EL SHADDAI EL-SHADDAI means GOD ALMIGHTY. EL (God) is a word that declares God to be mighty, all- powerful and actively exerting that strength according to His will.    SHADDAI (Almighty) is a word that is derived from another word meaning breast, which implies that Shaddai signifies One who nourishes, supplies, and satisfies. It is God as El who in His power and might helps us, but it is God as Shaddai who in His fertility and potency abundantly blesses us with all manner of blessings. So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God he created them; MALE and FEMALE he created them. (Genesis 1) Obviously there is, for lack of a better term, “Femaleness” in God. I think that Shaddai is the name He chose to use to reveal that truth concerning Himself. Only God Almighty blesses man and provides in abundance all of mans’ needs.    And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. (Genesis 17:1,2) And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee and kings shall come out of thy loins. (Genesis 35:11) And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people: and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. (Genesis 48:3,4) But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Even by the God of thy father, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lie under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. (Genesis 49:24-25) Rejoice ye with Jerusalem and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. For thus says the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: them shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides and be dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforts, so will comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. (Isaiah 66:10-13) New Heaven and a New Earth Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” (Revelation 21) So, on this Lord’s Day,  rejoice and be glad that the God you worship is GOD ALMIGHTY Do Not Worry Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Jesus of  Nazareth) THE BEST IS YET TO COME!      .              .

OPEN BORDERS and UNLIMITED IMMIGRATION

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life. (Rev. 22)

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:

“Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying:

“Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!” (Rev. 7)

“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” (Rev.5)

There is only ONE border worth crossing. It is the spiritual border that separates the Kingdom of Jesus Christ from the kingdoms of this world. It is the Border that separates the spiritually dead from the spiritually living.

“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but HAS CROSSED OVER FROM DEATH TO LIFE. (Jesus of Nazareth)

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (The Risen Lord Jesus Christ)

Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.” (Rev.14)

 The biggest little word in the Bible is "in", as in "in Christ"! HE is the only safe place, country or nation in the universe.

God's gracious love must be understood in light of God’s holy wrath and the Day of Eternal Judgment- the Lake of Fire.    

This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. (2 Thessalonians)

Have you “crossed the border” into the Kingdom of Christ? Are you safe?

JEHOVAH – The Existing One Who is, Who was, Who will always be.

Our English word LORD in the Old Testament histories is the word we use to translate the name JEHOVAH.

Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord (Jehovah), the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’

“This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.

“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord (Jehovah), the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’ Ex. 3:13-17

God also said to Moses, “I am the LORD (Jehovah). I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself fully known to them. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

“Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’ ”

It is as “I Am THAT I AM” that God (Elohim) reveals Himself to His chosen people in bondage as their personal covenant keeping REDEEMER.

 

The LORD Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” Jesus of Nazareth


But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant,…

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,….

So, on this LORD’S Day, let us rejoice and look forward to the Day we will stand on Mt. Zion in the presence of the LORD together.

We are confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

So, let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

 

THE EMPTY WORDS OF SIR ELTON JOHN  

The 67-year-old singer, who is planning to marry his civil partner David Furnish next year, claims the Christian figure would have approved of gay members of the clergy if he was alive today because he was "all about love."

Speaking in an interview with Sky News, he said: "If Jesus Christ was alive today, I cannot see him, as the Christian person that he was and the great person that he was, saying this could not happen.

"He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and trying to bring people together and that's what the church should be about."

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.

So, what are the “Such Things”?

But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them. Eph. 5

Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Col. 3

Any serious study of God's dealings with the human race recorded in the Bible make it abundantly clear that He uses floods, droughts, hurricanes and other natural calamities as expressions of His wrath. I do believe this truth is one of the main reasons that the reading and preaching of the Old Testament histories is so neglected by Christians and rejected by the general public. We just refuse to believe that God acts in such a manner. That He is directing natural forces of such devastating destruction upon the world of men, women, children and animals. After all, how could we possibly deserve such treatment! These are the Empty Words that have deceived the disobedient from the Garden of Eden to this present moment. And this deception includes you and me at times in our lives.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;…. The Apostle Paul

Sir Elton John is sadly and tragically mistaken. We must see to it that we do not follow in his footsteps!

 

 

ELOHIM – The Old Testament contains a number of names and compound names for God which reveal Him in some aspect of His character and dealings with mankind.*

In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth. Gen. 1:1

And God (Elohim) said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. Col. 1:15-23

All the magnificent power that is evident in the created world that Elohim brought into being by His Word alone is resident in the Person of Jesus Christ, God the Son, as He sits at the right hand of God the Father. Christian, “God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.” 2 Cor. 4:6

Rejoice this Lord’s Day in the power of His resurrection and the security of the power of Elohim, the One that made you, that redeemed you and who will glorify you in His presence for all eternity.

YOU HAVE ELOHIM’S WORD ON IT!

 

 

 

*Names of God (Nathan Stone)

 

STRANGE FIRE- Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal and all ministers who officiate, and thereby attempt to sanctify, same-sex marriage are guilty of offering “Strange Fire” at the altar of the Lord. And those members of these churches that initiate, attend and applaud these ceremonies are guilty as well.

Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered strange fire before the Lord, contrary to his command. So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke of when he said:

“ ‘Among those who approach me I will be proved holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored.’ ”

Do you seriously believe that you have been given permission by God to redefine the most basic relationship that God established at the Creation of the World?  And then to publically attempt to sanctify what God, the Prophets and Christian Ministers for thousands and thousands of years have held to be the most unnatural of sins? And then to claim that you have been given the authority to do so because you “minister in the name of Jesus Christ?

Jesus said, “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh ?  So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”  

You are foolish madmen who are only fanning the flames of your own destruction by offering Strange Fire before the Lord.

Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Never, never forget that our God is a consuming fire.

Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel? "For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord GOD. "Therefore, repent and live."

You stand duly warned.

 

PENIS, VAGINA, ANUS: an anatomy lesson for all the Elders and Members of the Presbyterian Church USA

 

The human PENIS is an external male sexual organ. It is a reproductive, intromittent organ that additionally serves as the urinal duct. (Wikipedia)

The human PENIS is designed by God to make babies, and to assist in relieving the bladder of urine.

The VAGINA is a fibromuscular elastic tubular tract (passage) which is a sex organ and mainly functions for the facilitation of sexual intercourse and childbirth. In mammals (especially primates), menstruation, which is the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina, is another primary function of the vagina and usually signals fertility. (Wikipedia)

The human VAGINA is designed by God to make and birth babies, and to assist in monthly menstruation.

The HUMAN ANUS (from Latin anūs meaning "ring", "circle) is the external opening of the rectum. Two sphincters control the exit of feces from the body during an act of defecation, which is the primary function of the anus.

The human ANUS is designed by God to assist in the relieving of waste from the bowels.

Warning: any use of these organs for activities other than their designed purpose is destructive.  

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; ….” Gal. 6:7-8

“The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.”  Gal. 5:19-20