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Who Has God Been Lying To
Bob Neumann, 9/2001
For several days I have tried to be still and to await my LORD. It all started when I had a very intense dream for two consecutive nights. In both the LORD spoke but once, two short words…. …”IT’S DONE”. There have been times where I have heard long and very moving WORDS that I was instructed to “write down” and to “send out”. The basis for this is in the second chapter of Habakkuk. Most Christians who believe that GOD speaks today almost all accept this scripture. But in North America only about 15% of the church going public believe that ABBA is speaking today. Which is amazing since there are tens of millions in North America that categorically believe in “angels”, “ascended masters”, and even “advanced extraterrestrials” who will send them messages personally.
Scripturally we can call such non-religion based “contact” as lying spirit. Last week I had one of those SENTINEL moments. I, like probably many, received many emails. Within moments I received two specific “posts”. Each by men well known in this prophetic congregation on the internet. The problem was that the two conflicted in their entirety. As I stepped aside and was perplexed at the present degree of variance in the so called prophetic community I did the only thing appropriate. I shut my mouth and turned my face to the wall and called out to my ABBA. Years ago I read a quote from Edmund Burke, I believe. “PRAYER IS THE LAST ACT OF A SCOUNDREL”. Why this came to me I may never be certain. The last few weeks many, many people have talked about “prayer”. About praying for America. The city of New York. All political leaders. Victims, survivors, rescue workers….the United States…members of the military presently preparing and deploying for war.
Within moments I realized something was very wrong. And the only finger I could point is at myself. Prayer always seems to be my “last resort”. Once I pray concerning a situation I usually stop looking for ways and means in the natural. But it then came to me that on many things prayer was the only thing I thought of doing. So prayer for me is my last result…the final answer. And it is so because I do get answers. Sometimes answers I neither expect or anticipate.
So yesterday as I drive through the mountains and the rain I was back at square one. The same place I was in five days ago. Many questions and no answers. Since the beginning of this WAR many people have reminded me of WORDS and VISIONS I have shared over the last few years. But it was THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT that kept reminding me of the VISIONS I have never shared. So I went off to get away and find my answers one way or the other.
Not far from where I live runs a road called the BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. And on it’s many curves is the highest elevation east of the Mississippi River. I wanted to go there. But I did not make it. Instead I went more to the north and came to a point in my grasp of reality where THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT wanted me.
So I stopped and listened.
The first thing I heard was a question. “WHOSE REPORT WILL YOU BELIEVE?”. and I answered that that was my problem. Who of these reports came from GOD and who was listening to a “lying spirit”? Who was doing ABBA’S WILL and who was not? that comment got the answer I never wanted to hear. The answer was “BOTH”. I freaked out.
In the midst of sudden confusion and anger I heard HIS VOICE….”I TOLD YOU EVERYTHING WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. THINGS WERE IN MY HANDS. NOTHING HAS CHANGED ”SHEMUEL”.” It had been along time since I heard that “name”. I got quiet and waited knowing the conversation had merely begun. After awhile ABBA began to explain.
“I AM STILL THE SAME AND I DO NOT CHANGE. I FOLLOW MY OWN RULES JUST AS I EXPECT MY CHILDREN TO LEARN THE RULES OF MY HOUSE. LONG AGO I TOLD YOU THAT SHEEP AND BABIES ARE NOT CAPABLE OF EITHER LEARNING AND OBEYING. SHEEP LISTEN AND RECOGNIZE SO THEY FOLLOW. BABIES HERE AND ARE COMFORTED. BUT NEITHER SHEEP NOR BABIES COMPREHEND THE WORDS I SPEAK. THAT IS WHY SHEEP NEED A SHEPHERD GOOD AND LOVING. THAT IS WHY MY BABIES NEED A TENDER COMFORTER. WHICH IS WHY I GAVE ME SON UNTO THEM. WHICH IS WHY HE SENT THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT TO INSTRUCT AND COMFORT.”
“SO IF THEY DENY MY SON AND GRIEVE MY HOLY SPIRIT IS IT MY FAULT?”
“No ABBA”, was my reply.
“THEN REMEMBER THAT I CAN USE ANY VESSEL THAT I CHOSE. IT IS STILL MY WORLD. THERE IS A REASON WHY THERE ARE VESSELS BOTH HONORABLE, AND VESSELS THAT ARE NOT. EVERY HOUSE HAS A PLACE AND A PURPOSE FOR THINGS LESS THAN SEEMLY. THERE IS ALWAYS DIAPERS IN NEED OF DISPOSAL. THERE IS ALWAYS GARBAGE AWAITING DISPOSAL. HOW MANY BRANCHES HAVE YOU WATCHED ME CUT FROM MY VINE AND TIE TOGETHER TO AWAIT THEIR APPOINTED TIME FOR BURNING?”
“There were many ABBA, just as there were so many TARES.”
“SO HOW DO THE TARES AND THE DEADWOOD CHANGE MY COVENANTS AND MY HEART? “
I suddenly felt ashamed. Once again I realized how little faith I had.
“FAITH IS NOT YOUR PROBLEM, SON.” ABBA WHISPERED. “THE PROBLEM IS YOUR HEART.” The reality of HIS WORDS flowed over me. “YOUR HEART IS NOT BIG ENOUGH TO ABSORB ALL THAT IS HAPPENING. AND WHY THINGS NEED TO HAPPEN THE WAY THEY MUST HAPPEN. YOU CANNOT SHIFT GEARS IN YOUR EMOTIONS WITHOUT FEELING EACH ONE. MEN AND WOMEN ARE SAYING ALL KINDS OF DIVERSE AND CONFLICTING THINGS. JUSTICE AND MERCY. GRACE AND JUDGMENT. BUT YOU HAVE SEEN THE SWORD, THEY HAVE NOT.” “MANY REFUSE TO ACCEPT ME AND MY WORD. MANY PICK AND CHOSE ASPECTS OF MY REALITY AND BITS AND PIECES OF MY LOGOS ON WHICH TO BUILD IDOLS AND TO BURN INCENSE.” “WHAT HAS BEEN MISSING IN ALL THESE THINGS YOU BURDEN YOURSELF WITH?”
I knew what I had been looking for and not seen. “In spite of everything I hear nothing about YOUR HOLINESS and YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
“YOU CAN NOT EXPECT POLITICIANS TO ASK FOR ALTER CALLS FOR THE MASSES “TO GET RIGHT WITH GOD”. NOR CAN YOU EXPECT PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES TO GIVE UP THEIR RELIGION. NEW YORK IS NOT SODOM, IT IS NEW YORK. NORTH AMERICA IS NOT ISRAEL. I MADE NO PROMISES TO MY SERVANT ABRAHAM ABOUT IT. NOR DID I SEND MOSES TO TAKE MY PEOPLE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. I DID NOT PLACE DAVID AS KING THERE. THE LAMB WAS NOT SLAIN THERE”. “YOU GOT A PROBLEM ON YOUR HANDS SON.” ABBA stated quietly AS HE looked at me. “What is that ABBA?”, I asked with no idea where HE WAS TAKING ME.
“MAN HAS SET THINGS IN ORDERS AND PATTERNS I NEVER ORDAINED. THEY CREATED FOR THEMSELVES DIVERSE RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES THAT ARE CONTRARY TO MY KINGDOM. MOST SERVE THE PRINCE OF YOUR WORLD. MANY QUITE WILLINGLY. SO DO MOST IN YOUR WORLD IF YOU EVER NOTICE. BUT THAT DOES NOT CHANGE ANYTHING. I STILL SEND MY SERVANTS TO WARN AND EVEN PLEAD WITH THE WORLD.” “IN REBUTTAL THEY ARE ANSWERED AND CHALLENGED BY SERVANTS OF THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL”.
“FROM THIS POINT ON, ALL THAT IS PLACED BEFORE YOU, YOU WILL DISTINGUISH WHAT IS COMING FROM THE WORLD, FROM THE SEED OF THE SERPENT, AND FROM THE FLESH OF MEN AND WOMEN.”
I took a deep breath and asked…”Why me ABBA?”…. “WHY NOT YOU?” “DID YOU NOT WANT TO SERVE ME?” “SON, I NEVER SAID IT WOULD BE FUN OR EASY. BUT I HAVE PREPARED YOU. AND I PROMISED YOU LONG AGO THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE OKAY WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER.” I nodded, understanding and accepting.
“NOW GO GET IT DONE, SON. SHOW THEM WHAT IS WRONG AND THOSE WHO WILL FOLLOW DO SO BECAUSE THEY HEAR ME…AND NOT YOU.”
At that ABBA was gone and I remembered numerous little things…and shook my head amazed.
Immediately I thought “WHO HAS GOD BEEN LYING TO?” and I caught myself…. ABBA does not lie….HE is TRUTH….HE has vessels in HIS HOUSE that do that….
Lamentations 3
37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
Ecclesiastes 12
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Jeremiah 18
10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Jeremiah 21
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
So many verses that should warn us that A HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS GOD is far beyond our limitations. That HE WHO IS ALL MIGHTY, ALL KNOWING will not be ignored. Eventually all will tremble before HIM. ONLY HIS OWN COVENANT CAN RESTRAIN HIM. and only with those HE HAS CUT COVENANT will HE show blessing, mercy, favor and grace.
selah bob