Gathered Around the Fire

THE FIRST RESURRECTION COULD HAPPEN TODAY!  Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.   For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal  must  put on immortality.  1 Corinthians 15:51-53  (NKJV) The Trumpets will be blown in Jerusalem 100 times from last night at sundown until tonight ...  the last Trump will sound at sundown tonight in Jerusalem. About 10:38 Am in the Central Time Zone.  The times we are living in are so pregnant with signs of the end times that I felt I should forward these links, especially to those who attended my class last year on the Seven Feasts of the LORD.  There are three links below to videos about the signs of our times taking place in just the last 50 days.  The speaker is Steve...

THE BARLEY LOAF IN THE OVAL OFFICE DREAM FULFILLED  August 22, 2017 Four years ago today, in 2013 during our 40-day prayer campaign, I saw a two-part vision during a prayer meeting. In the vision a barley loaf rolled up Capitol Hill until it came to rest leaning on the rotunda of the Capitol building, then another barley loaf rolled into the oval office of the White House, filling it from top to bottom and from side to side.  In 2013, I thought it was speaking about President Obama since he was the seated President of the United States at that time.  But with the events which have taken place over the last year in the 2016 election, I now believe we have seen the beginning of the fulfillment of this vision during the 2016 elections; That resulted in 'an over-comer, unexpectedly "rolling" into the oval office and President Trump has also been seen to be leaning on Congress and the Senate on Capitol Hill.  Here is my account of that vision on my 5...

Someone that you know, probably drove hundreds of miles to see the sun extinguished for a few moments around noon today. They may have been planning their trip for days, weeks, or even months or years!   I had a friend who drove this weekend to the "Show Me" state in hopes of having the sun, moon, and stars show him something of the grandeur of God's created Cosmos.  Where I live it was only a partial eclipse, but at lunch today with some friends, we stopped for a moment outside the restaurant and put on protective eyewear to catch a glimpse of the "small" beginning of the eclipse.  Using the protective glasses you could see the process without the resulting blindness that would come without the protection. The change in light level was unnoticeable to the naked eye at the beginning. But, 60 minutes later it was definitely darker, because of the heavy cloud cover where we were it was not apparent if it was the shadow of the moon or the shadow of the c...

I went to lunch with a friend today and he encouraged me to send out this post. If you don't mind, I will share what I am thinking about today as I get ready to observe Teshuvah. Teshuvah (return) is a season to reflect and it starts at sundown today  (at the second sundown if you count the eclipse that happened at 1:05 PM CDT as the first sundown)  It begins 30 days just prior to the feast of Trumpets, 10 more days after  Trumpets  makes it a 40 day season of "returning" to the LORD. leading up to the celebration of the Day of Atonement (known as the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord.  "Don't just do something, stand there" - Henry Blackaby In his books on Experiencing God, Henry Blackaby says that we need to find out what God is doing and then join Him in doing that thing.  According to the biblical calendar laid out by God Himself,  God is granting grace (the empowerment to respond) ...

We read in Scripture that; God gave Adam (red-earthy) dominion over the entire earth, and all created things.  Adam gave away that dominion during the intercourse with the devil the Fall of Man. Jesus as the second Adam regained that dominion through the Cross, descending into Hell and ascending again with an immortal (glorious) body.  In order for FULL restoration of Adam's (earthly) dominion to take place, a Son of Adam must again rule over the whole natural earth. Fortunately, Jesus qualifies as a son of Adam, since He was "born of a woman, born under the Law."  therefore He is the only one who qualifies to rule in Adam's place. The church is his bride and she is the only one qualified to rule in Eve's place.  Sometimes in Sunday school class or children's church, we simplify our destiny in God by using the phrase when I get to heaven, as though that is the destination and the culmination of our lives. if we compared this to a modern wedding/m...

JESUS' LIFE IS SUMMED UP IN THREE SIGNIFICANT DATES! I believe, that if we understood the volatile changes that occur at these three times in a person's life, we would prepare our sons and daughters ahead of time to navigate these seasons of change with grace and purpose.  Circumcision of Jesus (8 DAYS OLD) And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the Child, His name was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb. Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present  Him  to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),  Luke 2:21 The Boy Jesus Amazes the Scholars (12 YEARS OLD ) His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the c...

DELAYED PROMISES  They missed the two-part fulfillment, required of long-term Biblical prophecies, as we often do today. Everything Jesus put his hand to during the Passion week was purposeful and timed down to the hour, even to the minute, to align with the 'Instructions'. (the word Torah is sometimes translated as the Law but its literal meaning is instructions) . He was purposefully walking out by obedience to the fulfillment of prophetic words given centuries earlier, stepping into a prophetic dimension, to become a sign and a wonder by his physical obedience to the Father. Amazingly at the same time, His actions were declaring a more' spiritual' or FULL-filling far into the distant future, some even a few millennia away. Many had an invitation to a front-row seat, to watch these things unfold during the first century, but they simply missed it, because they did not discern the times. Many of us today are still missing it, we are ignorant of God's plan f...

INCORRUPTIBLE BREAD Passover and the seven days that follow it are days in which all of God's people ate unleavened bread.  What's so special about Matzo bread?  Matzo bread does not spoil,  it does not mold. It is incorruptible. It can be sealed in a box for years and be taken out and used. Because all of the impurities that would feed bacteria have been "tested by fire" and removed. The unleavened bread signifies, the sinless God-man, Jesus, the second Adam, who was the incorruptible bread that came down out of heaven, This Bread (His body) did not see decay,  because there was no sin found in Him that could hold Him in the grave.  "The wages of Sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life." Every year God had Israel eat this Matzo bread to make the declaration that He had not forgotten His Promise in the Garden to redeem Adam's race back as HIs inheritance.  Although the Jews did not intend to validate Jesus as Messiah, the...

THE FOUR CUPS OF PASSOVER  FOR NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS  I found this article a few years ago.   I posted about it last August but I thought I should repost it now since we are fast approaching the dates for Passover this week. This article lays the context for the institution of the Lord's Supper.  It came out of the OLD Covenant even as it was proclaimed to be a New Covenant.  The 4 Cups of Passover-New Covenant If you want to see more content like this ... please bookmark this URL:    https://upsettingbroca.blogspot.com  Blogger no longer offers a subscribe by e-mail option.  Various writings from the past The Road Not Taken At Home In MN  

The crowd was huge, people lined the road between the Mount of Olives and Bethpage. They were standing shoulder to shoulder, sitting on their parent's shoulders. Everyone was hoping to catch a glimpse of the parade its pomp and circumstance. The media people were all in place vying to be the first to record any significant occurrence. The whole nation had gathered together over 1.2 million people crammed like sardines into Jerusalem. The shepherds would be leading their sacrificial lambs, to the ancient city and into the Sheep gate of the Temple on the north side. in that flock was the one lamb which would ultimately be chosen to cover the nation's sins, as the National Pesach Lamb. Quietly, undetected at first, they saw a man riding on the foal of a donkey, This had never happened before! Immediately they recognized the man as, the prophet, the teacher, Jesus of Nazareth!  The news spread like a wildfire in high winds igniting the crowd. People began to pick up the cloa...

Aviv 1 or Nisan 1 is the first day of the year according to an ancient history expert and Hebrew culturist. who goes by several names,  Jehovah, Yahweh, but most often, referred to as GOD. Jehovah instructed His people (the Hebrews) to make this month the first month of the year. He instructed them that each month was to begin on the New moon. Days, He said, started at the evening and finished their course the following evening.  Based on this instruction, we learn that throughout history, the Hebrews spent the first fourteen days of the year in removing leaven from their homes. They would go from room to room and  they would search and remove any leaven found in their dwellings. They would remove the drawers and turn them upside down, even wiping out the corners. They wanted to clean house, literally, to invite the presence of God in for the wonder of Passover, celebrating their salvation from slavery.  John chapter 2.  Jesus drove out the money chang...

WHO CARES ABOUT PROPHETIC SIGNS?  The Bible is loaded with prophetic signs.  If they were just symbolic parallels, why give them the time of day? But... If they were God's signposts, in order to get us to the right place, at the right time.   If they were meant to keep us in step with Him  Then it seems, it would be of great consequence to observe His signs.  Yesterday, I spoke about the thirteen days of removing leaven from the Hebrew homes instituted by God's command to remove leaven before the eve of Passover.  I mentioned the parallel of Jesus (the Hebrew carpenter turned preacher) choosing these 13 days to be the period of time where He came into the temple and saw the money changers, which He had certainly seen on other occasions throughout His life...So why did He take action today?  Well... On this occasion, two (2)  legal events came together for the first time in history.  Jesus Son of God and Son of man had ...