Old Dog III
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Bob Neumann
Dear Friends,
I am hesitant to write even now because of personal self-doubt. since Monday there has been a stirring in my spirit as I watch and listen to TV, the Media, and especially the INTERNET. so please weigh my words and place them in the BALANCE. I am grieved by the “scornful” words and “mocking” demeanor towards any thing pertaining to “the bug”….or the Y2K computer issue. some of the “media” correspondents in their interviews went clearly beyond humorous to sarcastically condescending. mocking ridicule is not the norm and my spirit grieves at this as THE WORD flows through my inner man…..
Jude 17-19
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. (KJV)
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
When I went to Jude to read those verses I as usual I kept reading….
Jude 20-23
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. (KJV)
Funny how simple and clear THE WORD is….we strengthen our faith by our prayer in and Communion with HIS MOST HOLY SPIRIT which anchors us in HIS LOVE and HIS MERCY. Only then can we find TRUE COMPASSION which allows us to move in intercession, supplication, evangelism, and Holiness. How else will we disperse the darkness and reflect HIS LIGHT to a dying world? How else can we counter the unholiness of our “self”.
Y2K seems to have brought out the mockers and scorners in huge numbers. I wonder why? Of all the sin, stupidity, and insanity thriving in the world today “why is this such a catalyst?” was the issue I could not lay at rest. The fact that everyone seemed to be shouting “peace and safety” did not help my unease. So I placed it all in prayer at the foot of THE THRONE. Since then I have had a “stirring”, not a WORD as might be anticipated. Maybe my lack of faith precludes that for now. So I place these thoughts before all.
For a long time man has spoke of “A Bug”. Man also set a date and declared the timetable and level of events. Call it prognostication at it’s worst. And like most of what man does it failed. Some people did have “words” to prepare because of this event. These I do not question or challenge. I certainly have had my share of HOLY PROMPTINGS and DIVINE LEADINGS in the last 4-5 years where GOD directed and HIS WORK got done….to the amazement of myself and others.
So when thinking of Y2K and the “BUG” we can picture a roach, a fly, or an ant and simply say….YUP, IT’S A BUG. True for one edge of the sword. But last week I had a “bug”, too. A nasty little virus prevalent now in south Florida. So when I “got” an image of bacilli and cocci as seen through a microscope I had to step back and ponder….selah…..
For years we have heard of “computer virus” and seen what some could do. I had to accept the idea that maybe I had not the correct image for what is now occurring. Phrases I have used suddenly changed as I viewed things from my spirit man. Terms like “epidemic” and “pandemic”, “latency”, “vectors”, “contagion”, “virulence”, “contamination”, and “incubation” suddenly took a different meaning. As I prayed and meditated I realized that there was an aspect of all this in the “natural realm” as seen in the computer problems yet to come, and a “spiritual disease” we are seeing “symptoms” of all over the world but have yet to put together because we have failed to see it as a specific “disease syndrome”. Knowing we all see things in part, with this posting I am trying to do whatever I can.
THE WORD says we are to BE SOBER…and VIGILANT. To be WATCHFUL and to
JUDGE all things by HIS SPIRIT and HIS WORD for THE KING HAS SAID HE IS
COMING and HE EVEN QUESTIONED US ON WHETHER HE WOULD FIND FAITH UPON HIS RETURN. personally I need all the FAITH, GRACE, and MERCY I can get hold of.
So let me share the thoughts of two old friends who speak of mockers….be blessed old dog
Isaiah 28:21-29
21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. (KJV)
Jeremiah 15:15-21
15 O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. (KJV)