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Prophecies of The End Times by David Nelmes
(3/15/2005)
Revelations 6:9 - 11 (KJV)
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the
alter the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and
for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and
avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"
11 And white robes were given unto every one of
them...
 If the spirit of God is in any part of you,
you will not want to become thirsty for blood and vengeance and
you would neither request nor expect God to agree with you about
having earned the right to kill other people. If the spirit of
God is in any part of you, you will not want to judge, but will
want to embrace love and forgiveness. If the spirit of God is in
any part of you, you will always and forever want what is best
for the earth and all who exist there.
 The
spirit of God is in every part of you. If you open your
heart to hear his voice, you will see that the verse above, and
thousands of similar verses, have nothing to do with the loving
and forgiving God that is part of you. You can find his love and
forgiveness and really feel it...deep, deep inside that part of
you that has never totally forgotten the goodness of our
creator.
How can the same God, the same Jesus, who looked
upon his attackers while hanging from the cross, feel such
compassion and forgiveness for those people and then later
desire to kill them? Only a god that can change and only a god
that reacts the way man does, could act this way. Only a god
without the capacity to forgive can be this way...and that god
is not the God that was part of Jesus, but a god made by man and
embellished by stories of self-rightousness aimed to control by
fear through the threat of punishment and death.
If it was my destiny to die for the sake of
spreading Gods word, and then after dyeing, if I were to cry out
for vengeance and the death of my attackers, then it would be
very clear that I never understood the word of God in the first
place. Love and forgiveness is not temporary or set aside here
and there to accomplish ungodly things. In the Book of
Revelation, John's vision of these angry martyrs only represents
his own anger and feelings of the revenge he wanted and this has
nothing to do with anything God would ever fathom to pursue.
It's what he felt was his right to demand upon God for having
lived self-righteously and having sacrificed. The reality is
that God does not require nor demand these things from us and
therefore there is no real grounds for having a right to punish
those who did not follow any of the rules and regulations
created and interpreted by man.
The Book of Revelation may possibly be based upon
John having actually seen some future events, just like
Nostradamus or any other psychic...but his perception of what
these events were, what they meant and the spirit in which God
was involved...these are all clearly John's own personal gloom
and doom depictions of who he felt God was and how he felt God
would interact and how he felt man should be punished. There is
no New Testament forgiveness here, but only the Old Testament's
angry, vengeful and unforgiving god. The Book of Revelations has
nothing to do with God.
As with John, many may wish to push their version
of God upon us and will march on the capital city with posters
and chants to end abortion...while also having accepted the
concept that God should kill all non believers in a bloody
massacre at the end of times. The pursuit of life or death
cannot be placed on the same plate. Only one is true...the other
is not. Your god is either a god that cherishes life or a god
that destroys life...he cannot be both because his own words
indicate that a house divided against itself cannot stand. None
of this adds up in religions eyes which is why religion does not
work, because God is a God of love and not of fear and death.
Man has added the stories and perceptions of fear and death to
attract and control by fear, but that has nothing to do with who
God is.
Many who are followers of the end times are
anxiously waiting for the tragic events of the Book of
Revelations to unfold... so can it also be said that they are
the looking forward to people being tortured and killed? Their
desired future of Gods kingdom on earth depends upon it. Jesus
said is was just as sinful to have lusted after your neighbors
wife as is was to have actually been with her. By the same
token, would it be just as sinful to desire and condone the mass
murder of all non-believers as to having performed the mass
murder of millions yourself?
My thought is this...if God is such an angry and
vengeful entity, why would anyone want to be with him? This
explains, of course, why he has to threaten us to force us to
obey him and love him and worship him. Doesn't any of this sound
like a story of Zeus gone bad with hints of a modern day
dictatorship? Even within your own lives, haven't we all learned
that love is only really worth it when it is given freely and
unconditionally...and without threat of repercussion? Have we
somehow surpassed Gods own capacity to understand love...or has
our past so terribly misinterpreted and underestimated Gods
capacity to love and we are only now just starting to fathom how
much more glorious, beautiful, peaceful and loving he is?
If God is not behind the tragic events of the day,
what then is responsible for the worlds condition? We are. On so
many levels, both spiritual and physical, we have created and
continue to support the hostile man-made and natural
environments that exists here. We have accepted, eerily enjoy
and also look forward to both man-made and natural tragic
events. These events serve to both justify our religious
positions and to provide entertainment in predicting them and
watching then again afterwards. Even though it is often not
apparent, we are very powerful spiritual beings. We have, are,
and will continue to manifest things upon this earth based upon
what we think we want...regardless of the pain and suffering
that comes along with it. When we stop accepting tragedies as
inevitable and stop desiring they occur to justify our beliefs
and provide entertainment, they will stop...in just the same way
Jesus stopped the storm. Jesus saw the storm as neither
necessary nor desirable and it simply ceased to exist.
There may be evil and misguided actions performed
by people in the world, but still at the heart of most men is a
genuine desire to help and be helpful, to love and be loved. We
confuse our emotions and our abilities at times...leading to
hostilities and misunderstandings, but overall we would rather
have peace. Even though it's not immediately helpful, most of
our fighting is because we believe it's a necessary step towards
achieving peace. Granted, we might not have figured out how to
achieve peace...but it's still what we truly want and we will
continue to work with it until we finally figure it out in the
ages to come.
Think for a moment about recent stories of the
kindness, love, and compassion that the worlds people
demonstrate, especially after tragedies when our needs are
greatest. If man has this capacity and desire to help...if man
has this capacity for compassion...if man has this capacity for
forgiveness...if man has this capacity for kindness...if man has
this capacity for good...if man has this capacity to choose love
over hate, how much more do you think our Father...our Creator
has the capacity to do these things? Other than what centuries
old beliefs have told you, can you see in yourself today, the
light that is a real part of God and can you see that this light
can not and will not ever, ever pursue anything other than love
and peace. Anything that says otherwise or does otherwise is not
in line with the desires of God.
Prophecies of The End Times are not from God. God
is not looking to destroy the world and punish us. God would
never do anything to evoke fear. Absolute love casts out all
fear...so God cannot be Love and then do things that would
create fear. Those two concepts cannot exist at the same time.
These view points come from a total misunderstanding of God as
being vengeful and angry as opposed to being loving and
forgiving. So many of the things written about God, especially
the things that are centuries upon centuries old, were written
from a frightened and limited perspective. It's time to let go
of these primitive beliefs and start seeing God as the loving
and forgiving god he really is.
History sometimes has a tendency to repeat itself
because there are lessons we still need to learn and certain
events will occur again and again until we choose to see things
differently and change what we are being and doing. The concept
that Jesus will return to establish a worldly kingdom has
already come and gone. The ancient belief was that Jesus, the
Messiah, would come to establish a new government...and when he
made it apparent that it was not his mission to create a
physical world government...everything changed and he was
killed. Today, again many are waiting for Jesus to come and
create an earthly kingdom, a primary purpose of the existence of
the Book of Revelation, and it's not going to happen because his
mission is a spiritual one, not a physical one. Because we often
forget we are spiritual beings temporarily interacting here, we
often confuse Gods goals and desires for us as being physical,
and they are not. Gods goals and desires for us are spiritual
and they have nothing to do with anything physical.
Spiritual things are eternal...physical things are
not. God is eternal...he created us eternal and he, Jesus and
the Holy Spirit will continue to work with us for ages and ages
to come until we also choose once again to only pursue the
eternal and then to forever leave this physical place where
everything dies and nothing is eternal. God didn't create this
mess we are in, so he's not going to do anything to extend the
time we are here, but is doing everything possible to give us
the tools to shorten our time here and finally come home to
him.
Meanwhile, due to the concept of the end times and
the world being destroyed, many lives are possibly being wasted
and tormented with thoughts of no future and thoughts of pending
wars and tribulations...all leading up to living in a state of
fear which is totally out of line with Gods desire that each day
be peaceful, joyful, forgiving and loving...with no regrets from
the day before and no apprehensions of tomorrow to mess up your
today.
Know this...God is not unaware of you. God loves
you beyond anything ever imagined. God is waiting patiently for
your heart to be open to walk through life without fear...and
then you will truly hear him and feel his guidance. While you
are motivated by fear and subjecting others to fear, it's
difficult for you to properly interpret what God is saying. For
you, as with John, God never stops communicating and never stops
telling you things that will help your growth, but any and all
fear you embrace will blur and taint what you are hearing,
making it difficult to see Gods true desires clearly. Under
these circumstance, you may think you have a world of truth, but
all you will have is a word of truth surrounded by fear, to be
delivered through fear, accepted with fear and followed because
of fear. Set aside fear and don't accept anything that even
hints at it and you will be open for rivers of truth to flow
into your being.
Live this...Since God is love, simply ignore the
stories, perceptions and rumors created and spread through fear,
because they are not from God. God is working with everyone at
all times, so just be patient while you and the people of the
world work through being fearful and be happy to know that God
has not forgotten a single one. Pray that we all open our minds
more and more each day to hear God's truth and set aside
man-made truths. Just rest in peace to know that God is
patiently working with everybody. Extend your love and peace as
well and our time here will be shortened...not with end times of
death and destruction and the creation of Gods physical kingdom
on earth, but with end times of everybody simply leaving this
place and returning to an eternal existence with our creator in
his spiritual kingdom that always has and always will be.
This article Copyright ©2005 David Nelmes -
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About the author:
David Nelmes provides opportunities for those around him to see
things from perspectives they had not considered before. His
desire is for himself and all men to pursue truth and be open
and willing to see what God would have us see. His influences
consist of being truly open and applying the truths in both "The
Bible" and "A Course In Miracles". See more at: - BeingWilling.com
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