Lost Grace
Jerry Wilhite, author Grace is lost in the world today, We were foretold of a time at the end of time that the world would become one world order. One world order was not the problem; it was that it would be one order of the world system not of God. In the 60's the US started what began else where in the world earlier on as the removal of God. God was taken out of the government, schools, and then the homes of America. It actually started in 1949. 3 important moments of time that were foretold happened. 1. The UN decided that Israel was a nation, so as Jesus had said, in one day the fig tree (Israel) would bloom, or it would become a nation in one day 2. Television went on the air. This was the start of the separation of us from each other. 3. The Supreme Court ruled separation of church and state. By the mid 60's television was in most homes and most new of or had someone in Viet Nam. So when the nightly news started broadcasting semi live from Viet Nam about the war everyone would want to see as much as possible. Now remember that the news also came on during the diner hour. Before television, radio, and movies people used to read for entertainment and most read the Bible. The diner hour was a special time when the family would talk about their day, etc., then afterwards sit out on the porch and visit with neighbors. In the 60's when people got through watching 1-2 hours of news and the horrors of Viet Nam they needed something to take their mind off the horrors, so then came the sitcoms that always followed the news. So we went from a dinner hour of talking and an hour on the porch visiting neighbors followed by an hour reading to 3 hours of television. No one would talk, or someone would tell him or her to shut up so they could hear the television. Another point - who's vision are you hearing when you watch tell-a-vision? Do you have any idea who it is that wrote the show, or even the news you watch? How do you know they have the same ideas and moral standards you have? You don't or today we would not be where we are. In the 50's and 60's a couple who were married in a movie or on television could not even sleep in the same bed on the show. Even if they were never shown in bed there were always 2 beds in their bedroom. But now on television we see sex, and I mean the real thing, and it has only been 40 years. So, what has happened due to television? If you think about it you can see the truth in what I am saying. Before radio, television and movies most got their morals from the Bible. Since they get them from the radio, television, and movies, and based on the morals of each and our morals today surely you can see it is true. Before 1949, the idea of Israel becoming a nation in just one day had those whom read it in the Bible shaking their heads. They would think and even say, "That is impossible!" just as they said about the two witnesses in Revelation laying dead, "How could all the world see it happening?" The two witnesses being seen by the entire world is easy to understand today with television, satellites, and the Internet. As far as the generation Jesus was a part of being the last, it was and still is. A generation in the Bible is 40 years, Jesus lived 33 years, 40-33 = 7. Tribulation is 7 years. So everything between the death of Jesus and the tribulation is the period of Grace. Look at it like this - If you owe a bill on the 1st, but the company you owe it to does not count it late until the 5th, then they are giving you 5 days grace to get your bill in on time. That is where we are right now, the grace period. The supreme court ruling of separation of church and state was based on a letter sent to the ambassador of France by Thomas Jefferson which basically promised that the state (government) would never interfere with the church and would never establish a "National Church" like England did. It was interpreted wrong by the Supreme Court as the other way around. How they could misinterpret it, I do not understand because the letter was very clear, but they did. Now in the 21st century we are seeing a call for a worldwide church, based more on the world system than of God. Remember the ruler of the world system is Satan. Also in the 50's a group of people got together and when they finished they presented to the world the NIV version of the Bible. Which turns out to have more errors than any before it and since, at least 680 incorrect changes. The comittee voted on what would stay, go, or be changed. They did not ask God, but voted! That means it was decided by men not God. If that is not enough they removed "Satan" for the most part and replaced him with the word devil. A devil is a demon, not the "head demon" but just a demon. They changed many words and I know you do not see the problem with changing a few words, but what if I told you that you take God's name in vain and do not even realize it? To take anything in vain means using it to the point it has no meaning left. Over using a word will make it meaningless. Example: when someone sneezes and you say "God bless you". In time, it makes God no longer God, but god. Do you see the difference? What would be so hard to say, "Bless you" instead and leave God out? Only use His name when it means Him. Even Jesus got on to a young man for calling Jesus "good teacher" because and good and God are derivatives of the same word. Matthew 19 17. And he said unto him, Why calmest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the comandments. We are to be taught of God and not man. 1 John 2 27. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Today we have replaced: The world is removing God from it, and the Bible at least in the NIV version, which is one of the best sellers, is removing Satan. The New World order is replacing demons with aliens and demon possessions with mental health. Then it comes down to man by man, of man alone. Everything can be fixed with a pill, or new weapon to defend against aliens, etc. So science of one type or another is slowly replacing the kingdom or religion. Now remember, to be religious is not always wanted. You can be religious as most are to the television, exercise, or to work, etc. So the next time you say "God" or "good" think about what you are saying. When you watch television think about whose vision it is you are hearing. Remember we are all judged at the end by the words from our mouth. The words from our mouth are based on what is in us, and what is in us is based on to what we hear. Romans 10 9. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Who's faith are you getting, that of God or the world system? Romans 10 17. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Matthew 7 1. Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Mark 11 25. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 26. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. If you are listening to radio programs about the right you will be of the right, or of the left you will be of the left. What about the center, who is in the center of your life then? If God is truly in the center of your life you will not listen to the left or the right, you will only listen to God. At least, if you do listen guided by the Holy Spirit, you will be able to discern the truth from the lies Remember, as much as man wants to rule man without God, they can not with out making it worse. In the days of Moses the Lord was supposed to be their King, but they wanted a man as king and look at what happened. In tribulation the first 3.5 years God allows man to rule man without God to show them that is not the way after all. Those polluted with the trash of man not needing God or that God is bad or indifferent or only the weak need a God is based on a lie and they are misled and UN-informed about the truth. What is sad they are usually the most intellectual of all the people or think they are because they went to schools man runs. How do we know 4-2=2 other than some man or woman told us, and someone told them. How do we KNOW that 4-2 is not 3 or 5? We do not; we just accept what we hear. In the late 20's and early 30's the people of Germany heard a man and accepted him. He was Adolph Hitler and look at what he did just because the people believed him and gave him power. We do the same all the time; we give power to what we hear and believe. Until we stop we are headed on a road to doom and gloom even before tribulation. I wonder about Revelation where it talks about mother against son and daughter against father how many of you may be one of those who now will say, "NO", but then turn against God and all He stands for out of fear and then turn against your own? It is stated that this will happen. What difference is there today between our church and that of 2000 years ago that Jesus opposed? Nothing. Both have men of God; both have services at least once a week; both used scripture; both had tithers and givers, etc. Jesus did not come to bring more of the same old church, but to bring new, to return us to what Adam tossed away in a moment of sin. Jesus came to return us to the Father, not a corporate church, with corporate prayers, etc., but a one on one relationship, as individuals with God. Read Matthew 6 about prayer; read about the old and compare to the present.
2-27-04 H.O.M.E.