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Begin the End

by Lee Frank
09/17/14
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BEGIN THE END (As of January 2009) (The following is simply my opinion … You need to study the word yourselves) Approximately 27 years ago as of this date, without going into detail of the “experience”, I was given a command to “SEEK THE KINGDOM OF GOD!” So I began a search with no instructions in where to begin or definition of what was meant. The only place I could think of to begin was at a place where the people would believe (or at least listen) to what I had to say without looking at me as if I had fallen off the deep end of sanity…A Church. WRONG! Over the next several years I visited for brief periods of time so many different churches of different denominations I have lost count. The last one being a place where I even taught myself to play the harmonica and was a member of the band. During all this time I was also reading the Bible, listening to radio and TV ministers and buying and absorbing tape cassettes on the interpretations of various subjects; End times prophecy, Angels and others. I also purchased a “Strongs Concordance” and spent hours on end doing word studies. This all went on between 1981 to the beginning of 1991 at which time I gave up. In 1993 I met a Lady named Kim (I call her my Kimmie) and we were married in 1994. Kimmie made a statement after listening to the narration of my past 10 years or so that rocked me back on my heels! “Lee” she says, “The Kingdom of God is within you!” Now where else do you suppose that statement is made? And what a different light was put on “the Search!”) I have not attended a Church of any denomination for many years now. I miss the fellowship of other believers but I just had enough of trying to be “righteous” by following all the little rules that I feel have simply re-placed the “law” that we have been freed from…No more guilt trips for me …I know I will never be good enough and just thank God that he sees me differently than I see myself. So with that said I now record in writing what I believe and will continue to believe until someone proves me wrong….We are no longer in need of a school teacher for the Spirit himself will lead and guide us into all truth. Keeping in mind that at this stage of our development we have been given approximately 10 percent usage of our brain capacity, so if we don’t understand something, it doesn’t change the truth of it. There is nothing impossible with Our Lord God Almighty! First of all we must remember that the Bible gives us only information that we are capable of understanding. The questions we have that have no answers (Where did Cain find a wife?) are things, which are not important to know when it comes to our salvation but to me it makes for interesting discussion. Starting with the beginning…God created the heavens and the Earth...and the earth was waste and void. The other planets in our Solar system must have a protective purpose to the Earth that we are simply not aware of. However it is said that the Planet Jupiter (Its interesting how we have named the planets after other gods) protects us from inbound space debris, ie: asteroids etc. So the Earth was waste and void? Did something cause this condition or was it simply the first stage of its creation? Maybe the Earth was filled with dinosaurs during this time of millions? of years? for the sole purpose of being turned into oil for later use by man. Even time itself being created by God for our use, not his. There was a rebellion, with “Lucifer” and a third of the Angels being cast from heaven to the Earth below. Maybe Lucifer was the “asteroid” that brought about the condition of “waste and void?” and the Earth has been his kingdom ever since. Once the dinosaurs (Reptiles the size of small mountains) were removed it became possible for a different kind of creature. So man was created with a bone removed from him to form his helpmate and companion, Eve, the wo-man. This man and woman were placed in a home called “the garden of Eden”, filled to the brim with the Spirit of God himself and living a perfect life of ease and comfort. And then? Another rebellion! And all the decendents of man has been born in sin from that moment on. Sin being defined simply as rebellion against the ways of our Lord. The punishment and curse placed on them for this rebellion: First of all the Spirit of God removed from them both. For Eve… Subservience to her husband and pain in giving birth. For Adam…Work and sweat for his food … And they found themselves cast out of the garden into a hot, desolate environment filled with thistles and thorns (The earth was cursed along with them) and having to struggle for their food. From that day the sin that every girl child is born with is the desire to control her man and be in charge and every boy child the desire to play and live a life of ease. (No Sweat!) Thus we have the “white collar (professionals) and blue collar (workers). Notice that in days gone by the ‘working classes were called the peasants, peons, the un-washed masses and so on. The desire to resist sweating for our bread is simply rebellion against the curse that has been placed on us. As for the woman I have no problem believing that she is as capable and intelligent enough to be in charge as a man is and do the same work as the man except where physical strength is required. My concern is while we are all out here competing with one another for the jobs… Who is raising our children? ------------------------------------------- Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy, cast out into the land of nod (whatever and wherever that was) and takes himself a wife from some kind of oriental race of mankind? Then another son “Seth” is born and it is from him that the history of the Hebrews begins. There are other sons and daughters born of Adam and Eve, but their names and descendents are not recorded, because it is the genealogy of God’s only begotten Son that he wants us to be aware of. As the years go by and the Earth is being filled with the descendents of man and all in rebellion against God, he looks down and sees all the evil being done and is sorry he ever created us! But there is one man out of the hundreds of thousands? Millions? Named Noah who does Love the Lord God and whose heart and mind is open and able to receive instructions from the Spirit. Noah is informed by the Spirit of God, or has a vision of God, or hears the voice of God or whatever the means of communication was, that all of mankind was going to be destroyed by drowning and he is given 120 years to build a boat. The moisture needed by the Earth during these hundreds of years was given by means of a mist rising from the ground, so Noah must have been ridiculed and looked upon as being one crazy old man when he started warning the people that water was going to fall from the sky! One hundred and twenty years later….surprise, surprise…water falling from the skies. By the buckets full and with people drowning all around him and screaming for life jackets (sorry, there aren’t any) Noah and his family with as many animals as could be stuffed aboard his “Ark” floats off into the sunset and survives “The Flood” ---------------------------------------------- Noah had three sons: Japheth, Shem and Ham…and we are told that Ham sees his Fathers’ nakedness. We are not told exactly what went on or happened between them. Only that Noah was drunk on wine and Japheth and Shem went into his tent backwards and covered him with a blanket. And a terrible curse was placed on Ham and all his descendents. What was the curse? We don’t know but he was the father of the Canaanites... ----------------------------------------------- After a few more hundred years or so another rebellion takes place in that instead of multiplying and filling the Earth as they were told, they all stayed together in one place and built a city called Babylon and thought to reach the heavens by means of building a tower. God looks down and says, “Now look what they are doing and if we just leave them alone there is nothing under the sun that they won’t do.” So he reached down and confused their language so that they no longer understood one another and scattered them throughout the Earth. Notice here that it doesn’t say that he changed any ones color or squinted any ones eyes or did anything else. He didn’t create different races of mankind here. He just confused their language. Remember that these are the descendants of man. So now we have the Dutch, French, Russians, and Italians etc. All white Caucasians with their own language. Now tracing all the way back to the 3rd son of Noah, Shem who had a son, Abram who had a son named Abraham and now we have another man who loved God and eschewed evil. Abraham packs up all that he owns which included servants for he was a wealthy man and left the city of Ur and headed for only God knew where. Abraham was a man who did as the Lord commanded without question. God promises Abraham a son, but as the years went by and his wife Sarah just kept getting older and older and not getting pregnant, he decides to take matters in his own hands and give God a little help. Sarah’s handmaiden, a young Egyptian girl turns out to be willing so before ya know it! Abraham has a son! And names him Ishmael. Ishmael was not the son that God promised, however he was Abraham’s first born so he promised that he would become the Father of many Kings, however he and his Mother Hagar (the young Egyptian handmaiden) were cast out of Abraham’s company and sent away. A short time later God opened up Sarah’s womb (for she was barren) and the promised son was born and named Isaac. Ishmael was the Father of the Arabs and Isaac the Father of the Israelites, later to be known as the Jews and these two half brothers have fought with one another ever since. Isaac had two sons who were twins, Jacob and Esau. Esau hooked up with Ishmael and Jacob was the son that God used to continue the creation of the “Chosen ones”. Jacob has a dream and God changed his name to Israel and he has 12 sons who become the 12 tribes of Israel. One of these 12 sons was named Joseph who was sold to the Egyptians by 10 of his jealous brothers and after serving a while as a slave winds up tossed into the dungeons because of the vicious lies of the Pharaohs’ wife. It turns out that Joseph has a gift of interpreting dreams and is taken out of the dungeons and made the head honcho, 2nd in power only to the Pharaoh himself. One thing leads to another and Joseph’s family, a total of 75 souls are set up in Egypt, where Israel grows old and dies but not before placing his blessings on the two sons of Joseph … Ephraim and Manasseh. It would be interesting to note here that Joseph’s wife was an Egyptian. Without going into detail of these blessings, I believe that Great Britain descended from Manasseh and the United States from Ephraim. (BARE WITH ME HERE! I AM NOT WHITE SUPREMACIST!) And for the next 400 years the Egyptians enslave them.!) Moving ahead a few hundred years we are given the story of Ruth, which I believe is the answer to the immigration problem in this country. If only the constitution had given us the freedom of worship instead of the freedom of “religion”. Moving ahead another several hundred years…It took King David to bring these 12 stiff-necked, bull headed, complaining and stubborn tribes of Israel all together into one unified nation of Israel and King Solomon to kick all the false gods and their temples out of the country. Once King Solomon was gone the nation was divided up between his two sons, Raoboam and Jeroboam. (Please excuse the spelling of these names). The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin in the South and the other 10 tribes in the North. The Southern tribes were called the “House of Judah” later becoming the “Jews”. And the Northern tribes were called the “House of Israel (However there were some of all the houses who remained with the house of Judah) Eventually the House of Israel was taken captive by the Assyrians and became known as the “so called” Lost 10 tribes” but I don’t believe that they were ever Lost…They simply wound up migrating further North into Europe and their sons and daughters mixed with and married the Russians, Italians, Dutch, Germans and so on who were already there. And after a few generations of that the House of Israel lost their “identity” and eventually forgot who they were and where they came from. So now we have a few million “mongrel” Israelites. Even after being taken captive by the Babylonians and 70 years later returning to their land and losing it again to the Romans, the house of Judah are still the Jews! Even today after 2000 years of being cast out of their land they have returned once again and are still the Jews. -------------------------------------- THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH! So says the Lord our God... And since he truly loves his children and really did not want to destroy us all he sent someone to die in our place. He impregnates a young virgin girl name Mary with his own Spirit and his only begotten Son is born of the Heavenly Father and an earthly Mother! And they called his name Emanuel that means God among us! Jesus, the Christ, our Messiah walked this Earth for about 33 years and offered himself up as the sacrifice for the sins of us all. Being without sin himself and the only man who had the capacity to obey ALL the laws of God. There was one moment while dieing on the cross he cried out to his Father “Why hast thou forsaken me?” I believe that it was at that moment God took his Spirit from him as he did Adam and Jesus became sin, in order to be qualified to die for the sins of the world. A few short years after this the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the temple of God as Jesus said they would. And now we can choose to become a child of God by accepting the sacrifice of his son and believing in our heart that he rose again after 3 days in the tomb and will someday return as promised to gather us all up and take us home where we belong. I have heard a few politicians make the statement that we are all the children of God but that is simply not true. A person must first accept Jesus our Lord the way he commanded and become a child of God by choice! ----------------------------------- My message to the Church…. ”HEAR ‘OH ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD THE LORD IS ONE!” IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP AND KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND FROM WHERE YOU HAVE COME! Read and study the book he has given us, believing and trusting the Spirit of God to reveal what truth you are capable of dealing with. Time is short but know that we are more important to our Father than sparrows so be at peace and know that all is well. If we keep on the way we are going how long will it be before homosexual marriages are legalized across the nation and unwanted babies are sold for parts! (These things are already happening! But only here and there for now) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- God creates both the evil and the good. I believe this based on two things. The 9th chapter of Romans tells us that the Pharaoh of Egypt was created to do what he did and then destroyed by drowning in the Red Sea along with his armies. The response to anyone who asks why is simply “Who are you, to question God?” In the book of Amos there are two questions asked that have only one obvious answer. One is “Can two walk together unless they are agreed?” And the other is “Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord has not done it?” So there are people in this world who were created evil. Who are capable of rape, murder, and perversions of all sorts with absolutely no sense of remorse? There are also people in this world who are basically good people who simply refuse to accept Jesus as their savior, believing they are in no need of a savior because they are good within themselves. These people may be non-smokers, don’t cuss, don’t dance, don’t go to movies etc. etc. They follow all the rules of decent behavior; give to the poor and just good folks. In all appearances they seem to be good Christian people. They may or may not even attend Church regularly. And then there are the ones who have repented, agreeing with the Lord that they are sinners, are truly sorry about Adam and Eves’ rebellion which placed them in this condition and knowing in their hearts that it is because of them that Jesus suffered and died in their place. These people also may or may not attend Church regularly. Some of them failing miserably in trying to not, smoke, drink, go to nasty movies etc, etc, but are continually asking for forgiveness and they just keep on trying to be as “good” as they can be but with peace in their hearts knowing that God understands the condition they are in and covers them with the blood of his Son and chooses not to see their sins. (I believe that this is the group that I fit in) God have Mercy on us all! And then there are those who simply choose to do evil, knowing in their hearts what they are doing and choosing to do it anyway because it is more fun and exciting. They flaunt their evil ways in the face of the Lord and society, refusing to accept the truth of Jesus our Lord they party and dance their way through life with abandon and no shame. ------------------------------------------ Where do people go when they die in this world? There are three conditions depending on which of the above groups they fit in? 1. There is a place where there is no consciousness or thought … 2. A place called Gahanna where it is hot and a gnashing of teeth… 3. A place under an alter in the presence of God… Number one for the people who went through life believing that they were good but did not accept the sacrifice of our Lord. Who will be judged according to their ways and left on Earth for another thousand years, given the opportunity to try again. With Satan chained up and no temptation to do evil, it will be a little easier… Number two for those who choose to do evil… Number three for the born again Christian…who will be priests and kings under Jesus, and ruling the world during the “millennium” of a thousand years. When the thousand years are spent and the final rebellion put down…Then there will be new heavens and a new earth with no more pain, sorrow or death. As for those who were created to do evil I don’t believe it would be just to send them to a place of pain and suffering because they had no choice in doing what they did. So they would either have to be in group number one above or simply cease to exist as if they had never been. Another question with no easy answers. And that is what I believe……