A Shining Light In The Darkness

By C. J. Refsland on September 30, 2014 • ( 1 )

Someone very close to my heart asked me once, “Will you go against what thousands of theologians teach?” I replied with yes, if they are using man’s interpretation of scripture and not the discernment of the Holy Spirit, then yes, yes I will. Man can not begin to understand the mind of God. God gave us so much in the prophets, and yet we have chosen to ignore this and go off after a man’s version. This is why we are in the turmoil and tribulation we are in today. We were warned. The world was surprised and even complacent and was caught off gaurd by the events of today. The news outlets are scrambling to say the world was caught by surprise. Really? Surprise because we went running off after strange doctrine and the doctrine of demons while God’s prophecy was unfolding right before our eyes. We as a whole cared more about the blessings of riches and the world than we cared about spreading the word of God and the true Gospel of Christ. We forgot about our mission of taking the Gospel to the world, spreading the love of God and the knowledge of the scripture. We were warned by all the prophets that if we strayed from this what would happen. That God would remove His blessings and protections and leave us to our own desires. When you read the book of Isaiah you get a clear picture of exactly what is going on in the middle east and most specifically Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52 gives a clear picture of what Jerusalem looks like TODAY, and so does John in Revelation 11.

Awake, awake O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the Holy City. The uncircumcised and the defiled will not enter you again. Shake off your dust, rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.” For this is what the Sovereign Lord says” “At first my people went down to Egypt to live, lately, Assyria has oppressed them. and now what do I have here?” declares the Lord. “For my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them mock,” declares the Lord. And all day long my name is blasphemed. Therefore my people will know my name, therefore in that day they will know that it is I who foretold it, yes it is I.”…….

Isaiah goes on to talk about the ruin of Jerusalem and that he will be their redeemer, He will lay bare His Holy arm, in the sight of all the nations and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God. He also gives God’s warning:

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure you who carry the vessels of the Lord. But you will not leave in haste or go in flight, for the Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

How clear is that? It’s like we can’t see the forest for the trees! For the very next verses and chapters speak about the Messiah, our Lord and Savior:

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering……..He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him and afflicted. HE WAS PIERCED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS CRUSHED FOR OUR INIQUITIES; THE PUNISHMENT THAT BROUGHT US PEACE WAS UPON HIM, AND BY HIS WOUNDS WE ARE HEALED. We all, like sheep, have gone astry, each of us has turned tyo his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

How blind could we be? Prophecy is unfolding before our eyes and we are blind, deaf and dumb.

Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
They have mouths, but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat. Psalm 115:4-7

All of the darkness in the world spread their messages of condemnation and hatred toward God’s land, and children, and they gathered at the top of the world (UN) last week. The world has been dragged into a war of ‘Biblical’ proportions with great tribulation and we are blind. Prime Minister Netanyahu has received much condemnation about his speech to call this darkness out, and in reality he shed a ray of light and truth, and it was missed by so many. Before we watch the video I just want to point out that we have done much research on the players in recent events. They are all connected they are all the same. But one thing I found very interesting is that there is a very subtle lean in his speech. His lean toward pressure from the western leaders especially Obama to rely on Cairo, Saudi Arabia, and other nations, when God’s word clearly states that Israel will “return no more that way again.”(Deut. 17:16) In fact they are never to turn to those who ‘bowed the knee to Baal’ either. Netanyahu is a man of God, a man of conviction. A strong man, strong in his faith. Pray for him. Let me point out that one of Obama’s first things he did when taking office to stop in Cairo in what has been labeled his “apology tour” for America and the west. He gave power to Cairo in this speech, and as later events unfolded attempted to transform Egypt to his standards. I just find this very interesting, and it’s the subtle things that we must pay attention to, the subtleties of mans word and mans will that clearly go against what God say’s. For God say’s “I will surely do it.”

Pay attention to Netanyahu compare Hamas, Al-Nusra, Al-Shabob, ISIS, Hezbollah, and all the other players in this tibulation.

He mentions these peoples have been cut from a different tree. This is very true, search the scriptures for this tree. You can take it all the way back through History to Nebudchaneezer. (Read here) or (Here) Over and over again God speaks of His people the Olive Tree, the branches he removes, the branches he cuts out of this His people (tree). Psalm 80 tells us this about the tree and the vine :

“Thou hast brought a ‘VINE’ out of Egypt: Thou hast cast out the heathen (the Canaanites), and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea (Mediterranean), and her branches unto the river (Euphrates).” (Read more)

Paul goes into great detail in Romans 11 about our grafting into this tree. (Read here) And this ideology that this wild tree (people) are teaching is spreading like a cancer, a dark and dangerous cancer, we have warned this over and over. It’s time for God’s people to put their complacency behind them, open their eyes wide and see what the prophets have warned us about. It has affected us, hundreds of thousands of our brethren have been slaughtered, and it continues. It happened in WW2 & it’s happening again. It will only continue to grow and worsen until the return of our Messiah, when every eye will see Him and the nations will know who the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is. Why then is the world in wonder, and men’s hearts are failing for fear.? Why is the body of Christ silent and complacent, rushing off each our own way chasing after tickling ear doctrine? They won’t pay attention, God say’s “my people perish for a lack of knowledge.” It’s time to wake up, it’s time to educate yourself and pray for knowledge and discernment. Don’t take my word for it, research it yourself, ask God to show you and He will. “But seek ye first the kingdom of God.”

Pray for Israel, pray for God’s truth to shine in the darkness, pray for the leaders of Israel, pray for God’s mercy to cover the world and lead the lost to Him. Pray for the Body of Christ to unite and stand firm in the faith, and the truth, stand firmly watching and waiting as we were commanded to do.

Commentary by Am Not Ashamed