B.E.S.T. Shabbat

"that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me." Joh 17:21 (NASB) Click here to listen to " Battleground Earth 5: The Power to be One " Last chapter we realized that justice in the earth comes from a recognition that we have an adversary who feeds on conflict. His methods or as the scripture calls them, schemes are oriented around inflaming passions that bring division. These are the actions of the roaring lion who is Satan. "Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." 1Pe 5:8 (NASB) Satan is not only a name of a being but a spiritual energy which brings accusation. "Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren ha

For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of  God? ( 1Pe 4:17 NASB) Click here to listen to " Battleground Earth 4: Judgment Begins at Home " These are times of great  challenges to our sense of justice, right and wrong. People are marching in the streets  crying out for justice.  Ancient racial evils and hatreds that are beneath the  veneer of  civilization  are being  exposed.   Many feel the wrongs and are trying to  express their outrage  and, in the outrage,  create more wrongs.  As we learned as children, two wrongs  do not make  a right .  The  Lord speaking through the Apostle Peter proclaims that it is the responsibility of the household of God  to judge ourselves and be agents of the gospel  of God. What does that mean? How can we be in the conflicts and be a light of love  and truth in times of great peril to the fabric of our lives? We

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil . For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places.] Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. - Eph 6:10-13 NASB Click here to listen to " Seeing Can Be Deceiving " You’d have to be blind in a cave with your head in the sand to not recognize the evil that is manifesting in our world today. Injustice and lawlessness is running rampant and is impacting everyone. How many of you feel very strong emotions of shame, guilt, fear, anger?...the list goes on. With coronavirus and now this presents a sense of hopelessness, loneliness, and the like. One can and does

"So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, "Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?" He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.""   Act 1:6-8 (NASB) Click here to listen to " Battleground Earth 3: Justice and Manifest Authority " We are living in unprecedented times of great peril. Tremendous waves of evil are loose in the earth. John 10:10 foretold of this conflict: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. (Joh 10:10 NASB) Our chapter verse tells us that we are on a timeline that God alone knows the meaning of. We tend to think of God’s timeline as a fixed p