Genuine Vs. Counterfeit?

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DO YOU KNOW DAD’S VOICE?

Please understand that I do not want to come across as superior or condescending in the slightest; nevertheless, to say what I’m about to say is very difficult to accomplish without actually seeming full of myself.  I suppose it would be like saying, “Hey! I’ve just won ten million  dollars” without seeming happy about it.

So here we go:

At nine years old I had an encounter with an angel and immediately began hearing God’s voice.

Since that day I have received well over 150 to 200 Words of Knowledge, visions and or prophecies with near 100% accuracy. Such was just the tip of the iceberg.  These prognostications were often complex specific Words of Knowledge or prophecies which did not present in a generalized message.

Over the past 50 years there have been two or three Words of Knowledge which I have not seen come to pass or had several witness confirmations to affirm the prophecies were from the Lord. The Bible actually holds people who hear God’s voice to a high standard of confirmation.  The problem is that most Christians don’t submit to the Biblical standards and are therefore prophesying falsely on a rather frequent basis.  That is never good.

Ode to Lost Souls

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I am a singer, musician and songwriter.

Today, as I played and sang this song my heart was torn and my spirit cried out for the many Christians who will accidentally, unknowingly, foolishly or just plain rebelliously receive the Mark of the Beast in the coming days. For we are in the Latter Days and “The Mark” is actually here and here to stay.

Over the ten years I spent writing the book, “This Side of the Whirlwind, The Coming Apocalypse” God frequently and powerfully provided dozens of revelations (knowledge) and poured out a multitude of visions relating to the coming apocalypse (The first Apocalypse comes in the form of a 2½ year Tribulation Period designed to separate True-Christians from the lukewarm Christians Daniel 7:15-25, 12:1-13; Revelation 11:3-14, 13:1-18).

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During many of these visions I saw a host of former Christians (the foresworn) wailing at the Resurrection of the Saints (Rapture).  I do not want any of you to be in those crowds.  I am primarily called to the Body of Christ and not the lost; nevertheless, I hate the idea anyone will miss the boat.

I read over this song and thought some might be helped or moved by its concepts. So, Lord willing, this blog will be a benefit to many. May God richly bless you one and all!

Ransomed?

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Ransomed for Christ?

• The ransoming of Israel was done for a significant purpose. Though God exchanged Israel for the Body of Christ, He has not forsaken His chosen people. Rather, God set aside a remnant in accordance with prophecy. There has always been a remnant from the house of Israel and ever will be, leastwise until the beginning of the Millennial Reign.

 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.” And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever.” (Romans 11:5–10 ESV)

• God set the House of Israel for a ransom and a foreshadowing of things to come.
• Though a blinding in part has come upon the nation of Israel, one day the blinding will be lifted and the Israelites will see Christ for their Messiah and Savior.
• The true message is grace.

Branch is Yet Tender?

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Parable Fulfilled?

When Israel has reappeared on the earth as a sovereign nation and begins to prosper, be aware, Jesus is about to return for the Body of Christ within the next eighty years or less. When all the End Times prophecies and visions begin to come to pass, the world should know and prepare for the Time of the Gentiles to come to an end. Before the span of one generation, when eighty years or less has elapsed, the world will drastically change leadership. Christ’s return will then be imminent.

Through the parable of the fig tree, Jesus is instructing the Body of Christ and the rest of the world to get ready for His return. No matter how many people die or how many calamities take place, God’s Word will be accomplished in accordance with His perfect will.

The primary message behind the parable of the fig tree is not that millions will die

Really Coming to Pass?

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In This Side of the Whirlwind’s recent post, https://thissideofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/literally-or-figuratively/ it is asserted Biblical events described in the Book of Revelation about the Great Consummation (what many mistakenly call the Great Tribulation) will in fact be literally carried out in the real world and in real time.

Unless you are one of those individuals who believes Jesus only figuratively walked on the waters or metaphorically fed the 5,000 then somewhere in your idea of God, His Word and Jesus hanging on the Cross you actually believe God can do all things and does operate through supernatural methods when it is appropriate to HIS message and purposes.

Such is the material we will touch on today.

1. Are the locusts of the Fifth Trumpet of Judgment (Revelation 9:1-11) actually some form of supernatural judgment which takes place in the natural world?
2. Does the locusts mentioned in the second chapter of Joel verses 1-11 essentially parallel this same futuristic judgment conveyed in Revelation 9:1-11 covering the Fifth Trumpet?
3. When the passage in Revelation 9:5 states, “And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months.” Does it truly mean humans cannot die during this infamous period?

Let’s see what the scripture says.

Prophecies in Joel Revealed! 2

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Just a reminder… the previous and upcoming sections on Joel contain commentary written over a twelve-hour period in which the Holy Spirit guided this author to pertinent knowledge and understanding fundamental to the message within Joel’s text. The following morning, after reading through the verses and commentary written the night before, the author found it obvious the commentary could neither be corroborated nor proven by any natural means.

At that time, I considered erasing the entire previous night’s work and starting over. However, while I was rereading the sections with an eye toward deleting nearly everything (namely all unsupportable comments), the Lord emphatically pressed upon my spirit to leave the text as is with the exception of properly editing and punctuating the text.

During the last blog it was noted that Joel 1:1-8 specifically alludes to a time when both the Body of Christ and the nation of Israel will be under severe attack from secular forces and agendas. The “Vine” or Body of Christ is laid waste and the fig tree “Israel” has been ruined for a season.

We will continue from where last week’s blog, “Prophecies in Joel Revealed! 1” left off. One significant element found in Joel chapter one is the allusion to “The Day of the Lord” and a time when there will exist zero more salvations during a three and a half years period known as the Great Consummation.  Let’s resume from Joel 1:9.

“Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD” (Joel 1:9).

• The grain offering, also known as either the meat or meal offering, symbolizes salvation through a relationship with Jesus Christ—saved by grace.
• The drink offering symbolizes the joy of the Lord through a relationship with Jesus Christ and also represents the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
• Jesus instructed His disciples to drink His blood and eat His flesh in remembrance of Him. The required observance involves both the drink and meal offerings.
• The symbolism within verse 9 presents the loss of access to salvation during the time of the Great Consummation. Salvation will no longer be available for the lost souls. Christians will still have their salvation and relationship with Christ and the Holy Spirit.
• In John 9:4, Jesus says, “The night is coming when no one man can work.” Jesus spoke of a time when salvation would no longer be available.

“The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails” (Joel 1:10).

• The ruined fields signify a lack of potential access and converts to Christianity—no access to spiritual planting or growth.
• The grain that is destroyed refers to new or potential Christians, those who could have received salvation but caved to the Mark of the Beast or bow before the Beast or his image.
• The salvation message of Jesus Christ is the new wine that has become dried up and no longer available.
• The failing olive oil speaks to inaccessibility to the comfort and anointing of the Holy Spirit. This especially relates to the Israelites at that time.

“Despair, you farmers, Wail, you vine growers, grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished” (Joel 1:11).

• The ministers of the gospel are the farmers and vine growers who will mourn and weep for the lost.
• The wheat denotes the children of God, those who have received the gospel message but for whatever reason gave up before or during the Great Consummation.
• At the time of this harvest, all crops failed and none were saved.

“The vine has dried up, and the fig tree also, and the apple tree—all the trees of the field are withered; surely joy has withered away from the sons of men” (Joel 1:12).

• The Beast has shattered the power of God’s holy people and caused the vine, which is the Body of Christ, to wither.
• Israel, as the fig tree, is also under siege and withering at this time.
• All over the world, the love of God appears to have dried up, disappeared, or completely died out altogether as the world moves deeper into the Great Consummation.
• Israel’s borders will soon be closed and under military siege.

“Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God” (Joel 1:13).

 

• The children of God everywhere will be in mourning.
• The Body of Christ will be scattered and for a time in mourning during the Tribulation Period of the Great Consummation.
• As mentioned in verse 9, the grain and drink offerings represent both salvation and the Holy Spirit infilling. Each is no longer available.

“Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD” (Joel 1:14).

• Gather and prepare the saints for the Day of the Lord. Pray fervently to be saved before it is too late.

“Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as destruction from the Almighty” (Joel 1:15).

• The Day of the Lord begins immediately after the Rapture.[1] The Rapture will take place after the Tribulation Period of the Great Consummation is complete.
• The Day of the Lord begins the Wrath of God.

“Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?” (Joel 1:16).

• The bread of life is Jesus Christ. The gospel message is also spiritual food.
• “Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst” (John 6:35 NKJV).
• The infrastructure of God’s church is now gone with all its spiritual resources.

 “The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up” (Joel 1:17).

 The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods: symbolizing newly sown seeds of salvation.

• The seeds could not fully take root or develop into salvation before the Great Consummation began.
• Some people will not accept Christ before it is too late, before the tragic deadline.
• The storehouses (churches) and granaries (Christian institutions) are in ruins, abandoned during open hostilities between Christians and the now secular governments. The Body of Christ will be forced to flee into the wilderness to fulfill prophecy and survive.
• The Word of God (seeds in the granaries) is no longer available, for it is dried up.
• As the Jews were required to flee during World War II, so the Body of Christ will be required to go into hiding for safety and to remain faithful.
• As of April 7, 2009, the US Department of Homeland Security classified committed Christians, especially those who believe in the End Times, as terrorists.[2]

 “How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are restless, because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment” (Joel 1:18).

• The animals in this passage represent nonbelievers who rejected the free gift of salvation.[3]
• Because of religious persecutions during the Great Consummation, Christians will not find many if any safe havens within cities, communities, or towns (Revelation 13:14–18).

“O LORD, to You I cry out; For fire has devoured the open pastures, And a flame has burned all the trees of the field” (Joel 1:19).

• All previously genuine Christian establishments or places of worship or faith are now hazardous for the Body of Christ.
• Christendom is under siege and at war with nearly every government.

“Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness” (Joel 1:20).

Once the Great Consummation has begun, no one will be able to find salvation or any divine solace. Those who do not already possess salvation and a walk with God before the Great Consummation never will.

• All places of genuine faith and worship will be destroyed. No place in the open will be safe for Christians.
• The Whore of Babylon (false religion) now leads unopposed for a very short season.

Hope this was a blessing to you.

May God bless you. We’ll continue in chapter two next time: don’t move that dial, we are in control of the horizontal and the vertical.

Steven R. Harrel signing off and saying…

I don’t know what to say.

How about you?

Oh well, silence is golden they say.

Hey, who’s they.

I don’t know…

[1] Isaiah 13:6–22.

[2] http://www.wnd.com/2009/04/94803/.

[3] 2 Peter 2:12, Jude 1:10.

Prophecies in Joel Revealed! 1

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JOEL 1:1-8

The upcoming sections from Joel contain commentary written over a twelve-hour period in which the Holy Spirit guided this author to pertinent knowledge and understanding fundamental to the message within Joel’s text. The following morning, after reading through the verses and commentary written the night before, the author found it obvious the commentary could neither be corroborated nor proven by any natural means.

At that time, I considered erasing the entire previous night’s work and starting over. However, while I was rereading the sections with an eye toward deleting nearly everything (namely all unsupportable comments), the Lord emphatically pressed upon my spirit to leave the text as is with the exception of properly editing and punctuating the text.

It is my prayer the Spirit of God will inspire you as you read through this section and place His perfect insight and understanding within your spirit, mind and soul. Amen.

As I wrote the following sections, the Lord impressed upon my spirit the difficultly Joel must have endured after writing the book of Joel. Unfortunately for Joel, he was required to live the remainder of his life without ever seeing his prophecies come to pass. No more difficult task is ever afforded a prophet of God. For without corroboration or confirmation he would likely have been branded a false prophet in his day! I pray the Lord have mercy!

Joel 1 Verses and Commentary

A Song of Obedience?

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Rent the Veil

Several years ago the Lord gave me a song which I titled, Rent the Veil.  The song spoke about God removing the veil of partition between God and Man and allowing His creation to see beyond this natural world and into the spiritual, into the heart of God perceivably.

Well, I had no idea just how attached I became to my music until that day when the Lord told me to give the song and all its rights to an Evangelist named Vivien Hibbert. I had not met her, this “Evangelist” prior.  That infamous (to me) Sunday morning, I struggled almost hopelessly towards the instructed goal.  I was practically refusing to hand over the song, its recordings or any of its rights to Ms. Hibbert.  I don’t know exactly why, I just couldn’t let go!

AS the first meeting at Grace Chapel, Tucson Arizona began that morning I sat struggling over the idea.

Prior to this date, the Lord had not asked me to give away any of the songs He had previously imparted to me. How could I release it?

That weekend however, as I kept hearing the Lord’s voice in my spirit telling me to give Ms. Hibbert “my” song, the premise of the song continued to resound in my heart.

I sat in derision that morning until the opening of her first prayer. Ms. Vivien Hibbert began praying, “Lord, rent the veils of our hearts and draw us near to You.”

The very title of the song and it foundational idea uttered in her opening words of prayer!

Vivien Hibbert uttered that very expression eight times in the span of five minutes.

Later that morning I approached Ms. Hibbert and gave her the song and its rights.

I was hoping for a move of the Spirit as she understood the sacrifice I was making! Haw, boy was I mistaken.

Ms. Hibbert could not have appeared less impressed with the song, my presentation of it or the song and her message’s spiritual connection.

Sadly, in retrospect, I realize I had recorded a truly poor rendition of the song and then presented Ms. Hibbert with a lackluster performance along with a hand written affidavit for the Song’s rights. Sorry Ms. Hibbert.

Ms. Hibbert was not at all moved or impressed even by my testimony or the amazing coincidence and connection to her sermon.

Truthfully, she did not need to be impressed, God had given me instructions and I fought being obedient the entire time; leastwise until I heard her opening prayer.

Why would the Lord bless me with her approval? It is God’s approval I should have sought.  Rather, I needed to stop acting like a child and obey the Lord regardless the cost.

Oh well, we grow, we learn – hopefully?

I have yet to hear whether or not Ms. Hibbert ever recorded or used that piece of music or its lyrics. It was and is a beautiful song whether she uses the music or not.  I finally obeyed.  Finally.

The song also belongs to Vivien Hibbert and Ministries and it is no longer my business.

However the Lord chooses to use His music is His business.

Oddly, I still find it difficult to let go. Sadly even after all these years.

That foolish will of man.

Songs can be like kids to the singer/songwriter sometimes.

Whatever else happens…

To God be the glory, power and praise both now and forever, amen!

Just one man’s struggle with obedience.

Thank You Lord for Your mercy.

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Atomic Particles, What?

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Survey Says!

Last year in 2016 nearly 3,000 individuals were surveyed by the Life-Way Research Biblical Solution for Life group, a survey commissioned by Ligonier Ministries. Of the many questions presented this one question caught my attention today.

Individuals surveyed were asked to make a personal judgment call on the following question by degree:

 

 

Question 22_4:            Modern science discredits the claims of Christianity

Olive or Fig: Which are You?

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Spiritual or Physical Image

In the parable of the fig tree, Jesus said, “Now learn this parable from the fig tree.” The phrase directs Jesus’s followers to learn the parable.  We are required to learn and understand this prophetic Word spoken by Jesus Himself if we want to understand the End Times.

The fig tree is and has been a symbol for the nation of Israel.

God expresses His passion for Israel, the fig tree, in Song of Solomon 2:13: “The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.” Scripture often identifies Israel by using either the fig tree or the olive tree as a reference. Typically, the fig tree represents the physical institution or government of Israel without reflecting any spiritual significance.

Hey, that’s not an Olive Tree!

On the other hand, the olive tree tends to represent Israel’s spiritual life, nature, and relationship with God. When scripture points out the spiritual side of Israel, it often does so by reflecting on Israel as God’s olive tree (Psalms 52:8).

Appropriately, the oil of the olive tree often represents God’s Holy Spirit (Zechariah 4:12). In prophecies, these terms are utilized to identify specific elements or types of relationships in God’s connection with Israel, with these concepts being carried in the text or prophecy.