* Acts 26: Receiving specific instructions from God.




When we are called by God to be a minister of Jesus Christ, God also teaches us what we are to say and do.  We don't learn to be a minister of God by hearing from other men.  We don't learn to be a minister of God by going to a seminary.  Neither do we copy other men. 

Like the apostle Paul, we learn directly from God.

I John 2

20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

27 But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.


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Paul reports that which Jesus said to him on the road to Damascus when Jesus appeared to him.

Acts 26

16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;


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1982:  God said to me: The falling away,  which Paul spoke of in II Thessalonians 2, was not men falling away from the churches, but the churches "falling away" from the scriptures.

2016:  God said to me:  "That which restrained antichrist (held antichrist back) was the scripture.  When churches set aside the scriptures, the restraint holding antichrist away was removed and antichrist came into the churches and set up doctrines contrary to Bible."  

2020:  The two things which had to happen before Jesus returns have happened and continue to happen. (antichrist, the apostasy, in the churches ... and the gospel preached in all the world) Therefore the way is open for the return of Jesus and the great tribulation to come upon this world.  No one knows exactly when that will happen but we can see the "season" which preceded this happening, just as we see the leaves bud on the trees and we know spring is the season coming.  Or when those leaves begin to turn color and start to fall from the trees and we know winter is not far away.

When we see wickedness increase, we know the wrath of God is coming soon because of that wickedness that we see.

Wickedness is a way of life opposite from the scripture.  Therefore the open acceptance by society today of fornication, adultery, homosexuals/lesbians, drunkenness, reviling, various orgies, taking vengeance, railings, deceptions, lying, stealing, practicing superstitions, and such show us wickedness. 


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II Peter 3:11-14   Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

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Luke 21:34-36   And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 

For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.



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Jesus, by HIS Spirit, brings thoughts to our minds to reveal truth to us.  

We share that which Jesus has revealed to us and also we share those things Jesus will show us in the future.


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