Rev. 8;10-11, and the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star is called wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. As the trumpet sounds we see actions that originate out of the heavens of the spirit and enter powerfully into the symbolic earth and sea of our carnal lives. it is the realm of the spirit where GOD dwells and from whence he moves to redeem and transform us in soul and body! in the passage above a [great star] falls from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and falls upon the third part of the rivers and fountains of waters! NOT LITERAL springs and rivers that flow through earths mountains, plains, and valleys, of course, but the rivers of mans human life and mans fallible word rather than GODS DIVINE LIFE AND HEAVENS LIVING WORD! Just as the spirit of GOD and the living word of GOD make up the wonderful river of life in the closing chapters of the revelation, and flow out from GOD, so the spirit of the world and the word of man comprise the carnal rivers and waters of the earth realm which flow out of the carnal minds and hearts of natural man......... The “great star” is Christ! “And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and…the waters became wormwood (bitter).” It is Christ Himself who causes the streams of our natural life, human understanding, worldly wisdom, and man’s religion to be made bitter! “And many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.” Oh, yes! The very thing that was once life to us now becomes death! THIS IS THE DIVINE WISDOM AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSING OF THE LORD IN THE LIVE OF HIS ELECT PEOPLE! The RIVER OF GOD is spiritual, the RIVERS OF THE EARTH are soulical. The RIVER OF GOD is the spirit of the word, the RIVERS OF THE EARTH are the letter of the word. The RIVER OF GOD is essence, the RIVERS OF EARTH ARE FORM. The RIVERS OF GOD living reality, the RIVERS OF EARTH are lifeless shadows and deceptive illusions. The RIVERS OF GOD is truth and life, the RIVERS OF EARTH are cold, dead facts in which there is no life! There are many things that are true, but they are not The Truth. They are cold, dead facts, but they are not quickening life and power! AND NOW MAY I EXHORT YOU TO FLEE FROM THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE TRUE BUT NOT TRUTH as surely and swiftly as you would flee your home if you discovered it to be a den of rattlesnakes! We have a whole crop of Doom-casters in the land today who spend their time and energy in nothing else but informing the Lord’s people of all the NEGATIVE SITUATIONS which are going to overtake our nation and the world! Many of the Lord’s precious people are being fed a steady diet of messages, articles, books, and tapes about world conditions, politics, the situation in the Middle East, oil crisis, economic collapse, one world government, conspiracies of the Illuminati, Council on Foreign Relations, World Trade Organization, World Bank, European Common Market Beast Government, the Antichrist, the mark of the beast, cashless society, strikes, riots, war, terrorism, the great tribulation, supposed “safe areas,” food storage, living off the land, planetary conjunctions, pestilence, tsunamis, erratic weather conditions, wickedness, catastrophes, the end of the world, and a whole catalog of other fearful and frightening events which they imagine fulfill the prophecies of the book of Revelation, some of which will undoubtedly happen, just as they have happened historically through the ages, but many of which I tell you now ARE NOTHING MORE THAN WILD AND SENSATIONAL SPECULATIONS CONCEIVED IN THE DARNESS OF THE CARNAL MINDS OF MEN WHO MASQUERADE AS END-TIME TEACHERS AND PROPHETS of God, BEWITCHING THE SAINTS. The natural mind, my beloved, is certainly one of the well-springs and sources of the earthly “fountains of waters” from whence flow the “rivers” of carnal ideas, concepts, teachings, and imaginations of which the “inhabitants of the earth” drink and find a certain level of excitement, refreshment, and fulfillment. Let every child of God who has had birthed within his bosom the beautiful HOPE OF SONSHIP turn the searchlight of sincerity and truth upon his pure heart and ask this one important question: DO ANY OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED THINGS MINISTER LIFE? Does the knowing and study of them cause you to be more filled with the Spirit? DO THEY ENABLE YOU TO PUT ON THE MIND OF CHRIST? Do they work deliverance and overcoming power in your life? Do they transform you into the image of the firstborn Son of God? Do they flood your life with peace and joyful expectation in Christ? Do they imbue you with spiritual wisdom and understanding, with righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost? Do they inspire you with ever-increasing faith by which you shall conquer every enemy and lay hold upon life and immortality? Are they TRUTH, quickening, life-giving Truth, or are they, one and all, merely things that are true, or, perhaps, may be true, or may not even be true at all! I have no hesitation whatever in telling you that all these streams of teaching are naught but carnal rivers flowing through the earth-realm!--Preston Eby
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:02:48 +0000
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