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This is, once again, to bring out the "spiritual" interpretation of things meant to be seen with "spiritual eyes". While the UNSAVED world looks upon the Bible (if they consider it at all), and world events, in the "natural" as portents of evils to come....Christians are doing the exact same thing.

God has spoken in parables all through the Bible. He hides things from those He doesn't want to yet understand. But, the Christian has been given the "earnest" of the Holy Spirit of God to guide him/her in the things they need to know....John 16:13. But, these things don't just "pop up" and become obvious to everyone...they have to be "dug out" and "searched for" as a prize to be won. The Apostle Paul believed that Christianity was like running a race for the "prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ"...Philippians 3:14.

Proverbs 25:2..."It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of KINGS is to search out a matter."

Those who will ultimately "rule and reign" with Jesus Christ, WILL NOT BE those who don't dig deeply into Scripture to find out these things that God has kept hidden from most.

Matthew 7:14..."Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way; which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."

This verse says "FEW" find it. The word "life" is not one that means "versus death"....it means a life in the next age that will find great rewards in ruling and reigning with our Lord Jesus Christ.....an EARNED PRIVILEGE AND REWARD. It's the "prize" we should all strive for.

J. Preston Eby is one of today's most prolific teachers on the spiritual interpretations of what God is telling us in the Bible. The source of Biblical "water" is that which cleanses us through God's Word(s). "Water" is that which we "drink" (consume)..."washed by the water of the word"...Eph.5:26. Water contaminated by "Wormwood" is FALSE DOCTRINE. This "water" does not cleanse, it pollutes:


http://www.godfire.net/eby/rev-108_print.html


Piece of the link article:


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 darkness 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!

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For more on "sonship" and "sons of God", study Romans 8:19 and Rev.12 (man child). Those words are in the Bible for a reason.

Arlene

This all goes to show us that the LIVING WATER OF THE TRUTH has now become the bitter lies of religion, and the traditions of man. Men who fear more losing there physical life here on earth, than their eternal life with the KING OF CREATION, OUR BLESSED SAVIOR, THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER...JESUS CHRIST!!

Our FIRST LOVE, our love of the TRUTH, has grown COLD. Wormwood has poisoned our FOUNTAINS, just as man has perverted the Truth. We who have eyes to see, can now plainly see, that Jesus told us all this, beforehand.

Thanks Arlene for another great article!!

May all TRUTH SEEKERS keep drinking from the fountain of living water, and sharing this water with all who want to drink.

JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING AND HE IS IN CONTROL!!!

Patti

I thank God for you and your comments, Patti!!!

If ONE more Christian (you) is seeing this TRUTH, then I have great hope that there may be others.

God bless you, my dear "sister in Christ"...

Arlene