The
Handwriting is on the Wall - Part 2
The Beginning of Sorrows
by
Pastor Gary C. Price
In this issue, we will examine the extent of damage
being caused by the horrific Satanic invasion sweeping across this
nation and the world. The minds of most people right now are so religious
that they cannot believe or accept the times in which we live. We
cannot jump and shout this off of us. We can’t get happy about
it and do a lot of loud praying and talking in tongues to hold this
back. This is reality. There are real spiritual forces we are dealing
with. You cannot afford to try and be someone who ‘knows the
Bible’ to try and impress folks, because someone may knock your
head off. People are being changed from one life type to another as
God turns them over to reprobation. At that point, they are irretrievable
and the devil will live through them in place of the personality of
the individual; he will talk with their mouth, walk with their feet,
and see out of their eyes.
I used to hear people talk about “labor pangs”
when I was a little boy and I thought they were saying “labor
pains.” However, ‘pangs’ are quick bursts of energy
that cause an intense reaction followed by a period of relaxation.
As many of you know, we have entered into the final stages of the
“birth pangs” spoken of by Jesus in Matthew 24:8. We have
experienced the wars and rumors of wars. Nation has risen against
nation, kingdom against kingdom. There have been famines and pestilences,
and earthquakes in diverse places. These are indeed the beginning
of sorrows, a term that actually means the beginning of birth pangs.
Exactly what is being born out of these birth pangs? The answer might
surprise you.
These birth pangs are the necessary tribulations needed
to bring forth a new age of spiritual holiness and righteousness into
a sin-contaminated world. Not the new age that current-day gurus speak
of, but an emergence of the eternal realm of God that will displace
time and space. You see, right now we live in a time and space continuum.
Time and space is encapsulated inside of eternity, much like a womb;
and this womb is experiencing birth pangs as new life prepares to
come forth. The pangs are designed to release the manifested sons
of God from the Babylonian captivity that now holds us back from being
spiritually effective with the gospel message. The church is the leading
edge that brings the life to fruition, and when that happens this
current environment becomes useless. See, you never carry home the
baby and the afterbirth. The afterbirth is good while the baby is
being formed, but it is not needed once the baby is born. Why? Because
it is no longer supporting life. This is just what is going to happen
to this present age. God is going to fold it up like a vesture and
throw it away. He is using time and space to bring forth this new
life, and once that life is birthed, the rest is thrown away.
So who is going to Hell? The ones God has used to birth
His children. You may think that God has no purpose for sinners, but
the sinner is used to help forge the saints. God is transforming us
into the image of Christ by developing the nine fruits of the Spirit
in us. He does this by setting up circumstances that are the exact
opposite of what He is seeking in us. For example, Scripture says
that patience comes through tribulation. So, if we ask God for more
patience, the tribulation in our lives will increase. God forges us
into vessels fit for His use by placing us in the midst of the world.
How do we identify the real church? The real church is taking the
Gospel to the streets to save souls, cast out devils, heal the sick,
freely receive and freely give; they are not sitting in theater-style
seating each week watching a performance.
For the most part, “Christians” are soft
and pitiful with no hope and no power. We are allowing Satan to have
a field day ruining the lives of untold millions as we seek after
the comforts of this present evil age. God is separating His remnant
from the tares that Satan has sown in the midst of His church. Satan
knows that this separation marks the beginning of the end for him
and his demonic hordes who desire to possess as many people as possible.
Therefore they can turn mankind into godless heathens seeking to live
the hedonistic lifestyle that permeates our culture and is destroying
families and children throughout the world. Yes friends, Satan has
unleashed every filthy, damnable unclean spirit under his command
and we are seeing citizens of the earth transformed into animals with
perverse desires running rampant. The contrast between these evil
forces and the remnant church of Jesus Christ is the real catalyst
behind the “birth pangs” that are becoming more and more
intense every day.
The church is under extreme pressure right now. If you are not experiencing
this pressure, then you need to get saved. But the pressure is nowhere
near what it will be as we get closer to the end.
Millions of professing Christians are now being deceived by the Mel
Gibson movie, “The Passion of the Christ.” Some of you
reading this newsletter have been swept away into this delusion without
even knowing that you have been deceived. This is terrifying! Let
me tell you why Mel Gibson’s movie depiction of the Christ is
so detestable to God and why it could well lead to your receiving
a false Christ as we near the end of the age.
First of all, as a Roman Catholic Mel Gibson has no
ability whatsoever to represent God in any shape form or fashion. Roman
Catholicism is modern day Babylonian paganism and God does not use idolaters
and pagans to represent Him. If He did, He would have to do that which
is absolutely opposed to His word. The Scripture states plainly that, “The carnal mind is enmity against God, it is not subject
to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” (Romans 8:7) God
cannot use a man who prays to Mary and the saints, serves the Pope,
or believes in purgatory, infant baptism, and transubstantiation (the
Eucharist literally becomes the body and blood of Christ at mass).
Gibson proudly acknowledges that one of his inspirations for the
movie was the ‘visions’ of the mystic 19th century nun
Anne Catherine Emmerich and her book “Dolorous Passion.”
In fact, Gibson gives these ‘visions’ the same weight
of Scripture in creating this movie. Consider these themes in the
movie,
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Did the Apostles refer to Mary as “Mother”?
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Did a woman named Veronica wipe Jesus’ face
as he carried the cross, leaving a bloody imprint behind on the
cloth?
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Did the Romans hang Jesus in chains over a bridge?
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Did Pilate’s wife bring Mary a towel during
His beating so that she could wipe up His blood from the floor?
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Did Mary accompany Jesus throughout His crucifixion,
share supernaturally in His sufferings, and hold His dead body at
the foot of the cross to complete her role as co-redeemer?
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Were Mary and Jesus the only ones who could ‘see’
Satan?
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Did little devils disguised as children tear at
Judas Iscariot
with their teeth, throw things at him and chase him to edges of
Hell before he hung himself?
Is it important to separate Catholic doctrine from Scriptural truth?
Scripture tells us that it only takes a little leaven to leaven the
whole lump and warns us against adding to the words therein. Yet,
this movie not only departs from the life of Christ as recorded in
Scripture, it is a perversion of the very nature of salvation itself.
The message of Gibson’s film is that Christ died for our sins.
But the true gospel message is that Christ crucified you and I with
Him so as to destroy the sin nature that enslaves us to Satan. This
might seem like a small difference, but this is the lie that allows
millions to believe that once you have been saved, you are always
saved. This false portrayal of Christ is designed to let sinners continue
in sin after mouthing a totally useless sinner’s prayer. Brothers
and sisters, that is not salvation. Jesus doesn’t just take
us ‘to’ the cross, but He takes us ‘through’
the cross. Just as Jesus was resurrected after death, He will also
rise within us and establish His presence in us as we continue to
submit our lives to Him.
Let’s stop compromising what we believe! God has called us
to be witnesses to the truth of His Word, not sinful Hollywood actors.
We must proclaim the Truth and not be ashamed, especially at a time
like this. Why do we see so many ‘born again’ leaders
blinded to the fact that Mel Gibson’s idolatrous Christ is really
the Anti-christ? Simply stated, they need to be born again! Yet, they
remain oblivious to the deception because the film gave them a good
cry. God does not require us to sob at His sacrifice. He requires
us to repent! If the Jesus being promoted in The Passion of the Christ
turns you towards idolatry and carries another gospel, then what you
are seeing is another Jesus. Stand up and declare the Truth about
the film and you will be hated by many. Yet that is the quest of every
Christian, to tell the Truth even under austere conditions. And what
happens as a result? The birth pangs increase.
The birth pangs come because the Truth you stand for makes you more
and more contrary to the current culture, and the world is trying
to push you out! Obedience is the key that has to rest on us in order
to make the birth pangs pick up. The story that tells the sequence
of events is Jonah and the whale. As soon as Jonah obeyed, the whale
had to regurgitate him. The problem with most people is that they
don’t obey God, they just fit into whatever religious environment
they join.
The church grows under persecution; without it the church becomes
dormant and stagnant as it absorbs into the culture, leaving the people
in a dead and dried-up state. The Bible calls this a drought. The
church is in a drought right now because it has become absorbed into
the culture. You don’t get rain in the atmosphere or rain on
the church without conflict. In the natural, it is the confrontation
between a cold, heavy air mass and a hot, light air mass which begins
the process of condensation that produces rain. Similarly, it is the
confrontation between two opposing spiritual forces that produces
rain on the church. Unless Elijah had confronted Jezebel and Ahab,
there would have been no rain. So what has to be confronted in these
times? Jezebel and Ahab. It is the same spirit at work and it rules
the church, the governments, and every aspect of worldly life. Why
is there heaviness in the world? Because Jezebel rules it. It is matriarchal!
People have turned their hearts to the mothers and away
from the fathers. So now the spirit of Jezebel is a dominating force
over the world. It will continue to oppress the nations until God
can raise up some Elijahs to confront it, bind it, and turn the people’s
hearts back to the fathers. That is the conflict we are facing.
Right now every patriarchal image on earth is being
assaulted. Fathers are disrespected, husbands are disregarded, sons
are being destroyed and virtuous women are being mocked. Why? Because
all of these individuals represent obedience to a father. Women have
lost all modesty as they parade around shamelessly unclothed and full
of lust and seduction. Young women are bathed in perversion and are
engaging in illicit behavior before they even get to middle school.
Pathetic preachers who have become “spiritual bastards”
according to Hebrews 12:8 stand by and say absolutely nothing about
the downgradation of civilization and the people love to have it this
way. Indeed, if I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would not believe
it. The problem is very simple: mankind is in rebellion against his
Creator, therefore we see individuals becoming exactly the opposite
of what the creator created.
We see the massive sodomite invasion spill into the
streets as thousands of pitiful, deceived homosexual couples gather
at city halls around the nation demanding to be married so as to legitimize
their filthy lifestyles and make the rest of us accept them as “normal.”
Make no mistake about it friends, these are the last of the last days.
Romans 1:18-32 vividly depicts the downward spiral into total depravity
and degeneration:
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest
in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things
of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became
vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed
the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible
man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore
God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their
own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who
changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their
women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that
which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of
their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain
God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind,
to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters,
haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers,
without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the
judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of
death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
As you see here, mankind begins this downward spiral
with uncleanness, he passes through vile affections and ends up with
a reprobate mind (the mind of a cast away that cannot be saved). The
main cause of this degeneration is the religious world’s refusal
to honor God as Father and be disciplined under His authority. They
seek to change God’s image into something more digestible for
the fallen Adamic race, and they actually hate all who love God and
would dare to serve Him.
Man is becoming a beast with the appetites, aptitude
and desires of an animal. We are looking at man mutate into a animal,
half man and half animal. There is only one hope for this world. The
Church of Jesus Christ must rise up and bring a gospel message that
has been set on fire by the Holy Ghost to warn the righteous and the
wicked to either repent or perish.
You cannot plant seed without getting germination and
manifestation of what has been sown. We are ingesting words which
are spirits and people are being changed to reflect the words stored
in their souls. People are being metamorphisized into a reflection
of what they eat. Jesus said my words are spirit and they bring life.
The devil’s words also are spirit, but they bring death. The
devil’s words will point you to time and space, to the temporal
world, but they will produce a spirit in you that is anti-God. This
is why the church needs to get prepared to endure sever persecution.
People are being programmed to be anti-Truth, anti-God, anti-holiness,
anti-sanctification, and what the Bible calls anti-Christ. And if
you represent Christ, then they will be anti-you. To hate Christ is
to hate His body, which is the church. We have to begin to format
our minds to accept the way it is going to be (as it is written) and
to stop dreaming that it will be another way.
In Matthew 21:15-16, the chief priests and scribes are
displeased because the children cry out to Jesus saying “Hosanna
to the Son of David.” In responding to these men, Jesus
says, “...And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never
read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected
praise?”
Jesus is referencing Psalms 8:2, but it does not say
that exactly. Yet if you put the two Scriptures together we can get
the revelation of what Jesus is saying. Psalms 8:2 says, “Out
of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because
of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.” Notice the word change here. In Matthew 21:16, Jesus says “perfected
praise” but in Psalms 8:2 Scripture says “ordained
strength.” What does this tell us? That perfected praise
is where the strength comes from! And not only that, but according
to Psalms 8:2 it stills the enemy. In other words, perfected praise
makes the devil shut-up!
So knowing this, what does the devil do? He tries to
pervert the praise. God ordains strength in “perfected”
praise, so the devil puts forth ‘soulish’ praise as a
counterfeit. If you listen to most “Christian” music today,
you will find soulish lyrics talking about this life and worldly relationships.
It is designed to feed the worldly, carnal spirit in man under the
guise of worshipping the Lord. This is not worship! When you worship
God, you glorify Jesus Christ alone. The entire realm of the heavenlies
is glorified by worshipping Him and it lifts you from here to there.
When the praise go up, the Spirit comes down. The Holy Ghost will
rest where praises are being offered up.
People strain with human effort to believe God. Let me tell you,
you can try all the gymnastics you want, but you will not be able
to believe what God says through willpower. Belief is supernatural.
There is no way anyone can believe unless there is a supernatural
intervention from God to enable you to believe it. You can only believe
in God to the extent that the unbeliever in you (the Adamic nature)
dies. We have to remove that part of us that cannot believe.
Mark 9:23-24 says, “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst
believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway
the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe;
help thou mine unbelief.” How could this man have both
belief and unbelief operating in him at the same time?
There are two people in us vying for preeminence; an
old man and a new man. It is our responsibility to disempower one
and let the other one reign. They cannot both have jurisdiction. That
is the warfare. The struggle that each Christian faces is nothing
more than getting rid of that part of us that will not serve God.
You can tell instinctively that there is something in you always striving
for you not to do what you know you should do.
We cannot afford to be double-minded. A discipline must
be in place whereby we commit ourselves to staying focused on God
in spite of the distractions. The devil will get more and more irate
because he knows that he is losing control. This is why he keeps trying
to stir things up in your life so that your mind will shift back over
to the concerns of the world. Make your eye single! The birth pangs
increase as people get closer to transformation; they are having their
minds transformed by the washing of the Word whereby they can prove
the good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Will you be among
them?
Yes the handwriting is on the wall and God is about
to do a new thing to confront the enemy and save millions from this
demonic onslaught. He needs volunteers who know the times and seasons
and are able to tell others. If you can read the handwriting then
it’s time to step up to the plate and be accounted for before
it’s too late.
