God’s Preliminary Judgments?
Friday, December 17th, 2010As I write this (January 1994), some 20,000 victims of the recent California earthquake suffer in improvised and inadequate tent shelters, in abysmal conditions, totally unfamiliar to their accustomed and normally privileged lifestyles. A soldier-enforced curfew seeks to prevent widespread looting, but no legal restraint impedes the greedy from charging exorbitant prices for the simplest amenities, even water.
Understanding Israel’s Dilemma (2000)
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010The violence and fury unleashed by Ariel Sharon’s escorted tour of the Temple Mount has astonished Israel and the world. At this writing, nearly a month after, it has not abated. For the first time in Israel’s history the violence spilled out into the streets between civilian Arabs and Jews within Israel’s own borders in the cities of Jaffa, Haifa, Nazareth and Tel Aviv.
Some Sober Prophetic Reflections (1993)
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010It seems as if God’s restraint is being increasingly lifted and removed from the world. There is a horrendous breaking-down and erosion of the most elementary values and decency. My soul is oppressed by the mounting hellishness, violence, mindless and conscienceless blood lust, terror and hatred. It is as if the whole moral order is unraveling, even the minimal legal restraints of society, to reveal the naked evil that is in the world.
What ought we to be about in God in the Last Days?
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010There must be a cleaving to the prophetic word appropriate to the Last Days’ purposes of God. At its heart is Israel’s final redemption as obtained through a Church, alerted and prepared through such a word, for its own self-transfiguring and essential part in that restoration.
Sent from God – Isaiah’s call
Monday, March 8th, 2010“Who will go for us?” The word “who” haunts me; it suggests very few candidates. How often do you find a believer who has risen above the prevailing culture and the correctness of his doctrine, who really knows God as God, who sees God as terrifying, stupefying and vast? When was the last time you met someone who has seen God in His greatest act, namely, the revelation of the nature of God in His suffering and death, which has ever and always been His nature? The only thing that the cross did was reveal what God always was and is; He is a servant, a sent one Himself.
Hosea and Gomer – God’s Endtime Strategy
Thursday, December 31st, 2009God gives us the prophet Hosea and his relationship with his adulterous wife as being a perfect parallel of His relationship with an adulterous Israel. The prophet has to experience God’s grief for His nation. If Hosea is going to be the mouthpiece of God, he is going to proclaim some hard things, and therefore needs to share God’s grief for the people he is addressing.
Weakness and Foolishness
Thursday, December 10th, 2009God delights in choosing the things that are weak and foolish in the eyes of the world to usher in the holy and glorious. He wants to rub this into our consciousness, and that the way of the kingdom is utterly contrary to the way of the world.
Bulgarian Translations
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Click for a directory of Bulgarian translation resources or navigate directly to them via the “Online Resources” menu at left.
Quelques Pensées à propos du Réveil Actuel – une Invitation à la Prudence
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Alors que je tente d’aborder un sujet qui a déjà divisé une partie de peuple de Dieu en deux camps qui sont l’un et l’autre sur la défensive, je vous demande d’être bienveillants. Celui qui lance un appel à la prudence se retrouve en effet dans une situation difficile, si ce n’est dangereuse, car aux yeux de beaucoup, il a l’air de s’opposer à des choses saintes qui procèdent de l’Esprit de Dieu.
Israel and the Outpouring of the Spirit
Sunday, November 1st, 2009The outpouring of the Spirit needs to be restored to the context of God’s intention, centering in the restoration of a people who have not even the faintest notion of their eternal destiny, or a desire for it, and want only to be as other nations. Nevertheless, God’s word toward them will be fulfilled; His gifts and callings are irrevocable, or God voids Himself as God.
God as Father
Saturday, November 15th, 2008I rarely, if ever, call on God the Father. My prayers are always directly to the Lord Jesus. Even though Jesus said we should pray to the Father in Jesus’ name, I pray directly to the Lord. I am more comfortable with the word Lord than I am with the word Father. Maybe this is […]
Abraham’s Ascent – The Necessity of Every Believer
Sunday, August 31st, 2008In Oswald Chamber’s devotional My Utmost for His Highest for April 26, entitled “The Supreme Climb,” we read: The great point of Abraham’s faith in God was that he was prepared to do anything for God. He was there to obey God, no matter to what belief he went contrary. Strange that one’s beliefs about […]
An Expression of Loving Concern
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008A message given by Art Katz to a closely-knit group of community/fellowships known as “The Move” (The Move of the Spirit) in 1988, Lubbock, Texas. It is a message given in the context of a movement that celebrates the Holy Spirit while, at the same time, essentially ignores some of the classic doctrines of the […]
Gleanings from Psalms 18 in the Light of Current Revival Phenomena
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008I am going to take look at portions of Psalms 18 because this psalm evokes a sense of God that I think we desperately need. The sense of God is the only all-important reality. And what is the church without a sense of God or the holiness of God?
Message to a Secular University Audience
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008You may think that Christianity is derived from a Jewish foundation in religion, and that it is some narrow faith restricted to those who are Jews or Westerners, but that is not true. There is only one God, one faith, and one way for all men and for all nations. Let’s begin in the Gospel […]
The Gospel in its Cosmic Setting
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008When you hear the word gospel, you need to think in terms of a cosmic overview of God’s supreme wisdom of a redemptive kind for the whole of mankind. The gospel is more than a little truncated formula. Paul speaks of “my Gospel.” There is a sense of affectionate, personal devotion to the great message […]
Apocalyptic Eschatology
Monday, May 26th, 2008I have an outline of certain last days’ events, but there is no way that I can adhere to a linear statement or discussion. You will find that I will keep coming back to certain themes in the interweaving of strands that make up the whole. These are the last days, and I have a […]
The cost of showing mercy
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008It cost God much to pour out and reveal His mercy, namely, the death of His Son in the most excruciating agony. What will it cost us to show the same? Is mercy still mercy if it comes without cost? Religious politeness we can perform. If mercy does not come at cost to the person […]
The New Anti-Semitism
Thursday, May 15th, 2008We all know that anti-Semitism is increasing in remarkable leaps and bounds. The Jews call it the new anti-Semitism. What makes it new, ironically, is that there is a reviving of the allusions to Jews requiring Gentile children’s blood in order to mix in with their matzo and other ceremonial things. This is an unbelievable, […]
Widows and Slaves, Employers and Employees
Monday, May 12th, 2008There is a growing awareness on the part of many for apostolic and prophetic foundations. These foundations need to be understood and developed, and the Lord has given us a very precious perspective on that word “apostolic” from an insight on some comments Paul makes on widows and slaves. It seems just a minor note […]
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