Avalon Chronicles #167: The End Times

 Reference: Who's Who in the Cosmic Zoo The Heavens Book Five by Ella LeBain 

http://www.whoswhointhecosmiczoo.com

    In mid-2024 it was for my extraordinary enlightenment that I viewed an interview by Ella LeBain on a podcast. My interest in her and her amazing research led me to order directly from her the first five books she has written. They constitute 2704 total pages. I am thru page 356 on book 5, therefore I have read 2484 pages since last mid-summer. I am thoroughly amazed at her content which sweeps from her encounter with the Christ in the Negev Desert, through New Age involvement, eventual conversion to sincere and committed Christianity and deep research into innumerable topics on Christian faith. Some of the more significant writings relate to the End Times prophecies. Her strong Christian faith has been inspiring to me!

     A review of these prophecies are worthy of study: Daniel chapters 7 to the end , Matthew 24, 2 Thessalonians 2, 1 John 2  and all of Revelation. Another author, whose book I am reading, also writes, "...the conspiracy of the ages is playing out on the streets of human life...right now." LeBain writes, "Cataclysms such as massive Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, fires (California?), hurricanes (North Carolina?) and meteors or fireballs" are prophesied. We have experienced world wars, nuclear wars, civil wars and constant violence."

     "All of us need to take the warnings of the Bible seriously. We must be careful not to make the mistake of rejecting any of its teachings,...Bible prophecy shows that earthquakes, along with other major calamities, will strike the earth in the not-to-distant future. Repentance and reconciliation  to the Lord, will save souls for the Kingdom of Heaven which is coming to Earth in the Age to Come."

     "God takes no pleasure in the suffering humans bring on themselves (2 Peter 3:9). Instead, He wants us to choose the way of joy and abundance that comes with a reconciled relationship with Him, as He offers to those who seek Him and live His way of life . (Isaiah 2:2-4; 11:9)."

     "The fall of the Babylonian system extant at the end time, will happen quickly and suddenly; 'Her plagues will come in one day---death and mourning and famine...In one hour, your judgment has come...In one hour, such great riches came to nothing. In one hour, she is made desolate.'" (Revelation 18:8, 10, 17, 19).

    I do not know about you, but I do not expect to be around for all these final calamities. I place my trust in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17!

     In the timely motto of the Boy Scouts: "Be Prepared."

Avalon 166: The Serpents Behind it All. Part Two

      Reference: Cahn, Jonathan. The Dragon's Prophecy. Frontline an imprint of Charisma Media. 2024 Lake Mary, Florida. 

     The serpents are under deep cover. They are behind the wars and use the first two groups to oversee a world dominated by Lucifer, God's adversary, since the attempted coup in Heaven. Lucifer and his "foot soldiers," the one third of the angels, who followed him in the rebellion, are the demonic spirits, driving so much of the evil carnage and suffering by humanity. It is my belief that throughout history, beginning with the murderous outrage within Cain to kill his brother Abel, that Satan has totally controlled individuals such as the recent historical characters such as Hitler and Stalin to kill and destroy and cause so much human suffering in the aftermaths of warfare. This includes the suffering by what today is reflected in veterans and their families, who are the sheep and the lambs. The wolves are expressed in modern ages as the "Elitists," who personally profit from continual warfare. Sometimes there are wolves, who lend money to both sides. 

     Jonathan Cahn in his latest book The Dragon's Prophecy writes of governing institutions, directed by Satan, and power-hungry individuals, taken over by demonic spirits. He writes, "...the Enemy opposes all of God's work, so he opposes each of God's works...He wages war against each. He wills and seeks the breaking of every life, every soul, every relationship, every marriage, every home, every hope and dream, every heart."

     Our military and veterans have been the targets of these attacks as we have suffered through earthly warfare. It is only with Second Coming of Jesus, the Messiah, that the serpent will finally be vanquished, when the millennial kingdom is established. Only then will the lambs and sheep be protected from the wolves and serpents. My own healing from my survival on that Vietnam battlefield in 1967 has only come through accepting Jesus the Son of God as my personal Savior. No healing was received from the "earthly" leaders in the political and financial arenas. Only my Father in Heaven has not let me down. 

     Unless, through divine and miraculous intervention by our Lord God, the future will be fulfilled as prophesied in Revelation. The flower of the youth of America and other nations will ultimately be engaged in the Final Battle of Armageddon to be fought in the Jezreel Valley at Megiddo, north of Jerusalem in Israel. We veterans may suffer again by offering our blood, sweat, tears, limbs and emotional stability. But, it will be the final sacrifice by our veterans, always having been the casualties of the "spiritual warfare" waged from the Garden of Eden through the populating post-Flood to the modern world. On Veterans Day 2024 I wrote, "May we be proud to have been qualified and able to have served. May we all be blessed to be healed from our battlefields."

Avalon #165: Deep Dive: 'Who is the Real Enemy?" Part One

                              IT DID NOT TAKE LONG FOR THE WARS TO BEGIN!

Reference: The Complete 54-Book Apocrypha. 2022 Edition. Covenant Press. www.ccc.one

     Book of Jubilees. Chapter 11: After the Flood Noah and his three sons began to spread out over the Middle East and were given responsibility for certain geographic areas. At some point thereafter "And the sons of Noah began to war on each other, to take captive and to slay each other, and to shed the blood of men on the earth, and to eat blood, and to build strong cities, and walls, and towers,...to found the beginnings of kingdoms and to go to war---people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all [began] to do evil, and to acquire arms, and to teach their sons war,...and malevolent spirits assisted and seduced [them] into committing transgression and uncleanness....And the prince Mastema (an evil angel connected to the Nephilim)...sent out other spirits,...to do all manner of wrong and sin,...and to shed blood on the earth."

     Fast forward several thousand years. The "malevolent spirits" are still at work on humanity.

     Our patriotic, dedicated and committed military have served since the Revolutionary War to free, protect and save our nation and countless others from the ravages, assaults, killings, invasions and sometimes barbarous actions of those we have opposed in warfare. The "enemy" has many names, "Japs, Nazis, Hun, Chinks, Charlie, gooks, dinks, Talibs, Mahdi, militia or just plain terrorists." 

     These were our enemies, the front-line battle warriors we faced in combat. They were common soldiers across the lines of battle just like most of us. Sometimes the geo-political backgrounds are discussed, but a deep dive into the underlying causes of conflicts and the "Usual Suspects" are ignored. Allow me to pull back the curtains of history to discuss spiritual warfare. My past research is covered in my third book, Soldiers Blood and Bloodied Money Wars and the Ruling Elites. 

     Secular Fulfillment of Prophecy: "Usual Suspects' are fulfilling the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation right in front of our blinded eyes. My bottom line is that there are three basic groups/motives that exist for those involved in this myriad of motivations to cause wars to move us to an inevitable one world religion and government. Constant conflict and warfare sets up the the need to be addressed by the antichrist, who arrives on the political scene to promise a cessation of the problems of the world, which the antichrist actually originally founded with his legions of secret warriors. The antichrist offers a solution to bring peace. The different groups reflect the strategic explanation of our constant warfare from times of recorded history. The lambs and the sheep are the ones manipulated by wolves and serpents to suffer through history. The second group are the wolves, motivated by achievement of financial gain or achievement of economic power.

     Stay tuned for a description of the third group, the "serpents."

Avalon Chronicles #164: Christmas and the King of Kings was Born and Still Lives!

Resource: December 22, 2024 Preaching/singing by Reverend Keith Craft, Pastor of Elevate Life Church Frisco , Tx. 

Who is our ultimate enemy behind killings in war, murders and all the tragic sufferings of mankind?

King Jesus lived amongst us as the Son of a carpenter. He was born the King of Kings as an infant. Who then would have known He would someday die for our sins and set us sinners free? Kings are born into royal families with great fanfare and celebration. Fireworks are set off and cannon boom. Jesus was born in simplicity in a manger. His parents had to flee to Egypt because the earthly King Herod ordered the death of all the male children, who might someday threaten his power. Jesus lived and for three years in the Promised Land he preached of a new life for those that believed in Him. Since then two thousand years have come and gone. Empires have been built and fallen. Nations have fought nations and brother has fought brother. Men have become so filled with hatred. And half the would is starving. 

Blood has run in streams on battlefields. Our cemeteries are filled with the men and women, who answered their nation's call to fight the "enemy." Limbs have been cut off (like my two from Vietnam). Condition of the Heart has plagued warriors since Cain killed Abel and collateral damage is suffered by the families, who waited at home for the warriors to return. Today the lingering emotional and mental injury is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. We debate over disarmament and yet the men on the front lines suffer decades after decades. As pastor Craft sang his song of the world after the King was born, a new revelation came upon me. 

In bayonet practice at West Point we were told to yell out, "Kill" as we drove our bayonets through the dummies. Combatants must be motivated to confront our enemies and remove them as a menace to our beliefs. We must be taught to kill the enemy and be motivated to march over hill and dale to win a victory over our enemies. In Old Testament times it was the giants in Canaan. In more recent history it has been Yankees versus Confederates, the Hun, the Japs, the Germans, the gooks, the chinks, the VC, the Russians, the Taliban, and next year there will be a new enemy, perhaps the "aliens" from another galaxy in the universe.

In that service as Pastor Craft sang, for the FIRST time something clicked for me. Satan left Heaven with his one third of the angels. They are not just sitting around campfires on earth. They are actively engaged as the forces of evil led by Satan working his devious goals to keep things stirred up down here on earth. On the battlefields we mere earthlings on both sides of front lines are merely doing the tactical things done in warfare. Way back up the strategic routes, there are Kaisers, Stalins, Hitlers, Tojos, Mao Tse Tungs, Ho Chi Minhs, all intent on achieving power and earthly riches.

They are not the REAL enemy. The Real enemy is Satan, who does not want the King of Kings to prevail, by winning humanity over to Him. The bottom line is we need to pray that demon spirits will be removed from the hearts of the evil leaders of the world. Only then can a true peace be possible on earth. Until the Second Coming we will kill each other and the blood will continue to flow! 

Avalon Chronicles #163: "If I were to be asked..." Part Two

                                                      Faith, Prayer and Forgiveness

     The Bible covers every important aspect in life as to behavior. It serves us all well to learn and follow its teachings. Our Creator births us all for an Eternal Life. It is wise to grasp that how we live our lives will determine which direction we go after death. We live on and I believe in the ongoing existence upon my death of my final existence in Heaven. I have heard enough about Heaven and hell and I choose ascending to Heaven. The fires of hell are not appealing to me. 

FAITH: This is the most critical aspect of each of our lives. If we believe in Jesus the Christ, Who came to earth in human form, that He died on the Cross so that our sins may be forgiven, and that He rose from the grave, then, to be saved for eternity in Heaven, we must proclaim by verbal declaration that his crucifixion actually happened and therefore in a very simplistic manner, we will ascend to Heaven. 

A righteous (good, virtuous, upright, upstanding, upright, decent, ethical) life will be required us. It is not this righteous life that ensures our entry to Heaven, but it is by our faith. When we are faithful, then righteous behavior follows and we live with a clear conscience. That ensures a special ongoing peace in our lives. In all candor this is our daily challenge. When we do not uphold righteousness in our behavior, then we must HUMBLY ASK THE FATHER TO BESTOW MERCY UPON US. 

PRAYER: It is written that He answers prayers and we all need them answered constantly in our lives. But, there is a major criteria that must be satisfied. You must confess ALL your sins on an ongoing basis AND you must forgive all others. It is written in 1 John 3:22: "You know that your prayers are answered because you obey His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight." The Ten Commandments are very evident and historical, but we should remind ourselves often about the standards contained in them. It was in my forties before I caught on to this scripture and I have always been aware since then of the "things that are pleasing in His sight." That phrase keeps me on edge and I try mightily to satisfy that behavioral standard. 

FORGIVENESS:  A classic example of this was brought to my attention years ago, when I had a conversation with the man, who provided my lawn care. He commented on my disability as a double leg amputee walking with prostheses. I asked him if he had any health issues he desired my prayer. He said yes. Then I indicated that to receive answers to prayer for healing, he would have to forgive all others, who had offended him. I will never forget his response, "I am not sure I can do that." It is written in John 8: 1-11, "If you forgive others their trespasses, you will be forgiven, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, YOU WILL NOT BE FORGIVEN."

Our Creator births us all for an Eternal Life. Most of us do not realize after our earthly bodily life, that there are two directions for us as to travel. I prefer up to Heaven, not down to hell!

Avalon Chronicles #162" "If I were to be asked..." Part One

      At 82 years of age, "...what would you impart to young people as to what you have learned?" I would discuss several arenas: Wisdom Insight Discernment Knowledge Maturity. WIDKM for short. It is these I ask for each day. I pray to my Father, "I pray I would be bound to the Mind of Christ and have imparted to me WIDKM as I encounter decisions and issues every day" If I listen, I do believe I get answers.

     I am in advanced practical application phase of life, even though I know God is not finished with me in my basic faith walk. I have heard thousands of sermons and read hundreds of books, but I will never reach the depths of the deepest trench in the Pacific as to what I need to finish strong! Humbly, I continue to ask my Lord for His mercy. However, I never stop attempting to learn God's ways and live by those rather than my own ways. I will begin with Garden of Eden. I have been to a man's war in Vietnam, a secular conflict that cost lives and blood and pain and for me two limbs. But, the Garden experience set up up the ultimate strategic never-ending war of all time, that of Satan versus God, the Creator of our little planet earth and all the galaxies in space. Satan discovered that there would be established a human blood line that would provide a Christ that would establish a way out of the trials and tribulations of earthly existence. Since then to this very day there would be a spiritual battle for good versus evil in its simplest definition. There was Noah's Flood approximately 4344 years ago and only eight humans survived! Why did God wipe out humanity and start over? It takes a deep dive into Scripture and a tiptoeing into the Bible in obscure extra-Biblical writings in the Apocrypha to understand it all.

     After the Fall of Satan and one third of the angels, who rebelled with him, a group of those angels, as it is postulated, decided they liked the feminine beauties on earth and came down and mated with them. This produced the Nephilim, giants, whose ferocity, evil, killing and violence produced chaos. It was a major attempt by Satan to cut off the DNA of humanity to stop the birth of Jesus. The ever and always totally powerful God put an end to that disgrace for the population of the earth He originally created and He repopulated after drowning all those big and bad giant "dudes."

     Ever since, the history of the world has been one of constant conflict, wars and rumors of wars. I suffered in one of those! Even though the original Nephilim drowned and their giant skeletons are found ever so often, their DNA probably was carried by Ham's wife and they reappeared in force in what became the land God ordained for the Promised Land, current day Israel. Early Old Testament writings document the destruction of most of the post-flood "giants" under the leadership of that magnificent brave warrior Joshua. But, some survived, because God's orders to "kill them all" were disobeyed. Even though most were drowned in the Flood or killed in Canaan, their spirits lived on. Very simply put, "It is those spirits today that are within humans guiding, controlling and directing the forces of evil today to bring again the ferocity, sin, killing and violence we have suffered through the millenia. 

     Undeniably, Jesus Christ the Son of God came to earth to show us the way to live in peace and forever by faith in His sacrifice on the cross so we may enter Heaven as our final address.

 

 

Avalon Chronicles #161: Champions of the Faith; Charles Finney (1792-1875)

 Reference; Miller, Basil. Charles Finney The evangelist who sparked one of America's greatest revivals. Bethany House Publishers. Minneapolis, MN. 1941.

     The prior two Champions about whom I have written, Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, were instrumental in revivals of the First Great Awakening in the period prior to our American Revolution. Our Lord moved another Champion of the Faith, Charles Finney, to move on America in our nation's Second Great Awakening in the 1800s. The extent of his influence for Christ was that "under his ministry a half million souls yielded themselves to his Master's touch." His thrust was to call people to repentance. Multitudes of individuals go about their daily lives not knowing or caring how they live each day. God requires us to repent of our sins. One of the major benefits of a life lived by God's will is to follow the Ten Commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. When I first became aware of this requirement to have my prayers met, the "pleasing in his sight" was somewhat mysterious and I needed to work on that subject. This is the requirement that is subject to review in each of our lives.

     Charles Finney was born in 1792. The Lord guided his early years for his calling as an evangelist by preparing him in educational endeavors. Intense Bible study brought him to the conclusion that the Book was truly the word of God and that prayers must be prayed in faith. A major turning point in his faith walk was when he grasped the "doctrine of justification by faith" This is how he defined a new state of his deepened faith. "I could now see and understand what was meant by the passage, 'Being justified by faith, we have peace with God...' I could see the moment I believed while up in the woods all sense of condemnation had entirely dropped out of my mind; and from that moment I could not feel a sense of guilt or condemnation...My sense of guilt was gone; my sins were gone...I felt justified by faith...I was in a state in which I did not sin. My heart was so full of love that it ran over." He got the big picture! That is what he based his life's work on. That is a key for us all. 

     A 1970 movie Love Story had a line in it, "Love means never having to say you are sorry." In a secular setting this means loving someone to such a degree in a relationship that you never hurt their feelings or commit an unpleasant or mean action against them. Finney would indicate that his love for our Lord was so deep and strong that his life was one of sinlessness to such a degree that he need not repent because he did not sin!

     "His style of preparation was as he went among the people 'to learn their wants. Then in light of the Holy Spirit I take the subject that I think will meet their present necessities...I pray much over the subject and then go and pour it out to the people.'" Finney was strongly convicted that his success was due to his baptism in the Holy Ghost, "...which is indispensable to ministerial success." One student of his at Oberlin College in his latter years said of him, "God had His giant at last."

     "Springing from the inner fount of his own life, he heralded from the pulpit, the lecture room and the press 'that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.' This was his life-long theme song, this his white-hot passion." This he proclaimed until August 16, 1875. We need more heralds such as was he.!