Pastor steals church from his flock - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com

Pastor steals church from his flock - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
This is not an isolated incident, all over the world are pastors without love, as the Holy Spirit showed in the prophecy called, PASTORS OF UNBELIEF. The reason for the pictures of Jesus, and The Passion of the Christ, says the Father, is to lift up Jesus, where the fallen church has failed. The religiosity and lack of love has turned many away from Jesus because they think He is like them, when in truth there is no relationship between Jesus and the fallen shallow church. The true hallmark of the Body of Christ, is love. And the Bride always lifts up the Bridegroom because of love. This pastor is just the tip of the iceberg.

Pastor steals church from his flock - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com

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PASTORS OF UNBELIEF

You are the pastors of unbelief. Your story is simple. One day, you decided to be a Christian. No problem. You slipped salvation on as easily as a new jacket. Nice fit, it felt good. Now you were spiritual. Repentance? You said you were sorry, didn't you? You never went to the bloody ground where the Cross is, and laid down under the weight of your own sin, ugly and wicked, and wept at what you did to Him, wept at the sight of His innocent blood you took from Him. Why should you? You are wearing your new jacket. You never think of your sin and how it tortured Jesus, and how undeserving you are of that sacrifice. That is why we never hear you talk of how much you love Him, how you wait every moment for Him, and speak of Him always with your cup overflowing with love. No, we hear a lot of Scriptures from you though; you quote them often.

Then you decided to be a "pastor". That sounded nice. You could have some power, and so you picked up a Bible, and you said, "I'm intelligent, I can memorize this" and so you did. And with your natural mind, you memorized passages that pleased you. And this impressed you. So now, with your Bible in hand, and your hard, barren heart, you went out and said to the world, "I represent Jesus and now I think I'll have a church". So you got people to believe that you are from Jesus, and you got a church without hearing from Him, which you run without trusting Him for the needs, or caring for those under your care. No, with your Scriptures you judge those who are weaker than you, put burdens on those who are sick, saying they are without faith, and condemn those who take issue with your lack of love. You lead a flock of bruised reeds. From the barren tree, comes barren fruit. A generation has sprung up out of the desolate ground of unbelief, a generation of "pastors" who have never been to the Cross, and never wept a single tear for the One who died in their place.

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: "Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done," declares the LORD. Jeremiah 23:2

The Call is Sounding

There is a verse in the song Scarborough Fair that says: "The generals they order their soldiers to kill, for a cause they'd long ago forgotten". And I saw how this is true with the enemy and all who fell with him. Satan is a liar from the beginning. That means that he was not deceived but himself pursued the power of evil. No one spoke lies to him, no one persuaded and seduced him.

He wanted power independent from the Father whom he had begun to judge. He judged the Father when the Father wanted him to help him with mankind, from the beginning. All this is spoken of in these blogs. Satan wanted all the angels to turn against the Father, instead, he was thrown out of Heaven. All who fell with him were Lucifer and the third of the angels with Lucifer who believed the lies about the Father. But all they had once walked in paths of light, in Heaven's scenes of peace. They knew love, because they as we, were made by Love itself, and in Love's image. The lies which caused their fall, are long ago forgotten. Now their existence is just darkness, violence, scheming and conspiring to do harm against everything, a meaningless life with no real cause and purpose. Those scenes of Heaven are faded and lost long ago under the unending rage of hate and lies. They live in a nightmare dreamscape, killing, harming, destroying, hating and hurting with no relationship to who they once were.

But I know that I was fallen like they, giving way to self, giving way to things not loving, not caring. I know that the Father gave the most important part of Himself, Jesus, His beating heart for me to be rescued and found again. I know He held nothing back to have all His children brought back to His heart, including those in the spiritual realm once called angels. All of us are fallen, we and they, but we can return to the Father who stands on the roadway waiting for us to start our lives again with the slate wiped clean by Jesus' blood and sacrifice We'll do it right this time. The call is sounding for all to hear:

Come to Me, come to Me, come to Me, I will answer your cry.

Don't waste any more of your life in darkness, come to the Light and He will be there to help you and to answer you.

Yours, Once Again

Just today, I saw a packet sent from our beloved friend, Pastor Jean in Rwanda. The packet contained many pictures of his children, that he so obviously loves...drawings that the children made for our children here, and postcards for each of us. As I was enjoying all these wonderful things, I saw the pictures on the front of the postcards, which were all of places in Rwanda. The pictures were beautiful, green mountains in the background, flowers and green and trees and flowing streams. I commented on the beauty of Rwanda and of the saying that God made Rwanda so beautiful that at night when His travels in the earth are done, He comes to sleep in Rwanda.

Just at that moment into my thoughts came another thought: What did this place look like in 1994 when the genocide in Rwanda happened? The thought just came crashing in, and I looked at the postcards again and I saw ghostly images of the dead all around the ground. I don't know if that happened in that particular place or not during that 100 days in April, but some of the one million murdered might have been there.

It was a shock to be looking at beauty one moment, and then see that beauty turn into a scene of horror. This is the work of the enemy. He is a destroyer of all things made and loved by the Creator, and he had his way in Rwanda for 100 days, and achieved utter violence and vast murder before the Father stopped him. And so I thought about the people there now, having survived that 100 days of Satan, and I knew that what I experienced being shocked while looking at the postcards, the people of Rwanda live with, every day.

They themselves have tried to move on, and build their lives again. They don't think about the genocide if they can avoid it, but evil leaves its mark and imprint. As they go from day to day, living and going to the market, here or there, they remember those dead murdered bodies. Was it there by that building at which you shop that you saw your mother's corpse? Your father's, your sister's, your baby's, your friends' and neighbors'? When they go by the beautiful rivers of Rwanda, do they see the dead floating by? YES. They do. It's not something they can stop from coming up in their minds. That is darkness.

The Father said: "As Rwanda goes, so goes the world."

You see, if the enemies of the Father had their way, they would murder all the world in the same way, because of their hatred of Him who loves us. And in only 100 days, so much devastation was achieved before the Father stopped it. And we see the enemy moving with power now, through the terror of this war on evil. But now has come the time, says the Father, to restore what the locusts have eaten.

What can penetrate into the darkness and bring real change? The Father can, and will, and is, not just in Rwanda, but in all the darkness in every place and in every heart. He has shown Himself with the murdered in Rwanda, all the million. And they look like Jesus looks in the end of the Passion film, untouched, unmarked, whole. They that suffered so much pain and fear by the stroke of the machetes, are now standing with the Father, risen, alive and whole. They look to their loved ones with smiles on their faces and with gladness wanting them to know the truth of the reality of Heaven and the reality of the love and sacrifice of Jesus. He was Himself more marred than any other by the violence of the enemy moving through fallen man.

He knows what they suffered and what is suffered now. He is risen and whole, to make the way for all to be healed and whole from the ravages of sin, evil, and violence. This is the way He is moving to turn the darkness in Rwanda to light, by showing the beloved people there today that the corpses they see as ghosts everywhere are no longer corpses, but alive and well, and free, looking at their loved ones still on earth, wanting them to know the truth about the genocide and the Father's beating heart for them, Jesus, their Hope and their Friend. This is the healing that is now moving through the avenues of Rwanda, and is moving in the avenues of our lives and our hearts in the earth, for all of us to be restored, redeemed and healed. The Father's power is unmatched, His victory, sure. And we who are the Church that is true and full of love for Jesus, must help the Father to bring this hope and healing to every one, as He leads.

Thank You, Father for helping the people of Rwanda and all the people of the world. May they all come to the well of freedom and hope made through a Cross, and drink deeply there and be Yours, once again.