Why does China need U.S. Dollars to buy oil from these trading partners? Because the current system overseers say so. I wonder if the Chinese would like to see a different economic system? How about those listed trading partners?
It looks like there may be a change in the petrodollar’s future coming soon.
At 3 PM Central Daylight Time we will have our next Bible Study live on the Internet. Servias Ministries offers this to allow our brothers and sisters around the world to pursue the most important characteristic of Our Heavenly Father with us. HIS Love is the primary motivation in which all of creation is framed. All aspects of understanding the depth of Scripture require us to view revelation from a standpoint of Love.
Notify your friends of our Bible Study and give them an opportunity to join us. As the Revelation of Love expands our the globe, people’s lives will be transformed.
This week we will begin our study that follows Kemper Ditzler’s new book: "Raising the Remnant" and he will be with us for this broadcast.
To participate live or watch this Bible study as a recording afterwards, go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-baptism-of-love
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This week continues to confirm my past comments about the state of the economy. The rosy U.S. unemployment numbers came out this week: “204,000 jobs were added”. However, John Williams of www.shadowstats.com comments:
“With Washington awash in scandals, political turmoil and sinking approval ratings, the political timing could not have been better for this morning’s (November 8th) stronger-than-expected jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). An unusual shift of favorable seasonal-adjustment factors—into the August, September and October reporting period—boosted the latest jobs numbers. The jobs growth borrowed from other periods will be buried in the next benchmark revision or will be re-shifted in the months ahead, with the details never to surface in official reporting. Separately, the October payroll survey counted furloughed government employees as employed, as the BLS previously had indicated.”
Let’s face it, the Bureau of Labor Statistics “cooked the books” and it appears they really don’t care if guys like John Williams knows about it. Watcha gonna do about it?
Why misrepresent the employment numbers? The only reason you would do this is to try to convince the overall market that things are better than they really are. You want to promote an illusion to keep people passive about the current state of the economy. John has been keeping close eyes on the real unemployment numbers, currently at 23.5%. What does this tell you? Nothing that the Federal Reserve Bank is doing has positively impacted the average American. To the contrary, their zero interest rate policy is taking money aware from the middle-class savers and putting it into the pockets of the bankers and top 1%. They have successfully inflated the stock market. How? Where else can money managers go to earn any type of return on investment? The Fed is forcing all investors to put money in a riskier environment. The result is that the stock market is making new highs. Once the chickens come home to roost, the market will possibly take an epic dive. At that time, people will suffer major losses. Bonds are in the same shape. Once interest rates finally go back up, the bondholders will suffer huge losses. If the other countries begin to trade among themselves without the use of U.S. Dollars but agree on another currency for settlement, the value of the U.S. Dollar will plummet and prices will skyrocket. Inflation will increase dramatically.
Stock losses, bond losses, dollar losses, and high inflation. That is a pretty bleak picture. Where would one go to try to offset major losses in these areas? Physical assets. Gold, silver, oil, natural gas, farmland. You can see why there is such attention paid to the price of gold by the Federal Reserve’s agent banks trying to manipulate the price of gold downward. It is the one global indicator of the health of the U.S. Dollar. When it goes up dramatically, it signals big losses in the value of the Dollar. Holders of the Dollar are then alerted that it is time to dump their Dollar holdings and move to a safer medium of value. The Chinese are well aware of this issue. This is why they continue to aggressively acquire gold before the bottom falls out below the Dollar.
The following chart provides us perspective:
If the Chinese fully trusted the future of the U.S. Dollar, they would not be in such a hurry to increase the gold reserves. Actions speak louder than words!
Make no mistake, you can be sure there will be unintended consequences when Obamacare fully kicks in. It’s not a matter of “if”, but “when”. One of the keys to improving your health is losing weight, eating healthier, and taking supplements as needed.. My family is focused on doing all three.
If you need to lose weight, you must weigh yourself everyday with a reliable scale. I prefer a digital scale that measures tenths of a pound. Every morning when I wake up, I weigh and then record my weight. I also write notes of what might have negatively impacted my weight. The biggest issue appears to be excess salt. When I eat some heavily salted food such as popcorn or chips, my body retains extra water to insure its internal equilibrium. It usually takes about 48 hours for my body to readjust from the impact of an overdose of salt.
I received a Word from Our Heavenly Father yesterday… literally one word- inflammation. HE then said we should focus on eliminating inflammation from our bodies. In pondering this, I knew the EDS technology would identify invaders, the source of inflammation. However, there are other things we can do to actively reduce chronic inflammation.
Exercise is critical to pumping your lymphatic system, the body’s drainage system. Toxins and bacteria are dealt with by this system. (see: http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/lymphatic/lymph-system.htm) I have noticed that I always feel better after my 30 minutes of exercise. If I have been dealing with a virus, my symptoms diminish. A virus produces bacteria and that bacteria must be dealt with by the body. Exercise promotes the processing by the body of this bacteria. (OK, this is the layman describing the process).
Eating healthier is tougher than we admit. It takes real commitment. If you want to know how to prepare for Obamacare, you must eat healthier and stay out of the doctor’s office. Most doctors are “treaters”, not “healers”. They have been taught to prescribe pharmaceuticals to treat your symptoms, not deal with the source of the symptom. They protect themselves legally by operating under the acceptable “standard of care” umbrella established by the American Medical Association. Who is to say what is best for my body besides me? Who can claim expertise in having full knowledge of all the toxins, bacteria, viruses, chemicals, and the various diseases that I have been exposed to over my lifetime? Only my body. Do I consciously know the full list of invaders? No. But my body does. Within our bodies, we have a complex system that knows what we have been exposed to, when, and the relative impact to our current state of health. As we focus on improving our health, we can “listen” to the body and be sensitive to its needs. There is no reason you can’t tap into this aspect of your bio system. In one of our recent Bible studies, Dr. Speckhart illustrated the use of a pendulum in determining whether a food agreed with your bio-field. That is a starting point. If you ingest something that disagrees with your bio-field, you are probably promoting inflammation. If you do it long enough, you have created “chronic” inflammation. This has a major, negative impact on your state of health. Drug trials have no full biological history of the participants in the study. This is why some people die during a large trial. The chemical they take in reacts with existing toxins in their body and overtakes the body’s defenses. Death results. This is one reason many pharmaceutical commercials spend 2/3 of the air time warning us about potential complications of ingesting their product… and they call this an acceptable “standard of care”?
This morning, I happened onto this article on inflammation: http://myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/19/world-renown-heart-surgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease/
The current state of health among the population is going to change, one way or another. You can either submit your body to the system, or take responsibility over your own health. Your health is not my responsibility, it is yours. However, Love serves mankind and I want to serve you in a positive fashion by increasing your awareness of positive, possible outcomes that can impact your life and be a blessing to you. If I know of something that might improve your health, why not share it? I expect to write more on the research and outcomes I have been exposed to in the past. Let’s get healthy!
PS: In the large pharmaceutical research drug trials, “unintended consequences” is the term used when a participant dies as a result of taking the drug. That sounds a little better than “we killed ‘em”.
Jesus Christ is our ultimate example. His life provides us with many examples we should expect to walk in as well:
John 14:12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.”
Jesus Himself spoke these words to us. “He who believes in Me” is the key to these greater works. We should carefully follow His pattern of growth to maturity. Jesus didn’t start out His ministry to the masses at birth, He spent time maturing and preparing for His calling. Not much is said about this period, but Luke provides a few details:
Luke 2:40 And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.
It is critical for us to also be filled with wisdom for it is the foundation of our house. We will spend significant time on this particular aspect of maturing as we study “Raising the Remnant” in our weekly Bible Study broadcast. You can purchase a copy of the book at www.unity153.net.
Luke 2:42 And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast.
Before reaching full maturity and before walking in the fullness of His calling, Jesus observed the three annual Jewish feasts: Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles.
Luke 2: 46 Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.
At the age of 12, Jesus had studied and understood Scripture well enough to amaze the teachers. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The Word was in His heart. He was not only filled with wisdom, but also understanding, knowledge, and skill, yet He spent another 18 years in preparation before He would fulfill all three feasts. This was a time of letting patience have her perfect work, lacking nothing. During this time, He was fruitful, He didn’t just sit around waiting for His 30th birthday:
Luke 2:. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
When Jesus had come to full maturity according to the Law, He was now to fulfill all three feasts as an example unto us:
Matthew 3:15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.
16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water (Passover); and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him (Pentecost). 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
At a personal level, Jesus would go through the process of proceeding through all three feasts. He had observed the feasts from His boyhood and understood the need to experience each feast to provide us a pattern or process we must walk through as well. During the Pentecost period, it was necessary for Him to go through His wilderness experience just as the children of Israel had experienced in the time of Moses. Instead of 40 years, He was to spend 40 days in the wilderness. After His Pentecost experience of “receiving the Spirit” at the Jordan, the Spirit led Him into the wilderness to fulfill Pentecost:
Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.
This is the appointed time to bring our bodies into submission. We must die to the flesh and not feed the ego. As a requirement of the maturing process, we must be tested in the area of our greatest weaknesses. We will not be fully mature without being severely tested. How else can we be found worthy to walk in the fullness of the Tabernacles calling? Jesus had fasted for 40 days. What better initial test than to tempt Jesus with food:
:3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
How did Jesus respond? By the Word written in His heart and in His mind:
4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
Next, Jesus was tempted with use of power:
5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:
‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’
and,
‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”
The devil used the phrase “if You are the Son of God” to test Jesus and see if pride would be found in Jesus in His response. Jesus did not need to defend His calling for He knew His relationship with Our Heavenly Father. Instead, Jesus responded with The Word:
7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God.’ ”
The third temptation focused on authority:
8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”
Once again, Jesus responded with The Word. He was not intimidated by the devil and would not be moved by the offers of surrogate power and authority. He knew that power and authority originated with Our Heavenly Father and that usurped authority was not an option. His calling would have sufficient power and authority given by His Heavenly Father to operate in its fullness at the appointed time.
After Jesus had completed His Pentecostal time of testing:
Luke4:14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit (Tabernacles) to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. 15 And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
Once the Pentecostal phase was completed, Jesus walked in the power of the Spirit, being glorified by all. He was now walking in the fullness of His calling. He was able to heal, raise people from the dead, walk on water, teleport himself in an instant from one location to another, and become invisible to the crowds. And what did He preach? “Now is the time!”
Matthew 4:17 17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
This Sunday, we will begin our Study following Kemper’s book “Raising the Remnant”. The essence of this book is to focus on maturing the sons and daughters to the fullness of their calling. I strongly urge those who are seeking to walk in the fullness of the Spirit, the 3rd Baptism of Love, to join us for this study. The study is on Sunday’s at 3PM CST at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-baptism-of-love
In 2nd Corinthians, Paul writes:
1:21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, 22 who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. NKJV
This guarantee is the “earnest” as in a pledge, first installment, or deposit. The Greek word ἀρραβών (arrabwn) denotes the first payment or first installment of money or goods which serves as a guarantee or pledge for the completion of the transaction.
It is clear in the 2nd chapter there was unforgiveness for an individual in the Corinthian church and Paul admonished the people to forgive the offender. This church was spiritually immature. This is the same immature church that was operating in the “gifts” of the Spirit in the first letter.
Over the years, we have been taught that we have been given a small portion of the Holy Spirit and that later we would be given the fullness. This doctrine moved our focus of walking in the full maturity of the Holy Spirit toward some future, external event. Frankly, our ego loves this doctrine. Now it can continue to control you while you wait for something external to happen, removing any and all responsibility and accountability to mature into a son. If we are only to have a down payment of the Holy Spirit, how can we expect to walk as Paul is expecting in Ephesians 3:
17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
This passage tells us that being rooted and grounded in Love is the key to comprehending and being filled with all the fullness of God. Paul prayed in verse 16, “that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit”.
When you consider Paul’s writing to the Ephesians, he clearly does not limit the “empowering” of the Holy Spirit in us to simply a pledge or deposit. This would change our understanding from the empowerment increasing by maturity rather than some external date.
Are you rooted and grounded in Love? Or, are you solely focused on the prophetic, thus rationalizing why you don’t need to change now? Immature sons and daughters want to bypass the maturing process and receive their inheritance without making any commitment to change. Immature recipients of inheritance tend to squander their money because they lack wisdom and understanding in dealing with a windfall of finances.
We are not waiting on some future event to be filled with all the fullness of God, we are only waiting on ourselves. As we focus our attention on maturing in Love and all of its characteristics, we will be found worthy of greater empowerment. HIS glorious unlimited resources await the mature sons and daughters and it will not be given to those who are unwilling to embrace the circumcised heart of Love. Our Heavenly Father has guaranteed He will complete this “transaction”. However, we are not waiting on HIM, HE is waiting on us to mature, being rooted and grounded in Love.
The following article provides some ugly detail of how arrogant and entitled the banks have believed themselves to be:
http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/chase-isnt-the-only-bank-in-trouble-20131105
The lawlessness is so widespread, the only real fix is to reset the entire economic system. Let me see, who do you know that is big enough to do that? Yep, Our Heavenly Father!
John the Baptist prophesizes of the first group Jesus will focus on for the 3rd Baptism:
Matthew 3:11 “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
:12 “His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Luke 3:16 John answered, saying to all, “I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
:17 “His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat (grain) into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.”
First, let’s focus on the winnowing fan (or shovel). Each of the three feasts have a particular harvest associated with them.
Passover: harvest of barley (grain) (overcomers, remnant)
Pentecost: harvest of wheat (grain) (church)
Tabernacles: harvest of grapes (fruit) (rest of the world)
Gideon’s Army was called a barley loaf: Judges 7:13 And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.” Gideon’s Army of 300 were selected and reduced down from two larger populations (32,000 > 10,000 > 300). By only using 300, all would know that Our Heavenly Father provided the victory over the enemy. HE will once again use a remnant so the world will know it is by HIS Divine Intent that all men be reconciled.
How do you harvest each?
Barley: winnow (To separate the chaff from grain by means of a current of air with a winnowing fan, fork, or shovel, throwing it into the air and the chaff is easily separated.)
Wheat: thresh (To beat the stems and husks of grain in order to separate the grains or seeds from the straw.)
Grapes: trodden down in a winepress ( to forcefully press the wine out of the flesh of the grape)
These three harvest make up the bread and the wine in Our Heavenly Father’s ultimate Communion.
John the Baptist notes that Jesus will use the winnowing fan to harvest His remnant out of the church (wheat threshing floor) and remove the chaff (old man) with an unquenchable fire. “Unquenchable” is a fire that will never go out but will be sustained to maintain a complete purity. Translators who did not have a revelation of Love viewed this word as negative and a form of punishment. In 1987 on a plane to Chicago, Our Heavenly Father had me focus on Matthew 5:8:
“Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.” (Immediately HE told me HE had to remove me and clean me up from the battles I had been involved in; HIS anointing came over me as HE spoke those words)
Does this Scripture sound like a punishment to you? Fire is used to purify so that we may be able to stand in the presence of Our Heavenly Father. John the Baptist, the greatest of the prophets, spoke of the 3rd Baptism of the remnant who would be harvested out of the church, baptized with fire, and then gathered as His remnant for His use. The old man will be burned up and the result will be those with a pure heart. The purpose of the barn is to store the grain until it is time to distribute it for consumption. The Remnant will be “fed” to the world for the purpose of reconciling the world to Our Heavenly Father.
John the Baptist prophesied this 3rd Baptism from Bethany:
John 1:28 These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
If you fully trust in the Love of Our Heavenly Father, you will not fear. The less you trust, the more fearful you are. The less revelation of Love you possess, the more fear resides in your heart. As your revelation of Love comes to full maturity, you become empowered to walk in HIS fullness. Why? You are able to hear HIS Voice and fully trust HIS instructions, knowing that you are carrying out HIS Divine Intent. Divine Intent is Our Heavenly Father’s plan which will be fully successful, without modification. All of the needed resources will be mustered in order to complete HIS plan. You will recognize HIS Voice versus the adversary’s voice.
The word “casts” is the Greek word ballō. This word is first found Matthew 3:10:
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
The fear in your heart is one indicator of what degree Love has been perfected in you. Our Heavenly Father will prune and circumcise until the heart is made perfect in Love. HE will bring you forth into maturity by removing any unfruitful works and casting them into the fire. We will all go through the fire, some way, somehow. The question is whether the fire comes early to us individually and judges our hearts by HIS fiery Law of correction or later to those who are introduced to the “lake of fire”. Either way, the chaff will be removed. Fear must be cut out at the root.
Most Christians in the faith movement wanted to be independently wealthy, thus they were willing to pay for revelation, the “formula”, or method to use faith to gain finances. Instead, only the faith teachers promising the elusive wealth ended up enriching their own finances. The quest for independent wealth is an aspect of fear. Deep down you do not want to rely and trust in Our Heavenly Father for your needs. Each of us must assess our own intent when it comes to expanding our finances. If your focus is set on some future event promising a windfall of wealth, you will probably fail to walk in the fullness of your calling. If Our Heavenly Father’s plan require substantial funds in your calling, you can be assured that those funds will find their way to you.
Trust is linked to both hope and faith. Abraham had faith in GOD and the 11th chapter of Hebrews provides a list of those with faith, with faith being described in the first verse:
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Paul spoke of hope:
Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
The common thread in both verses is the “not yet seen”. Trust precedes the fruitfulness. Fear is the enemy of fruitfulness and will cause you to fall short of your calling. As you focus on Love, when it is perfected, all fear is cast out. The ultimate result is that your calling is producing a hundredfold return in fruit. Love is the key to overcoming fear. When Love is perfected and in its fullness, hope and faith are no longer at the forefront. Love has arrived. If you place no emphasis on being perfected in Love, you might want to join a band, they may need a clanging cymbal.
The Hebrew word for fire is ‘esh. It is made up of two letters: שׁ (shin: teeth) and אֵ (aleph: ox). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph
The teeth are used to consume or devour and the ox is noted for its strength, thus “fire” is the strong devourer or consumer. My friend Kemper who is a firefighter, has commented how the intense flames totally consume furniture in the house fires they fight. After they put out the fire, the rooms contain virtually no furniture or water. The fire consumed it all. This is the nature of the 3rd Baptism. It will consume all the chaff, leaving none of the old man behind. I can’t speak for you, but I have not had all the chaff burned out of me yet. However, I have operated in the 2nd Baptism (of the Spirit). My deepest desire is for the 3rd Baptism to do its job and consume all of the old man, the flesh, the ego, the pride… you name, toss it in the fire. Get out the hotdogs and let’s have a celebration at that bonfire. I’m sure it will be intense.
The Hebrew word for man is ‘iysh. It is made up of three letters: שׁ (shin), י (yod), and אֵ (aleph: teeth).
Between the shin and the aleph is the yod, the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet and it has a numeric value of 10 (The Law). This Hebrew word for man provides us with a subtle picture of the 3rd Baptism: man with the Law of Love in the middle of his heart, surrounded by fire. This is truly a circumcised heart of Love. This reflects the New Covenant mentioned in Jeremiah 31:
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
The Law is fulfilled by the revelation of Love, the Divine Character of Our Heavenly Father. Throughout Scripture, HE prophesied of the fulfillment of man being baptized in the Baptism of Fire. The Pentecostal church has discounted “The Law” saying it is no longer applicable (except for tithing). The old man has fought against embracing this 3rd Baptism. Once we submit to the fire, it ends the controlling influence of the ego. The lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life are no longer in the picture. The completeness of the Baptism of Fire (Love) insures this.