Post by Les Brewer on Apr 21, 2013 6:22:21 GMT
Dear Brethren, Partners, & Friends of the Ministry,
Christian Greetings,
First of all let us give Praise, Glory, and Honor to our Heavenly Father, the Wondrous Son, and the Holy Spirit the amazing Triune God who is eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, the precious Three in One.
It is my hope my letter finds you do well and being blessed of the Lord in all things. In our world today we are faced with so many dilemmas for we are certainly living in perilous times. In the United States and around the World many are suffering the loss of loved ones due to the increasing violence that is integrating into the minds of people already prone to destructive behavior. We see natural disasters increasing, the threat of nuclear wars loom, economies are collapsing, and immorality is ever increasing.
Unfortunately many within the body are still nonchalant and lukewarm in their service to the Lord. They seem unwary or unconcerned and lack enthusiasm in serving God or being of service to God. Jesus warned us of these days, when he taught the disciples concerning the days preceding his coming,
(34) Truly I say to you, This generation shall not pass until all these things are fulfilled.
(35) The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away.
(36) But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels of Heaven, but only My Father.
(37) But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man.
(38) For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark.
(39) And they did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of Man. Matthew 24:34-39
Many today are not phased by the epidemic of animosity and immorality which is encompassing the earth like a plague. They are still making their plans without any thought to the coming of the Lord or their eternal destiny.
(26) And as it was in the days of Noah, so it also shall be in the days of the Son of Man.
(27) They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came and destroyed them all.
(28) So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
(29) but the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed them all.
(30) Even so it shall be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
(31) In that day he who shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise, he who is in the field, let him not return to the things behind.
(32) Remember Lot's wife.
(33) Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. Luke 17:26-33
Brethren it is one thing for the world to be set on course for destruction, but quite another for the body of Christ to be so consumed with the affairs of this life, they have walked away from their first love and forsaken the calling upon their lives for a fleeting moment of the pleasures of this life; when compared to the bliss of eternity. When this life is passed we will all stand before Christ and give an account of our actions and what our motivations were; at that time the future will be all that matters. But so many live as if they shall never see death while people are dying daily around us all. Many are losing family members and friends while we hear news of those who die horrific deaths from every kind of catastrophe imaginable. Yet they are unscathed or undeterred in presuming a life that deletes or dilutes the will of God.
The Church Age is on its last lap and the finish line is just in sight, but many have quit running the race and therefore shall receive no crown of rewards but a crisis of certain judgment.
(23) Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised),
(24) and let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,
(25) not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
(26) For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
(27) but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
(28) He who despised Moses' Law died without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.
(29) Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
(30) For we know Him who has said, "Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, says the Lord." And again, "The Lord shall judge His people."
(31) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:23-31
Brethren we are at war with the world because we are fundamentally different, because we are born from above; given a new nature, a new life, and new commission. Therefore it is incumbent upon us as Christians to seek the face of the Lord asking him to revive, renew, and refresh us by restoring our first love and spiritual insight to see again the reality of our reason for being and then to commit ourselves to the task of fulfilling God’s plan and purposes for our individual lives to the benefit and increase of the Kingdom of God.
Jesus is coming soon, for his Church:
(25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
(26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
(27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
(28) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
(29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
(30) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
(31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
(32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:25-32 KJV
Many of those who are lukewarm are going to be aroused to a conviction of their state of spiritual decline, and be revived, many who are clinging to Christ our Head are being purged through the trials, tribulations, and temptations. Because we are living in the last of the last days, the intensity of purification is upon the body of Christ and the World because God is raising up a Righteous Remnant to shake those who lumber into an awakening of what is befalling this world, great tribulation is coming and how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which was given through the greatest sacrifice to mankind, Christ Jesus the Savior and soon coming Lord of Lords, and King of Kings.
(25) See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
(26) Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
(27) And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
(28) Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
(29) For our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:25-29 KJV
The fear and fire of God is getting ready to consume this world, and a righteous redeemed will mitigate change in many within the body through anointed preaching that have the power to convict and convert hearts which have been harden through sin. Brethren now more than ever it is time to set your face like a flint to seek the will and purpose God for your lives.
Conclusion:
If one cannot see the obvious prophetic time in which we live and the ramifications of not living for Christ to the fullest, they will find themselves left behind at the catching away of the Church to face the perils of a world that does not have the inhibiting power of the Holy Spirit who will set aside and allow evil to run its coarse to enslave the world through a soon coming dictator who will be revealed in due season shortly before the Lord’s coming.
The times of peril in which we now live will pale in comparison to that time. God is getting to release the wealth of the wicked which they have been laying up in store for themselves by extorting and oppressing the poor in the body who are rich in the spirit, willing vessels of honor who will go forth declaring the word of God thereby ending the Church Age with an ingathering of lost and lukewarm souls.
While God is preparing for himself a Jewish Remnant of young virgin men from each of the twelve tribes of Israel who will receive Christ and begin declaring the gospel during the greatest tribulation and gathering of nations against Israel the world has ever seen which will culminate in the destruction of thousands upon thousands and the Anti-Christ, by the Lord and His holy ones who will destroy them with the brightness of His coming and set up the millennial reign.
We live in awesome times, yes; times of prophetic end time fulfillment. We are blessed to live in such an exciting time of paradigm shifts, and powerful dynamic miraculous times of seeing the transformation of souls coming into an eternal kingdom, a time of revealing the hearts of the true and false; a time of purging, sanctification, and empowerment.
Are you preparing to be utilized for the King and Kingdom and ready to be caught up when the last trump is sounded for the body of Christ?
Your Emissary of the Faith,
Apostle D.R. Ritchie
