‘Say Now, Shibboleth’ or Modern Day ‘Christian-Speak’
Ever notice we say words or phrases that we just accept and not bother to think deeper about? ‘You doing Ok?’ ‘Yeah, I’m good’, ‘I hear ya man’, ‘Whadayuhgonnadoboutit?’ , ‘Who Dat?’. The inspiration for this month’s article came from a ‘Christian-speak’ phrase I heard and reheard so much so, that I had to ‘Selah’-Stop and question it. (Sheeesh, beware when you decide to ask a Brother about what they said! ‘My brother’ was going to call the police because I initiated a dialogue on his phraseology). The phrase went something like this, ‘I’m expecting a might move of God …. I cannot wait to see what God is about to do now in this hour’.
I pondered the expression: ‘I’m expecting; we’re expecting God to show up and do something etc’, you know we’re expecting God. Have to say that one worked on me for a little while. It’s kind of like, when radio stations do manipulative ‘beg-a-thons’, that implore you to ‘pray what the Lord would have you to give’. Say what?! Try that in a court room, talk about leading the witness! Objection! Sustained! Or how about this one, ‘We’re just believing God to come through and exceed our goals’. Say What?! So because you just believe, then God has to do something?
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I find the times very interesting to say the least. Emotions are excited, nerves a twitching, fear levels peaking because folks are sensing the calm before the storm but left to scratch their heads as to what YHVH is really up to. Most everyone say they’re excited about what YHVH is doing but when you get down to the brass tacks only a few people can actually tell you what the Creator is doing in our midst. Some say we are just sitting and waiting until He comes back and swoops us out of here and those bad bad unbelieving Jews have to be punished for their disbelief and go through the tribulation while ’believers’ in Y’shua are floating around on clouds, playin harps while casually dippin their big toe in the river of life. Others say what is happening around us is just a cycle that we find ourselves going through, hick ups, so to speak and eventually we will find ourselves to come out on top in the near future with all our wealth back to normal and back to business as usual. One thing is for certain NOW is the time to know what you believe and stand for. There is an old Aaron Tippin song that says you’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything. Isn’t it funny how musicians seem very prophetic at times? That’s another topic but in a system that is nurturing the message of tolerance or let’s all get together under the guise of unity and be tolerant of one another and make the world a better place; do we really see what the Creator is doing? The reason why I ask is how many of us have had times where we knew that we knew that we knew only to some time later find out that WE DIDN’T really know after all.
I’m raising my hand first and foremost here as you are reading so no finger pointing from me. I’ve been told of the miracles that YHVH has done in folks lives to do this or do that only a short time later well that really wasn’t what He was doing or He has had a change of heart like we do sometimes when we were younger and would try on clothes to see if this is what we wanted to wear at that time. The Eternal isn’t schizophrenic and if He truly told us something He will fulfill it in His time we only have to be patient and continue to walk in a manner that we meet His conditions not our conditions.
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Whose Law is it Anyway?
A year ago I wrote in this column about the “middle” plagues visited by YHVH on Mitzraim (Egypt) in the time of Moses. I tend to refer to them as the “Transition Plagues”, because unlike the first three plagues, where the “magicians of Pharaoh” were at least partly able to mimic the malady (as if adding a few more frogs to the infestation was somehow a helpful demonstration of their power!) — by the time the lice or gnats were brought upon them, those men were forced to admit that “this is the finger of God”. (Exodus 8:19) The transition, then, is between plagues or judgments which men may be able to imitate, and thus deny the will or existence of YHVH, and those they cannot. In other words, for a while, stiff-necked men are still able to claim that they are NOT suffering the curse brought on by their own rebellion to the Word of YHVH.
I speculated then that, if we are in fact entering the Biblical “End Times”, and “the pattern of the original Exodus repeats…then other judgments against the false ‘mighty ones’ of the current worldly systems of the modern versions of Babylon and Mitzraim will follow. For example, as was already evident some time ago, the breakdown of our fiat paper system of dishonest weights and measures continues. And in spite of literally trillions of dollars of bailouts and machinations (plagues of dollars are even easier to add to, evidently, than frogs), the world financial system is less stable today than ever. Even the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) recently admitted that what the modern money magicians persist in still calling a “recession” has not YET entered the long-promised recovery — and evidently won’t, any time soon. And the related Euro plague has expanded as well, with the initial infection of the PIIGS nations having spread beyond Greece and Portugal lately to downgrades of sovereign bonds in nations like Hungary and France.
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