The Crown Of Life
The power of the anti-christ, the “instead-of christ”, the militant “anything but Christ” spirit has nearly sealed it’s control over the peoples of the West. Everywhere, Christians are now captive players in what used to be called The West, or Christendom - countries once governed by men of conscience with sincere faith in the Bible, by laws modeled after The Law, whose families were blessed and protected by God. In these lands, they are now told from the top to the bottom that God and His Christ are officially wrong, by proclamation of man and state.We see the effects of this on everything from abortion, to anti-blasphemy or hate speech laws (which target primarily Christians), to starving disabled men and women to death, to legalized infanticide, to state-encouraged sodomy, to the government trampling of property rights and nurses being fired for refusing to dispense abortion pills. The abominations are innumerable and unmentionable.
Day in and day out we are subjected to an unending, ever increasing barrage of propaganda and mind numbing, slanderous lies. Likewise, wicked corrupt men and women distort and defy our laws even as they create abominable “interpretations” of law that institutionalize unrighteousness. Officially cursing the nations as they curse God and His Law which is written in their conscience. Openly they defy Him, saying “The Lord shall not see, the Lord shall not judge”. In their arrogance is their deception made complete. The spirit of iniquity is at its full.
And what shall we Christian soldiers do?
It is time to wake up and heed the call. Mount up and join/rejoin your units. Or, form new ones as the Lord commands - it is His army. Maybe you are Special Forces? (If so, you must seek the Lord’s training, now and absolutely.)
Every soldier in an army is given a weapon of war. Whether he is a cook, or a mechanic, or a janitor, or a pencil pusher or an infantryman - when they are in the field, in the battle zone, all are armed. This is because, at any given time they may be called to fight for their kingdom, for the power which they represent, under whose authority they are compelled. And truly, when an army is encircled, and all positions are taken by the enemy, and the final attack has begun - every soldier is called to his primary duty to fight for life. To war. Not to mop floors, or cook or to educate. To fight with every last ounce of his being because it is the final battle, and all the stops are loose.
Today, is spiritually such a day.
It is time to wake our brothers and sisters in the Lord, and exhort them before the coming battle. For we as Zion are in this very same situation. The world and the forces of antichrist are mobilizing for the final battle, even as they see the wrath being prepared to be poured out upon them (defiant and proud to the very end).
These are days in which great deeds will be done. These are also days in which great opportunities will be wasted by foolish, lazy servants. The servants will not be lost, but they shall bring very little with them to eternity. “If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”
(1 Corinthians 3:15)
Why else are we here? We must fight and prepare as soldiers, as athletes. Laying aside every encumbrance and weight and striving against the sin that so easily besets, preparing to run this race as if to win. For why practice? Why prepare? Because we strive for the prize, of the HIGH calling in Jesus Christ. The crown of Life. As soldiers, we must not entangle ourselves with the ways of this world, but be ready at all times to answer the call of Christ to give up what we call our lives and live and die for Him, and for His Life which is eternal.
These are great days. Great Light is growing even as the darkness grows deeper. We are called to live and to die for the Lord Jesus. And die most of us will. And die some of you won’t, but will persevere unto the coming of the Lord Jesus, standing and prevailing over the power of the enemy through the grace of God, by which you are *sealed*.
But none of these things can be yours, none of this glory shall be revealed to you, lest you are willing to give Him everything. Are you truly willing and ready to die for Him? The time of your testimony may be closer than you think. And it is by the word of our testimony, by the Blood of Jesus Christ, by which the enemy will be overcome.
In this final battle, it is beside the deaths of many, precious in God’s sight, that the prince of death finally be defeated, judged, cast down and destroyed. How long will we suffer, and how long shall the blood of our brethren soak the earth? Until the full number is complete. Until the testimony is sealed. Until the mystery of God is made complete, and then the prince of this world shall be judged. And truly, he is judged already. But these things must be fulfilled. “… until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.” (Revelation 6:11)
This wicked world has turned openly against Christ. And the momentum is gathering, though this is hidden to many. But what do we continue to hear? That we must enshrine homosexuality and every other manner of unrighteousness set at liberty the rapist and the murderer, and that the Jews and Religions are the barrier to world peace. Meanwhile crime and drug use are rampant in the West. Children and men and women and societies are being swallowed whole by the power of the evil one, no longer hedged about by the protection of God - by the faithful men of God in their midst. And the solution the world offers us? Institutions. “Counseling”. Anti-depressants. But the gospel of Christ? The only real and true solution to every ill of man and the world? Unacceptable. Politically incorrect. Shameful. Illegal. Punishable by death. You name it. Anything, anything but Christ - the world howls.
It is time for those who are called by the name of Christ to no longer fear men or false authorities. To no longer be ashamed of the Name and the Power of the Lord Jesus Christ. To turn from our own ways and seek God with all that we are. That time is now, for the flood is coming. The lie is coming. And many shall be washed away by it, and will be unable to stand.
Do not turn back. Walk out your door today and stand up for Christ in the face of the prince of this world. Follow this testimony wherever it leads you, until the morning dawns and the day star arises in your heart.
We must all pick up the Sword the Lord has given each of us, and fight this last battle. In the face of death, and even to it.
To the Crown of Life.
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