23 Friday Jun 2017
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7 Years of Judgment, God, God is Great!, Hearing God's Voice, Love, Meaning of Life, Prophecy, The Beast, The End Times, The Great Consummation, The Great Tribulation, The Latter Days, The Mark of the Beast, This Side of the Whirlwind
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21 Wednesday Jun 2017
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God, God is Great!, Hearing God's Voice, Love, Meaning of Life, Prophecy, The Beast, The Great Consummation, The Great Tribulation, The Latter Days, The Mark of the Beast, This Side of the Whirlwind
Warning, there is graphic video materials within this blog. Watch at your own risk!
Most often when Believers think of being in the center of “God’s will” we think of a picturesque and ideal scenario playing out with God using us to preach the gospel, minister in Christian music, feed the hungry, comfort the sick or any number of other ministry related endeavors.
But the question is…
Is that all there is to being in “God’s will”?
For individuals to reside in the middle of “God’s will” does not always mean we are moving in ministry, or a loving family life or even a singular walk with God.
When thinking about “God’s will,” consider how the nation of Israel actually existed in the middle of “God’s will” during their 400 year sojourn with the Egyptians beginning with the time of Joseph and extending through the days of the Israeli Exodus.
(On that note: check out this Docu/movie http://patternsofevidence.com/ which sets straight some of the erroneous data which has been circulating/perpetrated in promoting the idea Israel’s exodus from Egypt was merely or mostly a grand metaphor.) Not a real exodus; poppycock!
At first the Israelites may have been welcomed, befriended or even nurtured, but somewhere in that 400 plus year sojourn the Israelites became the subpopulation enslaved by the Egyptians in accordance with “God’s will”.
Check out this passage from Genesis 15: 13-16
Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
God certainly is impressive, isn’t He?
Those Israelites who lived during that period of slavery we right in the middle of God’s will. It was all in God’s plan to create a scenario where the Jews would need a Deliverer. You know, Moses. 
How many Israelites lived extremely difficult lives while they were perfectly in the center of God’s plans for the Israelites? True answer… many, many and many!
Now, let’s look to King David. Here is a person who spent many challenging years even while living most of his life following God. Scripture says he was a man after God’s own heart.
And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will. (Acts 13:21-22 NKJV)
David spent a great deal of time being pursued by King Saul. I’m not sure of the exact timeline but it was substantial. Do you think the future King David felt he was being blessed for walking in “God’s will”? Off and on I’d imagine, he was not sure but walked in faith.
And let us not forget the Apostle Paul. Wow, that man’s life was riddled with challenges as he brought the salvation message to the Gentiles. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 11:23-29:
I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness— besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation? (NKJV)
Lastly I’ll bring up the Jews of the Holocaust of WWII. What needs to be said there is this…
WARNING — WARNING — WARNING
The following video contains “Graphic Material!”
Watch at your own risk!
WARNING — WARNING — WARNING
The Holocaust of WWII was the prophetic fulfillment of Jacob’s Trouble written about in Jeremiah 30:1-24. There is no doubt! Every element was fulfilled in gruesome detail and is still being fulfilled at this very moment. For a more detailed explanation of Jacob’s Trouble and its fulfillment check out, “This Side of the Whirlwind, The Coming Apocalypse,” chapters 12 and 14. Both sections provide enough information and evidence to confirm that the Holocaust was Jacob’s Trouble. By the way, the prophecy will continue its fulfillment into the Millennial Reign.
Okay, here is why I bring up these not so friendly topics.
We are living in the Latter Days. This is not in question. Israel has been/is repeatedly prophesied to reemerge as a sovereign state on the lands of their forefathers and with its religious identity intact following Jacob’s Trouble. Bingo! This is what has happened.
“We know” from prophecies fulfilled that we are in the Latter Days and during the Great Consummation nearly two-thirds of all Christians will be killed or martyred.
“We know” the Parable of the Fig Tree found in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 takes place during the Latter Days when Israel is reborn as a nation and begins to 
grow into the nation it has and is becoming today.
“We know” the generation of the Latter Days will usher in the fulfillment of the last half of the Seventieth Week of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel prophecy found in Daniel 9:24-27.
“We know” the Great Tribulation or more appropriately the Great Consummation will span 3½ years and bring to fulfillment the Second half of Christ’s Covenant and the separation and Judgment portions of the covenant. Read the book, “This Side of the Whirlwind, The Coming Apocalypse” for more details.
“We know” from the Parable of the Fig Tree that the Latter Days generation as a whole cannot die off before all End Times prophecies have been completed and Christ returns for the Body of Christ.
“We know” the Mark of the Beast already exists and is being deployed throughout this world. How long before it becomes mandatory only God knows.
I could go on and on with the things “We know” are taking place and fulfilling prophecies and bringing the Time of the Gentiles or Church Age to its close.
So we are in the Latter Days and about to face global persecution of Christians everywhere.
We are about to be forced to “Receive or Reject” the Mark of the Beast one way or another.
Soon enough the Beast/Anti-Christ will launch a global war on Christianity and the Jews.
When “The Mark” is in full swing Christians “will not” be able to purchase anything for survival or otherwise, period!
The system will change in such a way as to exclude anyone without “The Mark.”
And I tell you this… These things will happen while we are living in the middle, the center of God’s awesome and deliberate WILL.
Why? Because we are living during the completion or fulfillment of Christ’s Covenant found in Daniel 9:24-27.
This is why the scripture tells us repeatedly, more than 10 times:
THEY THAT OVERCOME TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED!
So hang in there, trust God’s plan. It will get tough but God has a reason for everything we must enjoy and endure.
Refuse any technology which even resembles the idea of the Mark of the Beast.
Remain faithful in the Lord and prepare to take flight to some wilderness, forested weigh-station, bugout point where you can live out as many days here on earth serving our God and fellow Believers as possible.
Remain faithful while you prepare for your wilderness journey.
Hey, if Moses and his people could do it without all the tech and knowledge we have today it should be a breeze for us modern Christians.
Hang in there and trust the Lord knows what He is doing and why!
Brother in Christ, preparing, Steve
31 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in Faith, Healing, Hope, Love, Prophecy, Survival, The Latter Days, This Side of the Whirlwind, True Life
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God is Great!, Hearing God's Voice, Meaning of Life, Prophecy, The End Times, The Great Consummation, The Latter Days, This Side of the Whirlwind
Hey, before we get started I wanted to mention I may have written this article before. I found it among my drafts and could not find a counterpart or completed version. So if I’ve repeated this article you or someone you know likely needed to read it again. Enjoy! Steve (That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!)
I am one of those “oh too fortunate” believers who has known Jesus my entire life. More blessed still, I am a child of God who has heard the Lord’s voice several hundred times with confirmations and 95% fulfillment of all the Lord has shared with others through my life.
The Lord has privileged me with seeing the greater picture (the grand scheme) if you will and I have seldom been in those situations where I lacked the faith to trust the Lord.
This does not mean I have not endured suffering in my life, for who has not? I broke my neck and was bed ridden in 1990, could not hold my own head up for sometime. I live with excessive levels of physical pain and physical issues not worth mentioning.
However, none of these things prepared me to watch my children go through those things our God allows in our lives so they too can learn and grow and rise from glory to glory in the process which grows faithful men and women of God.
In 2002ish the Lord gave me a vision relating to my daughter’s soon coming marriage. It was a horrible vision containing six profound truths which would destroy her marriage.
I shared this vision along with a Word of Knowledge which said my daughter would suffer a dark and difficult period for nearly three years after her divorce. I remember telling them both they did not have to get married; but I knew at that time, sadly I knew they would still push through, because, as they put it, we are in love….
Sure enough, the prophecy came to pass even as the Lord revealed it. The pains of watching my little girl go through these life lessons was considerable.
I watched my daughter and son-in-law withdraw from one another, and then I watched the whole process rip apart my daughter’s longstanding faith.
Knowing the final outcome does not always justify or appease the pain. Trust me when I write, “Hearing from God is often difficult and painful to your life and the lives of those with which you are required to share God’s Word.”
I knew my daughter would recover and yet, her mother and I hurt for her every day during the destruction of her great and joyful hope in her God and her marriage. She too had to find real peace and learn to trust her Savior, Jesus her friend.
After all, trusting the Lord is the only place real-genuine-longstanding peace comes from. (By the way, real and genuine peace are separate and distinct.)
True peace comes from knowing and trusting that Jesus loves you and keeps you and causes ALL things great and small to work together for good to those who love the Lord and are called according to His (God’s) purpose.
My daughter needed to re-learn this principle. Quite often head-knowledge is insufficient and requires us to grow in heart knowledge; that place in your being that knows beyond question something is true.
My son went through a similar learning process -though it was over very different means- just two years ago.
Unfortunately, some believers need to endure this process repeatedly because they mistakenly believe Christians are not to endure great suffering; foolish I know. Fortunately this does not appear to be the case with my children.
The way we learn “longsuffering” is to suffer-long or greatly for an extended period.
So here is the big pitch to this piece:
There is a grand scheme to God’s creation and it is procreation by the Creator. We are the offspring of the Living God. Adopted for sure, nevertheless the children of the Creator! Wow, I know, that’s huge.
Here is how the grand scheme plays out in quick overview:
Lucifer and the fallen angels were created to bring balance to our universe/world so humanity could fall from innocence.
Then Adam was destined to sin so humanity would need a Savior.
Later, Moses brought the Laws of God so we could know sin, for without the law sin is dead – moot (Romans 7:8) and thus the Sabbatical Laws were born.
Based on those Sabbatical laws Israel was found guilty of sinning for 490 years by not allowing their lands their rests one year every seven; therefore, the Israelites were required to go into captivity in Babylon for seventy years to adhere to the Sabbatical requirements of that law. Of course God established these laws and allowed these circumstances to take place to serve this purpose among others.
Daniel, who has now been captive in Babylon for nearly seventy years, has learned of God’s plans visa-vi the books of Chronicles and was then given by the angel Gabriel the Seventy Weeks of Daniel prophecy. The prophecy set the stage for Christ’s seven years of covenant and included all of the elements and requirements necessary to save humanity from their natural sinful state. What an amazing prophecy, I know!
King Cyrus was called out by name through a prophecy given 174 years earlier and then gave the command for the Jews to return to the Promised Lands; then Jerusalem the Temple and the walls were rebuilt; and from BC 538 to BC 3 the 7 weeks and 62 weeks elements of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel prophecy were fulfilled. Creepy cool, I know that too!
And that… is when Jesus was born in Bethlehem; in approximately BC 3 fulfilling the prophecy and the Micah 5:1-2 prophecy which has far reaching implications.
Thirty years later the Son of God is anointed by God through John the Baptist’s ministry and Jesus then begins the first half of the seven year Covenant of Jesus Christ to save humanity. The first half equaling 3½ years.
Now, here we are, children of the Living God, waiting for the final half of the covenant which will also span 3½ years. This half of the covenant is or will be called the Great Consummation also thought of as the great completion.
And today… the world is on the threshold of entering the Great Consummation starting with the 2½ years of the Tribulation Period .
Jesus brought the first half of the covenant during His ministry of 3½ years. This first half of the covenant was the blessing half of the contract: i.e. If you obey me (God) you will receive a life filled with blessings!
The Great Consummation will be the completion of this seven year covenant spanning another 3½ years in the process.
You see, the universe is all about God’s love for His children, that’s us!
We are the nuclear family of God.
The entire process teaches us and grows us into becoming the individuals God wants us to be as adult Christians.
We are only visitor on this planet and this physical life is extremely temporary.
God loves us so much He has been working towards our gathering together to be with Him for a very, very, very-very-very long time.
And still we grow.
Get prepared folks. The Tribulation Period will be extremely difficult for Believers. We will be driven out of our homes and cities and lives into some wilderness, forested or desert areas. We need to get or be ready for that eventuality.
So, God bless you and have a prepared day!
22 Monday May 2017
Posted in Faith, Hope, Judgment?, Love, Prophecy, Survival, The Latter Days, This Side of the Whirlwind
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God is Great!, Hearing God's Voice, Meaning of Life, Prophecy, The End Times, The Great Consummation, This Side of the Whirlwind
A “forewarning” is an advanced warning of something to come. I know, duh.
Through the use of ancient scriptures, God forewarned the world many centuries in advance that He would provide salvation for both Gentiles and Israelites alike. A scriptural forewarning differs from a foreshadowing primarily in the method and purpose of delivery.
A forewarning is established by use of prophetic scriptures, whereas a foreshadowing parallels future events allegorically through events or actions in the physical world. Continue reading
19 Friday May 2017
Posted in Faith, Hope, Love, This Side of the Whirlwind, Without Love
What does praying mean to you?
Is prayer just a duty or discipline?
Is prayer just a litany of your needs, wants and or fears to be relieved?
Or is prayer for you more like a letter to an old friend, a mentor, a father or brother, sister, mother? Continue reading
11 Thursday May 2017
Posted in Faith, Healing, Hope, Judgment?, Love, This Side of the Whirlwind, True Life, Without Love
Men and women of God, where do you walk, on what path do you truly live, to whom are you “in truth” devoted?
I sat with the Lord this morning, in prayer, reading from the book of 1 Samuel chapters 2 and 3 when the Lord in His mercy and kindness deigned to touched my heart and soul. I’ll tell you what He revealed to me in a minute.
Anyways…
I read about Eli the Priest, a man committed to serving the LORD; however, Eli let his feelings for his sons cloud his judgment and take precedence over his love and duty for God. Though many may think so or have forgotten such behavior is not acceptable then or now for men and women of God. Continue reading
10 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in Faith, Hope, Love, True Life, Uncategorized, Without Love
Okay, who do you know that would believe the following concept?
One day thirty years ago a Bi-Plane crashed into a car and a home in the middle of a jungle in Africa resulting in all three elements exploding into millions upon millions of parts and pieces, gizmos and gadgets.
During this accident’s explosive and excited state, you know, the parts, pieces, gizmos and gadgets flying together up and into the sky – smashing and colliding and crashing into one another until they are spread over a quarter mile or so; all the parts, pieces, gizmos and gadgets which were part of the plane, car and home amazingly fell to earth “together” organizing, blending and amazingly conjoining until, “Bingo – Bango – Roboto” fell to earth coalescing into an amazing piece of robotic technology which included all the requisite robotic engineering and programming you witness in the video below.
Play it again SAM!
It could happen, right?
You know, all the pieces were in motion and in the same vicinity being propelled through the sky as they mixed and mingled by the forces of nature with the explosive energies of the cosmos (or at least the accident) gravity, magnetism, common space and the limitless possibilities within the known universe, you know, whatever it takes to make a robot spontaneously amalgamate wondrously into a fully functional artificial-intelligence capable of moving and working and sustaining its existence.
It could happen, right!
Think about it…
Who would believe such drivel, unadulterated imaginative nonsense?
Would you?
Because, in order for that gobbledygook to be true; leastwise, when it comes to humans, animals, plants, insect, fishes in the sea, birds in the air, bacteria, viruses and the list goes and goes and goes and goes to the Nth degree “THAT” type of an accidental conjoining “WITHOUT” intelligent design would have to have taken place to accidentally generate humans, and that twice, once for each gender, AND would have to be repeated over a million different species, genomes and phylum covering every species the world over and over.
That would be absurd!
Okay, who is for intelligent design? Raise you hands, come on, you know you want to!
I do, I do!
Smart kid, right?
I was inspired by a video I watched a couple of days ago. I’ll leave you with it at this time. It’s a fun video unless you’re an atheist.
Oops, not so smart a kid, huh?
You decide!
Wait, was that a little condescending?
I didn’t notice either. My naughty!
08 Monday May 2017
Not long ago I spoke/wrote to an old friend who pulled away from her walk with God; leastwise, her walk with Christ. That specific conversation ended with her saying, “I tried the Christian faith and it didn’t really work for me.
Well, believe it or not, I’m not one to cram anything down another person’s proverbial throat, most of all, my faith. I choose to live my walk with Jesus as much as I talk or write about it but that is my choice; leastwise, I do the best I can and leave God to handle all my sins, you know, all the rest my life’s issues. Thank You Jesus! Glad I’m saved by the blood of the Lamb (sacrifice of Christ) and not by my own righteousness.
Reason for these thoughts: If God gave me the freedom of choice to accept or reject the sacrifice His Son made for my eternal soul and life who am I to deny that same freedom of choice to anyone else, period, exclamation point “?”
As far as I’m concerned that attitude should reside in every Christian’s way of thinking and looking at the salvation message for another. We are to plant the seeds and let God produce the increase. Even in that process God is at the head of the curve. If we are free to choose why aren’t they? Continue reading
06 Saturday May 2017
Posted in Faith, Hope, Love, True Life, Without Love
Sometime back I asked my son to write an honest review, this is what he wrote.
My dad’s integrity is like something out of an old western
By Aaron D. Harrel
Full disclosure: Steven R. Harrel is my dad. At a cursory glance, one might consider my opinion biased. And it is but from this proximity comes a review that only I could write- a review of the author’s character. My earliest memories of my dad are him singing praise and worship and to this day that’s what you’re going to get if you spend even a day with him. His life goal is to see God’s Name lifted high. My dad’s integrity is like something out of an old western: say it like it is and prize honor over saving face. He will tell the truth without pulling punches and he will be the first to tell you how he is a sinner saved by grace. With that intensity comes a few more exclamation points then I would have liked in this book : ) He’s a passionate man and that carries over into his writing style : ) About 12-13 years ago I remember my dad buying a gigantic white board and plotting out all the references in the Bible to the “End Times”. It was a staple fixture in our home through my teenage years. He’s spent all these years digging through the Word to pull out the truths that only God could have mapped out for its sheer grandness. He includes this chart in the book in a graph and it’s mind-blowing seeing all the “fore thought” God put into the latter days. Thankfully, my dad helped make it much easier to follow along then having to do this yourself. Something that struck me about this book was the volume of Scripture included throughout. My dad will challenge you time and time again to look at the Word for yourself and see if his conclusions hold up to the Word. One thing my dad instilled in me is that I also have the ability to say it like it is and after reading this book, I feel that it is sound with the Word. The End is coming and as Jesus and Paul said (Luke 12:56/Romans 11:25/1 Thessalonians 4:13) we are to be informed about the times in which we live. Are you? -Aaron Harrel
Thank You Lord
and thank you, Aaron.
The Lord bless you all. 😎
05 Friday May 2017
Posted in Faith, Healing, Hope, Love, This Side of the Whirlwind, True Life, Without Love
Not a lack of nervousness, or a sense of general harmony; rather, true, deep down, inner peace which transcends all the struggles of life, the sorrows of failure the pains of being undone in our everyday relationships.
In other words, real deep in the bone-marrow peace! Do YOU know that peace? Have you found that place to be a part of your everyday?
Can you feel such true peace in your soul even when the world around you collides with chaos?
Would you like to know that peace if you haven’t found it so far? Well, let me share…
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