Spirit of Truth/The Bible on Trial: Recent Episodes
Rick Sterling
Spirit of Truth Ministry offers two programs each week that test the limits of Christian theology and thought. The flagship program is The Bible on Trial which tests Christianity by using the words and teachings of Jesus Christ as our template. Our other program called Spirit of Truth investigates Truth by integrating Scripture, Bible prophecy, history and the sciences to find and define Truth wherever it may be found. Join us for an uninhibited search for the truth.
Spirit of Truth Ministry invites you to listen to another edition of our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling on Saturday (Sabbath) November 16, 2024 at 10AM PST on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.We will continue the study into how to understand the Truth of not only Salvation and Eternal life for the Kingdom of God, but how the coming to earth of the New Jerusalem during the 1000 year interegnum will affect the people of earth in the learning of that truth, giving all the people of the earth the opportunity know the King of the Kingdom of God without the interference of the Kingdom of this world, because Satan and his cohort will be locked in the spirit world, and be unable to affect the choices of the people of the earth.This will show the world the difference between Elohim and the false god that has usurped Their power on earth.
Spirit of Truth Ministry will be presenting our podcast The Bible on Trial on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 10AM PST, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. We will use the words of Jesus from his own mouth as recorded in particular in Matthew and John, in the words of His prophets, and the Law in the Old Testament, and His end time prophecies in Daniel 2, and Revelation 10, that will show that Salvation as taught by Paul is 180 degree out of phase with what Jesus taught to His disciples, and that the prophecies of the end time death and destruction have been replaced by prophecies in Daniel 2 and in Revelation 10 that show that we are in a different time line that began in 2012.
The Truth Will Out~This is an English expression that in four words says that in any area of life, when push comes to shove, the Truth in it's final form will win out over lies. Truth 'outs' lies for what they are, a cypher - nothing.And in reality this "nothing" has more destructive power than an atomic bomb in the lives of those that have believed these lies for so long that in the minds of those affected souls these lies have become the truth; so when truth is presented to them in it's stark beauty these people believe and react as if the truth is (in fact) lies.This has been no more apparent in the aftermath of the gigantic landslide victory of the Right Side in the election of 2024 in the USA. The now President Elect not only won the Electoral Vote (312), but also in the popular vote (over 5M), and this ourcome has sent those that believe with all their hearts that Donald J. Trump is Hitler reincarnate into an emotional death spiral of epic proportions. The weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth on the Left would be humorous if it were not so sad.These poor besoted souls believe (because they only listen and watch media that is also 100% opposed to telling truth) that this result is the end of Democracy, and that they will all be thrown into death camps and tortured before being executed by the vile 'Orange Man".Even worse than this is that there are many "believers in Jesus" that also feel and react in the same way when they are told that the plan of salvation that they have been taught from childhood by the Church is not the plan that God set up for the salvation of the world, spoken of by Jesus while here on earth.Truth has been turned into Lies, and Lies into Truth, across the board; and the hubris of these people will not allow them to see the difference. This is why Spirit of Truth Ministry is here on Blog Talk Radio: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Winners and Losers~Everyone likes a winner, and everyone likes to win. Some will play by the rules, because they want to play fair; others want to win, and will do anything they can to defeat their opponent, including cheat. Some people will give up the race when the effort becomes a struggle; others will leave nothing on the table, and leave nothing to chance in giving their effort to cross the finish line, even if they don't win.Those of us in the USA have just gone through a grueling political election that has the potential to change the course of history for our country forever. There are winners and losers, and those that won their political seats in all of the national, state and local races will have a chance to build a different nation than those that were defeated.We see a different kind of race in Revelation 10, with the sounding of the Seven Thunders. When this prophecy is fulfilled in real time it will change the outcome of the texture of how the world will be introduced to a time of peace and prosperity, rather than a Time of Trouble such as never was before. The last verse of this prophecy states that prophecy will be for "different nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples", Rev. 10:11.Different HOW? It will be different because the people of the earth at this time will be in a different time line than was indicated in the prophecies of the "death road", where death and destruction reigned supreme, because Satan was allowed to have total sway on the earth and in the hearts of mankind.In this "different" time line the New Jerusalem will come to earth, which will herald a time of peace and prosperity, because the people of the earth, lead by the USA, will have chosen to enter a time of Peace and Prosperity, where Satan is religated to the spirit world, and can no longer influence the world to evil.This is the true result of the election just completed.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry on Saturday (Sabbath) November 2, 2024 at 10AM PDT for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry in the presentation of our long time podcast The Bible on Trial. This is a program that stretches the boundaries of the information that is truth that is singular and absolute, and was given by the words of Jesus that He brought from the Father and gave it to His own eyewitness disciples, who wrote it down so that 2000 years later it could be read by The Faithful and Wise Bondservant (and his fellow bond servants) so that the Kingdom of God could be established on earth at just the right time.This truth is totally different than the message that has been given to the world by the Christian church since it was established in the 1st century by the words of and apostle that never heard Jesus, nor knew Jesus personally while He was here on earth. This apostle taught a "different gospel" from the one that Jesus gave His own disciples, and for over 2,000 years has been the hallmark and centerpiece of the doctrine of salvation that says that a person must believe that they are saved by faith through grace in order to enter the Kingdom of God. Jesus never taught this concept. Come along with us as we learn The Truth about salvation and eternal life that came from the lips of the Son of God. And also learn what is in store for the world in the very near future, as the evidence is overwhelming that the 'end' that is expected by all Christians is the the "end" that God desires for His people.Join with us today November 1, 2024 at 10AM PDT for The Bible on Trial, on: blogtalkradio.com.
Rev 3:18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.Truth is the most precious commodity in the universe, which is why it is shown as Gold in prophecy. We know that this commodity is not real gold, because physical gold is used for pavement in the New Jerusalem. The Truth will always be something that the majority of humanity does not posess, which is why it is so precious and rare. Yet, the final step toward Eternal Life is the aquiring, acknowledging, and practicing the Truth. This would be impossible under the conditions of the Death Road Prophecies of Revelation 13, because the idea is that the whole world "wonders after the beast", where everyone on earth without exception believes lies as if they are the truth. If you look at what is going on in the world today there are many millions of people that reject (at least partially) the concept that lies are truth, and truth is lies. This means that we have changed from the Death Road prophecies to the Life Road prophecies, that allows that a significant number of the popularion of the world has rejected Satan and his lies, and worship the God of Truth, even if they don't know what that truth is.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, October 25, 2024, for our program The Bible on Trial, where Rick Sterling will show how the Truth will win over a much larger portions of the people of the world through God changing Their mind, and has already moved the world to a time of Peace and Prosperity, where people will be able to see the Truth with clear spiritual eyes, at 10 AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
It's been quite a ride recently, with the national election looming in the USA, and the rhetoric flying fast and loose. The one thing that is interesting in this is that it is becoming more clear as to what information is Truth, and what is not. The disconnect is becoming wider between the perception of reality and what actually IS reality.The point of this observation is that this situation is eerily similar to what has been going on in the Christian church since Jesus left earth for home. The Evil One has co-opted the perception of truth, and turned it into something that 'sounds' like truth, that 'feels' like truth, that operates like truth in the lives of Christians that are "born again", but is decidedly NOT truth when you compare these beliefs to the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disiples WHILE HE WAS HERE ON EARTH. Jesus never taught what is being preached from the pulpits, Sunday (and Sabbath)-school classrooms, and evangelitic meetings as the concept that Salvation comes by declaration of love between God and man, that we are saved by faith that the blood of Jesus on the cross saves us IN our sin, that once we declare this love we are no longer subject to a punitive "Law" that only separates us from God's love, and that God knows that we as frail humans have no power to keep the Commandments, and for this reason "righteousness" is a free gift from God.This "doctrine" was put to bed yesterday on The Bible on Trial (October 18, 2024), where it was proven that this is not the salvation model that Jesus taught. You can be awaked to the truth of God by joining Spirit of Truth Ministry today, October 19, 2024, and listening to our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today October 18, 2024, for our podcast The Bible on Trial. We will be continuing to process how God has been able to put the world on a singular and specific time line in which we are now living, that has been changed from a time line of Death and Destruction to one of Peace and Prosperity. And although it doesn't seem as if we have made that transition (given what we are observing in the media) we have indeed crossed a here-to-fore invisible line, that clearly demarks that change for those that have "eyes to see and ears to hear,"We will be 'on air' (Lord willing) at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The level of problems in the world is skyrocketing! People all over the world are facing huge disasters in both the physical side, and the political and spiritual sides. Most of the world is waiting for the start of WW3, elements of which are potentially leading to nuclear war.Things are not looking good right now.HOWEVER, if you have been listening at all to our podcasts you KNOW that the outcome will not be an unmitigated disaster for the world, because you realize that we are no longer in the time-line of Death and Distruction, but now we have changed to the time-line leading the Peace and Prosperity. This seems as if it is too good to be true, but indeed we are right on the cusp of Peace breaking out in the world.If you don't believe this then we suggest you listen closely to the information from our presentation today, and you will actually come away with a sense of peace. Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, October 5, 2024 at 10 AM PDT for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Sporot of Truth Ministry today October 4, 2024 at !0 AM fpr our podcast The Bible on Trial, where we 'deep dive' into End Time Prophecy, and the process of Sanctification, according to the words of Jesus as He gave to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth. We will be "on are" on: blogtalkradio.com.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, September 21, 2024, at 10 AM PDT for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. Yesterday there was a glitch with Blog Talk Radio, and we were not able to air a podcast. Pray that there will be no problems today. BTR lkk: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." John 8:31-32.What do you use as your source of Truth? The answer to this qiuestion means the difference between eternal life and eternal death. The problem is the phrase "Your source for Truth". It implies that you have a choice as to what you believe to be true. So if this is actually the case, then truth is an amorphous entity that changes with the person. We have all heard people say things like, "Your truth is yours, my truth is mine, and these two don't have to be the same. Therefore, IF this concept were true then there are billions of "Truths" that exist in the world, one for each human that has ever existed on earth; this is the definition of philosophy. There is no single philosophy that can guarantee your eternal life. Believing this is faith.Truth (by definition) is singular and absolute. If this were not the case then science in any discipline cannot have an end point. This then is the definition of WOKENESS. Each individual can choose to believe anything about anything, and it doesn't matter whether that belief is right, wrong or indifferent; then that person holds eveyone around them to that same standard. This is where the use of individual pronouns comes from where people can choose their gender identity. If some someone choses not to follow that identity then THEY are held liable for not confirming that delusion. This allows biological men to compete with biological women in sports, where the male wins every time.Truth is not maleable, but solid. Spiritual Truth does not come from belief by faith through grace, but from the Law (Commandments), the Prophets, and the words of Jesus. (Matt. 5:17, Rev.12:17)
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Friday September 13, 2024, for our Flagship podcast The Bible on Trial. This is a program that tests the tenets of Christianity against the words of God in the Law and the Prophets in the Old Testiment, and the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples as recorded in Matthew, John, and Mark (who it is said wrote for Peter). When you take this perspective it changed the texture of Truth from one of salvation by faith through grace, to entering the Kingdom of God by "keeping the commandments of God, and holding to the Testimony of Jesus" (Rev. 12:17).We will be "on air" at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today September 7, 2024 for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. We will be continuing to study the effects of the change in status of the world found in the change from the Death Road Prophecies to the Life Road Prophecies. This changeover began in 2012, and is proceeding a-pace toward new beginning through Peace and Prosperity rather than Death and Destruction. Join Rick and the crew today at 10 AM PDT for another exciting episode that you won't want to miss, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Today is September 6, 2024, and those of us that know what is coming and are not worried because we have the understanding that the outcome is peace and prosperity not death and destruction, looking forward to the coming of the King of the Kingdom of God to His bond servants in a way unlooked for by the majority of the people of earth. This is the new reality found in the here-to-for unseen and unexplained prophecies in Daniel 2 and Revelation 10 (et al) that Spirit of Truth Ministry has been proclaiming since 2020.It is clear from observing the events that are present in the world that Satan and his cohorts are desperate to try to salvage their plans to complete the take over the world using death and destruction as the means of keeping their power intact. Yet as we have seen and heard through what Rick Sterling has been presenting these past four years, that the tide has turned, and the outcome has be changed from that which has been taught by the Christian Church since it's beginning, where the Great Tribulation occurs, and Satan rules on earth just before Jesus and God come in the Clouds, to Jesus coming as a thief in the night to His own bondservant, and the New Jerusalem comes to earth. At that time people of earth will witness that the people that can go into and out of this Great City are the people of the Kingdom of God, "Those that keep the Commandments of God, and hold to the testimony of Jesus." (Rev. 12:17). The people of earth will learn the truth of God not in a time of distress, but in a time of Peace, without the undo evil influence of Satan, who will be held in chains in the spirit world, and will be unable to cause people to believe a lie as if it is the truth..The people of earth will finally be able to see the demonstraton of the Truth of God, and will make their decision for or against God without the influence and malice of the Evil One interfering with that decision.
Spirit of Truth Ministry welcomes you to our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling! This podcast takes a decidedly different tack on where the world is heading with regard to the End Time Prophecies of the Death Road changing over to the Life Road.Instead of the Death and Destruction of Revelation 13 that included the Mark of the Beast, the world will experience Peace and Prosperity the likes of which this world has not seen since Eden. These prophecies are seen in Daniel 2, especially v. 34-35 and 44-45. were there is not seen any evidence of the hell on earth that is detailed in Revelation 7-9, and Revelation 13 and on. What IS seen is a different set of prophecies starting with Revelation 10, and extending to Revelation 27 and 28.Right after the 42 month, that is just about to end, Satan and his cohort will be sequestered in the Spirit World, and will no longer be able to harass the people of the earth, This occurs because the New Jerusalem will come to earth, and the people of the earth will be able to see with their own eyes the people of the Kingdom of God going in and out of the City, and know for themselve that Peach has broken out on earth. They will be able to make a decision for the Truth without being harassed into believing the LIE by faith. because the truth will be right in front of their faces. This gives everyone alive at this time the opportunity to choose Life instead of Death, without the unseen pressure of the Sataniic hord interfering with the minds and heart of the people of earth. This is a different understanding of prophecy that has ever been proposed before this time, giving the people of the earth a REAL choice between Life and Prosperity and Death and Destruction. And what we have seen is that the world has already chosen Life.
Spirit of Truth Ministry invites you to listen to our podcast The Bible on Trial. This is a program that tests and compares the prime tenets of Christianity against the words and teachngs that Jesus brought from the Father in Heaven to earth, where He gave these words to His own eyewitness disciples. After Jesus left the earth to go back to His Father, these eyewitnesses wrote down His words, where the words of Matthew and John (and it is said Peter, as written by Mark) were placed in a compendium termed The Bible, by a human council that decided what should and should not be included. Therefore yes, the Bible conains Truth, but it and of itself IS NOT truth; it is up to the individual to decide for themselves whether something that is included is actually Truth, or not.What we do at Spirit of Truth Ministry is sift through the thousands of words that have been included in the Bible, comparing them with the words of Jesus as defined above; and by recognizing the value of those words we place them carefully in our minds, hearts, and intellects, so that those words can changes us into spiritual being as is Jesus, becoming one with the Father in Heaven, as is He.Join us today, August 30, 2024, at 10AM PDT for the next episode of The Bible on Trial, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. See you then!
Yesterday was a water-shed day in the history of the US of A and the world, and not just in the political sense, but also in the Spiritual sense. An unlooked-for event took place that changed the texture of the both the political and spiritual landscape such that a portal in the minds of those that stubbornly believe and practice their own brand of truth can see that there is the potential for a different path for Unity of Purpose for the Nation and world.For the past four years Rick Sterling, and we at Spirit of Truth Ministry, have been discussig the differences that exist between the two prophetic time lines that God has always presented to both His people and to the world at large. These differences have taken shape via the Death Road prophecies in which God defines the end of time events will be if the people of the world choose to take the path of least resistance that leads to death and destruction, just prior to the return of the King of Heaven to this earth; or the alternate reality, where the people of the world (lead by the USA) actually chose (yes, past tense) a road that was more difficult to find, a road that leads to Life and Prosperity. In this reality that was chosen in 2012, is where the City of God actually comes to earth and shows the people of the earth what their lives will be like if they choose life.Today on the podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, you will be given Biblical proof as to the When, How and Why these prophecies have been, and are being fulilled in the sight of mankind, should they choose to see them. Peace and Properity is breaking out in this world, and you can see it happening in real time, demonstrated by the event that happened yesterday.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for out podcast today August 24, 2024 at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today for a Best Of Podcast from our recent past, today August 23, 2024 at 10AM PDT. We will be back for a live podcast tomorrow. Hopefully, we will be able to open the program today on Blog Talk Radio, because recently we have experienced some technical issues on the part of BTR, that have not allowed us to open a podcast. Thank you for sticking with us during these times when due to no fault of ours we have been prevented from opening our podcasts in our time slot. Click on the link to go to our page, at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Welcome to Spirit of Truth Ministry, and our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling! This podcast tests the words of Jesus that He recieved from His Father in the heavens, and gave to His own disciples while he was here on earth; and later to His prophet John in Revelation. Not all of the testimony that is included in the New Testiment is the testimony of the eyewitness disciples that spent a little over a year with the Master Jesus Christ while he was in residence here on the earth. The two writers that are the most prominent of this group are Matthew and John, that heard what Jesus said from His mouth. Mark is included in this group because while he was not an eyewitness, it is postulated that he wrote down the words of Peter, who was an eyewitness, and Mark's testimony is confirmed (except for tha last few verses that we added later) by the testimony of John and Matthew. Luke (the other gospel writer) never knew Jesus while he was here on earth, did not hear Jesus' testimony first hand, and claimed that he recieved his information from eyewitnesses as well, but does not give their names. Luke was a disciple of the 'apostle' Paul, that also never knew Jesus "In the Flesh", and who claimed to have recieved his own personal gospel via divine revelation. When you compare the writings of the eyewitnesses to the writings of Paul you will see a marked difference that is 180 degrees out of phase with what Jesus said, and was written on his behalf.The Bible contains the Truth about salvation and how a person may recieve the Kingdom of God. But in the parable of the Wheat and the Weeds (Matt. 13: 24-30) lies are included in the Bible as well as Truth. Spirit of Truth Ministry uses .the words of Jesus as the primary source of Truth, and compares all else wth those words.Join our podcast today August 10, 2024 at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
In our world today prejudice has become a dirty word, because it is based on the preconceived idea that personal opinion about an issue or person is true, even though that opinion is not based upon reason, experience, or actual fact. In a significant number of cases prejudice exists because of a generational understanding of how the world works, handed down from parents to children (ad infinitum) such that these prejudices have become a staple identity that simply "is what it is", no explanation needed. These generational prejudices are so insidious and common (especially related to ethnicity) that the practitioners of those prejudices no longer realize that they have them.Prejudice is especially virulent in the world of religion. Countless wars, and millions of deaths can be laid at the feet of religious ideologies that are held as "Divine Truth" by those that adhear rabidly to the practices of those religions, even though they don't know either the source or history of those practices. This is especially true in the world of Christianity, where beliefs are based not on the first hand knowledge and understanding of the true source from which those concepts and practices came, but on second or third hand testimony of people that never had eyewitnes knowledge of the source of basis for the practice of Christianity as the world knows it today.So when people are exposed to the TRUE SOURCE, as they were in the days when Jesus was here on earth 'in the flesh', they will refuse to acknowledge that what they now believe to be truth IS NOT! Christians have been so inculcated into the understanding and operations of "The Church" that they don't realize that they are "believing a lie as if it is the Truth", so much so that they refuse to acknowledge the truth when it if presented.Prejudice and Truth cannot co-exist.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today August 3, 2024 at 10AM PDT for our podcast the Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today August 2, 2024 for our flagship podcast The Bible on Trial. Matters. Truth is not amorphous or nebulous. Truth is not believed by faith. Truth is Singular and Absolute, and is actually the currency of the heavens, more valuable than gold.Learning Truth is not easy, nor is it for the faint of heart. It requires the suspension of disbelief in order to find it.This is why Spirit of Truth was founded, to help people be able to process information, and differentiate between that which sounds like truth and is not, and is actually Truth but sounds like it isn't.Our podcast will be 'on air' at 10AM PDT today. See you then, on: blobtalkradio.com/sot.
Please join Spirit of Truth Ministry today July 27, 2024 at 10AM PDT for another edition of our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where we look at the current state of the world and compare it to what is seen in Biblical Prophecy to show that we are no longer in the time-line of death and destruction seen in Revelation, but have transitioned to the time-line of Peace and Prosperity that is seen in Daniel 2, and Revelaton 10. Join us for a fascinating study into Truth, Justice and the Kingdom of God, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our podcast The Bible on Trial, today Friday July 26, 2024 at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling today July 13, 2024 at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Timing is everything, and seconds count.Just look at a race, any race, where second place is separated from First Place by 0.001 seocnds. The First place winner gets the money and the glory, and the Second place competitor gets to go home.We are coming down to the final seconds of the world that we all grew up in. That world will change in "the blink of an eye", even though it will take weeks, months, and even years for the effects of this change to reach everyone on earth.What is different, in this case, is that after the New Jerusalem comes to the earth, and when the people of the earth get to learn the truth about EVERYTHING, without Satanic pressure to believe and practice a lie, then the earth will be make new, and all will be as it once was in Eden.We are SO close to this occurring; but not yet.Stay tuned to our podcasts as we move forward from today, so that you will not be frightened of the things you see, and especially of the things you don't.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, July12, 2024 at 10AM PDT for out podcast The Bible on Trial, where we will keep you informed as to what you need to know and what you need to do to be ready for this upcoming Huge Event, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot
Spirit of Truth Ministry will be 'on air' today, July 6, 2024 at 10AM PDT with our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. This is our first podcast with Rick and the Crew after the Independence Day holiday in the USA. We hope you will join us for an update on the latest information about where we are in time concerning prophecies of the Life Road, and what we need to be doing to prepare for the coming change in status of the world fiat currency change that is just about to take place. To join us live go to our Blog Talk Radio page at 10AM PDT at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
We hope that you had a wonderful Independence Day celebration, if you live here in the good old US of A. if you live in England, we hope you had a good "Traitor's day.Today is Friday, July 5, 2024, and we will be presenting a Best Of program fromthe recent past, as the Spirit of Truth Ministry Staff is widely dispursed in conjunction with family commitments. We will be 'live' tomorrow, July 6, Sabbath, in our regular time slot for another podcast of The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling.Our podcast will beging today at our usual time of 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. See you then.
The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling is a podcast that is not for the faint of heart. It concerns learning the truth. In order to learn the truth, you must understand the four stages of learning. They are as follows.Stage 1 - "Unconscious Incompetence" - If you desire to find the truth about anything, inluding salvation and eternal life, you must first realize that with out doubt YOU HAVE BEEN FOOLED, recognize that you don't know that you have been fooled, and you have been fooled (and this includes everyone that lives on earth) into believing a lie as if it is the truth. Everyone that believes that they already have all the truth they need know to enter the Kingdom of God, without doubt have not. Most Christians sincerely believe that the Bible is the inerrent, undisputed, and undeniable Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation. It is when they realize that this is not true that they can move to the next stage.Stage 2 - "Conscious Incompetence" - When you have acknowledged that you don't have all the truth it is only then that you can start replacing the lies you have been taught from birth, with the Truth From Above. In order to begin that process you must first learn where to find the truth. The Bible contains truth, but the Bible in and of itself is not truth. It is the word of God to His prophet in the Old Testament, and the Words of Jesus in the New Testament that ate Truth. (Matt. 5: 17, Rev. 12: 17) "Stage 3 - "Conscious Competence" - Now comes the most difficult part, because in this stage you must actively exchange the words that you once believed to be true, by learning and practicing the words of Jesus that he spoke to His own eyewitness disciples. (John 17)Stage 4 - "Conscious Competence" - You know the truth. (John 14:10, 15-17, John 8:31-32, John 17:17)
Spirit of Truth Ministry invites you to join us for our flagship podcat The Bible on Trial, today Friday, June 28, 2024 at 10AM PDT. We will be continuing our study into the Kingdom of God, and how to enter that Kingdom. You and go to our podcast by clicking on the following link: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, June 22, 2024, for our podcast The Reveation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. Our podcast will start at. !0AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. We Hope you will be with us then.
Fall out~When a bomb goes off (either conventional or nuclear) there is always fall out. The explosion ejects material into the air, closely followed by an wave of concussion that flattens anything within it's operational radius. As the concussion wave propogates the destruction lessens over distance from the event horizon, until there is no more destructive energy left, and the effects die out. What doesn't die out right away is the Fall Out.In the case of a conventional explosive device the fall out is not as devastating, but can be significant.There is an exploston coming to this world, and very soon. No, I am not talking about a nuclear war, WHICH WILL NOT HAPPEN.I am speaking of the fall out from the political, financial and spiritual explosions that are just about to come upon the world "to Test those that dwell upon the earth". You will feel this fallout in you heart and soul, and if you are not prepared before hand to handle the stresses of these events you could go into panic mode. That is why Spirit of Truth Ministry is here on Blog Talk Radio. This is why we produce a podcat on both Friday and Saturday (Sabbath), thao will help you understand what is going on in the world and in prophecy, so you won't feel the need to panic when things go sideways.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Friday June 21, 2024 for our podcast The Bible on Trial, at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Sabbath (Saturday) June 15, 2024, at 10AM PDT for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. The future is not what you have been led to believe by your pastors, preachers, teachers, and prophetic expositors. We ARE NOT (now) on the Death Road time line, where the events that include a Time of Trouble Such as Never Was is the lead element of the events of the End are in play. The time for that to have happened has come, and gone, and can no longer now happen. What IS going to happen is seen in Revelation 10, and in Daniel 2, where prophecies that include a set of prophecies that we have termed Life Road Prophecy, where at time of peace and prosperity lead the way to the world realizing that the Kingdom of God has come to earth, ad where the people of the world can choose to join that Kingdom without being under the duress of having the Enemy and His minions confusing the choice that must be made for a person to be IN the Kingdom of God, and have Eternal Life.Our program will be "ON AIR" at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Spirit of Truth Ministry, Rick Sterling, and the crew, have been opening the eyes of people to an unlooked-for future for nearly 30 years. We have been preparing the "Way of the Lord" through the words of Jesus that He gave His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth, and through the ministry of the Holy Spirit in interpreting His words, and prophecy, such that people will not be surprised when events that have been "predicted" DON'T come true the way that Christians have been taught to expect.If you are fully prepared for a future that will never occur, how can you say you are fully prepared.Spirit of Truth Ministry invites you to join us today, Friday, June 14 2024 at 10AM PDT for our flagship podcast The Bible on Trial, where we will show you how to prepare for an "Unlooked-for" future, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Everyone has at least part of their belief system that is not actually based upon fact, but on supposition. We grow up thinking that what our parents learned from their parents must have been true, because it worked for them down through the years. But when we grow up in a more modern or more sophisticated environment we see things differently thandid our parents, and change our belief system to fit the new dynamic. Sometimes we do this even though what our parents knew to be true was actuallly true, and we just didn't have enough facts to overcome our disbelief.The Question is, when do we have enough "facts' to make a cogent decision about liteally "anything". This is where having an "open mind" comes into play.You have heard the expression that someone's facts is another person's fantacy? The gtreat Science Fiction writer Jules Verne wrote the story 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1870 CE, about a scientist/warrior that wrecked havoc against the great sea faring powers in the world with a submarine that was driven by the power of the sun; a nuclear reactor. Everyone thought that this was simply a wonderful fanciful story, when today we know that it was true. The facts had not yet caught up with reality.The same is true today, even in the world of end-time prophecy that Spirit of Truth Ministry is speaking about today, as we deal with Life Road Prophecy we now believe to be true, and not.the Death Road Prophecy that we have been taught by our churches since Jesus left earth for Heaven more than 2,000 years ago. Is this prophetic concept truth or lies? You must suspend your disbelief for a time in order to be able to see the facts, and then you will be able to make your decision based on Fact not Fantesy.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, June 8, 2024, at 10 AM PDT on The Revelation of Jesus withj Rick Sterling at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today June 7, 2024 at 10AM for our program The Bible on Trial. This podcast goes deep into the truth of how salvation and eternal life are activated in our lives, according to the actual words of jesus that He brought from the Father in Heaven, and gave to His own eyewitness disciples Matthew, John (and Mark writing for Peter). Luke and Paul ARE NOT included in this information, because Paul never knew Jesus while He was in ministry on earth, and Luke never knew either Jesus, or any of His disciples, and recieved his infromation from Paul. Finding Truth means finding the most reliable source for truth, and that would only be the words of Jesus. Go to: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Trtuth Ministry today June 1, 2024 for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where we will continue too discuss the in's and out's of how salvation that Jesus brought from His Father differs from the salvation taught by the Christian church, and what this means for the future of the world. We will be 'live' at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, May 31, 2024, for our program The Bible on Trial; a podcast that tests the theoloy of the religions of the world, and the world view of those religions, against the Truth that Jesus brought to this earth from His Father, that He geve only to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth. Join us for our podcast at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Fish or Cut Bait~There are semial moments in time when reality catches up with the truth about what we believe about 'our lives'! When the world "as we know it" changes into something that is unrecognizable, we must either change our view point, or knowingly give up the truth for a fantacy.We are at that moment in time right now. There is time for a didactic method of learning, and a time to simply observe and embrace truth without restraint. Now is that time. The WOKE culture has intercepted the moral compass of the past, and changed truth into something that is unrecognizable in our modern world. "What you see is what you get" is non longer useful anymore as an operating system of life.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, May 24, 2024 at 10AM PST for our program The Bible on Trial, where Rick Sterling will bring the reality of where and when we are in time into a more clear focus in relationshp to what is now occurring int he world right now, and also in the world to come. Listen on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Today, Friday May 17, 2024 Spirit of Truth Ministry is presenting a "Best Of" program from November 2, 2022, at 10AM PST, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. We will not be doing a 'LIVE' podcast because coincidentally both Rick Sterling and Dennis have previously scheduled appointments during our regular time slot. We hope you will enjoy this past presentation, and we will see you tomorrow, May 18, 2024 at 10AM PST for our regularly scheduled podcast The Revelation of Jesus. We'll see you then!
Where and when we are in time is important to know in dealing with prophecies of the end of time. Without knowing the where and when we simply won't be motivated learn the importance of knowing what we must do to be saved, by the KNOWING that we are actually inside the Kingdom of God. The Christian church believes that all a person must do to be saved is to say "The Sinner's Prayer", and accept that the "blood of Christ" saves you by "faith through grace"! If you have been listening to our podcasts for ANY length of time you know that believing this paradigm does nothing to save you. You KNOW that to be saved you must be IN the Kingdom of God, because the death of Jesus, the Son of God, happened in order to save HIS Kingdom from the forgiven sins of that Kingdom. Salvation is NOT about a personal relationship with Jesus. Salvation happens when you "keep the commandments of God, and hold (only) to the words of Jesus" (Rev. 12:17).If you have never heard this concept of salvation then Right NOW is the time to learn it. The podcasts The Bible on Trial, and The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling are the ONLY place WHERE you will hear how salvation really works. Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today May 11, 2024 at 10AM PST for more information as to how a person goes about entering the Kingdom of God, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Stay tuned for this exciting information by listening to The Bible on Trial, brought to you by Spirit of Truth Ministry, on Friday May 10, 2024 at 10AM PST, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The understanding that End-time prophecy is not static, and has actually changed direction, is the most important revelation that has taken place since John was on Patmos. The story of Jonah shows that God has always made room for an alternative to the prophecies that have been taught by the Christian Church since Jesus left the earth for His Home. We have become complacent in our understanding of prophecy, because we have been told that if God has stated a prophecy in "Scripture" then that prophecy MUST be fulfilled before the end can come. This is just (and simply) NOT true.It is now evident that God has placed in the prophecy in Revelation another alternative to the death and destruction that has been touted as the only way for mankind to be saved. This is what we call the Death Road prophecies, and are found in much of Revelation. However, there is an alternative that does not rely on the horror and death described therein; after all, God did NOT destroy Ninevah, but provided a way for that great an evil city to be saved. This alternative is called Life Road Prophecy, and has now been revealed through these our podcasts The Bible on Trial, and The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, May 4, 2024 at 10AM PST for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, and learn about how God has provided an alternative to the death and destruction that here-to-fore has been the only way to salvaton for the world, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today May 3, 2024 at 10AM PST for our podcast The Bible on Trial at: www.blogtalkradio.com/sot.We will also stream our pro-show time at 9:30AM, if you want to hear some of our discussion of world events that pertain to the Life Road Prophecies.See you then.
Welcome to the Spirit of Truth Ministry podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. Our program today starts at 10AM PST on April 27, 2024, at blogtalkradio.com/sot. You are welcome to listen live and call in to the podcast, or download/stream the podcast after the program concludes. What you hear on this podcast regarding the difference between the Death Road prophecies that you have been taught (in various forms) since Jesus left the earth to go back to His Father over 2,000 years ago, and what will now be the end and beginning of all things since the prophetic time-line has changed to the Life Road Prophecy of Daniel 2 and Revelation 10 are dramatic and amazing. To learn these things you must be willing to adapt you thought process to include information that has here-to-fore never been heard before. Join us today for a dynamic and thought provoking study into Truth, Justice, and the Kingdom of God!
Welcome to The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, a podcast of Spirit of Truth Ministry. This program tests what is now believed about truth and the Words of Jesus, how salvation really works, and the roll of the Kingdom of God here on earth, in the process of salvation and how to gain eternal life. Prophecy of the end of time has changed from what is taught by the Christian church because of new information found in Revelation 10, and in the prophecy of Daniel in Chapter 2. We urge you to join us today as Rick Sterling explores a new way of thinking about how to learn Truth, by exposing the lies that honest and sincere believers now hold to be true, but have proven to be lies. Join us on April 20, 2024 at 10AM PST for this exciting and rewarding study into Truth, Justice, Life Road prophecy, and the Kingdom of God, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Spirit of Truth Ministry welcomes you to our flagship podcast The Bible on Trial. Join us today, April 19, 2024 at 10AM at: www.blogtalkradio.com/sot, whee Rick and crew will continue our presentation and discussion as to why the timeline that we identify as the Death Road prophecies no longer applies to this world and what is happening right now, and has changed to the prophecies of the Life Road, where the world will not go through a Great Tribulation where Satan comes out of the spirit world to rule the world for a short time from Jerusalem, and subjugates the whole world to his whims, to a world where peace and prosperity reigns, while the New Jesrusalem comes to earth, and the people of the world can see The Righteous go into the city, and where the world will get to choose to become righteous like them, during a time of peace and prosperity, The unrighteous will still have to make a decision for life or death, but they will do it with full knowledge of what they will be giving up if they choose to remain in their current state of being.Deu 30:19 "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live."
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry this coming Saturday (Sabbath) for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, a program that tests Christianity (and other religions) against the words and teachings that jesus brought to earth from His Father, and gave to His own eyewitness discipels while He was here on earth.Join us for this podcast this coming Sabbath (Saturday) at 10AM PDT on April 13, 2024 on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The Bible on Trial is the flagship program of Spirit of Truth Ministry. This podcast originated in the mind of Rich Humpal J. D., who proposed starting a radio podcast that tested the teachings of all religions, especially Christianity, against the words and teachings that Jesus brought to earth from God (The Father), and The Holy Spirit (The Mother), so that the people of earth would have the opportunity to test the teachings of their religion against this unassailable source of Truth. People can believe whatever they want, but if they want to find truth they MUST look to a source outside of themselves, and learn to replace "their" truth with God's Truth. This is not easy, and can be very troubling to those that honestly want to find a truth that transends their own wishes and desires.The Bible on Trial takes the truths of the world and takes them into the courtroom of the Heavens to test the various beliefs of all religions against a single and absolute source for truth. Truth is singular and absolute, and is outside of the realm of "faith", because "Faith allows a person to believe a lie, without accountability". Just because someone declares that they have been sent from the true God does not me that this is true. Only if what they say is 100% the same as the words that Jesus brought to earth and taught to His own eyewitness disciples while here on earth can they claim to know the truth that will set people free from sin and death.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry this coming Friday April 12, 2024 at 10AM PDT for this exciting study into Truth, Justice, and the Kingdom of God, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The future of our world has changed. The world is no longer on the time line where we would already gone through the 'Great Tribulation', because the time for that to happen has already come and gone. If we had been on that time line the Righteous people of earth would already be in Heaven as we speak, and had this had been the case, then the people that could have been saved by gaining entry into the Kingdom of God would not have become righteous, and would even now been asleep in death waitin for their resurrection to face the Second (eternal) Death, while the Righteous would be "in Heaven", waiting for 1000 years with God, before coming back to earth and watching God pass judgement on the wicked.God, in Their mercy, had an alternate plan for saving the people of earth, and that plan is seen in the Life Road prophecies a seen in Daniel 2 and Revelation 10 (among many others places). We are now right in the middle of the execution of that 'new' plan on earth. When you listen to our Podcast today April 6, 2024 at 10AM PDT, you will hear information about these Life Road Prophecies that you will hear NO WHERE ELSE. Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The recent information that Rick has presented has changed the landscape of prophetic understanding in a way that allows for the hope that the world will not need to go through the "Great Tribulation" that is expected through the current view of End Time Prophecy. The time for the fulfillment of that Great Tribulation has come, and gone; leaving in it's wake a new understanding that rather than the Death and Destruction of the current prophetic mind set, we see a time when Satan and his minions are defeated, locked in the spirit world where they can no longer tempt the people of earth. and the earth experiences a time of Peace and Prosperity. This is a new world where the New Jerusalem comes to earth, and the undiceded of the nations can look at people going in and out of the City and be able to chose the path to righteousness without the lying interference of Satan being present in the world.This understanding is a dramatic change from what the Christian world has been taught for centuries, and will require a good amount of study and thought to come to this alternate understanding. The net effect this will have on people that believe the current understanding of End Time Prophecy will be that this new understanding is itself a lie of Satan to confuse the issue of where and WHEN we are in time. This is why the God of Truth will not leave the world in confusion for long. The world is ready for a change, and that change is almost here, 'even at the door'. Those that are prepared ahead of time with this new understanding will be able to bring reassurance to their friends, family and neighbors that the world is no longer lost, but has been found by Truth, the truth that will set them free from distress and worry, and bring them to the Kingdom of God.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today April 5, 2024 at 10AM PDT for our podcast The Bible on Trial, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Welcome to our Easter podcast of The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. We will be live today, March 30, 2024, at 10 AM PDT. Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our podcast, that will delve deeply into the Truth of the words of jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Spirit of Truth Ministry presents our Flagship podcast The Bible on Trial. This program tests the words found in the Bible to a higher standard of truth, rather than simply saying that the Bible IS the whole truth. That standard comes from inside the Bible, but is not the whole Bible from cover to cover, as most Christians believe. That Standard is the words that Jesus brought to earth directly from the Father, and gave to His own eyewitness disciplles Matthew, John (and Mark). In Matthew 5:17 .Jesus outlines the three elements of Truth found inside the Bible; the Law, the Prophets, and His own words. God has spoken through the Law, and the Prophets in the Old Testament, and these words are mostly dismissed by Born Again Christians as being unnecessary to salvation, because of what the "Apostle Paul" wrote. When we compare this Trilogy of Truth to what Paul states as truth (that he said he recieved directly from God in vision), we see a totally different system for salvation than the Salvation by Grace through Faith that Paul declares to be the only Truth a person needs to be saved. So Join us today March 29, 2024 at 10 AM PDT for our program The Bible On Trial, at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The purpose of Spirit of Truth Ministry is to bring the actual "God's Honest Truth" to sincere people that already think they have all the truth they need to achieve eternal life. We are not here to convince anyone who does not already believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and came to earth to bring salvation, that salvation comes only through that same Jesus. What we are here to do is to PROVE is that what these sincere and honest people now believe is a bald faced lie of Satan, designed to misdirect their concept of how salvation actually works from what Jesus said to His own eyewitness disciples to the words of a salvation taught by a false apostle "of Christ" that is easy, simple, and looks and feels good, but is not what Jesus taught.Doing this takes time, effort and a will to learn something different. It takes a humble spirit that realizes that they don't know what they don't know, and that they still willing to learn from the Master the words that Jesus brought to earth from the Father.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Saturday (Sabbath), March23, 2024 at 10AM PDT for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where you will learn the Truth from the very words of Jesus, that will change your life, here on earth and in the world soon to come: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Friday March 22, 2024, at 10AM PDT for our flagship program The Bible on Trial. This podcast details how prophecy has changed from the Death Road events as seen in Revelation 13 and on, to the Life Road prophecies seen in Daniel 2 and Revelation 10, that show that the world will not have to go through the horror of a Great Tribulation, but will see the coming or the King of the Kingdom of God coming to earth and bringing the New Jerusalem with Him BEFORE the people of the world make their final decision as to which Kingdom they will choose to belong. These Life Road prophecies give a completely new meaning to how people will be allowed to choose their eternal destiny, without the coersion of the pain of the time of trouble such as never was.You can access our podcast by calling (646) 716-8390, or (877) 903-3193, or going to our Blog Talk Radio web page at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Spirit of Truth Ministry is delighted to present the podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, a program that tests the current concepts of religion, politics, science and history against the words and teachings that Jesus (himself) brought to this earth from the Father (Almighty God). Join us in researching and then learning the actual Truth of these things in order to be better equipped to understand where and when we are in time, and what we must all know and do to be able to enter the Kingdom of God - "Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven".To listen to our podcast, please join us today, March 15, 2024 at 10AM PDT by calling our guest call in number (646) 716-8390, our toll free number, (877) 903-3193, or listen on line clicking on the following box: blogtalkradio.com.
Spirit of Truth Ministry is delighted to present the podcast he Bible on Trial, our flagship program that tests the current concepts of religion, politics, science and history against the words and teachings that Jesus (himself) brought to this earth from the Father (Almighty God). Join us in researching and then learning the actual Truth of these things in order to be better equipped to understand where and when we are in time, and what we must all know and do to be able to enter the Kingdom of God - "Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven". To listen to our podcast, please join us today, March 15, 2024 at 10AM PDT by calling our guest call in number (646) 716-8390, our toll free number, (877) 903-3193, or listen on line at; blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Spirit of Truth Ministry presents The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on March 9, 2024, at 10AM PSt. Join us for a dynamic and unique presentation that includes current events, Bible prophecy, history, religion, and most important, Truth: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Crazy~How can you have peace in your heart during a time such as this? When you hear a world leader threaten the people for whom he is responsible with dire consequences if they don't toe the line he has drawn in the sand, you know that the world has gone crazy. Given what we have seen last night from the floor of the Senate, it is evident that our country (USA) is now more politically (and in every other way) more divided than it has ever been. Half of the people in that room were on their feet in support of a 'president' that single handedly threatened to change the entire political landscape of the country from being able to choose our own destiny to choosing to be under the thumb of a dictatorial system where if you don't toe the line you will be crushed. all in the name of 'Democracy'.But take heart my friends; this is evidence that we are in the very last days of the rule of Satan on this earth. The realization that he (Satan) has lost not only the final battle, but the entire wark, has made him furious, and he and his servants will do anything, and say anything to try to maintain a level of control over the people of the earth that they have already permanently lost.Stay tunes to the Spirit of Truth Ministry's podcasts each Friday and Saturday, where Rick and staff show that where and when we are in time is right where we need to be. Join us today March 8, 2024 at 10AM PST for our podcast The Bible on Trial, to learn more about how to prepare yourself for the return of the King of the Kingdom of God to this earth, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
"Truth is singular and absolute." This means that there are no "shades of grey" with respect to the operation of truth in both the spiritual and physical world. This is a difficult concept to apply in everyday life, because we as a society have become inurred to the facts that support this concept; many don't believe these facts because we have been fed lies about the concept of Truth, that make us believe that it a purely personal issue. Truth is NOT personal, it is ubiquitous in that it doesn't care if you believe it or not, it simply is what it is! Math, the Scientific Method, biology of the sexes, light as both particle and wave form, the planets as spheres, ad infinitum, demonstrate every day that people can believe whatever they want, and it doesn't change the application of truth in the world. The same is true when dealing with the spiritual instructions found in the Bible. Both Truth and Lies exist inside the Bible, ref, Matt. 13:24-30, The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds.Christians must believe that the Bible is the inerrant, inspired word of God from cover to cover, because to not do so opens the way for a person to have to DECIDE what is true and what isn't. This is an intollerable situation for Christians, because they want a 'simple faith' that says that they are saved in spite of their sin, even though Jesus never taught that concept. The Truth of what Jesus said to His own eyewitness disciples is supplanted by the words of an 'apostle' to the Gentiles that has changed everything about salvation and eternal life. Having to choose to believe the words of Jesus over any other words makes this 'other' salvation impossible. You can find Truth ONLY in the Law, the Prophets, and the words of Jesus. When you learn THOSE words and compare everthing else to them the LIES taught as Truth are revealed in stark relief.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today March 1,2024 at 10AM PST for our podcast The Bible on Trial, where you will learn how Salvation works, according the the words of Jesus, and where we are in time in relation to the Life Road Prophecies, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Yesterday there were wide spread internet and cellular outages across the nation, and even throughout the world. Spirit of Truth Ministry was caught up in this outage, in that the internet side worked well, but contact by cellular service did not work. Was this planned, or was this simply the result of, say, a solar flare? No one knows. We do know that 'things' are starting to "pop" with respect to issues in the financial and political worlds, and are also being generated in the tech world, as well. Spirit of Truth Ministry is 'on top' of these issues, as you hear on a weekly basis on our podcasts. Spiritual identities in the this world are changing. People recognise that what we are as a society is going to have to change radically if we as a world are going to move to higher level of understanding of Truth. Listen today, February 24, 2024 at 10AM PST to our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where you will be able to get up to speed in how to understand how to find the Truth through the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Spirit of Truth Ministry invites you to join us for our podcast The Bible on Trial, today February 23, 2024 at 10AM PDT. This program tests the information presented as truth by the Christian church as to how salvation is accomplished against the words and teachings that Jesus gave to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth. These data sets ARE NOT the same. Click on the link to join us for this dynamic and unusual podcast to find out what you have been missing in your search for truth: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today February 17, 2024 at 10AM PST for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. On this podcast you will learn the difference between what Jesus taught to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth, and what the Christian church teaches as the truth about salvation, prophecy, and the Kingdom of Heaven. The truth of these issues are NOT the same, and it is incumbant upon everyone that seeks the Kingdom of God to know that difference. Knowing what Jesus said about these things can quite literally save your life for eternity. You can find our podcast at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Amen~My uncle, Paul Campbell, was truly a Renaissance man. He was a business man, a Professor of Semantics in collage, a property investor, vocal coach, and a church Pastor, among many other things. At family dinners after church I loved to sit down in the living room at my house and listen to the discussions between the 'adults' over topics that were 'verboten' at the dinner table, most notably poltics and religion. Everyone was invited including the young people, although most of the time the kids would go outside to play. On the times that I did attend these discussion the one thing that I was most impressed with was the fact that most times these discussions were temperate in nature, where opinions could expressed without rancor. My have times changed.I distinctly remember one such occasion when the discussion revolved aroound the sermon that Uncle Paul had preached that day, about prayer. I was too young to be fully aware of what he had said in this sermon, as my siblings (two boys and two girks in total) and I were corraled by our parents in our regular pew and kept busy with coloring books and children's stories in the "Little Friend". But I do remember one thing that Uncle Paul said that has stuck with me ever after, and that I discussed with him later, when I started taking voice lessons from him. He said that prayer must be active, not passive, and when you finish a prayer with the word "Amen" you are actually making a wish, and then moving toward your wish. Amen is an active verb, not passive.Our lives in this modern era are complicated with a myriad of issues that can distract us from accomplishing the things that need to be important to us, such as finding Truth. When we pray and say "Amen", and than don't actively move toward that which we prayed, then we have squandered and opportunity to allow God to move us toward a Truth that is singular and absolute.
Spirit of Truth Ministry presents our signature podcast The Revelation of jesus with Rick Sterling, in a live broadcast today, February 10, 2024 at 10AM PST, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. You can also download any of our past 1,547 programs by going to that same web site and clicking on the Episodes tab. Understanding Time and Timing is vital to understanding where and when our world is located in Prophecy! Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for a stimulating and provocating study into Truth, Justice and the Kingdom of God!
Spirit of Truth Ministry presents our podcast The Bible on Trial, a study in detail about Life Road Prophecy, Salvation (how it really works), and how to know for sure if you have entered the Kingdom of God. Join us at 10AM PST on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The world is about to change, and not just a little bit. The political, monitary, social, and spiritual systems of the world are just about ready to move from the status quo to a new and better system where Satan will no longer control the operational identity of governments and peoples.Those of you that listen regularly to the Spirit of Truth Ministry podcasts will already know that the world is moving toward a different system of governance because the people are now learning that they have been decieved by the 'powers-that-be', and are no longer willing to put up with the way things have been done for centuries.Currencies, political control of the masses, religions, and every other aspect of life here on earth are just about to be changed through different types of thought and action, financial, economic and spiritual truths will open the world to a new birth of freedom and opportunity not seen on earth since the beginning. Our podcasts will help you prepare for these changes.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today February 3, 2024 at 10AM PDT for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The Storm is Almost Over~The West Coast, especially Sourthern California, is experiencing two major storms, enhanced by the Pinapple Express, that is bringing heavy moisture from the South via an atmospheric river, that combined with storms from the North will dump as much as 6 inches of rain over a wide area, and will include snow in our local mountains above 5,000 feet. The weather reporters are warning of wide spread flooding in our foothills and burn areas. The East coast, and the mid-West have already been inundated with heavy weather, and now it is our turn. Weather syetems such as these are infrequent here in SoCal, but happen often enough that residents must take special care in preparing for the water surge, both along the coasts, and in our foothill and mountain areas. As a side note, Southern California drivers are notoriously bad at driving in wet and snow conditions, and it is better to just stay home, rather than risk life and limb on the roads.The predicted 'Storms' of prophecies in Revelation that describe death and destruction in a world wide holocost of blood and mayhem are still being looked for by millions of Christians, that believe that the world is heading for a Time of Trouble such as has never been in the history of the world. They speak of a time when the 'faithful' are being killed right and left for their 'faith', and where Satan will rule the world openly and demand that eveyone take 'the mark' as a way to avoid being killed.These sincere people don't realize that the time for this to occur has already come, and gone, and will NEVER happen. If you have been listening to our programs you already know this, and you know why. If you know the Truth, you will have not reason to worry about the outcome of events that are even now taking place. Stay with us for the next few weeks as we continue to reveal the Truth about the Life Road prophecies.
Hope vs. Opportunity~"I hope things get better for you." This type of expression is often used to try to mitigate or soften the responce of a family member or friend during a particuarly tough time in their lives. We have all heard this sentiment from our own friends or family when bad things have happened to us that cause us to loose hope. My wife and I just went through a very tough time in having to put a beloved family pet to sleep. Maggie, our min-pin, was mostly blind, half deaf, had conjestive heart failure, and collapsing trachea, a condition that makes breathing very difficult particularly for small dogs. The treatment at the end finally became less and less effective, until we had to make the hard decision to take her to the Humane Society and put her down. Hoping for a positive resolution became counter-productive, and we had to say goodby to our precious pet.Yet in every difficult problem come with it an opportunity to do the right thing, take the hard road, and accomplish for ourselves and others something that has lasting benefit. Maggie had a wonderful last week of her life. She was not yet in pain, and it was our responsibility to see to it that she did not have any suffering. This was an opportunity to do the right thing for the right reasons, and was in the end a benefit to our dog, and to us.When faced with an opportunity to look at what you believe to be true about salvation and eternal life to assess whether that belief is based in fact, or not, is always a 'hard thing'. It requires a self-honesty that goes far beyond just living a 'good' life, to finding out whether what you believe is actually true, or not. Hope plays no part in the process of finding Truth. Truth is singular and absolute, and is what you need to KNOW whether you are in the Kingdom of God, and have gained eternal life. Choose life by choosing Truth!
Spirit of Truth Ministry offers a unique and xompelling view of how Truth works, not only in the spiritual sense, where our eternal reward is based on the knowledge, understanding and actions of keeping the commandments of God, and holding to the testimony of Jesus (Rev.12:17), but also that Jesus said, "Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done." (Rev 22:12).For most, the idea that Jesus is actually "Coming qiuicky" is not a pressing issue, because He has been "Coming Quickly" for over 2,000 years. What IS a pressing issue is that He is bringing His reward with Him, and that reward is based on the actions and activity of what that individual has done. Oh My God, that means "Works". We have been taught that the ideas of working for your eternal life by learning and practicing the Truth is no longer part of the plan, because "Salvation by faith through Grace" has taken over from having to DO ANYTHING in order to achieve salvation. If that concept is true (according to Paul) then Jesus was a liar when He brought the message of the Truth from God the Father to earth, and gave that Truth to His own eyewitness disciples.Truth has become more difficult to descipher in the spiritual realm because the Christian Church has taught lies instead of the Truth about how salvation and eternal life work.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, January 26, 2024 at 10AM PST for our podcast The Bible on Trial, where Rick Sterling and crew will make clear the truth of how a person can enter the Kingdom of God, and be saved. Link to our program: Blogtalkradio.com/sot.
We welcome you to Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for out program The Revelation of Jesus, today January 20, 2024 at 10AM PST. where Rick will continue with the presentation that began yesterday, and will be concluded today. Go to: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Two Roads CONVERGED in a Yellow Wood . . .Robert Frost's poem about Two Roads is one of the great poems of the 20th Century. The word that I subsituted was DIVEREGED. The prophetic roads of which Rick Sterling has been speaking low these past three years of so are the Death Road and Life Road prophetic roads that are detailed in the end time prophecies of Daniel and Revelation.These two roads have been moving along side by side since God gave them to Daniel and John. One is a path of death and destruction where God does NOT have a Kingdom on earth that does battle with Satan, so Satan has his way with the world during the 7 Trumpets, and then culminates in the punishments of the 7 Bowls of Wrath, after which the Kingdom of God is reestablished on earth. The other road is a Life Road, where God brings forth on the earth a Faithful and Wise Bondservant, that in the feeding of his fellow servants brings forth the Kingdom of God on the earth, whereby the events of the Death Road do not occur, and the Kingdom of God is established and Satan is defeated without the world having to go throught the pain an suffering of the other path.Even though there is strife, war, and political upheaval in this world, these things are NOT the events that are listed in Revelation 13 and on, because those events would have alread occurred on the other (Death Road) time line, and will now never occur.The reason for this is simple, and it is because God right now, today, HAS a Kingdom of this earth, and THAT Kingdom (Little Stone) will strike the Image (Satan's kingdom on the earth) at it's feet, and utterly destroy that Kingdom forever, and this Kingdom of God will grow to fill the whole earth (Daniel 2).Join Spirit of Truth Ministry as we learn what it means to join and be IN this Kingdom of God, by listening to our program The Bible on Trial, today January 19, 2024 at 10AM PST, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today January 13, 2024 at 10AM PST for our 30th Anniversary podcast. We will go 'back in time' to recall our beginnings, our present and our future in the Kingdom of God!Our Blog Talk Radio station: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Where has the time gone?Thrity years ago Rick Sterling started a church Bible study class, that met in the kitchen of our church, because every other available space was already occupied. Because of his independent study Rick thought that he would have enough new material (that was totally different than what was being taught you our church at the time) to last maybe three to six months, and then he would be done. The reception of the church leadership to this new class was benign at first. But because of the quality of the content, the class grew until the kitchen was full to overflowing with people that had initially come just to 'test the waters', and stayed because they were being fed spiritual food that was not only different than what was being presented at the church at large, but was a totally different way of looking at how Scripture could (and should) be understood, in light of the words that Jesus spoke, as opposed to what others in the Bible said was truth.The interviening years have been filled with both abject rejection of this content by the church leadership, the very people that say that have all the truth 'fit to print'; and acceptance by by people that came to the class with open minds and hearts, and learned a "Truth" that moved counter to what was being taught from the pulpit.Rick, and members of the different kind of Sabbath-school class, were eventually asked to leave, and no longer hold the class on church property, because what was being taught in the class was showing that what was being taught at church by the pastors and lay leaders was NOT the Truth, after all.Thirty years later this class is now named Spirit of Truth Ministry, with weekly podcasts The Bible on Trial, and The Revelation of Jesus, that is heard on Blog Talk Radio all over the world.
Spirit of Truth Ministry presents The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling; a program that tests what passes for truth in the world against the Words and Teachings of Jesus, the Son of God. Not all that sounds like truth actually IS truth. There has to be a standard against which all truth can be measured. The standard that is the most reliable, provable, and incontrivertable comes from the words that Jesus brought from His Father (God Almighty), that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples, that wrote it down, and can be found in the Bible. Remember, not all of the words in the Bible are true; some are lies. We must deduce which are which, and that is the 'why' and the 'wherefore' of this program.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, January 6, 2024 at 10AM PST, to learn how to learn the Truth about what is happening in the world, and how Truth can be found, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Today is January 5. 2024, and 'Lord willing, and the creek don't rise' we will be able to do a podcast here on Blog Talk Radio. It has been weeks since we have been able to have a live podcast, and I am anticipating that today will be the day we are able to get back 'on air'.With the new year comes a different mind set, where those of us that have been keeping up with World News, especially financial news, are seeing an implosion in the money supplies of the the world of fiat currency, and a move to "sound money" that is commodity backed (Gold, Silver, crude oil, etc.). A much anticipated currency reset is just about to happen, and yet the 'powers-that-be' have been propping the old system up by pumping worthless currencies into the markets, in hopes of staving off the inevitable collapse of these fiat currencies throughout the world.And not only is there going to be a "gold standard" for currency in this world, but there is already a "gold standard" for Truth that we here at Spirit of Truth Ministry have been talking about for years. This Standard is comprised of the Words of God that Jesus brought to this earth from the Father (God Almighty), and through the Holy Spirit (Mother) we learn this truth that allows us to become members of the Kingdom of God. Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today for our podcast The Bible on Trial, at 10AM PST, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
If the truth makes you uncomfortable don't blame the Truth . . . blame the lie that made you comfortable!A reminder of our podcast schedule for the remainder of this year: December 15 (today) will be live; December 22 abd 23 will be "Best Of" programs; December 29 and 30 will be our last live podcasts for the year 2023.We hope you will join Spirit of Truth Ministry in these 'wrap up' podcasts, in which we will go over some of the key elements of what we have ;earned and discussed during the year 2023. We are living in momentous times, and our desire is that you be prepared for the HUGE events that are occuring in the world, in preparation for the coming of the King of Truth to His Kingdom of Truth, The Kingdom of God.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, December16, 2023 at 10AM PST, for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The podcast today is a presentation of The Revelation of Jesus from November 7, 2020, and is a follow on program from the podcast given yesterday, that was presented the week before the Presidential election of November 2020. Today we will listen to what Rick and company had to say about the outcome of that election, and how it fits into the concept of being in a Life Road time line, rather than a Death Road prophetic time line.We hope and pray that you will be motivatied to both listen and study these issuse, such that you will have less fear about what is to come upon the world in the next little time.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today December 9, 2023 at 10AM PST for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling; on blogtalkradio.com/sot.
'Tis the Season!Christmas is a busy time for all of us, what with family commitments, Christmas concert performances (for those of us that are musicians), shopping, and all sorts of other things. This weekend, starting today Friday December 8, 2023, me and my wife and 60 of our friends (not including the orchestra) are sre performing three concerts at three different venues over a three day period. This requires a LOT of energy that has to be carefully expended such that we don't have enough to complete the concert cycle. The older we get the more difficult this is to accomplish.Also, Rick has other seasonal commitments this weekend, staring today, that make it impossible for us to do a live podcast either today or tomorrow. Our Holiday schedule is as follows:"Best Of" programs today December 8, and tomorrow December 9, 2023.LIVE podcasts on December 15 and 16, 2023.Two more "Best Of" podcasts on December 21 and 22, 2023, because of the close proximity of these days to Christmas Day..Our Podcasts for today and tomorrow are from October 30 and 31. 2020.Thank for your understanding. We pray you will be blest by listening again to these programs that show that there is more to the prophecies of the End than first meet the eye.
What Do You Expect, Root Beer?~When I was a boy I was, like most boys of my era, a touch wild. Now most of the time I was what was called (in the vernacular of the time) a "Good Boy". My parents reared me as a Christian; I was regularly taken to Sabbath School (the Sunday School of Adventism(), then church, then a family dinner or church pot luck lunch, and the a walk with my siblings and my Dad with the dogs going "Up the Road-a" into the wilderness (truly-there were deer, cougar and bear) behind our house in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains.And as with any boy of the time (and indeed all times) I would get the occasional cut or scrape, as I tested my skills against reality. My father was a Physician, so when I got said cut or scrape I would run to dad (or mom, if dad was at the hospital) for emergency care.One day after playing "roll down the hill into the bushes", I experienced a fairly large gash in my scalp, that bled copiously, due to the vascular nature of the scalp. I'm certain this this event had nothing to do with my current follically challenged hair line.I ran inside to show my mother my wound that was bleeding all over my hand and shirt. She called my dad to ask if she should bring me to the Emergency Room at the hosptial. In his normal country doctor voice he told her "NO", don't bring him to the hospital, just put an ice pack in a hand towel, and put pressure on the wound, and that he would be home after work to take care of it. That was in 3 hours.When he got home he camd me and I said, "Dad, I'm bleeding"!" He chuckled and said in his country doctor voice, "What do you expect, root beer?" That day I learned about actions and penalties. Soon the world will be experiencing this same thing in preparation for the Kingdom Coming to earth. We are preparing for that Coming, soon!
Christmas is Coming~One of the little things I love about the Christmas season is the chocolate Advent Calendar. I buy this calendar every year at George's German Market. It is a picture calendar with numbers from 1 to 25, that are on little doors that you open starting on December 1, and eat a piece of chocolate that has shapes of Christmas themed things, such as a reindeer, Santa, Christmas tree, and such; one piece of chocolate for each day until Christmas day. Since my grandson was born I buy three of these calendars; one for each of my children and their families, and one for my wife and I to share (each of us opening a door on alternate days).Logan, my grandson LOVES chocolate. He comes over to our house on work days (after we pick him up from day care), and we entertain him until either his mom (my daughter) or his dad come to pick him up after work. Four days ago we had 'hidden' a calendar to give to them, in a place we thought would be out of the sight of Logan. However, just before they were about to leave for home Logan spotted the Advent Calendar, knew exactly what it was, picked it up and said, "chocolate". It was all we could do to disuade him from tearing into the packaging right then. Em told us later that they let him open day day one (four days early), and would get another on to have enough days to get to Christmas. Logan was VERY excited to say the least.Where does our excitement for this season lay? In the chocolate of an Advent Calendar, or in something else? Yes, we all know Jesus was not born at Christmas, yet we can take time during this season to reflect on what Jesus came to do on earth. He came NOT to save us 'in' our sins. The True Christmas Story is that Jesus came to "Testify to the Truth" about how to enter the Kingdom of God, and thereby allow us access to the payment He made for that Kingdom.Now THAT is exciting!
Watching - Looking - Seeing~ "What you see is what you get"! This is a particularly understated euphemism with a more harsh meaning that goes right along with another more direct statement of fact, "You don't want to know the Truth".We live in a world that bombards us with copious amounts of information on a constant basis. There is so much information demanding our attention that many times during a particularly busy day we simply check out, and for a time we no longer have the capacity to understand what we have just heard or seen.We "watch" a TV show, but at the end we can sometimes don't remember what it was all about. That is because we have not been drawn sufficiently into the plot line, and we remain outside observers that don't have a stake in the outcome.Other time we "look" at a situation and only see a portion of what is going on, simply because our minds are somewhere else for that brief moment. Does anyome ever see a the cause of a car accident in real time? No. What we see is the result of that precipitating event and extrapolate backward in order to justfy what we just saw. This is why the investiaging authorities don't rely heavily on 'eyewitness' testimoy, because eyewitnesses do not give reliable testimony as to what they saw, because they weren't looking in the right direction when the accident occurred."Seeing is Believing"! The act of seeing something means that you were looking directly at an event when it happened , and that it was so important to you that you committed the viewing and hearing of it to memory the moment that it occured. This is why we at Spirit of Truth Ministry use only the testimony of the eyewitness disciples that spent time with Jesus when He was here on earht in the flesh, as the source for the Truth as to what was said by Jesus during His time on earth. John 18:36-37.
With the world in turmoil it seems that peace is a thing of the past. This is why, here in America, we still celebrate a hoiday that has nothing to do with shopping for gifts, trying to decide how much we can afford this year in order to try to make family and friends happy. We celebrate a time of 'gathering together' to have a special (and in our family all home prepared) meal with a Heritage Turkey (not a white commercial bred tasteless birds), fresh made rolls, Oma made cranberry sauce, Opa made apple and pumpkin pies, and a host of other culinary gifts prepared by our family that shows the care and love that we have for one another.For one whole day we left the cares and concerns of the world behind, and we simply together; in the kitchen, and around the dinner table, where we laughed and talked, and each drank our chosen libation to our family and friend throughout the world that were not in attendance. This was a remarkable gift of time and love that I can see more of as we move into a much brighter future than that which we have been presented with in years past.Please let the program we re-broadcast today remind you of the good things to come, and that you can count on God to keep His/Their promises seen in prophecy that is up until now unseen and unlooked for.Happy 'day after' Thanksgiving to all of our listeners everywhere.Signed,Your Friends a Spirit of Truth Ministry
Silent Truth~There is a beautiful choral piece that I have sung in several concerts (Music- Kim Andre Arnessen) that express the feelings of people that have suffered great sadness due to great loss. The lyrics are from a World War I prayer (Anonymous 20th C), that goes like this:I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining.I believe in love when I feel it not.I believe in God even when He (God) is silent.The world is going through a time of turmoil right now, just as it has for centuries. The upheaval can be overwhelming at ttimes, especially when we experience the direct loss of a loved one because of that upheval. This becomes personal when death touches someone close to you. Unrequited Love is when a person is unable to return to you the love you have given to them over a period of time. They are now gone, and the love which you have given them over the years has (now) no where to go, no one to recieve it, no path for it to return to the sender. We grieve because of the painful reminder that the passing of a wife or husband, son or daughter, friend or even a beloved pet, takes away the relationship that once was so important, and becomes even more important because that loved one is gone.This brings the Big Picture of history, present and future events, and even prophecy into focus, because we all want our loved ones to be with us in the Earth Made New. What do we do, and what to we say to those that we love that have no identity in Truth beyond their immediate future, that live life only in the present? Uncertainty creates fear, and "perfect love casts out fear." (1John 4:18). Perfect love is the Truth. TRUTH is the opposite of uncertainty. The more we know Truth the more certain we become about outcomes, and fear of the future goes away. So do not fear telling those you love the Truth.
Death Always Comes as a Surprise~Last week I told you about my cousin Gordon who called to tell me that he has pancreatic cancer, and only has a short time to live. This week, I am sad to say, that he died at 3:08 AM this morning (November 16, 2023). This will be 'yesterday' if you are reading this tomorrow.My wife and I knew from his description of how he was feeling that there was not much time left for him on this earth. As it turns out, there was very little time left. His death has hit me hard, knowing him as well as I did in our younger years, and not having much direct contact in the intervening years. Cheryl, his wife of 50 years, texted us this afternoon to tell us the sad news.I am mentioning this for a reason. If the world does not change then all of us will eventually face what Gordon just faced; that is, death that comes slowly, slowly, slowly, then quickly. And as it happens, and even though I have not experience death for myself, the person dying never knows the exact moment that they have died; they simply change states.Why is this important? It seem (as a rule) that younger people that know that death is coming throughout their lives, but pay that knowledge little attention, being busy with life. Yet as they get older they thing about death with some expectation of being able to "cheat it", either through medical science, or if they are persuaded, by the expectation of Jesus coming again, to take them to heaven.But WHAT IF His coming in the clouds of Glory is not how our existence on this earth changes state? What if there is another road in prophey, a Life Road that doesn't require the death and destruction of most of the people on earth to accomplish? What will happen when the people of earth realize that everything has changed, and they DID NOT DIE?When they see the New Jerusalem coming down from Heaven to earth they will know the truth and not be surprised.
Decision Point~ Everyone, everyday, has a decision point that affects how you spend the rest of the day. For example, should I get gas now, or later? So if you get gas now you might be paying more for it than you would if you waited until you were able to get to a station with a lower price. On the other hand, if you don't get it now maybe you will run out of gas before you get to the lower price gas station, and then the problems compound. Every decision point is a defining point in time, whether you acknowledge it openly or not. Some decisions are more important than others, yet all have the effect of either making life easier or more difficult. How you decide about WHAT you decide is critical to the pattern your life will take both today and in the future. This is especially true for things inside of our spiritual natures. The decisions about how we believe about what we believe is more often than not not given the quality of care that we give to the more mundane aspects of our lives, like buying gasoline for the car. People have become immune to the necessity of carefully concidering these spiritual decision points as being worth the conciderable effort to process. We get so innured to the encumbrances of life in the physical that making a choice concerning our spiritual natures slips by the wayside, until it is too late to make the changes necessary to accomplish the growth and learning that is necessary for us to commit the the outcome, one way or the other. Living by Faith is easy, because faith requires not commitment to a truth that is singular and absolute. "Faith allows a person to believe a lie AS IF it is the truth, without accountability!" (Rick Sterling). The decision ot KNOW the God you worship, is the most critical decision point in life. Don't leave this decision until it is too late.
The Heart of the Matter~My cousin is dying! He called the other day, and gave my wife and I the news that he is dying of pancreatic cancer and has but a little while to live. To me, this is and unmitigated disaster, because he has been a stalwart force in my life since we were children, and the thought of him dying is abhorrent to me. Yet there it is! He and his wife are facing a reality that is not at all what they imagined, when they were married more than 50 years ago.The reason that I am upset is that years ago we became estranged because in my enthusiasm for the truth I mailed him a copy of our newly published book The Spirit of the Church (Tate Pub. 2007), by Rick Sterling and Dennis Neufeld. Thinking in my innocense that this would be something he would be interested in reading it simply because I was one of the authors. It turns out I was wrong in that innocense. He called me and told me that he had only read two chapters of the book, and threw it away as a complete heresy to the Christian Church, and never wanted to talk about it again. I was willing to let this go, even though I was disappointed that he had not read enought of the book to understand the context. We then gradually grew apart, through both physical distance, and an emotional and spiritual rift that clouded our relationship for years.His calling me to tell me his plight brought to my mind how what Jesus said about the truth being a two-edged sword is truth. Both of us could have reached out sooner, but I am glad he called, because we still have a little time to close the gap, and renew our friendship.Truth is the Heart of the Matter. Speaking truth has and will continue to separate us one from another. Yet we must still love those that reject truth, knowing that they may not be rejecting us at the same time. We won't know the ultimale outcome until all is accomplished.
Is Today the Day?No one, and I mean NO ONE knows FOR SURE when the big events will occur that will reshape the landscape of this world back into the way God founded it so long ago. Yet there are 'tells' that show us where we are in time, and how the conditions in the world reflect that location as NOT being what we have been taught they would be for at least 2,000 years. If you have listened for any length of time to these podcasts (since August 2021) you will have a good idea that the Time Line of the End that is given in Revelation 13 and on, and even in the words that Jesus spoke while He was here on earth to His own Disciples as too what the condition the world and His Kindom would be in at the very end of time have changed. We are NOT now headed for a Time of Trouble that was spoken of in the Death and Distruction prophecies of the end, because the time for the fulfillment of those prophecies has come and gone. What we are left with are the prophecies of the Life Road that are seen in Revelation 10 and Daniel 2, prophecies that are right now leading us to a new world of peace and prosperity the likes of which have not been seen on earth since Eden.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today at 10AM PDT for our podcast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where Rick will continue the process of learning the Truth about where we are in time, and what we must do to be prepared for that Great Day when the New Jerusalem comes to earth, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our continuing study into the shift from the Death Road prophecies seen in Rev. 13, to the prophecy in Revelation 10 of the Seven Thunders, that has put the world on the Life Road. You will hear about the signs of the end, both seen and unseen in the United States and the world, that portend the shift between our present distress to a world of peace an prosperity the likes of which have only been in our collective dreams.Our podcast The Bible on Trial will air today at 10AM PDT, and will also be available for download after our show ends, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. Join Rick Sterling and the Spirit of Truth Ministry reasearch team for another thought provoking hour of the revealing of the plans God has already put in place for the transformation of this world into the bright future of the next.
The Great City~A central figure in the End Time Prophecy of Revelation is a city that is termed "The Great City Babylon"! It has been common usage in the Prophetic Interpretation biz that this city is Rome. It is convenient in Christian circles to lay the blame for the woes that occur during the time of the End at the feet of the Pope and the Papacy, because of the antipathy that arose during the Reformation between the Mother Church and the Protestant movement that came out of her. What If there is a plausable and different undertanding as to who and what is meant by this Great City that would change and explain everything about the identity of this Great City Babylon? On yesterday's podcast Rick defined what is described in Revelation 18 as the Great City, and it is NOT Rome. What if we look carefully at what is going on in the Middle East right now, and can find a different understanding that explains what is happening, and why? Would this different interpretation of Prophecy change how we view End Time Events, such that we could see right where and when we are in the different prophetic time line in which we find ourselves?Join Rick Sterling and the Spirit of Truth Minstry team in uncovering the truth about how prophecy fits what we are seeing in our world today, by listening to our podcast today, October 28, 2023 at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Scary~We are coming up on Halloween, which is supposed to be the scariest and most fun time of the year for the kids. Ghosts, Goblins, Wizards and Witches (aka Harry Potter), and all manner of bumps in the night are on tap next Tuesday, October 31, and even my grandson (3 1/2 years) already has his Spiderman costume ready to go. Yet as parents (and grand parents) we try to keep it light and fun, and not really scary for the kids, because what is going on in the world right now would scare them silly, if they knew (or cared) about what was really going on 'out there'!Even the adults I speak with everyday at work are VERY nervous about what is going on both inside our country and out, because those that are Christian still see events that they believe to be connected with the Great Tribulation of Revelation beginning to happen in the Middle East, and say things such as, "I sure hope that God is in control of all this!" If they only knew.And THAT is why Spirit of Truth Ministry was put in existence almost 30 years ago, for such a time as this?What we have been showing, and explaining to our audience each week is so totally different from what the Chirstian church believes as a function of their views of prophecy and the 'end of the world' that there is no direct corelation between us.We now understand that there will be NO Great Tribulation, and the world will not end in a World War 3 nuclear holocost. We are showing that what prophecy really indicates is that we are coming to a time of Peace and Prosperity that has yet never been seen on earth since Eden. Not learning this truth BEFORE you neet it . . . now THAT really would be scary!Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Friday October 27, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program The Bible on Trial, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Interruptions~Occasionally life throws 'little' interruptions in the flow of things that can pause or even derail our cherished plans. How we handle these unlooked for events can tell us a great deal about where we are in our development as a person, and where we are in our walk along that winding path to the Kingdom of God.These interruptions are almost always uncomfortable, and can cause anxiousness and even pain and heartache. This is not to day that there are never good interruptions, like getting and actual letter in the mail from a long time friend, or an unexpected bonus in our pay check. Yet often these interruptions that "plague" our lives are also those things that challenge us to become better people, more resillient and capable, because we are challenged in ways that help us grow closer to the ideal of Truth that God wants us be in order to be a blessing to His Kingdom.Join us today for another episode of The Revelation of Jesus, that will help us to become more atuned to the processes that will bring us closer to the Truth that God needs us to know to be of greater service to Him/Them, and to those around us that are also seeking the Kingdom of God, and the Righteousness that God wants all of us to experience.This podcast will be 'on air' today October 21, 2023 at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today Friday, October 20, 2023, at 10AM PDT for our flagship podcast The Bible on Trial. This program expands the boundries of Truth in the spiritual realm, using the words of Jesus that He brought to earth from His Father, gave them to His own eyewitness disciples, Matthew and John (cofirmed by Mark), These words were put it in a place where people can access those words (the Bible), and gave those that seek the truth the opportunity to find them, and decide for themselves whether what Jesus said is the actual 'God's honest' truth. Note: The words of Jesus are located in the Bible, but so are the words of others that claim that they recieved His words throught vision or dreams, and not in person. Those words are lies, and cannot be trusted as truth, yet because they were included in the Bible many people believe that they are truth just as are His own words, when they are not. It is up to you to compare and decide what is true, and what is not. The Bible on Trial will aid you in this process.Our podcast is presented live, and also available as a podcast on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality." Rev. 14:8.In today's program Rick will be touching on how the end time prophecies concerning Jerusalem are affected by the current crisis in the Middle East. On the podcast yesterday Rick set up the reasons that show why the future history of the world will be one on Peace and Prosperity through the Life Road prophecies, even though what we see in the news looks like the world is going through the Death Road prophecies.What does prophecy say about Babylon the Great, and what happens to the world when that Great City falls? Is Jerusalem the Babylon of prophecy, and if so what will be the outcome of these things?Don't miss this exciting presentation that will define exactly where we as a world now find ourselves, even though it looks like the world is spinning into oblivion. Will we actually come out the other side of this trouble and see the New Jesrusalem come down out of the Heavens, and be set up as the new capital city of the Kingdom of God on earth?Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for out program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, today October 14, 2023 at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today Friday, October 13, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program The Bible on Trial. This program shows where we are in time and in space, and proves that what we have been told about the Biblical prophecies of the end of time have changed from pain and suffering to peace and joy. The time is here. If you want to be ready to experience the things that are just ahead without fear please listen today for new information that will bring light to your spirit, and joy to your heart. Tune in at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Truth is not ubiquitous, as in "Your truth is not my truth, and my Truth is not your truth." There is only one data set of truth in every discipline of life, and learning that specific truth is the only way to master that discipline.So when you hear people speaking about multiples of gender identities and not just two, you know for sure that if they are not versed in the academics of biology, and they have been duped into believing a lie, OR they are out and out lying, with knowledge of forethought. There is no middle ground. If this is the case as a rule (and it is in the rhetorical sence) then why would you think that this is NOT the same in dealing with truth of a spiritual nature? It is easy, convenient and demonstrates sloppy and low grade thinking to believe something is true just because someone you trust says that it (whatever 'it' is) is true. Yet this what consistently happens when people go to church and listen to a sermon about LOVE, and hear that God love you so much that He would never to anything that would separate you from that unconditional love; something like hold you accountable for believing that something is true when it isn't.Yet this is exactly what is taught from pulpits in religious classrooms and by credentialed religious authority, and has been since Jesus left this earth to return to His Father. This teaching comes directly from the father of lies, who has co-opted the idea that truth is ubiquitous and personal, instead of being something that must be diligently sought, vetted, and confirmed by the words of Jesus that He gave to His eyewitness Desciples."When a person who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, they will either quit being mistaken or cease being honest".~Richard Humpal, J.D."Faith allows a person to believe a lie as if it is the truth, without accountablility."~Rick Sterling
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today Friday, October 6, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program The Bible on Trial. Spirit of Truth Ministry is dedicated to uncoveing the Truth about how Salvation actually works on behalf of the Kingdom of God (that is completeluy different than what is taught by Christian Churchea, how eternal life is generatied inside of the members of that Kingdom, and what will be happening on earth in the foreseeable future to make it possible for the Kingdom of God to fill the whole earth during a time of peace and prosperity the likes of which the world has never experienced before.Each week on both Fridays and Sabbaths (Saturday) Rick Sterling and the Spirit of Truth Ministry team get together on our Blog Talk Radio podcast in the continuing study of all thing related to the Truth about what it means to be able to enter the Kingdom of God, and the direct and accurate service of the King of that Kingdom, Jesus - The Son of God.You can find this live program at the above stated time, and our more than 1500 recorded podcasts at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Spirit of Truth Ministry welcomes you to The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on September 30, 2023 at 10 AM PDT. Today we will present a Best Of program from October 30, 2020. You can listen to this program on: blobtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today September 30, 2023 for The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, This is a Best Of program from the past, at 10 AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Today Spirit of Truth Ministry weill present a Best Of program October 31, 2020. This is one of our most popular programs of the past several years, and we hope you will be blessed by listening to this presentation again. Join us at: blogtalkradio.com/sot to listen.
Spirit of Truth Ministry has two programs on Blog Talk Radio that are devoted to the study and practice of the Truth in our current world. We are in the time of the end, but not 'the end' that we have been taught by our religious back grounds and systems. As you listen to our programs The Bible on Trial and The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling you will come to an alternate understanding as tow where we are in time, but also when we are in a changed prophetic time line. You will learn that we are no longer in a timeline wherein there will be a Great Tribulation, and indeed a "Mark of the Beast". You will see that the world is not headed for Death and Destruction as seen through the Death Road Prophecies of much of Revelation, but we are inside of a new set of prophecies which Rick Sterling has termed Life Road, where the end result will be a time of Peace and Prosperity such as the world has not seen.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today September 29, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our Flagship program The Bible on Trial, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today September 23, 2023 for our program/podcast, The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. This is a presentation of information that will make clear not only how we arrived at our present condition in the world, but what will happen in the near future to establish the Kingdom of God in the world, and usher in a time of peace and prosperity the likes of which has bere-to-fore never been seen in the history of the world.This program will air live at 10AM PDT, and will be available as a podcast shortly afterward, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
There is a time coming, and now is, when the good people of the world will see that they have been scammed by 'good intentions'! They will see the reality that what they now believe to be true about their existence on the planet has been manipulated by the minions of Satan such that they recognise that they have believed lies about EVERYTHING as if it is the truth. The will understand that they have been taught that Light is Dark and Dark is Light, and that this has confused them into believing lies as if they are Truth, and that Truth is infact lies. They will come to understand that it is having faith in a system of governance at all levels that has placed them in a position in both the physical and spiritual worlds that is untenable, and they now realize that in order find their way back to reality they need to install a new way of thinking in their hearts and minds, their intellect, and reject the operations based on faith for the operations that are based in fact.This is, and will not be easy, and many will find it impossible to accomplish, But those that do make this change will be able to see and enter a new world not of hope for a better future, but the reality of that better way of thinking that will create that bright new world for themselves.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry as we delve into the opportunities presented by learning the truth, that starts with changing who and how we believe what we believe, based on the words that Jesus brought from the Father, and gave to His own eyewitness disciples, whothei gave them to us through their words found in the Bible, and in science and history that has not been manipulated to say one thing a mean another.
Polar Shift~It has been postulated that a geologic polar shift occurs every 200,000 to 300,000 years, but the last polar shift actually occured more that twice as long ago a previouslly thought. These shift happen over time, and occur because the magnetic field of the earth changes when magnetic North becomes magnetic south. Needless to say this kind of thing would play havoc with GPS and other types of navigation, and through the world into chaos.Polar shifts occur in other areas, when information that is so different and out of the ordinary becomes ordinary. causing people to have to change the way they think about everything. We are coming upon such an event in our world with not only a Global Currency Reset (GCR), and all that will entail financially for the world, but also a spiritual/information reset that will change the way the people of the world see religion and spiritual identity. Worshiping God as a function of world religions will become a thing of the past, when God reveals Themselves to the world in an 'earth shattering' way. That 'way' will be when the New Jerusalem decends from the heavens and is set up as the Capital City of the Kingdom of God.Lest you thing this is impossible, this event is spoken of in Revelation 21 in great detail, and this event will parcipitate a massive shift in consciousc awareness for the people of earth that have not yet made a decision about whom they will serve.You can learn more about this event, when it will happen, and what it means for the world by listhening to the programs that Spirit of Truth Ministry presents each week on our Blog Talk Radio programs. Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today September 16, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where we will discuss this topic and other topics that will have a lasting affect on your life in the here and now, and in the there and then.
Welcome to the Spirit of Truth Ministry podcast The Bible on Trial. This is a program that tests the 'tried and true' beliefs of the Christian church against the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples (Matthew, John and Mark) while He was here on earth. These two approaches to truth are not the same, and speak to two diametrically opposite ideas as to how to gain salvation and eternal life. One is a lie, the other is the truth, and both are found in the same place, the Bible.Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today September 15, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today September 9, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where we will continue our study into the truth about the how the shift between the old Death Road prophecies have given way to a new set of Life Road prophecies where there will now be a time of Peace and Prosperity instead of a time of a Great Tribulation. This is good news that you can find out about on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Truth - Whether you like it, or not!Come on, Dennis, what's the point of trying to find the truth about anything. After all, truth is amorphose. Truth is whatever someone says it is, and THAT truth certainly isn't your own brand of truth; by definition, it can't be, because we are all individuals, and as such our truth is only for us, not for someone else.These excuses are just that, excuses that we use to try to mitigate or eliminate any searching for truth. After all, look at what is being done in the world of 'science' today, where belief in some esoteric idea causes people to wear a mask while driving alone in their own car, thinking that will keep them from getting some non-existent disease. These people actually believe they are following 'the science', when in fact the peer-reviews studies all say wearing a mask does little or nothing to prevent aquiring a contagious condition.This has even percolated into religion, in that while all religions claim some special dispensation from a higher power that makes them special, all religions are man made constructs that quite literally have nothing to do with the Truth that God sent to earth with His own Son so that mankind could learn the 'how to' of entering the Kingdom of God, and gaining salvation and eternal life.The science of salvation is a truth that is singular and absolute, This science does not require belief through faith by grace. It requires a specific data set of information that allows the intellect to transend heresay and go directly to the source of Truth through words that have a meaning that is far deeper than any words that circumvent accountability through that very faith. Truth is real and unifying, and comes from a single source the authority of which requires both knowledge and understanding to accomplish - whether you like it, or not!
Please join Spirit of Truth Ministry today September 2, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program (podcast) The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. This is a continuing study into why we are now in a different reality that was presented in Revelation 13 and on. We see a different prophetic outcome because of Daniel 2 and Revelation 10. Be advised, this is totally different than what you will hear anywhere else on and outlet.
Spirit of Truth Ministry invites you to join us today September 1, 2023 for our program The Bible on Trial. We will be live "on air" at 10AM PDT on blogtalkradio.com/sot, and our podcast of this program will be on our blog talk radio site in the afternoon. Stay up-to-date with what is happening in our effort to get the truth to the world about the how and why of how salvation really works that is different from what Christianity teaches, and why we are no longer in the time-line that has a Great Tribulation. Events in the world that worry many Christians into believing that we are moving toward a Great Tribulation are simply a deception of Satan, because he has already lost control of the good people of the world that believe in and worship the God of Creation, even though they don'l know who that God really is. We are bringing that God to light in our radio programs, showing people who They truly are, and that what they have planned for the world is not tribulation, but peace and prosperity. This changes EVERTHING! Listen and learn the truth!
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today August 26, 2023 at 10AM PDT for another edition of The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. We will be continuing our ongoing study as to why we are no longer subject to the Death Road prophecies of much or Revelation, because of a choice that was made by an individual in 2012, and the world in 2016. Find out why we are headed for a marvelous time of peace and prosperity, in spite of what we now see in the world around us. Find out more, by going to: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today Friday August 25, 2023 at 10 AM PDT for our program The Bible on Trial. Our program shows the truth about the difference in beliefs about how salvation works as taught by the Apostle Paul, against the words and teachings that Jesus taught His own eyeitness disciples while He was here on earth. We will also show that the prophecies of the End of Time that have been taught for centuries in the Christian churches have changed dramatically from those of the Death Road with it's Great Tribulation, as seen in much of Revelation, to the Life Road Prophecies of Peace and Prosperity as seen in Daniel 2 and Revelation 10. This information is Life Changing. The Bible on Trial will air live today on: blogtalkradio.com/sot, and later in a podcast at that same web address.
Lay Down the Law~
When I was a young child an expression was used in my house by my mom and dad that was designed to put the 'fear of God' into me and my siblings during "instructional times". "Instructional times" was when my parents would "Lay Down the Law" to us children, either singly or as a group, when they saw an opportunity to educate us in proper behavior when we would either do or say something that was outside of what needed to become normal behavior in our household. They understood that children only learn by doing, and if the 'doing' harms someone either emotionally or physically then correcting that behavior needs to happen Right Now, and not later. They also took seriously the fact their young children needed to learn to respect the authority of their parents as granted to them by God in situations where the child was unsure as to the operative quality of the behavior that they were demonstrating. This correction was not designed to scare us into proper behavior, it was designed to show us the error of our ways, and give us choices as to how to handle similar situations in the future. We learned that the 'fear' of God is not being frightened, but was demonstating love through obedience.
This approach held firm into our teenage years, and then into becoming adults, and played out in the fact that all four siblings learned good citizenship for behavior both inside and outside of the family.
This approach took a toll on our parents, and wasn't easy for us either, but was essential in turning out four successful and productive adult children.
God has "Layed down the Law" for our spiritual lives in Matt. 5:17, that if practiced will eventually carry us through from believing lies as if they are the truth, to knowing the Truth through learning the Law, the Prophets, and the words of Jesus given to Him by His Father in Heaven.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today August 18, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our flagship program The Bible on Trial. This program tests the religions of the world, especially Christianity, against an immutable standard of Truth that came directly from God the Father; and that is The very Words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples Matthew and John, as recorded in the Bible. Any other words by anyone the claim to have been sent by God can, and often do, contain lies, and are not to be trusted.
Our program is 'on air' live at 10AM PDT, and availible via podcast later today, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
"Where Do I Begin"~
It seem that everyone and their brother is talking about Truth these days. I doesn't matter which news service you access, or which pundit you prefer, they are all saying that they (and in some cases 'They Only') have the truth. And this is especially true in the alternative news block. Anyone that has paid attention to any news coming out of the political centers of the world knows that whatever you hear may have a grain of truth, but it is only a very small grain at best. You are constantly being asked to believe a lie as if it is the truth, and don't question the source, because in their own words "They Know the truth, so don't believe that 'other guy' ".
This is all very confusing, and this is exactly what 'they' want.
In a very old Cary Grant movie "Operation Petticoat" (1959 - the story about a WW2 submarine that was painted pink-very funny), there is a scene in which a young Ensign (Tony Curtis) is tasked with gathering supplies for the Boat, and grabs a 6x6 truck during an air raid (along with several other sailors) in order to raid a warehouse that has the supplies they need. His line was, "Where there is chaos, there is opportunity!"
And it is for this reason that the Truth, the real Truth about how the world, and indeed salvation, really works, is overshadowed by attractive and convincing lies. The World is now in chaos, and the line between truth and lies is very small. In order to find truth you must first find the path to that truth. It is not easy, nor is it a sure thing.
Jesus said, "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it." Matt. 7:14.
If it was easy anyone could do it. This is why we a Spirit of Truth Ministry use ONLY the words of Jesus that He gave His own disciples to inform us about the Truth.
Spirit of Truth Ministry presents The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling on Blogtalkradio.com/sot, today August 5, 2023 at 10AM PDT. This is a podcast that will show you where the Biblical Prophetic time-line of the End changed (beginning in 2012) from the Death Road prophecies of a Great Triblation that we all grew up with in the 'church' to the Life Road prophecies that have been hidden from view until recently, that will lead us to an Earth Made New through Peace and Prosperity. You will also learn from Rick how the 'church' was fooled into accepting whole heartedly at it's beginning a view of salvation and eternal life that Jesus never taught while He was here on earth to His own disciples.
We hope you will tune in either live at 10AM PDT, or via podcast later today for a fascinating study of Truth that you will hear no where else.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, August 4, 2023, for our flagship program The Bible on Trial. This program is designed to challenge your current belief systems about religion and Truth, especially Christianity, and isolate out of those beliefs the things that you believe to be true but are not, when you compare them to what Jesus actually said to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth.
Worship is important to human beings, so much so that we most often worship that which we do not actually know. If you are a Christian you have been taught to worship a Jesus that is NOT actually who you believe Him to be, Jesus came to earth to show humanity that there is a God that is worthy of your worship; but that God is not the God you now know, and the salvation that Jesus brought to earth from His Father is not the salvation that is being taught today in Christian churches.
The Bible on Trial is live today at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today July 29, 2023 at 10 AM PDT for another edition of The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling (blogtalkradio.com/sot). This is a program were we discuss and learn about the true purpose of the Kingdom of God in bringing thet opportunity for salvation to the world, through the words and teachings that Jesus gave to His own eyewitness disciples (Matthew, John) while He was here on earth. Things have changed for the Kingdom of God since the prophecies of the end have changed from the Death Road, as seen in Revelation 13 and on, to the Life Road prophecies that are seen in Daniel 2, and Revelation 10. The outcomes of this changeover mean that humanity will not experience the death and destruction of the Great Tribulation, but after a time will experience the peace and prosperity of an earth made new throught the coming into being of the Kingdom of God on the earth.
Surprise, Surprise~
There are good surprises, and there are bad surprises. Good - going home after work and finding a surprise birthday party waiting for you. Bad - walking outside to get in your car to go to work and finding a flat tire.
Surprised come in a variety of degrees. High - finding an unlooked for bonus in your direct deposit from work. Medium - finding a $20 bill in the pocket of a pair of jeans you haven't worn for 6 months, Low - testing positive for Covid.
There are also surprises of the soul, where something that you learned as a child turns out to not be true, or something that you believe to be true turns out to be false. These types of surprises can actually hurt more than the ones that are merely physical, because they go the heart of your belief system and twist it into something that you don't recognized. This type of emotional/spiritual pain can debilitate you, or call you to action in finding the truth. One reaction is that you simply decide to stick with the 'tried and true' way of your present life, or you can decide to find out if that 'surprise' that is causing you pain is, in fact, true - and now you must deal with it.
So when you find out by listening to our programs on Spirit of Truth Radio (blogtalkradio.com/sot) things that challenge your current belief system, you have to make the choice to research for yourself and find out if it is true, or not, or just decide to stick with but 'brung' you, and go on living your life believing that God loves you and will save you in your ignorance and sin because He loves you.
Doing this with bring you a surprise that you truely don't want to see. Surprises can bring you both pain and pleasure. It is your decision as to which you recieve.
Yesterday~
The program that you heard yesterday (and I HIGHLY recommend that you listen to that program if you didn't get the chance to hear it) is THE watershed presentation that quite literallly announced the change in state for the rest of the history of the Kingdom of God as we move forward into the future. What Rick presented on August 13, 2021, and was replayed yesterday, showed conclusively that the future history of the world does not lay in the Death and Destruction scenario that has here-to-fore been the hallmark of Christian End-Time apologetics for nigh unto 2000 years. What you heard should have changed your understanding of end-time prophecy such that you no longer need fear the future, but you should be looking forward to that new future with great joy, because you now know that everything has changed.
This information is now no longer new to those of you that listen regularly to these podcasts on Spirit of Truth Radio. Yet that singular broadcast layed the groundwork for the nearly everthing that followed, and has given credence to the plan of God to save the world through the understanding of Daniel 2 and the work of that 'Little Stone'.
You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them. (Dan. 2:34). But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. (Dan. 2:35).
You are listening here because you love the Truth. The Truth is now different that what given by God in most of Revelation, and what has been preached in churches for a long time. God has always had another plan in place that will bring a majority of the people of the world into His Kingdom, not with destruction, but with peace and prosperity.
Important Day~
Today is an important day because it is my lovely and gracious wife's 70th Birthday. Also, yesterday was my grandson's 3rd Birthday, and Becky and I got to spend some time with Logan at our house, while Emily, his mom, had to go in person to an important meeting at her work place, to meet her new CEO (she normally works from home). We normally have our group over to my house where we set our broadcast studio up on my kitchen table, where we produce the live broadcast of our podcast on Friday's and Sabbath's each week. I know that our dear listeners that have grandchildren know that when they come over for any length of time it is like a tornado has hit the place, especially since the outside air temp yesterday was near 100 degrees, and we had to play inside the whole time. It's going to take much of the day to recover the house for human habitation.
SO, for today's broadcast I am going to put up a previous broadcast that I think you will enjoy, and that will help solidify some of the unique things that have change our world for the better, though only our regular listeners know about it. We will be live "on air" tomorrow at our regular time.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, July 21, 2023, at 10AM PDT, for our flagship program The Bible on Trial, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Emotions at the End of Time~
As has been said with the deepest of fervor in every generation since Jesus went back to the Father, "We are living in the Time of the End!" And yet ther world is still here, ticking right alone as it always has, and people are experiencing both the good and the bad of life, and expressing this with either happiness or sadness, depending on the circumstances at the time. Jesus said in Matthew 24 that there would be wars and rumors of wars, and marrying and giving in marriage right up until the moment that He returns in the "cloutds of Glory".
And as you now know, having listened to at least 6 weeks of our broadcasts that what Jesus said then IS NOT what is happening right now in this world, because the time-line upon which that was to have occurred is no longer in operation - we are in a new and different time line, and have been since the events that are based on our choices as a world people changed the course of history in 2012, and again in 2016. We are no longer in the prophetic time line called The Death Road, but we have transitioned to the prophetic time line termed The Life Road. Things of earth will never be the same again.
When the realization of what has occured finally 'hits' you, the opportunity for living a life that is not controlled by emotions such as happiness or sadness will give way to living a life of Joy! Joy is not an emotion, it is a condition whereby what happens to you in your daily life is no longer controlled by how you feel about where or when you are, but is controlled by you choosing to believe the TRUTH about what is happening to the world. You now know the outcome with certainty, and no longer need to stress over these the things happening around you because you have made a choice to be obedient to the commandments of God, and hold only to the testimony of Jesus. This bring true Joy.
Don't miss The Bible on Trial podcast today, July14, 2023, presented by Spirit of Truth Ministry at 10 AM PDT, where we will continue to discuss the differences between the differences between the Death Road Prophecies that nearly everyone in Christian circles believes will be the method by which Jesus returns to this earth. Life Road Prophecies have now supplanted the death and destruction that God had originally planned for the world, having made provision in prophecy for a different way for the world to come back under the control of the God of Creation without having to go through hell to get to Heaven. Because of the little known and mostly unrecognized provisions of the Life Road Prophecies of Daniel 2 and Revelation 10 (and other places in Scripture), we are now NOT going to have to undergo Prophecies that have Satan actually ruling the world from Jerusalem for 5 literal months just before Jesus and God come in the clouds of Glory. These prophecies no longer apply, given the events of the recent past in earth's history.
Join us for our programs today and tomorrow, on: blogtalkradio.com, for an enlightening new look at where we are in time, and where we soon will be, as events unfold in the bringing of the Kingdom of God to the earth,
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling on a live podcast today, July 8, 2023, at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Heat Wave~
We have had unseasonabley cooler weather during Spring and at the start of Summer here in Sunny Southern California, but this is about to change. The next few days we (here in the foothills) will have mid to upper 80's, but starting mid-week we will for the first time since last summer be hitting low-hundreds in the valleys, and high ninties where I live. I have already cleaned my K & N permanent indoor home A/C filter (fabulous), and later today I will clean the actual A/C compressor coils to make sure everything is in top condition for the higher heat just ahead. And NO, this higher heat has nothing to do with 'Globale Climate Change'; it is just the way of things in SoCal.
An like the weather things in the financial, political, and spiritual worlds are also heating up as well.
The Global Currency Reset (GCR) is well on the way to completion, where 209 countries will nearly at the same time put their FIAT currencies 'on par' with each other based on in ground hard assets (gold, silver, precious metals), petroleum, and renewable resources and commodities.
In politics the Deep State players are being exposed, and the people of the Unitied States and the world are rising up to take back their political and personal power, and move from slavery to sovereignty, from being ruled over to self-rule.
And those of you that listen regularly to the programming here on Spirit of Truth Radio now know that the amount and quality of spiritual information regarding Salvation and End-time processes have shifted from the Death-road timeline to the Life Road prophecies, and the world is now heading for a time of peace and prosperity such has not been seen in the history of the world.
The Devil is fighting these changes with all his might, but he and his minions will not prevail. So hang in there, for we are in process to win the victory.
Don't Be Surprised~
Starting today, Saturday July 1, 2023, the financial systems of the world are scheduled to undergo a stunning change in aspect, because the financial systems that connect our world will be undergoing a dramatic change from a system where FIAT currency has been king for 60 plus years to a system where the currency is backed by precious metals and commoditiies. 209 countries are involved in this process, and the 'Deep State' has been trying hard to stop this process, but as of today has finally failed. If you use MSM (main stream media) as your total source for information then you will know nothing about the efforts to get this done. But if you have been using alternate information sources you will probably be prepared for, and looking forward too, this event from happening.
This change over will affect every single aspect of your life here on the planet Earth.
And even more important than this remarkable news that will change the world for the better for everyone, is the fact that by listening to our programs here on Spirit of Truth Ministries Radio you already know and understand the prophetic components that are actually the backbone of what is happening today and in our future, that will change the future of the world in even greater ways than a World Currency Reset!
This Reset is one of the proofs that the prophetic time-stream of the Death Road has given way to the Life Road prophecies that will engender and usher in a new spiritual identity for the world without going through a Great Tribulation, and the hell on earth that this has been in the offing for 2000 years or more.
We are enterng (in real time) a NEW WORLD of peace and prosperity the likes of which have not been seen on the earth since Eden. You are part of it, whether you know it or not. Wouldn't you rather know it, than not? Listen today for further information about this event.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. Matt. 13:8.
The future of the world has changed, and as yet, very few people know about it. On the surface it appears that "the beginning of sorrows" is in full swing, and that the great "Time of Trouble" must surely be upon us. At least that is what is believed.
But tWhat IF appearances are not all that it seems? What if the prophetic time-line that would have already been in place was no longer operational, and those that were looking for one outcome were being shown another, alternative outcome, and don't yet realize it?
The belief systems that were previously in place because of an archaic understanding of how end-time prophecy works is replaced by an new and totally different understanding of prophecy, based on the words of Jesus, and has already replaced the old understanding with a new reality. This would change everything. How would you feel if you gained the understanding that there would not be a Great Tribulation, but the after a short time of painful adjustment the world would come into a time of peace and prosperity the world has not know since Eden. Would your outlook on life change?
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today June 30, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program The Bible on Trial where Rick Sterling will show you that this new and different understanding of end-time events is actually a reality,on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
If you have been listening for any length of time (at all) to this program you know that what the church (ubiquitous) has taught based on the present end-time prophetic interpretations of the book of Revelation is either 3 1/2 or 7 years of horror, death and destruction, and oppression the likes of which have never been seen on earth, and is commonly named The Great Tribulation.
This interpretation comes from a variety of sources that list two possible outcomes for the church on earth at the time as either running to the 'hills' and hiding, cowering in fear until the Second Coming, or an event that takes the 'faithful' to heaven, called the Rapture, that leaves the wicked people of the earth to their own devices, to suffer the pain of the Great Tribulation as punishment for doubting God, and where they finally learn the error of their ways, and everyone is saved in spite of being sinful.
Because of what Rick Sterling has discovered in Daniel 2 and in Revelation 10, we now know that neither of these outcomes are what is in store for the people of the earth, because the time-line of the END has changed, and we are living in a new and different reality that has it's own set of here-to-for unknown and unrecognized prophecy that does not include a Coming in the Clouds event where the 'righteous' are 'caught up together in the clouds', 'forever to be with the Lord'.
How can this be? Doesn't all prophecy have to be fulfilled in total before Jesus can come again? Apparently not!
So what is the outcome of these things? That is why your are here, listening to this broadcast (podcast). You are here to learn the truth about the how and why of prophecy being changed from a Death Road plan to a Life Road plan. And even though there will be troubled times in the near future you will also find that you are not going to have to decide your own eternal fate during a time of trouble.
Spirit of Truth Ministry presents The Bible on Trial, a program that tests the words of Jesus that He brought from Heaven from His Father, as recorded by His own eyewitness disciples John, Mathew (and Peter, as written down my Mark), against the words and teachings of others in the New Testament that never knew Jesus personally, and never heard Him speak 'in the flesh'!. What carries more weight as far as the strength of truth is concerned, eyewitness testimony, or the hearsay testimony of writers such as Luke and Paul (and others)? The Bible on Trial teaches what the differences are, and shows why what these others wrote is actually opposite of what Jesus taught about Salvation, Eternal Life, and the Kingdom of God.
Join us for The Bible on Trial at 10AM PDT today, June 23, 2023, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today June 17, 2023 at 10 AM PDT for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. Happy Birthday Rick!
Future Past!
What if what you believe about the future of the world and your personal future with it, that you have heard from trusted sources such as your pastor, or Bible teachers, or the prophet of your church, did not turn out to be what happened in fact? Would you be willing and able to suspend your disbelief that what you were seeing that was so different from what you lived your whole life beliving to be true, turned out to not be what you were (or have been) experiencing in you life? Would you be able to rethink and adapt to the new reality, and adjust your mind-set as to what the Truth of these things would look like?
Being willing to admit that what you now know with all your heart to be true is in fact not turning out the way you planned, and be willing to look at prophecy in the Bible with a set of eyes that shows that you are living in a different time-line that present an outcome so different than what you learned that it seems impossible to credit. This is what you are going to have to deal with today, if you listen to our program The Bible on Trial. You will discover a new identigy toward salvation and eternal live that may cause you to feel abandoned by God, beause it is so different that what you have believed all your life. Don't give up! You can learn the truth about where we are in the world, and what you must do to understand how salvation as taught by the words of Jesus if you take time and compare those words the what you now believe. This is the purpose of Spirit of Truth Ministry.
Join us today Friday June 17, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program The Bible on Trial, and learn what you need to know to face this new future with joy and confidence: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Taboo~
If you haven't seen the latest episode that Tucker Carlson put up on Twitter yesterday. It is titled 'Cling to your Taboos', and well worth 12 minutes of your time. He speaks of Taboos that have defined our Social construct in this country, and around the world, that protect us from virulent evil, many of which have been codified into law. Yet there is a class of taboo that if you cling to it will cause you to miss out on something more valuable and gold.
There are religious taboos that have over centuries prevented the learning of the truth, and not protected the Truth from being dismissed out of hand. These 'taboos' are codified in religious dogma, and have on the surface benefitted the ethics and morals of several groups of peoples that have subscribed to them. Yet these 'taboos' have changed the actual words of the Divine in subtle yet distinct ways. All religions have 'taboos' that are prohibitions against aberrant behavior that goes against the particular dictates of that religion. These behaviors may, or may not, have any bearing on the Truth that was brought to this earth by Jesus, the Son of God. This is because those words have been made taboo by the very people that because of their particular religious fervor or 'divine' inspiriation, claim that the words they have recieved have changed or even supplanted the words of Jesus that He gave His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth. Many religions, and particularly Christianity, have clearly stated that the words given to the Apostle Paul by 'divine' inspiration, and indeed more modern prophets that have receives similar instruction, have made the words of Jesus moot with respect to the discovery and learing of the Truth.
The Truth of the words of Jesus have effectively been made Taboo in the Christianity, which has caused people to believe lies as if they are the Truth.
You Choose~
Every day we must choose! Choose What? What and how we choose anything is a function of things we think we control, or know that we don't. Little things such as what type of coffee, and what we put in it. What we eat for breakfast, or don't. Whether we go to school or work, or play hookie (an ancient word used to describe 'going fishing')! Sometimes we come to a realization that in certain cases, and under certain circumstances we will accept the fact that we don't have a choice, that the choice by it's very existance has been made for us. For example, you are in the Army and your superior officer has given you and order, which you MUST obey. Or your boss tells you to do something that will possibly jeopardize your next promotion if you don't do it, but that order is unethical.
Life is all about choice, and you alway have a choice, even when you don't recognize that a choice even exiists.
This is particularly true and poignant in choices that involve ethics, morals, and integrity.
But there are other choices that you can ignore or choose not to see, that affect more that the life we now know in ways that we now cannot see. These choices have been carefully hidden under the cloud of a desire to believe something that you have been taught is true, but in fact is a bald faced lie. You have been told by credible authority that to gain salvation and eternal life all you must do is 'believe' a certain way, based on certain words, that have been put in a place that you have been taught from earliest childhood are true, and cannot be questioned; that to even question these words will cause you to lose that very eternal life that could be saved by questioning.
Another way to say this is, "Faith allows a person to believe a lie AS IF it is the truth, without accountability". Faith abrogates all need to choose between truth an lies. You must choose!
Danger Close~
Knowing the difference between Truth and Lies is not easy, nor is it without it's own form of danger. Yes, danger! When you willingly go about the process of changing your entire identity in the way you look at life there are a number of pitfalls that can capture your attention to the extent that you can, early on in the process, decide that you don't want anything to do with this type of discovery, and simply shut down, turn away, and say "I've had enough of this", stopping the process of learning a Truth different than what you now know, and go back to the tried and 'true' identity of where you already are. Seaching for Truth can be very dangerous to your ego, as you come to recognize that you have been massively fooled.
No one willingly comes to the realization that they have been fooled into believing lies as if they are truth, and enjoys that part of the discovery process.
Yet once you have moved passed the fact that you have actually been totally blind for your entire life up until that moment, the realization that there are things about truth that are both attractive in their danger (more about that part later), and enjoyable in the application, not only to your life here on earth, but life in the Kingdom of God.
As you finally discover and KNOW (without remorse) that you have the Truth about the Kingdom of God and Salvation it can be 'laugh out loud' moment. You recognize that you have been the butt of a complex, nafarious and deadly joke, perpetrated upon you by a being that has no humor what-so-ever, you can smile at yourself with relief, knowing you have dodged a soul-killing bullet.
So, imagine the joy when Jesus smiles at you and says, "Well done my good and faithful Servant", as you enter into eternity in the Kingdom of God. Won't that be fun!
Right Time~For those of us that have lived a reasonable length of time on this earth one of the axioms of living that life is that we finally realize that when it is the right time for something to happen, it happens. A child wants what they want, and they want it right now. The term 'wait patiently' is an oxymoron for a 3 year old child. Growing up entails a good deal of waiting for certain things to happen, things that can't be rushed. Perspective of time shows us that wnen that 'good thing' that we have waited (and longed) for finally comes along, we can more often than not see that to try to advance the occurance is most likely a 'fools errand'. One of my favorite descriptive sayings that expresses this idea is, "It does no good to try to teach a pig to sing; It wastes your time, and annoys the pig"! In trying to rush either a developmental or emotional step by skipping over it often means having to go back an do it over again later in order to gain the full value of what is was supposed to have occurred in the propher order.We are right now in this world at one of those seminal moments when those of us that know about and have waited patiently for an event to happen that will change the world for the better in an amazingly dramatic manner are still waiting. This event is so close that we can almost taste it. Yet this event that will change the world for the better has not yet happened. We believe it past time for it to have occurred, yet it is still not here. Now is the time for us to demonstrate '"the patience of the saints", the patience that passes all understanding, to know that rushing the result will be much worse than letting it happen in it's own time. Waiting patiently is exclusively an adult endeavor, and not for the faint of heart,The reward for this adult activity is almost upon us, and the last thing that you want is to miss by trying to rush it.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Sabbath May 27, 2023 for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
In Memorium~We are entering Memorial Day weekend here in the good ol' U.S. of A., and as with millions of others I am preparing my back yard for a family gathering on Monday. The 10 X 10 shade awning is up, the bar-be-cue is cleaned out and ready. I have a new bag of B & B oak charcoal, and my lighting chimney ready. The patio is under shade cloth, and the table and chairs are ready for occupation for our Memorial Day festivities.But during this time together with our family we will take a few minutes to remember those that died in the service of our nation, both in the military and not. "We will never forget" is not just a slogan in our family, because even though it was only my father that served during WW2, and did not die in service to our nation, we still honor the men and women that gave "the last full measure of devotion" of which President Lincoln spoke in his Gettysburg address.All war is tragedy, and the wars that have been fought over the centuries in this world have been propogated by the machining of Satan to bring about a one world order under the banner of his kingdom. These wars have killed millions of both combatant and non-combatant people for no good reason other than Satan desires to see the blood and sorrow brought about by his hubris. But this does not change the fact that honorable men and women have paid the price for this prufidy with their lives, given with the sincerity of the innocent, and God will honor those sacrifices of the pure in heart at the proper time of His choosing.So during the good times this weekend with family and friends this Memorial holiday, set aside a few minutes to remember your family, friends and strangers that in good faith gave a blank check to the nations that was cashed with their lives in time of conflict, and remember that what they did was not insignificant in the Grand Plan for the renewal of the world that is soon to take place.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, today May 20, 2023 at 10AM PDT. Why did God give two versions of End Time Prophecy to John? What was the purpose of God providing both a Death Road and Life Road plan for bringing this part of human existence to a close? Does End Time Prophecy have anything to do with what Jesus said about how the Kingdom of God affects the plan of salvation that is taught by the Christian church? If so, then how does what Jesus taught His own eyewitness disciples differ from what the Apostle Paul said was the way to eternal life?Find out the answers to these and many other important questions regarding what is the truth about Salvation, Judgment and the Kingdom of God, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Anticipation~"Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth." Rev. 3:9 (ESV).Well folks, it seem we are almost there. Almost where, you ask? Isn't everything going on as always? Yes, pretty much. Arn't there wars and rumors of wars still rampant in the world? Yep, you bet! Isn't money becoming worth less than ever, and becoming more difficult to not only earn but actually get from your bank in physical form? Absolutely. Arn't the social norms surrounding the differences between men and women becoming more and more objectified as being out of place in the modern world of sexual identity? All of these things point to a big change that is taking place not only here in America, but around the world. These changes are relfected in what the 'good people' of the world are doing in fighting back at those that are trying to turn the world upside down, by promoting men participating in women's sports and winning, and people in the government saying that men can actually bare children, in spite of obvious biological differences.And even though all of this is happening, adding a high level of confusion to public discourse, the 'good people' of the world are not having any of it. These Good People that worship God and want the best for their families don't yet know the God that they worship. These Good People believe that what God has said about salvation and eternal life has more to do with belief and grace than knowing who their God really is, and what He/They demand as far as the righteousness of the Kingdom of God is concerned.These Good People are waiting with great anticipation for God to save them, not realizing that it is their own obedience to the Commandments of God and the Testimony of Jesus that brings salvation and Life.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our pod cast The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where we will continue our study into the differece between the Life Road and Death Road end time prophecies, and how that will affect the bringing of the Kingdom of God to this earth in the near future. We will be live 'on air' at 10 AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry on Friday May 12, 2023 at 10AM PDT for another edition of The Bible on Trial, a program that tests the truth of the Words of God, that Jesus brought to earth from the Father, against the words of others, both in the Bible and out, and the myriad interpretations of end time prophecy that exist in the world today. You will gain a new, different, and more complete understanding about what Jesus came to earth to do by understanding that it is His words that He gave His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth, and the words that He gave in the Law and the Prophets in the Old Testament that bring true understanding of salvation, justice, and how to enter the Kingdom of God. Program link: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, May 6, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. This program detailes the difference between what the Christian church teaches about Salvation, Eternal Life, and End Time Prophecy, and the Truth that Jesus spoke about and taught His own eyewitness disciple while He was here on earth, and a plan for bringing the Kingdom of God to this earth that is different from what we have already been taught. This program is on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Incensed~Evil (personified) wants the world to be confused about what is actually, factually the truth about everything. People are being taught that gender is amorphous, and is whatever you choose it to be. Grown men are putting on dresses and then saying that they have the right to use a women's public restroom, just because they can do so, and get away with it. I recently watched a video of a 16 year old girl standing before a school board and saying that she and her girlfriends cannot change into their gym clothes for fear that school boys that indentify as female will come into the girls locker room unannounced and see them naked. She said her privacy is being violated, and the school board is deliberately allowing this to happen for fear that some LBTQ ++ group will bring a lawsuit against the school district. Men are competing in womens sports at the highest levels, and of course winning, causing the best women atheletes to be marginalized and lose the victories that are rightfully theirs because of it.The world has turned topsey-turvey, and I am incensed that this is the case.The Truth about these kinds of things, and many others as well, is simple to see, for those that choose to look through clear eyes. Truth is (indeed) singular and absolute, and personal choices in culture or identity have nothing to do with the reality. And this is exactly what Satan wants, and what he has been working toward for centuries. Lies presented as if it is the truth has destabilized society in every way that counts, including the idea that Spiritual Truth is whatever you want it to be. The reason this is happening is because of the word 'faith'! The misuse of the identiy of the word 'faith' is the root cause of all of the troubles of society today, because Faith allows a person to believe a lie as if it is the truth, without accountabiiity.
Why your should listen~There are thousands of religious ministries that 'broadcast' their 'product' every day, all day, in every language, around the world on radio, TV, and cable. If they are Christian in nature then there is one characteristic that is ubiquitous to all of them, and that is that they all teach exactly the same thing. Oh yes, there will be minor differences in prophetic interpretation, and in the tactics used to gain an audience, but in everything that counts (excluding the 'way' of what is taught) every single one of them teach exactly the same thing; salvation by faith through grace, as define (and indeed invented) by the Apostle Paul. Certainly, Jesus gets and 'honorable mention' because of His death on the cross, but it is the teaching that Paul brought to the world through his vistions that made Christianity a competitive religious philosophy in the wider world. If you are a Christian, you must believe in the writings and the words of Paul in order to be named as a Christian.And in this religion that is a place for the words of Jesus, but that place is always and clearly secondary to the words of Paul, and rightly so, according to the words of Paul himself. Paul's words have overshadowed the words of Jesus in every aspect of life for the Christian. And while certain of His words are acceptable when placed next to the words of Paul, most are ignored by the pastors, preachers and teacher of Christianity as of no importance, because Paul came after Jesus, who came only to the Jews, and Paul brought salvation to the Gentiles.Truth is singular and absolute. There is only one truth, and that truth IS NOT ubiquitous - it is, and has been from the beginning, that which God sent to earth with His Son, Jesus, to teach the world how to gain entrance to the Kingdom of God, and to eternal life. You will find this concept only in one place, and that is right here in our ministry.
Injured Kitty~Sparky is one of two cats in our house, and is the sweetest cat you could ever hope to meet. Tuesday at about 7:15PM she was involved in a fight with a big orange cat in our back yard, a cat that has been coming over from time to time. I ran outside from the kitchen when I heard the noise of the fight just in time to see Sparky come flying up the porch stairs and into the house. The other cat was running toward the chain link fence on our property line, climbed over, and disappeared into our neighbors yard. I know that this was not Jim's cat, because Jim doesn't like cats, and has never had one, as long as we have been neighbors..Sparky was bleeding from a wound on her right hind quarter, and came into the living room and started to lick the wound on our throw rug. She was bleeding from what looked like a puncture wound. It was evident that she was really hurting. I tried to pick her up in order to assess the damage, but she hissed, and ran into the bedroom, and under the bed. We got her out, and were able to get her into the bathtub and rinse her wound with some luke-warm water. We wrapped her in a towel and I sat with her in my chair for two hours, before she again ran under the bed.Yesterday we were able to get a quick appointment with our Vet, and he cleaned the wound and gave her antibiotics and a pain drug, that we must give to hear twice a day. She hates us doing this to her.It breaks my heart to see my kitty hurting, and I will do anything, pay as much as it takes to get her healed. The problem is that she doesn't understand that we are trying to help her, and she fights us when we try to help, because the helping hurts her.God feels the same way about us and our sinning. He has provided a means that will lead us to eternal life, but the process is not easy, nor is it pain free. He cannot force us to comply, We mus do it of our own free will.
Tree Service~Yesterday the Tree Service that we had contracted came to the house and set about felling, trimming, thinning, and otherwise putting the trees of our yard into better shape than they have been in years. They cut back an ageing apple tree of the dead parts, leaving the branches that still had life to grow again. They cleared away a pile of wood that had been in front of our cedar fence for years. The fell a long dead and rotting tree trunk (25 feet tall) that was ready to split, and was a danger. They trimmed back a maple and a mullberry tree that overhung the property lines into our neighbor's yard on both the north and the south sides of our property. They thinned and topped our huge lemon tree, that had become so overgrown that it had lost its ability to produce a good crop. And finally, the owner (Ephrain) put on his climbing rig and went via ladder to the top of our 50ft palm, and removed 10 years of dead fronds, that were almost ready to drop off and either damage our truck, that we have to park at the base of the palm, or hurt someone. It was exciting to watch this crew of five experts (including Ephrain's son) work their magic on our property, and give us a fresh start in making our yard a wonderful place to enjoy. As they were doing all of these things it reminded me that there is the same kind of need in our spiritual identities for a good clean out from time to time. Truth has been mixed with lies for so long that it is impossible to see the spiritual reality that God wants for each of us to experience because there is so much dead wood in us that we can't breath the fresh air of the truth that God desires for us to know. We cannot bare the spiritual fruit that will not only save our own lives, but the lives of others, and we can;t see our way to the Kingdom of God because the branches in our souls are so narly and twisted that we can't see the Truth. Prune away the Lies and Truth appears.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, April 21, 2023, for our flagship program The Bible on Trial, where we test to beliefs of Christianity against the very words of jesus that He gave to His own disciples when He was here on earth. This program stretches the boundaries of Truth, and shows that what you believe to be true about Salvation, Prophecy, and Eternal life may not be what you now think. Our program will be 'on air' at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Today we will be continuing our study into why we are where we are in time, with respect to the different prophetic time-line upon which we find ourselves. The Death Road time line of most of Revelation has been changed to the new time line of the Life Road of Daniel 2 and Revelation 10. Join us as we delve deep into how this change affects our outcome, when seen in the light of the words of Jesus that He gave His own eyewitness disciples when He was here on earth.Join us today, April 15, 2023 at 10 AM PDT, for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Next~At one point in my life I was in marketing/sales of life insurance. As with all jobs, and even though I ended up NOT making this my lifetime career, the experience was valuable in several ways. One way that it was valuable was that I learned that I was not cut our to be in such a 'cut-throat' business. Another was that I learned that I could actually succeed in something in which I had no natural interest, as I was rather good at it. But the most important thing I learned in the approximately 4 years I spent doing life/health insurance (including getting my license, and getting a series 6 and 66 investments license) was that the most important thing anyone in direct personal sales can learn is the word "Next".Most everyone at some point in their lives needs life insurance, just as everyone needs a car. And just as with car sales, insurance sales comes with a ubiquitous stigma that is automatically attached to the person doing it. The success rate is very low for both of these endeavors, which necessitates a thick skin, and the ability to accept rejection on a massive scale. The more rejection, the more success. This is where the word "Next" come in. As soon as you receive a rejection you must automatically say to yourself - "Next", and search for another prospect.'Truth' is also a commodity that everyone needs, but not everyone is ready to hear when you make your approach. Being rejected in presenting of Truth is not a stigma, it is a fact of life. As a Bondservant of Jesus, it IS your job to present the truth of Salvation to everyone that expresses an interest. It is NOT your job to try to influence them to hear what you say, that is the job of the Holy Spirit. If they recoil when you present the truth your job is to let them go. Trust the Holy Spirit will lead them, and say to yourself, “Next”!
Spiritual Connector~We all live busy lives in a busy, busy world. And as such, making time to think about and work on our eternal lives rarely occurs during the week. We get in the habit of saving our introspections for church on weekends, or on special religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas. At these times we will dress up and go to church to listen to the sermon and hear the music, and gain a warm fuzzy feeling that we have done our due dilligence in making God a part of our lives, even if it is just a small part; something is better than nothing. We believe pastors or priests when they say God loves us so much that He has provided a way to salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ spent on the Cross, and all we must do to gain eternal life is "believe on Jesus Christ and you are saved." We go home from church feeling satisfied with our understanding that we will always be sinners, but that Jesus has "paid it all" for our sins, and there is nothing more we need do to demonstrate our love for God other than "Believe!" Our spiritual connector to God and salvation, according to our pastors, is Grace through Faith.Yet those of you that have been listening to our programs for any length of time now realize that this concept is like trying to life a 100 pound weight with a rubber band; the rubber band will break before you get the weight off the ground.The words of Jesus that He gave His own eyewitness disciples is the unbreakable connector between Truth, salvation, and eternal life. But the understanding of the Truth of how salvation really works takes time and patience. Simply attending a church service now and then, or even every week, will not do anything to promote the deep understanding that is needed in order to gain entry into the Kingdom of God. Set aside the time to learn His words and you will be rewarded with the knowledge that brings salvation and eternal life.
Timing is Everything~Throughout the history of the world, as described in the history and prophecies in the Bible, it is crystal clear that God has defined a series of events that needed to be timed perfectly in order for His plans for bringing the kingdoms of this world back into the Kingdom of God to happen. This is not to say that God has manufactured events in order to do this. It is that God had identified events and decisions that must take place in the proper order at the proper time in order for the people of the world to see clearly that what God needs is a Kingdom of God on earth to accomplish His goal of returning the world to the righteousness that was present (for a time) after the creation of the world. Unless you have been living in total isolation you should realize that right now, today, the plans of God to accomplish this are in full swing, and the decison point of history has now been reached.The programs that Spirit of Truth Ministry sponsor on Blog Talk Radio will help you identify these events and timing that have led us to this centinal moment in earth's history, where the choice of whether to decide for the Light and Truth, or darkness and Lies, has already been made. Join Spirit of Truth ministry for our flagship program The Bible on Trial, today April 7, 2023 at 10AM PDT and find out where you are in the process of identifying whether you believe lies as if they are truth, or whether you actually know the truth of where we are in the prophetic time line of the Life Road, and whether you understand how salvation and gaining eternal life really happens: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, April 1, 2023 at 10AM PDT, for our program The Revelation of jesus with Rick Sterling. This is a presentation in which we reveal the hidden truth about End Time Prophecy and Salvation that you will hear no where else. All of us have been taught to believe lies about these things as if they were the truth. Now, through the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth, those lies have been exposed as a deception of Satan that allows people to believe these lies as if they are the truth, without accountability. There is a huge difference between being awake and being woke. This program will awaken you to the Truth about how salvation really works, what it takes to be inside the Kingdom of God, and shows what has changed in the prophectic time-line that has taken us from having to suffer through the Great Tribulation, to being blessed with peace and prosperity the likes of which has not been known since Eden: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Deep Breathe~I have noticed that when many people get excited about an impending event (either good or bad) their breathing tends to become fast and shallow. Instances of this phenomena are riding a roller coaster just before you go 'over the top' of the initial drop, or being on a commercial airplane as the pilot rolls on the power and starts the take off run. During these moments the heart rate and blood pressure goes up, skin can become clammy, pupils dialate, and the mind automatically turns inward as a way of retreating from reality. Yet once a person has done these kinds of things a few times, the mind/body connection to the impending event changes from a negative to a positive response, where you can hardly wait to do it again. The difference is in the breating. In the former, you are not getting enough blood oxygen to saturate your body and mind, and your body mimics going into shock. In the latter, your anticipation triggers slow, deep preperatory breathing, and this prepares your body/mind connection so that you actually enjoy what onec scared you to death.None of us have every gone through the events that are just about to take place in the world; events that will change the way we live, move, and have our being in this world. If you believe that these events will be as we have learned from or religious leaders, as have been described in Revelation 7, 13 and on, you are anticipating death and destruction of a scale onheard of, and unseen in history. This can (and does) cause a negative reaction akin to the panic mode described above, and can cause you to miss the reality of the glorious events about to take place in the world that ARE NOT these things.If you have been listening to our programs of late, you know that the time-line of prophecy has changed, and you have already begun to breath deeply of the new reality that is taking place in the world, as we speak. This changes everything.
Realizing Mistakes~"When a person who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, they will either quit being mistaken or cease being honest".~Richard Humpal, J.D.In the past in the field of filming for movies, or video recording for TV, a director calling 'action' indicated that the cameras are 'rolling'. This means that roll of film (in various sizes for different uses) is actually passing through the exposure 'gate' of a film camera, where and image is exposed using a specific 'frame rate' that is calculated in FPS, or frames per second. When played back in a projector this frame rate gives the illuson of motion; and this is where the term 'motion pictures' came from. In today's modern digital world 'frame rate' is still used as a means of standardizing the look of the 'action' that is taking place on the sceen. When the director calls 'CUT', it means that the 'TAKE' has been completed. When there has been a fault detected during the 'playback' (either right away for digital video, or in viewing the 'rushes' in film the next day ('Rushes' indicates film developed overnight for viewing the next day) this is called a Missed Take. When this happens, either for and acting or technical error, the Director calls for a Re-take. When an actor makes a mistake it is right there for everyone to see, and they readily acknowledge their mistakes and try get it right in the next take.In real life humans are not actors, and unlike actors we don't often get to do a 'retake' when we make a mistake. What we must do is to acknowlege our mistakes, and make every effort to not make those same errors again. Yet the Christian identity says that our mistakes don't matter because God has forgiven our mistakes even before we make them. Jesus never taught this concept.
Rescue~My wife was on the way home last night from Ladies Night when she ran out of gas on the freeway just before the exit we use to go home. She was in a particularly bad place, with a narrow space between the limit line and the guard rail, with cars and big trucks going by just a few feet to her left. When she called me just before 10PM I could tell she was scared. I told her that I would be there in just a few minutes with some gas. I grabbed a gas can from the garage, climbes into my F-150 and took off for the rescue. I was pulling up to her car about 15 minutes after her call.It was raining. This stretch of the I-10 East is always busy, and I could see immediately why she was scared. I set my emergency flashers, and exited my truck between passing vehicles. It was a bit dangerous. As I was walking up to the right side window I prayed for the Highway Patrol to show up. Becky was on the phone to AAA, but was having to wait on hold. She had not pulled over very far off the freeway, and I wanted her to get out of the car to safety, but she was too frightened. At that moment a Patrol car puttled up behind my truth; lights flashing and their brights on. We were rescued. Well not quite yet.They helped be get my gas can out of the bed of the truck as I was rolling Becky's car back, closer to the guard rail. One office directed traffic around us as I put 2 gallons of gas in the tank. I tried to start the car, but Becky had left the head lights on, and the car would not start. I popped the hood, and an officer opened it. And having planned ahead, I pulled a starting pack out of the back of the car, hooked it, started the car, and in 2 minutes we were on our way. The officers complimented me for having with me what we needed. Becky was rescued.God wants to rescue His Kingdom, but He needs us to assist Him in our rescue by having planned ahead by knowing the truth about how salvation works.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today March 18, 2023 at 10AM PDT for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
St. Patrick's Day Snakes~Today is the Irish Celebration of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland. In celebration of this event my wife is going to a modified 'Ladies Night' event at a good friends house where she and seven female friends will eat corned beef and cabbage, drink a little bit of Irish Stout, and eat homemade Irish Soda bread (provide by me at my wife's request). The reason why we celebrate on March 17 is that the real St. Patrick died on that day in 461 C.E., after a very hard life as a Catholic Priest, taking Christianily to the heathens in Ireland.Not surprising, there were actually no physical snakes in Ireland. So this story of driving Irish snakes into the sea is really a metaphor describing St. Patrick's bringing his beliefs to the Emerald Isle, and driving evil from it's shores.It is interesting that for those that are paying attention there is another process going on in the world that is doing the same thing today as did St. Patrick then, that is driving evil from the world. The Bible is replete with prophecies of the end of time that speak to the process by which the world will be cleansed of evil of the 'snakes' that are the progeny of the Ancient Serpent, the Devil, and will be driven out by the actions of those that are in the Kingdom of God, that defeat the kingdom of this world, that kingdom that is made of lies and deceit.However, this process of removing the snakes of this world is not easy, because it requires everyone that is on the side of good to be in the Kingdom of God. This is the process that Jesus brought to this earth, and spoke to His own eyewitness disciples. False words have been substituted for the Words of Truth, and lies have become the hallmark of those that believe they are saved, but are not.So when you celebrate today, celebrate the victory that is soon to come upon the world through the words of Truth!
On the Road Again~As per the writing of yesterday, my wife and I are just about to 'head for the hills' and go to our family gathering with my twin sister and her family in Ventura Ca. for our birthday. All persons scheduled to be there will be there (Halleluia!) and we are going to have a memorable time. I will be on air via phone to give the introductions, and Rick is 'on deck' from his house to handle the tech, and give what I know will be a brilliant study. Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, March 11, 2023 at 10AM PT, for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Birthdays~Tomorrow is my twin sister's birthday, and the my immediate family (her's and mine) are gathering at her home up the coast, about 2 1/2 hours from my house for a celebration; includesd in the festivities are her husband, her three adult children, her eldest daughter's fiance, my wife, my daughter, her husband, my grandson, and my son. This is a wonderful event, tempered by the fact that my twin was told about 6 months ago that she has early onset Alzheimer's. She is experiencing mild symptoms (so far), and is undergoing treatment. This is disturbing to the family, as well it should be, but as a family we are nothing but adaptable in dealing with these kinds of tests. Birthday's under whatever circumstances are and important recognition of not only the person that was born, but the mother that did the birthing. and in not only a joy in the temporal world but also in the spiritual world. Jesus spoke of the importance of being 'born from above', commonly misinterpreted by the Christian church using the phrase 'born again'. Jesus did say. "Unless you are born of the water and the Spirit you cannot enter the Kingdom of God" (John 3:5). Jesus prefaced this statement by saying that, "Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John3:3). So here is the issue - in order to be saved you must be in the Kingdom of God; before this can happen you must be able to 'see' the Kingdom that you want to enter; in order to 'see' you must be 'born of the water', which are the Words of God brought to earth by the Son of God, and the 'Spirit', which is the Mother, that is called the Holy Spirit, that will lead you into all truth (John 16:13).So there it is; In order to be born into the Kingdom (not adopted), you must KNOW THE TRUTH. What Truth? The truth about how to enter the Kingdom, your true birthday!
"If it's broke, fix it"~There is an expression that has been in common use in my parents generation, and it is; "If it's not broke, don't fix it!" This saying alludes to the fact that with all the new technology that appeared during and right after World War 2 the old tried and true ways of doing things were giving way from taking the time to learning and doing things the way your parents and grandparents did things, slow, and with great patience, to needing to get it done 'right now', the faster the better. Even if the job, project or product ended up being just 'good enough' rather than perfect, that was OK. Faster was better.The corrollary saying that came after this generation could have been, "If it's broke, don't fix it, just buy a new one"! Manufactured products from both America and from overseas (particularly from Japan) became so cheap that to (say for instance) take your broken toaster to the repair shop and have it fixed, gave way to throwing the old one away and buying a new one. Everyone new the new one was not as good as the old one, but it was so 'cheap' that when it broke you would just do the same thing over again, ad infinitum.In a spiritual sense we are seeing this same saying applied to the modern Christian church, as carried on from past generations, because NO ONE realized that the belief that salvation as a function of faith through grace was a broken concept that needed fixing. The motto "If it's not broke, don't fix it" is predicated on the belief that salvation is already perfect and needs no alteration to work correctly. The realization that the Pauline concepts of salvation are irreparably broken, and need to be replaced is the first step in finding the salvation found in the 'gospel of the Kingdom', seen only in the words of Jesus, given to His eyewitness disciples.
Make up your mind, already!Have you every been to a restaurant with someone that just couldn't make up their mind? We all have experienced this situation at least once in our lives, and it is very frustrating. You can see them looking at the menu, maybe muttering under their breath, or even talking outloud about their being too many choices, and that it is just too difficult for them to make up their mind. I mean, it's not like this is a 'life or death' situation. But it could almost be for live or for death, the way that they vacillate back and forth between items.Little do they understand that they truly are in a state where soon they will have to make a Life or Death decision, they will only have two choices; Truth, or that which they believe to be true, but isn't.Being willing and able to believe a lie as if it is the Truth makes it nearly impossible to see facts AS truth. Many people WANT to believe what they already believe, because they 'feel' safe in doing this. But feeling safe is totally different than 'being' safe. Facts are seen as the enemy of Truth, because fact are hard, and unyielding things, and make it difficult to believe what your heart is telling you it true.Those that are unwilling to look facts and evidence squarely in the eye and see them for what they are, can not, and will not ever find true salvation and eternal life, because they believe words that do ot come from the source for all truth, the words that Jesus brought from the Father, and geve to His OWN eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministruy today February 25, 2023 at 10AM PT for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. This program finds truth in all aspects of life, but especially from Biblical Prophecy and the Truth brought to the world through the words of Jesus, the Son of God, that he gave to His own eyewitness disciples while He was in ministry here on this earth. No Truer words were ever spoken by anyone, and it is these words that we use as the arbiter of Truth, a truth that is singular and absolute. Our program is located at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today February 24, 2023 at 10AM PT for our program The Bible on Trial, where we test the truth against the words and teachings that Jesus gave His own eyewitness disciples when He was here on earth. Our program is at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Coincidence, Or Not~It's easy enough to smile when the world goes along like a song,but the one that's worthwhile is the one that can smile, When everything goes dead wrong~This little poem is a modified snippet of a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox called WORTH WHILE, that my mother learned from her mother, and has made a big difference the the texture of my life. I have learned that because of who God is, and what They do, there is no such thing as coincidence. God always has a plan, however, He may not reveal the details of that plan to us right away.For example; years ago I lost a very important receipt for an investment that I had made. It wasn't a lot of money, but the culmination of that investment is getting close, and I had resigned myself to loosing out on the proceeds of that investment because I had misplaced proof of my ownership. Yesterday, my cat Sparky caught a bird, and brought it into the house to show us her victory. It was alive, and in trying to pick up the cat and take her outside with the bird in her mouth, she (of course) dropped it, and it scooted away to hide. This promoted a search that involved moving furniture, and as a result I worked for hours cleaning the floors in the living room. My wife decided to clean a drawer in a small table near our front door, so that she could give it to our son the next time he came for a visiit. In cleaning out the drawed she discovered that some papers and other stuif had gone over the back of the drawer into a space under the drawer, preventing the drawer from closing. She asked me to open the underside of the drawer space to get this material out. One of the things that came out was a returned letter from nearly 20 years ago that had a copy of my receipt in it. We are coming into a time when the plans and prophecies of God will be revealed. Coincidence? I think not!
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today February 17, 2023 at 10AM PT for our program The Bible on Trial, on: blogtalkratio.com/sot.
This is The Revelation of Jesus with Sterling, our ongoing study into the shift from the Death Road prophecies seen in Rev. 13, to the prophecy in Revelation 10 of the Seven Thunders, that has put the world on the Life Road. Join us today February 11, 2023 at 10AM PT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Planner~I just started using a new (to me) planner system to organize my life. A good friend brought this system to my attention, and we have together been meeting every morning for the last 20 days for a 5-10 minutes chat, to encourage each other in staying on track in it's use. I may write something about my impressions of this system later. But for now, using this planning system has brought a question to my mind that presents a bit of a conundrum with respect to prophecy and future world events. This conundrum has been present in the Christian church (and in the world at large) since the church was invented by Paul in the first century C.E., and that is this; How do you plan for a future of and about which you are not sure will occur? In other words, what is the point of long term planning of your life if you are not certain that the world will be in existance when you arrive there in time?For 2000 years or so we have been taught that the world is going to end in a massive Time of Trouble such as never was before, where death and destruction reigns supreme on earth, as a function of what both the Devil does to the people of the earth, and what God does in responce. Earthquakes, fire from heaven, pestilence, famine, war, and strife will kill millions of people before God finally steps in and saves His people. If this is the truth then why bother planning a life that doesn't include this as the driving force? Why bother?What Rick has brought to the table by identifying a different set of prophecies that have a totally different outcome, and brings into focus a how being in a different 'time-line' has changed how God is now dealing with a different future for mankind, one that involves Peace and Prosperity, rather than Death and Destruction.If learning about how to plan for a new future is intriguing to you, then listen to our programs on Blog Talk Radio every Friday and Sabbath.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today February 4, 2023 at 10AM PT for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, for our continuting study into Truth, Justice, and the Kingdom of God. This program is on Blog Talk Radio, at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Legal vs. Lawful~When you jay walk, you have brokent the law; but which law have you broken? Or if you run a stop light you are breaking the law; but what kind of law are you breaking? If you run that stop light and cause an accident, you are breaking the law; but what type of law are you breaking? Is it different from jay walking or just sliding through an intersection on a yellow light that turns red when you cross the limit line? If you run that light and hit someone that is legally crossing in front ot you, you have broken the law; but what type of law? If you run that light as you speed away from robbing a bank, where you shot a guard, and are being chased by the police, you are breaking the law; but is that law of a different quality than the previous broken laws?What I have described is traffic laws that have been broken, that have gone from getting a warning ticket for crossing a street outside of the lines, to felony evasion with assault with the intent to do bodily harm. The 'laws' governing these human behaviors are categorised as either 'Legal' or 'Lawful' and they are not the same. When humans define 'law' it is either legislated in an elected body of people, or it is declared by a magistrate. These laws are codified into statutes, and are adjudicated by a judge and (possibly) a jury, that decide guilt or innocence. The other type of Law is often called Common Law or The Law of God, AKA the 10 Commandments. All law is based in Common Law, but all Common Law is not statute law. The 10 Commandments are the Law of the Kingdom of God. Statute Law is the law of the Kingdom of the world. To exist in a civilized world one must abide by Statute laws. To lawfully enter the Kingdom of God one must do two things; keep the Commandments of God, and hold only to the testimony of Jesus (Rev.12:17). Being Legal is not always Lawful.
Change of Plans~A common experience in our modern society is that plans change. Something comes up that is outside of our plans for the day and we have to adapt to the new conditions. Sometimes this is easy, and sometimes it's a pain in the tush. Either way, we must rethink how we process the demands of the day, and (in the vernacular) 'go with the flow'.This is less easy, and often impossible, when the issue involves our spiritual lives, and how we view salvation and eternal life. For the most part Christians feel that they live a normal life. And included in that normal life is occasionally being able to 'testify to the truth' of what they know about the idea of 'being saved'. If you add to that the concept that what Christians have been taught about how end time prophecy works having something change in either area can really mess with their minds.Two examples: (1) when they realize that what Paul taught was not what Jesus taught about salvation, and (2) when they are told that their certain view of end time prophecy no longer fits the reality of what they see occuring in the world. These two issues in particular are devastating to the 'plan' that has been layed out for them by their church, their pastors and teacher, and the 'Old Time Religion' with which they grew up. It makes them VERY uncomfortable in the least.So what are they to do? Well in this there are two options. The first is that they will reject out of hand any attempt to change their minds about any of this; that what they have is what they want to believe, and that is enough for them. the second is for a moment laying asied what they now believe to be true, and look at something new to them with an open heart and mind, and judge for themselves whether what they see is true, or not. You must Know the Truth in order to be in the Kingdom of God, a truth that will be different than you now know.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today January 27, 2023 for our program The Bible on Trial on blogtalkradio.com/sot, at 10 AM PT and have your mind open to an alternative to the 'truth' that you think you know. Our study is open to finding the truth about Salvation, Justice and the Kingdom of God in the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples.
New Prophetic Paradigm~If you were with us yesterday you would have heard Don and me lead in to our Best Of Program from February 2008 by talking about what we have experienced in dealing with people that already have a preconceived paradigm as to what the truth of prophecy is, or they have no understanding of truth and where we are in time. There are people (not those that listen to our programs at Spirit of Truth) that react badly when the are told that everyone believes lies as if those lies are truth. They will fight back saying that 'they know the truth' and it isn't what we are telling people.Yesterday, we went back in time and listened to Dr. Rich and me discuss prophecy in a way that we 'knew' was true, because we had studied extensively with Rick, and found truth that was different from what we had learned in our church from our pastors, and the denominational schools we attended. These pastors, teachers and evangelists told us that what they had learned, and they were sure that it was true. Even back then we knew that what they believed was not true, and we had found a 'new' truth to replace it.And now, today, we now know that what we believed as truth in 2008 while true then, is no longer true now. The times and prophecies have changed, and with that change also has come a change in the outcomes that will soon come upon the world, that will affect those that dwell on the earth. Back then we talked about a 'Great Tribulation' that would affect the entire world, where Satan and his demons would rule the worlds, and people of Truth would be killed right and left, until Jesus would come in the clouds and save us. As of today we know this was not true, even though we believed to to be true. iI was a truth for THAT time, not for the times we live in now.So join us today as we continue to delve into the truth of current prophetic understanding.
Law and Justice~Rick will not be with us for our radio program on Friday, January 20, 2023, because he is participating as a juror in a trial. It is also interesting that in a real sense all of us are participating in a legal proceeding, in that we are all, one way or another, going to get justice or ourselves by either keeping the Commandment of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus, or not. And this will happen whether we like it or not, or believe in it, or not. Being held accountable for our deeds is something that the modern Christian church holds in distain, not because Christian are 'bad' people, but because ALL people in order to be called a Christian MUST believe a lie as if it is the truth. That lie is that they are saved by grace through faith, and that they will not be held accountable in the judgment, because if the firmly hold to this belief they will not come under judgment from the Law.Christians believe that God loves them without conditions; so if they declare that they love God then they are saved by that shared love. After all, God will never bring to justice anyone that He loves, wil He?Join Spirit of Truth Ministry on Friday for our program The Bible on Trial, where we will show that the concept that the Justice of God is found in the words of Jesus, that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today January 14, 2023 for our Anniversary program, celebrating 29 years from the founding of the church Bible class that became our ministry. We will see you at 10AM PT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
A Blast from the Past~Today is January 13, 2023, and this is The Bible on Trial, brought to you by Spirit of Truth Ministry. Rick is on a jury today, fulfilling his civic duty, so I thought I would change things up a little bit and play for you the 5th program ever published by our ministry on Blog Talk Radio, on November 5, 2007. You will hear two voices on this show, the first is my voice, and the second is the voice of Rich Humpal Esq. who was the actual founder of our radio program, who made it possible for us to be 'on air' today. He was the principal instigator of what has now become (literally) the only radio forum on any medium that tests what is called 'truth' against the words and teachings of Jesus. What you will hear today is one of our first forays into radio broadcasting. You will notice that our format has changed a bit since then, but what has not changed is our commitment to discovering, explaining, and learning the Truth about the world and all that is in it through the words of Jesus.Rich is no longer with us, but it was his dream to have a radio program that brought the meaning to the events happening in the world into a clearer focus based on Biblical truth, prophecy, and the words Jesus spoke to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth. Much has changed since these halcyon days of yore (15 years ago), but what has not changed is the commitment that Rich Humpal brought to this radio forum in showing TRUTH for what it is, and what it isn't. I hope you enjoy our program that is a 'blast from the past'.
Truth or Death? ~"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775 at the Virginia Convention.This is one of the great quotes to come out of the prelude to the war that is today named the War of the Revolution. If you read the entire speech you will see that we are nearly in the same situation today as were our founders when faced with the tyranny from the British Crown. The base line issue now as then is that people are still hiding from 'facts in evidence' that we have been lied too continually for a long time, in our political, social, medical, and spiritual lives. And the primary issue in all of this is Truth vs. Lies. The world is now seeing that we have all been taught lies as if they are the truth. Eveyone believes lies in some form or other as if they are truth. So if you believe a lie as if it is the truth, and have decided that what you have is all you need, you are making it impossible for God to open your intellect enough to see your peril.When the time comes for you to make a stand against tyranny, make sure to include the Truth in the list of things you would be willing to die for. Without Truth there is nothing. So in the world of today maybe the quote from above should read, "Give me Truth, or give me death", because life without truth Is death!
Contract Law~When my brother Don was alive he was a graduate of USC Law school, an became an Attorney-at-law (Bar certified in California) with a specialty in Contract Law. He started in Commercial contracts, and then became an assistant city attorney for Pasadena Ca., and then moved to Fresno and became THE Assistant City Attorney. Following 8 years in Civic law, he then became a partner in one of the largest Law Firms in Fresno, and worked as the defacto city attorney under contract to a dozen or so municipalities surrounding Fresno. There was not a single thing that I know of that he didn't know about Contract Law. He also taught Constitutional Law (Con-law) and Contract Law as a local private University in Fresno. He knew his stuff.He had a particular perspective on the 'law' and his understanding as to why Jesus had to come to the earth. We talked about this on a number of occasions, and it became a 'bone-of-contention between us. Eventually, I had to back off, and let him go with his own understanding.His belief was that God had two contracts with mankind; one in force up until his 'sacrifice on the cross', the other that was put in place AFTER his resurrection, and negated the first contract. This first contract was under the Law of God, and was defined (as do we now at STM) in the Contract stated in the 10 Commandments. His understanding was that this contract was basically 'Obey or die'! His view of God was that God loved humans so much that He had to change the first Contract to take this 'love' into account, and make it possible for all humans to be saved through the 'contract law of Grace'. No amount of 'proof' on my part could convince him otherwise. He never saw the apostle Paul as a threat to salvation.This is where we are today; all humanily will soon have to decide whether to abide by the original Contract for salvation, or the second.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today December 31, 2022 for our New Year's Eve program, The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where we will do a 'year in review' about what we have learned about prophecy, the process of sanctificaion that leads to righteousness, salvation, and the Kingdom of God, and how this will affect what we do ahd what it means going forward into 2023. There is much distress in the world today, what with the war in the Eukrane, the 'pandemic' and the lies surrounding it, the Governments of the world colluding with Big Tech in censoring and preventing Truth from getting to the people about nearly everything, and thereby controlling what people must do and must think in order to exist in the world.All or that stems from what Satan has been doing for millenia in trying to exert his control over humanity using the lie that he was the God of Creation, and has the right to own this world forever. And even though the was is won, the battle is not over for the hearts, minds, and souls of humans that believe lies as if they are truth..Spirit of Truth Ministry was founded on the principle that God wants everyone to Know the Truth, and that interference from the evil one has changed lies to truth in their minds. In order to change this we (as individuals) must set aside EVERYTHING we have learn as truth, and look at the world with new eyes that are not covered with the scales of the Ancient Serpent. We must all be willing to humble ourselves and say that 'we don't know what we don't know', and admit what we know know IS NOT truth. Only then can we learn the Truth that God has for us. THIS is what we do at Spirit of Truth Ministry.
The Calm Before the Storm~A while ago I wrote one of these 'episode info' pieces titled "Are We There Yet?", and compared what those that are looking for the 'big change' in the world with a child riding in a car asking this question to his parents. The answer in terms of visible action to bring in the Peace and Prosperity that we have been taliking about here at STM into this world would have to be 'apparently not'. The Master has certainly NOT appeared to His Kingdom, the Wars and rumors of Wars have not ceased, the Wickedness in diverse places is still rampant, and the bringing in of Everlasting Righteousness has not certainly not occurred (Dan.9:24).WHY are we not THERE yet, and why have we not experienced a 'calm before the storm' that would give those of us that are looking for relief and rescue a hint as to where we are in time?While there is (truly) a rescue in the works that will bring Peace and Prosperity to this world torn by physical war and strife, what Jesus came to do was to show His people (the people of His righteous Kingdom) that the spiritual always comes before the physical, the prosperity of Truth will first bring the Peace of Righteousness to the Intellect (heart and mind) before it will manifest itself into the physical world.The calming of the heart and mind will happen even in the midst of the storms of life when we have discovered the Peace that comes from knowing and practicing the Truth of the words of Jesus. Doing this allows us to become righteous IN FACT, anc brings properity to the soul. When we only look at the outward signs of His coming we miss the beauty and assurance of the inward signs in our intellect that He has already come to us and changed us into righteous being, as is He.
Christmas Eve Lessons~At 7 AM Pacific time this morning a live broadcast was heard throughout the world, attended by over 1 Billion people that came together to celebrate the birth of the Savior, Christ the Lord. This Service was presented as Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College, Cambriige, England. and has been a tradition since 1918, begun as a thankful celebration for the end of WW1. If you are interested you can listen to an encore performance this evening at 7PM Central time at the following link: https://www.yourclassical.org/story/2022/12/01/a-festival-of-nine-lessons-and-carols?fbclid=IwAR2LXkDGytZzKGg686ifyGJRkUpAZJfqB8x4sUfnCCHO6-mzQ5SWa5CpQDEI bring this up as way to show that the world is not in the spiritual state that it must be in for the Death Road prophecies that are seen in much of book of Revelation to be accomplished in the world before the Coming of Jesus. If the world was actually in the desperate state that is described in these prophecies there would not be the billion plus people that bather around their listening devices, all at the same time, to listen to these Lessons and carols that describe the birth on earth of the King of the Kingdom of God. Satan would have already shut this service down, and it would not be possible to have this gathering of worshippers to this singular location, for this unique act of worship.The time for the fulfillment of the prophecies of Death and Destruction, and instigation of an evil one world government has come, and gone, and will never, indeed Can never, happen.What is left is for the world to come together with one voice and reject the overt evil that is causing havoc and mayhem; this will happen very soon.So on the Christmas Eve, we at Spirit of Truth ministry wish you peace, and the prosperity of the Words of the Way, the Truth and the Light, that came to earth from the Father, through Jesus His Son.
The Program you will hear today is a Past Program that will encourage you in your search for truth. Spirit of Truth Ministry wishes you a wonderful Christmas time. During this time remember that Jesus came to Bring the Truth through the words that He brough to earth from the Father.We will be offering a Best Of program today, December 23, 2022, at 11AM on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Prophetic Fulfillment~2. In order for a prophetic fulfillment to occur, ALL elements of the prophecy must occur as stated within the prophecy. (This precludes partial or multiple fulfillments, or types of fulfillments.) From the Seven Rules for Prophetic Interpretation - (http://spiritoftruthministry.net/STM/Must_Read/Entries/2007/4/27_Seven_Rules_of_Prophetic_Interpretation_by_Dennis_Neufeld_-_Staff_Writer.html).Prophecy is just about to be fulfilled in our sight, just not the prophecies that we have been expecting, and that we have been told to look for by our cherished authorities for ofer 2,000 years.Rick Sterling at Spirit of Truth Ministry has been speaking of this on our programs since August 14, 2021, when he first made a presentation that showed that the prophecies of the end that the church and others have been touting as a 'sure thing' will not, and now can never happen, because the order of those prophecies are 'out of order', and the time for them to have occuredhas already past (No. 6). We (STM) have known for years that because of the deliniation of the Seven Rules (ref. above) that unless all of the elements of a prophecy have occured in the order listed, that prophecy has not happened. We also know that Time and Timing in prophecy is critical to the fulfillment, and that when the time for that specific prophecy has come and gone, then that specific prophecy will never happen.That is why we are 'where we are' right now, today. The world has changed, and prophecy has changed with it, and is seen is as a potential for fulfillment in specific prophecies in both the Old and the New Testaments. It is for this reason that you need to listen to our program today, because Rick is going to 'wrap up' the understanding of this situation as a Christmas Present of unimaginable importance, for those of you that want to know both Where and When you are in time.
When Are We~"Are we there yet?" Those of us that have children have heard this phrase time and again when we have been on road trips, or even short trips to the market. I find it interesting that this phrase, in this form, in these exact words, in every language, come from children that have not had any exposure to those words in any other context. Most children, especially small children, have a low 'patience' threshold, and don't understand delay. They want what they want, and they want it 'right now', not sometime in the future.This is also the same for people that 'study' biblical end-time prophecy, especially those that have a favorite expositor that says what they want to hear. They listen to the words of this person, and because the have a 'child-like' faith they trust that this person is in fact sent from God, so that they can feel good about where they see themselve in the grand scheme of things. They don't want to be left out, or left behind, or have to do any hard work in learning and understanding the truth about the plans God has for them. They want to believe by a simple, uncomplicated method/faith that someone else has figured out for them, not realizing that God does not work that way when dealing with TRUTH.Even when they are shown the Truth about "When" they are in time, it still takes dilligent work and research to aquire the knowledge and wisdom that is needed to get a true picture.And then, when they have achieved a consistent and logical understanding of how prophecy works, someone comes along and tells them that the picture they now see is not what they believe it ot be. That is what has now happened, and why what Rick and the Spirit of Truth Ministry team is revealing on our programs a here-to-fore unseen time-line is so important in knowing WHEN we are prophecy, and what the future holds.
All In~The last 8 words in the Declaration of Indiependence of the United States of America delineate the enormous risk the 56 signers took in stating their resolve and commitment to a cause that changed the world. With the words these founders put not only their own lives, but the lives of their wives, children, property and money on the line for Freedom from tyranny. Some had little in the way of physical comforts, others had much. Yet all were equal in their commitment to a cause that was much bigger than them. They were 'All In' for their righteous cause."And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."Nine signers lost their lives as a result of battle wounds. 17 more lost everything they owned. Some of their wives and children were mistreated, and one man lost all 13 of his children. They faced capture, torture ahd execution. They were willing to give EVERYTHING for the cause of Freedom. They went 'All In'.Today there is a Spiritual Battle going on for the hearts, minds and souls of the people of the world. This is not a battle of guns, tanks, and bullets. This war is being fought for the very existence of the Kingdom of God on this earth, and from all outward appearance it seems that Satan is winning. There are millions of people that don't recognize that this war is taking place, and millions more that believe that they are already saved from the ravages of this war because they believe that God has saved them by grace through their faith. The ammunition that will win this war are the words of TRUTH that Jesus brought to earth from His Father, to which we must pledge our own "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor" in order to win victory. Pledge to be ALL IN for Truth!
Just Breathe~Current events in the world, and in our USA, have now begun to really worry many people. Tight money, where you can't get a loan with a credit score of 800 because the money is just not there for the loan. Rocket attacks by Ukraine in to Poland, and threats of tactical nuclear ground attacks that might start WW3. Policies by invasive governments that are limiting freedoms for people such that they can't tell truth without being banned from social media. Robbery and murder rates skyrocketing in big cities.With all this happening, it almost sounds like we are in a Great Tribulation, doesn't it?If you have been listening to our programs on our Blogtalkradio.com/sot station you will know that the prophecies that have these things happening before the 'Coming of the King' are no longer in play. You KNOW that a Great Tribulation is not, will not, and indeed cannot happen, because the time and timing of these events has already come, and gone. You know that there is another prophetic time-line in play that will lead to Peace and Prosperity on a scale unimagined, given the current but outdated understanding of Biblical End Time prophecy that is currently espoused by the 'experts'.When you understand the TRUTH about how salvation and prophecy really work, something will happen insde of you that will change your life forever; you will be able to JUST BREATHE, because you know the outcome of these things, and will now longer be worried or concerned as to what is going on in the world, and how it will affect you.It is your choice to know the truth about these things, or not. Truth casts out all fear. Choose Truth.So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." John 8: 31-32.
Your Will? ~One of my wife's favorite sayings/prayers is, "Dear Lord, please give me patience; and give it to me RIGHT NOW!" As humorous as this is, there is truth in the idea that we often ask for something from God that we think will be to our benefit, and benefit the Kingdom of God, and then put conditions on the timing of God's response. We pray as if our prayer is something that God must do, because our need is great, and disaster is imminent should God fail to give us what we need at the moment of the asking.The classic 1947 Christmas movie "The Bishops Wife" starring David Niven (Henry, the Bishop), Cary Grant (Dudley, the Angel), and Lorretta Young (Julia, the Bishops Wife), relates a story of a pastor that asks God for guidance in the building of a new Cathedral, and is visited immediately by Dudley, who claims to be an angel sent from God at Henry's (the Bishop) request. Dudley ingratiates himself into the household as Henry's assistant, and Julia, and the whole household is drawn to this kind hearted assistant, all except for Henry, who believes this 'angel' is from hell not heaven. Later Henry prays for God to call back his angel when it become clear that the Cathedral is not the top priority in Henry's life, Julia is. Dudley reminds Henry that he didn't pray for a Cahtedral, he prayed for guidance, and recieved it. (This is a 'must watch'.)When we pray for what we think want we often don't see the future ramifications for what we are asking. I call this the 'my will' syndrome. God knows everything that we need to be joyful, productive and effective in life, before we ask for it. Patience is given when we ask for our hearts desires, knowing that God knows what is best for us and our situation, and then end our request with "Your will be Done"! This puts the responsibility for the outcome on God, not on us, giving us peace!
Courage~“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”― Mark Twain“Courage is found in unlikely places.”― J.R.R. TolkienCourage is a word that defies logic and reason. The ability to be Brave comes from a place in the soul that says that 'This is a point of no return, where I cannot go past this place without taking a stand for my principles, even though it kills me'!What is tha basis for this kind of courage? If you ask a soldier why they did what they did to sustain a grievous wound that changed their life forever, they will never tell you they did it for the medal pinned to their hospital gown, or for any fame that might have come along in the aftermath. They will tell you that is was for the love of their fellow soldiers that would have died if he had not intervened with his body, mind and spiirt, even to death.Is it courage for a father to jump in front of a speeding car in order o through his child from it's path, and be killed?Is it courage for a mother to stand before the school Principle, and demand that those students that are bullying her daughter be stopped, even when the bullies are children of the wealthy or famous?Courage, bravery, are only ever exhibited at times of deep stress and pain, when the choices for recourse are "Do, or don't Do, there is no try!" When a situation is at it crux, and there is no other way but forward, or death. No one is brave without a reason beyond their own lives.And THIS is why jesus did what He did in providing a way for the people of His Righteous Kingdom of God to gain a pathway to eternal life, Jesus did not die a horrible death to provide grace for someone that simply 'believed' that He exists to save them. jesus died to prove their worth, because they are righteous in fact as is He, by keeping His Words.
Honest Mistake~
. . . and he *said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?' And the man was speechless.
"Don't worry, it was an honest mistake" is an expression in common use in our society today. We will screw up somehow, and we will use this expression as a way of making ourselves feel a little better, or easing the pain of someone who is with us a the time. And for the most part it works. No one likes to feel guilty when they have hurt a friend or loved one. Telling them that what they did "was an honest mistake" gives them some wiggle room to lay aside the pain of the guilt by deflecting the 'mistake' outside of themselves. We all do this from time to time.
The term 'honest mistake' would seem on the surface to be an oxymoron. Recognizing that you have made a mistake and owning up to it is a process that is integral to the process of Sanctification. You recognize the error, own it, release it by asking for specific forgiveness, and (here is the kicker) never make that same mistake again. This is the prime definition of 'honest mistake', where the operative word is 'honest'.
The issue with the man in the parable of the Wedding Feast recorded in Matthew 22: 1-14 is that he had NOT made an honest mistake in coming to the Wedding Feast without having put on the proper garment. He was expecting the King to say to him, "Friend, what you have done is an honest mistake, so come into the wedding feast by my grace". When the King called him on the fact of his perfidy (lying) the man was speechless.
"When a person who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, they will either quit being mistaken or cease being honest".
~Richard Humpal, J.D.
Making the same mistake over and over, and expecting forgivenss and salvation in self-delusion, believing a lie as if it is true.
We are taking the day off after the Thanksgiving Holiday, and will join you LIVE for the program tomorrow, on November 26. 2022.
Our program today is a 'Best Of' program from 9/22/2022.
We are taking the day off after Thanksgiving to spend some time with our families. Today's program on November 25,2022 at 10 AM PT is a BEST OF program from September 2, 2022, and we believe you will be bless by the listen: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join us tomorrow for our regular live program.
Fight Back~
"When a person who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, they will either quit being mistaken or cease being honest".
~Richard Humpal, J.D.
There IS an abundance of mis-information, dis-information, obfuscation, and downright lying happening in environments that here-to-fore you would have thought would be immune to such things. We all know (blatant generalization) that religion is one of the biggies in this regard. Every religion has in it an endemic propensity for institutional arrogance, that takes the social form that states, "My religion is better than your religion", and "We have all the truth you need, and you don't".
But this is by not means the only construct that does this. We see scientific endeavor giving way to opinion over fact, as evident in the Covid-19 fiasco involving the vaccuums (intentional mis-spelling) that have caused more people harm then anything a virus should be able to do.
Our political leaders on both sides of the isle regularly lie through their teeth in telling us to not get too involved in what they are doing, as they say "There is nothing to see here, move along", in hopes that you will ingnore the theft and laundering of trillions of dollars into the coffers of their political cronies, while blaming all the ills of society 'on the other guy'.
The quote by Dr. Humpal goes right to the heart of the issue; Self Honesty is the most rare commodity in existance, and without it there is no standard from which we can gain any understanding of truth that is not controlled by our own emotions.
This is why we at Spirit of Truth Ministry have taken the onus of the viewing of truth awayt from individual activity, and acknowledge that Truth needs to be a standard into and unto itself, This is why we use the words that Jesus gave His own disciples as the standard from which all truth comes.
Can vs. Should~
There are a variety of expressions that use the word 'Can' in trying to convince people (especially children) to not limit themselves as they stretch their minds and bodies in learning how to accomplish their goals. "You can do anything you put your mind too." "I think I can, I think I can." (The Little Engine That Could). "Do, don't do. No try." (A version used by Yoda in Star Wars).
We all get trapped in the 'Don'ts', especially as we were growing up, as our parents tried to keep us from hurting ourselves, and this often has lead to limiting success. "Don't do that or you will hurt yourself." "Don't to this or you will embarrass your family." "Don't be rediculous!"
The word 'Can' is a very positive word, but there does need to be some tempering in it's use at the extremes of behavior. There are a lot of things you 'Can' do; the overriding question becomes 'Should you do it'?
Social tempering in the use of Can and Should is express by Rules or Laws that attempt to define the difference between the human capability of doing a behavior and actually choosing to do a behavior that would harm either yourself or others.
This is the purpose of all Laws, even though sometime those laws go too far.
The Creator God had already set limits of behavior even before He formed Adam and placed him in the Garden. Adam and his wife were fully aware of the that limiting factor, "Do not eat from the Tree in the middle of the Garden, or you will be executed." They both failed to learn the difference between 'Can' and 'Should', thinking that God didn't care about the difference. They were wrong.
To enter the Kingdom of God, we must know that difference, and do it by learning the Covenant and keeping it. Revelation 12: 17.
Discretion~
You have heard the phrase, "Discretion is the better part of valor." This means in part 'Don't get into a dangerous situation that you can't get out of'. Underlaying this is the concept that there is a choice to make when confronted with an issue or situation that could have dire or deadly consequences to your well being.
Applying discretion can be a wise choice when, say for instance, a delivery person wants to put a package inside a fence where there is a huge guard dog, or whether to decide to go to a Christmas party on a freezing winter night, with ice on the roads, and a blizzard in progress.
But there are instances in which discretion is not applicable to an issue or situation, an instance where you have NO CHOICE, that if you are going to live you must simply "Do, or don't do, there is no 'try'". (Mr. Miyagi - Karate Kid, 1986).
This concept is particularly true when it comes to the Law, and lawful behavior. In Law discretion is not a factor. When a Law relies on the discretion of the state to 'show cause' in applying that law, that law become moot on it's face. A federal judge just enjoined (stopped the actionof) the State of New York in several parts of their concealed carry law that relied on the discretion of the state in prohibiting certain people from being issues carry permits. Discretion is not a valid option in the application of Law.
Christians believe that Paul said that after the resurrection of Jesus, God decided that He could apply His own discretion in saying that people can choose to not obey His Commands and still become members of His Kingdom, and thus be saved. God, through Jesus, NEVER made this statement. Neither is there power inherent in an individual to decide to use discretion in choosing to obey the Commandments, or not.
Believing you have this discretion is very dangerous, indeed!
Tme Change~
Birth is a beginning. Death is an End, or so it would seem on the surface. If time has a beginning (either with Creation or the 'Big Bang', depending on your perspective), then time must also have an end. But time also has another component that changes the value of what occurs 'in time', and that is the shifting of one timeline to another.
When these space/time shifts occur it is rare that humans catch on to what has happened, because most of the time they never know that a time-line has changed from one to another. There are cases (as have been reported) that some people remember certain things that have happened in a different way than history has shown; this is the Mandella Effect.
Interestingly, and as we have been discussing on this program since August 2021, there is also evidence of a shift in the timing and events of the End of Time that when observed clinically and without emotion is seen in the differences between the prophecies of Revelation (especially chapter 13) and Daniel 2. There is also the enigma of Revelation 10 that for the most part had been ignored in the views of the Main Stream Churches concerning the prophecies of the Seven Thunders.
There ARE two separate and distince time-lines seen in these prophecies; one that has a Great Tribulation, and one which does not.
But how can this be? Doesn't God know the End from the Beginning? Of course He/They do. But there is a plan in place, and now being seen by a few people, that show that God has planned for the one element that can actually change Time, and that is Freedom of Choice.
There has been a shift away from one time-line to a different time-line, both of which are seen in Bible Prophecy, but are not recognized as having happened, until NOW.
There has been a Time Change. End of the Beginning has changed for the better. Find out how by listening to our programs.
Interesting Times~
There is an ancient Chinese curse that says, "May you live in interesting times". This presupposes that 'interesting times' is indeed a curse, and that those times will be uncomfortable at there very least.
The other definition of 'interesting times' can also be exciting, challenging, and rife with opportunity to grow. These two definitions are based solely on your personal perspective, and not on the actual events that are taking place, or anything that is happening to you personally. Hard Times are always bi-directional; you can use them, or be used by them - opposite polarity.
There are things that are happening in our world that are challenging, and will become more so as time goes on. The most prominent thing that will make these events challenging is how well prepared you are to deal with them.
From a physial side; do you have extra water and food at home, do you keep a stash of cash and/or a little ready gold or silver for purchasing essentials, do you drive your car off the top of your gas tank, etc.
But being physically prepared is just the beginning. What about your mental, emotional, and yes-spiritual preparedness. Are your ready in these areas to deal with life from either side of the good/bad divide?
The single most importand element of making life a blessing or a curse is your relationship with the Truth, which is the single most important 'commodity' that exists in time and space. If you view the world through eyes that are filtered with desires and wishes, then you will not be prepared for a reality that simply IS. If you view life through the TRUTH in all it's forms then you will be prepared to accomplish the things that can change a curse to a blessing, and allow you to "Know the Truth, and the truth will set you free". (John 8:32).
Truth brings Peace!
Continuing our study into the shift from the Death Road prophecies seen in Rev. 13, to the prophecy in Revelation 10 of the Seven Thunders, that has put the world on the Life Road.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling today October 29, 2022 at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Distractions~
For most of us (excluding those who choose to live a monastic life) life can be a series of decisions that involve conflicts, resolutions, frustrations, joys, sorrows, and seemingly hundreds of choices every day. There are also surprises that are both welcome, and unwelcome, events that while not unexpected, given previous life choices, are more serious than most. Just such an event happened to me yesterday.
I am fair skinned, and due to having had three second degree sunburns (blisters) before I was 18 years old I have been fighting skin cancer in its various forms (including malignant melanoma), for decades. Two days ago I went to my Dermatologist and had what is termed a 'shave' biopsy. For the sake of propriety I won't go into the details, but for me this is something that has happened one to two times a year for a long time. Usually it takes a week for the results to be read by a Pathologist. My Attending Physician must have put a rush on the sample, because yesterday I received a call from the Resident Physician telling me that the diagnosis had been made, the cancer is a squamous cell carcinoma. I was told that they are going to schedule me for MOHS surgery sometime in the next week or so, as this cancer is particularly invasive and fast growing. Oh JOY!
I have had 15 MOHS surgeries in the last 22 years, so this is not something new to me, but I have had only one other experience with this form of cancer, and to say the least this has become quite a distraction.
All of us have distractions that take us out of the comfort zone, and put us in a place where it becomes 'nearly' impossible for us to concentrate on what should be most important in lives, learning the words of Jesus that leads us to Eternal Life. These words bring peace in the midst of the storms of distractions that seek to overome us with fear and doubt; "Peace, be Still."
Mandella Effect~
Last night on a very popular PodCast the host pointed out several of his listeners had mentioned movies that exhibited phenomenon where a person recalls something that did not happen or that something happened differently from the way it happened in the movie that they recalled. One such movie is The Wizard of Oz and Dorothy's shoes. in the early version her shoes are just 'Ruby Slippers' with a plain red color. In a remastered version the slippers are covered with small red discs, and a big red bow. This is called The Mandella Effect. This occurs in numerous films, and even books, where people remember a character saying one thing, but later they say something just a little different.
It is possible that this happens because of a shift in Timelines.
We know for certain that in prophecy in the Bible there has been a huge shift from Death Road prophecy where there was to be a Time of Trouble such as never has been since the foundation of the world, to Life Road prophecy where this will no longer occur. Rick has been talking about this, and proving this from Scripture for months, going back to August 14, 15, 2021 on our programs from that Friday and Sabbath.
And lest you believe that this cannot happen we have poiinted out that in the prophecy of the end in Daniel 2, there is no mention of a Time of Trouble, and in Revelation 10 there is mentioned the Seven Thunders prophecies, which have not yet been revealed.
Things in the world are heating up rapidly, So stay tuned to our program as we get closer to the Big Reveal about what will happen before the world changes for the good. We are in that time right now.
Prepare for War!
It appears evident to me that the issues that are causing the world to implode are coming to a head. War in the Ukraine, war in our cities and towns, war in our schools, war in our churches, war in our families, war in our finances; crime and conficts in every area of our lives are causing stress and pain. There doesn't seem to be any option for peace anywhere, especially in our hearts.
The single most important 'cure' for the rampant uncertainty and downright terror in our world is not to be prepared with extra food and water (always a good thing), or with a small emergency store of physical gold or silver in a save in your home (good as well), or to have a 'hidy hole' you can take your family to in case of a societal breakdown (already happening); it IS to know the bottom line truth about who God is and what They sent Jesus to earth to do. When you know the truth you can't help but have peace even in the storm.
But IF (and this is a big IF) you believe a lie as if it is the truth, then when the time comes where you must rely on that understanding to be able to save your eternal life, you will be wholly unprepared to survive the storm you thought you were prepared for.
Christians don't just 'believe' that know the truth, they 'KNOW' that they know it, because they have the Bible, and they trust their pastors and church leaders that they have the undisputed truth, and as long as they are IN the church (pick on) they will be saved.
So in aid of being better prepared for the war that is upon us, we will play a game on our FaceBook Group page titled "What Did Jesus Say?", where Spirit of Truth Ministry will post a statement, and you will have to decide by giving a yes or no response whether Jesus said it, or not. The answers will reveal how much you really know about what Jesus said, and whether you actually know the truth about salvation.
Reign Reign Go Away . . .
We have all sung this nursery rhyme, either having heard it from our parents, or in early education environments. It is a cute song, easy to learn, and often modified to include a different child's name other than 'Johnny' to personalize the song.
Recently the Reign of Queen Elizabeth II ended with her death. She had 'served' as Queen for 70 years, longer than any monarch in English history. The pomp and circumstance of her funeral reflected the love and devotion her people indicating that she was well loved and admired. With her passing the English monarchy while not coming to an end, has certainly been deminished, and there are those in England that believe that the monarchy as a whole have become a burden on society, rather than a strength.
So the referenced nursery rhyme as a homophone could well apply here, where the word 'rain' is changed to reign (sovereign rule), and would refer to the demise of the English Monarchy.
This concept is also seen in Christianity with the apparent identity of the church changing from the Sovereign rule of Jesus into the idea that Jesus is our buddy and friend, and really doesn't mind not being the King of the Kingdom of God, just someone that came to die for our sins. This was started shortly after a usurper took over dominion of the earth that had minutes before belonged to the Creator, when Adam and Eve turned rulership of the earth over to the Enemy/Satan. This was stengthend when shortly after Jesus left the earth when the 'apostle' Paul came along and changed the teachings of the Son of God, the process of Sanctification, into an identity that was totally opposite, salvation by grace through faith.
With this change (recognized and approved by the 'church') Jesus was no longer soverign, and His Reign went away. His Kingship will be returned when His Kingdom appears, as has now happened.
Learn Truth, or Learn Lies~
How do children learn about Truth and Lies? Having been a parent of young children, and remembering how my parents trained me, I realized that a common thread from my parents that I passed on to my children was the phrase, 'Don't lie, always tell the truth'! I was taught thay lying was bad, and that telling the truth was good, and that doing the first was punished, and doing the second was rewarded. However, I also learned early on that this was not alway the case. Parents want to believe that their children as pure as the wind driven snow, and would rather not have to deal with the alternative. Because of this I learned that getting out of trouble often involved telling a 'little white lie', and was very often rewarded by my parents (and me with my children) because they/we believed the lie was easier to deal with than if I had told the truth, admitted the mistake, taken my punishment, and got on with life. The problem with doing this often is that you have to remember the lie, otherwise you could get caught down the road when you forgot you lied and were caught in it. Lying for me, as it turned out at the time, was easier and more simple than telling the truth.
Parents consentrate on teaching children how to 'learn to not tell lies', instead of teaching them to learn the truth and watch the lies go away.
Lying is easy, learning and practicing the Truth is difficult. Yet when we learn the truth about anything it automatically precludes having to tell lies about it. Lying is a cover for not knowing the truth. When you believe a lie as if it is the truth you don't know what you don't know; and not knowing the truth is not a sin. But when you are confronted with the idea that what you believe to be true might be a lie, and you refuse to learn the truth, this now becomes a big problem.
To stop having to lie, learn the Truth!
Is it possible for physical human beings that are flesh and blood, that live in the physical world, to be able to see the spiritual realm?
When God created human kind (males and females) on the 5th day of creation (Gen. 1: 27-28), were these people able to see spiritual beings? There are references to God having sent angels (lead by Lucifer-The Light Bearer) to teach these newly minted physical human beings how to live and be productive in this brand new world. Angels are light beings, but the people of the earth after the appeared on earth all at once did not know anything about how to manage this new world. They had to be taught.
When Adam was Formed from the dust of the ground, long after this first creation had been declared (Gen. 2:1), and he had then been placed in a location separated from the world know as The Garden in Eden, a specific 'gated' location where the now fallen beings of earth could not enter. It is assumed that because God spoke to the man, and gave him instructions as to what he was to do in the Garden, that God met face to face with his creation, indicating God took a form that Adam could actually see.
And here is where the physical and spiritual realm coincide; because Adam (at this point) had not yet sinned, he was able to see God and not die. It was only after Adam and his wife Eve willfully disobeyed their Creator that they were no longer able to be in His/Their presence and not be instantly vaporized.
People pray that they will be able to 'see' God, but at the same time continue to maintain a sinful nature (Christianity). This is not, and has NEVER been true. To see God a person must have eyes that are spiritual, and wholly righteous. This righteousness is not granted, it is earned by learning and practicing the Truth.
To see God and not die we must be righteous IN FACT. This is the Truth that Jesus taught.
The Day Before Tomorrow~
When a disaster hits, such the recent Hurricane Ian in Florida, the people that lived through it will never forget where they were and what they were doing on that day. It is imbeded in their emotions such that they will never forget where they wer and what they were doing, and who they were with. Those of us that are old enough, remember where we were on November 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas TX. Or what we were doing on July 16, 1969 when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon. These kinds of events are 'Watershed' moments in history and in our lives, that if you were alive and old enough you never forget. And just like Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941), or September 11, 2001, the days after these events ring down through history to this day.
But how often to we remember what was going on in our lives the day before an event such a these takes place? Life tends to go along apace, with no significant interruptions from day to day. No one EXPECTS something to happen to them that is 'out of the ordinary'. Even when we are told that 'something is up', and that it would be a good idea if we became ready, most of us are of the mind set that "I will believe it when I see it"!
So as an experiment, today October 7, 2022, put in your memory three things from today that you will/can remember should something significant happen tomorrow. Today is the Day before Tomorrow, and if tomorrow turns out to be a significant day in the history of the world, the history of the Kingdom of God, wouldn't it be wonderful to have memories of what you did, who you were with, and what your life was like BEFORE everything changed - if it does?
IF October 8, 2022 turns out to be a 'Watershed' moment in time, you will be able to remember who you were and the Truth you believed on the day before, and be open to a Truth you never knew.
Hold On~
How many times have you experienced a situation where you are waiting with hopeful expectation for something you really want to happen, and you decide to stop waiting, and take another path, only to finded a few minutes, or days, or months, or years later you see someone else reaping the reward for waiting that you could have had if you had only held on longer? If this has happened only once it is one too many.
This is expecially true if you KNOW that you are on the correct path, but someone in your family or circle of friends slips in and convinces you that you are wrong.
Can an expected outcome be a 'pipe dream'? Of course. But in that case is simply means that you did not due your due-diligence sufficient to show you that what you were waiting for was not real. BUT IF you have done your research, and you know for a fact that what you believe to be true IS true, and you stop holding on to that truth, then it is possible for you to experience the vast disappointment of knowing that is you had just held on a little longer you would have fulfilled your dream.
''But if that evil slave says in his heart, 'My master is not coming for a long time" (Matt, 24:48), the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know (Matt. 24:50).
If you do not KNOW THE TRUTH, then you won't have the will to HOLD ON. This is why knowing the truth is so important to not only your life here and now, but also your eternal life there and then.
'So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you." Rev. 3:3.
You can't hold on to something you don't know you need. So take the opportunity to learn the Truth, and then you can HOLD ON to the end.
Wake Up - See the Light~
'So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you." Rev.3:3.
"But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into." Matt. 24:43.
Jesus often spoke using words or phrases such as light, darkness, time of night, being blind, seeing, sleeping, waking up, being alert, being dead. He had a very difficult time getting across to people, including His own disciples, that in all of His teaching He was not speaking of 'oursight', as in seeing and interacting with and in the physical world, but 'INSIGHT', the seeing and understanding of the spiritual world wherein dwells both lies and truth.
And as then, today most (if not all) Christians, and those that say they love Jesus, still don't understand the true meaning of what Jesus taught in-so-far as what our relationship with the spiritual world needs to be in order to be 'saved'. They believe a huge lie as if it is the truth, because that lie appears to them as being the light that has guided them to 'salvation by grace through faith', which assures them of eternal life in spite of and even IN their sin. They have substituted the words of an imposter for the words that Jesus himself brought from the Father, and believe them because they beautiful, lovely, pure, and sweet to the ear, but are not any of these things.
Waking up and opening your eyes to a Truth that is totally different than what you already know is very difficult to do, so much so that when you hear the Truth through to the words of Jesus that He gave His own disciples they sound odd, and false.
The Time is NOW!
Before you say "Don't be a nervous Nelly", let me make something crystal clear; we ARE, right now today, in a time when you will remember where you were when the events that are just about to take place actually happen. I still remember where I was on November 22, 1963. I was in Chicago with my mom and dad where my dad was attending a medical convention. when Walter Cronkite announced that John F. Kennedy had been assasinated. I was 13 years of age, and old enough to know why my mom was weeping.
World news is looking very scary, what with events in China and the Ukraine heading the list. Everyone that i know that has been keeping track of the news from Washington is disturbed by what our goverment has been doing to the Constitution and the Bill or Rights.
And I want to remind you of what Jesus said to His disciples from time to time, as they felt pressure from being in uncomfortable situations with their Master; He said to them:
"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful." John 14:27.
In modern speak this would be; "Hey guys, relax, I've got this!"
The 'Enemy' is pulling out all the stops (a pipe organ reference) in order to get as many people to join his side as possible before he 'faces the music' of what he has done to the world. Satan is trying his best to try to convince the good people of the world that they are in a Time of Trouble, such as has never been on earth. He will try to make people believe that it is NOT God that will win, but that 'he' will win permanent rulership of the world. This is a scary thought, but it WILL NEVER HAPPEN. That is because the time in which this could happen is alreay in the past.
Whatever happens, God Wins!
Match Play~
The President's Cup is now being played at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, NC. This is where players from the USA compete against International players in a team event. The only reason I mention this is that the format used in this tournament is not a traditional individual stroke play event, where the player with the lowest total score over 4 days wins. Like the Ryder Cup, this tourament is played using the Match Play format. And without going any deeper into the 'why', the difference is that Match play is a team event where the side that wins the most holes over it's opponent wins the tournament. It is not just a game of tactics of one player playing better that another, it is a strategic game where the Captain of the Team (not a player) must choose which players to put against an opposing players in four different formats in order to get the best result; and then those players must execute that strategy with tactics that get the better of, and often demoralize the opposition, such that they cannot recover from their mistakes. The winning side must score 15 1/2 points out of 30 points total to win. The difference between winning and losing can be on 1/2 point. The winning team has only to be 'good enough' to win the day.
We are today in this world in a similar 'match play' event, only this time is for the side and the Captain that will ultimately be the ruler of the world. This event has been going on since the God of Creation lost rulership of the world to Satan in the Garden of Eden. The final result of this 'match' is either eternal life or eternal death. And though the outcome has already been decided, and truth wins, the opposing force of Satan is trying their best (or worst) to overcome Truth using the strategy that mankind will always love lies over truth. Conditions in the world look bleak, yet God will have people that are righteous enough to win the match for LIFE.
No Truth, No Excuse~
"But where there is no law, there also is no violation." Rom. 4:15.
What will happen to you if you fail to take the opportunity to learn the Truth about Salvation? I don't mean to be a 'Debbie Downer', yet as we have seen with Adam and Eve in the Garden there are both consequences and punishments for disobeying the Commandments of God.
Revelation 12:17 states that there are two requirements for entry into the Kingdom of God; 1) keep the Commandments of God, and 2) hold to the testimony of Jesus. In reality you can't have one without the other, and just saying, "I love Jesus, and He loves me" won't cut it when it comes to the one thng everyone that wishes to be 'SAVED' must do to achieve that goal - and that is enter the Kingdom of God.
What Paul describes in the Romans 4 is his attempt to set aside the LAW, because we are 'saved by grace through faith', and that the Law actually promotes sinning, so if you get rid of the Law and believe you are saved by faith then you enter the Kingdom of God by His grace. Jesus NEVER taught this.
And even if you insist on still believing that Paul was an officialy designated Apostle of Jesus Christ, then you have to decide if the words of Paul take precedence over the words of Jesus that He brought from the Father. Paul said that they do, Jesus said that they don't (look it up). And many scholars say that because Paul's words came after Jesus left earth that his words take precedents over Jesus because they came after HIS. In other words, Jesus changed His mind about how salvation works, and really, how likely is that, especially since Revelation was laid down long after Paul was dead.
Jesus brought the testimony of the Father to the earth. He even told this to Pilate at the end of His ministry (John 18:36-37). Not being willing to learn Truth puts salvetion in jeopardy.
Currency~
In your mind's eye picture water in a stream flowing down hill. This water is guided by the banks of the stream, that changes the direction of the flow of the water based on the topography of the land, flowing left and right as the land dictates. If it rains, more water is added to te stream, and can cause the stream to overflow the banks and possibly do damage to the surrounding terrain. As the water in the stream flows down hill it will reach an join a slightly larger stream, and that stream may join a river, the banks of which must be larger than the stream in order to accomidate the now larger mass of water. The current can also change from fast to slow dependiing on the depth of the river or stream; a shallow stream flows faster, a deep stream flows more slowly, and this all depends on the pitch of the elevation change; steeper equals faster.
Money is the water. The flow of this money is the currency, and is directed by the banks (as a stream), that are financial institutions that guide this money from the source, the manufacturors, to the end users, the consumers. The banks absorb some of this money/water, as a fee for providing the means of directing the flow of money.
But what if the money they are directing is not based on any kind of physical standard, such a precious metals, or in-ground commodities (i.e., consumable plants, or petroleum)? What then is this money worth? Nothing. It's value would be based soley upon the "full faith and credit" of the entity that issued that money/currency.
Truth is the currency of the Kingdom of the Heavens. Lies are the currency of the kingdom of this world. One is worth everything because it's value is based upon a standard that is like gold, the words of the author of Truth, Jesus.. The other is worth nothing, because it is based upon lying words of Satan, and an intangible 'faith' that has no value in and of itself.
Joh 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.
Words are the foundation of both truth and lies. Without words there would be neither. With words there are both.
If you take some flour, water, yeast and salt and combine them properly you can end up with a loaf of bread. You can also take the same ingredients and combine them differently and get wall paper paste.
Words in proper combination are truth, but in a different combination these same words are lies. The defining issue is how and by whom are they given.
A person can believe a lie as if it is the truth, simply because those words are what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. Another person can believe the Truth against the most beautiful lies because they are convicted by the very same words in different combinations that caused another person to believe those truthful words are a lie.
Jesus was familiar with this as he confronted the Pharisees that demanded that He give them proof that He was 'of God.
Joh 9:39 And Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind."
When Truth is presented it is the Words that reveal that Truth, not belief. Truth and Lies are both believable, it is the words behind them that reveal their nature.
This is why having a gold standard of truth is important in believing Truth rather than lies. The words of Jesus are that standard, believe them.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry on Friday September 9. 2022 and listen to our program The Bible on Trial at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot, for another episode that will bring us further toward a more complete understanding of the Truth about where we are in time, and what is happening right now, and in the near future, that will lead us to the Kingdom of God. Prophecy IS being fulfilled, just in a way that most Bible scholars and Bible teachers have not seen, and are not looking for, and do not understand. Rick Sterling brings a unique and fascinating new look at the prophecies in Daniel 2 and Revelation 10, that will explain why we are not right now in the Time of Trouble such as never was, and how these Death Road prophecies will NEVER be fulfilled, since the Life Road prophecies have taken over. You will not hear these concepts anywhere else. See you then.
Frustration~
There are many things that can cause frustration in human beings; loosing your car keys, high gas prices, heat waves, car problems, children problems, and the list goes on. Frustration is a part of daily life in our modern world, especially when technology doesn't work properly. You mini-computer, often called a cel-phone, is one of those technologies that can be the most rewarding items in you life, that can help you in a huge variety of ways. But when that remarkable device breaks it can be one of the most frustrating events we face. We have come to rely heavily on this device to do so many things in our daily lives, things we no longer find challenging because if we need a recipe, or need to check our bank balance, contact our friends or loved ones, or find directions to a previously unknown location, it is no more than opening the phone, touching an App Icon, and 'voila', you have your answer and you are on your way.
So when this device does not perform properly, for any number of seemingly esoteric reasons that cause loss of connectivity, it can stop us in our tracks. We can lose contact with our world because or a software glitch that has shut down our ability to connect with our family, friends, co-workers, the world, our LIFE.
Yet we hardly ever think about losing connection with our spiritual nature and God; that Divine connectivity that that can help deminish the frustrations of our temporal life, by making it possible to stay connected to the source of our Spiritual/Eternal life. We hardly ever think about this connection, except maybe in particularly frustrating or scary situations. Then we go to God for help. To find true peace we need a constant connection with the Father, and we can do this through spending time with the words of Jesus.
No Peace~
"Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known." Matt. 10:26.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." Matt. 10 34.
Last night, and for the first time in American history, a POTUS villified more than half of the nation by essentially saying they were traitors to Democracy. Think about those words for a moment. Are those words true? If the USA is presented as a democracy by the Authorities then people that are citizens of this country that understand the Constitution know we are actually living in a Constitutional Republic, and NOT a democracy, are in fact traitor to those words that defined our political system as democracy. The President was, in actual fact, speaking the truth when He called US traitors to democracy.
But what are we traitor too? The current proposition of those 'in power' in America today want us to believe that the political and social systems that now govern the people of the USA, that have led us to an impass of understanding that promotes corruption at the highest level of government, where the elite have special privilages 'in' law that the regular folk do not, that the money that is taken from the people in taxes belongs to the government and not the people, and this is right and normal, and needs to stay that way forever.
Jesus faced a similar situation when He was on earth. The Leadership of Israel had taken power away from God and given it to themselves to do whatever they wished. And when Jesus pointed tout his purfidy to the people these leaders decided He must die.
There is a time coming soon, and now is, when the lies that have been told in both the political and spiritual realms will be revealed, and that which is hidden will become clear. Revealing the Lie is when TRUE peace is found!
The Days of Elijah~
Yes, I know we are not there yet, but New Years Celebrations are 'only' about 4 months away. Given what has happened this year in the politic there are many people that are hoping for a better 'New' year that will put and end to some of the overt attempts by the current administration in the US (and indeed the world) to put the citizenry under political, medical and financial 'lock and key', by moving the world into a 'new world order'.
As was expressed on the program yesterday, we are NOT going into a period of horror and pain as has been seen in prophecy for thousands of years. The time for that to have happened is in the past. However, the Deep State players are trying to make those events happen, because if they can do so it would put them in the drivers seat, and make Satan the ruler of the world, as was listed in Revelation 13 and on. What we do know is that those things WILL NEVER HAPPEN, because the time for those prophecies to have been fulfilled has come and gone. We are seeing the final death throws of the snake that has already had its head cut off, but is still trying to bite its victims. This is not a nice time to be alive on earth, but it is an exciting time to be alive, when you know that the outcome has already been decided:
"I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom". Dan. 7:22-23.
The Elijah type person that is to come prior to the coming of the King will announce the change from the previous understanding of prophecy to the New understanding that heralds a time of peace and prosperity to the entire world, when the prophecies of the Seven Thunders are revealed (Rev. 10).
These are the days of that Elijah!
If you have been listening to our programs for any length of time you know that even though the content is (frankly) amazing, and can't be found anywhere else on the internet in any form, you also know that we have been having problems with the 'jittering' of the sound quality for some time. This has been something of a conundrum, in that I have looked at a variety of causes, and larger variety of soluitions. to now apparent avail.
I have cleaned the sockets on the mix board and the mic cables, I have changed out mic cables, changed microphones, upgraded the WiFi to 500 Mbps, upgraded our plan on BTR, changed the router, spent time with the and have done everything I know how to do to solve the problem and get rid of these 'jitters', except for one thing that I didn't think of until yesterday. The problem with solutions to these kinds of problems is that they are too simple. It was a combination of too many people on a single FIOS circuit in our 10 to 11 AM time slot, and not enough band width on our wireless service to keep things running smoothly, even with the upgraded wireless service. All I did was find and buy a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, and plug my Mac Book Pro into the router with an Ethernet cable - problem solved. The solution had been in sight for years, and I didn't see it until yesterday, because I didn't know what to look for.
We often look for solutions to our deepest problems with complex and expensive fixes, when if we had recognized what was in front of us we could have affected the fix we needed to accomplish our goal.
This is especially poignant when that problem is something we don't even realize is a problem in the first place. And this problem is that salvation does not work the way we have been taught. The solution is to read, learn, and practice the words given to us by Jesus Himself, that were in front of us the whole time.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our program The Revelation of jesus with Rick Sterling. We will be 'on air' at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. You won't be disappointed, but you will be challenged in your thinking and decision making methods.
Pain Management~
The most simple explanation of pain is that it hurts.
This seems obvious and self evident, especially if you have lived long enough to have experienced pain in it's various forms.
There are four primary categories of pain (one is not necessarily more prevaient than the other) three of which are physical, mental, and emotional pain. They all crossover with each other; physical pain can over time become emotional. Mental stress can generate actual negative physical responses. Emotional pain can actually degrade mental acuity and activity.
Pain management can be accomplished in two ways, from within, from without, or a combination of both.
Pain management is the key to physical healing after a severe accident, a heart attack, or a major cancer fight. I know this from personal experience. in many cases this requires medication that will reduce the pain to a level where you are not concentrating on the pain, and can concentrate on the healing.
All pain management requires expert help in mitigating the pain in just the right way, so that the method of management does not overpower either the physical, mental or emotional responses in a negative way.
Relying on one option to the exclusion of others can often lead to addiction. Today the most common addiction is to drugs that are inappropriate because of cause, amount, or being self-administered.
We all long to be healed from our pain, and we must be very careful in choosing the quality of 'expert' we use to affect the healing.
The fourth area in which we can have pain is in the Spiritual realm. Not being able to find the answers that you seek in understanding who you are in relationship to God, or worse, believeing that you know that answer to the exclusion of and unseen truth, can be very stressful. How to find answers to this is why Spirit of Truth Ministry exists.
De-classified, Re-classified~
The latest news as of yesterday is that some of the previously de-classified top secret material that was taken from Mar-a-lago in the FBI raid this past week had been re-classified as top secret without notifying the ex-President or his lawyers of this fact, and without asking for it to be returned via the usual channels. This is an illegal and blatant attempt by the White House and the Democrats to see to it that DJT is never allowed to become President again in 2024, using a weaponized agency of the Federal Government of the U.S. corporation as the instrument of collection.
I only mention this because I see a parallel effort on the part of Satan to do the same thing to the Testimony of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth. The veracity of these words was unquestioned by His own disciples, because they heard them from His mouth, and they knew that Jesus was the Son of God because of the miracles, and because only God could have given those words. Later, at least two of them wrote them down word-for-word, and God protected those words by including them in the compendium where they can still be found today, the Bible, unaltered and unsullied by time and distance (John 17).
Jesus described in the parable of the Wheat and the Weed recorded in Matt. 13: 24-30, that Satan sent an Enemy of the Truth to attempt to de-classify His words from being truth, to re-classifying them as being false, or (at the very least) being changed to something different and 'better', through the words of the 'apostle' Paul. Unfortunately this has (for the most part) worked like a charm, and has been bought fully by those that have been fooled by this ploy into "believeing a lie as if it is the Truth"!
Anger Response~
These days the 'news' is replete with stories of angry people taking their frustrations out on other people that they don't know, just because these angry/frustrated people are feeling helpless to change their own circumstances for the better. They listen and watch the news that display stories about how the governments of the world are failing to act in humanitarian way to their own people that are suffering from war, famine, pestilence, and the plague of Covid. Even when people can see with their own eyes that food supplies are short, and prices at the grocery and the gas pump are rediculously high in comparison to just two years ago, they are still being told that this is somehow their fault for either voting the wrong way, or the governments cannot control the outcomes to benefit them. Hope for the future for many people has become lost in the confusion of what these main stream news services, and even the religious authorities are presenting as fact, when in reality the time stream that we once were on has changed, and we are no longer heading for the "death and destruction" that has been planned for the world for ages past.
What we are seeing, and what people are feeling even though they don't know why, is the results of the pathetic last gasps of people that are members of Satan's kingdom of this world trying to fulfill the will of their master, as seen in the prophecies that speak of the destruction of the world, that would have allowed Satan to become the ruler of the world for a short time. This will no longer take place. But people are lashing out through fear of the unknown, not knowing that what they are seeing in the world is a scripted movie playing out in real time, the outcome of which has already been decided in favor of Truth and Peace, prosperity instead of adversity.
Their angry responses will soon turn to joy, as truth is revealed.
Saved by Association?~
The last 15 minutes of yesterday's program were some of the most important minutes that have ever been heard about salvation on any forum, or in any format! This is ot hyperbole, it is simply the truth. If you missed it we will be continuing with expanding this information on today's broadcast here on blogtalkradio.com/sot, but I will recap what Rick said yesterday here in these notes just in case you don't get a chance to listen to the program presented today.
Are we saved by association? Are we condemned to destruction because we are a member of a religious organization? In the parable of the Wedding Feast descirbed by Jesus in Matthew 22, a person (a man) entered the wedding feast without the proper wedding garment. He came to the feast thinking that simply because he was there at the feast he would be included in the festivities without restriction. He was wrong. When his perfidy was discovered by the Father of the Groom, he was cast out of the Wedding Feast to a place of destruction.
The guests Feast is the Kingdom of God, and the guest gained entry because they came to the feast already wearing their garments of righteousness. Unlike the man described above they didn't come into the Feast in filthy rags, expecting to be given Righteousness just because they said that they had been invited. That invitation contained the description of the Robe of Righteousness that all who would enter must already possess. The 'Friend' that got into the feast without this garment was thrown out upon discovery.
If you think you are already in the Kingdom of God because you belong to a specific church or denomination, and that organization has all the truth needed with with to be saved, you will experience the fruit of guilt by association, which is death. The garment of Righteousness is the Truth sent from God through Jesus. Any other words by anyone else are not the truth.
Spirit of Truth Ministry welcomes you to listen to our program The Bible on Trial, where you will hear what isn't being taught by any other Truth oriented program from any other source. Why? Because there is no other outlet for Truth that can prove from Scripture and history that the time-line seen in the prophecies in Revelation pertaining to the Death and Destruction have actually changed to the unrecognized prophecies of Life and Prosperity indicated in Revelation 10, and in Daniel 2. This shift occured starting in 2012, and were graphically demonstrated in the 2016 election, and on. We are no longer facing a Time of Trouble such as never was, There is trouble, but the time for the world to become wholly evil has passed, and will never happen in this reality.
This is important information, and you won't here this anywhere else except on this Spirit of Truth Ministry radio station. You will hear the facts that put us in this alternate reality, and a different understanding as to what is happening in the world, and why it should matter to you, and to your salvation.
Join us for our program, The Bible on Trial, at 10AM PDT, today August 5, 2022, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Hard Truth, Hard Data~
Finding the Truth stems from being able to confront the fear of having to let go of a cherished belief because the facts of the matter don't lead that way. Emotions are an important part of life. Yet to live solely through emotions creates problems when dealing with a reality that counters what you want or expect. The overwhelming need to 'be right' about any particular issue cannot be based in anything but how you feel about that issue. Being 'right' because of a belief based on a feeling allows a person to believe a lie as if it is the truth, and then say "It's not my fault" when you discover it isn't. When you mix feelings with a method of discovering Truth that needs hard data to generate that Truth, it becomes impossible to separate the facts from the faith you need to believe the opposing point of view.
Jesus brought Hard Data about Salvation and the Kingdom of God directly from the Father in Heaven, and gave that Data, that Truth, to His own eyewitness disciples (Matthew and John), who wrote it down, and eventually made it into the compendium that we know today as the New Testament. This testimony is not their words, because the Testimony of Jesus has a chain of evidence that is immutable; The Father gave this Truth to Jesus (His Son), who gave it directly to His eyewitness disciples, where it found its way to a place where we can read it for ourselves, and know that THOSE WORDS are Truth (John 17:20). This is the Hard Truth, the Hard Data, that leads to the Kingdom of God, and eternal life.
This 'method' of discovery has been supplanted by the words of an 'apostle' that are different (by his own words) than what these eyewitness disciples wrote. These words are based on hearsay, not facts. These words use emotions to convince people that salvation is a gift, when the Hard Data from Jesus says it is not.
Facts don't care about emotions.
Good News~
With all of the bad news permiating the news cycle these days it is wonderful to see not only a glimmer of hope for the future of mankind, but a magnificent and joyous opening in the financial and spiritual worlds as they combine to present a brand new time of peace and prosperity that has already started to make its presence felt, not just sub-rosa where you had to look hard to see it if you knew where to look, but to the wider world where it will soon become visible to everyone, whether they like it or not.
We are in the process of seeing changes from the monetary systems of the Western Central Banks and their oppressive policies of using fiat currency to control the world's finances, to an open system where money is backed by hard and stable metals and commodities (gold, silver, petrolium, etc.), which gives the world currencies parity with one another. Ths is happening right now.
Many countries have already changed their currencies to a 'gold backed' status, and these currencies have gained tremendous value, including countries in the Middle-East and in Africa.
We are seeing a large country risk a military operation in order to fight the 'Deep State' players in a small country that has been used for years by this deep state to launder money and manufacture biological weapons and vaccines to use to limit and control the population of the the world. This is coming to an end.
In these things and many others we see the dark side seeming to win over the Light, but this is just about to end.
Having the patience to hang on just a little longer is very difficult when all you see it evil winning. But the time is soon, and now here when the world will change for the better, and this is seen in the prophecies of Daniel 2 and Revelation 10, and you will hear about these thing ONLY here on the Spirit of Truth Radio programs.
Birthday~
Today my family are celebrating the birthdays of my grandson, Logan, that turned 2 years on Wednesday, and my wife who turned (none of your business) on Thrursday. We held a birthday party for Logan on Wednesday with just his mom and dad, and the grandparents (me and Becky), just because we knew that Logan needed the fun.
How did we as a family know the dates of these two birthdays. Well, it is simply history. And this is know how we know when they both joined the Family? When Becky's mom gave birth to her, and when my daughter gave birth to Logan. The dates were set outside of the control of the mothers, but they knew when the event was close and prepared for it.
How do we know when we are born into the Kingdom of God? Our Mother, the Holy Spirit, tells us. And what do we need to do to be 'born' into the family of God? We must recognize that there is NO SIN in His family, and that we must demonstrate by our actions that we are Their (God the Father, and the God the Mother-the Holy Spirit) family, by keeping the Commandments of God, and holding to the testimony of Jesus. It really is simple!
We don't tell God when we are 'born again', They tell Us, by giving the instructions that show we are just like them.
You are invited to join Spirit of Truth Ministry today July 22, 2022 for our flagship program The Bible on Trial. This program takes the information that our pastors and Bible teachers and religious leaders have been giving us for thousands of years, and tests it against the words and teachings of Jesus that He brought to earth from His Father, and gave ONLY to His eyewitness disciples, who were charged with giving that information to those that already love and cherish the truth. This indicates that there is a 'chain of custody' for truth, and anyone that interrupts that chain by declaring that they are a messenger from God MUST use those words as the arbiter of Spiritual truth in the world.
This chain of custody is the foundation for the method of learning truth that has brought Spirit of Truth Ministry to the understanding that we present in our broadcasts, podcasts, and written material.
The Bible On Trial will be 'on air' live at 10AM today, and also available as a podcast on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The Mind of God~
My esteemed Father-in-Law Fred, preacher, pastor, farmer, spahetti cook, and friend, had a saying that he used all the time when he was asked to preach a sermon, or in any conversation that involved his first love Jesus, was this; "We must have the mind of God."
When I asked him to explain this concept to me after church one Sabbath he told me that although we are saved solely by faith through grace, we would be supremely unhappy in Heaven if our minds were not in the same conceptual framework as is the mind of He who saved us; and in his mind this had everything to do with LOVE. He believed firmly that the concept that God is Love is what will bind all of humanity into the praise of the Father when we are around the throne in heaven. How we got there was much less important that what we would do there "When We All Get to Heaven"!
Mind you, Fred was a good listener, and would listen to me as I tried to help him understand that the concep that what we do here on earth while important, was not more important that what we would do looking forward to an eternity spent with someone you disagreed with on principle. His explaination as to why there would be no sin in Heaven was that God loved everyone so much that if they would be unhappy being in Heaven that God would reluctantly honor their wish and put them to sleep for eternity to they would not have to suffer in His presence.
He could not get around the concept that while the 10 Commandments are important and need to be kept faithfully (as did he), we were still only saved by the love of God seen in Christ Jesus, and if we rejected this love we would die forever.
This was his sincerely held belief.
It was not time for him to know the truth about salvation, and God did not force him to know this truth.
Today it is time to Know the Truth about salvation.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our program The Bible on Trial, today July 15, 2022 at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The Big Lie~
If you pay any attention to the current 'goings-on' in the USA and the world it would not be unusual (to put is mildly) to be a little nervous; What with the 'war' in the Ukraine, the 'raging' pandemic, 'mass' shootings hither and yon, SCOTUS overturning Roe vs. Wade, and upholding (of all the nerve) the 2nd Amendment, there appears to be a lot to be worried about. This is especially true if you hale from the Left/Liberal side of the political spectrum, because many of the prime beliefs of that perspective are being not just challenged, but outright done away with by the "evil and uncaring' Right/Conservative. This can be very nerve-wracking for those that do not have either an understanding of history and the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the US, or a firm and grounded belief in a beneavolent 'higher power', that is filled with love for all mankind.
Interestingly, and as we have been discussing on our programs these past months, both sides of these perspectives have a lot to worry about, considering that both sides are challenged by the actual 'God's Honest Truth' that appears in the words that Jesus gave to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth. The Words that Jesus spoke disabuse both sides of the arguments of their prime basis for existence, in that both sides "Believe a Lie as if it is the Truth, without accountability!" The Left believes by faith what they are told is true and superior to the Right by their gurus that elicit emotional responses rather than conclusions based in logic. The Right believes their truth because their picture of God allows them to believe that they are save by grace through faith, and this tranfers to how they view their secular world.
The Bigger the lie, the more faith it takes to believe it!
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today for our program The Bible On Trial. This program delves deep into Truth in a different way than you will have ever experienced. The proof of Truth must come from the author of Truth and that is the Father that is in Heaven. God Almighty gave this Truth to His Son, who brought it to earth and testified to all that He had seen and heard from His Father. Jesus gave this truth ONLY to those whom He chose as disciples, and we now have two disciples in particular that wrote it down so that everyone that is OF the truth will be able to 'hear His voice' through those writings. This program shows that the words of God are FACT not fancy, and are NOT religion that comes from human origin, but is truth that comes directly from God Himself.
We will be 'on air' today at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry, today Sabbath, July 2, 2022, for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. We will be enjoying the discussion today with our friend Dr. Don, who will be in studio for our program. Rick will continue exposing the importance of knowing the truth about the lie that Satan set up in Eden, that has convinced Christians today that they are actually in the wrong if the attempt to "keep the Commandments of God, and hold to the testimony of Jesus". (Rev. 12:17) This big lie has also hidden the change in the prophetic time line that changed from the death and distruction of Revelation 13 et al, to the Life Road prophecies of Daniel 2 and Revelation 10, that will allow everyone on earth the opportunity to choose LIFE, without being under to enormous stress that is the 'mark of the beast', in knowing how to gain entry to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Our program is on air at 10AM PDT on; blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Old Friends~
Today is the birthday of a college friend from years ago, Ed. We were roomates for 2 years, and were also the core of the tenor section of the College Chamber Singers, the premier choral group of the school. In fact, we met in that music group, and became roomates for both my first and second junior years (because of a change of major I crammed four years of college into five). He was five years older than me, as he came back to college after working those years after his high school graduation as a dental technician, and wanted to go into hospital management, which he did for the remained of his career. Right after graduation he married his best friend, Margie, whom he also met in the chorale. At their request, I photographed their wedding, which was my first experience as a wedding photographer; and this eventually turned into a 28 year career in photography, with over 900 weddings during those years.
We communicate less often these days than we did years ago, but we remain friends to this day. Our shared experiences in college and after, whether together of not, has solidified our friendship for eternity. I love him as a brother.
He is also a strong believer in the God of Paul. Near 20 years ago he came out here with Margie and their children for a visit with family, and I was included in the visit. We chatted over a meal together and I carefully felt him out with regards to the fledgling concepts about who Paul might have been and what he did, and got the response I have recieved countless times in my work with Spirit of Truth Ministry, and that was that Paul was in the Bible, therefore he must be right. For the sake of our friendship I did not push the envelope of Ed's security. We are still very good friend today.
I will leave it up to God to take care of Ed and Margie, and their salvation. This is as it should be.
The harvest will go forward, and God and truth will win in the end.
Choose what you will obey~
Yesterday was a monumentous day in the USA, because in a 6 to 3 vote the SCOTUS overturned a 50 year old 'law' that gave Constitutional recognition of the 'right' of a woman to get an abortion. In overturning Roe v Wade the Supreme Court stated that the original law was flawed in that there was no direct statement in the Bill of Rights granting a woman a 'right' to an abortion, and that as per the original founding documents any Right not enumerated as a Federal law in the Constitution was to be decided by the various legislatures of the States themselves. This is where these types of not directly stated issues should be decided, and not at a Federal level. Whatever your position on this issue of Roe v Wade there is now a decision that must be made by the people of the USA, and that is, do you now obey the Law or not.
Given the history of the Christian church since the first century is seems to me that there is now going to be huge protests against complying with the Supreme Court decision, because it doesn't fit the viewpoint of people that disagree with it. Christians believe that Paul is a true Apostle of Jesus, and that what he said about salvation is the truth, even though what Jesus said to His own eyewitness disciples is totally different. Christians have decided en mass to NOT obey the words of Jesus, or the words of God in the Old Testament. They have decided to obey the words of someone that has sought to change the laws concerning salvation and eternal life to something more palitable and easier to live with here on earth.
And there is the rub. Why not just change the Law to suit your opinions, rather than obey the Laws that have been given by God? Why not just say that if it doesn't fit your idea of what is right then either igore it, or protest the decision and force God to do your will?
This type of thinking will not work in either case.
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I Screwed Up~
At the hardware store where I work part time, my area of responsibility is the room where we keep over 30,000 different fasteners, nuts, bolts and screws. An because of this I have been named the biggest 'screw up' in the store, and rightly so. Apparently this is also true here at Spirit of Truth Radio on BTR, because yesterday I did not remember one very important thing as I was preparing the studio for our program, and our show ended after 15 minutes, instead of 60 minutes. I quite literally screwed up. I appologize to Rick and our listeners that were looking forward to another stimulating study, for causing this problem by my not knowing something I should have known.
I want you to learn from my error, because there is an important lesson to be learned in my failure.
Yesterday I wanted to do a test show in order to check my board and computer settings in a live environment, without having to put our audience through this bording process. About an hour before our start time I did a 'Go Live Now' show in order to try to figure out why we were having some drop out issues. I had Rick call in, and I got the issue sorted, but what I either forgot, or most likely neglected to read 15 years ago when we started our podcast is that our broadcast plan clearly says in the user notes that we are able to do only ONE session per day, for up to 2 hours at a time. There are no second sessions available on any of the plans sponsored by BTR. Therefore, when i opened our studio for our regular show time we were limited to the left over time that I did not use when I did the 'test' show. OOPS!
This situation caused a problem because I DID NOT KNOW something critical to my understanding, and we lost our show for the day.
Do we really KNOW God's plan for our salvation, or do we not know what we don't know, and miss out of eternal life?
How much truth is enough?
I want you to do an exersize with me that will show you everything you need to know about The Truth and Salvation!
We will start by getting a blank sheet of printer paper and drawing a continuous line around the inside margin of the paper, as close to the edge as possible; for our purposes this line and the edge of the paper are the same thing. This blank sheet of paper is a two dimensional image of the entire universe, in all of the dimensions that exist, and all the knowledge that exists, that has existed, and will ever exist. In other words, this line is God, everything He is, and everything He knows.
Now take a sharpened pencil and anywhere on that page draw the smallest circle possible. That circle represents the sum total of all of human knowledge of all ages past, present, and future. Question: How much of that knowledge is outside of what God knows?
Take another piece of paper and draw a circle on it. That circle now represents the previous circle that is the sum total of all human knowledge. Draw a circle inside of that circle that will be your idea of how much of a percentage of human knowledge you know. Make it as large or small as necesary to show how much knowledge you have with respect to the sum total of human knowledge. (In may be difficult to draw a circle that small.)
Question: how much of all that you know is related to your understanding of the Plan of Salvation, and where did you aquire that knowledge? Does it even matter?
Jesus came to earth at the request of His Father. There is nothing that the Father knows that Jesus does not. Picture Jesus inside that tiny circle that represents the sum of human knowledge, having come to earth to "Testify to the truth" about salvation (John 18:37).
Do you believe that someone other than Jesus know everything about how salvation works, and is a better source for truth than Jesus?
WDJW~
Years ago there was a movement in the Christian church that caught fire for a time, and then died out becauise it became clear that it went against the prevailing sentiment that 'grace covers all our sins'! That movement was indicated by the acronym WWJD - What Would Jesus Do! It was a nice idea while it lasted, yet the idea that that our actions could affect the outcome of our salvation went against the prime tenet of the church (via the teachings of the 'apostle' Paul) that our deeds have no affect on our salvation, that it is our simple belief in Jesus and His blood shed for our sins that saves us. So asking the question What Would Jesus Do? became problematic as a theology, and was soon dismissed as an operational identity of the church.
There is a question that is seldom if ever asked by Christians today, because when it is asked it identifies an individual responcibility for salvation that cannot be placed on anyone but the person asking the question; that is, What Does Jesus Want? The answer lays in the idea that there are two things that a person must accomplish, that are specified in the words of Jesus, that demonstrate that a person can and must be active in their own salvation.
"So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus." Rev, 12:17.
Everyone that is Born Again, born of this Woman - the Holy Spirit, proves that rebirth by doing the two things specified in this verse; they must keep the 10 Commandments, and hold (only) to the testimony of Jesus, that He brought to earth from the Father. Doing the Truth proves Salvation.
"But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." John 3:21.
What Does Jesus Want? The Doing of the Truth!
Hot, and hotter~
For the most part living in Southern California is a blessing. For 8-9 months of the year we have georgeous weather, with temps in the mid-70's, and a smattering of rain from time to time. You can get by very well with your windows open and the ceiling fans moving air around the house, and even if it gets a little warm all you do is close the house until it cools down right after dark, and then you open up again.
Coming soon is the heat of July, August and September. OMG does it get hot. And this next week we will be having temps in the 100's, and we aren't at the middle of June yet. Top this off with the fact that inflation is at 8 1/2 % (the highest in 42 years), and no one can afford gasoline at near $7/gallon for their cars in order to drive to the beach to get out of the heat, and you have a perfect storm for a disaster of epic proportions. We will have to find out if the power grid can handle the load for all of the Air Conditioners that will be running 24/7.
As we move forward into summer we must remember what Jesus said about the signs of the end of time in Matt. 24:32-33:
"Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door."
The Faithful and Wise enough Bond-servant is here right now, feeding his fellow servants their food at the proper time. And that food is the truth that the Kingdom of Heaven needs to know in order to be prepared for the coming of a time of peace and prosperity, instead of a time of Death and Destruction.
The spiritual summer is upon us, bringing the heat of the truth that will set free the Kingdom of God on the earth.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, June 4, 2022, at 10AM PT for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where we will continue to show that the Death Road prophecies of "The End" that are seen in Revelation 13 have been displaced by the Life Road Prophecies of Daniel 2 and Revelation 10. These Life Road prophecies show a totally different timeline that will lead the world to a time of Peace and Prosperity, where the Kingdom of God will come to this planet without the horror that has been seen in the interpretation of the End Time Prophecies for centuries past.
If you desire to see the alternative to to the Beasts and Bowls of Wrath, then listen today to our program at the following link: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Knee Pain~
The past 3-4 weeks have been 'hell' due to the fact that I have been beset with severe knee pain. For those of you that have experienced this malady the issue is that the pain is pervasive, and becomes (at times) all consuming; so much so that it is difficult to think about anything else. The pain affects all aspects of life, from work to sleep, to everything in between.
I went to my Primary Care Giver, and was asked to do certain things in the way of stretching, Icing, heating, wrapping, etc., and due to certain other ongoing conditions I was not able to take an oral medications for the pain. All of these things help while doing them, but there has been no long term pain reduction. Today, after our program ends at 11AM, I am going for X-rays, with another follow up appointment with my primary next week, where he will make an assessment that my include a referral to an orthopedist/knee specialist.
The process is excruciatingly slow, and very painful, but hopefully will result in a diagnosis and treatment plan that will be good.
Pain is a great motivator. It is also the only thing that moves many people into an activity that has any hope of mitigating the pain, whatever the source of that pain.
When life goes on and on in it's daily routine, with no changes, no annoying propblems, we often get innured to what we do or don't do, and don't think about why we do what we do. No one wants to have to deal with painful situations or people, or where we are in time. We would all rather just 'keep on keeping on', instead of trying to figure out where we are spiritually, and what we need to do to secure our eternal lives.
Right now the world is not a nice place to be, and thinking about the future can be scary and painful. it is important to know where and 'when' we are in time, so we can be prepared for what is coming. Do not ignore the pain, deal with it!
Right or Left~
Ecc 10:2 A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.
Pro 14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
Every day, in every aspect of life, there are choices, and what you choose as a method for making those decisions will affect not only the outcome of the day, but the outcome of your life.
For many people the choice is based upon how they feel at the moment, decisions based on emotion, and what feels right. This allows a person to make a decision one day, and make the opposite decision the next day, and not see any inconsistency in either choice.
For others, decisions are based upon establishing a principle based upon a method that is outside of themselves, a check-list (as it were), and the choices that are made gain consistency from one day to the next, a series of If-Thens, that provide decisions that lead to a consistent result that does not change from day to day.
God has provided a set of Words/Commandments that allows a person that follows them to achieve consistency in decision making based upon the sure knowledge of the truth, and takes the guess work out of the result. A person that abides IN these Words (Law, Prophets, Words of Jesus) has nothing to fear in making decisions based on those principles, because they are Truth.
The cardinal dirction of these words is Right, and leads a person to the Kingdom of God, and eternal life.
Red Flag~
Tragedy comes in many forms, and on many levels. Having to put a beloved pet to sleep is a tragedy, but it is not on the same scale as having to bury a parent, or a good friend. Saying goodby to an Aunt or Uncle is sad, but the recovery time is short, because you know they lived a full and productive life, and their memory will be cherished as you move forward into the future.
But there is a loss that borders on being inconievable and inconsolable, where the memory of that person will be tainted with regret that life was cut short due to know fault of their own making, and that is of a parent having to bury their young child. When illness or disease takes an infant, or a cancer fight taking the life of a teenager is always a hard thing; but at the very least you had time to love them, and help them deal with their passing.
This past week 19 families in Texas are having to deal with a reality that did not allow a final goodby before their child was cruely taken from them by a deranged killer. One minute their child is safe as school, the next they are being brought out of the classroom in a body bag, because a mentally ill person shot them to death, and final goodby's were not said.
The question that will be asked when this hapens is, "Why did God allow this to happen?" The answer in not one that most people want to hear, and is proven by the result; God is powerless to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening, because God is NOT the ruler of this world, Satan is. Satan will do anything to prevent God from winning back this world, including murdering innocent children in order to move forward his agenda of a one-world government, Rather than having a Kingdom of Righteousness, Satan wants a kngdom of darkness, and he will do and say anything to achieve it.
Ultimateluy Satan will lose because God's Kingdom will prevail, and all those lost will be restored to life.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry as we continue our study into the shift in the prophetic time lines from the Death Road as seen in Revelation 7 8 and 13 to the Life Road prophecies of Daniel 2 and 7, and Revelation 10. Rick will show how these prophecies differ, and how to know both where and when we are in time. This gives a sense of peace and security in the knowing, and goes far beyond what you see in the news as presented by the MSM.
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0.25 Second ~
The time that it takes for a human being to see something and then react to it is (on average) around 1/4 th of a second (0.25 sec.). This sounds pretty quick, so let's put this in perspective. A car traveling at 60 MPH is the same as saying one mile in one minute. To find the number of feet per second the formula is 5280 feet / (divided by) 60 seconds = 88 ft./second. Multiply this by 0.25 = 22 ft./second. As you can see this 'reaction time' can cause a delay that is long enough for a car to travel 100 feet in a little over a second if the brain is attached to the event, and you have looked away from the road for as little as one second. Reaction times that bypasses the brain can be as little as 0.08 of a second, which means that if you have pre played a driving decision in your brain and have already decided what you would do before hand, this can shorten the reaction to a situation by more that a half second, which could be the difference between life or death. This is why it is so important not to allow yourself to be distracted by anything while driving, such as by texting, changing the channel of the radio, or a bee flying around inside your car. These things can kill you, because your brain is far behind your actual location, and you must be able to 'think ahead' in order to be safe.
Thinking ahead is also important when dealing with life in general, and especially when looking a the spiritual world throuth the eye of Bible prophecy. Truth is the key to understanding Bible prophecy and knowing what to expect when and how, and where we are in time. But if we are looking one direction, and become distracted due to the misunderstanding of prophecy, and don't have time to react properly to events that have been unlooked for, will our being distracted cause us to miss out on a bright future of peace and prosperity because we have been expecting something else?
The Derby~
A few days ago the Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky, and what a race it was! Seemingly, from out of nowhere, an 80:1 long shot horse named Rich Stike worked his way from far behind in the pack to make a charge in the last furlong and win the Kentucky Derby going away. According to news reports this win was a "stunning upset", and no one on the live TV broadcast even mentioned Rich Strike in their lead up to the race. In hindsight they now speak of the this horses breeding, the stable ownership and the quality of the Jocky in glowing terms. But before the race no one paid any attention to Rich Strike, or any number of other horses that were expected by the experts to be the 'also rans'!
The 2022 Kentucky Derby truly lived up to the moniker "The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports"!
So what was the overarching factor that won this race? If you focus only on the horse then you ignore the fact that without that particular jocky Rich Strike might has lost the race. If you focus on the Jocky and his magnificent riding ability and ignore the horse, the Trainer, and the Stable management, then you still do not have a winner.
We can see this happening right now in the Christian world, when it comes to the 'race' of salvation. Most Christians focus one thing, and that is 'salvation by faith through grace, and believing that Jesus died for their personal sins. They have been taught that they don't need to run the race to win. This is like being declared the winner without leaving the starting gate. They don't realize that without Jesus (the Jocky) bringning the Words (the Stable) that God (the Owner) gave Jesus to the earth, and God must have a Kingdom (the horse) with which to take those words to the world, the race will be lost.
So if you never actually compete in the race you can never win the prize of eternal life.
Power Outage~
The day before yesterday, and having been warned via e-mail, SC Edison was going to shut off power to our neighborhood in order to change out a telephone/electric power polf that had become unsafe. The poll was located on the corner of two streets below our house, and there were three big crane trucks and other ancillary service trucks with their operators. This was a big project, and the projected time frame for theb was from 8AM to 4PM (8 hours), and given that this duration was 8 hours if felt safe in thinking that the fridge that I had loaded with extra ice would keep the regular food safe, and the ice chest would keep the freezer food frozen for that length of time.
I checked at 4 PM on the Outage page of the SCE web site, and discovered that the estmated time for completion had been extended to 8PM. I wasn't as worried about the fridge food as much as the freezer food in our 45 quart Yeti style coolder, this being the first time we had used it for frozen food storage. I didn't know what I would find when we opened the cooler, but i expected the worst, that all our frozen food would be unfrozen, and we would not be able to save most of it.
The electricity came on just before 8PM, and it would take at least two hours for the fridge to get cold enough to put the froze food back in the freezed. Our frozen food was outside of the freezer for 14 hours.
To my delight and surprize, when I opened the cooler everything was still well frozen, and went safely back in the freezer fo be used later.
Now you may also be surprized that my story is really not about the food or the cooler, it is about the fact that I heeded attention to the warning by SCE to prepare for an outage, and did what I had to do to preserve my household for that outage.
God has given us warning of a coming power 'outage' of truth. Are you prepared with what you need to survive?
Old Time Religion~
One of the great songs of my youth, and a song I played and sang with numerous folk and blue grass groups over the years was the song "Give Me That Old Time Religion". It had a catchy tune, simple riffs, easy rhythm, inside a tradtional three chord format. Each verse started with "It was good for . . .", and then you added the name of a character from the Bible such as Daniel, Paul and Silas, or a title such as 'Mother and Father'. Simple, straightforward, and from my perspective today, and sadly, wrong. The 'Old Time Religon' of my father and mother, sister and brother that is based in and on the words of the Apostle Paul, and his disciple Luke, are not the words that lead to truth and salvation. Those words lead to lies, and eventual eternal death.
The truth that I believed as a youth has changed into something that sounds like the word 'truth', but is spelled 'trooth', as Rick pointed out on the program yesterday. What Paul wrote concerning salvation does not match in any way the words that Jesus gave to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth, and therein is the problem. The 'Old Time Religion' that so many have relied upon for their spiritual comfort and security no longer exists, and this is seen today not only in the realm of religion, but also in other areas of our daily life; areas such as politics, economics, and culture.
The world is no longer the place we once counted on for stability and security, because Law and Order have been replaced with just do what 'feels' right, not what IS right. The concept of the Apostle Paul that the Law has no place in salvation has turned the world upside down, and that is the real tragedy of our 'Old Time Religion'.
Jesus taught that the 10 Commandments matter, in our salvation and the His words that He brought from His Father in Heaven are the standard of Truth.
Mothers Day~
Sunday is Mothers Day in the U.S.A. I imagine that it is also celebrated in other countries, but I don't know for sure. This is an appropriate celebration day, because celebrating mothers is always appropriate no matter what day of the week.
This day is a reminder to all those people that consider themselves to be 'woke' that it is indeed only women that can give birth to their children. Men have an big part of this process, both before and after, but they are NOT the physical entities that actually go through and endure the process of carrying/gestating a zygote to term, and physically expelling the child from inside their bodies into the outside world. This can only be done by a being that has the correct chromasomal identity and physical attributes to be able to accomplish this remarkable achievement. A man that wishes to be able to do this, dressing and acting as if he can do this, changing his personal pronoun and forcining others to acknowledge this change, and even has surgery to 'look' like he is female in form is still a 'man' in the genetic sense, and can never participate in the actual 'fact' of childbirth, no matter how hard he trues.
Men are not women, and women are not men, no matter what a 'woke' society says.
This is also true in the spiritual realm We see this described in detail in Revelation 12, with the "Woman clothed in the sun, with a crown of twelve stars on her head". This 'woman' is the being that gave birth to her first born son, the father of whom is God the Father, Almighty! Two separate and distinct beings, that are God. When her son was born, He changed from the form of an Archangel (Michael) to the form of a human baby, and at that moment became the Son of God.
None of this could be accomplished without a spiritual entity that had the form and function of a wonam.
Happy Holy Spirit day!
Water Shortage~
Southern California is experiencing a most profound water shortage, so much so that within a month the So Cal municipal water districts will be limiting the watering of lawns to once a week, and restricting water usage overall. There are exceptions. The water district where I live has its own aquifer wells, and has restricted water usage very little during past drought conditions. This doesn't mean that these restrictions will not be put in place.
Life becomes very difficult and incovenient when water is in short supply!
This is also even more true when you view the words of God in the Law, the Prophets and the testimony of Jesus as the spiritual water of eternal life.
Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." John 4:13-14.
A shortage of THIS water can lead to the misunderstanding of what is truth and what isn't, and cause sincere and dedicated Christians to "believe a lie as if it is the truth." Doing this is problematic in dealing with how salvation works.
Jesus offers this water free of charge, and without restriction.
And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost. Rev. 22:17 (LP).
True Source_
Now one has to tell you that the world has gone crazy! Many things that are happening can't be explained in any rational way, because they are so bizarre. Why are the Deep State Governments doing the things they are doing in order to keep people enslaved to their monetary system? Why are lies being promoted as truth, even though everyone knows they are lies.
People are confused, and have no expectation (in many cases) of ever finding out what is really going on.
Yet God leaves no one behind that does not want to be. He has made it abundantly clear to any that will listen, that truth is attainable, and necessary to developing a connection with God, that will bring them to eternal life. But the desire for this outcome must come from withn, not forced from without.
The start of the process of learning truth comes by understanding that there must be a standard of truth to which you must hold, that is not an invention of your own mind, but must come for a reliable source for spiritual truth. Truth is not a feeling, it is a fact, and those facts must be practiced perfectly in order for a person to become spiritually righteous.
"But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." John 3:21.
If you practice something other than the truth, thinking it is the truth, then what you are trying to achieve will not be what you seek.
The only reliable source for truth must come from the author of Truth, The ONE true God, who is the Creator.
"There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death". Ps. 14:12.
Spirit of Truth Ministry seeks to learn the truth from the source for truth: The Law, The Prophets, and the Words of Jesus (Matt. 5:17). This is the true source.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, April 23, 2022, at 10AM PDT, for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. Here you will learn the truth about how salvation really works (It is not what you now believe), and also why we are no longer in the Death Road real as seen in the Prophecies in most of Revelation, but have moved into the Life Road reality that are shown in the prophecies of Daniel 2 and Revelation 10, where the outcome is Peace and Properity and not Death and Adversity. Click on the link to listen: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Are We There Yet?~
Anticipation coupled with delay almost always creates anxiety. We have all experienced this phenominon either with children or as children traveling to a cherished location such as an amusement park or a vacations venue. The longer that the trip takes the closer together comes the expression from the back seat, "Are we there yet?" The longer the time that it takes to get there, the stronger the anticpation for the expected delight at the finish. And with that hightened sence of anxiety comes a corresponding sence of relief when the long epected location of the event, or the actually event itself comes into sight.
Yet what if the expected event gives no notice of its arrival, except that it has already happened? What if the expected events that you have been told to expect have already been accomplished, but you didn't notice? What if you have been told this sweet event is going to happen so often that you have become immune to it's siren call?
It is difficult to not become jaded when 'wolf' has been cried too often.
So don't give up hope for the future, because we have record in the past that God has kept all of His promises to His Kingdom, and the relief of the promise Peace and Prosperity is truely just a moment away, even though we don't know when that moment will occur.
Take heart, Stand Firm, Be of Good Courage - because God will never go back on His promises to His Kingdom!
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today April 16, 2022, at 10 AM PDT, for another edition of The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. We will continue our discussion of where we are in time, and what will be happening in the near future, what happened in the near past that changed future history from the Death Road prophecies to the Life Road prophecies.
Today is Good Friday, and I have posted an article about the actural timing of 'Easter' that draws a different conclusion about the resurrection of Jesus than is commonly held in the Church. This is for your information only, and does not reflect the ongoing topic that Rich Sterling has been dealing with these past months. But given that this is Easter weekend I thought you might like to read something that is different that what you will hear in Church this coming Sabbath or Sunday. Truth is simply what it is.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today April 15, 2022 for our program The Bible on Trial, at 10AM PDT: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The Masters~
In the world of golf there are four major tournaments played each season, and the most challenging event that takes place in the U.S.A. is The Masters that is played at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta Georgia. Along with The Open that is played in Britain, The Masters is one of the most intimidating and difficult tournaments to win, because in order to do so you must not only beat the greatest players in the world, you must also beat a golf course that is designed to intimidate players in all aspects of their games; driving, approach, chipping, pitching, and putting, and wind direction. But the most important aspect of the game that is by far the most challenging is the mental game, where there is always a decision on every shot, on every hole, between risk and reward, with hidden enticements that can lure a player into making devastating mistakes, hidden inside of the distraction of the stunning natural beauty of the course and it's layout. One mistake at just the right time can lay waste to and otherwise great round of golf, making recovery and winning impossile.
So to win the Masters means that the player has to not only overcome the golf course, but the limitaions and fears in their own mind.
The challenges facing all of us with respect to eternal life and salvation make The Masters pale by comparison. Winning through to righteousness means a much bigger prize than a trophy and a big check; it means that you will live throughout eternity in the Kingdom of God. But what if you believe that you are winning the contest of wills between God and Satan, but are not, and actually believe a lie as if it is the truth? What if winning means losing, and losing means winning, and you don't realize it? What if you believe the course to victory is wide and easy, but it is really narrow and difficult. What if you are playing the wrong game?
War is Messy!
When we think of the war we are now dealing with, both literally and spiritually, there is one thing we can say about both, and that is that war is messy. As General Von Clausewitz said in his bood "About War", 'No batlte plan survives first contact with the enemy'!
This is much less true concerning the spiritual war we are in, because as prophecy intimates in all it's forms, God wins! Yet as we have seen in the current 'operation' in Eukraine, there are lots of things going on sub rosa that beligh what we see in the open. Is Russia and Putin the monster that we have been told he is by the MSM, or will he be declared a hero at some point in the future, when all of the things that the deep state has been doing in the Eukraine comes to light?
This is also a question we need to ask concerning Bible Prophecy and what has happened with regards to the Life Road prophecies supplanting the Death Road prophecies of the end that are seen in both Daniel and Revelation. If you are a regualr listener to our programs you are aware that we have change time-lines from the prophecies of death and destruction of Revelation 7-9, 13 and on, to the prophecies seen in Revelation 10, and Daniel 2. Understanding this shift in the spiritual war that is being waged between Good and Evil will go along way in understanding where we are, and why we should be worried less about the ultimate outcome than we believed in the past.
Perspective can clean us the mess that has been made of the understanding of what is really happening behind the scenes in prophecy, just as it wll when we look behind the curtain of what is happening in the Eukraine, and in the world today.
Take heart, for and thank God that sometimes what you see is often not what you get when dealing with the truth of prophecy.
Stay tuned.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling at 10AM today, April 2, 2022, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Missed Connection~
I have been working on my 2006 Ford F-150 for nearly two weeks now. We bought this truck about 6 months ago, and I have slowly but surely doing maintainance and repairs such that the 170,000 miles that are on the clock will not be an issue moving forward for the next 100K miles. I started with the changing the differential fluid, transmission fluid and filter, replace the shocks, and worked on other small items. These past two weeks I have changed the drive belt, tensioners, idler pullies. I even had a mechanic friend of mine put on new anti-sway bar end links and bushing because I now my limits, and leave suspension repairs to experts.
As part of these repairs I also installed a new alternator, because while the old one worked, it was making a slight bearing noise and I decided to not risk having it go bad while on the road. I decided to also put in a new battery at the same time, as the old one had two flat cells (checked with a hydrometer).
Everything went well with the install, and on the Ford 4.6L engine it is a relatively simple R & R (remove and replace). The only thing I didn't put into gear was my brain.
When I started the engine to check my work, the battery light came on. I did my checks to see what I missed, and literally couldn't see anything. I took it to Auto Zone (where we got the battery and alternator) and they did an alternator test, and it was getting 13.8 volts, but it was not charging the battery. I checked everything, no joy. There was two days of this misery, until I realized I had forgotten to plug in the alternator to the computer when I made the install. One 'little' thing that I didn't see kept the electrical system from working.
We have all missed connections in our spiritual lives that have prevented salvation from working as it should in our lives. One 'little' connection can make all the difference.
Easy Expert~
Yesterday after our program The Bible on Trial finished at 11AM, a friend of mine came over to the house to help both Rick and me to deal with some car issues that have been presenting for a while. Ricks little red car has an ongoing coolant leak that he could not find, and I have been working on our 6 month 'new' 2006 Ford F-150 little by little to get it squared away such that I know it will do the job, and also go the distance. I have found that expert help (in many things) is often called for when dealing with either unknowns (in Rick's case), or in having an expert do a job that even though I could do it, I am no longer physically capable. For me climbing underneath a vehicle is actually dangerous, and I avoid when posslbe.
While I was setting up my truck for the needed repair that Richard would do for me (sway-bar bushings and end-links), and new Iridium spark plugs that I would do while he was doing the other job, Richard was giving advice to Rick about the coolant issue.
This thing that I really like about Richard is that he is an 'Easy Expert'; He gives advice, and does the job, without making you feel like a fool for not having thought of that solution yourself. And when I got stuck trying to remove that last two spark plugs from a very tight space, he had the tools in his truck that I needed but did not have. He really helped both of us in a way that gave us confidence that we actually could fix the problems.
When we confront people with issues involving Truth and Lies we need to be the 'Easy Expert', Why use a sledge hammer when a ball peen hammer will do the job better. A gentle approach is often the best way to allow a person to see the truth, and figure it out on their own, without accusing them of being an idiot. If a person is open to the truth, and there is enough time, they will see the truth when presented. If not, then use a bigger hammer.
Count on it~
In dealing with events in the news of the world today, the one thing you can know for sure is that more often than not what you see and hear is not what you should be getting. There is almost always a hidden agenda in the reporting of events by what is commonly known as the Main Stream Media (henceforth MSM) that supports on side and denigrates and vilifies the opposing side, and makes it virtually impossible for the casual 'newsie' to find truth in any reporting.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if people have not been exposed to alternate and reliable sources for news these people will thoroughly believe lies as if the are the 'God's honest truth', because they have no frame of reference with which to judge the quality of the news they are being shown.
This is especially true concerning the reporting of the news coming out of the Eukraine. According to the MSM the Russians are deliberately and without regard to non-combatants attacking hospltals, schools, churches, and even movie theaters filled with people, and by these accounts there have been thousands of civilian deaths of innocent people trying to escape the carnage.
But WHAT IF the things that are being shown by the MSM are not true, and are not reality? Is this even possible? When news is agenda driven in order to support a narrative that the Deep State needs to put in place a 'One World Order', ANYTHING is possible.
This is true today in narrative based news, just as it was during the time when Jesus was on earth. The leaders of Israel had a narrative that said that THEY were the only ones with the truth that was 'fit to print', and this upstart itinerant preacher named Jesus was just some nutcase that didn't know what He was taling about, and was fomenting decent against the leadership of Israel.
Satan has used this method with great success from the beginning. Count on it!
Join us for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, today March 19, 2022 at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Party Talk~
My wife and I went to a St. Patricks day party at the home of a good friend yesterday evening, and as I listened to the conversations that were occuring between the guests the primary topic was (of course) what was occurring in the Eukraine. Every single person there was horrified as to what happening (me included), and ever person there (except me) was blaming Russia and Putin for the plight of the people of the Eukraine. It was all I could do to keep my mouth shut, and not say a single word in response.
The people at the party are my friends, although some only casually. Every one of them (except me) gets their news from the MSM, and believes everything that is being shown them as being the truth. This includes my lovely and gracious wife. Everyone there believes that the President of the Eukraine is a hero, and that Putin is an evil bastard that is only interested in subjugating the people of the Eukraine to his evil will. My friends at this party firmly believe that what they are being shown on TV is actually what is happening, and if I had opened my mouth and told them the truth I would have been an instant pariah. No one at the party would want to know the truth about the Eukraine, because it would interfere with what they already believe about what is going on there.
No one there at the party would believe that Putin is the hero, and no one would believe that what Putin and the Russians are doing is saving the world from the horror that would occur to them if the One World Order (Deep State) were to come into full control of the world.
The world has turned crazy in believing lies as if they are truth, and defending those lies with righteous fervor. There will soon come a time when the willingly ignorant people of the world will be shown the truth about what is happening in the world, and they will be shocked and dismayed when they learn how badly they were fooled.
Best Meal Ever~
Last night my wife and I went to a high end steak house for dinner. My daughter gave us a gift card as an anniversary present, but my wife wanted to combine the dinner as part of my birthday celebration, so we went to the restaurant yesterday, my birthday. It was literally the best meal I have eaten 'out' in the past 50 years or so. The last time I had a meal this good was in the late '60's at a Michelin 2 star restaurant in Los Angeles that is no longer in operation. The salads, the bread (oh my), the sides, the wine for my wife (and in my case a wonderful 16 year old single malt scotch), the desserts, the coffee, and of course the steaks were all perfect. Upon delivering my steak (an aged 14 oz. New York Strip) my waitress asked if I wanted some steak sauce, and I said, "Why would I ruin a work of art by adding anything to it beyond what the chef prepared." As with any high end restaurant everything was A-La-Carte, so Becky and I splurged (which is what my daughter wanted us to do) and added 4 sides to our meal-asparagus, mashed potatoes, sauted mushrooms, and Au Gratin potatoes (the house specialty). The embiance in the room was lively, and a little noisy, but not so much that my wife and I could not carry on a stimualting conversation. It was a magnificent evening.
And yet as good as this meal was it is just a foretaste of the meal that those who become righteous in fact through the process of Santcification will experience when we all get together around the heavenly table in the earth made new. And before that becomes a reality we will experience glorious times together as family and friends do, after the wars and strife we are now experiencing are set aside in favor of the fulfillment of the prophecies of Peace and Prosperity of Revelation 10 and Daniel 2. We are so close to this happening I can almost taste it. The Wedding Supper of the Lamb is near at hand.
RE-brithday~
Most Christains that I have met can tell you the day, time and circumstance when they were 'born-again'. This is especially true for the Evangelical and Penticostal branches of Christianity, that put a premium on the emotional component of salvation-how you feel about salvation is much more important than the learning and knowing how you are 'saved'. Now this is all well and good as far as it goes, yet as Spirit of Truth Ministry has iterated on our programs becoming 'saved' is not a 'once-and-done' proposition; it is a lifetime goal where abiding in the words of Jesus becomes the operative identity that informs the person in the 'way, the truth and the life' that leads to becoming righteous in fact, not righteous by faith because of grace.
As Rick has stated many times our world has gone through a re-birth, moving from the prophecies of the Death Road in Revelation, where all hell was to have broken loose during a horrible time of trouble (which will now never happen), into a new reality of Peace and Prosperity as seen in Daniel 2, that will happen as soon as the final elements of the demise of the Satan's kingdom take place. We can all see this playing out in the Eukraine, in the final throes of the pandemic, and with the Deep State Players doing their best to stave off the inevitable end to their rule over the world. Soon we will see the glorious re-birthday of the world into a place of joy and light, peace and prosperity. But before that will happen there is still a time when the Evil One will try and salvage what is left of his kingdom, the end of which has already been assured.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, March 11, 2022 at 10AM PDT for another excursion into the truth, on our program The Bible on Trial, where we will continue the study into the shift from the Death Road to the Life Road, on; blogtalkradio.com/sot.
What would you do? ~
~ If everything you believed about salvation through Jesus Christ was wrong?
~ If everything you trusted to be true about good and evil was the opposite?
~ If everything you understood about politics in the world was not what it seemed on the surface?
~ If those people that you just knew were good turned out ot be evil, and those you thought were evil were actually good?
~ If nothing you now believe with all your heart and soul, mind and spirit, were proven false?
Would you crash and burn, give up on life, and go into hiding and cry?
Would you rail that what you were experiencing was unfair, and that God would never allow this to happen, because He loves you?
Would you shut your eyes and ears, close your mind and say to the universe that "This can't be happening to me?"
Would you feel abandoned by God, and because your world was turned upside down state that God no longer exists?
What I have just described happens everyday to lots of people the expectations of which do not match the reality of the moment. Good and Bad things happen to people on both sides of the divide between truth and lies, and it becomes a challeng to decipher and decode what is truth from what is not.
It is for THIS REASON that Jesus said He came into the world, "To testify to the truth. Eveyone that is already OF THE TRUTH will hear My voice." (John 18:36). It is for THIS REASON that we need a gold standard for truth against which we can measure everything, that standard to which we go to when times are tough, and the world is going crazy. It is for THIS REASON that Jesus brought the words of the Father to earth, and gave those words to His own eyewitness disciples, so we could learn them and have peace even when the storms of life rage about us.
It is for This Reason that Spirit of Truth Ministry exists.
Deception~
Have you ever heard the expression, "Not everything is as it seems"? This statement describes perfectly what the world is now experiencing with the 'war' in the Eukraine. If you watch MSM at all you are probably feeling as if the world is about to come to an end in a giant fireball of nuclear holocaust, and the only way to stop it is to sanction Russia into oblivion, or start world war three and have the 'civilized' countries gang up on Russia and China and bomb them into the stone age. Even a sitting U.S. Senator (a Republican no less) has called for the assasination of the Russian President. If anyone had said this about the US President they would be in jail.
So WHAT IS GOING ON? Is the world really on the brink of disaster of epic proportion, or is there something happening that is based on unseen and unreported (in the MSM) activity that is setting the world up for a new beginning into a bright, peaceful and prosperous new beginning?
According to the way we at Spirt of Truth Ministry (e.g. Rick Sterling) read Bible prophecy, and as we have been discussing since August 2021, all prophetic indicators point to a soon coming time of peace and prosperity such as the world has not seen since Eden. But how can this be with so much turmoil present in the world? Why isn't this information getting out to where it needs to be, so that everyone knows that God's plans are being fulfilled right before our very eyes?
Not all that is seen is real, and not all that is hidden is lies. The truth is that what we are seeing in the world is the effort of the Deep State, Dark Side, and Satan, to keep the people of the world on edge so they don't look in the right place to find the truth.
This is truly a spiritual war between truth and lies, and not guns and bombs, and although it appears that lies are winning the truth will win out in the end.
"Look once and see the surface; look twice and see what is beneath!" - D. Neufeld
“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”― Phaedrus (Roman Philosopher and Fabalist)
It is times such as this that I really miss our good friend past Dr. Rich Humpal. Rich was a firebrand that when he got his teeth into an issue, and he would not let it go until he had researched and found out the whole truth about it. During the early days of social media, when there were just a few platforms for discussions Rich was 'deplatformed' several times because the people that ran these forums were unable to counter the comments that Rich would post. His 'handle' was Rock-roller, because he would leave no stone unturned until he had found the truth.
If he were here today he would be in 'hog-heaven' with what is going on with the Deep State in in the world, and with what is going on between Russia and the Eukrane. He would be the first to tell you that all is not what it seems, and what is being told to you in the Main Stream Media.
On the program yesterday Rick showed the connection between Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Revelation 10, and what is going on with respect to the alternate understanding of these prophecies and what we see happening in the world. What we are being shown is overt war between an autocratic dictator and a small 'innocent' country that is being unfairly overrun by a mighty power bent on conquest. Butt this is only the first look that the movers and shakers of this world want you to see.
But IF you roll the rocks away and take a second look you just might find that what is beneath the surface is different than what you have been shown.
Doing this would make all the difference in understanding where we are in time.
Word Games~
The latest social craze that has swept Twitter, and that has now been bought by the New York Times for millions of dollars, is the cute little word game WORDLE. It is a word guessing game that has captured the hearts and minds of millions of people world wide. The rules are simple and straight forward, and by all accounts addictive. It is fascinating to me that this is true in a society that spends very little of their free time reading anything. Reading anything worth while takes time and energy; doing WORDLE takes minutes, and is really more of a guessing game that doesn't require any high leve thought or analyisis. It's just fun.
So why am I writing about an innocuouse game while the world is exploding with a war in the Ukraine, and strife, unrest, and protests? The reason is that this game reflects the current mind set of a large portion of the population that is not directly affected by the socio-political unrest in specific places; people long for a means of escape from the chaos they see in the news or that they live with everyday, and wish to go to a place that is innocent and peaceful, a place that requires no hard decisions, no planning ahead for emergencies, no trying to decipher what a politician or a religious leader is trying to get them to believe.
The world is full of word games. These games affect the way people think and how they behave. The words from the MSM (main stream media) cause people to believe things that make them uncomforatble and worried. Politicians say words that try to make people feel that there is hope, when the people only see worry.
The answer (truly) is in the words that Jesus brought to this earth from His Father, and which He geve to His own eyewitness disciples. His words bring peace in the midst of the storm. His words bring do not bring chaos, they bring clarity and truth to a truth staved world. Jesus does not play word games.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today February 19, 2022 for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. We will be 'on air' at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. Learn the truth about what is going on in the world by looking a prophecy from a totally different angle. Rather than being frightened by what you see going on in the world you will see why we can look forward to a time of peace and prosperity that is different than what we have been told by the main stream Christian religion.
Endings and Beginnings~
Whenever there is a beginning there is and ending; and when there is an ending there often follows a new beginning. A wonderful quote from Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchet in the movie The Muppet Christmas Carol describes this situation perfectly: "Life is full of meetings and partings." Saying goodby to someone or something you love is difficult and often bittersweet, weven when you know that parting has purpose. Becky and I are now days away from saying goodby to our lovely cat Molly, who, as I mentioned previously, has cancer in her lower jaw, and is now starting to have difficulty swallowing. I have made a promise to all of our pets that we will take care of them in both life and death, and that they will never suffer needless pain. That time for Molly is almost here.
When I experience this type of bittersweet pain, knowing that we are doing the right thing for Molly but feel deeply about the loss of a friend that has been a part of our family for over 10 years, it reminds me of what God the Father experienced during the death of His Son Jesus. The Father and Jesus knew the ultimate outcome long before the action taken on that fateful day. What we experience when we must put a beloved animal down and what God experienced with Jesus is that while Molly will not be in pain during this process, but God could not prevent the pain and suffering His Son experienced before He executed Jesus in order to pay the penalty for the disobedience of His Kingdom. The Cross did not kill Jesus, the Father did, so that Jesus could save His Righteous Kingdom from the penalty imposed upon the Kingdom of God when Adam and Eve turned that Kingdom over to Satan in the Garden. Even though the outcome was sealed and sure, the pain was real for both the Father and the Son.
we will have no more bittersweet partings if we choose obedience to the will of the Father, as did Jesus.
Repairs~
My 'new' 2006 Ford F-150 is on ramps in my driveway waiting for me to start a repair process to correct a problem by changing the fuel filter. I noticed (like dropping a hammer on a bare toe) that although my mileage had never been good, it started to get really bad recently; 'bad' as in the 10 mpg range. In talking to a friend that has this same engine in his Crown Vic I should be getting about 15-16 around town and 18-19 overall, so something is very wrong. It has been my policy to not throw parts as a repair, but in this case a clogged fuel filter could be a good start. We will see.
This situation got me thinking about what it would take for a person to rethink their spiritual identity. Changing anything that has been a part of your life for your whole life can be traumatic, and very uncomfortable. Humans have a tendency to try to hide from pain. We often wait for the pain to be relevant before we decide to go the the dentist to get a tooth repair; or go to our doctor to get help dealing with back pain. The same is true in our spiritual lives. The mantra "Go along, to get along" can easily become a problem if we let a situation fester fo the point of pain.
But 'what if' we neglect our true need for changning our spiritual identity because we have been given and analgesic (pain killer) that masks the symptoms of a deadly spiritual disease to the point that unless we do something radical we will be excluded from Eternal Life because we simply '"don't know what we don't know"? The pain killer of which I speak is the concept that we are "saved by grace through faith!" This concept that was formulated by Satan and administered by the 'Apostle' Paul, and was designed to keep Christians from seeing the truth found in the Words of Jesus. This is a good place to start the repair process of Sanctificaion.
Assumptions~
The single thing that gets the most people into the most trouble is making assumptions.
When we 'assume' (as the old saying goes) we make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me' (ass-u-me). While this is cute it is also more true than people would like for it to be. When we assume we bypass a very important step in the process of drawing a consistent and valid conclusion about anything, and that is the verification of facts, that is followed closely by the validaton of the conclusion.
Take the Covid 'pandemic' for example. People have made the assumption that the medical orgaizations that are in place in their countries, and indeed the world, have their personal best interest at heart vis-a-vis vaccines, hospitalizations, immunity, and percentages of recovery and death statiistic. And just as with our relationship to the local police, we assume that they (both police and health orgaizations) will come to our individual aid when called upon in a moment of crisis. I both cases these organizations are not their to provide you with personal service leading to safely. They are both (as we have been told) interested only in 'public' safety, and they don't care if you personally live or die in (say) a riot or a pandemic. Statistics can and are being manipulated to make drawing a proper and scientific conclusion as to efficacy and recovery (in the case of the 'plandemic') from Covid-19 using the approved numbers that show a totally different outcome than is seen in reality.
It is incumbant upon everyone to minimize the assumptions they make regarding anything that might kill them.
This includeds Righteousness, Justice, and the Kingdom of God. Salvation in not based in assumptions of guilt or innocence, it is based in truth, facts, and obedience to those pesky Commandments. Assuming that you are 'saved' when you are not can kill you. Find the truth.
Rescue~
I just watched a short video of a hunting dog rescuing a fawn. The video opens with a large dog swimming with something in it's mouth. As the dog gets closer it becomes clear that has a small deer in it's mouth. The dog swims to a fairly steep bank on the side of this river, climbs out with the deer in it's mouth, repositions the deer, and climbs the bank where it's owner takes the deer from the dog. The whole time the fawn was struggling and crying, but this didn't deter the dog from saving the deer. Amazing! (https://www.facebook.com/100005876504149/videos/971473856829943)
This is how Christians feel that God will someday rescue them from the evils of this world, and from their own part in living with and in sin.. They look at themselves as a helpless fawn that doesn't know how to get out of the flowing river of sin by itself, and needs to be rescured by a loving savior that will bring them to safety inspite (and dispite) their every effort to get away from their rescurer. They scream in protest "No, no, no, I don't need you", struggling to get away, all the while beleiving that they can do nothng by themselves to get out of their predicament. This is their picture of being "saved by grace through faith"!
But this is NOT how God views humanity. Humans are not helpless when it comes to sin. Jesus came to show us how to defeat the sin in our lives through ovedience the words, teachings anc commandments of Jesus. We are not a helpless simpering creature that has no control over our own salvation. When we learn the words of Jesus we become a powerful force, (as was the dog in the video), able to swim that river of sin to the other side, and climb out on our own into the righteousness that God demands from the people of His Kingdom.
Jesus did not teach 'salvation by grace through faith' as we have been taught. Jesus taught righteousness by obedience to His words.
An End to Sadness ~
There is a lot of sadness in the world today, what with the situations involving politics, the 'Pandemic' (Plandemic) causing fear where fear is not called for, with the world wide economic slump, supply chain issues, and a myriad of other concerns in daily life. Closer to home there is sadness in Ricks household because of his mother-in-law passed away on Wednesday from a long illness, the imminent passing of my son-in-law's (Arin) father in North Carolina, and of less importance but no less heart breaking is that our cat Molly has cancer of the right jaw, and it is expected that we will have to aid her passing in a week or so. Sadness abounds!
But that is not the end of the story! As we have seen in Bible prophecy, and consistantly spoken of on our Blog Talk Radio podcasts The Bible on Trial and The Revelation of Jesus since August of 2021, we KNOW that the plans for this world that God detailed in both Daniel and Revelation have changed from a Death Road scenario to a plan where the Life Road prophecies shown in Revelation 10 and in Daniel 2 will be fulfilled in our sight in the near future, bringing a time of peace and prosperity to the world. This is Good News, and will bring an end of sadness to the good people of the world that love God, and great sorrow and gnashing of teeth to those that have abused their power in trying to bring about the one-world government of the Death Road prophecies.
We are, by all accounts, nearing the end of the line for the Deep State and those that have chosen to worship the false god, and an End To Sadness in the world. The plans of Satan for this world have been thwarted by the God of Creation, and His Kingdom here on earth. If you believe this, and want to be part of that Kingdom please listen to our upcoming programs, beginning today, February 4, 2022, at 10AM PDT, with our program The Bible on Trial, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. We hope to see you then!
Join our radio team today January 29 at 10 AM PDT for our belated 28th anniversary program where we will celebrate the founding of the original church Bible class that turned into Spirit of Truth Ministry. Our program will be on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. See you then!
Red Letter Day~
In reading the Bible, especially the King James Version (KJV), there is an editorial marker that everyone notices right at the begiinning of their reading in the New Testament, and that is that the words of Jesus are in red ink. Most people believe (as with my esteemed father-in-law Fred) that every word in red was certainly the very words of Jesus, that He spoke directly to us across the centuries, every one of which is the 'God's honest Truth'. So when people read the 'red' words in Luke and in the writings of Paul they believe whole heartedly that Jesus actually said them. This had caused a huge cognitive dissonance in the understanding of the truth that Jesus brought from the Father and gave to His own eyewitness disciples, because those words (in the main) do not confirm what either Paul or his disciple Luke wrote about what Jesus actually said.
Just because the words are in red does not mean they are true.
So in saying that the programs of today and tomorrow (January 28 and 29, 2022), and indeed every program we produce will each be a 'Red Letter Day', takes on a different signifigance when set against the 'trooth' you will hear from any other source that uses the Bible as the standard for truth.
This is the Anniversary weekend in which we will celebrate the beginnings Spirit of Truth Ministry all those years ago, and will be Red Letter Days as we continue our discussions about the change of tack in end-time prophecy from the Death Road that has been the common understanding for thousands of years, to the Life Road understanding that has been in place just since August of 2021.
We encourage you to listen to both programs, The Bible on Trial today January 28, and The Revelation of Jesus tomorrow January 29, as we recap the events that have led us to this moment in time, where prophecy and truth become clear to those with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Cancer~
Our beautiful Calico cat Molly is dying from cancer. Two weeks ago we took her to the vet for some dental work, and the xrays showed that she has cancer in her jaw. We had noticed a small bulge at the base of her right jaw, and had taken her in for pre-op blood work a month ago, and the vet did an exam and believed it was an infection, for which she gave us antibiotics. It wouldn't have made any difference had we known, as it was already in the bone. We chose to do the dental work anyway, and have a little more pain free time with Molly. Soon we will have to fulfill the decision we made for all our animals when we bring them into our family - they will not live in pain. Right now Molly is on mom's lap on the bed, purring. We are contemplating life without her.
Cancer can destroy life. It is invasive, pernicious, and can be deadly even when you catch it early. You can only battle cancer when you know it is there. That that is the problem.
All of us live, and have lived, with cancer of the mind and spirit. That cancer is the lies we believe to be true, lies that eat away at the fabric of our souls, and replace (occupy the same space) as the truth. Truth is life, Lies are death. All of us believe lies as if the are the truth, and we don't even know it is happening. Satan planned it that way.
God has the cure to this cancer, and that cure is in The Words of Truth that Jesus brought from His Father in Heaven to this earth, that teaches the world how to achieve Righteousness and salvation. These are the Words that God gave through the Law and the Prophets, and in the completion of the Trilogy of Truth that Jesus spoke while He was here on earth, in the words He gave to His own eyewitness disciples; these are the words that destroy the cancer of the lying words of Satan.
If you don't recognize that you have this cancer then you won't recognize the cure when it is presented to you.
"Are We There Yet?"~
Parents that have take a road trip with children know that the words "Are we there yet?" are the most dreaded words in the English language. Why? Because once said they don't stop being said until the drive is over. The only words that are equal to those words are, "I've got to go to the bathroom"; especially when they are said 10 minutes after leaving the house. Anticipation of getting to the destination, coupled with having little or no sense of time and timing, are the true culprit in this type of story, especially when the destination is a long sought after place such as a cherished theme park.
For many people this identity carries over into adulthood in the impatience of having to wait for a needed pay check, or waiting for the birth of a child (especially on the part of the mother). My wife's favorite prayer (said tongue-in-cheek) is, "Dear Lord, give me patience; and I want it right now."
The world right now is in a protracted period of waiting for something to happen. With Covid running rampant, inflation going wild, prices going up dramatically for everythng, and the Government becoming more oppressive day by day, people are waiting desperately for somethng to happen that will solve all these issues, and bring us back to 'normal'.
Jesus said, "I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown." Rev. 3:14.
But this 'coming' has not happend for 2000 years, and looks to still be a long way off, especially for those that want to be rescued from the evil of this world.
Jesus also said, "Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known." Matt. 10: 28.
That time is now upon us. So take heart and be patient. For the time is short.
Happy 28th Anniversary to Spirit of Truth Ministry~
Today is January 15, 2022, and 28 years ago today was the very first church Bible class that was presented by Rick Sterling. This class was started as a response to a question asked of Rick Sterling by a physician friend concerning an end-time prophecy in Revelation. The answer was intriguing to those that attended this class, and this began a progression of understanding of prophecy and Truth that eventually led to the official founding of Spirit of Truth Ministry.
We hope you will join us today for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where we will recap the beginnings of our ministry, and also move truth forward as Rick continues to show why the prophetic time lines that are seen in Revelation have been changed from the reality of death and destruction to the new reality of Life, Peace, and Prosperity. This new reality is one that will see the growth of the Kingdom of Heaven from a little pebble into a gigantic mountain that is the Kingdom of God, that will fill the entire earth.
In the midst of this revelation is also seen the truth of how salvation that is taught by the words of Jesus that he gave to His own disciples, a truth that is materially different from that which is now taught by the Christian church.
Join us for a fascinating study as Rick shows why using the words of Jesus as the source for all spiritual truth is so important in understanding the process of Sanctification that Jesus brought to earth from the Father in heaven.
This program will air live today at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. Or you can download the podcast this afternoon from that Blog Talk Radio web site.
Pain, or Peace~
As Dr. Don Hoffman says (and I will paraphrase), "No one makes a significant life change without pain to drive it."
Think about the people that Jesus met and served while He was here on earth. His disciples had to leave their previous lives in order to follow Him, leaveing family and friends behind. When He met the lame, the blind or the sick, these people had to go through pain before He could heal them. Where ever Jesus went people that were in pain sought Him out knowing He would take the pain away.
Most of the prophecies in Revelation describe events that bring pain, and in that pain they reveal the mighty hand of God in trying to get the people of the world to choose Life rather that Death. And in this pain is a useful tool to force people to make choices that they would rather not make.
But is this the only way that God can work in order to get people to 'wake up' to the fact that they need to change in order to accomplish the precess of Sanctification, or is there another road they can take that would achieve the same ends without them having to go through horrendous pain in the accomplishment?
In August of 2021 Rick Sterling first broached the idea that there are not only Death Road prophecies that can aid the process of Salvation, but there are Life Road prophecies that can do the same thing without nearly as much pain. He pointed to Revelation 10 and Daniel 2 and 7 as examples of how God can accomplish His goals for the world through Peace and Prosperity, rather than Death and Destruction. And this has opened a new world of thought as to the true purpose of God in putting and end to evil in the world.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry as we continue to delve deeper into what God wants for the world, and how He will make it happen.
God's Honest Truth~
One of the expressions that I have heard from time to time throughout my life is "That's God's honest truth"! People have used this expression with impunity when they want to emphasize that they are telling the truth. My observation is that when this expression is used the person that uses it IS NOT telling the truth, they are telling their own truth.
If you look closely at those words you will see that they are in and of themselves an oxymoron, because the Creator God NEVER lies! As Rick pointed out on the program yesterday when Adam and Eve were in the Garden being confronted by Satan they succumbed to the idea that God lied to them when He stated:
"From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die (to be killed, as in executed)!"
Satan then, as he continues to this day, has convinced the spiritual world that the God of Creation is a liar, and Satan is the 'good guy', that will rescue mankind from the whims of a vengful God.
Today light is darkness, and truth is lies; and these lies are designed to trap people into "believing lies as if they are the truth, without accountability." (Rick Sterling)
God's Truth has not changed, and will not change just because mankind finds it inconvenient.
"This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed." John 3:19-20
Satans deeds are exposed and have become clear if you will open your spiritual eyes to see. And THAT is God's honest Truth!
Pace!
Today is Friday, January 7, 2022, and is one week on from New Years Day, and the airing of our first program of the year here at Spirit of Truth Ministry. There are also 51 weeks until the next New Years Day, and during those weeks we will all have both good and bad experiences that will define how this year has played out, not only in our individual lives, but in the life of our society, and our culture.
One of the factors in getting from here to there will be how we pace ourselves in our effort to finish the year in possibly better shape than last year, which was a tough year. Pace to the running of a race is critical in being able to actually finish the race, and not burn out before the finish line. A good runner wants to finish the race with nothing left in the 'gas tank' of their store of energy. They want to cross the line and collapse, knowing they have nothing left to give.
In music composition one of the most important and yet least appreciated element is the idea of pacing the tempo and dynamics of the composition such that the music builds to a projected climax, without giving the ending away too soon.
We are entering a time in the hisrtory of the world when the pace of events is accelerating to an ending for which many people are not prepared. This is the reason why we need to understand the pacing of the prophecies in Daniel 2 and Revelation 10, that show us an ending the has been unlooked for until right now. Events in both the physical, political and spiritual worlds are moving along 'a-pace' toward a conclusion that will bring to the world Peace and Prosperity rather than death and destruction. This is an ending that is looked for by only a very few people, and you, dear listener, are one those people, because you have been listening to our programs these past months.
We need to prepare our friends and family for this wonderful ending, that is also a new beginning.
Happy New Year~
It is New Year's day in the world, and a chance to reflect on the past, as well as plan for the future. Many people believe that the future is bleak, due to the present circumstances we are facing in politics, religion, and with the world economy. There are a lot of people that I speak with at my work that are not only saddened by what they see and experience, but are also very worried about what will happen this year, thinking that things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. Several have cited to me the events of Revelation and the 'Anti-Christ' that they feel must soon appear in order to fulfill the prophecies that they see in Revelation for the end of time. Many are frightened.
Yet here at Spirit of Truth Ministry we know better than to believe those things, because we know that we are now NOT going to experience the Death Road prophecies, but we will so experience a time of Peace and Prosperity the like of which the world has never seen in all history.
And today Rick has some improtant and wonderful news about how God calculates the timing of the end that will show right where we are in time. Thjis is information you must have in order to gain a true sense of what God has done, and is doing, in preparing the world for His eventual return to earth. This is truly good news for a truly Happy New Year!
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry on New Years Day, January 1, 2022 for an exciting program that will redefine how we should see the world and the event therein. at 10AM PDT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
On New Years Eve day, December 31,2021, Spirit of Truth Ministry is pleased to present a Best of The Bible on Trial. This program continues from the studies of July 16 and 17, 2021 that describe the effects of the prophecies of the Life Road, as opposed to the Death Road on the world, that is seen in much of Revelation. Join Rick Sterling and the Spirit of Truth Ministry team as we uncover the reasons why we should be looking forward to what will happen after the New Year that will change the world for the Good, forever. This program was originally aired on July 23, 2021.
Our program will air at 10 AM on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
On New Years Day January 1, 2022, Spirit of Truth Ministry will present a live program that will expose one of the many reasons why Bible Prophecy of the End of Time andthe timing of these prophecies have been misunderstood for 2,000 years. We hope you will join us for both of these outstanding presentations.
Christmas Presence~
One of the highlights of the Christmas season, especially Christmas Day is the giving and recieving of presents. For Children, it is the most important part of the holiday, because they get to unwrap these presents and see what the surprise is inside the package. For adults with children it is being able to give them something from 'Santa' that they normally would not get in everyday life. Socks don't count. My grandson is 17 months old, and this will be the first Christmas that he has any recognition of the importance of the day. The house is decorated with lights, and maybe a Christmas tree. But a child that young has not recognition of the true importance of the day, and won't until much later.
For me, the most important part of the Christmas season is not that there is beautiful music, or even a lovely family gathering. It is the true Christmas story that was expressed in the account of the birth in John 1:
"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of graciouness and truth." John 1:14.
Jesus came to this earth to bring the WORD of God from heaven by being that very Word. And that Word of Truth in us will make us like the Father, through the Holy Spirit.
This is the Christmas Presences of the Word of God in us, that demonstrates that we indeed have 'God in us', and not just around us. This is the difference between acknowledging that Jesus came in the flesh as a present, but having Jesus inside of us by our living in that Word, being the presence of the Word in the world.
We here at Spirit of Truth Ministry wish you a Merry Christmas. But more than that we pray that you will discover the joy of having the presence of God inside of you through His words of Truth, and knowing that you are in the Kingdom of God through those very words. Joy to you this Day!
Lessons and Carols~
I am sitting in my living room with my wife, listening to the rain beyond the windows, and to the live Service from Cambridge England at King's College of the Nine Lessons and Carols, that is offered each year on Christmas Eve, as a retelling of the story of the Birth of Jesus Christ, and the reason for His entry into this world.
This is an awe inpiritng event that we have been a part of for years. The readings and the music remind me of why we are here, and why Spirit of Truth Ministry exists. Jesus was born as The Truth, not only in His person as a human being, but also as the Word Made Flesh, that dwelt among us. It is easy to simply say "I Believe", but what is much more difficult is to KNOW what is the Truth, and be able to articulate it to those others that are seeking its True Light.
We are all in need of the one and only Truth that was brought from heaven to earth by the very Son of God, jesus the Christ. Make this Christmas season a recommitment to the knowing and the understanding of the Truth of the Life Road, and how we can gain eternal life by abiding in these words that Jesus brought to us.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Christmas Eve December 24, 2021, at 10 AM PDT for a 'best of' program from our collection of recorded podcasts, at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
The Program before Christmas~
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our last program before Christmas today, December 18, 2021, at 10 AM PDT, for The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. We will be continuing our topic from yesterday, with a shout out to the celebration of the Birth of the Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our program is located at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministy for our program The Bible on Trial, today December 17, 2021, at 10AM PDT, for a conintuation of our study into the shift in the prophetic time line from Death Road to Life road. This shift has cause the world to move from death and destruction to Life and prosperity, that will happen very soon: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Disaster Stikes~
The wide spread devastation from the massive tornado in Mayfield Kentucky and other parts of the midwest is incredible. The loss of life would be tragic at any time, but is even more so during this Christmas season. The insurance companies that have underwritten the property and lives are going to take a huge hit into the billions of dollars, and the emotional and spiritual toal on the people will last for a long time.
The question that I asked myself when I saw video of the destruction was 'why now'? An yes, I realize that some bad things just happen, and there is no conspiracy assiciated with these events. Yet given what is going on in the economic, political, spiritual and political world, where the 'Deep State' players are taking hit after hit, and losing on every front, it just seems more than coincident to me that something such as this horrific tornado that by virtue of its size and effect will cause people to focus on this temporal event, such that they miss the critical events that are taking place that will change the course of history for the world.
Every time the world gets close to an event that will change the world for the better something has occured to distract the people from pushing through to a better and more fulfilling existance. This is the essence of the difference between the Life Road and the Death Road outcomes that we here at Spirit of Truth Ministry have been talking about since Rich Sterling introduces the concept in August of 2021. So just to be clear; the world has now transitioned from the Death Road prophecies to the Life Road outcomes, and we are seeing the last desparate attempts by Satan to stop it from happening.
Do not lose heart or focus just because disaster strikes. Know that this is just Satan exercising his last attempts to stop something that cannot be stopped. We are almost there, so never, never, never give up!
Rain, Reins, Reign~
These words are examples of homophones - words that sound the same, but are spelled differently, and have three distinct meanings. It rained here in 'sunny' Southern California last night, much needed, and as yet too little to make a difference. And this morning when I got out of bed and looked outside there was still a slight drizzle in the air, and water coating the cars and driveway. These homophones captured my thoughts in Spirit and Scripture.
Rain ~ aids growth, refreshes, cleanses.
"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it." Isa. 55:10-11.
Rein ~ directs or guides to a destination.
'Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent." Rev. 3:19.
Reign ~ The rule of a Sovereign.
'He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne." Rev, 3:21.
These three words define the identity of the Salvation that Jesus taught to His own disciples while He was here on earth. The words of Jesus are the words of Life, the water of Life. His words come from the Father, and are the onl words that will lead us to eternal life. They guide, reprove, and discipline us in the ways of Truth. And if we Abide (live) in His words we will truly be His disciples, and gain mastery (sovereignty) over ourselves and over sin, and thus gain entry into the Kingdom of God. NO ONE other than Jesus teaches this system of Truth.
Fog~
One of the axioms of military combat is that a plan of action never survives first contact with the enemy. This is also called 'The Fog of War". The solution to this problem is to have field and company grade leadership that knows the plan, but is able to adapt to different circumstances on the fly, with the abiity to make decisions without enough solid information to know the result before the fact.. And during this period of uncertainty due to lack of information about the enemies movements, disposition of force, or what is not in sight, that ability to decide 'right now' is incredibly important to the success or failure of the operation.
I was watching TV news this morning to get the 'lay of the land' so-to-speak, and they showed video of the Los Angeles basin, and along the coast, covered in fog. Under the fog eveything was grey and dismal, but above the fog from the helicopter the sun was shining, and the low laying cloud tops were white.
Right now there are many people that are living in a 'fog', where they don't really know the truth about what is going on in the country or in the world. They hear news and see reports of a 'new' Covid variant, or reports of a school shooting, or people being accosted and robbed on the street or in their homes, and they are frightened. They see what is happening in Washington D.C., and i other countries, where the leadership is either very incompetent or downright evil in their handeling of the political situations facing their countries, and they can't see a way forward to a brighter future. They are in a 'fog'!
So what would happen if there was information that could lift that fog that is surrounding the world today; a spiritual fog that has been manufactured to do exactly what fog is supposed to do-keep people from seeing the truth. The Truth has already lifted the fog of the spiritual war we are in, if you look for it.
One letter off~
"Uif Cjcmf po Usjbm". Doesn't this sentence look as if it is written in an foreign language? If it was another language you would have to be able to know which language, and the either learn it, or get a translation,in order to know what it said. What if it was an important life saving sentence that if you could not translate it you might die. How would you be able to know how to deal with this 'language' in order to find the meaning?
In code breaking this sentence is written in what could be called a positional substitution algorithm, where you alter the position of each letter by a defined number of positions either forward or backward from the original letter in the alphabet; in this case, and for the sake of simplicity, the alteration is one position after. So now you can decipher it. Give it a try. Go back one letter and find out what it says.
Finding the correct formula for finding the meaning and understanding End Time Prophecy in the Bible can feel just like seeing the above sentence for the first time, and not knowing how to deal with it. Bible prophecy can be intimidating and confusing, because most people don't to the algorithm with which to decipher the meanings. Perspective it lost when you don't understand the method for finding the understanding.
And when people don't know HOW to understand they often throw up their hands in frustration and give up trying to understand the life saving meanings within those prophecies that can save their lives.
This is what we do here a Spirit of Truth Ministry. We show people the method with which to come to a reasonable understandning as ot where and WHEN we are in time, in relation to the prophecies of the end of time listed in the Bible. It is critical to know that we are no longer on the Death Road, but have migrated to the Life Road prophecies. Stick with us and learn why!
Starting in August of 2021 Rick Sterling and Spirit of Truth Ministry have researched and presented here on our Blog Talk Radio station a new approach to End Time Prophecy that is stunning in it's scope, with major implications for how these different prophecies will affect how people view spirituality, and how this change will affet the fate of the world.
The Christian community sees the prophecies in Daniel and Revelation as a horror show that pits the Saints against Satan and his hords in a battle that spills over from univeral religious persecution that is lead by the Roman Catholic Church, and culminates in a 'Mark of the Beast' that requires everyone to submit to the will of the Dark Lord or be put to death. In this view of prophecy all hell breaks forth on earth, where war, plague, famine and wild beasts terroize the people of the world into full submission to Satan. Many see the vaccine for Covid a this mark, which for better or worse fuels the movement to reject this 'jab'.
And yet, the new insight and understanding of both Revelation 10 and Daniel 2 shows that the current understanding of End Time Events is flawed, because the Reality Stream that would have to be in place for this to happen has been switched a a different Reality. That switch became apparent in November 2016 when the results of the US Presidential Election did not go the way that the 'Deep State' needed to finish their 16 year plan for the subjugation of the world. The Prophetic time line that is seen in much of Revelation changed, and what Satan was trying to put into place will now no longer happen, because the time for it to have happend is past.
Prophecy has changed from the Death Road to the Life Road. Instead of experiencing Death and Destruction the world will now experience Life, Peace and Prosperity. This will allow the world the time to understand how Salvation really works, without coersion by the Evil One.
Thanksgiving After~
What are you thankful for? That is the question that is asked more often today than at any other time of the year in America. There are some years in which we can say that we are more thankful than others, and this past year may not be one of them, what with Covid-19, a radical change in Govenment, and a general unease about what is to come.
Thanksgiving Day in the past has perenially been about hopeful optimism, and a sense that the future would be better than the past. But many people in the America today, and indeed the world, have been captured by a picture not described in Norman Rockwell's Thankgiving, where the family is gathered around the Dining room table just about to start the feast, where everyone has access to the bounty of life, and is prepared to enjoy it without guilt or shame because others in the world don't have as much. This seems to be an ideal whos time has come and gone, as each night on the nightly new we see images that continually show hunger, disease, homelessness, riots, descent, and much pain and suffering.
Both of these perspectives are true, yet according to prophecy in the Bible only one of these realities will survivie the coming of Truth to the world. That is because only one of those pictures is true, the other is a complete and utter lie, fabricated to bring a overwhelming sense of hopeless, such that if you don't go along with the pervailing leadership then you will be made to suffer more depredation and pain that humans can take.
Spirit of Truth Ministry has an understanding of these prophecies that are totally different that what is seen in much of Revelation. Peace and Prosperity for the entire world is just around the corner for those that love God and love the truth. We urge you to listen to our programs each week, and you will gain a sense of a reality that is far away from the reality in which we now live, because Reality has changed.
Courage~
Yesterday, the world saw an especially dramatic expression of courage in a jury of 12 men and women that decided that a young man was innocent of murder. The world of the Main Stream Media had already conviced Kyle Rittenhouse of murder, driving public opinion through a frenzy of lies about what he did, and why he did it, even to the extent that the President of the United States declared him guilty "before the fact". But the facts told a different story, and when presented with the "Facts in Evidence" the jury did the only thing that the law allowed, and that was to exonerate him, and declare him Not Guilty.
This has generated a predictable response from those who exist on lies and deceit. The accusations of 'racism' and 'white supremacy' fly hot and heavy in those that have chosen to place emotion, blatant lies, and their own feelings about what should have been the outcome, over evidence and truth.
Isa 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness".
It takes real courage to try to find truth, because in order to find truth a person must first take their own closely held paradigms of life and replace them with something that initially may 'sound' like a lie, but after examination and reflection turns out to be 180 degree away from those beliefs. People that live on emotion have a very difficult time doing this, because the truth doesn't care about your emotions. When you align your emotions with the Truth, you know you are making progress toward true understanding.
When Jesus was here on earth He had the same problems communicating truth to those to whom truth was anathema.
Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3: 3.
It's the last Friday beforet Thanksgiving and Christmas merchandise has been up in the hardware store where I work since the end of October. This is the norm for this 'season', because if we don't get it up then we will be WAY behind in sales by Thanksgiving.
This used to be NOT the norm. I remember as a boy growing up in Glendale Ca., that the no one, either private or public, put up Christmas Holiday decorations until the day AFTER Thanksgiving. According to my parents, this was because we needed to spend time thinking about what we were thankful for, instead of what we were wishing for. In those days the idea of shop until you drop was not a 'thing'. Yes, we bought presents for each other (or most probably in elementary school MADE the presents), but the societal model was to be greatful for what we had, and not demand a constant 'more more more'.
I believe that our society today has lost sight of the concept that we are incredibly fortunate to live in the USA, where instead of our every dream coming true at the drop of a credit card, we have the opportunity to live in a freedom that was the reason that the Pilgrims made the arduous journey from Europe to the Americas, and through the burning desire for Freedom to live, and move and have their being in a place where despots could not kill you on a whim, and where success was a matter of hard word, perserverance, and trust that God would work His will in their lives.
And Today I actually see that same love for freedom, with a large helping of a love of Truth, hovering just under the surface of the diabolical situation in which we find ourselves, due to a small reserve of people that mimic the ideals of the Kings and Princes from which our Founders made their escape in the late 15th Century.
We are just about to see this Renewed Freedom break forth as the dawn in this world.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today at 10 AM PT for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Truth Always Offends Someone~
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." ~ Thomas Paine
"When a person who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, they will either quit being mistaken or cease being honest." ~ Richard Humpal, J.D.
We have grown a culture in the United States (and indeed the world) where the Idea of 'free speech' has become regulated it by the concept that if you offend anyone by what you say YOU are at fault for the offense, not the truth which you speak. Our culture has become biased toward not offending anyone about anything, such that many people feel that if they speak the truth and there is a backlash against them from an offended party that accuses them of 'hate speech' it must be their fault, and not the fault of the person who claims offense. Speech is not "FREE" if the person speaking it can be brow-beaten into retracting it because they are being threatened with a legal or physical response by someone that simply rejects what they have said as a lie.
The people that believe they and only they have the correct concept of 'Trooth' ,and are willing to use force of any kind to establish it as an unchallenged fact are themselves denying others the ability to question that concept, and are a limiting freedom of speech.
The idea that "Faith allows a person to believe a lie as if it is the Truth, without accountability" (Rick Sterling) is the root cause that allows the offended to prevail against a person that simply does not want the 'rock the boat', and cause someone to be mad at them. The idea that we can 'live and let live', and 'each to his/her own' is anathema to the propogation of truth in the world.
Jesus knew this intimately while He was here on earth. Yet He was unafraid to speak the truth even when it put Him on the cross. If we say we love the truth, can we to any less?
Halves~
In mathematics it is postulated that you can divide any number in half an infinite number of times, indefinately. So if you take your calculator and divide 100 IN half (not BY half, with is another thing all-together) 10 times, you get to your first zero behind the decimal. Each four divisions thereafter adds a zero. So at twenty times you have a number that starts with 4 zeros behind the decimal (.00009537). In theory you could do this divisiion an infinite number of times and still have numbers to divide, because every 4 division adds another zero.. There does come a time when in practicality the resulting 'dividend' becomes unweidy and useless to computation, unless you are dealing with sub-atomic particles.
When we are waiting for an event to happen the expectaion of which is either wonderful or aweful, it seems that the division of time that is active in the waiting will never end. Case-in-point is a young child waiting for Christmas day to come. This can even occur for adults that are waiting for a birthday, retirement, their wedding day, the birth of their child, or a divorce.
If you are a 'believer' you have been told that Jesus can come 'anytime', and that we must always be ready. When placed inside the above division model the waiting feels like it will never end, because our anticipation is so strong for the result. There has been shilt in the reality stream , so we now know that the coming of the King will not be as we expected. We also see that this shift is affecting the politics of our world, where the 'bad guys' seem to be winning, and this is adding frustration to the wait for the anticipated good results we all want to believe are just around the corner.
Prophetic reality has changed. The events presented in Revelation 7,8, 9, and 13 and on will NOT happen, because the time for them to happen has past. What is coming next WILL happen soon. The dividing is almost over.
Decision Point~
Prior to the election of 2016 the world was in the process of beiad by the people of Darkness into a reality that is described in all but one of the prophecies described in the book of Revelation. Up until that decision point the people of the earth had not been given the opportunity to choose a path that would lead to Life, and had been manipulated and coerced into going along a path that was leading to a Death Road outcome that would have seen the death billions of innocent people, and the enslavement of the rest of humanity to the service of a small 'elite' group of people that would control the left overs with an Iron Fist. The end point was a 16 year plan culminateing in 8 years of an Obama Presidency that actually set up the political, economic, social and religious environmant where in the USA and the world would have their freedoms slowly erroded, such that they would never realize the end result until it was too late. The second 8 years was to have been overseen by Hillary Clinton, who as the expected President of the US would finish the plan with the total enslavement of mankind, and then turn the reigns of power over to her master, Satan himself, in the last 5 months of earths history.
BUT this never happened, because God intervened and provided a means through Donald Trump to take the world off the Death Road, and place it firmly and irrevocabley on the Life Road that was God's original and final plan for humanity. Without coersion the people of the USA )and indeed the world) chose of their own free will to change from the plan that Satan had desired for the rulership of the world, to the plan that God desired for the world. That Life Road Plan is in place today; and even though we see chaos, strife and pain in the world this is but the final death throes of the evil plans of Satan and his followers.
Take heart, for All Is Well. Stay strong, God has already won the victory.
A Brief Aside~
The purpose of Spirit of Truth Ministry is to fight lies with the truth. We do this every day. This fight extends from the words of God in the Old Testament through the words of Jesus in the New Testament via the testimony of Matthew, John, and Mark, to the words of anyone (the bondservants of Jesus) that use those words to prosecute the words of truth into the world. The world is full of lies, as those of us that love the truth see every day. BUT IF you try to co-mingle even 'innocent' lies with the truth, you make void to words that are the only words that have the capability of changing the kingdom of the world into the Kingdom of God.
The un-named 'holiday' that is about to come upon the world tomorrow is one such 'innocent' lie. We encourage our children to dress up as ghosts, goblins, witches and wizards, and other creatures of darkness, or even ficticious heros that battle evil in their make-believe worlds. In doing this these truly innocent beings (the children) are subjected to the very real world of the occult, that put them at risk of becoming innured to the very real danger of joining the 'dark side'. Satan changed the original purpose of All Hallows Eve that is celebrated in orthodox Christian churches from a way to remember those loved ones that have died, into a celebration of the most basic of human fears, and glorifies those deaths, turning the remembering into a horror show. All of this couched in the idea that if they face their fears they will be rewarded with something sweet to eat.
The world is trapped in a web of lies that masquerade as truth. We are on the very edge of a new era of peace and prosperity. Satan is using every means possible to stop this from happening. He is trying to bring about a New World Order that is seen in the book of Revelation as the Time of Trouble, where he rules the world through death and destruction. This Will Not Happen!
Alternate Reality~
How does a person know if they are in a dream or in reality? We all know that dreams can feel extremely real, so much so that waking form a particularly vivid dream can create confusion as you transition from the dream to the reality of your bedroom. There is a phenominon called the Mandela Effect, which is a phenomenon that makes us question even the most mundane memories from the past. For example, you might remember a phrase from a favorite movie that when you watched that movie years later a phrase has changed by a word or two, and you feel confused because you remember it a different way. The Mandela Effect is not limited to just a few people with an alternate memory, but cuts across millions of people in hundreds of very minor situations where the difference is one word. I remember watching Forrest Gump for the first time and hearing Tom Hanks say, "Life is like a box of Chocolates". But is you listen closely today you will hear him say, "Life WAS like a box of Chocolates".
What changed? Up until the Election of 2016 time lines were being changed on a regular basis, as Satan an his minions were trying to force the prophecies of Revelation on to those of the Death Road, where Satan believed he could eventually win the day, and force God to cede him the permanent rulership of the earth and its inhabitants.
But there came a time when God said 'Enought is enough', and the people of the USA and indeed the world chose good over evil and right over wrong. When this happened the option for a different reality was opened that is seen in Revelation 10 in the prophecy of the Seven Thunders, and in Daniel 2, and the world changed from the timeline of the Death Road, onto the timeline of the Life Road.
We are right now seeing the reality of the death throws of the Kingdom of the World, as we prepare for the transition to the Kingdom of God. Nothing can stop it!
Accepting Truth~
Why is it so difficult for some people to believe truthful ideas and concepts? After all, does anyone come right out and say that they want nothing to do with truth, and that they would rather believe a lie because it will make their lives better? This seems ludicrous on it's face, but when you look at the world through the lens of social media, main stream media, and 'liberal' idealism you see that the love of truth for it's own sake has grown cold in society.
The idea of a 'Liberal Arts' education has changed over the past 50 or so years from learning as much as you can about a subject before expressing an opinion about it, reading and exploring ideas that are not your own and then feeling as if you must embrace them just because they exist, to the idea that if you hear ideas from someone or something you believe you should trust you must establish them in your mind as truth without concrete proof to back them up. Doing this allows a person to believe a lie as if it is true, and then claiming that you are not responsible for that content in your mind.
The concept of 'Liberal thought' has changed dramatically from being willing to listen to the point of view of others, apply logical process to what you have heard, and then establish a base line of practice that demonstrates the workability and worthyness of that concept in real life, to blind acceptance of what someone has espoused as truth simply based on the authority granted to them by some academic or religious certification that automatically makes these people superior to your own knowledge base.
The idea of thinking for ourselves has lost it's luster in the face of the pressure to fit in to society.
Truth is not conjecture or wishful thinking. Truth simply IS! Learning how salvation really works requires stepping away from the crowd and making a choice to follow the path to Truth through the words of Jesus!
Join us today, October 22, 2021 for our program The Bible on Trial, continues our study into the shift from the Death Road prophecies seen in Rev. 13, to the prophecy in Revelation 10 of the Seven Thunders, that has put the world on the Life Road. This program will be streaming live at 10 AM PDT, or on our podcast anytime at: blogtalkradio.com/sot. We believe that what you will here on this program will help you understand where we are in time and in prophecy in a way that will bring you peace as we move forward into the future.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, October 16, 2021, at 10AM PDT for another exciting edition of our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling at: blogtalkradio.com/sot. We will be continuing our study as to why we are no longer in most of the prophecies that are seen in Revelation 8, 9, and 13 (among others) that we have term the Death Road Prophecies of the End, and why we are now on the Life Road Prophetic time-line as seen in Revelation 10 in the prophecy of the Seven Thunders. If you want to know where we are in time and why, then join us for our program.
Honesty~
"When a person who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, they will either quit being mistaken or cease being honest". ~ Richard Humpal, J.D.
We have all made mistakes. Well, you say, 'No Kidding'! Alexander Pope said, "To err is human, to forgive is divine". This intimates that as humans we simply cannot keep from making a mistake from time to time, and need to be able to forgive self, even as we forgive others. This idea in one sense is true. Humans learn how not to do something detrimental to their existance by recovering from that particular mistake and learing to not do that same mistake again. If you make a mistake once, say you have learned from it, and then do it again, it now becomes a choice.
Dealing with truth in this environment requires the application of a very difficult concept to aquire, and that is Self-Honesty! Conflating self-honesty with dealing honestly with others is easy by comparison to learning to be truly honest with yourself. One is an exterior identity, where you would never think to harm another human being, especially someone you know and love, by lying to them for personal gain. This is admirable, and necessary to the growth of any friendship. But it is an entirely different senario when it is only yourself that would be affected by that same 'stretching of the truth'.
We like to think of ourselves as being better in truth than we really are, because then we don't have to admit we don't have all truth, That fallibility exposes the warts and blemishes of our understanding, and it hurts. It is easier to be forgiven by others than to forgive ourselves, especially when we know we are going to do 'it' again and again. Growth in the Spirit of Truth comes from seeing the flaws ourselves, admitting it, and not make that same mistake again by believing lies as truth. This self-honesty is the key to the Kingdom.
Tracking~
"Riding the rails" is now pretty much a thing of the past. I am not talking about commuter trains that carry harried passengers to their places of work and back again. I speaking of (say) needing to go to New York or Chicago from Los Angeles, and going to Grand Central Station in LA, climbing aboard the Skylark to Chicago, and spending 4 -5 days sleeping in a 'sleeper' compartment, eating in the Dining Car, and watching the country go by from the glass encased Observation car. This is an experience of which few people today have any knowledge. But in the 'age of the train' prior to mass air travel this was the way you would have traveled long distances. It took time to get there, wherever 'there' was. There was no hurrying it up, no trying to push the envelope to add speed to the situation. You simply got on board and got there when you got there. The tracks, switches, bridges, tunnels, engineers, porters, and ticket agents (and a lot more) got you from point A to B, and if you changed your mind in the middle of the trip you had to wait until the train made a scheduled stop along the way, and got off the train. If you were on the train you when where the train took you, whatever the destination.
Many people live their spiritual lives as if they are on a train going down the tracks. (In fact, there is a gospel song about this very thing.) The passengers don't really know where they are going, they just know that their family and friends, and other Christians are on the train, so it must be going where they want to go, to the Kingdom of God, and heaven.
But what if that train is not going where they think it is going? What if the tracks end taking the train into a chasm that leads to destruction? What if you were told this would happen? Would you get off the train, or would you stay to the bitter end?
This is a real choice in the spiritual world of today.
Chronic Fear~
We all experience fear from time to time; fear of losing the car keys, or the fear that comes from being in public with your small child, and turning around and ot spotting them where they should have been, because they have wandered away from your side. When you find your keys in the last place you left them, or look and see your child looking at a toy in a store window, you experience a palpable relief that all is now well, again.
We also experience that niggling fear that 'something is just about to happen', a precience that an event of issue is about to arise that will disturbe the natural order of things in you life. And when that event does not happen (as is mostly the case) you sigh and realise that fear was nothing but an illusion.
There is also a type of fear that is pervasive and all consuming, that adversly affects your 'space/time continuum", occupying not only space in your mind, but also all of your time in worrying about it. This chronic fear can be as debilitating as a broken bone, and as invasive as a heart attack. When this kind of fear takes over your life nothing else matters, and everthing you experience is informed by that fear.
This is the world we now live in ,with Covid and the Big Government propoganda and fear mongering that is being spewed forth in the MSM that causes us to fear for our lives every second of every day. The Deep State actors need us to live in fear so we will become compliant and get used to doing everything they say when they say it. This is the fear that is expressed in much of the prophecy of Revelation, and feeds this societal fear of impending doom, if we do not comply.
Take heart, because there is an antidote to fear, and that is truth. Truth casts out fear.
"Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known." Matt. 10:26.
Today is a Best Of program first broadcast on August 13, 2021. It is the first program that presents the concept that the world is now no longer in the Death Road prophetic timeline that is defined in most of the book of Revelation, and due to the choices that America, and indeed the world, made in November 2016, we now find ourselves in a new prophetic reality that is seen in Revelation 10, and in Daniel 2. This reality is termed the Life Road reality by Rick. Today's program is the start of a series of programs that has continued since then, that show how this has taken place, and what it means for the world going forward. This is a unique concept that as far as we know you will not hear or read about from any other source.
If you are worried about the outcome of what we are all going through right now in this world you need to listen to this program, and the program that follows on August 14, 2021. There is much tragedy and sorrow in this world right now, with Covid being a major factor in how the governments of the world are removing the hard won freedoms that are being erroded en mass from the people of the world. The program you will hear today will give you a perspective that will show that which is in store for this world, as we move forward into a world with a much brighter future that we are experiencing right now.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, October 2, 2021, for our program The Bible on Trial, at 10AM PDT at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Tipping Point~
As events progress along in life there comes along, from time to time, situations that are termed 'tipping points'. This is a decision point that will affect everything down stream in either a positive or negative way: it changes everything.
Many times these events are personal, in that this decision does not affect many, if any, other people in your life, except maybe how your friends and family view who you are. You make a decision, and then you and your family and friends adjust reasonably quickly to the outcome. For example, this might be a change of major in college, or changing jobs, or making an important career move. After this decision you might even say to yourself, "What took me so long to do this", move=ing on with your new life, but having little or no affect on anyonte else.
Then there are Tipping Points that are world changing, such as the point in 2016 where the USA and the world affecte a massive tipping point by deciding to elect Donald Trump as President of the United States. This Changed Everything! This event put America, and indeed the world, on a different path than the one that had been planned for decades, where the 16 year plan that began with Obama, would end with the election of Hillary Clinton, and then the world would be thrust into a time of trouble that would end with a One World Government, as seen in much of the prophecies in Revelation.
But the outcome of the decision in the election of 2016 changed this dynamic from the prophecies of the Death Road, to the Prophecies of the Life Road as seen in Revelation 10.
We have not only reach a massive Tipping Point, but we are well and long past it. The outcome has now been fixed in time, and we can never go back to that other more desperate and horrible time line where the Death Road prophecies would be fulfilled. That time is past, and we are headed firmly in a bright future of peace.
Please join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, September 25, 2021, for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, at 10 AM.
Cheering Crowds~
The Ryder Cup, the single most important three day golf tournament that happens every two years, began this morning at Whisling Straights golf club, located on the shores of Lake Michigan. With Covid restrictions in place last year the Ryder Cup was postponed a year, so this is the third year not the second year for this tournament. The Cup is played between the United States and Europe, and Europe has won 7 out of the last nine meetings.
With the easing of Covid restrictions In the USA there is a crowd of fans watching on sight, limited to 'only' 40,000 fans per day. These fans are wildly in favor of the US Team, and as such can sometimes to overboard in expressing their disfavor of the European team. Any fan that goes out of bounds in their language in doing this will be ejected.
A positive cheering crowd can actually help a player play better. A crowd that is cheering against a player can, and does, negatively affect the outcome from time to time.
We are all in a spiritual tournament of our lives. It is not a game. And there are crowds of a spiritual beings that are cheering either for or against you as you 'play' for your very life. Who you choose to listen too does affect how you behave, and does affect the outcome of whether you win through to eternal life, or not. The truth must win in your mind if you are to gain eternal life.
Somewhere in the recesses of your mind you are either listening to the crowds of Gods angels cheering you on to victory over sin, or you are listening to the crowds of Satan's angels telling you that you cannot beat the sin in your life, and that you don't even need to try.
One side is cheering you to honor and practice the Law, the Prophets, and the Words of Jesus, and the other side is cheering against you, that all you need do is 'believe' on Jesus and you will be saved. Listen only to the cheers of truth.
Steps to Learning~
We have all had to learn things that have challenged what we already know. What we know has brought comfort and stability to an otherwise chaotic world, and whenever something is different than our current understanding of things we get nervous and cranky.
Yet as we grow older and mature in our thinking we come to the realization that there are understandings that 'may' be different than what we believe, but are none-the-less an acceptable truth.
The first step in the growth of learning is 'Unconscious Incompetence'. This is the realization that "We don't know what we don't know!" This is not only the first step, it is the most difficult to accomplish, because the paradims that are firmly established in our intellect fight against every attemp to change them.
But as we discover new ideas and concepts we come to the second step in learning, which is 'Conscious Competence'; that is, now you know that you don't know, and you work to remove that which you have learned that is false, and replace and establish this new concept in the intellect. In other words, you are good at it, but you must work hard to do it.
The final level of learning is as expected 'Unconscious Competence'. This is when that new thing you have learned is firmly established in the intellect, and now you no longer have to reprocess this information everytime you use it; it becomes automatic, and is no longer a burden, but a joy!
This is what Jesus meant when He said, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine," and "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth".
This Truth is different than what you now believe, and this is as it should be due to your current understanding. Take heart. Jesus said, "And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." (John 8:32)
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome~
The identity of the US Marine Corp is encapsulated in the Marine slogan seen above. This allows the individual US Marine to deal with any physical, mental, or spiritual hardship; and hardship is the 'name of the game' for the US Marine.
The basic training for a Marine is brutal, and only gets tougher as they extend their training into their MOS (Military Occupational Specialty). Our friend Dr. Don, and our passed friend Dr. Rich, were soldiers in the US Army. Getting through that training takes a level of will that few that have not accomplished it understand. The discipline and dedication to a cause that is bigger than yourself is amazing, which is why we as a society honor those that have accomplished this stellar feat.
Yet when we think about how we train for induction into the greatest army of all, most people have been taught and believe that they don't need to be trained to gain entry into the Army of God. They have been taught that Jesus loves them so much, and wants them with him for eternity, that all they must do to gain entry to this company is to say the 'sinners prayer' and they are in; that there is no further training needed, no requiirements of performance to a standard and that nothing can separate them from God after they choose to believe.
The sad thing is that as easy as this sounds it is a lie, perpetrated by the commander of the opposition to truth to lull these 'soldiers' into believing a lie as if it is the Truth, and teaching them that they will not be held accountable for their actions.
The Manual of Arms for the Kingdom of the Heavens has been established by the Commander of the Host, and anyone and everyone that enters this Kingdom MUST accomplish the tasks in that manual, or they cannot gain entry to that Kingdom.
That 'manual' is the words and teachings of Jesus Christ, and they will lead to Truth!
Do not fear the new Police State~
Well, in case you missed it, earlier this week Administrator Biden signed an Executive Order that (circumventing the legislative process) has made America a Police State!
How so, your say? Citizens of the USA are now required by edict and without consent of the governed to present papers on demand, that prove they have been vaccinated in order to buy and sell, to enter restaurants to eat in, and to work in various fields, including the US Military, all heathcare facilities, food service, and other businesses where contact with the public is required.
In doing this the "President' of the entity named the United States of America Corporation has made the citizens of the Republic of the USA vassels to a ruling class that does not have their best interest at heart. Is this a very frightening prospect?
It would be terrifying if the actual identity of this had not been revealed by Spirit of Truth Ministry via Rick Sterling on our Blog Talk Radio programs The Bible On Trial (Friday at 10AM), and The Revelation of Jesus (Saturdays/Sabbaths also at 10AM) starting August 14-15, 2021 at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
What we have discovered is that the prophecies of death and destruction that have been laid out in Revelation and Daniel defining 'End Time Events' for 2000 years or so, are not the prophecies that will carry us throught to the Kingdom of God, as we have all been taught.
Because of the understanding of the exact timing or these Death Road prophecies (http://spiritoftruthministry.net/STM/Must_Read/Entries/2010/6/7_Timing_Chart_of_the_End.html) we now know and understand that the time for these events in the order presented in the prophecies has passed, and we are in a new and different timeline that will culminate in the Life Road prophecies being fulfilled, as seen in Revelation 10 .
Take heart, and worry not, for all is going according to God's plan.
Planned Disappointment~
Have you ever had your car break down on the road on the way to the mechanic to get it repaired? Or said to yourself, "I'll make an appointment with the doctor for next week, and then end up in the ER with an enflamed gall bladder? These are pretty specific examples of a syndrome that I call The Planned Disappointment.
We have all been guilty of letting things go because we are too busy with other 'more satisfying' things, or so overwhelmed with life that watching a movie on Netflix is more important than studying for that pesky test. All of us have made excuses for our lack of planning when it comes to things that don't seem important 'in the momemt', but end up biting us in the ankle (or a body part a bit higher).
There is an old expression that states, "If you don't plan to win, you plan to loose"!
Rick recently put a piece up on the Spirit of Truth Group page on Facebook about how John the Baptist was not able to acknowlege that he (himself) was the 'Elijah' type prophet that was to come before the appearence of the Messiah. It is evident that he knew the prophecies concerning the Messiah, and was even told by a 'messenger' how to identify this person when He appeared. But what John was not able to do was acknowlege and recognize the it was he that was this person. And this changed his future.
We don't have to guess what will be the result of deciding to make a wrong choice, but often make that choice even when we know the outcome will not be what we really want. In doing this we are in fact planning for disappointment. Doing this can change our 'Real Reality' that will put us outside of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Planned Disappointment is making a wrong choice on purpose.
Thankfully the 'Elijah type' of today, who is this Faithful and Wise Bondservant, does not do this (Matt. 24:45).
"What if we were . . . ?
On December 17, 1903 Orville Wright made the first successful powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine, a machine that later would be called and 'airplane'! It took thousands of years of experiment and failure, and uncounted lives lost, to achieve this "miracle of flight"!
Only Sixty-six years later on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed a space craft named 'Eagle' on the moon. Thirty-nine minutes later Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the lunar surface. He was joined 19 minutes later by Buzz Aldrin.
The everyday person in 1900 CE did not dream of being able to climb in an airplane and fly to where they needed to be. Except for a few advanced minds writing in a genre called 'science fiction', no one thought it possible that mankind would be on the moon just 66 years later.
What if we were right now living in a future history that was just as shocking, dynamic, advanced and unlooked for in technology and culture was as then, and the world didn't realize it, except for a few people that were (as back then) called 'nuts'.
What if we were living in a timeline that just 5 years ago was headed in a direction that would have led the world to the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Death Road described in Revelation 7, 8, 9, and 13; a world where evil reigned supreme, and the people of God had to suffer the horror of the "Time of Trouble such as never was before, or would be again!"?
It actually happened. With the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016 the world changed course, and the world knew it not.
What if we were living in a timeline that was changed from this Death Road to the prophecies of the Life Road, where peace and prosperity would be the norm, and the Kingdom of God would fill the whole earth?
What if you knew? Would it make a difference?
Heckling~
Almost any time a crowd gathers to watch a sporting event such as a high level football, baseball, or basketball game you will hear heckling. Fans of any sport have their favorite players, an by that same token they have players that they hate. So when they see an opportunity certain fans will take it upon themselves to try to influence the outcome of a game by deriding and interrupting the performance of a player by shouting at them at the most inopportune time to make them fail to make a shot, or hit a ball, in order to help their favorite player win.
Most of the time a professional athelete will ignore these attempts to disrupt their game, and eventually the heckler will stop, heckling, seeing that what they are doing is not effective. When an athelete bites on the situation, and responds to the heckler, this just exacerbates the issue, and causes an escalation from the 'fan' who is being disruptive.
This is going on right now in the world of professional golf, where a player (and if you follow golf you know who this is) continues to respond to the heckling nearly every time it happens. The situation has gotten so bad that the Commissioner of the PGA has taken official steps to stop this practice during tournament play, before the issue become explosive.
When Jesus was in ministry here on earth He had to put up with hecklers. These hecklers were the doctors of the Law, the Scribes, Pharisees, Saducees, and leaders of Israel (and their helpers) that were trying to get Jesus to 'bite' on their comments and questions, and trap Him into making a mistake that would give them an excuse to arrest Him. Jesus was constantly being interrupted, yet never once did He responded in an inappropriate way.
The example Jesus set for us to follow was patience, when we are engaged with people that don't want to learn the truth. Let His words work.
The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling is our continuing our study into the shift from the Death Road prophecies seen in Rev. 13, to the prophecy in Revelation 10 of the Seven Thunders, that has put the world on the Life Road. Join us on Saturday (Sabbath) August 28, 2021 at 10AM Pacific time for our podcast, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot. See you then!
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Corrective Lenses~
In 1957 my sister and I contracted a virus called Mumps. This is a disease of the perotid (salivary) gland, and was very contagious, since back then there was no vaccine as there is today. In fact, the vaccine only took 4 years to develope, and was first made available in the MMR vaccine in 1967.
The worst thing about the mumps was that the eyes were damaged because of the high fever associated with the disease. It was mostly a childrens disease, so when Denise and I contracted my physician father put us in a dark room, in the same bed, and didn't let us read, or look at books, or look at anything. The disease takes 2 weeks to run its course, and this was the most boring time for a pair of 7 year olds. Both Denise and I came away from this experience having to wear 'coke bottle' lenses in glasses. This was not a happy time.
Mumps has been controlled by the vaccine to the extent that it has been declared 'cured'.
Denise and I both had to come to grips with living with very damaged eyes, and wearing thick, ugly glasses (especially Denise). Yet without these lenses we would have been considered to be blind. Corrective lenses have saved our lives.
The way in which we have all been reared and educated have put 'corrective' lenses over our spiritual eyes, which has shaped the way each of us views the spiritual world. We have become so used to these artificial lenses that we no longer realize that we are waring them. These artificial lenses affect every aspect of your spiritual lives, and are what cause everyone to "Believe a lie as if it is the Truth." There is no vaccine that prevents this. Yet we can choose to change our viewpoint of the spiritual world by looking through the lenses of Truth brought to earth by the Son of God; His Words.
These words, these corrective lenses, will completely change the way you see life, and salvation.
Narrow Road~
"For the gate is small and the Road (way) is narrow that leads to life, and few there are that find it,": Matt. 7:14.
If you were planning on going on a road trip that included traveling over some rough terrain to get to your destination. You were going to have to take a road that was windy and steep, that had ruts and dips, and you had to ford a stream in order to get there. Would you just pack the car, climb in and go? Or would you make sure your vehicle was prepared and ready for the trip in all aspects? You, of course, who go through you vehicle with a view to it having to do all of those things that would eventually get you to your destination successfully. You would check the tires, brakes, steering, suspension (shocks, struts, steering links), and all the other mechanical components and fluid levels that would assure that you could get to where you were going without a failure that would stop you in your tracks.
Now what if you were not certain of the way to your destination, and assumed that the road was smooth and safe; a proper highway with services along the way where you could purchase the things you would need if you forgot something. What if you believed that WAZE had the directions and all you had to do was follow them and you would arrive at your destination without worrying about whether you knew the way.
This latter is what Christians for centuries have believed about how it is that a person will get into the Kingdom of God. They believe the directions given by the Great Apostle or a Great Prophet of the church, assuming that this is the 'way the truth leading to life'. What if this belief is wrong, yet they believe with all there heart that it is right. Could this cause problems? What if the vehicle they are driving is not the vehicle that can get them into the Kingdom?
What if they are taking the Death Road, instead of the Life Road?
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today August 20, 2021, at 10AM Pacific Time for another edition of our program The Bible on Trial. We have been exploring the concept that prophecy is not as immutable and set in concrete as most Christians believe; that there is not only 'Death Road' prophecies in the Bible, but there are also Live Road prophecies that have supplanted the prophecies that we have grown up with, that depict a frightening future for not only the Kingdom of the Heavens, but for the world.
'What if' the prophecies of the end of time have been changed by the choices the United States of America and the world have me in the election of 2016? What is those choice have changed the trajectory of prophecy from the death and destruction of Revelation 7,8,9, 13 and more into the prophecies of peace and prosperity that are seen in the choices that God gave ancient Israel in the past?
Tune it to our program today and gain insight to this fascinating and wonderful alternative to the alternate prophecies that provide the truth as to who God really is, and what THEY are about to do for the world at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Continuing our study into the shift from the Death Road prophecies seen in Rev. 13, to the prophecy in Revelation 10 of the Seven Thunders, that has put the world on the Life Road.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today August 14, 2021, at 10AM for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Win the battle but lose the war~
There is something amiss in the world today, and it has to do with data analytics. Perspective is the key! If a person sets up the parameters for a theory before they have collected the data to support it, the only thing they get is 'faith' that their theory works the way they wish.
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Author of Sherlock Holmes stories.
If your perspective informs your data you will always find what you wish to find in result, whether it is correct or not. If your data informs your perspective then you might not like the result, but you will always find a usable truth.
Raw data is never used in a vacuum, there is alway a 'catch' that allows an unscrupulous 'expert' to manipulate the data to their own purposes. This is what we are seeing in both 'settled' science and religion today with respect to not only the 'pandemic' but to to where Biblical prophecy says we are in time. As we get closers to the 'END' of time the manipulation of the time-lines by the enemy is becoming more apparent in how data and the ubiquitous 'facts' are being used to create an environment that the enemy hopes will be so confusing that people will give up their attempts to understand just where we are in time. This is no longer the case.
The unsullied data from both Scripture and history shows that we are no longer inside of the Death Road prophecies of Revelation 7, 8, 9 and 13. Our time line has changed to the Life Road Prophecies as seen in Daniel 2 and Revelation 10, that Rick Sterling has been defining since August 14-15, 2020. Even though it appears that the good guys are loosing the battle, they are winning the war. The truth is winning.
Something about Truth~
There is something about Truth that makes people uncomfortable. The reason for this is that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE (at one time or another) has believed a lie as if it is the truth, and when confronted with this as a fact the person then has a very difficult choice to make; to continue to believe the lie and try to live with it without a change of perspective, or change perspective based on that truth and lose friends and family because of the new belief.
"When faced with Truth a person must either accept it, or learn to live with the idea that they are a liar."
Living with Truth is hard. Choosing to live inside of a lie kills the spirit, and hardens the soul.
The Bible is repleat with examples of this identity; Cain, Pharaoh, King Saul. Judas Iscariot, the 'apostle' Paul/Saul, to name a few. These people were directly confronted with Truth, and made the decision to ignore it, and continue to believe the lie as if it was the Truth.
We see this identity today in the world of politics, religion, science, art, and every human endeavor. NO ONE likes the idea that they have been fooled. But a true fool is a person that continues to say, "That just can't be true" when faced with uncompromising evidence to the contrary.
Emotion is a key player in this process. When every expert, every authority figure, every friend, every loved one, believes something is true but you KNOW differently, it is almost impossible to stand up to them in the classroom, workplace or home and tell them that they are wrong, because you don't want to hurt their feelings, because you love them.
Jesus came to this earth to testify to the truth (John 18: 36-37), BECAUSE He loved us so much that He could do no other. He knew learning the truth would hurt us, but He did it anyway. Can we do less?
Fact-Checkers~
If you have been on Face Book at any time in the past year of so you have seen a phenomena that has taken that platform by storm - the fact-checker.
These people are hired by Face Book to rebute the comments of people that are so obviously uninformed about reality that they need 'guidance' as to what is real and what is fantasy. Anything that disagrees with the political, social or scientific perspective of the 'editors' of Face Book get 'corrected' (re: censored) by their staff of 'experts', so that their reader will be put back on the correct tract to being properly informed.
These 'fact-checkers' are doing the same things that desperate high school students do when they have a writing assignment due the next day and haven't started the project; they pick a topic, and invent 'facts' that support their own personal ideas as to the truth of the subject, then they go to a 'credible' source such as Wikipedia and find an article by some unknown writer that supports their belief, and cite that article as proof. These students don't have time to fully research the assigned topic, so they invent the proof the support the theory.
True research takes time and effort, none of which these fact-checkers have time to do properly.
A great man once said, "Facts don't care about your emotions!" How you feel about a subject has no bearing on the truth of the matter. Yet as we have seen the idea that 'facts don't lie' is itself a lie. Of course facts can lie, as long as you pick only those 'facts' that support your position.
The Truth of God and how They work in this world is not based on emotional content, it is based upon the Words that God sent to earth with His own Son, and gave to humanity through His servants the prophets, and His own eyewitness disciples. This IS Truth!
Spirit of Truth Ministry, under the direction of Rick Sterling, has for the past 24 plus years been encouraging people to not accept the status quo of Truth, but to look at and research the things of Truth for themselves to see what makes sense, and what is fantacy. As we get closer to the 'God's honest Truth' (is there any other kind?) the lines for where fantacy ends and truth begins has become blurred inside of the reality in which we now find ourselves. The time-line that is today's present is nothing like the reality of the time-line that is seen in the prophecies of the end that is seen the parts of Daniel and Revelation that have been used over the years by the Church to frighten believers into accepting to Doctrines of the Church as sacrosanct. The Timing Chart of the End (http://spiritoftruthministry.net/STM/Must_Read/Entries/2010/6/7_Timing_Chart_of_the_End.html) that was developed by Rick in 2010 as part of the study into these (end time) prophecies clearly shows that had this time-line been fulfilled as defined by those prophecies themselve we would all be in heaven right now.
So what happened?
As you heard on the program of yesterday on The Bible on Trial (July 30, 2021-https://www.blogtalkradio.com/sot/2021/07/30/the-bible-on-trial), and indeed since August 14 and 15 of 2020 on our BTR podcasts, it is becoming more and more clear that the present in which we find ourselves is NOT the 'present' of the prophecies of the end as currently taught by the Churches. There has been a shift in the reality of prophecy from the Death Road of the old prophecies to the New Reality of the Life Road as seen in the prophecies of Daniel 2, and Revelation 10.
We encourage you to join Rick Sterling and the Spirit of Truth Ministry team each week as we go further into this new understanding of prophecy that shows tha the old truth is fantacy, and the new truth reality.
Moving Day~
My daughter, her husband, and my one- year old grandson are moving house. They are moving 12 miles from a now obviously temporary residence of a year or so, to a permanent residence in the town where my wife and I live, where they purchaced their 'new' home. They have been sorting, cleaning, packing, boxing items, and preparing for this move for about 6 weeks, when they were first told by the landlord that the place where they had been living was to be sold.
So for them today and tomorrow is 'moving day'.
We have been cleaning and preparing their new home for occupancy by changing the locks, having the carpets cleaned, painting the living room, planning a cabinet and mirror change in the bathroom, ordering and still waiting for appliances to be delivered, and the myriad other things that go into taking and established house-hold and moving it In Total to another locations. In some ways this is a joy, knowing that where they will live from here on will be much better than the old place, but the actually 'doing' the the things that make this possible is not fun, because it is a LOT of work.
Getting from Here to Eternity is also a LOT of work, don't let anyone fool you about this fact. The old things that have seemed so important, that have kept you from learning the truth about how salvation works and what it takes to become righteous in fact must be boxed up and thrown away, in order to make room for the NEW truth that will see you through to your new home. The dwelling place where you will live for eternity has to be prepared, fixed up, in order to accomodate the 'new you' that will reside in this 'new home'.
Don't be fooled, this takes a lot of work, and does not happen overnight, or with one 'conversion event'. Entering and finishing the process of sanctification is how you get the 'house key' to your new home
Today Rick Sterling will continue from yesterday's study into exactly why we are in a new and different timeline than the one seen in the main body of Revelation. There is information in both Daniel 2 and Matthew 24 that more than suggest that what the Faithful and Wise Bondservant, and hence his fellow servants are doing today is demponstration that the prohecies of the Death Road have been overtaken and supplanted by the Prophecies of the Life Road.
Join us on Saturday (Sabbath) July 24, 2021 for another episode of The Revelation of jesus with Rick Sterling, brought to you by Spirit of Truth Ministry. This program will be on at 10 AM Pacific time, on: blogtalkradio.com.
Symptoms~
You would think that after all these years I would recognize the symptom of a condition that if I noticed it right away could be controlled with a specific drug taken in a specific dose in a specific way. The problem is that I didn't see it early because I wasn't looking for it where it appeared in my body. In fact, after all these years of mostly successfully controlling this condition it had never manifest where it did. Without going into specifics, my not recognizing the unique symptom and taking appropriate action right then, I have been suffering debilitating pain in my knee that yesterday put me to bed for most of the day. The truely sad thing is that I am on vacation with my family and extentions, and I missed out on a wonderful hike, some wonderful views, and delightful memories. This, all because I was thinking that my knee pain was one thing, when it was another. (Note-the medicine is working, and the pain is deminished where I will not miss the adventures of today.)
Our spiritual natures also have this same dynamic. We have been taught certain things over the years, and those teachings have become a part of our spiritual natures, thus becoming the norm for the way we operate in the spiritual realm. We look at our lives a certain way, because that is the way we have always viewed our relationship with God. We have spent years cultivating our identity with respect to how eternal life operates, and it appears to work just fine, so why look anywhere else.
And then something hits us out of the blue, that causes us to question our spiritual existence, and whether we are on the correct path to salvation. We will then ignore this 'symptom' that if addressed would lead to life, taking us off a road that is leading to death, but we don't recognize it because we aren't looking for it 'over there'. The cure is found in the words of Jesus.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for our continuing study of the transition between the current understanding of End Time Prophecy involving the Death Road prophecies of Revelation, and the Life Road Prophecies of both Revelation 10 and Daniel. Rick Sterling has been presenting the idea that because of the choices made by the people of the USA and the world in 2016 the prophecies of the End Time have shifted course from the devestation of the Death Road to the Peace and Prosperity of the Life Road. We will continue this study in our program today, July 17, 2021, in The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. Join us at 10AM for our program, at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Lists~
This coming Sunday our family is heading out for a week of vacation. There will be seven of us making the drive to the Eastern Sierra's for some hiking, kayaking and SUP's (Stand-up Paddle boards), and maybe a little fishing. I anticipate a wonderful time with my Wife, Son, Daugher, their spouses, and my grandson in the mountains.
The thing that is going to get me there with all of the accoutrements needed for a successful vacation, the thing that will allow me to relax and know that I have not forgotten anything important, are lists.
Right now my main Trip List contains 11 categories, that will have multiple items in each; such as Food/kitchen, Clothes/shoes, Tool bag, etc. This list includes little things such as flashlights and batteries, to roof racks and kayaks. Without these lists I know I would leave something behind that i really need, and would have to replace at significant cost while on the road. Nothing on my list is necessarily irreplacealbe, but it would end up being significantly inconvenient.
Another thing that would be inconvenient would be to miss out on eternal life because you forgot to learn something important that could have saved your life. (This is assuming that you actually would like to live forever.) And in order for you to forget something, you would have to have known about it in the first place. A list has no value if you don't know what to put on it.
We have been told by our family, teachers, pastors and preachers that we don't really need a list to know how salvation works, because all you must do to be saved is to say and believe that you are (saved). But is this true? Could there be something you might need to know that is different than what you have been taught for all your life? If not, then you are saved. BUT IF there is something that you don't know that you need to know, and you don't know, then you are in trouble. Make a LIST!
Heating Up ~
It is HOT out here in the Southern California. In many places it is going to be into the triple digits, and it is expect to reach 130 degrees in Death Valley, a record temperature. It will be relatively cool in Yucaipa/Calimesa at a balmy 97 degrees.
It is also heating up in the world of politics, economics, and religion as well. Housing, gasoline, automobile and lumber prices have spiked to such an extent that people just can't afford these everyday purchases. Inflation has reared it's ugly head, so the value of money is dropping, which also adds to the affordability factors in staples such as groceries.
Politics has dirctly contributed to these economic worries, with the closing of oil pipelines and the crisis at our Southern border.
All of this also reflects on how 'believers' feel about these current condition in the world, and they are wondering if we have entered the 'time of the end' that is seen in the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, where all hell breaks forth on earth in a 'time of tribulation' such as never was before, just prior to the Coming of Jesus in the Clouds.
The Good News is that because of what Spirit of Truth Ministry and Rick Sterling have found and revealed since August 14-15, 2020, we now know that the things that have been expected in the propecies of the end in the Bible will no longer happen. Instead of a horrible time of trouble that is depicted in the Death Road Prophecies, we now know for sure that the world is headed for a time of Peace and Prosperity that are seen in the LIFE ROAD Prophecies that have been hidden in plain sight in both Daniel and Revelation. There IS a proper time for these NEW prophecies to be revealed, and we are now in that time.
God said that we must choose between Life or Death, blessings or curses. The World chose LIFE in 2016, and we are now on the Life Road. Joy!
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Friday July 9, 2021, at 10 AM for our program The Bible on Trial. We will continue with our discussions about the Life Road and Death Road prophecies in Daniel and Revelation at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Table Etiquette~
This morning as I perused my social feed I was reminded of a house hold rule when I was growing up that took a lot of practice to achieve, and that I actually forgot about when I was rearing my own children, that most certainly would have eased their emotional discomfort at the kitchen table when my wife and I forced them to eat food they didn't like. The bit of etiquette was instituted by my mother apparently came from her mother, passed down through the generations on her side of the family.
Here it is: When presented with food that is new, and looks particularly uninviting everyone at the table (including parents) are required to take ONE bite of this food, chew it, and swallow it. My mothers approach to this was that you cannot KNOW that you don't like something simply by looking at it, you must taste it to confirm your initial impression. If you don't like it you don't make a 'face', or express your disgust verbally, you simply don't eat more of it. She also said that more often than not you might actually be surprised that you like it, and add it to your repertoire of foods you enjoy. We practiced this rule at the kitchen table, so that when we went out to eat, or went to a social gathering we would not embarrass ourselves, our parents, or our hosts by acting as if someone tried to poison us.
This came in handy when our family went to Japan in 1967 as part of the Glendale Sister City delegation to the Osaka Worlds Fair. To young inexperienced taste buds some of the offerings were not appealing, but we managed to aquit ourselves well because of the practice we were given.
The same is true for spiritual truth (or any truth). A new truth can be difficult to swallow, but when given the chance it can taste pretty good, and become important to your eternal life.
"O taste and see that the LORD is good." Ps. 34:8.
Independence Day!
One of my favorite questions that I asked my students (when I was teaching) was; "Do they have "The 4th of July in England?"
The answer was always as resounding 'NO', because in America the perspective carried by every single student that 'The 4th of July' is synonymous with "Independence Day". Many of my students were actually shocked when my response was, "Yes they do have July 4. Beause July 3rd is the day before, and July 5th is the day after." The students were not thinking about the Calendar, they were thinking about the holiday, and the celebration!
How we view our lives in this world is based upon what we understand to be true, not necessarily what actually IS true, because what IS true is base on our perspective. And this is the problem with how we view the truth of salvation.
We have been taught an idea of how salvation works for our entire lives in 'the Church'. And whether we practice Christianity (or any other religion) our world view has been scewed by what we have been taught that is true by our parents, teachers, friends, family, and society in general. As we get older most of us become a little more cynical and discerning about what we believe vis a vis religion, but these things are always in the background, influencing our decisions and actions to the point where we hardly ever think about where those thoughts come from.
Only rarely do we take the time for self-introspection, for re-assessing not only WHAT we believe, but more importantly WHY we believe.
Jesus came to earth to show us the WHY, not just the WHAT of our belief systems. And this is the WHY;
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life." John 6:63.
Perspective brings Independence from lies, and THIS is true freedom.
Prepare a Place ~
Home prices have skyrocketed. A home that used to cost $200K in a nice neighborhood a few years ago now costs a half million dollars today. My daughter and her husband are in the market for a house. What they have discovered is that the cost of a home in the place where they want to buy have gone up so much that they are nearly being prices out of the market. The issue is not that there are too few homes for sale, it is that it is now a sellers market, and if you don't put an offer on a house almost as soon as it comes on the market you will have lost your chance.
However, the true issue is not scarcity of housing, it is the value of the dollar that is used to buy the house (or car, or anything else for that matter). Because of 'quantitative easing', which is just euphemism for printing money, the money supply has far outstripped the ability for that money to keep it's value. Therefore, it is not the houses that are getting more expensive, it is the money that is used to buy the house is become less valuable, and it now take more of them to use in exchange for material things.
This is the same as if you "believe a lie as if it is the truth". Lies are cheap, and become worth less and less the more you believe them. On the other hand, spiritual TRUTH becomes more valuable as you use it. It costs nothing to believe a lie, it costs everything to believe the Truth. When you search for, find, and practice the Truth you have had to put aside your previous understanding of what you believe, and this changes everything. You no longer believe by faith, because you understand that "faith allows you to believe a lie AS IF it is the truth. You finally see that belief by faith has no value with respect to eternal life.
Jesus said in John 14:3 that He has prepared a place for you, and that place is truth.
We here at Spirit of Truth Ministry hope you will join us at 10AM Pacific Time for Episode #1268, our live broadcast where we discuss timely events and how they affect our Eternal Life, or eternal death. You can also listen to our podcast later on our station at your convenience.
Fathers Day~
Tomorrow is Fathers Day, and women and children across our country will celebrate the men in their lives that have stepped away from the freedom living their lives only for themselves into a world where they live their lives for an idea that is greater than themselves, into the idea of family.
The world glorifies the idea that men should be independent, and live a free-wheeling, devil-may-care life that makes them feel good, and look good, often at the expense of those around them. Boys watch movies that glorify this kind of life, where dating a woman has become a game of conquest and aquisition, where it is admirable to 'love her, and leave her', where getting her pregnant and leaving her to deal with the aftermath has become an acceptable form of 'birth control' for him, with no regard for her feelings or needs. This is the life of a boy, not of a man.
This was never God's plan for men. When a boy decides that he wants to become the man God intended he accepts responsibility for his own life, and for the lives of his wife and children, willingly and without reservation, he is ready to become the father that God desires him to be.
God does not ask men to do anything that He has not Himself done. Got the Father willingly gave His own Son to death, for the purpose of securing eternal life for His Kingdom, by paying the penalty for the disobedience of the first members of that Kingdom in the Garden of Eden.
Satan is the father of lies, and would have men believe the LIE that God has asked too much of them, and that it is impossible for them to become the Father He is. God is the Father of truth, and directs men to become fathers in His image, and then give them the strength of character to accomplish this task
On Father's Day remember to include God our Father in the celebation!
Death is Personal~
Aly Girl is dying. Aly is a cat that belongs to a very good friend of my wife, and has been with her friend over 19 years. Aly has stopped eating, but is still drinking water, and taking a teaspoon or two of chicken broth from time to time. Aly is experiencing kidney failure from old age, but she is still hanging in there. Last night was 'ladies night', and my wife and another good friend went to be with their friend, who was sure that Aly was going to leave this earth last night. They had dinner, celebrating Aly's life with some good food, a bottle of wine, and laughter along with some tears. Aly was up and about and even sipped some broth. My wife's friend is a nurse, and thought that Aly would not make it overnight.
Well, Aly showed them! As of this morning Aly is still alive, even though just barely.
Yet the end of this story is inevitable. Aly will die, and her 'mom' (and her friends) will mourn her. Life on this earth right now is just that way.
Christians have been taught by experts that in both Daniel and Revelation there is going to be a 'time of trouble' such as has never been before, and will never be again, where 'all hell' is going to break out on earth before Jesus comes in the clouds.
This concept has lots of people worried sick, so much so that many have said they would rather die and not have to go through this trauma, wishing to skip over this pain and go right to the peace of the Kingdom of God.
BUT WHAT IF the events of the Death Road prophecies will not happen because the Life Road prophecies have taken over? WHAT IF peace and prosperity will supplant death and destruction on earth as the order in end time prophecy? Would this make a difference to you?
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry as we continue to discover the Truth of the Life Road prophecies.
We have recently been discussing the issues surrounding the change from the Death Road prophecies seen in Revelation, that have informed the understanding of end time events for hundreds if not thousands of years, to the Life Road senarios, that have come to light since August 14, 15, 2020 programs. Instead of having to go through the hell on earth of the Seven Trumpets and then the Seven Bowls of Wrath, we are now in a situation that will lead to a time of peace and prosperity, a time in which the people of earth wlll be able learn and understand the truth of how salvation really works, without the pressure of the pain that would be inflicted upon humanity in the events of the prophecies seen in Revelation.
If this interests you, then please join Spirit of Truth Ministry today at 10AM Pacific time for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, as Rick goes into the details of how and why these prophecies no longer apply to the time-line upon which we now find ourselves. You can link to the program at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Puppet Masters~
Many people in the Conservative media (not MSM) today have observed that the US President (so called) is not expressing his own thoughts, but is simply a mouth piece for people behind the curtain that are controlling his voice, as would a ventriliquist with his/her dummy. The point of being a puppet master is to make the puppet look as if it is alive, when in fact it is incapable of acting and speaking on its own. The puppet expresses the thoughts of the puppet master, and brings nothing to the conversation.
Puppet Masters come in a variety of forms. We see the beginnings of this in the public school systems of the world, and even in private religious schools, that use indoctrination as the method of 'training up a child in the way he should go'! Rather than teaching children to think for themselve and learn to analyze a problem or situation, and then devise a plan of action to solve the problem, result of 'education' is that we are seeing more and more people that can parrot a 'party line', but have not thoughts as to the 'why' and 'wherefore' of what they are doing or saying.
Jesus said, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." (John 8:31-32)
Jesus was not asking people to simply memorize verses from the Bible, and speak them 'By Rote', without understanding. He is stating that is you want to become a disciple of His then you need to become 'One with the Father' because you have put His words in your intellect, and they have become a part of your very being.
Jesus is NOT a puppet master, and He does not want people to behave as if they strings attached that control their every thought and actions, as with a marionette. What Jesus wants is people that "KNOW THE TRUTH", not 'know OF the truth'!
Prepare the Way~
During summer vacations during the time I was a school teacher I was not allowed by my lovely and gracious wife to simply sit around and veg while she continued to work. She told me that if she had to work during the summer so did I. So for about 10 years I was a professional house painter. The first thing I learned was that 80-90% of the job was preparation, which was the most important and time consuming part of the job. It didn't matter how much the paint cost, or how skillful I was at applying the coats, or how good my equipment was, if the wall was not prepared properly then the result would be awful.
I found this to be also true for gardening, landscaping, teaching students, or for learning anything. If the ground is not prepared properly what ever you try to learn will not stick in you memory. This is especially true for learning and practicing the Truth.
If a person does not believe that they need to learn anything about a particular subject then nothing you do will be able to overcome that disability. Even God Themselves could not overcome the inertia that was present in Ancient Israel, that prevented this people from learning a practicing the Truth that God tried and tried to teach them. There were too many rocks in the field for the plow to get through. These rocks were the stumbling blocks that proved impossible for God to remove. If you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," (Rev. 3:17), you will never find truth.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, Friday June 4, 2021, for another edition of our flagship program The Bible on Trial. Our show is 'on air' from 10 AM to 11 AM Pacific Time. Since 2007 Spirit of Truth Ministry has produced 1261 one-hour programs that have redefined what it means to 'follow Jesus', who gave his own disciples the Truth of God with words that came directly from His Father, who gave these words directly to Jesus in Heaven, who then came to earth and declared this truth to His Kingdom through the words of His own eyewitness disciples Matthew and John.
We encourage you to listen to at least 6 programs before you make any decisions about what you are hearing, because in order to find truth you must first be willing to reassess what you now 'believe' to be true, which may not be truth, and readjust your thinking to fit a completely new way of seeing what is true, through only the words of Jesus.
We hope you will take a few minutes out of your busy schedule to join us today for our program, The Bible on Trial.
Memorial Day!-a short history~
The original name of Memorial Day was Decoration Day, and came out of the War Between the States, a war that claimed more lives than any war since it ended in the Spring of 1865. There were so many dead as a result of this 'Civil' war that for the first time the Federal Government had to establish National Cemetaries to handle the load. The first official celebration and remembrance was designated as Decoration Day on May 30, 1868, a date that was selected because it wasn't the anniversary of any particular battle. Decoration Day was to honor only those that died in the Civil War, and after WW1 ended the name was changed to Memorial Day in order to include those that died in that great conflict. All wars and conflicts are now included. In 1968 Congress established the last Monday in May as the day for the celebration in order create a three-day weekend for Federal Employees. This change went into effect in 1971, and was declared to be a Federal Holiday. It has since by tradtition expanded to include all that have served in any capacity in the armed forces of the United States of America, which is why hundreds of thousands of small American flags are placed on every grave in our National Cemetaries, in honor of all who served.
I look forward with great anticipation to that Great Day of the Lord, when all of the saved of humanity that have earned the RIGHT to eternal life meet as one before the Great White Throne, and honor their King of the Kingdom of the Heavens, who made it possible for those that have learned and practiced the truth to also be honored along with Him, a celebration of victory over death.
Our shared experience will be different now that we are no longer subject to the prophecies of the Death Road as seen in Revelaton. We will be experiencing a different set of prophecies, that will open a new way to eternal life through peace not war.
Remember~
Memory is a tricky thing. All of us have had the experience of forgetting where we put the TV, the car keys, or even the car in a public parking lot. Not being able to remember where you put your reading glasses, or your cel phone can be really frustrating. When you find what your have been looking for there is comes a sense of relief that is palpable.
There are also things we would like to forget, but can't. Embarassing moments where you said something wrong at just the right moment, or you did something without thinking it through that emotionally hurt a loved one.
As we get older and further away in time from events or people in ur past, remembering often become a fading shadow of what once was. And memory becomes more elusive the harder we try to remember, and if we let it go those same memories come back to our minds when we least expect.
God has asked us to REMEMBER some difficult things; things we would rather forget.
'Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent." Rev..2:5.
God has also asked us to remember, and not forget what we have learned about truth.
'So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you." Rev. 3:3.
But you can't remember what you have never learned. If you believe you already have all the truth then you will never wake up and learn truth about salvation when you need it the most.
'Because you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked." Rev.3:17.
Rick Sterling will continue the study on the Death Road and Life Road prophecies in Revelation, and how we be will affected by the decision in 2016 that changed our futures from the horror and pain of the Death Road to the prosperity and peace that we will shortly experience because we have moved over to the Life Road prophecies. Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, May 22, 2021, as we delve further into these marvelous changes by listening to our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling at 10AM Pacific Time on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Refusing Eternal Life~
Why on 'God's green earth' would anyone refuse eternal life if it was offered by the God of Life? This is the choice that was offered by Jesus to the Rich Young Man that asked, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?" (Matt. 19:16).
The stumbling point for this very wealthy person was the fact that present 'things' meant more to him than some nebulous future. The spiritual identity of 'eternal life' was not sufficient for him to give up his present state of being, that is, fabulous physical wealth.
There are people even today that are making this same choice, given the opportunity that is being presented in the upcoming currency reset to aquire earth shattering wealth instead of a future filled with service, sacrifice and sorrow for a time here on earth, in favor of eternal life in the future.
The interesting thing is that God never said you couldn't have both, this because what you receive in both instances depends entirely on your spiritual identity - do you love God more than "All the tea in China", or do you love God, and being in His service, and trust Him to give you everything you need to perform that service both here on earth, and in the heavens?
As we have seen these past months we are at a cross roads, where we as a world have chosen Life rather than death, blessings rather than curses, prosperity rather than poverty. But are we willing to act on the knowledge that we have as to where we are in time, or will be refuse to trust God and believe that we are in a different future than the one we have seen in the Death Road prophecies of Revelation. Do we believe the lies we have been taught by those that would keep us enslaved, or will we through off the shackles of those lies and embrace the truth that we are in a New Reality that brings life?
The Rest of the Story~
Those of you that are old enough will remember a radio personalitiy named Paul Harvey, who was one of the most beloved commentators of the 1960's to the 1980's. He could tell stories in a way that put you inside the story, wanting to know more. Toward the end of the story he would say, "And now for the rest of the story", and he would reveal to you information about the person or situation that made everything you didin't understand about the story become clear. Without this information you would be without resolution, and be highly unsatisfied with the ending.
Here is my example:
This morning my wife left me. Not only did she leave me, but she left me for a woman. In fact, she is right now flying on Alaska Airlines to Walla Walla Washington to be with this woman. She made it clear that she loves this woman with all her heart, and that there was nothing I could do or say that would stop her from going to be with her.
in today's news media this story is tragic for me, but has a happy ending for my wife, who after 39 years of marriage found her true love, and is leaving me to start a new life. The head line might read, "Husband of 39 years loses his wife to female lover."
Now for the rest of the story.
Becky's has a sister that lives in Walla Walla, and has becomse ill. Becky loves her sister so much that she bought a plane ticket to fly to visity her for a few days. Yes, she did leave me behind, because someone has to take car of the animals while she is away. That would be me.
Without this information you could make any story you want out of the sketchy information. But with all the information you can come to the proper conclusion.
This is what we do at Spirit of Truth Ministry. We take information given in Bible prophecy and give you the rest of the story.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, May 14, 2021, for another excursion into the Truth, and some of the interesting twists that have been taken to get to the truth about where we are in time, and what we can expect in the near future.
Currency of Heaven~
Money just isn't the same anymore. It used to be that paper currency was all there was, and every country had their own. The common factor in all currencies in the past was that they were backed by a common asset - gold. Fort Knox was the repository of the gold that backed the US Dollar until Pres. Nixon took America off of the gold standard in 1971. The Silver Certificate bill gave way to the Federal Reserve Note, allowing inflation to rear it's ugly head, and put the entire world onto a system that is based upon the 'faith' that a dollar bill is actually worth the price of the paper it is printed on. Today all of the world's currencies are FIAT, i.e., not backed by any hard asset, but simply by the 'full faith and CREDIT' of the country that sponsors the currency.
Soon there will come a time when the 209 world currencies will again be backed by hard assets - precious metals, and other in-ground assets. The currecnies again will have intrensic value, not just a 'declared' value that is based upon a shared delusion.
This is the same system that has been used in the religious systems of the world since Jesus returned to the Heavens some 2,000 pluis years ago. At Sinai, God the Father gave Moses a set of Laws that if put into practice would have set Israel apart from all of the 'religions' of the world that relied on the faith of the practitioner that 'their god' was real. Israel rejected this system, preferring to believe that salvation came by heritage not by keeping the Law.
Jesus came to earht the try and get Israel back on track, by giving them the 'gold standard' of His Words. But this didn't happen. A counterfeit 'truth' was presented by a false apostle that taught that 'faith' was more important that fact, and truth was less important than simple belief.
This is about to change.
Spirit of Truth Ministry is NOT a money-making endeavor, far from it. We have never, and will never beg for money (as a waif on a street corner) in order to fund a lavish lifestyle; none of those of us that participate in the operations of this ministry get a single dime from our efforts to keep the information flowing to those that want and need to hear it. This is sometimes discouraging, as there have been times when just having enough money to pay for our web sites, and the Blog Talk Radio station, has been an 'iffy' proposition. We have not set up a Go Fund Me page, and even though we have a 'Donation' page on our main web site, we never talk about it. Yet God and the Holy Spirit has ALWAYS come through with enough to keep us going.
So DON"T send money.
So WHY to we keep going when there does not seem to be any point in the exercise? Because THIS is what God has called us to do, and BY GOD we will do it until the end.
We KNOW God is working with us for one simple reason - You will hear things on our programs The Bible on Trial and The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling that you will not hear anywhere else; things so strange and wonderful that it is impossible for this information to have come from a human mind. The Holy Spirit is working with us (especially Rick) because the prophetic and spiritual understanding that is being given makes so much sense that it could only have come from the Words of Jesus and of God through our Mother, the Holy Spirit.
So join us today April 7, 2021 for our program The Bible on Trial, at 10 AM PST to hear what the fuss is all about, and see if you don't agree that what you hear must be from God: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
First Rule~
When a teacher has to deal with brand new material for a class of students the first rule of which he/she must convince the class is that they don't know what they don't know. This can be very difficult in some cases because students often feel that their own understanding of the knowledge of a particular subkect is ubiquitous, i.e., universally known, and they don't actually need to learn what you are teaching them. One common phrase given in response to a teacher introducing new material is, "I already know that!" This is particuarly true in higher grades.
Admitting that you don't know what you don't know frees you to bring an inquisitive mind to the subject, uninhibited by preconceived notions of what 'should be', and allows you to establish the mind set of simply 'What IS'. Without this, there is NO learning, and the thought processes that are required for establishing the logic stream that leads to understanding can never happen.
This is particularly true in "subjective" subjects such as the study of prophecy and the order of End Time Events. If you are inculcated into a well established 'religion' that has it's own unique prophetic understanding, then it is virtually impossible to go backward to the point of saying "I don't know what I don't know", and start over from the beginning of the learning curve, and you will never be able to see the logical process that will eventually allow you to see and understand Truth.
Why is this important? Because without doing this you can't humble yourself, and admit that you might just be wrong in how you view the prophecies of the End. So rather than gaining a sense of peace, you are constantly worrying about where you are in time, and won't know what you need to know to be an effective servant of the God you claim to love.
Repair~
Have I ever told you that I HATE doing car repairs? And knowing Rick (Sterling) as I do I know that he is not enamoured with doing car repairs either. The reason that I began doing auto mechanics in my youth was that my dad was not about to buy any of his kids (two sisters and a brother) new cars when good used cars were fairly cheap in the 1960's. My dad grew up as a farm boy where nothing was thrown away-it was repaired. He wanted me and my brother to have the ability to buy cars cheap and repair them.
Yesterday I spent 3 1/2 hours putting a new neutral safety and transmission shift switch in my 1999 Saturn SL-1. This after having earlier put in a rebuilt valve body in the transmission because of various OBDII codes that came from my tester. This old car has given wonderful service to our family since my father-in law bought it new, but any more it is just one thing after another, and I am sick of it. This is the final repair I will do on this car. I'm going to fix it, and as soon as I can I'm going to sell it (or give it away) and get something else. There comes a time when it is counter productive to through good money after bad.
The same is true for the old idea that we are "Saved by grace throught faith"! This 'new plan' is now an old, outmoded idea that has not worked from it's beginning in the first century C.E., when Paul invented it. It is time stop trying to repair something that is broken beyond repair. It is time to get rid of it and go back to the original Plan of Salvation that God gave to Adam and Eve in the Garden, told to Ancient Israel in the Old Testament, and is the reason Jesus came to earth to renew for the Kingdom of Heaven.
The church has been trying to fix something that never needed repair, because they believed the big lie as if it was true.
Buyer's Remorse~
We all have had the opportunity to regret a purchase. You look at a shiney new car, and your heart goes 'pitter-patter', you smell the leather seats, and look at the fancy touch screen info-tainment center, and you tell yourself you just have to take this car home. But the instant you drive it off the lot you know in your heart of hearts you have made a BIG mistake.
Regret can come from being given too much information too quickly, such that it disguises the critical information you need to make a good decision. The other thing that promotes buyers remorse is going into a sales situation (merchandise or ideas) not knowing what you need to know to understand the pitfalls and problems of a particular issue. The job of a good salesperson is to give the buyer just enough data to make the sale, and not enough for the buyer to know when they have been had. And often that very salesperson does not know all the details about the problems of what they are selling to be able to tell the customer what the problems will be with their purchse down the road.
We at Spirit of Truth Ministry have seen this situation regularly play out time and again in the spiritual sense. A 'believer' has been taught over a long period of time by another sincere believer that salvation is simply believing that Jesus dies for their sins, and all they must do to be saved is claim the 'blood of Jesus', that He died for their sins, and now they are saved.
What these people don't know, and often don't want to hear, is that down the road they will regret not knowing the truth of salvation that Jesus taught, that is different from what they were taught in church, but by the time they have found out the truth it is too late.
Buyers Remorse in the physical world can be difficult, but regret in the spiritual world can by a tragedy. Learn Truth, No Regrets!
Our recent studies here at Spirit of Truth Ministry have been showing that the study of End Time Prophecy has not been the stagnant, boring, insipid and uninteresting process that so many Christians see this type of prophecy to be. If you have missed it, what Rick and the Spirit of Truth Team have found is that there is an alternate reality to the horror and terror that is seen in the Death Road Prophecies in the book of Revelation, and that we have all been taught since the late 1800's. Beasts, earthquakes, fire and destruction that is seen in most of Revelation is so frightening for most people that they have no interest in learning about what is in store, because people don't like looking at events that will probably kill them before they see Jesus coming in the clouds.
But WHAT IF there was another time stream that did not involve the blood and death that we have been taught is the path to eventual eternal life? What If God had placed in Revelation an alternative that included Peace and Prosperity rather than Death and Destruction as the main component of the Prophecies of the End? Under these conditions would you be interested in finding out what these prophecies say, and how they would affect how the world views God?
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, April 23, 2021, for another edtition of The Bible on Trial, at 10AM PDT, and learn what is the reality that will show you the choice the world has already made, that puts us on a different path to eternal life!
Royal Funeral~
Today marks the Royal Funeral for Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. He rides to his grave in a Land Rover that he helped design, followed by a royal limousine that carries his wife of 73 years Queen Elizabeth, and on foot by Prince Charles and the other Royal Family members. It is a sad day for both England, and the the Royal Family. There of course is also a church service that has all the trappings of a High Church funeral befitting the Prince.
I find it interesting that over 2000 years ago on Wednesday March 22, 30 C.E., The Passover, before sunset in Israel, another Royal Prince died and was buried, but without fanfare, and without any of the trappings of a Royal funeral. If anyone deserved a Royal Funeral it was this man, Jesus of Nazareth, who had been executed by His Father for the purpose of paying the penalty for the disobedience of His own Kingdom, the death of whom made it possible for His righteous Kingdom to access Eternal Life through that payment.
Instead, Jesus was removed from the cross, and hurried into the tomb by certain of His followers, in order to have His body at rest before the sun set, that began the Passover, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (a Festival Sabbath). No fanfare, no solemn service, no acknowlegement of a job well done. Nothing.
Yet those of us that know that Jesus is the King of the Kingdom of the Heavens, and know what He did by coming to this earth and bringing the truth about how salvation works from the Father, and offering eternal life to His Kingdom as a reward for the obedience to the Commandments that was lost in Eden.
It is HIS words that bring life eternal, and those words must become a part of those that would be in His Kingdom. By His resurrection His words are made real in our lives. We will live as long as His words live in us.
Making the Cut~
When a professional golfer has a low enough two round score on the first two days of a tournament he/she is said to have 'made the cut'. When an actor reads for a part in a play, and beats out the other actors for that part they 'make the cut'. This expression can be used in nearly every field of endeavor for meeting a minimum standard of performance sufficient to do a job.
It can also apply to the medical field, where a medical doctor has to 'make the cut' in order to perform a surgical proceedure on a patient. Having just gone through four MOHS surgeries recently for skin cancer, I was wondering if this could also apply to a patient that is the 'cutee' as opposed to the 'cutor'. I will have the scars to prove that I was a cancer survivor - more like a cancer crusher. And maybe this could also apply to life in general, where we all have the scars to prove that "Life is not for sissies" - that we all carry scars that may not show on the skin, but may only be 'known but to God'.
In order for salvaton to operate effectively in our lives,we must all allow God, the Great Physician, to perform surgery on our hearts and minds (intellect), and show us those things that we need to cut out of our lives that will keep us from being wholly righteous in fact, such that we can experience the healing power of that righteousness in our lives.
This is incredibly difficult to do, because anyone that goes under the knife that they themselves wield knows how painful an experience this can be, by cutting out the cancer of lies that keeps us from learning and knowing the truth that leads to salvation.
By doing this we show God our willingness to withold nothing from Him/Them. And after we 'make the cuts' God will remove the scars and we will be holy, righteous, and gain eternal life through Him.
The Difference~
"Life is hard for kitties!" (Or doggies). I use this expression to emphasize how lucky my animals are to live in our house. I will say this to them as I am feeding them their breakfast, or as I am getting Maggie ready to go out for a walk, or even as I am cleaning the cat box. Yes, I know they don't actually know what I am saying, and even if they did they would have no sense of the irony of the situation, but I will say it anyway, simply to remind myself how fortunate I am to have animals to care for, and not expecting anything in return for my efforts. My animals have no idea how fortunate they are to live in my house, and I am perfectly fine with this.
There is a Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times!" We are certainly living in 'interesting' times right now, and we are also living in uncertain times as well. This can be very frustrating and uncomfortable, as we know what we would like to happen, yet it is looking more and more as if what we are expecting and what we will be getting are two different things.
We here at Spirit of Truth Ministry have been studying the differences between the prophecies of the Life Road and the Death Road, as a function of what we are going through right now in our lives. Expectations are that we will not experience the horror and distress of the events of Revelation that we see in most of prophecies in this book, yet what we see in 'real life' is that it is clear that the set up for these fulfilments is happening as we watch events unfold. But what looks to be real can be much different that what actually IS real. And there is the irony of the situation. We KNOW that the time for the events of Revelation has come and gone, so that what we are seeing is a fiction and not what is real. We cannot yet see the peace and prosperity that are the future for the world, but it is there. And THAT is the difference.
Masters~
The most imortant golf tourmanemt in the world is The Open Championship in England; the most important tournament in the USA is The Masters, that is played a the Augusta National Golf Club, in Augusta, Georga. The reason that it is the most important tournament is that like The Open in order for a player to win The Masters you cannot play your own game, and try to fit the course to your style of golf. To win the Masters a player must humble himself and learn to fit their game to what the course is asking. If you try to overpower the course by trying to force course to fit your game you will find yourself on the short end of the stick.
Just as with all golf the 'Rules of Golf' always apply, and are the framework that allows all players to have a chance to win. But the Rules don't dictate whether you do win, as it is up to you to understand what shots need to be played, and when, and what shot is required in any and every situation. Whether you actually are able to take what the course is giving you on any particular day is up to your level of practiced skill in making the shots necessary to shoot a low score.
Jesus did not come to earth to reiterated and how to keep the rules of the game of salvation. Those 'rules' were establishe a Sinai when God gave Moses the 10 Commandments, and those rules always apply in everything that has anything to do with salvation and eternal life. But just as with golf, simply knowing the rules does not make you a winner; you must Practice the truth of the words of Jesus in order to become righteous in fact. It is doing this that gives you the opportunity to access the payment for the penalty for sin that Jesus by His death offers His Kingdom.
We must MASTER the words of God that Jesus brought from the Father in Heaven and gave to His own eyewitness disciples in order to win through to salvation.
Are we there yet? ~
Anyone that has become a parent, and has a child that is 3 years or older has heard from your child the expression while traveling in a car, "Are we there yet?" Whatever you answer, it is never the correct one for a bored child. This was particularly true in my time as a child, and ever for my own children, because there were no iphones, or video screens in automobiles at the time, so there were no movies to keep us busy on long road trips in the car. Parents had to plan ahead by having coloring books, puzzles, word games, and the like, ready to go the moment their children figured out that traveling by car with brothers and sisters is both boring and frustrating. Children have no concept of time as a factor in the trading of time for distance while traveling in a car. 400 miles at an agrigate of 60 miles per hour (including rest stops) is an eternity for a child, and even longer for the parent that has to ride with them over that distance.
This is even true for people that have taken an interest in Biblical Prophecy, and want to know where they are in time with respect to End-Time events. The expression "Jesus is coming soon" gets pretty old after 200 years of unfulfilled expectation that we are actually living at the end of time. It is particularly frustrating when your grandparents told your parents, and your parents told you that Jesus could come at any time without notice, so you better be 'good', and you better be 'ready', or you could miss out on eternal life.
Will there come a time when the 'signs' line up, and the timing is perfect such that we will actually KNOW when and where we are in time, with repect to End-Time prophecy. Actually, yes. This is why knowing what the Life Road and Death Road prophecies are and how they work is so important.
Backstory~
With all of the issues presenting themselves constantly in the news today, it is sometimes easy to get so caught up in the minutia that our 'reason for being' (raison d'etre) gets lost in the clutter. Even when we do keep perspective and don't give in to worrying over the little thngs, the temptation is still there to lose consentration and let our thoughts wander hither and yon, taking 'main force' to bring us back to what is important, that 'thing' that keeps us on track and functioning at a high level. There is a peace that comes from 'knowing' that the thing that you worship is actually and unequivocably the truth, undiluted with lies that act as truth in our intellect, and keep us from accomplishing the process that will end with that very 'knowingness' that brings the peace of salvation via sanctification.
This describes the 'backstory' of salvation, and is the 'thing' that Jesus brought from His Father in Heaven to earth, and taught His own eyewitness disciples, who wrote that 'thing' down, and that God preserved for millenia, that makes it possible for those of us that now live in this modern and confusing world with all it's distractions to use as a filter that allows us to de-clutter our intellect in order to not just know truth, but to actually become the TRUTH by placing that 'thing' in our very being, such that there is no recognizable difference between us and the bringer of that 'light to the world'.
So what is that 'backstory', that 'thing' that Jesus brought to earth over 2,000 years ago, so that we could "have life, and have it more abundantly"? What is that 'thing', described as "the Light of the world", a dwelling place wherein we live.
That 'thing' is the WORDS of God, brought to earth by Jesus His Son.
Think and Grow Rich~
'Because you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.' Rev.3:17.
In 1937 Napoleon Hill published on of the greatest personal growth books ever written - Think and Grow Rich! The title belies the content, because on the surface one would think this book was only about making money, but it isn't. The author was a great friend of Andrew Carnagie, who was a business magnate in the early part of the 20th century, and later became a recognized philanthropist. The author condensed years of research into the habits of success into 14 principles that became his "Philosophy of Achievemnt", that when diligently applied will suppress negative thoughts, and allow a person to become successful in all areas of life. And although there are a few dated ideas that are no longer acceptable by modern standards, this is an important 'read', and well worth the time.
There is a correlation between these princlples defined in this book and what Jesus taught about becoming 'rich' in the spiritual sense. The idea that 'faith' should be a guiding principle for success is outmoded from the standpoint that "Faith allows a person to believe a lie as if it is the truth, without accountability." We all start our journey to truth using faith as the basis. But if we stay 'in' faith, then we will never be able to tell whether something is actually true or not, and that decision is made moot by believing something is true, when it's not.
Just believing that what you know about salvation must be true because others believe it is not sufficient to actually achieve salvation. We must KNOW the God in whom we believe by knowing and understanding the Words of God that Jesus brought to earth from the Father through His eyewitness disciples.
Learning truth heals~
Those of you that have had to go to the hospital for a proceedure or a medical issue you know how uncomfortable it is. For the price of a night in the hospital you could stay at the Burj Hotel in Dubai in one of their better rooms, and still have money left over for a nice dinner. Yet the reason we go to the hospital is not for a vacation, it is because we have a serious medical condition that cannot be dealt with any other way. In my case I had a condition in my left hand called Cellulitis, which is a bacterial infection of skin and underlaying tissue, that causes swelling, redness, is hot to the touch, and quite painful. I came down with Cellulitis. I was prescribed antibiotics, but this was too little too late. On Thursday I was meeting with Rick, and he told me that this condition was now severe, and that I should go immediately to get it dealt with. I did. That is why i missed helping out with last weeks program. A fairly short stay in the hospital, good Doctors, heavy antibiotics, and two sleepless nights and I was home again, with the Cellulitis under control.
We will go in hospital for a medical condition that is life threatening, but where do we go when we have a spiritual 'life-threatening' condition? There are churches, but these are not spiritual hospitals, they are more like 'play grounds' where people go to be entertained, coming away feeling good, but no closer to being healed spiritually than when they went in.
The place where you must go to become spiritually healed is not a physical place, because healing the spirit is not a physical issue. We must recognise that the disease we are fighting is one where we believe a lie to be the truth, and when we are shown the truth we believe it to be a lie. The Words of Jesus are the antibiotics that will heal us from the disease of lies we believe to be true. We must innoculate ourselves from lies, by learning His truth.
God told the prophet Jeremiah that He would make a covenant with the Israelites when they were restored to the land of Israel after the captivity. Jeremiah 31:34 (JB) There will be no further need for neighbor to teach neighbor, or brother to say to brother, 'learn to know Yahweh!' No, they will all know me, the least no less than the greatest...
The Son of God speaking to the religeous leaders of the Jews said: "You do not know Me, nor do you know my Father; if you did know Me, you would know My Father as well" John 8:19 (JD) To the woman at the well The Son of Man said; You worship what you do not know... But a time will come-in fact it is here already-when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth: that is the kind of worshipper the Father wants. God is spirit, and those who worship must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:21-24 (JD) Philip said, 'Lord, let us see the Father and then we shall be satisfied. 'Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know Me?'
To know about the Father, is not the same as "knowing" the Father. To know the Father we must know come to know His Son. The only way this can be, is to learn the truth. To learn the truth is the way to the Father and the Son. The Spirit of Truth will teach you, but you must be willing to learn. The only way this will happen is by setting aside everything you have learned that is not 100% consistant with the testimony of God's Son.
When I would ask the question; why would God tolerate rebellion and insurrection to continue, the answer was usually; because God is putting "wickedness" on trial for all the world to see. Many people are asking the same question now, except not only about God, but about what is being allowed to continue in the United States. The answer is, people need to see the depths of wickedness in order to admit or acknowledge that it is truly taking place. Wickedness happens behind a facade of "philanthropy", people need to see what is behind the facade before they will acknowledge that it is true. God is exposing all the wickedness that has been going on for centuries so the people of earth will want Him to punish the wicked. We are about to enter into a time of peace and prosperity the likes of which the world has never experienced, but there is something else on the horizon, God will let us know what that is soon..
Stronger than death~
"Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death." Song of Soloman 8:6.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written is set to the words of this Scripture. It was written by a composer named Rene' Clauson, and it is in the regular repertoire of choirs and Choral Societies all over the world. The words "Love is strong as death" have true and heartfelt meaning for anyone that has lost someone they love, because after someone dies that love now become unrequited, that is, not able to be returned. Unrequited love almost always turns into grief. This is true for humans, it is also true for God. This is why God offers salvation to everyone, but the love that is connected to salvation can never be unrequited, i.e., given and not recieved; there is a cost to the "love that is strong as death".
But you say that you have heard that God offers unconditional love to all who simply 'claim the name of Jesus'. It this was true then why did Jesus (who came to earth to testify to the truth-John 18:36) tell His own disciples, "If you love me, you will keep my Commandments." (John 14:15). This statement implies that if you don't "keep MY Commandments" you don't love Jesus. Simply making a statement of undying love for God does not prove that you do.
"So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus." (Rev. 12:17)
There are two things that prove you are a child of God - you must keep His Commandments, and believe and practice the words that Jesus brought to earth from His Father. This is the SEAL of God, and it is this seal that must be on your heart (intellect), and on your arm (your doing), This is the true love of and for God.
Birthdays~
My twin sister and I just celebrated our birthday yesterday. We were not able to get together this year, but we did text and talk on the phone, and wish each other a 'happy birthday'. Our friends and family sent us many heartfelf greetings on FaceBook and messenger, and these greetings were much appreciated. There was no place to go to eat out that had inside dining, and we were not willing to challenge the cold and eat outside at a restaurant, so my wife picked up dinner to go at one of our favorite places, and we had a very nice dinner together at home. This weekend I am getting together with both of my children to celebrate with them and their spouses, and this will also be a lovely time. Birthdays are important, not just in the acknowledgment of another year spent on earth, but also the fact that we are privilaged to do this with people we love and respect. My only other comment is this: "Getting older is not for sissies!"
If you are a part of the Christian Community (or have been at some time) we have all been blessed to hear a person speak of the day they were 'saved'; the day that they said the 'sinners prayer' and gave their hearts to the 'Lord'! This is the day upon which they said that they were 'born again', that Jesus loves the so much that He died for their own personal sins, and that now there is nothing that can keep them from being with Jesus for eternity, either when they die and go to heaven, or when He finally comes in the clouds of glory.
This, they say, is their 'Birthday' into eternal life.
But is it?
Did Jesus Himself say that this was the WAY to salvation? Or is this process something that came from an 'apostle' that got it wrong because he never knew Jesus 'in the flesh', and never acknowledged as valid the words that Jesus gave to His own eyewitness disciples?
This is something to think about!
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, March 6, 2021, for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. This is a program that dives deep into the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disiples, that we compare to the words of other people that wrote in the New Testament, to find out if they are telling the truth. This is a fascinating study that will open your eyes to truth in a way that will confirm it in your heart. We are 'on air' live at 10 AM PDT at: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Dreams and Reality~
When do dreams end and reality begin? Students of philosophy and psychology study this question from at least those two perspectives in hopes of getting a handle on what is 'reasonable' and what is 'fantacy' in life!
Dreams can feel so real to the sleeping person that they can actually get up out of bed and begin acting on those dreams before they wake up. This is called 'sleep walking'. My first experience with this was when I was 13 years old at summer camp. The only other time happend to me last night when I heard my dog Maggie barking furiously outside in the back yard right outside the bedroom window, as if she was being attacked by another animal. I am a light sleeper. I have been this way for 35 years since my wife and I brought our son home from the hospital after he was born. My ears just don't shut off when I go to sleep, which makes getting a full nights sleep and 'iffy' propsect at best. So when I heard the barking I was up grabbing my glasses, into my slippers, with flashlight in hand, and out the back door so fast that I did not realize I had been dreaming until I was in the middle of the lawn being hit by the cold. Just to satisfy my curiosity I inspected the back yard, and finding nothing I went inside and went back to bed after seeing Maggie asleep under her blanket on the bed.
The dream felt real, but it wasn't!
Our waking dreams can feel real, but often end up being illusion. This is especially true for our dreams of salvation and eternal life that we have heard from our pastors and teachers at church and read in our Bibles. The salvation given by the Apostle Paul 'feels' so real, and is so beautiful that we believe that it MUST be true. Reality is much different. And this reality affects how we see salvation.
We must 'wake up' in order to hear the truth of the words of Jesus.
Stupid~
We have all been stupid; it is endemic to the human condition. One of my favorite quotes from Robert A. Heinlein describes in precise language the condition of 'stupid': "There is no accounting for the power of human stupidity."
And lest you believe this not to be true just look at the direction of the USA under the previous Administration and where we are now going under the new one. Everything has changed, and not for the better. Many of those that voted for the current 'President' are now regretting that choice, and trying to figure out what went wrong between what they were promised, and what has been delivered.
Stupidity is a universal human condition that cannot be cured using logic and resson, because those two processes are impossible for a person to recognise as valid, in the face of the fear and emotion that control their decision making. Being stupid is not a sin, otherwise children would never be able to live long enought to grow up to become adults. The job of a parent to to protect a child from their own stupidity long enough for them to learn the difference.
Some people never grow up. The paradiigms they live with and have learned from their upbringing have caused many people to "believe a lie as if it is the truth". They don't choose to see reality, but choose to live in a waking dream world where all is sweetness and light, as long as they 'believe'. And when the origin of their belief is proven to them to be a lie they still choose to believe that lie because their 'faith' is strong, and God would never allow them to believe something that is not true. This wishful thinking can kill you.
"This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. John 3:19.
Stupidity is not a sin. Staying stupid is!
Aggression~
The next couple of week might 'tell the tail' with respect to the world order and who will be leading it. Now mind you, the outcome is already certain, and that is "God Wins!" If you have been with us since the middle of August you know that I am speaking of the transition between the prophecies of the Death Road that are so graphically seen and described in Revelation 8-9, 11-18, information that has been the topic of discussion for thousands of years regarding how the end of time will play out; and the Life Road prophecies, first described right here and only at Spirit of Truth Ministry, given in a new understanding of the prophecy of the Seven Thunders in Revelation 10.
In the media (mostly the alternative media) this is headlined as the battle between the 'Cabal', led by Satan through the Leftist political entities that seek to enslave mankind via a one-world-government, and the Patriots, led by Donald J. Trump, and those that want to see the populaton of the world freed from the shackles of tyranny and oppression that have controled the people of the world since the fall.
We are SO close to the final 'battle' for earth. Why? Because Satan and his cohorts are "Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear (who) Is a wicked ruler over a poor people." Ps. 28:15. They are aggressively trying to change the outcome from the peace and properity that is God's desire for this world to the prophecies of Revelation listed above, that will keep the world in thrall to the Devil for eternity.
And if you believe this a silly conspiracy theory, think again:
"There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her". Ez.22:25.
Getting Shot~
Yesterday I got shot! Ok, I got 'a' shot. Well, I recieved my second Moderna Covid-19 vaccination. I actually did not want to do this, given my distrust for this particular type of Vaccination, because my understanding is that this 'shot' is not a vaccination in the traditional sence of the word. I did it because my primary Doctor recommended it, and my wife and daughter coerced me into doing it by citing my 7 month old grandson as needing his grandpa to not give him Covid (which is highly unlikely), and offeing their undying love (which i already have) if I would relent and 'take my medicine'. So in spite of my misgivings about the efficacy of this particular 'vaccine', and it's evident side effects in some people I set aside my fears and trepidation and without reservation went to the clinic Friday afternoon at 1:30PM and was given this shot.
So far tonight (Friday, February 19, 2021 at 10:15PM) I have as yet not felt any ill effects, but according to my wife I can expect some body aches and chillls, and maybe other unspecified reactions tomorrow. I am NOT looking forward to going through any of this, but my wife, daughter and grandson deserve my loyalty and care, and I love them, so I did this knowing full well what might happen. It's all on me.
And this got me thinking; did Jesus feel this same way knowing that He was going to pay a penalty for a situation not of His own making, for something He did not do, knowing He would die in order to save His righteous Kingdom from a penalty He did not deserve in order to save the lives of those He loved? He did this willingly, and without reservation. We pay it forward when we do things for others that we would not otherwise do, simply because we love them as He loved us; giving up ourselves for them, as He gave Himself up for us.
In doing this we put ourselves squarely on the Life Road
The Tide has Turned~ In WW2 the USA was 'on the ropes' after the debacle at Pearl Harbor. Much of the United States Navy fleet had been destroyed, along with the Army Air Corp airplanes at Hickham Field, leaving the way open for a Japanese atttack on the West Coast of America. There was a sence of panic in Washington D.C. over this situation, especially since the Axis powers were rampaging in Europe, and seemed unstoppled, especially now that the Empire of Japan had joined the war with German and Italy.
But even in this dreadful situation there was a 'silver lining'. The air attack on Pearl harbor neglected to achieve three things; the carrier based aircraft of Japan did not destroy the tank farm (both bunker oil, and airplane gasoline) in the mountains outside of Pearl Harbor, the three US Navy fleet aircraft carriers were at sea on December 7, 1941, and survived the attack, and the Submarine base was left completely untouched by the Japanese raid. Because of this the Navy, although crippled, was not put out of business.
A few months later US Naval Intelligence learned that the Japanese were going to attack Midway Island. Giving this information the Navy sent ther remaining Carriers to do battle with four Japanese Carriers, where the sank three and heavily damaged one. This turned the tide of the Pacific war.
We are now in a similar position with respect to the battle for the Planet Earth. For centuries we have been attacked by the forces of EVIL, and it looks to many that the good people of earth have been defeated, and Satan has won the day. But underlaying this perspective there is the fact that there is a Life Road prophecy that shows that Good has already overcome evil, that the people of earth have chosen LIFE over death, and that although the battle still rages the outcome is assured, that we will (in a short time) experience Peace and Prosperity, not death.
I've Got a Secret~
It was common in the years of my growing up that families would watch TV together. In the 1950's and '60's children were NEVER allowed to watch TV by themselves, and in our family the siblings were only allowed to watch TV together by permission. This was strictly enforced. My parents favorite shows (that we children were allowed to watch with them) were Bonanaza (Sunday night), The Lawrence Welk Show (Saturday night), and the earliest show that I personally remember was I've Got a Secret, that aired from 1952 - 1967.
I've Got a Secret was a panel game show that was a spin-off from What's My Line, and involve a panel of four celebrities trying to figure out the secret by asking questions of a contestant The secret was something that was unusual, amazing, embarrasing or humorous. It was fun family time for our family, which is why I remember it.
The playground version of this game was when one friend would say to another friend "I've got a secret, and I'm not telling!" , and would goad, tease, or try to trick their friend into telling them what that secret was.
It is fascinating to me that God is playing that same game with humanity, and not very many people know that this is happening, and it really is not a game, but it has been a mystery for centuries, until one person that God called and trained finally decyphered this 'mystery', this 'secret', and made it know to all those that would listen.
"But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets." Rev.10:7.
This mystery is the understanding that has been presented here at Spirit of Truth Ministry since mid August 2020, that shows that we are indeed on the Life Road.
Join us for the continuing study about Life Road and Death Road prophecies as seen in Revelation, where we find out what God actually has in store for the Kingdom of the Heavens and the world in the upcoming weeks. When you hear the truth revealed you will be heartened and comforted by the words of Truth.
Lay and lie~
My favorite sport now is golf. When I was a young man my favorite sport was snow ski racing, and I did pretty well on the Far West Ski Association circuit. But as I got older the wear and tear on the body got to be too much, and I realized that my dream of going on to the 'big' circuit (Olympic) was just that, a dream, and at age 26 I gave up racing, but continued with recrational skiing for many years.
As I got older (into my 30's) I picked up golf as a sport, and have enjoyed it since then. And even though I no longer play due to a number of physical issues I still love watching golf on TV, and occationally going out with my son and watching he and his friend shoot a round.
The primary rule of golf is that you must play the ball where it lays. If you move the ball either accidentally or on purpose in order (by rule) to improve your lie you are assessed a one to two stroke penalty, based on the situation. But this can be problematic especially for a high handicap golfer, that sometimes feels that this rule should only be for competitive golf, and not for the occasional player. This is because adding penalty strokes to an already high score seems unfair to many golfers. I have played with golfers that would try to change the position of the ball without notifying the other players, in an attempt to shoot a lower score and win the match. This is called cheating.
In our spiritual lives we all must 'play the ball where it lays', such that we recognize a spiritual deficiency and correct it. This is self-honesty, and is the first step toward righteousness. But many people believe that there is nothing wrong with believing a lie as if it is the truth, thinking that this will improve their 'lie', and fool God into believing that they are worthy of salvation, when all the are doing is cheating on the score card in hopes of winning salvation. A lie is never truth.
What you see is not what you get~
Have you ever wondered how an expert at anything makes it (whatever 'it' is) seem so easy? Every area of endeavor has secrets that make the skill to do it seem easy. Most of these things are not easy, they just seem so because the person doing them has made the effort to aquire the skills necessary to do the job efficiently and with consumate skill. Would you fly in a commercial airliner with a pilot that did not have the certified skills and knowledge to do the job? Of course not. Would you go into a complex surgery and let a second year medical student wield the scalpel? I don't thing so. It is not just knowing how to do 'it'', it is having the knowledge, understanding and wisdom to be able to accomplish the desired result in such a way that shows others the confidence that it takes for you to trust them with your life. Now I understand that many things we need help doing in life don't require this lever of commitment, because it may not be a life or death situation. But for example is you get your tires rotated and the mechanic forgets to torque the lug nuts properly you could be hurt is a wheel comes off the car at speed. Little things matter!
Right now we are going through a time in the life of America (and indeed the world) where perceptions even of little things matter dearly to "Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor!" What we see in the news is not always what we get in real life. There are secrets that shall be made clear in time that make us nervous for the outcome that we desire, that we have seen in prophecy but do not right now see in the real world.
Trust in the outcome is based upon the fact that God has a plan, and will see to the fulfilment of that plan in spite of every effort of Satan the thwart it. God has a 'secret intention' that He will reveal at the right time, soon.
Perseverance~
In 1941 Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of England, gave and address at the Harrow School after the darkest time in Englands history to that point, the end of which became one of his most famous quotes of all time:
"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in".
Even at that time the jury was still out as to whether England would be able to survive the German onslought, and no one knew the outcome.
Today, we seem to be in the same situation with respect to whether the United States of America, and indeed the world, can survive the machinations of what the Left and the current 'President' are doing to destabilize the political and economic identity created by Donald Trump over the past four years. It is for this reason that we not only need patience, but also that same perseverance shown by England in their 'darkest hour'.
Patience implies waiting, perseverance implies action.
But wouldn't it be nice if we knew the outcome before the fact rather than after? This would make the waiting and even the action much less stressful, and actually exciting in knowing the end from the beginning.
THAT is what prophecy does when the understanding of time specific prophecy becomes clear. It is for this reason that having the understanding of the prophecy of the Seven Thunders in Revelation 10 has such significance, and has made such a difference to the perseverance factor in those that have insight and understanding.
Everything you now see in the political world is simply theater, because the decision has already been made in favor of the Life Road prophecies, instead of the Death Road outcome that Satan is so sure will occur, that would have put the world squarely in his hands. This will never happen. So do not dispare. "Never give up, and never give in!"
Will of God~
When someone mentions a Will many of us think of that thing that defines what we want to occur after our death; disbursment of funds, property, and the like, to those we hold dear. This 'Will' is most often a legal document laid down with the assistance of an Attorney at Law, althought an attested document on a napkin has sufficed for this purpose. What makes this kind of document binding is the fact that the author has to be dead in order for the document to gain the force of Law. This can be problematic for the person that writes the will, because they are never around to witness whether their instructions have been fully carried out.
Believe it or not Jesus, the Son of God, wrote a Will; a document that was available for everyone in His Kingdom to read, that expressed His Will for His people. This document contains the instructions that His Kingdom needed to accomplish in order to establish that Kingdom of the Heavens on the earth, which was witnessed by His Father, and countersigned by His Mother, the Holy Spirit. When the Kingdom of God refused to accomplish the requirements of this Will (given two chances) God sent His own Son to the earth for the purpose of encouraging His Kingdom to obey that Will, which they did not. So God, using the force of His Law, executed His own Son in order to give Lawful weight to His Will, and established a Kingdom that "would produce the fruit of it" (Matt. 21:43).
Jesus died in order to pay the penalty for the disobedience of His Kingdom against His Will, His final and last Testimony, so those in the world that would OBEY that Will would be able to have eternal life by entering His Kingdom. The Testimony of Jesus, and His Commandments (Rev. 12:17) gained the force of Law as a legal and binding document upon His death. Yet the grave could not hold Him, ane He resurrected to see the fulfiment of the Law in His New Kingdom.
Sun Tzu~
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is being cited by the Right in demonstration of what Donald J. Trump is doing to the 'enemy' in order to not just win a battle, but to win a war. And on of the most prominent citations is one that says that to win over the enemy you must make him believe that you are weak, when you are strong. We can see this playing out right now in the fact that it appears to the Left that President Trump has run from the field of battle (Washington DC) and is now cowering in Florida, licking his wounds and waiting for his Impeachment trial in the Senate to begin. There is nothing that is further from the truth. We will not discuss why this is true here and now, but suffice it to say that Donald J. Trump is practicing this part of the Art of War to the fullest.
I find it interesting that Jesus did the same thing to the same enemy when He was in battle here on this earth. Satan and his minions (the leadership of the Jews) thought they had Jesus cornered and defeated, because they were able to put him on the crioss and kill him. What they didn't realize is that it was not them that put Him to death, it was His own Father that sacrificed Jesus His Son to pay the penalty of death placed upon His own Kingdom when Adam and Eve truned that very Kingdom over to Satan, and removed that penalty from that Kingdom as long as they "Keep the commandments of God, and hold to the testimony of Jesus" (Rev. 12:17).
Satan thought he had won the war between himself and the Father, when in fact he had lost more than he had ever hoped to gain when Jesus resurrected from the dead, and proved once and for all that "God Wins!"
God has a plan for everything, and Satan is hell-bent on seeing to it that God is defeated. This will not happen, because the people of earth by a large margin have chosen the Life Road over the Death Road, and will see the fruition of that choice soon.
No Worries Mate~
One of the most fun movies of 1986 was the action/comedy "Crocodile" Dundee. The lead role was played by Austrailian actor Paul Hogan, and was based on the true story of Rod Ansell. One of the iconic lines in the movie was spoken by Mick Dundee whenever situations were looking impossible for our hero and his copatriots to survive, and was said in his laconic and laid-back voice, "No worries, mate". Then Mick would solve the situation and win the day.
The situation in Washington D.C. these days appear to be desperate for the Right. A 'President' has been inaugerated that by all accounts will ruin everything that Donald J. Trump did to improve the country and the world, The situation appears to truely be desperate, with no positive outcome in sight. Biden has signed multiple EO's (executive orders) that will dismantle many of the good things that have been done for America, simply to spite the person that did them, and the people that benefited from them. And to cap it all off the 'President' has unceremoniously through the National Guard out of Washington D.C., with no place for them to go, because the logistic train has not been put in place to care for them. Many of our Citizen soldiers are no 'camped out' in parking garages, in the cold, waiting fot that 'train' to catch up with them.
Things are looiking desperate.
Jesus has the answer for situation such as this, just as He had for the sitation His disciples faced after His death on the cross, when they were hiding in the upper room waiting to be arrested by the Sanhedrin.
". . . and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and *said to them, "Peace be with you." John 20:19.
Happy Anniversary~
Today is the 27th Anniversity of the start of the bible study class that was presented at church by Rick Sterling, that eventually became Spirit of Truth Ministry. Our radio program began on TalkShoe in 2005, and we moved to Blog Talk Radio and had our first program here on August 8, 2007. As of today this will be eposide number 1219, and I can speak for everyone here at Spirit of Truth Ministry in saying that none of us expected to still be here on earth today. We expected to be in heaven by now, as the 7th Trumpet was scheduled to sound on September 28, 2019. Yet here we are, and if you have been listening since August 14, 2020 you will know why.
We here at Spirit of Truth Ministry want to thank our listeners for sticking with us as we have gone through the process of understanding why God delayed their coming, that will allow millions more people to enter the Kingdom of Heaven before the final judgement occurs. We hope you will continue to join us every Friday and Saturday at 10 AM, as we learn together how and why we are still here on earth, and what will need to happen in the USA and on earth before we can all be at home together on the earth made new.
Join us today for continued learning and growing in Truth.
Fence Sitting~
My dad was a farm boy when he was young. And he told me something that his father told him about sitting on a fence; no one sits on a fence very long without choosing a side to land on. Sitting on a fence hurts after a while, and this is not only true physically, it is also true spiritually.
And although fence sitting is always uncomfortable, many people have made a good living straddling the middle of the road thinking that this is the best way to stay safe from commiting to an idea, ideal, or program too soon, and losing a position of power, authority, strength. In reality fence sitting does none of those things.
Jesus spoke about this from a spiritual perspective in Revelation:
'I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth". Rev. 3:15-16.
This is the ultimate description of spiritual fence sitting, the punishment for which is being ejected permanently from the presence of God, which leads ultimately to the Second Death.
"On earth as it is in heaven." Matt, 6:10 (LP).
We must declare for heaven or we will be sent to hell. Those that try to take both sides, and especially present themselves as being on one side when they are actually on the other, will always be caught out. Judas was caught in this trap, and paid the ultimate price for his hypocrisy.
If we stand firm in the truth, then we will have no issues when it comes to which side we are on, because it will be apparent to God that we have chosen the correct side. If we believe a lie as if it is the truth, then the lie will catch us, and show us to be as false as in that which we believed.
Sad Day~
Today, January 9, 2021, is a marked day. It is the day that the United States of America became what the prophetic book Nighteen Eighty-Four: a Novel, written by George Orwell foresaw as the end result of an all encompassing 'Big Brother' government. We no longer have freedom of speech, or freedom of assembly. Conservatives are censored right and left, and platforms for communication are being restricetd or taken down because people are exercising the right to express themselves as they wish. And a duly elected President of the USA is being hounded by his Deep State political opponents on both sides in ofder to through him out of office in the last 12 days of his office. Why?
The answer is that this would be a sad day If we didn't know the ultimate outcome of the prophecy in Revelation 10 and the Seven Thunders, that shows that there is a Life Road option for the Judgement, no just the Death Road options seen in Revelation.
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today at 10 AM for an exciting study that will show that we don't have to be worried of upset with what we see in Washington DC and in our country, because God's plan for humanity is being fulfilled before out eyes.
Smile~
It is looking pretty dark out there in the world of politics, what with the attack on the Capital Building in Washington DC by rioters that are purported to be Trump supporters. The story is not yet fully known, but the Left and the Dems are having a 'field day' in condemning President Trump as the one that incited these people to take over the Capital and wreck havoc inside the halls and chambers of the House and the Senate. The Main Stream Media is also enjoying the ability to spin this story to make it appear to their viewers that President Trump will have to step down before his 'final' 10 days in office are over. The outcome that the Patriots and the Right expected looks to be a thing of the past, and it to those of us that have been listening to this program for the past 3 months have been 'snookered' into believing that God has indeed abandoned us to the tender mercies of Revelation 13, and the hell on earth that will come from a One-World Government.
This situation reminds me of that poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox that my mother taught me when I was a child, that was modified by her own mother to make it easier to remember. It goes like this:
"It is easy enough to smile when the world goes along like a song; but the one that's worthwhile is the one that can smile, when everything goes dead wrong."
Smiling in the face of defeat gives you the opportunity to look at the situation with different eyes, and a different perspective. This helps you to see things that you might have missed, and makes is possible to see that hand of God even in the darkest hour.
As God told Joshua, he says the same thing to us today:
""No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you." Jos. 1:5.
Trust in God, and trust in the plan!
Hypocracy-Treason~
". . . the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.: Matt. 24:50-51.
Have you ever had someone that you trusted implicitly purposely tell you a lie over a long period of time, and you then found out that this person was lying? And worse, have you ever done this kind of thng to someone? This is a dispicable act of selfishness that you can forgive or be forgiven for, but it takes a long time to regain the trust you had, if ever. This is termed hypocrisy; saying one thing but believing and practicing that lie in secret, to the detriment of another, for personal gain.
One of the most difficult things in this regard is to know what the other person is doing and not calling them on it, so that they will dig themselves a deeper hole out of which they cannot extract themselves when caught. Jesus had this relationship with Judas. And though Jesus loved Judas He hated what Judas was doing. The end for Judas was horrible.
Today we are seeing this in the USA regarding President Trump and many of his personal staff and political associates. These are people that he trusted, who have turned on him because they prefer the old system to the one President Trump is trying to put in place. And just as with Jesus and Judas, President Trump knows who are the hypocrits and who are loyal, and he is letting this play out such that the country can see upon which side they stand.
We are in a war for the souls of mankind. and in wartime hypocrisy is called Treason, the punishment for which is death.
America and the world have chosen the Life Road, yet there are many in trusted positions that secretly want the Death Road. Choose LIFE, and let it be known, then you will never be called a traitor.
Frohes Neues Jahr~
Today is New Years Day 2021, and this year will bring AMAZING events and changes, beginning with what Rick Sterling and Spirit of Truth Ministry have been saying for weeks on our programs that Donald J. Trump WILL be confirmed as the President of the United States for Biblical Prophetic reasons, in spite of all the 'news' to the contrary.
The first statememt of this FACT was made on August 14, 2020 on this program The Bible On Trial. Since then Rick has fleshed out the details of the prophecy of Revelation 10, as more understanding is gained, and is showing how the prophecies involving the Life Road and Death Road will affect how the people of the world come to understand the Truth about the importance of being inside the Kingdom of the Heavens and the process of gaining the Salvation promised to those that obey the will of God.
Join us again today as we continue the study of this timely and amazing prophetic undersanding, that will give you peace that the outcome will be what God has offered the world.
On December 26, 2020 Spirit of Truth Ministry will present another Best Of program from 8/15/2020, and is a continuation or our program from 8/14/2020 that aired yesterday, that introduced the concept that what we see happening in America, and indeed in the world, can be found in the prophecy in Revelation 10 that shows that there are both LIFE Road and Death Road prophecies in Revelation. These prophecies are time specific, and that in the election of 2016 and 2020 America voted for the Life Road prophecies to be fulfilled, and that the Death Road prophecies that were scheduled to happen in 2016 with the election of HRC can and will never happen. Join us for a fascinating study into why Donald J. Trump has been re-elected, and will fulfill the Life Road prophecies, not those of the Death Road.
Today's program is a Best Of show from August 14, 2020.
In this program Rick introduces the concept that because of the election of both 2016 and again in 2020, the USA, and indeed the world chose the Life Road prophecies of Revelation 10 over the Death Road prophecies of Revelation 13 and on. God always gives the people of the earth a choice between what God wants to happen and what Satan is trying to make happen. America chose the Life Road because they chose Donald J. Trump as President, and the Death Road prophecies that would have occured if we had chosen HRC will NEVER HAPPEN, because the time for those prophecies is over.
We will follow this program tomorrow with the program from August 15, which will continue the introductions of this topic, which we have been working through since then.
Join us today, Christmas Day-December 25, 2020, at 10AM PST for the airing of this program, brought to you by Spirit of Truth Ministry.
Wish Upon a Star~
Children make wishes, they all do; we all did. Some wishes of our youth are more fanciful than practical. I remember wanting to be a fireman, and a policeman, depending on the day, and what game my brother and I were playing at the time. My big wish was that I wanted to be a jet fighter pilot and an Astronaut. I watch film of Chuck Yaeger flying the X-15 rocket plane on black and white TV, and breaking the sound barrier, and thought that was the coolest thing in the world. I remember one Christmas when I was ten or eleven that my parents got me a toy Atlas rocket ship, complete with a moon vehicle, a launch pad and service vehicles. This was in the early 1960's just after President Kennedy announced that America would go to the moon before the end of the decade, and every boy I knew wanted to fly into space. Only a few achieved this dream, but that didn't stop the dreaming.
As I grew older my dreams changed, as did the star I wished upon. My choices narrowed, and my decisions became more practical, but I still had my dreams. I stopped playing 'What IF', and began to put my dreams into reality.
Today the world has changed, and so have the dreams of millions of Americans that are watching some of their dreams crumble into dust because of the recent election. And depending on the side you have picked, the texture of the choice has taken a more sinister turn.
But take heart, because the choosing is already over, the victory of the Life Road has been won, and the evil dreams of Death and Destruction seen in the prophecies of Revelation can be set aside in favor of the Life and Prosperity prophecies of Revelation 10. The One World Government will never happen because of the choice America made in 2016 and 2020. The dreams of a brighter world have already come true, we just have to get through the events that come with the death of the old ways. It won't be easy, but all will be well.
Red Sea Scenario~
But Moses said to the people, "Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the LORD which He will accomplish for you today." Ex.14:13.
Have you ever wondered why God waits until the very last second to provide a 'way out' of a bac situation for His people? I have. For us humans it would be much better for God to solve the problem before a situation becomes a problem, rather than put us through the turmoil, uncertanty, and anxiousness of having to wait, and wait, and wait for God to act.
I am sure that this was exactly what the Children of Israel were feeling with their backs to the Red Sea, and the armies of Pharaoh bearing down on them with the intent to either crush them against the water, push them in and drown them, or to capture them and send them back to captivity in Egypt. The people that escaped from Egypt were even telling Moses that "it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness." (Ex. 14:12-LP)
But as you know God had other plans for His people, and the outcome was much different that what they thought would happen.
It it exactly the same today. We as 'the people of God' are waiting for God to act in not allowing an election to be stolen, which appears to be the case, and see us through to the Life Road that will allow our country and the world to enter a time of Peace and Prosperity. But why is God putting us through the uncertainty of not seeing this outcome right now? Why is He waiting and not acting?
Here is the reason; "God always does whatever He will do for His people at the very last moment, ONLY so we KNOW it is Him doing it." He waits until that moment when everything looks darkest, when it looks as if the Evil One has won the day. He waits in order to show the people that outcome they have received could only come from Him. Then and only then will they understand the truth.
We wll be 'on air' at 10 AM PST for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. Join us for and exciting study that will show that what is happening is right on the Schedule that God has planned from the foundation of the world. Web site: blogtalkradio.com/sot.
Decision point~
One of the most fascinating yet little known concepts in Biblical Prophecy is that when God sets up 'end time' prophecy They always define two pathways for the outcome. This can be seen in Deut. 30:14-19, and elsewhere. Now this is not universally accepted inside of the Exegesis community because many people that study these things believe that when God gives prophecy those prophecies MUST be fulfilled in total before end can come. Yet this concept is belied by the fact that there are many prophecies that are related specifically to Ancient Israel the time of which has come and gone without being fulfilled. Those prophecies will never be fulfilled because the people of Israel chose the alternate prophetic path or road.
The basic concept for this is that God has set both the Life Road and the Death Road to run concurrently for a time in order to give the subject of that prophecy the opportunity to choose one or the other. When that choice is made the prophecies of Road Not Taken is then permanently eliminated from the outcomes that follow the choice.
This is EXACTLY what happened in 2016 when the USA (and indeed the world) chose Donald J. Trump as President. Up until that point both the Death Road, where HRC would have led the world into the horors of a One World Order, and the Life Road, in which Pres. Trump would lead the countries of the world into properity and peace, were running concurrently, waiting for the decision to be made. We Chose the Life Road, but as we are seeing the Deep State is trying their best to steal the election and put the world back on the Death Road.
But take heart.. Once a decision has been made God never goes back on that decision. Just as God gave Israel two chances to make the right decision, so too has God given America two chances, and we chose the Life Road both times, in 2016 and 2020. We will see the outcome soon. All is well!
Tyrants~
The abuse of power is rampant in the government of California, particularly seen in the activity of our Governor. He is a dictator that has abused his power in dramatic and calamitous ways by shutting down busiesses at random under the excuse of trying to stop the spread of Covid-19. Thousands of these small businesses are going out of business permanently, and causing havoc to the families of both the owners and the patrons that are affected. The Governor is dining out at fancy restaurants, traveling where ever he wants, and sending his children to a private school where they get face to face attention, all the while forcing the people of California to suffer under the weight of his 'orders' that prevent them from doing the same thing. He is a TYRANT, and is making California into a Socialist state where the 'elite' have the privilages, and the people have no hope of redress of grievance.
Yet there are people in California that are standing up to the Governor, and will not acceed to his demands. One of these is the Sheriff of Riverside County, Chad Bianco. He is taking a stand against the Governor, and is refusing to knuckle under to his demands to arrest, cite, and fine business owners and patrons that do not adhere to the Governors demands. Sheriff Bianco is is doing this in the face of severe monetary penalties that could be levied against him and his department for not complying with the Governor. He is taking a stand.
There is a tyrant in this world that is trying to dictate what and how we should believe with regards to salvation and eternal life. That Tyrant is interested in keeping the truth from believers that worship God, but don't know the God they worship. That Tyrant is Satan, who makes people believe lies as if they are truth. Stand up to this tyrant by learning the truth about salvation from the words of Jesus.
Down to the Wire~
We all have experienced the sick feeling that comes from a situation where we are in desperate need of a positive outcome that looks less and less likely to happen the closer we get to a hard deadline. Things like a bill that must be paid or a utitity will get shut off, and we don't have the money to pay it. Or a class paper needs to be be turned in tomorrow, but the computer swallowed the content and you can't find it, and you need to start over. Or you are on your way to an important event and your car breaks down on the freeway, and you discover you left your phone at home. Or worse yet, that you are bedside with a loved one, having just heard that the prognosis is certain death, and there is nothing they or anyone can do to stop the dying.
All of these speak to the helplessness of life, that says that we are not in control, and have no hope of rescue, and we are coming down to the wire and are going to loose the race.
In these instances you will hear people tell you to 'have faith', that God will solve the problem, fix the deficet, manage the outcome in your favor if only you believe.
Well, I'm sorry to say that sometimes bad things happen, and God does not rescue you. Life Happens!
Jesus had to go through a violent situation, and how He behaved shows that He understands what we are going through. Jesus was looking death square in the face, and asked God for another solution. And His Father said that if He wanted the outcome that they had planned from the beginning to happen, then He would have to suffer the death that paid the penalty for His Kingdom.
Jesus did not face this death 'by faith'. Jesus TRUSTED His Father, and understood what needed to be done, and did it. Jesus KNEW the outcome, knew what He needed to do to achieve it, and did it.
We need to Trust the Plan, trust the author, trust the outcome.
Take Stock~
Even as I write this morning I am cooking down the turkey carcas (and other parts) in order to make a stock with which I will later today make a turkey soup. And since my daughter purchased the turkey I am making enough stock to share with her. The smell in the house is becoming redolent with that sweet and savory smell of turkey, with fresh onion, celery, basil, thyme, and rosemary. In thinking about what I would include in this recipe I had to 'take stock'.
The other meanings of 'take stock' stems from a store owner making a count of his merchandise for ordering purposes, or a rancher counting his cattle. But the most prevailent meaing in use today is to think carefully about an event or purpose in order to form an opinion about a decision, in order to understand how a situation will affect your life. The understanding of where we are and where we want or need to be is part and parcel of being human, and is essential to our lives as we move from the temporal to the spiritual.
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life". John 6:63.
When we begin our year end assessment, as many of us are want to do, we should take into account a number of factors that will affect the ultimate outcome of our lives here on this earth, as we move toward the decisions that will affect our eternity. The most important element of this process is the process itself, the method by which we choose our course, or our recipie, for our eternity; either eternal life, or eternal death. Jesus actually gave the method to John, as seen in Revelation;
"So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus". Rev.12:17.
Turkey~
There is turkey, and then there is TURKEY! And for the first time ever in my life, yesterday I experienced a close encounter with a turkey that was so heavenly that it must be the likes of which is served for dinner in Heaven.
This year for Thanksgiving my daughter Emily decised she was not going to participate in the traditional serving of a farm raised Broad Brested White turkey produced in a giant farm, that are subjected to high leves of anti-biotics simply to keep these poor animals healthly enough to live long enough to make it to market. She had watched documentary about a how these birds are horribly abused as they are placed in overcrowded conditions such that they can hardly move.
The subject of this documentary was the Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch in Kansas, This is the ONE commercial farm left in the country that is protecting these Heritage breeds from extinction by conservation through food productions. Until I experienced the taste of the turkey purchased and delivered via over-night Fed Ex delivery I had no idea how a real turkey tasted, These turkeys are VERY expensive due to the cost of production, but the taste of a TRUE and hollsome turkey was simply Heavenly, and worth every penny.
This same is true for Spiritual TRUTH. The truth we are being fed by the religions of the world is empty of spiritual nutrition. We believe it tastes good because we have no frame of reference with which to compare it to REAL truth. The purchase price of this NEW truth is very expensive, because to do so means you have to risk everything you now believe to be true on a new way of thinking and processing information. We have been 'raised' in an environment of overcrowded false information, and we have no 'frame of reference' with which to compare and process this new Truth. But once you have tasted it you will find it literally Heavenly.
Unexpected~
We have all at one time or another thought that a situation would turn out one way and it turns out another. When this happens it is often (sadly) that what we expected was much better than what actually happened. This is because most of us are optimistic about outcomes, rather than pessimistic. In school we would go into a test thinking we 'had it down', and when the grade comes out it is a C rather than an A. Or when our car breaks down and the mechanic say that he thinks it will be a simple fix, but it turns out that is will cost much more than we were told.
But sometines it is the opposite.
Yesterday, I told you the situation at our house with our electricity going down, and due to circumstances we thought we would have to use our home owners insurance in order to pay for a possible rebuild of our wiring in our house because although our electrician said he thought it would be a simple fix it turned out that he could not stay on the job long enough to find out what was the problem. (He is a fire fighter for Cal Fire and got called into work.) We then assumed the worst because we didn't know another electrician that could come over and help us.
But due to good friend, and the graciousness of God, we found out that it was NOT our house wireing but a power surge due to a short in the wireing at the pole on the street. S.C.Edison was prompt in coming to fix it, and now all is well. Edison will have to pay for some minor damage due to the power surge (light fixtures and bulbs, a small radio, and frozen food spoilage). It is good to be back up and running.
This is what is will be like when the world finds out that we will not have to go through the hell on earth as seen in Revelation 13, with a one-world govenment. That is because we (America and the world) chose the Life road in the 2016 adnd 2020 elections, and not the Death road that is shown in Revelation. "Joy to the World!"
Filing a Claim~
Tuesday night was the start of an adventure here at the old homestead. After three bright flashes outside of the bedroom window, our electical systme in the house went from everything working perfectly to just barely able to function. The central heat doesn't work, the lights in half the house are off. and it was COLD these last two nights. We had an electircian come over Wednesday and do an assessment, and he said that he would have to have the meter unlocked by Edison, and that could take a while. I called Edison and they said up to 5 days to get a service tech out to unlock the meter. Oh joy! But Thursday morning at 9AM the tech came by and unlocked the meter.
Nothing is simple. It could have been just a burned Neutral connection, and that would have been an easy fix. But NO!. So now we are into the process of filing a claim with our home owners insurance company to be able to get the system ficed. The gentleman that took our claim was very helpful, and I think this will go smoothly, but I stll have to find another electrician (our original electrician is a fire fighter and goes on duty today for a week) and get the assessment done, and the estimate of cost.
All of this is to day that for everything there is a proceedure that must be followed in order to make a claim for anything worth fixing.
Jesus established the proceedure for filing a claim against Satan for damages incurred because of sin. All of us have sinned, and Jesus paid the penalty for the Kingdom of Heaven such that anyone that files a claim for the [enalty payment for sin can enter that Kingdom and be saved. The claim has one stipulation in order to be fulfilled, and that is Obedience to the 10 Commandments, and holding to the testimony of Jesus (Rev. 12:17).
Jesus is the head of the Assurance Company that has the insurance policy for those that become righteous in fact, and enter His Kingdom.
Self-deception~
In the writing The Art of War, Sun Tzu speaks of how an enemy can be defeated using their own perception that they are stronger, better prepared, and more cunning than their enemy. It is the arrogance of the enemy that will defeat him.
"All warfare is based upon deception." Sun Tzu.
Make the enemy believe that they are superior in every way to you. Use their hubris to entrap them. Produce in them a sense of security that is false, then spring the trap.
This is what has been going on now in America for over two weeks since the election of November 3, 2020. In that time the Democrats have been led to believe that they have won the election. They have machined the counting to produce enough ballots with a mark for Joe Biden that has allowed the their partners, the Main Stream Media, to announce that he is now 'President Elect', and that there is nothing that Donald Trump and the Republicans can do to stop him fro becoming POTUS. They believed that they had hidden the source of their win so thoroughly that no one would ever be able to see their perfidy in a rigged election. They believed they had learned their lesson from having lost the election in 2016 to be able to win with the same tactics in 2020. They are wrong..
God has Satan in that same position. Satan still believes that he can win against God by making sure that the events of Revelation 13 happen according to the prophecies. What God has done is put an alternative to death and destruction by opening an alternative in Reveation 10 that brings LIFE to the world, not death. Satan and his followers have been decieved and believe they have won a great victory, when they have lost everything by their own misunderstanding of what God wants for the world.
God cannot be deceived, and neither can those that follow the words and teachings that Jesus brought to earth from the Father. Do not dispare; victory is ours!
Vote Count~
In the fallout of this past election comes the question that has been asked by 72.3 million people that now feel disenfranchised by the apparent results, and that is "Did my vote count?" We have been told that the vote of everyone counts, but it turns out that this probably not true given the current circumstance. Lou Dobbs (Fox News) said that what we are seeing is the end game of a Democrat plot to overthrough a duly elected President by voter fraud.
Benford's Law shows by it's number distribution charts in a forensic analysis of votes in Georga and Pennsylvania that the vote totals have been manipulated. Evidence is piling up that massive fraud has taken place not just in the numbers, but also in verified eyewitness accounts, and the MSM is still calling the President all sorts of not-so-nice names because he won't accept the results of that same media in declaring Joe Biden the winner. The wonderful thing in all of this is that right now WE know the result of all of this, and that is GOD WINS!
The world is in in the middel of an even bigger election. The people of the USA, and indeed the world, have already unknowingly '(for the most part) voted' in 2016 to reject the Death Road prophecies of Revelation that would have put us (today) in the middle of a time of death and destruction which was to occur before the Coming in the Clouds, for 'other' prophecies seen in Revelation 10 that have led to the beginning of the fulfillment of Life Road prophecies of Peace, Prosperity, and LIFE that as yet have not been revealed. This fulfillment began with the election of Donald J. Trump as President, in 2016, and continue with his re-election now.
All of this is to show that when all of the votes are counted that we will be able to live for a time in a world at peace, so that the message of God's salvation can go to the world.
STING~
The greatest Sting Operation in political history is in the process of unfolding right now, in real time. The Left thinks it has won a great election victory, when in fact they have participated in the demise of their party such that it will never be able to come back as currently constituted. The Left tried to rig the Presidential election by not only 'adjusting' the voting machines to change ballots after the 'lever' was pulled, but they also by sending out illegal ballots to people that in 'factories' would fill out using false names and addresses to pad the totals for their canditate. This to the tune of hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots. They have done this in every election in the modern era, and expected it to work this time.
What they didn't count on was Donald J. Trump, a sophisticated GFS computer, and official USA ballots with a block-chain watermark printed on it that when scanned into the counting system showed which ballots were legal, and which were fake. A Sting makes a person believe they have succeded in their efforts, when in fact, they have shown that they have cheated, and are caught in the act.
When this sting is revealed the Democrat party will collapse under the weight of the Truth, which they no nothing about, and did not see coming.
This situation is a copy of the 'Sting' that God has set up from the foundation of the world, in allowing Satan to have his way in that very world in offering the people a plausible lie as if it is the truth, and causing them to believe that salvation is free to all through grace by faith.
Satan believes he has won the victory in both of these instances. He believes that humanity is too stupid to be able to tell the difference between the truth and his lies that look like the truth, but are not, Satan, as has his servants on the politial Left, has been caught in a trap of their own making.
Watermark~
Well, it's 3 days past the Presidential Election in the USA, and there are stil no results as to who will be the POTUS. That is because there are not only physical issues with the counting process in several States, but there is significant evidence of FRAUD, not only in the counting but in the casting of ballots. Without going into excruciating detail there is verified evidence that fraudulent ballots were accepted as real by several Democrat states, that brought the challenger from way back in the count to either even or ahead. Lawsuits have been filed to challenge these ballots, and make the count accurate and valid.
The Democrat Party thought that no one would notice that that the hundreds of thousands of ballots that they 'found' after the polls closed would be able to be challenged; after all they look identical to the official ballots that were sent to people by request for mail-in, or issued at the pollling places. However, there was a 'fly in that ointment'. These ballots had one thing missing that proves that they are fraudulent, and that is a Water Mark. This water mark is revealed by putting it under a special light, and only those ballots can be deemed as authentic and counted as official and true.
Under these conditions the outcome of the election is no longer in doubt, the current POTUS wins in a landslide, the Dems just don't know it yet.
There is also a fool proof 'water mark' in Scripture that is revealed only under the bright light of Truth. That 'mark' is the Words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth. Any other words by anyone that claims to be 'of God' that are not based solely upon these words (and the words of God in the Old Testament) are shown to be false under this clear and penetrating light. We are 'elected' into the Kingdom of God when we accept this mark.
Two Roads Diverged~
Robert Frost was a great American poet. His most famous poem is the Road Not Taken, with it's iconic opening, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood." As we near the 2020 election my thoughts have been on the decisions that will be made in choosing the road that will bring America, and indeed the world, the greatest blessing. The election in 2016 has set the stage for this election and this decision point; do we continue our path toward the prophecies of the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10, or do we go back on our decision made in 2016 to take the Road Less Traveled, toward Peace, Prosperity and Life.
The Evil One and his servants are trying hard to make the other Road more appealing than the one we are currently on. It is very difficult to make Pain, Poverty, Socialism, Destruction and Death appear attractive, but they are making a valiant effort to do so, decieve America into believing that their Road is the one to take. Thus, my thougts went to Frost's Poem. Here then are the first and last stanzaa:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
(https://www.robertfrost.org/the-road-not-taken.jsp)
We are a the moment of choice, the same choice that God gave ancient israel;
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants," Deut 30:1
Even the Elected~
"For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect". Matt.24:24.
We are coming up on the second most significant election in the hisory of the USA this next Tuesday, November 3, 2020. It is Election Day, and although it is the official day for this event voting has been taking place for a number of weeks in certain states, and according to the Secretaries of certain states mail-in ballots may be counted up to 3 days after Electon day. There seems to be a fervor for this particular election because as of today it is estimated that 80 million voters have already turned in their mail in ballots, or have done early voting. The election turn out will far eclipse the turn out in 2016, with voter enthusiasm being the key factor in the outcome.
As we have found out in our discussions in the past few months here on The Bible on Trial and The Revelaton of Jesus programs, prophecy is being fulflled before our very eyes with the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016, and will continue in this electon.
eklektos (ek-lek-tos') - From G1586; select; by implication favorite: - chosen, elect.
When we vote as a nation or as a people we 'choose' our leaders. In order to choose the right leader we must NOT be fooled into choosing the wrong one. When a person is 'elected' they are placed in a position of authority by the people that chose them, and this choice demonstrates trust that the person chosen will be trustworthy in doing the will of the people.
High Flying~
On Saturday (Sabbath) October 24, 2020 my daughter Emily, her husband Arin, and my 12 week old grand-son Logan are flying to North Carolina for a visit that will be the first time that Arin's parent will see Logan. It is going to be a very special time. The worry (of course) will be how well or poorly Logan handles being on an airplane for 6-7 hours. They are heavily laden with all the acoutraments associated with traveling with a very young child; passifiers, prepared bottles, cards with black and white designs on them to keep Logan entertained, among many other items, especially diapers.
But there is one thing that they are taking that I find very interesting, that speaks to their concern for potential 'noise pollution caused by a young and very upset baby. They are carrying with them on the airplane enough high quality reusable ear plugs for passengers that are near enough to where they are sitting to be affected by the noise. Many passengers will have ear pods, or even sound canceling head phones. But just in case Logan gets fussy Em and Arin will have something with them to help people have a more pleasant flight. To me this demonstrates good judgement, careful planning, and concern for others that goes beyond the norm.
It was this same concern for people that prompted Jesus to take five loaves and two fish given to Him by a small boy whereby Jesus fed a big crowd, afterwhich He taught them Truth that they had never hear before. The first miracle of Jesus a Cana, where He turned water into wine at the behest of His surrogate mother Mary, kept the wedding feast going, and also showed the concern Jesus had for doing the right thing, when not doing anything would have been more convenient.
We need to take opportunities (where appropriate) to help people in the physical world, so that we can give to them spiritual words that Jesus brought from his Father.
Debate~
Just FYI-Debate is NOT what you use to catch 'defish'! The purpose of debate is not what most people think it is; that is, to reveal the truth about a particular subject in a back and forth verbal interaction between opponents that represent different sides.
Classical debate is based upon a five part system of Argument, using rhetoric in persuasion of a specific viewpoint, when the audience s both favorable and hostile. Those five elements are: 1) Begin in an interesting way, 2) provide background and context to the audience, 3) state claims and provide clear evidence, 4) accounting for the opposing viewpoints and objections, 5) providing a satisfactory conclusion.
In a modern debate, as was presented last night at the Presidential Debate, the Moderator provides the first two of these elements, and the debators try to accomplish the final 3 points, as well as can be allowed given the debate protocols. Debate is to be held on a level playing field where the Moderator does not influence the outcomes in any way, by interjecting themselves into the responces. (This became a problem in last nights debate, just as in the first debate.)
The form of the questions in modern debate can either help or hinder the opposing sides, and do affect outcomes, which they should not.
Jesus was obviously familiar with the format of debate, as is evidenced in how he responded in His various interactions with the Leadership of Israel, in their attempts to trap him in a rhetorical conundrum. He also showed this skill in His interaction with Pilate in John 18. The thing that is most evident in how Jesus delt with these questons was that He KNEW the truth. Jesus KNEW Scripture because He was the ONE tha gave these words to His servants, who accurately wrote them down for us to use in our own debates. By knowing the truth He could expose the lie in the opposing argument, as can we if we use His words as our source.
Tired~
There are days, and then there are DAZE! There are days when I wake up ready and raring to go, to get out into the world and take it head on, no hold barred, and the only rule is to win! As I age (hopefully gracefully) those days are more few and far between. Today is not one of those days.
Today is the Sabbath, which for me used to be the day I would go to church with my young family (mom and dad, brother and sister), all in our "Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, ready to sing songs and learn lessons in the childrens Sabbath school, or to perform with my wife singing duets at the time in the Service that was set aside for music (we were asked to do this a LOT).
Now, Sabbath consists of gathering with the Spirit of Truth Ministry team at my house for our regular blogtalkradio.com/sot program, accompanied by good coffee, a little breakfast, continuing our study into all things spiritual for currently 1190 one-hour programs. That is a LOT of work (believe it or not).
Today I am tired, and feeling my age. I long for the days on vacation at Hume Lake Camp, away from everything, having nothing better to do than to be with my wife and children, and their husband and wife, relaxing, laughing, hiking, kayaking on the lake; no TV or radio, and no worries.
Yet as tired as I am, and as much a I wish that this whole messy life world with all its Covid-19, election cycles, protests, and such would become that looked for time of peace and prosperity, I know there is a lot of work to do before that happens. I understand how Jesus felt in the garden at Gesthemany, when He needed time for Himself with His Father, in order to strengthen His will to go forward with the plan that had been set out for Him since the foundation of the world.
We are in that same place right now, facing challenges that will test our mettle, our resolve, our determination to see that plan through to the end.
Walk Off~
On this day, Oct. 16, 1988, Kirk Gibson made Dodger history with his bottom of the ninth, 2 out, 3-2 count walk-off home fun againt Dennis Eckersly and the Oakland A's ,in game 1 of the World Series. The Dodgers went on to win the World series 5-2. This was a do-or-die moment where the Dodgers, down to their last out, and 1 run down to the A's had to have that home run, or go home. Tommy Lasorda had a number of good hitters he could have used in this situation, but he chose the 'old guy' that had two bad legs and could barely walk, to go to the plate and get the job done. This was a bid risk, because a ground ball would have most certainly ended in an out to 1st base. As it was, the Dodgers won the game in the most improbable way.
We are in an improbable situation in the world today, similar to where the Dodgers were in 1988. The 'game' we are plaing is a game pitting Life and Prosperity against Death and Adversity, and at the moment it looks like the latter will win over the former. The people of the USA, and indeed the world, are waiting with baited breath to see which side in this issue will win out over the other, Will the Left win out and put the country back into a path that will lead to the events of Revelation that define the 'Death Road' come to pass, or will LIFE win out and the world will be able to learn the truth of salvation and eternal life during a time of peace?
According to a prophetic mystery it appears that the decision was already made in 2016, and the Life Road was chosen by 2/3rds of the American electorate when we chose Donald J. Trump as our President. Since then all hell has broken loose, where the Left has tried everything to stop the Life Road from being fulfilled, yet nothing they have done has been able to work to keep us from the destiny that will lead to Life.
Fear~
Being scared is a funny thing! Not funny in the way of humor, but of being odd!
There are lots of things in this world that are truly scary, and we should rightly be wary of them. Things like our car suddenly running out of gas on a fast moving freeway, or being in a bank when a bank robber enters the lobby where we are standing, or not being able to get ahold of a loved one on the phone after an earthquake, or the earthquake itself. All of these things (and more) are part of what it means to live in our normal envirtonment today. Life can be scary, and intimidating, if you let it.
There is one thing that mitigates fear, and that is preparation. If you are afraid of running out of gas, then fill your tank when it reaches half full. If you are afraid of bank robbers then use the Ready Teller, or your banking app on your phone. If you can't reach a loved one on the phone when you need then, remnd them to keep their phone charged, and get them an emergency battery and cable that they can carry with them. And always keep an emergency kit with water, food, flashlight, and medical kit in a back pack in your car should an earthquate hit.
Many of us already do these things that will help mitigate the results of an emergency in the physical world, but we don't take the time to 'be prepared' to handle tough or unusual situations in the spiritual world, which can ultimately be much more scary.
We have been taught in Revelation that during the end-of-time there are going to be horrors on the earth that no one in their right mind would want to endure. Fear of this has been a means of 'converting' people to believe in Jesus. But fear is not a reliable method to bring people to the Truth. WHAT IF there was another way to learn the truth that didn't involve being scared into the Kingdom of God? Spirit of Truth Ministry has found that way.
Opinion vs. Fact!
One of the great quotes in any political debate occured Wednesday night during the Vice Presidential Debate. The Democrat candidate, Kamala Harris, had been 'stretching' the truth about the record of both President Trump and Joe Biden, and at one point Mike Pence, the V-POTUS, had enough. His comment will go down as one of the best used and most salient quotes in history of political discourse.
"You are entitled to your own opinion; you are not entitlted to your own facts." Mike Pence.
At hearing this Ms. Harris smiled and said (under her breath), "Good line".
This quote is a restatement of a quote made by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and has garnered both positive and negative response from political observers on both sides. Regardless of the origin or circumstance of use the sentiment of this statement is key to finding, defining, and understanding Truth, and goes to the heart of the mission of Spirit of Truth Ministry.
The idea that there is such a thing as 'simple belief' is itself an oxymoron, because just as with the phrase 'common sense', where the idea of good sense is never common, the idea that what, how and why you believe something is anything but simple, unless you decide that you will believe something without concrete proof, just because it makes you 'feel' good. This is belief by faith, as this type of belief requires no facts with which to back it up.
The 'Salvation by faith through grace' that Paul teaches in his own unique 'gospel of god' requires no actual facts to back up that belief. It is simply an opinion that has been accepted by a religion established during the first century that accepts the opinion of one man as being the very words of God, when in fact the words of God and Jesus that back up this philosophy do not exist. Religious opinion does not salvation make.
Fall~
This morning my wife and I got up early in order to take our little dog Maggy out for a walk at Wildwood park, that is about a six minute drive from our house. Every time start to get ready to go on a walk Maggy gets REALLY excited, going from one of us to the other, whinning, and urging us on to get ready faster. She also loves the car ride both too and from the park.
It has been inordinately hot here in Southern California lately, but this morning in the car with the windows open and Maggy sitting on my wifes lap with her head out the window, with air actually felt chilly, and reminded us that Fall is just around the corner. Walking in the park in the cool of the morning with my wife and my dog reminded me that we are in a period of time on this earth where things are no longer 'normal', where see events that are heating up to such an extent that soon the heat of radical change will be upon us, and that the cool of a normal life with only be a fond memory.
Or will it? We have been told that any prophecy not already fulfilled WILL BE before the end. This is why the events seen in Revelation are so terrifying and disturbing, because we have been told that these events are without a doubt in our future, and we need to be READY. But WHAT IF those prophecies don't need to happen. What if there is another prophetic road that is as yet unseen and undiscovered in end time prophecy that will lead us to Peace and Prosperity, and that will allow us to not have to endure the Death and destructon that we have been assured will happen by experts that see only one road.
We at Spirit of Truth Ministry urge you to join us in the discovery of this alternate road, leading to an alternate outcome that will allow the God of Creation to show the world through His servants that the decisions for salvation can be made during a time of peace if we accept that the right choices have been made.
Stupid~
Today, in spite of the great temptation to do so, I am NOT going to comment on the recent 'debate' between POTUS and the challenger. Enough Already! However, that event and the responses by the opposition to the President in general have pointed out to me that there is a condition that exists in certain members of the 'body politic', and indeed in the population in general, that is so prevalent as to be terrifying as to the future of our society, including in the church, and that condition is one of abject stupidity.
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." ~ R.A. Heinlein.
"Stupid" is a human condition that allows a person to delude themselves into thinking that they are smarter than the result that the situation dictates, and that it won't bite them. A stupid person will say to themselves "This won't hurt me if I do it just once", and they will end up dead or worse. Stupid dose not allow a person to "Think it through", such that the trap inside the situation that they didn't see because of the delusion catches them off guard, and harms them in some very painful way.
This is why Jesus, when confronted with a question by His own disciples that indicated shoddy thinking, He responded by saying, "See to it that no one deceives you." (Matt. 24:4.) Jesus KNEW what His disciples wanted to hear, but He gave them an answer that they NEEDED to hear.
Finding spiritual truth means that a person must remove 'self-delusion' from every aspect of their lives, and look at what is being touted as 'truth' with brutal self-honesty. Self-delusion does not allow a person to see what IS, but what they prefer to see as truth.
In spiritual terms Faith is the same as Stupid.
"Faith allows a person to beleive a lie as if it is the truth, without accountability!"~Rick Sterling.
Supreme Court~
Today RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) lies in state in the Capitol building rotunda, ther first woman to do so in the history of our country. It is certain that RBG had a huge impact on the American consciousness regarding equal rights and opportunities for women in the profession of the Law. Few women were allowed to attend law school when RBG did, and certainly fewer women were allowed to enter service as a BAR certified lawyer. Today, more women attend law school that do men, and women hold positions in the courts of our country at the highest levels, including the SCOTUS. And although her contribution was mostly in Dissent as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, she provided the opinions of the 'loyal opposition' that had a great impact of how our country gives opportunity to the 'minority', no matter how you feel about her politics.
RBG was considered and 'activist' jurist; that is, she often tried to use the High Court as a means of making law rather than simply defining law. She felt this was itself 'legal' because LAWS are often confusing because they are so complicated, and it was easy to slip an alternative interpretation into a law by edict in an 'opinion of the court'. She wanted to use the court to create law, rather than simply rule on an existing law.
The Supreme Court of the Kingdom of the Heavens does not allow beings subject to the Law of God to try to 'interpret' the LAW in a way that would change any part of it. This is exactly what Satan tried to do when he went before the Court in the Heavens and tried to convince the Jurists these that he needed to be allowed to be the 'god of evil' in order balance out the activity of the God of Good. This is described in Revelation 12:7-9. Obedience to the Law of God as stated is the only justice that counts in Heaven's court. Evil has no interpretaton in God's Kingdom of Heaven.
Distraction~
We all have been distracted from time to time. Personally, it seems the older I get the more easily distracted I get. Being easily distracted, however, does lead one to contemplate the meaning of life; I will walk into a room, stop and say to myself - "Why am I here?" If we separate out the two components of the word we get 'dis-' and 'traction'; that is, the loss of mental traction. If we loose traction in an automobile we can have an accident. If we loose traction in the mind we can have a mental train wreck that can darken an otherwise good day.
In the effort to prevent Distracion when trying to learn anything new we must establish a solid and viable epistemology. We need to establish a methodology that allows us to distinguish between reality and fiction, truth and lies, fact and opinion, preference and conviction. The ability to do this separates those that are lost, who don't know where they are, and don't know where they need to go, from those that know where they are, where they are going and why, and have a map that shows them how to get there.
Jesus came to earth to show people EXACTLY how to get from being in the kingdom of the world into being inside the Kingdom of the Heavens.
"For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost". Matt. 18:11.
Yet even the disiples of Jesus said they didn't know the way.
Thomas *said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?" John14:5.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me". John:14:6
The epistemology of the Kingdom of God is straight forward and simple, and involves two things;
"Keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus". Rev. 12:17.
Do not be distracted by deciet.
Frustration~
It is apparent by the language used by both sides in the debate of ideas in public discourse in media and social media that there is a great deal of frustration in that one side does not 'see' what the other sees as the truth as to which directon the country or the world shoud take in dealing with our common societal problems. This frustration is being dramatically expressed in violent protests and riots by one side, that has led to violence to persons, looting of businesses and destruction of property, both public and private, all in the name of 'equality' of outcome, or punishment for perceived racism. As if we don't have enough to worry about with the huge fires in the West.
There are also those that are taking advantage of this frustration by paying for people to pretend to be interested in outcomes, but are only doing this violence for the money, which makes the other side frustrated because they have not apparent recource in dealing with these mercenaries. This situation today is similar to what occurred in our Revolutionary War period where the British paid to have German Hessian mercenaries to come to the Colonies to strike fear in the hearts of the people that would have otherwise join in the rebellion, but stayed on the sidelines and let others do the hard work, because of the fear of these violent and well trained soldiers.
Then Trenton happened and the war changed course. General Washington showed the people that the Hessians could be beaten, and recruitment to the Continental army soared.
We are at a point in our history where this is about to happen again. It will happen because the good people of the world LOVE the truth, and will rise up and demonstrate that love by actions that counter the violence of the Left with Facts, Knowledge, Understanding, and LOVE. The peopel will choose Life and Prosperity instead of Death, Adversity and poverty. The Choice is here!
Liar, Liar~
What do you do when someone claims that you are lying in a situation, but they are lying about exactly the same thing and blaming you? Most people would call this a 'double standard'. but it is really called 'projection'! Projection is being blamed for doing something bad that someone else is doing in order to get people to look at you, in order to keep them from looking at them. This sounds convoluted, and it is-on purpose. Most people are not able to initially see or acknowledge that there is 'Projection' without help, because they don't have the emotional and psychological filters to be able to discern the implied connections. The type of person that uses Projection will rely on the fact that most people are good, and simply see Projected evil as a directed device, rather than a subte betrayal of confidence.
Jesus was plagued by the 'Projection' of the leadership of the Jews, who accused Him of doing the very same things they were doing in secret, in order to try to justify their behavior, in order to keep the esteem of the people and their high value positions of authority. Jesus was asked many questions designed to trap Him into speaking a lie, but Jesus responded with questions that they could not answer without showing that they were the liars.
Projection is happening today, and it is easy to get caught up in the projection of a lie about someone or something, and believe that it is the truth. The underlaying system is that just as the Jewish leadership hated Jesus and tried everything they could to get the people to reject Him, so too today will people hate you because of your love for the Truth, and they will to anything to get you to "believe a lie as if it is the truth."
"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you". John 15:18.
Patriot~
Today is Patriots Day - a day upon which we remember the lives and innocence lost on this date 19 years ago, when the Twin Towers and building #7 in New York were destroyed by the actions of "Enemies of the State". The bravery and heroism demonstrated by the people that were directly affected by these events have gone down into the history of the United States of America as some of the most selfless and courageous acts of bravery, worthy of honor in the panoply of American Patriots.
A Patriot is a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion (Dictionary.com).
The firefighters, police, military and civilians that ran INTO those buidings and toward danger, demonstrated a love and devotion to their fellow Americans that in truth IS NOT unusual as a function of the American spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion to the ideals that our Founders codified in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. They died so others might live, and there is no higher calling in our society than this.
There are also founding documents of the Kingdom of Heaven that codify the ideals and actions of those that "Keep the Commandments of God, and hold to the testimony of Jesus". Those documents define the Gospel of the Kingdom, and contain the WORDS of God in the Old Testament, and the words of Jesus in the New Testament, that define the brave and selfless behavior of those that are devoted to those words, and love them more than life itself, such that those people of that Kingdom would rather die than go against them. They are the Patriots of the Kingdom of God, that just as those that ran into the buildings 19 years ago, will run toward the sound of the war between Good and Evil, and will triumph in the Truth. Jesus set the standard of courage when He faced down death to give us life, and brought the words of Truth to the world.
Benign Evil~
It is a fact of life that when we get into a routine we tend to ignore things that are outside of our routine. The protests and riots, for example. It has become a daily occurance that we hear about another protest, or worse another riot on the news. After a while this becomes normalized in our consciousness. We see it, but we don't. It's there, but it isn't.
Another example; we hear from time to time about an Amber Alert, where our phones tell us that a child has been abducted or lost, and 'please keep a look our for them'. We get the notice but we never hear the result. We almost never hear what happened to the child. At that point we simply say to ourselves, "That's too bad", and go on with our lives.
This is similar to 'fudging' on our taxes, or telling a 'white lie' in order to cover our butts at work.
These is 'benign evil'. It is below our consciousness, but rises up every once in a while, and then disappears again like the thought you get at the market when you forgot what you came for, because you didn't write it down, and you say "I'll get it next time.. This kind of evil doesn't impact your life so it isn't really noticed.However, there is going to come a time when there is no "Next Time". There is evil manifesting in the world today that is anything but benign. Evil that is so heinous that you would throw up if you saw the result of it's presence. Our lifestyles, and indeed our religions have put us in a state where we don't react to the presence of evil as God will soon require. We are not prepared for battle on an enormous scale simply because we have ignored the training that the words of God in the Old Testament and the words of jesus in the New Testament can give us.
Those that claim that they are in the army of God need to awaken to the fact that evil is never benign!
Metamorphosis~
In perusing Facebook this morning I was accosted by a meme that was stunning in its implications:
"The metamorphosis of Jesus from a humble servant of the abject poor to a symbol that stands for gun rights, prosperity theology, anti-science, limited government (that neglect the destitute), and fierce nationalism is truly the strangest tranformation in human history."
There is so much wrong with this statement, beginning with the initial premis that Jesus came to be a servant of the abject poor. The initial statement that Jesus came to be a servant of the abject poor does not fit with His own words seen in John 18:37. Jesus never inserted Himself or His message into the government or it's function. Jesus never insisted that the Roman government take care of the poor and needy. Jesus DID say that His servants were to do that. Jesus never conflated the role of government with what He said or did, or insisted that governments should function as an arm of the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of the Heavens is a kingdom of the Spirit (John 3) NOT a kingdom of this world. Not yet!
And this is where those that consider themselves in the Kingdom of God today have a problem of identity that prevents them from seeing the truth.
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John 3:5.
One person in responce to this meme said categorically declared that if Jesus was alive today on earth He would be a Democratic Socialist. But everything Jesus taught shows that this is not only not true but it borders on blaspheme. This is how far down the spiritual identity of the world has fallen that there are those that insist that if Jesus was here right now He would be just like them, instead of them becoming just like Him.
Spirit os everything, the physical means nothing.
The Checklist for Truth~
Truth can be amorphous, sometimes indistinct and slippery. You might hear a political candidate say something and claiming it is true, but it just doesn't feel right. A friend posts something on social media that piques your curiosity, and you know this person would never purposely lie to you, but you just aren't sure of his source, so you check it and find that it cannot be verified. So how do you KNOW what is true, or not?
There is a checklist for truth, a proceedure and process that allows you to know for certain that what you believe is the truth. Information-Knowledge-Wisdom-Truth!
Truth is Singular and Absoliute! Truth contains NO lies, falsehoods, obfuscations, or deceptions. God says this about the people that have truth in them, "And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless." (Rev.14:5). To find and define truth a person needs wisdom.
Wisdom is the assessment of knowledge. Wisdom comes through the understanding and colating of the disparate elements of a topic and finding the underlaying connections. Wisdom is the gatekeeper of Truth!
Knowledge comes through the learning of and sifting of copious amounts of data and deciding what is verifiable and what is unreliable.
Information is the data from which the basis of all knowledge is formed. GIGO-garbage IN, garbage OUT is the term that is used to describe the idea that poor quality input will always produce faulty output. If the source of the information that you use to develope your knowledge of a subject is faulty the knowledge itself will be useless.
At every stage of the development and discovery of truth there must be basic elements that are wholly reliable and uncorrupted by lies. Only Jesus speaks these words. He IS Truth!
Life and Prosperity~
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live." Deut. 30:19.
The distinction between the political Left and the Right has never been more clear than it has become in the past few months. It truly seems that "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (Comedy/Adventure movie-1963), when mayors and Governors have given their cities and states over to the wild mob, who are rioting and looting under the guise of 'peaceful protest'. And when the President of the United States say that he would be happy to send officers into these places to quell the situation he is rejected out of hand and called a racist by these same leaders who will not stop the protests on their own. The founding principles of the Republic of the USA are being erroded by people that do not believe that they should be held accountable for their actions in breaking the laws of the land in order to get their way.
Since the beginning of this year over 5 million people in the United States have become NEW gun owners, because they are scared that these riots my come to their towns, and they want to be prepared.
"But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth;" John 4:23.
This distinction between the Left and Right also is shown in end time prophecy as well, in that there are both Life Road and Death Road prophecies that will affect what happens at the end of time based upon what the people of the world choose. If the world follows the rioters and looters, we will head into the abyss of death and destructon where the prophecies of Revelation 13 and the 7 Trumpets and 7 Bowls of Wrath will play out. BUT IF we choose LIFE we will see a time on earth of prosperity and peace. That Choice is near, even at the door.
Things change~
One of the axioms of life is that 'nothing stays the same'. No one likes change, especially in the realm of ideas. Older people don't like change any more than do younger people, they just have had their noses rubbed in it more often and for a longer time, and have become used to the idea that 'nothing stays the same'. The young rail at change; the older people just thumb their nose at it and move on.
But WHAT IF the change that you see coming is SO radical, so uncomfortable, so unusual, that the result would be both awful and beautiful at the same time. This change would turn your whole life upside down, by challenging how you view God, Salvation, the Bible, and End Time Prophecy so much so that you are terrified and excited at the same time. This is the type of change that we here at Spirit of Truth Ministry are proposing as a new reality.
What IF the prophecies of the end where we see Death and Destruction turn to Life and Prosperity; where a single choice that we as humanity will make will change Darkness to Light, spiritual and physical poverty into prosperity, where the ultimate outcome will not include the horror of Satan ruling this world in fact even for a short time, but where the majority of humanity choose the God of Creation over the God of Destruction, and see a completely new set of prophecies being fulfilled right before our eyes?
Would you be interested in finding out if this could be true? If so, then listen today to our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling. You will be amazed at what you hear, that has been hidden in the Bible in plain sight for hundreds of years, and will CHANGE EVERYTHING!
Left and Right~
There is a question that is ubiquitous in the collective consciousnes of people that are confused about why they see so much violence and mayhem assiciated with society today. That question goes right to the heart of why some people believe that they have no only the right to protest certain actions that have taken place that they feel are irresponsible (which they do, as long as it is peaceful), and also to change those protests into riots, as long as it is for their 'good' cause (which they don't). When viewed in the larger sense the people that riot are claiming they have the right to harm others, and even kill people that they disagree with, because in their minds they FEEL they have been violated emotionally, and the people that did this to them deserve to be punished, even though the violation took place hundreds of years ago.
This issue can be summed up in a statement made by Rick Sterling years ago, that was made in relation to the issue that we must "Live by Faith" to be saved, and is seemingly not related to what is going on in the body politic today. Here it is:
"Faith allows a person to BELIEVE as LIE as if it is the TRUTH, without ACCOUNTABILITY."
This statement sounds simplistic, but it is profound in it's application, not just in our spiritual/religious lives (which was it's initial purpose), but also in every aspect of our daily lives, including politics.
The Left 'lives by faith', the Right 'lives by FACT'. And based upon the above quote it is simply true. Those that base their paradigms on the idea of emotional victimhood are claiming that everything that is wrong with their lives in the fault of someone else are on the Left.. Those claim responsiblility for their own actions, and don't blame others for their problems and are accountable for those actions are both on and IN the Right.
Censorship~
Our country today is seeing something today that has never been seen before to this great an extent, and that is the open censorship of opposing ideas. This is happening in public discourse on social-media platforms such as Twitter, Youtube and Facebook, and even in the Main Stream News. People will express an opposing point of view to the established and validated version, and their posts, pod-casts, or videos will be pulled off of that platform. Some of the notable selections in this is Praeger U, Candice Owens, or anyone that tellls the truth when faced with blatant lies.
Jesus said that this will happen to anyone that decides for the Truth.
"Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me." Matt. 5:11.
Jesus came to testify to the truth, ALL truth. (John 18: 36-37). Jesus also said that He would send the Holy Spirit to lead us into ALL truth. (John 14:26).
Whenever or where ever Truth is told the evil ones will seek to cause it to appear to be a lie. This is why KNOWING the truth and being able to recognise the lie because of it is so important.
The Truth cannot be censored, because while it is up to us to find and know the truth, it is up to God to see to it that it is made known in the world. Truth that God will deliver the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to a truth starved world.
Acting~
Have you thought about what it would be like to be an actor? Now I know what we mostly see in public about famous actors is their fabulous life styles; the money, cars, houses, and 'hanging' with the A listers. This is the reward for being a successful actor, but it is NOT acting, except in the loosest sense. Having been a child actor (playing roles under age 18) I, as with most actors, have never experience this kind of reward. The reward for good acting is often being associated with a role you have played, where in the public eye you are not yourself, but the personality you created from the script. Actors PLAY a role, they are NOT that role. As a working actor/craftsman if you play a role long enough it often becomes difficult to differenciate between the Character and yourself in reality. It can become very easy, and often more satisfying, to transfer that character to real life, and live the lie! The Greek word for actor is the word Hypocrite, and a hypocrite is a liar.
Actors also play to a script - a story written in excuisite detail, where every spoken word, action, look, makeup, costume, stage set, lighting, and movement (blocking) is defined in written form, in order to create the illusion of reality, the reality of the absurd.
Today we humans are living in that absurd reality, but be think it is real, because it appears to be real. Humanity has been brainwashed into a mind-controlled, mind-numbed robotic lifestyle that mimics realty, but is not. We are actors in a play not of our own creation.
Jesus came to earth to "testify to the truth", that is in the process of bringing us out of this moribund drunken stupor of 'acting' as if we are alive, thatwill set us free from the shackles of automatically choosing Death, Destruction and Curses, and bring us into a world of Light, Life, Blessings and Prosperity. Listen to His words, and choose LIFE!
I read a short article this morning on Facebook that decried the lack of reseach of people that believe whatever is posted on Facebook. I agree wholeheartedly with this concept. Facebook is NOT a valid source for truth. That is not to say that there is no truth promoted on FB, but truth is not the primar reason that people post there. One of the respondents to this article was an associate pastor at the church where I used to attend. He is a brilliant man that has aquired a Ph.D. in religion from a very prestegious seminary, and is considered by his parishoners and friends to be a steady source for truth. He agreed that if you have not done research for yourself, and vetted each and every segment of the truth you are seeing, then you should not believe it to be true until you have done so. He makes a distinction between belief and fact, in that you can believe without facts to back up that believe, and you must view facts without belief until those facts are proven. I agree with him.
Yet this is the same man (knowing him as I do) that believes fully that Paul was a called apostle of Jesus, and that since he appears in the Bible Paul MUST needs be trustworthy and true in what he says about whatever it is that he has written. This pastor uses Paul as a reliable source in his sermons and written material, in order to prove the points that this pastor wants to convey regarding salvation and eternal life.
I was saddened to see that this double standard exists in his mind, and that it and cannot be acknowledged as a problem with regard to defining the truth of salvation, or even in his views as to how Christians must view their relationship to political issues.
We live in a time when even in researching and understanding truth can be plagued with the double standard of pre-existing paradigms, that give people a sense of smug satisfaction and self-assurance that they cannot be fooled, even though they are.
Defunding Truth~
There is a lot of talk today in the news about certain mayors and Governors wanting to 'defund' the poiice. They are doing this at the behest of another group of people that are angry that they cannot achieve a social goal of proving that slavery in one form or another still exists in the modern society of the USA, so they 'protest' and riot in order to advance their particular form of Marxism. Part of this brand of Marxism states that all police are racist by nature, otherwise they would not become police in the first place. This, even though there are lots of police that represent a variety of skin colors, and when injured they all bleed 'blue'.
The real reason that this group (that will here remain nameless) wants to defund police is that it is easier to riot and loot, and take things that do not belong to you when the police are not around to stop you. The job of the police is to see to it that people uphold the LAW. So without the police these groups feel that there will also be no Law. And where there is "no Law there is no violation" of the Law. Where have we heard this before; I wonder:
Rom 4:15 for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.
Paul is an original protestor against LAW. He has brought violence against God into the picture of salvation by declaring that the Law no longer matters as long as you believe that it no longer matters. What we are seeing in 'civil' discourse today is an offshoot of this very idea that the Law is no longer needed in order to keep the wolves from the door. And yet the very people that declare this to be true have become the wolves.
All Law Matters! Defunding the Law brings death!
Except as a Child~
"Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven". Matt. 18:3.
There are two, and only two states of being in the being of a Human Being. These two states have nothing to do with biology, i.e. the gender of that human being, or the biological processes that sustain life, whether male or female. It has nothing to do with the fact that females are said to process information differently than do males; the information still gets processed and used. Jesus understood the identity of this state of being, which is why He made the statement above. The states of being a human are only two; you are either an adult or you are a child.
This is dramatically demonstrated as played out in Portland and Seatle and seen in the difference between a protestor and a rioter. A protestor is someone that has taken a stand either for or against something, and PEACEFULLY gathers with other like minded people to express their views (this is guaranteed in the Constitution of the USA). These people are adults, in that they have a conviction that they wish to make know, and they do so in a way that does no harm to anyone else. They have self-control and accountability.
Then there is a rioter, that can also be either an adult of a child. If they are a child they will lash out physically as an emotional reaction to not getting their way in life, and throw a tantrum that harms others, for which hey don't believe they will be held accountable, and are surprised and get mad when they are arrested. The worst cast is when a rioter is an adult that knows what the are doing, having made the choice to destroy poperty and harm others, either for money or for sheer spite.
Jesus said we must first be converted to the truth, then become as a child to begin to learn it, and become an Adult.
Hot Times~
It is going to be HOT today where I live. We are experiencing a mini-heat wave in SoCal, that will see temperatures in the 103 to 107 deg. range today and tomorrow, and in the high 90's through Tuesday, then cooling slightly. Palm Springs Ca., a town in the desert about 40 minutes to the east of us, will be 116 deg. today, and in the 100's for all of next week. This weather report is brought to you because it is not just the environmental temperature that is on the rise; the temperature of our Culture, politics and religion is also increasing dramatically.
American cities are being burned and looted by people that want to make a statement about their view of the state of our culture here in America, and indeed around the world. Peaceful protests have been co-opted by radical groups with an underlaying agenda that wants to bring down the Constitution of the USA and replace it with the the anarchy of Marxism. Destroying both personal and public property is just the start for these people, who believe that chaos is needed to 'wake up' the world to whom it is that need to be in charge. This is truly a battle between Good and Evil, God and Satan.
An important decision point is on the horizon. Soon 'We The People" must choose whom we will serve. No one is exempt from this choice, because this choice is not just for the soul of our Nation and our world, it is for our very souls, and whether we want to have eternal life, or eternal death. Of course, the rioters don't see it this way. To them there is no choice, just as there is no choice for those in govenment and the private sector that have already chosen to FORCE this world to choose their way, or else.
God does not work this way. THEY want us to be able to make our choice during a time of peace. which is why you can know who is behind the violence and mayhem. We are now in a fight for our very souls. Choose Peace!
Politics and Religion~
My parents taught me that when in a social situation there are two subjects that are forbidden, politics and religion. The reason is that there is no one that doesn't have a heart felt opinion about either one or the other, and you will almost always alienate someone no matter what you say about either. It used be be that you could escape this conundrum by sticking to sports or music, but even these two modes of entertainment are no longer innocuous as they once were. That is because there are now political and PC overtones in both of those subjects that make it nearly impossible to express an opinion about either without causing another person to take umbrage at your position. An example in sports of members of football and baseball teams taking a knee during the National Anthem, or pop musicians making either positive or negative public statements about how the President is running the country. It used to be that sports was an escape from the harsh reality of the world, now it is just another avenue toward that harshness.
We see this also in the world of religion. Instead of the unity of which Jesus spoke in John 17, we see strident opinion about how a person should be 'saved', and if you don't agree you are going to hell. Religion is even more divisive than sports because of the parochial mind set that "my religion is better than your religion!"
When Jesus was here on earth He had to deal with both politics and religion, because then as now both of these imposters are linked together by one overarching identity-they are both 'man-made'. All Truth, in all its forms, comes directly from God. Truth is singular and absolute, and is not subject to the whim of opinion. Fact = Truth, Emotion = opinion. Mankind did not create truth, we can only discover what already exists. Unity with God comes through the words of Jesus which is Truth.
Plum Galette~
Have you ever noticed that the first time you try to make a recipe it does not look like the picture of the recipe in the cook book? This happens to me every time I try something new, as was my experience this week when I made a Plum Galette for the first time. It is not really a complex recipe if you have already learned how to make a single crust pie. The most difficult thing for me was cutting the plums to look as uniform as the picture on the web site where I found the recipe. The plums I was given were wonderful, but not as firm as the ones in the picture, so the end product was more of a plum slurry than individually place pieces. The other thing was that the picture showed the Galette with a beautiful and manicured scalloped top that had a lovely 2 inch edge over the filling. Mine was sort of hodge-podge. Still goood flavor, but nothing to write home about. Today is my second attempt, and I have two Plum Galettes in the oven as I write, getting them ready for the radio program. These turned out much better than my first attempt. Experience and practice makes all the difference.
Learning righteousness is just like making a recipe for the first time, not the best result. But as you learn more and keep practicing the Truth, learning righteousness gets easier, and you become more competent at doing it. Jesus told Nicodemus:
Joh 3:21 "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God."
In order to become Righteous IN FACT we must first understand that it is not only possible to accomplish, but necessary to salvations and eternal life. We must get into the kitchen and learn how to do the recipe. Only then will righteousness become real.
Impersonations~
Rick Little and Jonathan Winters were two of the best impersonators of my era. I remember Rich Little being on the Jonny Carson Show (late night comedy of the 1970's) and acting and sounding more like Jonny than Carson himself. It was amazing, accurate, and hilarious all at the same time. When I closed my eyes I really couldn't tell the difference. Impersonations can be funny, but they can also denigrate the person being impersonated in a very mean spirited way, such as Alec Baldwin on SNL. To me (given my world view) his impersonation of President Trump is not funny, because it reflects a reality that SNL believes to be true, but isn't. Being mean and nasty just for it's own sake is not funny, it is sad and disgraceful.
Another phrase that describes this situation is, "If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck"!
'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. Rev.3:20.
How do we KNOW for sure that the person that is standing at the door in this verse is actually Jesus? After all, Satan is able to masquerade as an angel of light, or even Jesus Himself. Paul was fooled on the road to Damascus because he apparently thought that the being that blinded him was in fact the same Jesus that was here on earth who died on the cross.
How do we know the truth of this?
The reason the sheep know the Shepherd is by His voice, and what He says. Paul never saw Jesus on the road to Damascus, he only heard the voice and assumed the being was who he said he was. We do the same thing when we listen to words that someone said came from Jesus, but we don't know for sure because we haven't learn His words. If we KNOW His words given to His eyewitness disciples we cannot be decieved by an imposter.
The Right Way~
There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Prov. 14:12.
God gives everyone a choice of two roads that they will follow, the Life Road, or the Death Road. No one is exempt from this choice.
Ancient Israel was given this choice two times, and both times they chose the Death Road. The result of their first choice was that they went into captivity in Babylon. The second choice culminated in Jesus removing the trusteeship of the Covenant from them, permanently removing the opportunity for them to be the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 21:43).
We are currently inside the window of opportunity for the USA, and indeed the world, to make a choice as to which prophetic outcome we will recieve. One outcome is the prophetic fulfillments that are seen in Revelation, especially Revelation 13, where Satan is allowed free reign to afflict the world with the horrors that lead to a one-world brutal and overbearing government, that commands complete fealty from the world that is seen in the Mark of the Beast. Yes, God wins, but the pain and suffering is incredible for those that resist, and stay true to God. The other outcome is seen in the revealing of the Seven Thunders in Rev. 10, where John was shown the meaning, but then told to NOT write that meaning down. The Thunders are NEW prophecies that reflect the LIFE Road where God reveals His truth during a time of Peace and Prosperity, instead of Death and Adversity.
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants. Deut.30:19.
Just as God told Israel to "Choose Life", so too will God give us the opportunity to choose a way that will reveal the Truth of God in a totally unlooked for way, a way that will not lead to death. Choose wisely
DYI Repair~
Well, it's fixed. If you read my note yesterday you know that I was in the process of fixing my dishwasher. Rather that paying for a professional repair person to come to the house and fix it I used the knowledge and skill developed over the years to learn how to fix it myself. So I went to the appliance parts house and asked for the thermal fuse I needed in order to affect the repair. I was told by the parts person that there had been a recall/repair notice on my machine years ago regarding this fuse, and I would not only need the fuse but also a new wiritng harness, which I bought. The written directions for making the repair were clear, but until I went to the parts house I didn't know it was necessary. It took under 15 minutes for me to install the new electrical harness and fuse, and when I applied power to the system (always shut off the power then working with electricity) the old control board lite up like a Christmas tree. It works perfectly. Now I am still going to replace the contol panel when I can get it, to make it like new, but until then I have a working dishwasher. Yay!
Salvation is exactly the same. The method of how Salvation really works has been broken, and Christians have been told that they cannot repair their salvation by themselves. They have been told that salvation is way to complex, and that they need a professional savior to do the work for them. Yet Jesus came to earth with the instructions as to how they must make these repairs themselves, and this is called the Process of Sanctification, i.e. the Gospel of the Kingdom. They don't understand that Jesus cannot affect the repairs that will turn sin into righteousness by Himself, for those that simply believe. A person that wants eternal life must take the time to learn DYI Salvation through the words of the Master Teacher (Jesus), who gave these repair instruction to His own eyewitness disciples.
Dishwashing~
Our dishwasher stopped working last Sunday. It just quit. Now I am not one to call a repair man the instant an appliance stops working. My natural reaction is to want to figure out what went wrong and fix it myself. There are two reasons for this; 1) I just love the challeng of the 'hunt' for the solution, and 2) the cost of an in home repair by a certified technician is prohibitive ($150 for the call, credited to the repair). This becomes problematic the more complex the appliance, and dishwashers are notoriously complex, second only to refridgerators. So the next Monday after work I dug into it and discovered that the fasteners for the touch pad control were broken. So even if the control panel was OK I was going to have to replace it. One down. Next, I got out my multi-tester to do continuity checks on the latch switch and also check for input power, and I discovered that it's battery was dead. Oh joy! No worries, I would get one on Tuesday when I went to work. So I ordered a panel from the appliance parts store I use, and was told that it wound be in in 2 weeks. Great. I just LOVE doing dished by hand.
Yesterday I replace the battery in the tester and started the continuity checks. The latch was OK. Power was OK. So what else could the problem be? Oops. I forgot to check the thermal fuse in the dishwasher. Sure enough, it was bad. No fuse, no power. So after our program today I will go get one at the parts store, and put the dishwasher back together with the old panel until the new one arrives. Yay!
Nothing that is electric works without power. Spiritual truth cannot work without power. If the sourse for your spiritual power is disabled, if your spiritual thermal fuse is blown, then you will be left without the power you need to find truth. The multi-tester for truth is the words of Jesus, the power (battery) for truth is the Holy Spirit. Check your battery!
Protest~
There is only ONE country in the world that has the RIGHT innumerated (not granted) under it's Constitution to PEACEFULLY protest, and petition their government for Redress of Grievances, and that country is the U.S.A. Included in the First Amendment is this RIGHT, but that also includes that in order for a protest to be peaceful the protesters cannot bring weapons, otherwise it is not peacful. For the past weeks here in the 'good old US of A' we have seen protests that started out with peaceful intent, but soon turned in rioting, that includes use of weapons, looting, burning buildings, damaging property, and pulling down statues of historic figures. These protests are no longer peaceful. Reaosn plays no part in riots, or in the starting of war.
A long time ago there were begun in Heaven protests against the Ruler of the Universe, lead by a being created by that very Ruler who decided on his own that in order for God to be the 'God of Laws and Order' there should also be a 'god of dis-order without law' to balance out this rule of law, and give other created being the opportunity to choose by whom they would prefer to be ruled. God allow this protest, because all of Their created being have the power of Choice. God tried to reason with this Dark Angel and the others that followed him, and explain that there did not have to be EVIL in the universe in order for God to demonstrate 'Good'. One-third of the Angels followed this Arch-angel, and there was Protest and WAR in the Heavens. Satan and his angels were cast off of the Heavens to this earth. Two-thirds of the Angels chose to follow their Creator.
Now we too are at a crossroad, where our choice is to follow the way of LIFE, peace and prosperity, or choose DEATH and destruction. If two-thirds of the people choose one way we will have LIFE, even though one-third chooses Death.
Progress~
America, and indeed the world, is having a crisis of perfection. We see this crisis manifested in riots and protests that have caused death, destruction, mayhem, and anarchy, because a small faction of 'citizens' have declared that since their countries are not perfect that we must 'burn it all down' and start over in order to achieve equality of result for everyone. What these people are really saying is that must adhere to their idea of perfecton of they will destroy society and remake it in their image.
And on the other side of this argument, and to a lesser degree, we have all heard that even though perfection is an admirable goal "no one can ever be perfect" so we really should not even try to achieve it. It seems that seeking perfection in any endeavor is moot and counter productive because perfection in this world is unattainable.
Is perfection in the physical world is really not possible? Is so, then how was America able to send astronauts to the moon and bring them back? Do your really want to be operated on by a surgeon that is just 'good enough'?
Perfection is an image of reality in the physical world, and it is not possible for humanity to every reach perfection, because entropy plays a big role in how everything turns out. Yet humaity does remarkable things, like going to the moon and back with engineering that is 'just good enough'.
Even in the spiritual realm perfection seems impossible. The Faithful and Sensible Bondservant of Matt. 24:42 is named by Jesus as "good enough" to accomplish his assigned task of "feeding His fellow servants their food at the proper time."
Spiritual perfection must be the goal because Jesus said that we must be perfect in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Yet this perfection is a process through which we learn to become righteous in fact in keeping the Covenant.
Do Not Be Afraid~
In 1776 Thomas Paine gave a speech that encouraged the people of the Colonies to through off the shackles of Britain that started with the iconic phrase, "These are the times that try men's souls." It seems that this is still true today, although if he were alive today he would certainly have said 'the souls of men and women'. In Matthew 24:6 Jesus said, "You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end." And this sentiment has been in this world since Satan took over management even before the incident in the Garden of Eden.
Tdday we have worries such as Covid-19, and riots and social unrest that can be nerve-wracking to say the least, and have put the people of the world in a seemingly untenable position of having to choose sides in a conflict that has taken over the news cycle, and won't leave them in peace.
'Times like these' have been with us since the beginning, one way or the other. Everyone is experiencing undertainty and nervousness, which makes living a normal life less and less likely.
Even Jesus said, "You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end." Matt. 24:6.
But Jesus also said, "It is I; do not be afraid." John 6:20
We do not have to be afraid of the future knowing that Jesus has brought comfort and safety to His people in the past. The world right now is in the process of making a decision that can put us on an alternate path that is seen in the prophecies of Revelation 13. We can choose the 'Life Road' alternative to these 'Death road prophecies by choosing Life through Jesus Christ. God always give us a choice. Choose wisely!
Truth Humbles~
Have you noticed that in the news lately there are a lot of people that are absolutely, positively sure they are RIGHT/correct about whatever it is that they are saying? The reporting of the news has taken on a new identity in that whatever certain people say is reported as fact just because they said it, and other people are dismissed as unworthy of notice simply because the go against prevailing belief. Certain people are being CENSORED on Twitter and Facebook because a 'commitee' has decided that what they have said about a 'hot' topic disagrees with what that committee says is true. What? Truth is being decided by a commitee? So whoever it is that establishes that committee is the person that decides policy? Hmm! This sounds familiar. (Ref. The Spirit of the Church by Sterling and Neufeld-Tate Publishing 2007.)
Truth has to be based in FACTS, otherwise it cannot be truth. We are being led to believe today that unless you feel a certain way about a certain topic, whether political, religious or social) you cannot take part in pubic discourse. If your feelings are hurt by someone because they believe differently than you then itis YOUR fault and you must change your belief. This is not the way it used to be.
Facts are Truth/Truth is Fact! Facts don't care how you feel, facts simply ARE! An arrogant person will express his belief in a lie with certainty, and if you don't believe his way you are automatically wrong.
Jesus in His parable/prophecy in Matt. 7:24-27 spoke of Truth as a house built on a Rock. If your house of belief is built on the lies of sand you will have not stability, and your house will fall. If you build your house of understanding on the rock of Truth, the words of Jesus will be complete.
Peace in the time of Turmoil ~
Turmoil and rage are not unique to our time. These two 'imposters' have reared their ugly heads from time to time throughout the history of the human race, from Cani and Abel to Covid-19 and the current rioting of Antifa and BLM. There is an underlaying identity that causes people to lash out in reacton to events outside of their control (seemingly), and that is implacable frustration. When people as individuals or in groups feel that their voices are not being heard there is at times a premature reaction whereby they decide to vent their frustrations by physical means, not caring whether that venting hurts the innocent as well as the guilt. Cain murdered Abel because he felt that God unfairly rejected him, and chose Abel over him. It turns out that this killing was unjustified simply because Cain's sacrifice had nothing to do with being a Lamb over produce; it was that Cain's sacrifice was of inedible and second rate produce, while Abel's sacrifice was a perfect Lamb. Had Cain's given the 'firstfruits' of his produce his sacrifice would certainly have been accepted by God. He became frustrated over this, and killed his brother as a reaction.
The peacful protestors have their frustrations under control, but the rioters don't, and are willing to harm others to 'get their way'. This is the difference between adults and children - adults can handle frustration, children can't.
When we are given access to truth, reject it out of hand, and react with frustration to the person bringing it to us by lashing out at them, we are behaving as spoiled children that do not get their way. But if we become 'as a child' that is hungry for learning of truth, humble ourselves and learn, God will give to us the understanding of His words through the Holy Spirit, and we will have peace.
I found this today on Facebook:
Deuteronomy 24:16 says that no man can die for another man's sins. How come Jesus died for my sins?"
This is a GREAT question that actually plagues Christians that actually THINK about their salvation, rather than just feeling that they are 'saved by faith through grace'. This question was asked on a forum, where lots of people gave their impressions and understanding as to how salvation truly works. Most of the answers reflect the consistent Christian identity that is found in the writings of Paul. Doing this is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline. Most cited texts were from Ephesians, Galations, Corinthians and Acts. one text was cited from Matthew. Others from Mark and Luke were also used. One person referred to the Passover Lamb.
But NO ONE referenced the Kingdom of Heaven as having anything to do with salvation and eternal life. This shows that Christian don't have a clue as to how salvation really works, and what Jesus said about how to achieve it.
My responce was as follows:
"Jesus DID NOT die for the personal sins of individuals. He died for the FORGIVEN sins of the Kingdom of Heaven, which is His kingdom on earth. The idea of the forgiveness of personal sins comes from (guess who) Paul. Jesus never taught this concept. Jesus taught 'the gospel of the Kingdom' that says that in order to gain eternal life a person must be INSIDE the Kingdom of Heaven. To do that a person MUST (in simplest terms) "Keep the Commandments of God, and hold (only) to the testimony of Jesus" (Rev. 12:17). The Kingdom of God has the requirement (given at Sinai) to OBEY the 10 Commandments, which is the Covenant of the Kingdom seen in Deut. 4:13."
In order to learn how to enter the Kingdom of the Heavens we MUST learn the truth that can only come from knowing the words of Jesus that He taught to His own disciples.
I am going to take a slightly different tack in my comments today, because of a rather pessimistic article I read that details why the author thinks that Unity in the USA and in the world can and will never happen.
He laments the loss of our central identities as Americans that have traditionally united us, even though we are the most dirvers country in the world. You can find the article Walsh on Daily Wire. I will link it below.
My response to this article was the following:
I do not take such a pessimistic viewpoint as does this author, for one reason; Donald J. Trump! If HRC had won the 2016 election we would not only be in the situation as described by Walsh, but we would be right in the middle of the horror described in Revelation 13-nearing a one world totalitarian government, where all freedoms are removed, and the Central world government controls all aspects of life. As it is, by his election Pres. Trump has derailed the Death Road scenario in the prophecies not only in Revelation but in Daniel 2, 10 and 11, and we are in the process of realizing the Life Road scenario that God has always given in prophecy, where if we make the right choices we will achieve Prosperity and Peace. Seeing this situation, the Left in this country and the world is participating in a 'last gasp' effort to bring about and manufacture the fulfillment of the Death Road prophecies by any and all nefarious means at their considerable disposal. This is tragic, but it won't work IF we as a people recognize the value of acknowledging the God of Creation in continuing down the Life Road by electing and supporting the people that are acting on behalf of the King of the Kingdom of the Heavens, even if they don't know it. We the People have this choice between Life and Death, Blessings and curses, Prosperity and Adversity. Choose wisely!
We can change the outcome of prophecy IF we make the right choice!
Never Never Land~
We are now living in Never Never Land. Whether you live in America, or anywhere else in the world, it appears that the worst of fiction writing has come to pass in real life. You can't make this up!
Those of us that have lived in the 50's, 60's, and 70's would never have believed it if someone told us that we would live in a time when every cultural norm in which we grew up (for good or ill) would be turned upside-down. It is my belief that this all started when the idea of mothers and fathers rearing children together in a household where dad went to work and was able to provide for the family so that mom could stay home and take care of the household. The movie "The Christmas Story" reminds me of how this used to work. Today, mothers and fathers (in whatever configuration that applies) both work full time jobs just to make ends meet, and the day-care facility rears your children for you.
Never Never Land.
No one thought to not call the police when you needed them; and they came quickly, and dealt with the situation efficiently, effectively, and with respect for all parites. Today, for many in our society this perspective has changed dramatically, even though for the most part most policing is that same as the past. Now cities are 'defunding' the police, and are willing to let their citizens police themselves.
Never Never Land.
Jesus came to this earth to teach the truth about how to live in a world gone mad, and maintain our perspective on what it means to be both human and divine.
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life". John 6:63.
If we live in this world we will always live in "Never never land". Never knowing peace, Never knowing truth, Never knowing God.
His words bring truth and peace.
D-day~
Seventy-six years ago today thousands of young men of the Allied Expeditionary forces climbed into open top landing craft from troop transport ships , and moved toward the beaches along the French coast at Normandie. Well trained and prepared German troops were ready to defend against this invasion, and when these LCP's (Landing Craft Personel) hit the beach thousand of these young men took their last steps and last breaths as the steel ramps dropped and machine guns and artillery from the German gun emplacements decimated these young men, killing and wounding thousands. This did not stop them. Along the beaches designated Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword, fierce fighting on both sides occurred, with the determined invasion force finally overcoming the stiff defenses of the Germans, and the invasion of the European Continent commenced.
Six months later my mother's first husband, Maj. Thomas Harris (324th Infantry Regiment, 44th Division), was killed on the border of France and Germany near Hottviller on Dec. 13, 1944.
All of us have been touched by the horror and sadness of war, in one way or another. And yet, we all recognize the pride and commitment that these young men that fought in War II (and other conflicts through the ages) had in giving of themselves the "last full measure of devotion" (re: Lincoln) to an idea and ideal that was greater than themslves. We are facing the same things today, but with different issues that contend in our souls.
The battle between Truth and Lies is still present not only in society and culture, but in our minds and hearts, our intellect. No other time in history has this been more apparent than now, but not in the way you think. Jesus knew there would be a time at the end such as this, where physical battle would mask an intense spiritual battle between Truth and Lies. Jesus came "to testify to the Truth". Will you listen?
Surprise Ending~
All of us have read a book or watched a movie that had a surprisingly sad twist to the ending that we didn't see coming. Murder mysteries where the butler didn't do it. Movies such as La La Land where at the end the boy didn't get the girl. Where the person that you thought would end up the hero became the goat. Sad endings often are more poigniant than happy endings that are predictable and cliched, and often hold our interest long enough to want to see what happens at the end of the story, rather than putting to book down early and going to bed.
For me, being an incurable optimist, I love story lines that lead me to believe that the protaganists will not end up 'happily ever after', yet at the end there is a 'twist of fate' that allows at least one of the main characters to end up in that 'happily ever after' state of being, even though another main character had to sacrifice their own life to allow that to happen. (A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickins comes to mind).
Not surpisingly, recently our studies here at Spirit of Truth Ministry are now leading me to believe that the events listed in the prophecies of Revelation that involve the sadness and horror of the Seven Trumpets and Seven Bowls of Wrath that have humans dying by the millions, with blood flowing up to the height of the bridle of a horse, and creatures coming up out of the abyss with tails like stingers tormenting those that take the Mark of the Beast, and The Angel of the Abyss mudering the Two Witnesses in the Street of the Great City, may NOT have to occur.
But how can this possibly happen? Don't all prophecies of the end have to be fulfilled before Jesus can come in the clouds? Well, maybe not. Maybe there is a prophecy in Revelation 10 that gives humanity an 'out', if they decide to choose the Life Road instead of death? Can the ending change?
RIOT~
The death of a man in Minnesota due to how police officers conducted the arrest, and the fallout from that death is tragic, and shows how close is the distance between civilization and anarchy. It appears that the police officers making the arrest went outside of the law in suppressing the person being arrested, resulting in his death, and the reaction of certain members of the populaion of Minnesota (and other states) in breaking the law by rioting, demonstrates the importance of obedience to Laws designed to protect the public from looters and unconstitutional activity that can cost both additional lives and property damage. When Law becomes less important than emotions and feelings society can break down with tragic results.
Emotions are tricky things. Decisions made while in a highly emotionsl state can cause unintended consequenses that reverberate through a community for a long time, and can change the outcomes for eternity. Allowing emotions to dictate decisions have cause untold damage not only to property, but to friendships, business partnerships, and marriages. When a person gets 'worked up' over a situation that has gotten out of control any decision that they make will have a component of insecurity that can cause the mind to spiral into chaos.
Adam and Eve experienced this in the Garden, when Satan created an emotional environment where they began to doubt the motives of God. Both Eve and then Adam seccumbed the emotion of the moment, and look what that produced.
Laws must be recognized and administered outside of emotion or there can be no safe result for either society or for the Kingdom of the Heavens. We are secure in Salvation when we recognize the value of obedience to the Covenant of the Kingdom. The Laws underwhich God wants us to operate free us from the tyrrany of sin, and set us free to do and be the people that will advance the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
Blinding Light~
Lets say that you are a professional house thief, a good one! You are very careful as to the areas in which you work, and the types of houses you burgle. You 'case' the joint thoroughly, and do a recon of the property, making sure there are no dogs or alarms to deal with, and know if the residents will be home or away when you break in and enter the house. After you are inside the house you have your routine as to what you are looking to steal, and where it is. You want to spend as little time as possible inside the house and on the property as possible, in order to minimize the chance of something going wrong and being caught.
You have disabled the alarm by cutting the power; your eyes had adapted to the darkness as you have made your way silently through the house in the pitch dark, filling your list, and have taken a variety of expensive and important objects by using a dimmed flash light, and placed them in your satchel. You have moved silently upstairs onto a landing, listening for the slightest sound that is out of place as you move down the dark hall way.
Suddenly, you hear the soft squeek of a floorboard, and you freeze in place, eyes wide looking intently down the hall. Then, out of the dark comes the clack/click of a gun slide, and a piercingly painful bright light hits your eyes, blinding you. A quiet, calm voice says, "Please, don't move, or I WILL shoot you!"
You don't know who this person is, you don't know the kind of gun he is holding, and you don't care. All you know is that you believe him. You don't move because you are terrified, and you wait.
This is like what Saul/Paul experienced on the road to Damascus. He was blinded by the light of a being that he didn't see, didn't know. He heard a name and believed because he felt threatened and terrified. How would Paul know who it was? He didn't!
Masks~
One of the things that tells us that life is no longer the same is the fact that with the Covid-19 situation comes the idea that to be safe when we go into publc spaces wes need to wear a mask. A few weeks ago the CDC issued a directive that anyone working in an essential business, and everyone that goes to and essential business MUST wear a mask in order to 'flatten the curve'. This is so that the number of people that get gravely ill from the virus will not overwhelm the hospital systems to the extent that there would not be enough beds, respirtators, and PPE to support their care. Well, we did flatten the curve to such an extent that, with a few exceptions, no one that actually died from Covid-19 did so without having recieved adequate care.
And now it has come out from both the head of the CDC and the Surgeon General that healthy adults that are not sick with any virus or infection should not wear masks because doing so can actually harm lung function.
So should we wear a mask in public in order to not make other people uncomfortable, or not wear a mask so we as individuals can stay healthy. A conundrum for sure.
The other thing masks do is hide faces from view. Interestingly, the number of shoplifting incidents at the hardware store where I work has risen precipitously, simply because theives feel safe taking things without paying because they KNOW they can get away with it, and there is nothing the store can do to stop them.
There is a mask that is used by Christians to try to steal salvation from God. That mask is called "Salvation by Grace through Faith". It causes a person to be able to 'believe a lie as if it is the truth, without accountability'! What these 'believers' don't realize is that God can see through their masks, and see the unforgiven sin these people still carry. God will hold them accountable unless they remove the mask.
"Next"~
At one point in my life I was in marketing/sales of life insurance. As with all jobs, and even though I ended up NOT making this my lifetime career, the experience was valuable in several ways. One way that it was valuable was that I learned that I was not cut our to be in such a 'cut-throat' business. Another was that I learned that I could actually succeed in something I in which I had no natural interest, as I was rather good at it. But the most important thing I learned in the approximately 4 years I spent doing life/health insurance (including getting my license, and getting a section 6 and 66 investments license) was that the most important thing anyone in direct personal sales can learn is the word "Next".
Most everyone at some point in their lives needs life insurance, just as everyone needs a car. And just as with car sales, insurance sales comes with a ubiquitous stigma that is attached to the person doing it. The success rate is very low for both of these endeavors, which necessitates a thick skin, and the ability to accept rejection on a massive scale. The more rejection, the more success. This is where the word "Next" come in. As soon as you recieve a rejection you must say to yourself - "Next", and search for another client.
'Truth' is also a commodity that everone needs, but not everyone is ready to confront head on when you make your 'approach'. Being rejected in the desemination of Truth is not a stigma, it is simply a fact of life. As a Bondservant of Jesus, it IS your job to present the truth of Salvation to everyone that expresses an interest. It is NOT your job to try to force them to hear what you say, that is the job of the Holy Spirit. If they recoil when you preseht the truth your job is to let them go, trust the Holy Spirit will lead them to it, and say to yourself, Next!
Truth in the Age of Corona Virus~
All Truth is valid information, but all information is not true! And this has been proven time and again in the dissemination of information coming out of the mouths of those that are supposed to know the truth about Covid-19 and how to deal with the pandemic. Conflicting information is the order of the day, and it is very difficult for a layman to know what is true and what isn't, even though lives depend on this information. Various 'experts' have differing 'takes' on the What, Where, How and Why of dealing with things like face masks, (anti-) social distancing, mitigation, vaccines, respirators, treatments, quarantines, opening the economy, and lots of other information that we need to know to define our response, Where do we find truth in the age of the Corona Virus? No one to whom I have spoken is saying that Truth in this regard does not matter; NO ONE!
As important as the truth of this situation is to define, this 'truth' is only applicable to our temporal and finite form in our time in the here and now. After all (to put it bluntly) we all want to live a happy, productive and LONG life here on earth, but if we live long enough we will all die one day. No one gets out of this earthly life alive.
If the Truth about the here and now is important, then what about Eternal Truth? We most often don't think about the importance of this truth as often as we do the more worrisome truth of our daily lives. Yet eternity is a much longer time frame (should time even matter) than 'now', and deserves at least a passing consideration, yet we get caught up in daily life so thoroughly that it most often 'slips our minds'. God knows what we need to live both here, and there.
"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." Matt. 6:28
Be Well, Stay Safe~
There is a greeting for our current Covid-19 world situation that reflects the mind set of the population, it is "Stay Safe"! I hear it at the hardware store where I work part time, i hear it from the cashier at Stater's Market as I leave with my groceries, or when I am at George's German Market buying some great German coffee, or a cabinosi. It has become a ubiquitous farewell that says that we care about each other, and want the other person to 'live through it'! I have even gone so far as to add the phrase "Be Well" in front of "Be Safe", which accounts for my concern for their mental and emotional well being, as well as their physical being.
But I have been thinking about the ramifications of what "Be Well, Be Safe" actually implies, and I have decided to just say "Be Well" and no longer say "Be Safe". That is because the expression of "Be Safe" means that safety of our physical being takes precedence over everything else in our lives, including our hard won freedoms that are innumerated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA.
It is becoming more clear by the day that the people of the United States (and of the world) are tired of their rights being abrogated simply to satisfy some 'guidelines' that may or may not be working. Safety comes at a deep cost, and that cost is often more expensive than it is worth.
Salvation also comes with a deep cost. Christians believe that 'cost' has already been paid by Jesus on the cross for their personal sins. Christians feel 'safe' in this knowledge, but that safety is an illusion. Gaining safety through 'salvation by grace' comes the loss of the freedom of Salvation that Jesus taught His own disciples. To gain salvation you must learn and practice obedience to the Covenant of the Kingdom.
Inconvenience~
The most annoying issue involving COVID-19 and my personal perspective is the inconvenience generated by all of the protocols that have been issued by the various levels of civil governments, and the petit-demagoguery of certain Governors and Mayors that are excersizing an inordinate over reach of power by taking political advantage of the situation.
Our rights as guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights have been supplanted by the fear of an illness that has been portrayed in the media as 'evil', and if we don't defeat it it will kill us all. This, even though when viewed from a purely statisical and medical viewpoint is no worse, or even less deadly for the vast majority of the population than the yearly flu.
No matter, we are now in a vast pandemic the likes of which have not been seen since the Dark Ages (according to the MSM), and has shut down the economies of the world, putting millions of people out of work, and destroying countless lives and fortunes.
And yes, I do take this personally. I resent the intrusion into my private life by a system that allows this to happen, simply because those 'in the know' don't want to allow the truth of how all of this works to be broadcast to the masses. If they did allow the truth to come out panic would subside, and people would be able to get on with their lives, unabated by fear of the unknown.
In the same way our rights under the Covenant/Constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven have been supplanted by the lies of the Prince of this World, causing Christians to panic when they are told that they must DO something as individuals in order to guarantee their salvation under that Covenant. This is way too inconvenient for them to believe, preferring the idea of Grace to the idea of accountability for their actions. Truth IS inconvenient, and is not popular.
Paranoid~
"Just because people THINK you are paranoid does NOT mean that someone is NOT out to get you."
This statement is a 'truism'. And in today's Covid-19 climate this statement applies to many people, more often than not. What is true and what is not is lost in the clutter of conflicting 'facts' about the WHAT, WHERE, WHY AND HOW of the pandemic. People are posting all sorts of weirdness on Facebook about how much of what the governments of the world are saying is actually true, and how we should react to to, adjust to, and deal with the virus in our daily lives. Is all of this real, or is it a HOAX? And WHY and for what purpose would people in power deliberately give out false information to people that just want to live and be well? Many people can't believe that anyone, or any country, would be so callous and heartless as to perpetrate a wide spread virus on the world in order to take down an entire economy and infrastructure as we have in the modern world in such a way as to make fear the order of the day.
The idea of a Grand Hoax is that the identity of it is so implausable as to be absurd, but the underlying facts ARE true. And if you broach the idea of this grand hoax in public YOU are deemed to be paranoid, and are then written off as a nutcase.
This is true in the world of religion as well. Who would possibly believe that one of the worlds great religions, Christianity, was founded on a Grand Hoax by the respected 'apostle' Paul, and was set up in such a subtle way by Satan as to mute and disrupt the flow of information about how salvation really functions, that Jesus brought to earth from His Father, making that information seem harsh and heartless, and something a loving God would never do? Pointing out this hoax makes a person a paranoid fool in the eyes of the sincere believer.
Lizards~
About a year ago my wife and I were adopted by a neighbor cat named Sparky. We already had three cats and two dogs, and frankly didn't need another feline mouth to feed. But this was immaterial to this absolutely cute and adorable cat. A modification of Shakespeare's immortal words in the play Julius Caesar, "She came, She saw, She conquered." So now she is a member in good standing (excluding our black and white cat Boo) of our family, and has even been accepted by Maggie our Min-Pin.
There were, however a few things we did not know about Sparky until she took up permanent residence in our household, the most annoying of which (according to my lovely and gracious wife) is that she loves to hunt for lizards in our yard, and then bring them in through the cat door that allows entry into Becky's bathroom, and hence into the house. So far they have nearly always been alive when this happens, and this REALLY upsets Becky, especially if I am at work and not able to capture the creature and deposit it back outside.
We can't be mad at Sparky, because she is only doing what 'comes naturally'. Cats are hunters by nature and are programmed by that nature to share their 'kills' with their 'family'. This is always inconvenient when it involves either dead or (especially) live prey.
In a similar way to cats humans are also programmed by their natures and time-modified genetics toward sinning. Yet unlike animals we humans have the ability to change our natures and the genetic tendencies of our intellects to be able to "practice truth in order to come to the Light" (John 3:19-21) so that we may have eternal life. To DO this we MUST know what is the truth. It is crucial to have a standard of Truth that is reliable and Singular and Absolute. This Truth is found in the Words of Jesus that He gave to His disciples.
Freedom or Safety~
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety". - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." (John 8:31-32)
The message is simple, yet profound in both civil and spiritual life: becoming and staying free always comes at a cost.
The world is seeing this play out right before our eyes every day. More and more freedom is being taken away from the people of America and the world because our governments are saying that by doing this we will be more safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly every aspect of our lives are being controlled by 'executive orders', that have no strength of actual law behind them, and in fact abrogate existing laws, and even our (USA) Constitution. We are told that this is "for our own good".
In the USA 26 million people have been put out of work because keeping the community 'safe' from this virus is more important than keeping out economy up and running. And herein lays the 'law of unintended consequenses'; that in order to keep safe from one thing we are told we must give up another. And now these out-of-workers must begin to rely on the government for their livelyhoods. Freedom is gone and replaced by safety.
Jesus said that if we wish to know truth we must first become His disciples. But in doing this we will most certainly put ourselves in great physical and spiritual jeopardy. Satan HATES truth, and when we decide FOR truth Satan will come down on us 'like a ton of bricks', and try to prevent us from finding it. Satan knows that if we find the truth that Jesus brought from the Father then he will die forever. Truth is not safe, but it is LIFE!
Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today at 10AM PT for our flagship program The Bible On Trial. Rick, Dennis, Don and Larry will be continuing to discuss issues involving a new concept of the prophecy of the end of time, and also how the 'apostle' Paul has changed the Gospel of the Kingdom as taught by Jesus to His own eyewitness disicples, into his private 'gospel of God'. This program tests what is said by Paul and others in the New Testament with the very words of God in the Old Testament, and the words of Jesus in the New Testament, to see whether there are conflicts. This is a fascinating study, and you will be glad you joined the discussion.
Thy Will Be Done~
Years ago I had a massive heart attack. I was 58 years old, and the day before my heart attack I was at the gym on the Stair Master going like gang-busters. I did not know that at any moment I could have had a heart attack right then and died on the spot.
One of the most poigniant memories i have of that day was that whan I was laying on my lawn with an elephant sitting on my chest, with my head on my daughter's lap, waiting for the ambulance to arrive, and listening to her voice telling me to not close my eyes, while she was on the cel-phone with the 911 dispatcher. It was a LONG 10 minute wait for fire/rescue to show up. In the midst of the pain, and all that was going on around me I remember saying only one very short prayer; Father, thy will be done! That was it. At that moment I was too busy listening and consentrating on the voice of my daughter, then listening to the voices of the emergency personel as they prepared my for transport, to go into a lengthy discourse with God as to why He should save my life.
I didn't even think about trying to 'reason' with God as to my need to stay alive in order to see my daughter be graduated from high school, or my son from University. I didn't go into why my wife needed me to mow the lawn and cook dinner, or how much my friends would miss me. Nope! I was busy trying not to die, and all I had time for was one short, heartfelt prayer. And that was enough.
As we have all now been made aware with this COVID-19 issue life can turn from being 'normal' into something that we have never had to deal with before. When we are not in our comfort zones, and in a world we don't recognize and don't want anything to do with. we need to already prepared in the truth, because then all we will have to fall back on is the knowledge, understanding and wisdon where we can just say, "Thy will be done".
Re-opening~
The world has been closed down by COVID-19. The economic and social disaster generatied by this virus is incalculable. Everything has changed, and nothing will be the same. We will be living under a new set of rules that will affect every aspect of our lives, as the governments of the world begin the process of reopening their economies. As a result of these economic and social changes there are many people that are looking to lay the blame on China for the death and economic destruction caused by this virus, that even if not released on purpose as a bio-weapon was the epicenter of the start of the virus going out into the world, and that China should be held responsible and be made to pay reparations. How this would work I have no clue.
I do know that the truth of this will eventually be made plain, just as I know that the truth of who is ultimately responsible for sin entering the world will also be made clear. Truth Will Out!
I also know that this pandemic has caused many of my friends and co-workers to begin to think seriously about their spiritual lives, seeing how fragile life can be. I have also seen that those people that believe that they have a strong understanding of the truth of how salvation works are more at peace that those that don't. Even if they are wrong about salvation, they don't know they are wrong, and are therefore less likely to worry.
Reopening the country/countries is necessary in order to put people back to work, and renew economic growth. But reopening the intellect to see and understand what IS truth, and what is not the truth about how salvation works is even more important. While there are temporary economic consequenses for one, there are massive eternal consequences for the other. Right now we are being given a unique opportunity to share the Truth about God with our world. Let's not waste it!
Essential Services~
The COVID-19 'Pandemic' has shut down most of the business in the world (except for China-don't get me started). In the USA the President and Congress have passed a 'rescue' package for the country that will hopefully tide over individuals and businesses long enough such that we can get past this problem and get back to a semblence of normal (whatever that will look like).
In the midst of this situation there are certain buisnesses that have been deemed 'essential', and are staying open in order to keep society operating; groceries, gas stations, pharmacies and the like. I work at a local hardware store (my retirement job) that is 'essential', because we supply nearly everything that is needed to keep a household running. And we are subject to all of the new laws that require face masks, gloves, hand washing and sanitizing, and cleaning of surfaces that will keep both the employees and customers safe when the shop at our store. Not only is the store 'essential', but so are the laws that we must obey in order to stay open.
The Kingdom of the Heavens is essential to salvation; you must be INSIDE this Kingdom in order to be saved into eternal life. In order to gain entry into this Kingdom (the sheepfold) you must come in through the door, which is obedience to the Covenant or Laws of that Kingdom, the 10 Commandments (Deut.4:13). If you try to gain entry by coming over the wall, a would a thief, you are trying to get in without that obedience, and you will be through out (Matt. 22).
Obedience to the Covenant is the 'essential service' that you must provide to the Kingdom of the Heavens and its King in order for you to be where you need to be to be saved.
"If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love". John 15:10.
Cabin Fever~
For many of us during this time of COVID-19 staying at home and away from people can be a very difficult proposition. We are "stuck" with our family members and unable to move about our lives unencumbered by 'social' distancing (it is actually anti-social, if you aske me). The stress and strain can be mind boggeling, and can lead to uncharacteristic interactons that when viewed later are regretable. This is the result of being cloistered, that is "being kept away from the outside world". Often in our modern world this can lead to the emotional reaction listed above, which can be defined as 'Cabin Fever'!
A 'Cloister' is actually defined as a monastary or nunnery, and for the religious separatist this is a good thing. A nun or a Friar spends their life in solitary isolation, praying, meditating and for the most part working silence. For most of us this would be an intollerable life, but for some people that are heavily introverted this can be heaven.
Humans are not designed by God to be solitary. At the very least we are designed to live in partnership with our spouse, and develop relationships inside and outside of marriage that allow us to gain a picture of God that is defined by unity, as seen in John 17, the Pastoral Prayer of Jesus. It is very difficult to develope unity of spirit when you have no physical contact or close interaction with those you love.
Take heart in the fact that our current solitary life will eventually give way to a more dynamic interaction, both human and heavenly. We can now see how important having other people in our lives is, and we will never again take our family, friends and even strangers for granted.
As we cherish these current moments of solitude, as did Jesus when He went off by Himself to pray, let us also cherish the unity that the Holy Spirit brings in the fellowship of the discovery of Truth.
Masks~
Yesterday (April 3, 2020) the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) issued a revised directive that now says that everyone that goes into a public place must wear a face mask in order to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Previous to this directive they had stated that as long as you stayed outside of a 6 foot radius from others in the community you did not have to wear a face mask, as it did little good. The CDC also said not to wear an N-95 mask, as these masks should be reserved for medical professionals working with infected patients. It seems that under pressure from non-medical people the CDC changed their original understanding of the efficacy of wearing non N-95 masks in a non clinical envirionment. The idea is that if you treat yourself as if you have the virus by wearing a mask you will prevent someone else from getting the virus should you cough, sneeze, or even breath on them.
The idea is that by using a non-medical mask you will help others feel safer about being in public with you, even if it does little or no good in either preventing someone from getting the disease from you, our from you giving the disease to someone else.
There is a 'mask' in the Bible that the Christian church has adopted that helps church members FEEL better about their salvation. By putting on this mask that they can hide behind, they FEEL safe in the assumption that 'grace' will save them into eternal life as long as they believe that their sins do not count against them, and they feel protected from the ravages of these sins, which they believe have been forgiven by the blood of Jesus, and all of this by faith. The mask of the gospel of God that the apostle Paul has provided gives them confidence that as long as they SAY they love Jesus they are saved.
Masks hide reality!
Memory~
All memory is attached in our minds via emotion! There are certain things that become ingrained in our memorites, for both good or ill, because each of those memories were put in our minds by being attached to an emotion that was either good or bad. It really doesn't matter the source of the emotion, as long as it is a strong enough emotion of the moment, it can attach any kind of circumstance or piece of information in our memory.
In band class (when I was teaching) I would ask for a show of hand as to which of my students had ever been to Disneyland. They almost always had been there at one time or another. I would then ask when was the last time you went to Disneyland? The answers had various ranges in time, but they all knew when they had gone. I would ask who did they go with, and for girls what they were waring (boys almost always did not remember). I would ask who went with them, or about food they ate, or something they bought. And they could tell me. The detail in their memories about their last adventure to Disneyland was amazing.
I then would ask them if anyone had ever broken a bone, or had hurt themselves in an accident. Again, the detail in the memories was truly amazing, even to the extent of the injury, they type of accident, and the visit to the Emergency Department for treatment.
I would then ask them to notice that it didn't matter whether their experience was good or bad, what triggered memory was the emotion that went along with the experience.
There are certain life experiences that we cannot forget. COVID-19 will be one of them.
When we are emotionally involved with the Words of Jesus we will not be able to forget them in times of stress or joy. If we abide (live in) the words of Jesus, God will be able to call them to our remembrance when we need them the most. If you love His words you WILL remember them.
“A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?”- Robert A. Heinlein
This statement was made by one of the great Si-Fi writers of all times, who also was an agnositic. I find it fascinating that even he, for whom the jury was out of the existance of God, could come to the conclusion that the author of the concept cited above knew that what Paul wrote as his own personal gospel was not logical or valid.
This concept of 'salvation by grace through faith' cannot be verified through comparing it with the words of jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples. As a matter of fact, what Paul wrote as 'the gospel of God' is completely debunked by what Jesus taught to His own disciples, and what HE gave to His prophets and to Moses in the Old Testament.
Spirit of Truth Ministry exists to bring this Truth of God to light in a world in which Christianity (a construct of the 'apostle' Paul) bares nearly soul responsibility for propogating this huge lie to a world that needs the Truth of Salvaton now more than ever.
Join our effort to bring the light of the Truth of the Process of Sanctification that Jesus taught to our truth starved world.
Receptive~
Just an observation - It is amazing to me how effective a crisis is in bringing people to a place of acknowledging the importance of having a spiritual identity. This is not to say that those people that call themselves by an already existing spiritual identity, such as a Christian denomination, Islam, nature worship, or any other regional religious practice, are not seeking a path to enlightenment, they are. It's just that in today's environment of COVID-19, and all of the endemic worry and concern associated with the news surrounding it, there seems to be an uptick in the expression of their religious identity to not only friends and family, but also complete strangers.
I work at a local hardware store (hardware stores are considered 'essential'), and regularly my customers speak to me about their approach to handling their concerns and often worry about how our society is dealing with the social aspects of this pandemic. They will tell me that while they have concerns about the potential of getting the virus, or how we are dealing with 'self isolation', They 'say' they are not worried about outcomes because they have the "Love of Jesus" in their hearts and they feel all will be well. And this is all well and good. But the other thing I have noticed is that there are a few (a hand full) of my customers and co-workers (in particular) that have expressed an interest in 'finding truth'. They have given me an opening to introduce myself as also a 'seeker of truth', that is simply a "Follower of Jesus", and not a member of any religious group. I even was able to introduce the book "The Spirit of the Church" and our web sites to one of my female co-workers, and even gave her a copy that she promised to read.
Crisis can be a bad thing, but it can also be a way of showing people to The Truth.
Dangerous Times Demands Tough Choices~
A favorite piece of doggerel reminds me of how many people react when faced with an uncomfortable or dangerous situation:
"When in danger when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!"
The world is being tested as has not happened since the 1918 Flu pandemic. This testing is not killing as many people today as did this Spanish Flu outbreak that infected (est.) 500 million people (a quarter of the world's population), and killed (est.) from between 17 million and 50 million people (some estimates are as high as 100 million). This happened in the midst of World War I. To maintain morale WWI censors in the combatant countries minimized the early reports of the illness and mortality rates to make it seem to be not as bad as it really was, in order to keep panic to a minimum in the world. This shows that there was a Deep State even back then that would 'spin' news reporting to fit a unique narrative that those in power needed have, to maintain power over the people of the earth. We see this same thing happening in the Main Stream Media today, only in reverse.
How we (the people of earth) handle this COVID-19 situation will speak volumes as to where we are in prophecy and in time. God always gives two choices to the people; choose Life and Prosperity, or Death and Destruction (Deut. 30:15-20). We are even now being given this same choice, that is to either keep a clear head and choose the Life Road, or to panic and choose the easier Death Road. What we have learned in the last few weeks on our programs shows that there is this same choice that is seen in Revelation with respect to the Seven Thunders seen on Revelation 10.
If you do one thing today,you should tune in to our program The Revelation of Jesus, where Rick Sterling will define this choice in clear terms and outcomes, so you know where you stand.
Be Not Afraid~
The COVID-19 virus has the world on edge. If you listen to the news then you will, by definition, be as nervous as a cat at a dog show. And truly, there is a lot about which to be concerned. The origins of this virus not-with-standing this virus is apparently playing by a different set of rules than previous viruses and community spread disease. The currents death rate is 0.04% world wide (according to CDC statistics) but this is expected to skyrocket as the virus continues to make inroads in the population. Just yesterday the Governor of California, Gavin Newsome, declared that everyone must stay home, and can go out only under specified conditions. Busiesses have been ordered to close (with exceptions), and this is going to put a huge finacial burden on not only the owners, but also on employees, many of whom will lose their jobs as some of these businesses fail. The US government is working on a 'bail out' for individuals and businesses, which will help in the short run, but may not be the desired 'fix' for the long run.
This is a very stressful time for the world.
But Jesus *said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid." John 6:20.
Jesus came and stood in their midst and *said to them, "Peace be with you." John 20:19.
Stressful times do not so much develope character, but reveals it!
In life it is never the trouble that happens to us that counts, it is HOW we deal with that trouble that matters. Feeling anxious at times such as these is normal, but how we deal with that feeling separates those that are followers of Jesus from those that only pay 'lip service' to His will. The ROCK upon which we should build our house is the Commandments of God and the Testimony of Jesus (Rev. 12:17). Abiding in His words and teachings gives us solid ground upon which to view both good times and bad with calm assurance and peace!
Be Not Afraid~
One of my favorite pieces of doggerel (comic verse composed in irregular rhythm) this:
"When in panic when in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!"
This speaks specifically to what we are seeing in the news about the 'run' on toilet paper and other survival good that are flying off the shelves in grocery stores. Yesterday things were so bad where I live that I couldn't get into the parking lot at our local Stater's, and cars were lined up on the street.
When is it appropriate to be afraid? We are almost always afraid of something about which we know little or nothing, something that catches us by surprise, and not in a nice way, such as a surprise party. Today, and for the forseeable future, we see this in the COVID-19 outbreak making it's way across the world. People are scared out of their minds by just the thought of getting this disease, primarily because or the horrible and self-serving attitute of the main stream media, that wants to promote their own agenda in trying to discredit a sitting President, and also sell advertising.
We can also see this same type of fear all through the Bible, when people come in contact with people or events that they have had no previous experience with. But God does not want us to have fear, He wants us to have peace.
So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit". John 20:19, 21, 22.
"I will fear no evil, for You are with me." Ps. 23:4.
TMI Factor~
At any time in a conversation with another person, all of a sudden, and without notice that person can say something that is so personal and so shocking that so socks you that you cring, look at them and say, "TMI" (Too Much Information"). There are some things that just should not be shared with anyone, that are so gross or embarassing that their expression stretches credulity. When the TMI Factor rears it's ugly head it can cause you to nearly gag in response, and question the sanity of the person who says it. There are some things that we just don't want to know, nor do we want to hear.
There are some things that under certain circmstances in under certain conditions we may not want to hear, but need to hear in order to save our lives. Sometimes this feels like TMI. No one likes to hear that a break job for your car is going to cost $500, money that you don't have and can't afford. But in order to be safe you figure out a way to pay for it, and do it anyway. You do it because it could save your life.
No one wants to hear these words from your doctor; "You have cancer1" (I know this from intimate personal experience.) This is never a good thing. The initial response can often be that this is just TMI, and you don't want to deal with it. It is emotionally TMI. But you can't ignore it and hope it goes away. You MUST deal with it, and do everthing you can to fight it so you can at least have the possibility that you will live.
And in the spiritual world there is no such thing as TMI. If you are given information that has the potential to save your eternal life and you ignore it because it seems as if it is TMI, then you risk something a lot more important than the safety of your car. Your very life is in the balance. Learning the Truth about salvation can never be TMI.
Inoculation~
Wouldn't it be nice is there was a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus? Or better yet, an inoculation for the common cold and flu? There are lots of people that believe that vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases that they are designed to prevent, but there is one thing that is certain, and that is the child killing diseases of the past, such as whopping cough and polio, are literally a thing of the past because of the inoculations for these types of diseases.
The other thing that is certain with respect to disease prevention is that not getting a particular disease is the surest form of prevention. Now I know that this statement is kind of like saying that 'we all find whatever we are looking for in the last place we look'. It is a self-evident identity; who among us would keep looking for something after we have found it. Yet there is something profound vis a vis our ability to gain Salvation and Eternal Life, given the understanding that right now EVERYONE has that terminal disease that prevents us from gaining that impossibly lofty goal; sin!
Wouldn't it be nice if there was an inoculation against sin, that would be so effective that everyone that was given this vaccine would be able to gain Salvation and Eternal life?
Good News, there is! Once you have taken this 'magic pill' you are (from then on) assured of an eternal home in Heaven. How much would you pay for this spiritual medication? What is your life worth to you?
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away." Matt. 24:35
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." John 14:15
So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. Rev. 12:17.
If the words of Jesus are in you, you cannot die! AMEN!
Threats or Promises~
A few days ago a U.S. Senator made threats against two specific Supreme Court Justices, if they didin't vote on an issue before the SCOTUS they way he demanded. The Chief Justice excoriated this Senator, and said that all SC Justices would vote for or against any issue before the High Court simply based on the Law and the merits. This is as it should be. This Senator was WAY out of line, and we will have to wait to see what happens to him (probably nothing).
When I was young my mom would tell me to do somethng, and if I didn't do it she would state that if I didn't do it there would be a commensurate punishment. She then would emphasize that demand by saying, "This is not a threat, it's a promise!"
There is a huge difference between a threat and a promise, in that a threat is often not carried out, because it is spoken in the heat of the moment, and without due consideration for the consequenses. A Promise, on the other hand, is almost always given as a future fact. An example of a promise is the 'Wedding Vows'.
Laws are demands placed on a body of people that state that an activity is either 'lawful' or 'unlawful', with a future reward or punishment tied to that activity. Laws contain both 'threats' and 'promises'.
When God gave the LAW to His Kingdom at Sinai (His Covenant of the Kingdom-the 10 Commandment) He gave the instruction that the people must choose as a body to be obedient to those Commands. If they did there was a Promise of a glorious reward AND an ignominious fate. God gave Israel a clear instruction:
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live". Deut 30:19.
This was NOT a threat, it was a Promise. That Promise still applies today. So Choose Life!
Fear Factor~
I was talking with Rick Sterling after yesterday's program (Feb. 28, 2020) about the Covid-19 virus that is (by MSM news reports) spreading like wild fire around the world. The show notes for yesterday titled 'Panic' garnered a bigger response than any other that I have published. People are either terrified of the possibility of getting the Covid-19 virus, or they are not. What is the difference?
Rick is a RN (Registered Nurse) who specializes in the operations in the cardiac catheterization lab environment, and has taken the training that applies to the use of medical face masks. Rick pointed out that most people have no idea about how to use the N-95 face masks that they are buying in a panic, and these masks actually don't help prevent any transmission of a virus. The people that try to use them for this purpose are fooling themselves into believing that they are 'safe' from getting a cold or the flu. He pointed out that the only way a face mask could prevent this kind of transfer would be if you have a 'soft seal' around both your nose and mouth, such as with a respirator type mask that has the proper filters. People are responding to this situation out of fear, because they don't understand how viral infections work, and how to prevent them.
Humans have a tendency to fear that which they don't understand. So if you become fearful about something make an effort to understand it. Knowledge and Understanding eliminates the Fear Factor from any area of our lives.
The reason Jesus came to earth was to take away the fear of the unknown. He came to reveal how God works in the salvation of mankind, and that if we are obedient to His Commandments and hold to His testimony we need not fear for our eternal lives.
Jesus said, "Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid." Matt. 14:27.
Panic~
The level of panic has risen this past week in relation of the Covid-19 virus outbreak in China. The hardware store where I work has almost run out of N-95 face masks, and our suppliers can't get any more. Yesterday we had a lady come to the store and buy $250 worth of masks, which basically cleaned us out. We do have a few single use masks, and we are selling them at our regular price, but with a limit of 10 per person ($7.99 each). Our stock will not last through the day.
Yesterday, a young family came in with their baby and asked me if we had masks that would fit their child. The young mother was almost in tears when I told her that we did not carry child sized masks. I tried to reassure her that if they were heathy and took care to wash their hands regularly that they should be OK, but this family has bought into the idea that there is a pandemic happening, and that they are facing iimmanent death.
The issus here is that the media is playing to the fears of the people when there is truly no need to panic. There is NEVER any need to panic. But what we are seeing is an uninformed populace taking the word of and uniformed media, and placing their trust in the words of people that don't know what they are talking about.
So let's move this situation over to the spiritual side of things. The 'peepul' have been told by their pastors and teachers that salvation is the free gift of God, and that all you have to do to be saved is claim Jesus as their savior by FAITH through Grace. When this is shown to not be true, panic will set in, because these people will be forced to choose a path that they do not know, and cannot see. They won't know who to turn too for the truth, because they have learned to believe a lie as if it is the truth.
The world is drowning in lies. The 'lifesaver' is the truth, the gospel of the Kingdom.
Melting Pot~
There are a variety of uses for a melting pot, otherwise know as a crucible. In olden days when candles were the primary source for light in a house, used candles were put in a melting pot so that the left over wax could be melted down and reused to make new candles. A blacksmith would use a melting pot to melt left over iron for reuse. A jeweler would uses a melting pot to purify gold or other precious metals with which to make jewelery. This was termed "gold refined by fire" in Revelation 3:18. In order to make hardened steel, iron ore is placed in a crucible (melting pot) and heated in a blast furnace that removes the impurities, poured into forms and cooled. Then this iron ingot is reheated, hammer forged into a useful form, water cooled, and repeated until the result is a form of steel that is much harder than the original iron taken from the ground. The result is a strong building material.
The purpose of a melting pot is take 'like' elements and join them together, heat them to the melting point, and then use the result to accomplishe the purpose for which the result is to be used.
It does no good to put candle wax in a melting pot with iron ore or gold to try to make either better. It simply makes them worse, unusable for any purpose.
In John 17, the pastoral prayer of Jesus for His own disciples, Jesus prayed to His Father that His disciples with be unified in the truth. Jesus knew that they were not all in the same place, and that He would need to bring them to the place of unity in the truth through His words. This would make them strong and useful in building HIS Kingdom of the heavens. The crucible of the fire of the Words of God are what makes the structure of the Kingdom of God strong enough to withstand the trials to come. Trying to join lies with truth only makes truth into a lie.
The Past is Past~
One of my passions when I was a young(ish) man was golf. And though I no longer play the game (for a variety of reasons) I still loosely follow the game on TV when I can. I was reminded this morning of an old expression by one of the morning commentors on the Golf Channel that one of the things that makes a great golfer is that they can instantly put the past behind them when they make a bad shot; The Past is the Past. And as trite as this sounds it applies to nearly every aspect of our lives, and can benefit us in unlooked for ways, if we let it.
When I was teaching band I used a modified version of this expression in dealing with 'clinkers', which are very loud and embarrasing wrong notes, usually played by inexperience student players at a time when the mistake is right out in the open where everyone can not only hear it, but everyone knows who did it. In preparation for these instances I conditioned my band players to be willing to instantly forgive themselves, and play on, not missing a beat. As with golf, and band, no one likes making mistakes, but EVERYONE makes them. It's not that you will not make mistakes, it how you behave when you do.
There is a huge difference in making a mistake and moving on from it, or knowing about a mistake that you have made, acknowledging it, and then deciding to make it anyway. Now you are doing is no longer a mistake, it is a deliberate activity where you tell yourself that doing wrong no longer matters to you, and you will do it anyway no matter the consequences.
This is The Big Lie that has been placed on the Christian church by a false apostle that has clearly said in his writings that the Law of God no longer matters in dealing with salvation. The past is past. He says that "Where there is no Law, there is no violation" (Rom. 4:15). So don't worry about your mistakes, you are saved anyway.
Practice Makes Perfect~
Have you heard the expression "Practice makes perfect"? If you have taken music lessons in any instrument or voice, or lessons in any sport that requires finely tuned motor skills, then you have certainly heard this expression from your teacher or coach. There is just one problem with this aphorism - it is a complete and utter lie. It is a lie because it is missing one simple word to say, but one difficult word to accomplish. The word is PERFECT. Add this word to the front of this expression and you turn a lie into the truth.
"Perfect practice makes perfect!"
Teachers want their students to get better at what they need to learn in order enjoy the experience more thoroughly, and even be able to someday make a living at what they enjoy. When you practice a mistake it is VERY difficult, often impossible, to overcome the inertia of that mistake. How you practice dictates the result. If you practice something three times wrong then your brain automatically thinks that what you have practiced is correct, and it takes ten times practicing it perfectly to overcome that mistake, and change the way your brain makes your body react to what you have mistakenly learned.
This is why when you hear a lie over and over, and believe it to be true, your brain rebells against trying to change that lie into truth. This is especially true in spiritual matters related to how salvation really works in moving a person toward eternal life.
Learning HOW to practice is difficult but not impossible; which is why God sent His Son Jesus, to this earth to "testiy to the truth", and show His bondservants the WAY to practice TRUTH, in order to overcome and remove the lies that lead to death.
"But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." (John 3:21)
Tsumani~
On coastal plains or islands tsunami's can occur after a strong earthquake. During an earthquake the sea bed is lifted, then it drops back down, and the resulting motion affects the water above it such than it creates a surge of water that if it reaches a coast or low laying inland area can bring devastation that is horrendous. We have all seen video of a wall of water moving inexorably through a village or town, and watch helplessly as it destroys all in it's path. It is safe to say that without an earthquake preceeding there would be no tsunami.
This morning I was thinking as to how this would play out with repect to Truth.
What causes Truth to be made known in the world. Is there a warning that comes before the Truth is known, that says "Something uncomfortable is about to happen, and I better get prepared." Is Truth easy to find, and does it come to us in a way that makes us cheerful and happy? Or does Truth slap us 'up side of the head', say 'here I am, now what are you going to do about it?"
Recognizing Truth in anything is painful, if what you believe before that revelation is not true. When we "believe a lie as if it is the truth" that lie IS the truth for us; and it is very difficult to let go of it.
For most of us, to let go of 'our' truth, and to be able to recognize that what we now believe IS NOT Truth is one of the most difficult things that we have to do in life. And most of the time it takes a psychological or spiritual 'earthquake' to get us to realize that we have been fooled into 'believing that lie as if it was the truth', because we don't want to hold ourselves accountable for learning truth, we want to go along as before and believe what makes us comfortable.
When Jesus came to this earth to "testify to the Truth." He is the earthquake, Truth is the Tsunami.
Choose Life~
Daniel Daly, a double MOH (Medal of Honor) winner, was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army that fought in the battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918. Just before he and his men charged a German gun emplacement he is reported to have yelled one of the most iconic and memorable statements in the annals of military history; "Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?"
I wonder how many of those young men that were behind the baracades getting ready to go 'over the top; wanted to yell back, "YES!"
True bravery has been described as 'being scared to death, but doing IT anyway'. All of those men that followed Sergeant Daly were brave. They had a choice to make. They made it, and stepped into history.
God always gives us a choice. God gave Israel the same choice thousands of years ago, as illustrated in the following texts;
"See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; Ex. 30:15
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants. Ex. 30:19.
In the case of the Kingdom of the Heavens the choice truly is between the LIFE ROAD or DEATH ROAD. Just as with Ancient Israel we today must choose either life or death, blessing or curse. A time is coming when no one will be able to sit on the fence and try to decide to make no choice. So WHAT is that choice, and HOW do you make it.
The choice is between keeping what you BELIEVE to be true, or learning and deciding to search for truith so you KNOW what IS TRUE! This is a decision that is just as difficult and just as consequential as was the decision of those men to follow their Sergeant into battle. More so, because our choise is an ETERNAL decision.
Do you want to live forever? Choose well!
Indoctrination~
In 1959 a very controvercial book was published that was titled "The Manchurian Candidate, by Rickhard Condon. It is a political thriller about the soldier son of a prominent U.S. political family that is captured by the Chinese in during the Korean war, and it 'brainwashed' into becoming an assassin for a Communist conspiracy. It became a best seller, and eventually made into a movie in 1962, and a remake in 2004.
Another word for 'brainwashing' is indoctrination. In the brainwashing process, the agent systematically breaks down the target's identity to the point that it competely removes the target's current social, political or religious paradigms, and replaces them with new paradigms that work to the agent's advantage. This type of indoctrination is very insidious, because the victim does not realize that their congnitive and emotional processes have been altered to the extent that they can no longer recognize truth from lies.
There are those in today's world that through a deliberate and subtle long term process have been forced by indoctrination to believe lies as if they are the truth. It is easy to see that this has and is still occurring in many aspects of life, especially in politics and religion.
If this is NOT apparent to you, then you HAVE BEEN brainwashed.
The Devil has had over 2000 years to perfect the deception in making it look like the lies that he has had propogated through the words of the 'aposlte' Paul are the truth. This subtle and insidious propganda has 'converted' the very words of God from an asset to the Christian church to a liability in the knowing a practicing the Truth. If you claim that you are a Christian today you simply MUST believe the words of Paul above and beyond the words that Jesus gave to His own disciples.
"See to it that no one deceives you."
"Style"~
A friend of mine posted an interesting video today on Face Book, that showed BB King explaining where his 'style' came from. He cited 3 players that he thought had a unique sound, and tried to incorporate their sound into his playing in order to create a 'unique' playing style. In Back to the Future #1 Marty McFly (Michael J.. Fox) was playing guitar at the 'Enchantment Under the Sea' dance as a fill in for Marivin Berry, the injured lead guitarist, who heard Marty's riffs, and liked them so much he called his cousin, Chuck Berry, so he could hear the 'style'.
When a musician tries to copy 'style' it never turns out exactly like the sound of the original, because the two players are do not have the same physiology, or musical identity. Musical style is unique to the player.
This idea of 'style' does not cross over into the study and finding of truth. Truth is not unique to an individual, because "Truth is singular and absolute". Truth is not beholden to individual identities or personalities.
You have heard (in one form or another) the expression that "Truth is in the eye of the beholder", that "Truth is what you believe to be true", and that "Your truth is just as good as My truth". The idea that is expressed in philosophy is that everyone defines their own idea of truth, and no one should force anyone else to subscribe to a truth outside of themselves.
This is the reason that after Jesus spoke with Pilate (recorded in John 18) that Pilate (who was a trained philosopher) said, "What is Truth?"
Jesus declared to Pilate that He came to earth to "Testify to the Truth; everyone that is (already) of the truth hears MY voice." (John 18:37). This shows that Truth IS a Universal Constant, and is not a personal perogative.
Treason~
In case you missed it, January 28, 2020, FBI Agents arrested Dr. Charles Lieber, chairman of Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, wio was accused by the Department of Defense of taking secret monthly payments of $50,000.00 from China, and receiving millions of dollars more to help set up a chemical/biological “Research” laboratory in China. 'Coincidentally', this lab was set up at the Wuhan University of Technology which is in the city that has been called 'gtound zero' for the world wide outbreak of the 'Coronavirus'. Also arrested were two Chinese “Students” working as research assistants, one of whom was actually a lieutenant in the Chinese Army, the other captured at Logan Airport as he tried to catch a flight to China - smuggling 21 vials of “Sensitive Biological Samples” according to the FBI.
This person is a TRAITOR to his country.
This is horrendous, but nothing new as a human activity. This happens all the time, often to a lesser but still significant degree.
There are also traitors to the Kingdom of the Heavens; people that 'say' they are 'of God', but are not', but lie. These are people that 'lead many astray' by claiming that what they are teaching is from God, but in reality is from the Father of Lies. There words can be found in the Bible.
Jesus specifically warned us of these people:
And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many. Matt. 24:4-5.
How can we possibly be mislead? By WORDS that 'sound' good, but are poison to the intellect.
We are protected ONLY by the words of Jesus that HE gave to His eyewitness disciples. Think on this.
Lies Become Truth?~
The President of the United States has been accused of Impeachable Offenses by his political opponents. These opponents have stated over and over that Donald J. Trump has used the office of the President to try to get the government of the Ukraine to investigate one of his (the President) political opponents. These opponents have repeated that he did this hundreds of times over the past months, hoping that repeating these lies will make them true in the minds of the American people. Right now in the Senate chambers the Republican Council to the President has clearly laid out that these accusations have no actual basis in fact, and that by revealed testimony of four major witnesses there was NO Quid Pro Quo spoken of in the call to the Ukrainian President of July 25. The Democrats have tried to turn lies into truth by repeating the lie countless times over the past months; this has failed.
Just as with ALL lies, when truth is revealed the lie is exposed. It is for this reason that the leadership of the Jews during Jesus' ministry here on earth HATED what Jesus was teaching the people of Israel and His own disciples. The Jews had been teaching lies to the people about how salvation worked for centuries, and had gained massive amounts of wealth and power from those incidious words, so much so that when their purfidy was revealed by the Son of God they became insensed and angry, and tried to 'take him out', and stop him from removing them from power.
Time and repetition does not make a lie into truth. The play book of liars is still the same today as yesterday. When faced with the Truth lies become untenible, and believing a lie as if it is the Truth only happens by faith, not by evidence. Jesus came to earth to bring the EVIDENCE of the words of the Father to this earth so that ALL mankind would be able to see the difference between Truth and Lies. John 17:17.
Confusion and Fatigue~
One of the principles of developing a physical skill is based on the idea that you first must realize that there is something you don't know how to do, and after you have been taught the HOW of doing it correctly you practice until you have done it enough to become tired. This is called the principle of Confusion and Fatigue.
For instance, in golf (still one of my favorite games even though I don't play) the first time you attempt to make a swing on the driving range NOTHING works. You swing, the ball skulls along the ground, or you miss it altogether, or you jam the club into the turf. You have no idea what you are doing. All you know is that you know is a deep sense of confusion, because you now KNOW that you don't know how to make a good swing. Then, with proper instruction by a compitent player/teacher you gradually begin the process of understanding the HOW of making a proper swing, but now you have gotten tired after just a few miniutes in the practice of the movement needed to accomplish the new physical process.
This confusion and fatigue is also present when dealing with intellectual and emotional learning. We here at Spirit of Truth Ministry see this all the time when telling the truth about salvation to people that have learned a process that is counter to what is truth through the words of Jesus. At first, when you have been exposed to the process of sanctification as defined by Jesus to His own disciples there isa massive amount of confusion; most Christians have never heard any of this 'alternate' method from the pulpit at their church. so when they here it from us is sets up a radical cognitive dissonance, which is the very definition of confusion.
Amd when they begin to practice this new process, they tire easily both emotionally and spiritually, and feel like they want to go back. Yet in learning the new reality the more they see truth. Rev. 3:10.
27th Anniversary~
Today is the 27th Anniversary of Spirit of Truth Ministry. We never thought that we would still be here after 10 years, but here we are still waiting for the King to appear.
Join us today as we rememger from where we came, and more importantly where we are going.
Get a Gtip~
When beginning to learn to play golf the most critical thing that a person must learn is to place your hands on the club in such a way as to be able to make a solid an productive swing. If your hands are not comfortably place on the grip with just the right pressure you can not hope to have the golf ball land in the fairway or on the green. Getting a good grip is so important it is the very first thing every golf instructor works on with their students in order to insure a secure foundation for the swing.
We have all had friends (certainly not us) that have succumed to a sense of panic when they were faced with a stressful situation. At that critical moment when a decision MUST be made when faced with DIRE consequenses you might say to them, "Get a Grip!" This means that just as with golf that person needs to go back to the basics and reassess the situation without the debilitating emotion of fear of the result.
When a psrson is faced with a 'new' truth for the first time, a truth that is diametrcally different from what they already 'know' to be true, their first reaction may be to lash out in fear against the person that revealed that truth to them. This is especially true when it comes to religious and spiritual identity, as in the case when they are first told about the problems with salvation model of the Apostle Paul. It is at this point that you must GENTLY tell them to 'Get a Grip' on the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples. It is ONLY through those words that a person can realize that there is nothing actually to fear from learning the truth about salvation, because perfect truth casts out all fear.
Jesus brought the truth from the Father to this earth in LOVE, for it is the Love of the Father for His Kingdom that caused Him to send His only Son to testify to the truth (John18:36-37). This is how we 'get a grip' on Truth!
Trusting Trust~
Trust is a difficult proposition. One one hand most of us want to truth something or someone. Yet, we hae all been bitten by trust that has been abused. This has set up a cognititive dissonance situation in our minds where when we are put into a situation that demands trust we often act by faith instead, and say we will try this 'one more time'. Confusing faith for trust has gotten all of us in trouble.
Trust is something that is learned over time, it is not learn in the spur of the moment. Getting through those first tenuous years of marriage is difficult, because in every marriage there are times when you wonder if you can actually trust your partner. Getting beyone these moments is what makes a marriage work. Giving the other person the 'benefit of doubt' allows for the time it take to turn faith into that much more satisfying place that is whole hearted and unadulterated trust.
It appears that this is why Jesus used the identity of the marriage covenant as a metaphor for His relationship with His Kingdom. God never waivers in His commitment, but His Kingdom still has a difficult time believing that God will accomplish what He said in developing a RIGHTEOUS Kingdom on the earth, and as a member of that Kingdom believing that it is actually possible for you to become righteous in fact, or indeed need to do that in the first place. Jesus said in John 3:19-21 that we must learn by doing Truth, and trust that in doing so we will gain the goal He sets before us.
Trust is a two edged sword: no one likes to be in situations where one must 'trust' in the Lord in order to get through, because those are always tough situations. Yet without those very situations we would not be able to develop the trust that it takes to accept the blessings that the Lord has in store for us found in those situations. Hmm! Maybe that is where we get all of our battle scars?
Fire, Fire~
Australia is burning! It is now estimated that more than 1.5 million acres have been burned, several fire fighters have lost their lives, millions of animals have been killed or displaces, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent in trying to put out these blazes. It was originally thought that the cause of these fires that have set the continent ablaze was caused by 'global warming', but this conjecture by the media and proponents of this hoax have been proven wrong, because of the arrest of over 200 arsonists that have purposely set these fires. Motive has not yet been established.
Fire plays a pivotal role in end time prophecy. Rev. 8:7 speaks of a warning that a third of the earth, trees, and grass will be burned up. Later is seen burning hail, and a burning mountain cast into the sea. All this to let the people of the earth know that something well out of the ordinary is happening, and that they need to get ready for the judgment of the earth.
This is one type of fire.
Another type is depicted in the motet that Thomas Morely composed in 1595 called "Fire, Fire", which speaks of the fire that burns in the heart of one lover for his beloved. The fire of the heart!
There is another fire that also burns in the heart, and it can come from two different sources. This has been described as the "fire of the spirit", that makes people yearn for God. Many mistake being 'slain in the spirit' as being given my the One True God, but this spirit is actually the spirit of the evil one, who is masquerading as the Holy Spirit, and makes feelings become more important than finding truth.
The True Holy Spirit reveals Herself through the Words of the ONE that sent Her to those that LOVE the truth, The Words of Jesus that He gave to His own disciples. These words turn the intellect/heart to the discovery of Truth that brings Eternal Life.
Under Weigh~
The New Year is now firmly "Under Weigh". This is a nautical term that means to WEIGH anchor an put a vessel in motion.
When I was a freshman in college I was very interested in a number of things other than the forced interest of 'hard' classwork, notably learning to pilot an airplane and sailing.
The school I attended actually (at the time, and no longer) had a Small Boat Handling and Piloting class, along with a sailing class. As a result of taking these classes I gained a Coast Guard Inland Waterways ticket, and learned to sail boats with single sail and sloop rigs. As part of the class we went to Newport Ca. four times in the semester to learn coastal sailing, and the boats were just tied up to the dock. We did, however, have to learn how to set an anchor in a near shore situation such that the boat would not be carried onto the shore and damaged, and also how to 'weigh' and stow the anchor so that we could put the boat under sail.
It is literally impossible to put a boat (or ship) under sail without knowing how to 'un-set' the anchor from the sea bed. In fact, if you set the sail into the wind without weighing anchor you can actually capsize a boat that does not have a weighted keel. Bad news.
If we start to seach for truth in this new year without having first removed the anchors of predetermined paradigms that weighs down our Intellect it will be impossible for us to find the truth we are searching for, and set our 'boat' of truth in motion. The paradigm that is most difficult to pull up is the idea that we have NOT been fooled into believing lies as if they are the truth. This concept is so heavy that it is nearly impossible for us to 'weigh', and we must 'slip' the cable and let the anchor go.
Resolve that in this new year you will let go of those things that prevent knowing truth!
Renewal and Reunion!
This morning I posted a picture on my FB account showing me with my wife Becky, our daughter Emily, our big GSD Charlie, our small Min-Pin mix and Emily's dog Luna out on a walk together. Em's husband (fiance at the time) Arin took the picture. Sadly, Charlie is no longer with us, as we had to put him down about 5 weeks ago due to a sudden and in-operable illness. Taking these walk with the FAM always brings me a sense of renewal; I feel so much better after the walk than I do before, and especially when I don't actually feel like taking a walk in the first place. And as sad as it was to loose Charlie, we still go out with the family (dogs and all) from time to time, and I still receive as a reward that sense of renewal that makes me want to be with this group even when I am not feeling 'chipper' at the start.
This reminds me that even though we live in a world where there will be bittersweet partings from time to time (both human and pets) the love generated by these experiences, as simple as they are, renew my spirit to such an extent that I desire that these 'good times' go on forever. Each time our family has the opportunity to get together this way (or any other way for that matter) the inevitable partings at the end make the prospect of a future reunion that more desirable, and inevitable.
What would really make these gentle meetings with loved ones truly awful would be if there was no hope of ever being with them again in any future. So knowing that God has provided a way for our families and friends of living together forever permanently in that Gentle Future gives me the desire to learn the way to the Kingdom of God, and show them that way once I have found it.
If you don't know the way, you can't show the way.
We can only learn that truth of salvation through the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples.
Pants Before Shoes~
There are certain things that when put on order just seem to make sense; letter A before B, number 1 before 2, takeoff before landing, pants before shoes. If we try these things in any other order they don't work, or if they do not nearly as well. Yesterday I wrote that before a beginning there must first come and ending, and in this case the reverse seems more applicable to our spiritual lives that a beginning before and end. When we consider the existance of God, the Creator of the Universe, who is a being that has no beginning and no end, we can see that ORDER is critical to Their very existance, and hence ours.
The order of creation is delineated in Genesis Chapter 1 and 2. We see LIGHT created after dark, FORM after void, animals after the plants that sustain them, and TIME CLOCKS after chaos. The existance of God is seen in the order in which everything is processed and made. And this is also true for the nature of our own individual and unique spirits-our souls.
Humans beings as a species were all created on the 6th Day of Creation. Each had a unique 'soul' that began existance the moment consiousness awareness made its presence felt. Seeing this amazing creative power of God Satan decided that he wanted a piece of that action, and "deceived the nations" (Isa. 14:12) into believeing that he was creator. This reversed the order of things to such and extent that everything we now hold to be true is backward to what is actually true.
Jesus came to earth with the words of the Father to reestablish the order of ORDER. When our minds connect with THIS concept we accomplish what Jesus said in John 17, UNITY with the Father, through the Son, by the Holy Spirit, through the WORD that will bring Truth and order to our spirits/souls, such that we can enter the Kingdom of God as full members of Their family.
Endings and Beginnings~
So many things to remember from this Christmas season. Our daughter and her husband went to North Carolina to visit his parents for Christmas, and before they left they invited my wife and me, and my son and his wife to dinner the night before I took them to the airport. We had gift giving after dinner, and the final present was a small package given to my wife by my daughter. Becky opened it, and took out a small 'onezy' that looked like it belonged to an elf. Becky held it up and looked a Em, and then realization came to all of us-Em and Arin are going to have a baby. Sometime in August my wife and I will be 'Gramma' and 'Grampa'!
Three weeks ago my son defended his dissertaion and was granted a Ph.D. in Music Composition from UCLA! The amount of work that this takes is astronomical, but he persisted and finally won through after a difficult three year writing process. I can now say, "My Son the Doctor"!
In October, he and his fiance were married in the church where he works as the church organist. Very special times indeed!
Most of us move (in our minds) from the front to the back, from a beginning to an end. All of the good things that I experienced this Christmas season started when something ended. Before there can be a new beginning something must come to an end. This is especially true in our spiritual lives. Lies must be brought to an end before we can hope to find Truth. Lies and Truth cannot exist in the same mind. We must all decide what must be brought to an endin order find truth, things such as believing that Jesus came to save sinners IN their sin; that just because someone says they are sent from God does not mean that they are; that the 'apostle' Paul was who he said he was.
This New Year resolve to make room for the Truth From Above, brought byJesus, who Is the Way, the Truth, and the Life!
Heavenly Music~
I am sitting here in my easy chair listening to an online radio service that is playing 24 hour Christmas music. This is not the kind you hear on commercial radio, with it's pop singers singing "Here Comes Santa Claus", with electric guitars and rock drums. This station (KUSC.org/holidayspiritchannel) is playing some of the most Heavenly Music ever written, because it celebrates the birth of the Christ Child in a joyous and loving way.
This got me thinking about what it was like to be near the manger in Bethleham on that day when Jesus was born. We have no idea what really happen there, at that time, beause there are no eyewitnes accounts in the Bible of what actually happened. In reality, the account in Luke that is use most to describe the birth of our Savior is most probably fiction. We do know that the description of the angel meeting separately with Joseph and then Mary, and then the appearance of the 'Wise Men' in Matthew 2 is more reliable that that of the description in Luke. We do know that the music that has come from this event over 2000 years is some of the most beautiful ever written, and some is surely based upon heavenly inspiration. The truth of the actual events are best described for me in the 'music' of John 1, where the Word is revealed as Jesus Christ.
What ever your perspective on Christmas, whether you actively celebrate the 'season' or not, the mustic that reflects that part of hte heart of mankind that seeks their Savior is poigniant and beautiul, and is an loving reflection of what it means to find truth in the sentiment of this joyous season, where we celebrate what Jesus has done for the world through His Kindom come to earth in the form of a human baby.
So in this respect I wish for all of you a Joyous Christmas time, and for our Savior that came to earth to bring the truth from heaven.
The Best Christmas Present of All~
When you and your family gather round the Christmas tree on Christmas morning to open presents what will be the best present there?
Will it be a new bike for Jimmy, or a talking doll for Jane? Will dad get a new putter, or mom get a trip on a plane?
Each gift will be wrapped well in fine paper and ribbon, and no one is left out, not even the dog or the kitten!
There is, however, a present that cannot be put in a box, or tied up with a bow; it is not something a hand can hold.
It can only be seen with eyes and held in the heart, when heard by someone that loves the WORD of Truth;
That WORD that was "made flesh and dwelt among us", that brought the hope of salvation to a world filled with lies.
These words that Jesus brought from heaven, with which He testified to that Truth from above,
The Truth the Father sent with Jesus that will bring all those that Love the Truth back to Him.
Merry Christmas from your Friends at Spirit of Truth Ministry!
Comeback~
Making a comeback is hard to do. There you are, going along swimingly, family is wonderful, work is good, and you are feeling good and looking sharp. Then out of the blue you are blindsided by an event or a personal situation that simply derails everything. Suddenly you don't know which way is up. The pain of loss, the uncertainty of disease, the burden of an unlooked for financial catastrophe puts everythng in your life on hold. All of us have experience something of this in our lives. And after the initial shock wears off we must decide what to DO about it. These situations demand action and accountability; we must take charge and overcome - or die! This death is most often not the literal kind. It is the 'dying' inside of giving up, or giving in to circumstance that sends our lives into a potientially fatal tailspin.
These situations require a comeback, sometimes of epic proportions. We all have some understanding of what it takes to win over.
Yet when faced with similar situations in our spiritual lives we have been told by our Pastors, teachers or even parents that all God wants from us is to "Give everything over to God, and let God deal with it." We have been assured that "His grace is sufficient" to solve all of our spiritual problems, and when we "Let Go and Let God" we will have found the answer to all of our difficulties.
Unfortunately, doing this will not solve the problems in our physical lives, and neither will it solve our difficulties with our spiritual lives.
Jesus teaches us to make a 'comeback', by coming back to His Words and His Teachings that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples. WE must accomplish righteounes the was that Jesus taught by "Practicing the truth so we can come to the light" (John 3:21). WE are accountible for our own salvation, and we must COME BACK to Him to do it.
Graduation~
Yesterday my son, Zach, defended his Ph.D. dissertaion, was passed by his committee, and has now been graduated into his Ph.D. in music composition at UCLA. He is now able to use the title Dr. Zachery Neufeld in his professional life. This is truly a watershed moment in his life, and will inform everything he does from here on in his career in both writing and performing music.
This accomplishment did not come easily, as you might well imagine. He finished his academics a little over 2 years ago, and has been in dissertation mode ever since. The striggle (in his own words) was to decide whether the effort to write his final dissertation was going to be worth the effort and heart ache that would be necessary to to accomplish the task. Many grad students at this level (in all disciplines) simply give up, because life gets in the way, and it is VERY difficult to justify the end result with the inconvenience and expense of doing the nearly impossilbe. Getting a Ph.D (or any doctoral level degree) is purposely made almost impossible to accomplish, in order separate out those that have the commitment and drive to succeed from those that simply 'wish' and 'hope' for success.
This is also true for those that 'say' they want eternal life, but don't have the determination and drive to DO what is necessary to achieve it. Most 'Christians' want eternal life, but have come to believe that it is their RIGHT by the free gift of grace provided by Jesus death on the cross, and as long as they believe by faith they will be granted their graduate degree without the hard work of DOING the truth.
"For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it" Matt. 7:14.
"But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." John 3:21.
Missing in Action~
Why would God take the time to prepare an army of 'the Faithful' only to take them off the battlefield just before battle is engaged? This situation sounds unlikely, if not impossible, but this is what many Christians believe will happen at the end of time via the 'Secret Rapture' that will supposedly take the 'Faithful' out of harms way into the heavens before they go through the horrific events of the 'end of time'.
The reason not to spend time in refuting this misconception is for one reason only, and that is the fact that the word of TRUTH actually matters in understanding salvation and the events of the end of time. If all you needed was 'faith' to gain eternal life, then learning and practicing Truth would not matter. Why go through the process of sanctification and all that entails if what we do has no bearing on where we end up?
If the operation of salvation was literally based on the idea that all you had to do to be saved was to believe you were saved by faith through grace thef an army of the righteous going 'missing in action' before the final events would be a non-issue; it simply wouldn't matter to the outcome of who is saved and who is lost.
On it's face it is ludicrous to believe that God would send His only Son to die on the cross to save people that have, by their actions, expressed NO interest in being obedient to the Commandments of the King of the Kingdom of God. Yet this is what ALL Christians believe IS true, because they have been instructed by a false apostle to believe that going 'missing in action' is an acceptable alternative in the fight to save the Kingdom of the Heavens from the "hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth '. (Rev. 3:10).
If you are missing in action you will also be missing from eternity.
Pay Attention~
One of my dad's favorite expressions was, "Don't keep your head in the sand." When I was a boy I didin't really understand what he was saying; I mean, how do you stick your head in sand when you aren't at the beach? Why would you want to stick your head in the sand anyway? We had gone to the beach at Santa Barbara many times, and each of us four siblings had been buried up to our necks at least once. I found it to be very uncomfortable, and didn't like it a bit.
As I grew older I finally figured out that dad was speaking a metaphor, a life lesson hiddien in a single phrase. I now understand that there are two parts to this mataphor, one literal, and one spiritual.
In my youth my dad would never have considered that there would be a physical component to this phrase based upon something called a cel phone. We have all seen people walking down the sidewalk looking down at their cel phones and nearly (or actually) run into something and hurt themselves. People today are so attached to their cel phones that they can't look up from them to even acknowledge a comment from a friend, or the needs of their child. There is also a significant danger factor in this as well, and not just in being hurt by tripping and falling. For many people they are so intent on their phones that they lose all 'situaltional awareness', and are actually being attacked by muggers that they neer saw coming.
The other meaning of my dad's saying is spiritual. We NEED to stay aware of our spiritual surroundings as well, otherwise we WILL become unavailable for learning the truth when it presents itself. We need to (as my dad also put it) "keep our heads on a swivel", constantly watching for opportunities to find truth, so we will not "be deceived" (Matt. 24:4). If we watch and stay awake we will find Truth that will set us free.
Rockroller~
Yesterday Spirit of Truth Ministry provided a Past Program on Blog Talk Radio. This was a program from Nov. 26, 2012, and the highlight for me was hearing our good friend Dr. Rich (Humpal) interact with Dr. Don and myself (Dennis) as we fleshed out a topic concerning tempering boundaries. I highly recommend that you go to our 'Episodes' page on our BTR web site (blogtalkradio.com/sot) and listen to this program. It will be well worth your time.
After hearing this program yesterday Dr. Don (who was out of town with family) texted (in part): "WOW!!! I am sitting here stunned. To hear Dr. Rich's voice and his incredible clarity of thought, and your precise explanation of tempering boundaries, and going beyond what Jesus said was "on the spot". "What Dr. Rich said aobut legal and hear-say evidence are most appropriate for RIGHT NOW."
Dr. Rich died suddenly April 5, 2013. You can read his obituary at: spiritoftruthministry.net/STM. He left a legacy that has reached thousands of people world wide, and will continue to do so in the future as Spirit of Truth Ministry continues to present the truth of the Words of Jesus each week via our programs The Bible on Trial and The Revelation of Jesus.
The thing that Dr. Rich taught us was that we should leave 'No stone unturned' in searching for and finding the truth. Dr. Rich posted on numerous blogs under that 'handle' Rockroller, because what he did was to roll the rocks of ignorance, deceipt and lies out of the way, exposing the truth that is undernieth, This was the purpose of Spirit of Truth Ministry back then, and it is our purpose still today and always. Join us in our journey from darkness into light, as we reveal the purpose of the Words of God in bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to a truth starved world.
Today is what the mercantile world has termed 'Black Friday'. This is a day where people of a certain 'religion' flock to their places of worship to honor thier 'god', by sacrificing printed paper to the priests of these places of worship, for the purpose of finding happiness of a certain type. This is a convoluted way of saying the people with more money than sense crowd into stores that have through clever marketing convinced people that they will get a better deal on certain 'lost leader' items by shopping today than they would normally get by just going in on any other day. This works like magic.
There are those of us, however, that see through this 'ploy' (in the immortal words of Inspector Clouseau), and stay far away from the crowds and the madness this situation carries with it. We prefer the quiet solitude of a good book, or walking the dog, and the peace that comes when we realize that life is much more than getting a 'good' deal.
Given this perspective, we here at Spirit of Truth Ministry will be taking today off to be with our families, and extend the blessings of Thanksgiving another day. We hope you will enjoy the 'Best Of' program from a Thanksgiving program past (11/26/2011) that we have provided for your listening enjoyment, and we will see you tomorrow (Sabbath, Nov. 30, 2019) at 10 AM PDT for our regular live broadcast of The Revelation of Jesus, with Rick Sterling.
Thanksgiving~
We are coming to my favorite holiday of the year, Thanksgiving. Family, good food, wonderful conversations and interactions with loved ones, and remembering good times and Thanksgivings past. When I think about it, there is a kind of emotional sappiness about Thanksgiving which I love. But the most important thing about the Thanksgiving holiday here in America for me is that there are NO gifts and presents required for admission. All that is required is that you get together with friends and family, and enjoy each others company.
That is not to say that I don't like Christmas, I do. But for a musician Christmas is a LOT of work to prepare for the concerts and church music commitments that require hours of rehearsal, and sometimes travel. I DO LOVE IT. The thing I don't like about the Christmas season is that it starts so early these days; the store where I work part time already has all of our Christmas merchandise on display for sale way before Thanksgiving, and this is just wrong.
All this is well and good, but what we do forget to be Thankful for this time of year, and should be thankful every day of the year is that Jesus took time out of his busy schedule running the universe to come to this earth and bring the TRUTH from God about salvation to a truth starved world that had been co-pted by lies. These lies are so insideous that people have become thankful for those very lies, believing that what they have been taught about salvation is true.
Yes, we should be thankful for the 'good news' of salvation, but if you believe what the church has taught about how salvation works you are thanking the God of the Universe for those lies, and this will end up killing you. We must LEARN the Truth in order to be thankful for it. Beware the deception and you will be able to be truly thankful for Salvation of God through the words and teachings of Jesus! Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Truth hurts~
This past Monday we had to put our old dog to sleep.
Previous to this sad event Charlie, our 12 year old German Shepherd/Malamute/Wolf had for a week basically stopped eating his normal amount, and was progressively less each day. So a week ago this Friday I took him to the vet, where after an abdominal exam the vet said that we needed to do x-rays and an ultra sound to confirm a tumor. The results were conclusive; Charlie had a large tumor near his spleen-a hemangiosarcoma. The vet told us that there was a surgery that she could perform to remove the tumor, and that we would not know for sure if it was a cancer until the lab results came back; but that given his age, and the fact that in 85% of male GDS's this type of tumor is cancer, the best option would be to put him to sleep. The vet said we needed to make the decision by the following Monday, due to the critical nature of the size of the mass, and that even though Charlie was not in pain this could change in a heartbeat if the spleen ruptured.
This news was devastating to our family. On Saturday we made the hard decision. We called the vet and made and appointment to put Charlie to sleep the following Monday. We gave Charlie a delightful two days of 'bucket list' events, including taking him to George's German Market for Brats and Beer (which he loved), for a walk in his favorite park, and our children came over on Sunday and we celebrated his life by making him the center of attention, thoroughly loving him up.
He died a happy and content dog, with no pain, with his family surrounding him. This truth hurt, but we did the right thing for Charlie!
The truth hurts of salvation hurts everytime it goes counter to what you want to believe. When you discover the tumor of lies in your life you have a difficult choice, to die withi it, or cut the lies out and live eternally.
Completely Innocent~
Yesterday my wife and I got some very bad news from our vet. Our big Charlie, a ten year old galomphy GSD (German Shepherd Dog) has a large tumor on or near his spleen. We don't know whether the tumor is benign or malignant without doing a major abdominal surgery, and sending the tumor to the pathologist for assessment. If the tumor is malignant it means that there is a good chance of metastatis. Then treatment is paliiative, or we simply putting him to sleep. If is benign, the Doctor says she doesn't believe it until the dog lives to 6 months post surgery. The whole issue now boils down to quality of his life. Recovery from a major surgery for a dog his age will be uncomfortable for two to three weeks at the very least, and we must decide if putting Charlie through that given the tenuous potential of the outcome is worth it. We are not considering the huge expense involved in our decision.
Charlie is ill due to now fault of his own, but right now he does not know this; he is completely innocent. He did nothing to warrent this fate. He is a good dog, he is! And yet he is suffering from a devastating illness due to the affects of sin in this world. God loves Charlie, and as his caretakers we must to what is right by him, no matter the cost to ourselve, even if this mean being the cause of his death.
We are different than Charlie. We have CHOSEN to withdraw from the presence of God through our disobedience. Yes, I know what you are thinking; we didin't choose to be born into this world anymore than did Charlie, and because of this we should be considered 'completely innocent' as well. But this is simply not true. WE have a choice to make, and because of that choice we ARE NOT completely innocent. Our choices have made us responsible for our own destiny based upon our choosing Truth or Lies, Righteousness or unrighteousness, LIFE or DEATH. Choose Life!
"See to it that no one deceives you!"
In observing the circus act and theatrics taking place in Washington the last few days in the 'impeachment' hearings reminds me that this same kind of thing has been going on throughout history. It is not new, nor has it changed in application, all-be-it intensity, as used by those that have no scruples as to how they get their way in the world. Subterfuge (deceipt used in order to achieve one's goals) has been the hallmark of Satan's operating system since before the incident in the Garden of Eden.
You would think that after having spent almost a year with their Master the disciples would have understood the concept of looking below the surface of the issues and players in the Religious and Political issues of their day, such that they would be able to exptrapolate the concepts of truth and justice that Jesus had taught them into a method that would allow them to clearly tell when someone was telling truth or lies. Apparently not; at least not yet in the instance cited in Matt. 24: 1-5.
Jesus had been telling the Disciples about the signs of the end of time. Being naturally curious (the hallmark of a seeker of truth) they asked Jesus to tell them how to recognize when they were at the end of the age. Rather than give a laundry list of prophetic events, Jesus answered them with a somewhat cryptic sentence, designed to get them to think about the overarching methodology of the world at the time of the end. Jesus put the onus of responsibilty for NOT being decieved (fooled) squarely upon His Disciples, those that would seek to recognize where they were 'IN TIME', and WHY!
Deception is now rampant in this world, and is seen at every junction between where that deception ends and truth begins. Just as with the Disciples, Jesus calls us to be able to descern between "What is Truth" and what is not. This is the Key to Truth!
Mystery~
There are all sorts of stories in book, on TV, and in the movies that are based in the concept that the main character(s), and thus the audience, don't know something at the beginning of the show that they find out just before the show ends. The best plots delay the 'payoff' until the very end, and it is almost always in a place or person that you would not have guessed at the beginning. Misdirection is the key to a good 'Who Done It"! The victim(s) don't realize they have been fooled, and some victims don't realize their peril until it's too late to save themselves. The best mystery writers also include either imminent danger or threat to life or an important relationship to enhance the tention, which places an undue stress on the 'hero' to find the solution to the main plot problem before someone else is hurt or killed, or a wider threat to a population is realized.
It is my experience that everyone loves a good, well written mystery!
The Bible is one of the greatestt mystery stories ever written, that started at the very beginning at Creation and in Eden, and doesn't get resolved until the very end by the Faithful and Wise Bonderservant, his fellow servant, and the Kingdom of the Heavens. The Christian church (and hense the world) believes that the mystery has already been solved, and that there is nothing anyone can do to NOT understand how salvation works. But in the true story of Salvation this is a ruse, designed by the 'Great Perpetrator' to misdirect the victims of this evil ruse to believe that they are safe from harm, when in reality, they are walking into an unknown and unrealized peril that will kill them.
This story does not end well for those that are unaware of the peril of their beliefs, when the resolution of the mystery is right before their eyes in the Words of Jesus that He gave to HIs Bondservants.
Remodel~
One of the most intimidating things that wife recently said to me was, "I want to REMODEL the bathroom".
Mind you, it wasn't that her bathroom didn't need remodeling, because after 20 years in this house it did. It was that, given my background in construction, I assumed that much of the remodel would fall on my shoulders. My first thought when she broached the subject was, "I'm too old to do this stuff"! So the first thing I suggested after hearing her decision was to suggest that we call our good friend Don who is a contractor and cabinet maker, and ask his 'opinion' as to possibilitites. Becky was all for it. It's one thing to have ideas, it's another to be able to make them a reality within a budget. The most important consideration for Becky was getting rid of the old 'pink' bathtub, and replacing it with at new tub and surround. Easier said than done.
After the assessmet Don made some suggestions, one of which was that if I could get the old surround out, that he would come over and help me take the old metal tub out. He also suggested using an experienced sub-contractors to plumb the new tub and shower faucet fixtures, and install the tub, and a wall board and plaster contractor to get the tub area prepared for the new surround. Now it's not that I would not be willing to do all of these things myself, but my relationship with my wife is more important to me than my ego. So when Becky said that she liked the idea that experts would come in and to these jobs I was releaved, and excited at the same time.
Salvation is not what most Christians believe it is. Remodeling the concept or how the process of salvation works is essential to gaining eternal life. Doing that remodel takes expertise, and the 'contractor' that has that level of experience is Jesus Christ, and His words.