Thursday, October 16, 2014

IS THERE A WARNING IN THIS DREAM?



After every storm there's always rainbow.
Before I go any further, I want to say that despite whatever storms we may go through, even if we don't see it visually, God has promised us a rainbow. Sometimes they are above the clouds, like this one, so that we have to see it with our spiritual eyes, but it's always there.  

Having prefaced this article with that thought, it is still with some reluctance that I write to tell you of a dream I had. This is not the kind of things I'm prone to think up or be preoccupied with. I have tried not to share it, but at this point, even if there’s no validity to the dream I’m about to tell you, I feel it would be irresponsible not to - just in case.  I apologize for this being so long (I thought of making it two articles but wanted to be sure both parts are read). The second part of the article is very real. And that part is, I believe, indeed a warning even if it doesn’t apply to everyone. 

Part 1:  Sometime in 2010 I had the dream. I almost never remember my dreams but this one has stayed with me repeatedly.   It troubled me when I had it and I had the sense that it was not for me personally but was possibly a warning for others to be made aware of as well, if indeed it proves to come about as I had dreamed.  I shared it with a few wise and godly men who agreed it might be a warning from God.  One of them, knowing I’m a writer, suggested I write a book, somewhat like Joel Rosenberg writes, a kind of prophetic fiction (Rosenberg  writes  his fiction books and then they tend to come true). But I don’t write fiction and it would take a tremendous amount of research to write such a book.  So I did nothing with it till now.

For about the last two months the dream seems to be on my mind more often.  It kept going through my mind to put it on my blog. Still I have been reluctant to do so –  after all, it was just a dream, and, frankly, I didn’t really want to add to the cacophony of alarmist suppositions out there, not that there aren’t some real issues gnawing at our attention. This week there have been initial cases of Ebola now in the United States.  It seems to be time to share the dream. I will also share some of what I seemed to be given to understand as the dream unfolded though  I do not know what the first part (the next paragraph) represented except that somehow we survived something very threatening.     

As the dream began, I was in a room with two other women who were terrified of what was taking place outside the room. Somehow it was surrounded by, or in the midst of a great storm, perhaps a social storm, a war or police action. The room was being blown as if in a hurricane,  and I could see things going past the windows as we hurled along though we were pretty shut in.  I was trying to keep their focus on the Lord, though it was hard for all of us. Somehow we made it through and were surprised to have survived it, but things were different after it than before. 

What happened next took place in the basement of the Seminary which I attended which told me that it was somehow connected with spiritual issues and/or with the cooperation of the organized church somehow. It was at night. I was trying to get to my room on an upper level where I “dwelt.” I expected the classrooms to be empty at night, but I found there were classes going on, as if it was a regular seminary or college taking place. I knew that the seminary had rented the space to these people to have a whole other school on the same premises so both occupied it during one full day.

Interpretation:  That this took place in the basement was that it was hidden or of a lower spiritual nature.  I sensed both. My seminary did have apartments on the upper level. This told me I was attempting to ‘dwell’ in a higher place (spiritually) than all that was going on, as in “dwelling  in the Lord.”  That it took place at night indicates spiritual darkness. The seminary, which is, of course, a graduate school for training pastors, seemed to be unaware that these people had a whole other school of thought than what is biblical.  Nor were the seminarians who were supposedly Christians at all discerning of the spiritual condition of these other people so as to be wise enough or spiritually strong enough to disassociate from them. 

The people there were all dark, as in almost black, (this was not racial but spiritual) and had no expressions on their faces, as if they had no spiritual life in them, though they were all alive physically. One young man, big and somewhat unappealing looked out at me from his classroom (I was not in the classroom but in the hallway) with no expression on his face. He appeared to be entirely dull of countenance. These people didn’t seem to have any light of the Lord or otherwise in them, though they were not evil.

I  then understood this was really not a school but they were involved with the making of a vaccine that was supposed to protect everyone from a lethal flu or virus, but somehow I knew the epidemic wasn't real. It was a way of controlling the population. 

At this point I do not remember the dream exactly but what has stayed with me is that I was made aware that this was setting the stage for future mandatory “health” measures, specifically a vaccine that would be given to the entire population of America for the “well-being” of all against some perceived (engineered or contrived) threat. When you took the vaccine you would be given a mark on your hand or wrist. Those who refused the vaccine would be considered a threat to the well being of the society and would, among other things, not be permitted in stores or public places as they would be potential contaminators of the disease. My sense was that those without the mark would suffer being treated as traitors to society and rendered as outcasts. 

Interpretation:  It appears those without indication of having had the vaccine would not be permitted to “buy or sell.”  (See Revelation 13:17). 

I then came to understand that because of side effects from the vaccine which apparently affected everyone quite negatively, drugs would be administered to the population en masse in order that people could continue to function after the vaccines did their damage. Only they would not be functioning normally and would be controlled by the drugs which would make them dependent on the drugs and would have the effect of changing personalities, and subduing most otherwise active people. So then we would have an entirely drug dependent and controlled national population.  It reminds one of “Big Brother” [i] watching over the people.   

Need I say that this should be avoided at all costs, should it ever actually happen, by those of us who are the Lord's as it is all a sign of the anti-Christ in his attempt to control the world.  We are of those about whom the bible says will we not succumb to those controls because they are viewed as worship of the anti-Christ.  We can see from the meaning of pharmakeia that it would be a form of false religion which is relying on and putting your trust in someone or something other than God Himself to provide a (false) sense of peace, joy or well-being.  Those who will "worship the beast" (the anti-Christ and/or his ways) are ",...all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world....This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people"  (Revelation 13:8, 10b). It would be a time to remember that there is always a rainbow after a storm, in this case, an eternal rainbow! 


Part 2:  As I have pondered this dream before the Lord, I keep asking is there really a warning in this dream?  I have seen other things that could possibly have to do with the dream. We are being programmed through the media to thinking we are a disease-infested society for which only drugs are the answer. Many of life’s normal problems are being considered as diseases  – now even heartburn is a disease. Drugs are the only cure, which don’t really cure, they manage the disease, meaning that continuing to take the drug is often built in.  I have observed that even on family-type channels, at times every third or so commercial is for drugs. Even with the sometimes life threatening contra-indications mentioned, people are so used to taking potentially lethal drugs that the warnings mean little. We are being brainwashed into thinking that drugs are the way to health, peace, joy and well-being, all of which Yeshua promised us, by the way. 

There are precedents of vaccines causing serious mental problems as well as physical.  Our own army has used vaccines on our troops that have led to serious mental issues including suicides. See Endnote [ii] below for more on this.  

Are you aware of Iatrogenic diseases? This means physician or medically induced consequences to treatment or advice.  See Endnote [iii] for more in-depth info but here are some specifics:   

Deaths from accidental poisoning by drugs and other medicines climbed from 851 to nearly 2,100. Of those, outpatient deaths increased from under 200 to just under 1,500. This was in 1993. Since, it has continued to increased.   


CNN reported that:  Drug Reactions Kill an Estimated 100,000 a Year. 

Adverse reactions to prescription and over-the-counter medicines kill more than 100,000 Americans and seriously injure an additional 2.1 million each year, researchers say.
Such reactions -- which do not include prescribing errors or drug abuse -- rank at least sixth among causes of death in the United States, behind heart disease, cancer, lung disease, strokes and accidents, according to a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The report was based on an analysis of existing studies.  "Serious adverse drug reactions are frequent ... more so than generally recognized," the researchers said.


Drug overdose was the leading cause of injury death in 2011. Among people 25 to 64 years old, drug overdose caused more deaths than motor vehicle traffic crashes.

Drug overdose death rates have been rising steadily since 1992 with a 118% increase from 1999 to 2011 alone.

In 2011, drug misuse and abuse caused about 2.5 million Emergency Department (ED) visits. Of these, more than 1.4 million ED visits were related to pharmaceuticals (medicines).

  Between 2004 and 2005, an estimated 71,000 children (18 or younger) were seen in EDs each year because of medication overdose (excluding self-harm, abuse and recreational drug use).

  Among children under age 6, pharmaceuticals account for about 40% of all exposures reported to poison centers.

  In 2011, 33,071 (80%) of the 41,340 drug overdose deaths in the United States were unintentional,

Are we programmed to accept drugs as a way of life, as a means of solutions to problems, physical, mental and otherwise?   It would appear that drugs are even a form of entertainment among certain groups of people.  It may be that the dream is a warning of the drug use which is clearly a national threat. Even if some Big Brother or social intent is not deliberately programming us to control us, the devil is. 

To go back to my often mentioned belief that God will have a people who are wholly dependent upon Him only for whom Yeshua will return, keep in mind that drugs and medicine are pharmaceuticals, in Greek  pharmakeĆ­a .  The word appears in the Bible in numerous places. According to Strong’s Bible Concordance, the word means, “to administer drugs… It is drug-related sorcery, like the practice of magical-arts, and often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it.”  (See Exodus 7:11 & 22; 8:18; Isaiah 47:9; Galatians 5:20; and Rev. 18:23.)

Yes, there are times when medicines are helpful to us, but we must use them with discernment, wisdom and only when necessary, if at all. One report stated that doctors have written enough pain medications in one year for every house in America to have a bottle of prescription pain meds. Are we really in that much pain?  People have always endured pain. I wonder, are we really missing some endurance in our character that we dive for the pills the minute there’s the hint of a headache.  I realize there are some with significant ongoing pain and thank God there is relief. But the statistics above tell us there’s more going on than just avoiding endurable pain. 

I’ll sneak in a personal testimony here. I recently fell and broke my hip – oh my, was that ever painful beyond anything I’ve ever experienced.   When I first arrived in the hospital – in a great deal of pain, mind you, they gave me morphine – oh, gosh, I hated it. It may have taken an edge off but wow, did I hate the feeling that came with it. I refused to take it after that. I asked for an Ibuprofen and endured the pain, with God’s help. They couldn’t believe I’d make that choice.

After the surgery they gave me Oxycontin for the post-op pain which I can tell you was considerable. Aside from burns, bone pain is the worst kind of pain, I’m told. I believe it. I took what they gave me, still groggy from anesthesia. That was just as bad. I can’t believe people take these things for fun. I can see why the bible calls them pharmakeia.  They are kind of mind altering and do interfere with one’s consciousness.  An old Yiddish expression my mother often said comes to mind: Nisht fah mere:  Not for me!  I confess that I did rely on a good number of Ibuprofens, but not the hard stuff. I apparently was a minority of one in the rehab where I lived for a month as I recuperated. Drugs were a way of life there.  

I tell you this only to say that what I’m telling you about the drugs isn’t a piece of idealistic advice I’m giving without having suffered somewhat without them. But I can tell you that God will enable us to get through most of whatever we need to without them. [There are exceptions and I am not saying by any means to stop your meds without wise medical counsel where necessary. Diabetics and those with blood pressure and other serious issues, for instance, should not just stop taking their meds. You are not who I'm speaking to.]  

Even so, should we not rather put our dependence upon our God who is “the same yesterday, today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8) who told Israel “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you(Exodus 15:26). 

Are we not Yeshua’s whom “God anointed…with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38)?  There we have the Lord’s healing in the Tenach and in the Brit Hadashah (the OT and the NT). I could quote so many more examples of God’s healing His people. I’m sure you could too.

I find it interesting that we call ourselves “Believers”  - well then, is it not time that we actually believe what we believe?!   Yeshua left His followers with these words:  And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” (Mark 16:17, 18).

We can pray for one another to be healed!  Let’s begin to pray that God will anoint and empower His people so that we can be fully dependent upon Him and no longer subscribe to the devil’s alternative to God’s healing power. I have the feeling God will be more than happy to meet us there.  Amen? 




[i] Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the enigmatic dictator of a totalitarian state wherein the ruling Party wields total power for its own sake over the inhabitants.





[iii] For information on iatrogenic diseases go to:  http://www.yourmedicaldetective.com/public/335.cfm.  Google: Iatrogenic Disease for additional information. 

Sunday, October 12, 2014

WHAT ONLY GOD CAN DO - A PROPHETIC WORD



"Those who hope in the Lord will...soar on wings like eagles" (Is.40:31). 

This is a prophetic word I received from the Lord. It has been judged as from the Lord from several seasoned believers, but as always, judge it for yourselves. May it bring rest to your soul and a view from on high.  LL

The church is mine. All mine. My idea, My expression in the earth, My restoration plan for all humanity.   Men have since the beginning almost always had an idea of what would be best and how to express what they thought the church should be, beginning with changing the whole foundational premise of it being a spiritual entity into one of the earth. 

If you take out that which defines what humans have done to try and advance the cause of My body of people, what have you left? Is it the book of Acts?  Is it what is found in the Epistles?  How many words and idea, precepts and actions, requirements and expectations, are there that are supposedly definitive of My church that have nothing to do with Me or My biblically defined Kingdom?

You ask what needs to be restored before she is the bride for which Yeshua returns. You wonder what needs restoring.  Does that mean adding or subtracting; putting in or taking out?   There is a transition that will, and that must take place that is both and neither.  It is not what must take place in the doing or saying but in the very fiber of being of each and every member of My body.  It is to become so one with Me that your every impulse surges with life from above and is so fully God’s that it isn’t even understandable without the Spirit of God. 

The change that must and will take place is not a replacement of worldliness with godliness but such a substantive[1] realignment with the heart and purposes of God that today’s present church vocabulary cannot adequately express it, much less define or envision it. 

It will not be intellectual, nor accomplished by the best of intents of men but will be a matter of my grace entirely and completely; a transforming of what is for what will be – the material to the spiritual, that which man is incapable of accomplishing. Only I can do it. Only I can bring it to pass. The intentions and energies of man cannot. I will have a people wholly given over to God, through whom only I can and through whom I will bring the Kingdom of God to full reality.

Note: A short while later the Lord said to me – “The only thing you can do is to fill yourself with the Word of God and let it do the transforming.”  

Lonnie Lane
August 14, 2014 
  


[1] Substantive:  belonging to the real nature or essential part of a thing; essential; real or actual.

Sunday, October 5, 2014

ALPHABETICAL REPENTANCE

Jews praying in the artist's own synagogue on Yom Kippur, by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878.

I attended a large Messianic Yom Kippur service last night. About 800 people attended. As we came into the large sanctuary people everywhere were greeting one another before the service began, many who hadn’t seen each other for a while. A woman I see only periodically came up to me with a certain look in her eyes of what seemed like anger. She seemed intent on speaking with me, so that I asked her why she was looking like she was.  She glanced over my shoulder and then said, “You see that man over there,” indicating a particular man.  “I’ve seen him at other services but you should know that he has been seen with prostitutes down at the beach.”  Her eyes told me that she was horrified that he would be there, this hypocrite of a man. I glanced over to see who she was nodding toward. I don’t recall ever seeing the man before and I didn’t give it much more thought as the service was beginning at that moment. 


A woman I know fairly well was sitting next to me. At the “greet one another” time, she also nodded toward the same man who was two rows back and said, “Do you know that man there?” What was I about to hear now? Before I could say I didn’t really want to hear it, she continued without waiting for my reply. “He’s a pastor of a very successful ministry to the homeless down at the beach. He’s gotten so many people saved!”  

Well, how about that! What was in one person’s eyes sinful, was really reaching out to save people. How quickly we can sometimes judge others without knowing the facts.  I wrote a short note to the first woman saying, “The man you told me about is a pastor to the homeless at the beach, so that was why he was seen with what appeared to be unholy people. Thought you would like to know.”  As she was sitting near enough, I was able to have the note passed to her.  She read it, then read it again and tucked it into her purse but didn’t look over at me. 

I thought it quite interesting that the first woman told me what she perceived about the man, while the second woman who really knew who he is, had come to sit next to me. There were 800 people there but she was next to me at that moment to tell me who this man really was.  Sounds like God was in on that, don’t you think?  He obviously had planned the whole thing. He vindicated the man’s reputation, and I expect he corrected the woman who was so quick to spread gossip about someone she entirely misread.  


I don't know what went on in the first woman's mind and heart but I saw it as  an excellent Yom Kippur opportunity to repent for gossip - or listening to it, for judging others without true knowledge, for dishonoring someone’s reputation on suppositions, for exposing someone’s sin, and for polluting someone else’s mind (mine) with unclean tales of something they can’t do anything about. 


Paul Wilbur was leading the service and he led us in worship and in a group repentance, a portion of which is akin to that which is said in synagogues all over the world. Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year on God's calendar, the Day of Atonement. It is a day to ask God for forgiveness and the day the high priest applied blood to the altar in the Holy of Holies in the temple to atone for the sins of the nation.  It's the one and only day the high priest alone was permitted to enter there. It was the veil to that chamber in the temple that was torn when Yeshua's blood paid the ultimate price for the sins not just for the nation of Israel but for the entire world, for whosoever receives His atonement.  HalleluYah!

In the synagogues confession of sin is done corporately, as in “forgive us” rather than "forgive me" because we rarely sin so that it only affects just ourselves. One way or another, our sins very often affect other people so we are all corporately victimized by sin. When we sin we are not the people we would be if we had not  sinned. Even small sins have an effect on our personalities or realities. They separate us from God and from others, though we may not be aware of it.  I remember reading once that from a psychological standpoint, guilt is the most destructive thing to someone’s personality and character.  Sin affects us spiritually first; then our psyches are affected by our spiritual condition.  Peace and joy, for instance, are spiritual matter primarily, not just a matter of circumstances. They are God's doing in our lives when He is lord in our lives.


Yom Kippur is also when God decides whose name will be written in His book of life for the next year - or not. As believers in Yeshua we rejoice that our names are written in the Lamb’s book of life, not just yearly but forever as we remain His faithful disciples. "But there shall by no means enter in anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life" (Rev.21:27). The way out of what defiles, etc. is true repentance, from the heart, not just a verbal confession.  For us as believers, repentance is a way of life, isn't it? Pretty much a daily occurrence, as we go through our lives in this fallen world.  But on this day, we have an opportunity to repent for sins that we may not have realized if we take the opportunity to examine ourselves – Yom Kippur style.  


This would include a list of sins that a person confesses in alphabetical order, one sin per letter. (Many of the Psalms are also written line by line following the Hebrew alphabet, one line per letter.)  The pronouns are not “I” but “we” in the confessions because God’s ideal is that His people, be it Israel or the church, relate as a community, caring about one another, respecting one another, honoring one another. The ‘love chapter” (1 Corinthians 13:4-8a) is all about relationships, and how we are toward one another, not about feelings. 

Out of the 44 statements that make up the confessions, only four statements relate to transgressions committed by man against God in the strictest sense.  Most are sins having to do with our relationships with other people.  


Each line begins with a statement "For the sin we committed before You through or by means of..." and then continues in Hebrew alphabetical order (as noted by the bold letter -->) ... בּאנם (compulsion), בּבלי (ignorance), בּגלױ (publicly), or בדע×Ŗ וּבמ×Øמה (knowingly and deceitfully), etc.  Not all sin is 'driven' in the same way, as these words indicate.

The confessions of repentance continue:   "We have incurred guilt, we have betrayed, we have stolen, we have spoken falsely, we went astray, we led others astray, we have scoffed, we have mocked, we tricked or we misled others…" to name a few. 

Not having to wait for the high priest to perform his duty of atonement, we can be free of guilt immediately upon realizing it and confessing it as sin since we have a greater High Priest, Yeshua! The blood of our Atoning Messiah washed away every sin and all the guilt that went with the sin. We have been freed from guilt and shame, by His blood. 

Repentance is the way to God's great mercy.  We have been set free to live a life of immediate repentance and total forgiveness any time we become aware of a transgression, not only for ourselves, but to offer it to others. Those of us who are Yeshua's fully realize what a wonderful gift repentance actually is. We thank you, Lord, for the power in the gift of repentance, not just on Yom Kippur but always.