been wars waged but never to a place where a war was to be waged in the future.

Israel has a glorious future. It will not be blown from the face of the map of the Middle East until the completion of Gods time for it.

So what about all of the unrest in the Middle East right now? It is quite a mess isn’t it?

Not to worry! Our beloved president wants us to just sit down, have a beer, and shake hands. That will settle it all. Right?

At least get them to stop building new houses. That is sure a sore spot in the realm of things. If they would just stop building new homes for their children and new refugees returning to their ancient home land things would be all better. Right?

Never mind that just a few hundred miles away there is a nut case making ready for nuclear war. Nuclear war is nothing in comparison to building houses on your own property. Is it not?

Let’s get a signature on a piece of paper and we will settle this ancient battle over good and evil once and for all. Never mind that the Palestinians have repeatedly turned down offers of land of their own.

Or that when Israel gave up the Gaza Strip that it was used as a launch pad for over 7,000 rockets aimed at the Jewish people. Surely that was just a small irritant to the nation of Israel. Not quite an act of aggression or war. Right?

I am sure that if Canada threw a few thousand rockets at Detroit or Buffalo no one would mind; Silly people. Let’s just get them to sign a piece of paper and put this all behind us. Right?

After being bombarded with thousands of missiles the rash Jewish people finally struck out in an obvious violation of the UN peace treaties. Never mind that they dropped thousands of leaflets stating that they were going to attack the rock launch sites, or that they made thousands of phone calls to pre-warn the people of the coming attack. They are obviously warmongers and should be condemned for their acts of war. Right?

Now there is a pending doom so terrible that it is hard to imagine. Iran wants to send nuclear bombs against this small peaceful nation. The US is not responding, well maybe with some sanctions to impose restrictions of oil importing and exporting. These papers will surely stop this madman from carrying out what he views as a holy, god sanctioned act. Jihad. Right?

What happened if Israel strikes first? Will they be praised for their actions in stopping this holocaust from happening? I think not. I believe that the world, the US included, will shake their self righteous fingers at them and call them war criminals.

All that Obama and Clinton can do is have meetings talking about getting the Israelites to stop building those confounded houses. So what if Iran starts a full scaled nuclear war. Not our problem. Right?

The Bible tells us that if we stand with Israel that God will bless us, If not He will curse us. I believe that the government of the United States of America is about to turn its back on Israel. God help us all.

There is a remnant of believers, scattered across this great nation, who are making a stand for Israel. Most of us belong to CUFI (Christians United for Israel) founded by Pastor John Hagee. We firmly believe that God will honor our commitment and not let the nation of America fall. Our government may come to an end but we the people will survive.

At a Promise Keepers rally we chanted “Never Again” “Never Again” “Never Again”. On top of Masada we chanted “Masada will never fall again”

My wife and I stand for Israel and will hold to the bitter end for our brothers. For we are adopted Jews and under the Abrahamic covenant which God honors for all times. We have put on a yellow star and stand arm in arm with the Jewish nation.

We are in the battle of our lives; a battle whose lines were drawn at the dawn of Creation and will carry to the end of times on Earth into the eve of Eternity.

Jim Gregg

December 31, 2009

On the 29^th of December we received an email from Mike Evans of “The Jerusalem Prayer Team” with a Word for us, his team. Yes it was the same Word for all members of his team; But God takes such Words and makes them specific for each individual.

The Word of Prophecy was:

Isa 43:18 Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. BEHOLD, I WILL DO A NEW THING; NOW it shall sprout; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

Mike went on to explain the marvelous thing that happed after he received that very word back in 1981. He said to write down today’s date and read this Word every day in 2010; then one year from now to write and tell him what unexplained great things has happened from God.

We accept this. It is God’s Word form Ana and I. We started reading and praying over these Words. Our pastor also has been preaching that 2010 is the start of a entirely new decade for us. New happenings will be uncovered. We will be in a period of harvest and not of sowing. We will reap where we have not sown.

A couple of weeks ago Ana purchased an Internet marketing book/program from a TV ad. I have been struggling with how to implement this as a means to generate money to support Vaya Ministries. All avenues seemed to lead to spiritual dead ends where no power of God seemed to be leading.

Most of the internet marketing is shady to say the least. You are required to constantly do things to get an upper hand on the next guy. Every step of the way seems to be full of losses and procedures turning wrong. It is a survival of the boldest and most daring, not quite what I think God would give us as a way to survive.

Somewhere along the way I started thinking about the Vayaministries.com web site. How could the marketing be tied to it to make sales? How could the marketing be used to increase visits to the site so people cold be reached for Christ?

But this whole realm of Internet marketing is like smoke and mirrors or snake oil salesmanship. Not quite above board in it practices. The free site we received with the book is full of products for sale, BUT they seem to be somewhat of a scam at best. The ads are poorly made and sort of amateurish.

It was hard to get our heart or souls wrapped around the concept of marketing or delve too deeply in to it. Each day an attempt was made to get a marketing campaign going, only to get nothing started at all. If this is truly of God then the process would unfold since we have His Favor spoken directly over our lives.

In the process of researching PPC I ran across several Christian sorts of markets and one gentleman in Fort Collins who wrote a nice article on the True Meaning of Christmas. I wrote emails to each of these asking for assistance getting started to bring Glory to God in what we were attempting to do. They were boldly told of our Missionary work and how we feel God wants us to use this to further His work through Vaya Ministries.

So far – Nada! Nothing being written back. We just get put on another list of daily emails offering their newest latest and greatest marketing tools and techniques that they would just love to sell us.

Yep! This is Internet marketing at its best; just as I had feelings that it would be. Any attempt to enter into it only opens up more people trying to sell you more information on how to do just what they are doing. Selling people just like us information. Ad Nauseum!

But still I feel that God has brought all of this together for a purpose. There has to be a way to use Internet marketing to generate money for continued work and to reach people searching for Christ.

Ana and I have burning desires to reach people who are lost and hurting. Our hearts go out to anyone hurting no matter where in the world they live. We receive a newsletter from Voice of The Martyrs. This morning we were reading some of it. I brought it along to read at lunch. The world is full of evil. People in many lands are being killed for their belief in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

How I wish I could hang up this computer guru hat so we could set out on a long trip anywhere to give a helping hand. The articles in the newsletter were heart wrenching at times. How so many people are being tortured for the beliefs that we freely express.

The stories are told how individuals react so favorably to receiving pamphlets and bibles. How they hold dearly to these documents, even when being dragged away to imprisonment. How they desperately search out any means of communication with other believers.

Somewhere in the midst of this the article mentioned how they use email and chat rooms to reach out to others.

BEHOLD, I WILL DO A NEW THING; NOW

A spark whelmed up inside of me. I felt the movement of the Spirit of God shudder throughout my being. I closed my eyes and prayed “how can this all be put together”.

Yes Lord! How can this all be put together?

• Our burning desire to reach people.
• Their burning desire to reach out to others.
• The openness towards Christ that is being unfolded in these last days.
• The internet.
• The marvelous marketing capabilities of Google, PPC, AdWords.
• Vayaministries.com.
• Ana’s vast missionary experience
• The anointed writings I am allowed to write.

Could we possibly have a Pay-Per-Click campaign set up to drive requests to Vaya to receive teachings, training, and the roadmap of Salvation spelled out?

Use Facebook and Twitter to reach people?

But Pappa! These things cost money to do, not generate money! What about the “Miracle in Resources” that You spoke over Ana and me?

This would truly be a New Thing. Tonight is New years Eve and Ana and I are going to spend time writing up a prayer list for 2010 and presenting it to You as a petition. Let us mull this over and add it to our list.

There is substance to this thought. I feel a depth that has not been realized as yet. A way to reach out to many in a new way. A way to touch souls in places we could never visit.

Father, this is from You! Manifest its completeness to me in this New Years Day. Let this be the beginning of the new decade of reaping where we have not sewn, throughout the world. For Your Glory.

My Spirit if flying thinking of the possibilities. My mind reeling at the complexities yet simple ness of it all. Guide us our Lord through it all.

My Dear Friends and Loved Ones,

Not to long ago you received a letter or e-mail from me talking about our experience in Washington D.C. and Colorado. This letter and e-mail was about our Jewish brothers and the Jewish Nation. The summits we attended were an eye opener concerning the Jewish people. It showed us the need of prayer and us as American Christian standing with them. As the Lord spoke to be about this he showed me that I can not keep quiet concerning His People.

The Lord has laid it on my hearts to learn more about the Nation of Israel and His chosen ones. He also brought to my attention one of his chosen one by the name of Esther, and how brave she was when she was told that she was chosen to save the Jewish people. Esther did this out of obedience. She was obedient to what Mordecai who commanded her to do and through obedience God used her to save the nation of Israel.

Est 4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.

Est 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

I thought about this scripture and wondered has the Lord placed Esther’s within the United States? Will the Esther’s He has chosen speak up or remain silent? Can the Lord depend on these Esther’s?

I truly believe God is call us all to be Esther’s to stand and pray for the Jewish Nation Esther’s that can stand up for the Jews.

We have heard that Iran is threatening the Jewish Nation with threats of wiping them and destroying all Jewish in 11 days. Has the media talking notice of this, YES, but has not alerted the American people as to how serious it is. Instead they are blaming the Jewish Nation for all that is happen in Israel we need to see they picture as it real is. Can the Jewish listen to a radical when all he has on his mind is death? No! But our U.S.A. government is blaming the Jewish Nation telling them to divide the land of Israel so the can have peace with the Iran radicals that are blood thirsty. They have tried this before but the radicals in Iran build missile plants to fire deeper into Israel. Don’t take me wrong, there are those in Iran that have given their heart to Christ and are suffering because of their salvation, and those that are used by the enemy to destroy the Jews.

As history shows us at one time the Christian remained silent, but now we know better and we can not remain silent again.

Back in the days of the Holocaust Christian turned their backs on the Jews because they said that the Jews were the cause of the death of Jesus. A lie of the enemy! If it not for the Jewish people we would not be here.

The enemy would like to wipe them out of this world and us too, but this will not happen they are the chosen ones and so are we, the apple of God eye.

If we remain silent America will be affected. This time we will be the ones wiped off the globe. The radicals call the Jews the small devil and us Americans the big Satan.

We know that God has called many Esther’s for such a time as this. A time that God needs all of our voices to be heard concerning the Jewish people.

As many of us know America is falling fast we need the Grace of God in this matter. God will protect us as we protect Israel. God says, “do unto other as you want them to do for you”. If we at this time shut our eyes to Zion we too will fall. His word tells us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Take notice of the word JERUSALAM —- U.S.A. is right in the word Jerusalem. Do you think that God made a mistake when he put U.S.A in the word Jerusalem?

No! We are to be there for them to stand with our Jewish brothers and for the Nation. We will be rewarded for standing with them and praying for them? YES God will reward America for standing with His chosen people.

As I spoke to my Aunt about this she mentioned something very interesting. She said, “Why are the churches and pastors not preaching about this”? Is it because of politics”? But the truth is we the remnant need to know our history take action and not remain silent.

What will happen if we do not come to the aid of His people? Like it says in His word we will also perish.

We know if we who are called by his name, (Christian Americans) come to the aid of the Jewish Nation God will come to the aid of America.

Can we stand back and let the Holocaust repeat it self. To hear that Admadinejad, the self elected president of Iran, is Plotting to exterminate the Jewish people and do nothing about this radical. Something has to be done so history is not repeated again.

That something is prayer and speaking up and telling the other remnant to pray for the Jewish Nation. Speak to the Senators and Representative of your state. Explain to them that the Jewish people are not the cause for the war that is going on in Jerusalem. We can do something; keeping quiet is not one of them; speaking up for our Jewish brother is where we can make a difference.

Remember there are many Jewish that are saved and are crying to God as their savior to save them for another Holocaust.

The children of Israel are Jesus’ relatives and he cares what happens to them just like your loved ones. Your loved ones may rebel at times but you still love them; Right? That’s the way Jesus feel about his relatives. He still loves THEM in spite of it all. They are the apple of His eye and He cares very much about what happens to them. No, they don’t see Jesus for who a Christian believe He is, but they will in the future and until then we have to have compassion on them, and protect them. Speak out in their defense and defend them.

While we look on all the people of the Middle East with love and compassion, we cannot ignore the leaders of the radical action and their lust for death, and destruction of the Jewish people.

Let me give some inside of the history of the Jewish people; what has happened to them because they were rebelled against the Christians.

The division between the Christian started back in A.D. 70 when Titus marched from Rome seizing the city of Jerusalem crippling and eventually destroying the Holy City, Jerusalem was left in ruins.

The majority of the remaining 97,000 Jews were taken back to Rome, where, many were crucified on Roman crosses while their wives and children were forced to watch them.

Some were martyred in one of the many stadiums in Rome. Many Gentiles believers fled Jerusalem for the near by city of Pella to escape the attack, while the Jews remained behind. Why did the Gentiles leave? They had heard Jesus say that Jerusalem would be attacked.

When the Romans gave the Gentiles the option to leave Jerusalem they did exactly that. This physical separation of the two groups would prove to be permanent and would form the basis of the strained relationship.

Anti-Semitism in Christianity continued with the writing of early churches fathers, a poisonous stream of venom from the mouth of supposed spiritual leaders.

Christian hatred for the Jews, at Ester the Christian clergy would en flame the passion of the faithful until the saints would race out of the church with clubs, run to the Jewish quarters and beat a Jew to death for what they did to Jesus on the cross.

It became annual custom at Ester to drag a Jew into a church and slap him on the face while at the foot of the alter. These ceremonies were carried out with excessive vigor, knocking out the eyes and brains of disbelieving Jews, who fell dead on the spot. His brethren took the body out and buried it.

All this division done because of false religions,

As a bonus, the Crusaders were permitted to rob the Jews of their possessions. They could murder the Jews and rape their daughters and wives; all was forgiven by the Pope. Because the Roman church, in attempt to take control of Jerusalem, decided it was the will of God.

As the onslaught began, the desperate Jews sought protection in the synagogue, locking the door behind them. They attempt to save their lives proved futile. The Crusaders finding the doors locked marched around the synagogue setting it on fire while they marched around it singing “Christ We Adore Thee.” Inside the building came screams of 969 helpless men, women, and children begging for mercy as they were being burned alive.

The fourth Lateran Council this council declared that all Jews must wear a yellow star the badge of shame.

The Spanish Inquisition began in 1481, striking the Jews like a bolt of lighting out of the sky. Many were called pigs during the inquisition of secret Jews were put on racks and had water forced down their throats after their noses were pinched shut or they were subject to other torture.

Hundred were sentenced to be burned at the stake and thousands returned to the church in terrified obedience. During this time 323,362 people were burned alive. It is one of the darkest periods of the Spanish History.

Then Adolph Hitler came into the picture and in this he proceeded to kill 6 million Jews. How do you think God views this picture that the so called Christians killed His people? His word says, my people will be destroyed because the lack of knowledge. They thought they were defending Jesus and at the same time they were doing the work of the enemy. This separation went on for year because it was the Anti-Semitism’s false religions which used Christianity to kill off the Jews.

While Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, is plotting to exterminate the Jewish people do we stand by and watch him? Or do we take action? His goal is to put together a nuclear war weapon that will destroy the whole nation of Jewish people.

We pray that this will NEVER happen again. We, who are called to be preachers of the gospel, love the Lord, and are His remnant can not let this happen again. God needs every voice to speak up and stand up for the defense of His chosen ones. God is bringing the Jews and the Gentile back together. He says in His word, “A house that is divided cannot stand”. We need to come together as one.

You’re Representative for Israel

Anna Mae Gregg

Jim

12/28/2009

Pastor spoke yesterday about how the evil one comes into our lives and takes away people, resources, and our future.

Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

He does not need the people he has taken out of my life, or the money, or the dreams that I pondered over. NO! He wants my soul. He wants me to quit loving God and relying upon Him for my every moment.

Satan wants me to give up on God; to stop praising Him for all things. To throw up my hands and scream out that God surely does not love me because He has allowed this (enter in some terrible disaster here) to come into my life.

Yes! Terrible things happen in life on planet Earth. They do. There is no way around it. Terrible things happen to good people.

At the beginning of recorded history Adam broke covenant with the Holy might God of the Universe. His punishment was the damnation of all of mankind. The evil one was given control of Earth and all who dwell on it.

Mans life was cursed along with the very ground he walks on. Weeds grow profusely without any care whatsoever, while tender beneficial fruiting plants need our ever tender care and husbandry to eek out a crop of nourishment.

So also are our lives. Evil abounds within us from the moment we cry our first. We do not need to give evil care and nourishment to cause it to flourish. A bountiful harvest is always at hand, ready to pour out like a flood.

Not to worry! Jesus came into the world to take back the possession of the Earth from Satan. This saving act is freely available to us all. All we have to do is accept it from Christ’s outstretched hands. It id freely offered, freely given. Take it please.

Now that we have the gift of salvation Satan wants to pull us away from it. He wants us to not know the full extent of this saving grace; to not find peace in the knowledge of God.

Just think about it. If the master thief caused you to loose all of your money, investments, or savings, this would be cause for great concern on your part. How you handle this situation has an eternal consequence. Yes it would impact your security and well being right now. It would affect your livelihood today and tomorrow. But…

If you turned you back on God because of this. If you blamed the Creator for this insurrection into your financial world, then Satan will have accomplished what he originally intended to do. That is to rob you of eternity.

Lucifer, the fallen, does not need your cash. He needs your eternal life. He wants to take you with him into the lake of fire reserved for his cohorts and those who have fallen into his web of destruction. He wants a hoard of companions to accompany him as he spends forever being separated from the love of God.

Don’t fall for this elusive trap. The evil one will hit you hard, over and over trying to get you to give up your commitment to Christ. Don’t do it! Don’t fall for this trap. Yes it hurts in the physical realm, but only for a moment. Don’t let a little bit of faulty pleasure or comfort on this planet take away your eternal rewards.

Read the last part of this again…

Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

More abundantly… Wow! Stand firm and God will come to your rescue. Stand and then stand some more. Wrap yourself in the full armor of God and take a stand for Him who is able.

Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Eph 6:14 Stand therefore…

Pastor also spoke on.

1Sa 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

Where David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. David encouraged himself, not from some other preaching or helping hand from another. No! He encouraged himself. David wrote many of the Psalms, songs, he played the harp for Saul. David sang songs of praise and worship to God.

That is how he encouraged himself. A Holy Benevolent God poured out His peace to David when David poured out praises to Him.

When Satan attacks relentlessly trying to discourage you or get you to give up on God, crawl into your prayer closet and lift up your voice in praise and worship. Give homage to the King for He is worthy of all praise and Glory and Honor Forever.

We daily fight a spiritual battle between good and evil. If we let the good prevail in our lives then we truly stand on the threshold of eternity.

Where God will say…

Mat 25:23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant;

And not…

Mat 25:12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.