Month: September 2021

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Endure with Hope

One summer day my family was lazily floating in individual inner tubes down the Clearwater River. It was the perfect day and the perfect time, and the slow moving river would offer a little excitement every once in a while with a tiny rapid or two. We’d hit those rapids with excitement, shoot down the river for a couple hundred yards, and then settle back down to the gentle flow of normalcy.

The perfect day was suddenly interrupted by horrible screams of animals piercing our peace from somewhere upriver. We all turned our inner tubes as quickly as we could, and scanned the river for signs of the terrible noises that were screaming behind us.

Black clumps of hair, seven of them, were struggling to stay afloat. Kittens, an apparent burden to their owner, had been tossed out the car window into the river. We watched in horror as one, and then another, gave up their struggles of survival, and sank below the surface of the water.

They were so far from us, that we could not get to them in time to rescue. I remember shouting as loud as I could to my son to follow me upstream, as we tried to figure out how to help drowning animals out of our reach.

It was that shout that drew the attention of one of the kittens that was farthest from our grasp. That kitten focused on us, and suddenly changed direction in the river, and started paddling toward us. He had over a half mile to swim, and his brothers and sisters were going under and drowning in front of him.

We knew the chances of the kitten reaching us seemed hopeless, but we watched the last kitten swim with the determination of one with Hope.

A mile and forty minutes later, that little kitten made it to our tubes, and we quickly scooped it from the water, held it tight, and let it catch its breath. It survived because he had hope of rescue, from seeing salvation floating far ahead of him. Where his brothers and sisters had given up, he endured, because he knew he could.

Scientists have found the same conditioning in rats. To test their theory that rats can have hope, they put them in a container of water. The rats would struggle to swim, but at some point give up, and begin to drown after a few short minutes. At the moment when drowning was imminent, the Scientist would reach down and pull the rat out of the water.

The next time the rat was tested with the same conditions, he was able to swim for hours, rather than minutes. It was the hope, the knowledge of rescue, which gave him the strength to go on.

Christians endure and survive because of hope. It is hope in our salvation, in our rescue, in our survival, in our eternal life, and in our loving Savior Jesus Christ, that gives us the strength to continue in spite of all odds.

There is no doubt that we go through many trials and tribulations. There is no question that we suffer from persecutions because of our faith. It is well known that the pains and hardships of a Christian who walks faithfully are sometimes overwhelming to those looking from the outside.

But we have HOPE, and it is that HOPE that let’s us survive to live another day. Our enemies from the darkness do not have HOPE.

When attacks are coming your way, remember and endure! It is endurance that comes from Hope, and if you are a Christian, you are able to go that extra mile to survive another day. So have patience, complete the Works He Wills you to do, and have full assurance of hope unto the End!

“For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” (Hebrews 6:10-12 KJV)

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We Stand with Israel!

Becker Bible Ministries, Inc. love the Chosen People of the LORD God
The LORD God loves his Jewish Chosen People and the Land of Israel. We want to love those whom the LORD God loves.

The LORD God continues to love His people regardless of the inability for God-loving Jews to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as the true Messiah.

In the End Times, the Lord Jesus Christ will make judgment upon the Jews and their obedient upholding of His laws.

We believe at the Judgment Seat of Christ or just prior, as End Time’s events unfold, obedient, LORD God-loving Jews will recognize the Lord Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and repent of their sins. At this Judgment Seat of Christ, the obedient and sincere Jews will be separated to the Lord’s right side and saved, away from the non-religious people who hate or are apathetic to Him, which will be sorted to the Lord’s left side and cursed. (Revelation 20:12)

We know that one day we will share the New Heavens and the New Earth with our Jewish brothers and sisters who love the LORD God, and that they will recognize, know and love the Lord Jesus Christ as much, if not more, than us.

We think that when the things of this world are past, we will find a close and deep spiritual relationship is possible between Jews and Christians as we live in the New Earth with the Lord Jesus Christ leading us together.

Thus, we believe it is fruitful and wise to learn the ways and thoughts of God-loving Jews to prepare for a close relationship together. One of the best ways to know a person is to know his language; therefore, a study of the present-day Hebrew language as well as a study of the Biblical Hebrew language are prudent, wise, and will help nurture our future relationship together.

We Stand for Israel!

The Promised Land was given to the Twelve Tribes of Israel by the LORD God.

No worldly authority or power has the right to take from the Israelites the land given to them by the LORD God.

We stand strong and support the right of Israel to exist. We are committed to our support of our Jewish brothers and sisters, and would be willing to fight for their cause and suffer beside them if moved by Him to do so.

Although oceans separate us, our hearts remain focused upon Israel’s survival. We try to make wise effort to support their initiatives to hold and maintain their rightful inheritance of land. We also involve ourselves in the political policy of the United States to encourage a strong and public support of Israel in the face of terrorism and persecution.

Thought you would like to know!

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Christians often make the Word of God Irrelevant

Christians are the laziest group of spiritual believers I have ever observed. Jewish children and adults study their Torah daily, and practice their prayers and traditions religiously. Muslim servants of God pray seven times a day as ordered by their prophet, and memorize by heart their designated holy book, the Koran.

Christians, on the other hand, most often rely on their thoughts and feelings to establish their faith walk, and depend heavily on the Holy Spirit inside them to give them the answers when they are needed. Our Christian faith is the only faith that I know of that allows new converts and mere children of faith to speak doctrine and establish practices unquestioned. Because a new Christian feels such an empowerment when receiving the Holy Spirit, and because Christian leaders forgot a long time ago how to lead, many of the faithful Christians are being led by the nose by a Christian child that has little knowledge of the Word of God.

Many Christians refuse to open the Word of God and study it diligently, and will defend that neglect by citing their worth in His Kingdom as evidenced by the Holy Spirit that dwells in them. Simply speaking, they feel holy, so why do more than is necessary?

Christians are Christians because they declare Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ IS the Word of God. Jesus Christ began as a result of the LORD God speaking His Word. Every Word contained within the Holy Bible is the LORD God’s Word; thus, the Word of God IS Jesus Christ. When you study and read the Word of God, you are communing with Jesus Christ. When you understand deeply the messages in the Word of God, you are understanding deeply the things of your Jesus Christ. A Christian that fails to constantly turn to the Word of God, and rely instead on the powerful feelings of the Holy Spirit alone, is like a child leaving his fathers wisdom and teachings yet still demanding that the father provide the feel good and protective things in life.

The Holy Spirit is critical to the study of God’s Word, and the Word cannot be known completely without the Spirit revealing the things God wants you to know. However, you have to open God’s Word, and study God’s Word, if you expect to receive growth in the spiritual realm. It is as simple as that.

Now secular fools, and stuffy shirt pharisees will often pronounce the love of God’s Word as the “worship of the Bible” to the exclusion of God. They do this in an attempt to make the Word of God irrelevant, and to gain control over the faithful of Jesus Christ.

The true fact is that the Word of God empowers and makes a Christian perfect. The more the Christian knows the Word of God, the more perfect a Christian he is.

Psalm 119 was written by David (according to most scholars). It is one of the longest psalms, and one of the most beautiful. David’s soul is exclaiming with every breath the magnificence and glory of the Word of God. To read this psalm with purpose and meditation causes believers to be highly elevated because of the love expressed repeatedly by David to His LORD God. The reader of Psalm 119 almost feels like he is intruding on the revealing of David’s soul to God. That is how impassioned and giving David is when he declares his beliefs in His Word.

Yet, many stuffy shirts today accuse him of the same thing that many Christians on forums are being accused of often: “Worshiping the WORD OF GOD to the exclusion of God Himself”. Then to add to the confusion and mistrust of the young, the secular points out the different Bibles and the different translations and pronounces them all false because of this.

This is wrong! Christian brothers and sisters, please don’t fall for this attempt to make the Word of God irrelevant! You owe them no explanation, but most certainly, you do not owe them an ear! The secular and the pious fools want you to be weak and ineffective….their worst fears is that you will break free of their control and become perfect in God’s Word. Do not let this argument dissuade you from study of the Word of God. You owe it to the Savior that you have been chosen to follow and learn as much of Him as you are graced to receive!

“16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17 KJV)

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Whiners Angry with the LORD God

Sometimes my job as Teacher gives me more wiggle room than that of a Preacher. Preachers have to toe the line to the congregations that employ them. They are expected to say the things that are usually said within that Church, and to avoid the unfamiliar homilies from other places. Visiting the sick in the hospital is usually one of the top tasks expected of all preachers, and how well they comfort the sick, the dying and the mourners defines not only how popular they are among their Congregation, but also how long they will keep their job.

My boss is Jesus Christ. As long as I’m telling it the way His Word expresses, I’m okay. I don’t have to leave feel good messages, or words of comfort, or even be nice if the situation and my King does not demand it.

The good news is most of the time I am nice, especially to the sick, the dying and the mourners. Today, however, I am not going to be.

People of the World, People of the Kingdom, People of the Law, People of Servitude! One thing is assured; everyone is going to suffer and everyone is going to die!

The LORD GOD has willed that death come to sin. Since all people have sin, and the power of sin does not lose it’s hold over a person until death, you can be very certain that death will come to every person alive, regardless of how “nice” and “perfect” they are. Whether that death takes place in the natural way of the ceasing of life with a burial in the grave until resurrected on Judgment Day, or within the Baptismal Waters of Jesus Christ and resurrected immediately upon bodily death to the Kingdom of Heaven. EVERYONE DIES!

Before death, you can also be assured that suffering will happen to each of us! Our worst sufferings may happen when we are young and developing, or middle age and struggling, or old age and remembering! It doesn’t matter when; DEATH is gonna come! It doesn’t matter whether you are destined for great things, whether you are faithful and righteous, whether you are “good people” of whether you are wicked! It’s going to happen!

Sometimes the LORD God chooses the course of troubles that come to people, and sometimes He turns His back and allows troubles to come. Sometimes He leads people into hard times to harden them into righteous responders, and sometimes he leads people into soft places so they can recover.

If you read His Holy Word of God, then you can understand His Ways. If you do not have a relationship with Him, you will never understand His Spirit, His Nature or His Will.

If you have chosen to live a life of the world, bereft of the LORD God’s Things, then do not come to me seeking compassion for your sickness and approaching death unless you want to learn of Him and the salvation of Jesus Christ through faith of His Resurrection and promised redemption of your sins.

I don’t care whether you are angry at God for letting your perfect and good life be tainted with a little struggle and a little sadness. I know that many live their lives in a perfect and good way, come from “good stock” and firmly believe that their goodness will prevent them from having bad things come to them. Bullpucky!

And then when death comes and the “good” worldly person becomes the “saint” in legend, and people speak of the deceased being in Heaven and at peace, I usually hold my tongue, when I think of the times that dead person rejected Jesus Christ, mocked the Holy Spirit, and cursed God.

The truth is that the LORD God gives every living person a chance to come toward Him at some point in life. If those opportunities are rejected, then so be it. If you are of the world, and proud that you can be a “good” person without God, that is fine with me; embrace your choice, man-up, and go to your grave with pride that you lived the life and chose the death you wanted. Don’t come to me at the end and be angry at God and asking why.

If you reject Him and His Things in your worldly life, then He will not be helping you to understand the things happening to you in your suffering and death! Just in defining your life as “good” and your rewards “deserving” separates you from all of us past sinners who absolutely need the salvation of Jesus Christ and His promised redemption to squeeze into Heaven, and one day help establish the New Earth.

Imperfect and sinful people are offered a choice to live an eternal life guided by God, and overcome death through their faith in Jesus Christ. Wordly people choose their life of pefectness and goodness that one day leads to them rotting in their graves until they are resurrected at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

If you are old enough, and wise enough to make the choice of your way of life, then make it. Quit whining to me about the loneliness and pain that will come to you on your deathbed if you choose to go your own way with the world.

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The Amputation and Testimony of a Demon

Our neighbor came running over to our yard on a hot summer day, screaming our names over and over. We knew something was wrong from the tone of her shouts, and as she drew closer, we learned that our adult son had been seriously injured at the sawmill and he was calling out for us at the emergency room.

I don’t remember how we got there, but when we walked into the room where he was laying, we were greeted with a bloody, but very much alive son, who praised God that we had been reached. Grasping my hand into his bloodied hand, he told me that he knew it would all be okay now, because the devil would never stay in a room when we were present. The panic in his eyes let me know that all was not as it seemed, and he spoke the silent communication that a son is able to speak to a parent.

The adrenalin from the news, the sight of blood and mangled body parts, and the shock of the moment had caused my body and mind to speed up in an attempt to deal with it all. In the midst of this, my son was struggling to maintain consciousness enough to warn me of the hidden danger. We knew immediately what he meant, and I started looking around to see where the attack of his spirit was coming from.

The doctor, a nurse and we were the only people in the room. When the nurse left the room for a moment, and our son’s agitated semi consciousness continued, we knew the one he feared was sitting on a stool next to him, preparing to administer emergency first aid. Quickly analyzing the threat, we stood on each side of our son as he lay on the gurney, with our bodies covering his head and chest, as the doctor worked on his bloodied hand. We pretended to be distraught parents, as one would cover our son with hugs of assurance, then the other…..trying to create an illusion of loving distress but actually blocking the spiritual attack from reaching our son that was being waged by the man in white.

It must have looked ridiculous. It certainly didn’t fool the doctor nor the devil within him. At some point, a supernatural silence permeated the room, and all activity stopped. The doctor with the devil looked me in the eyes, and began to talk. His patient lay silent on the gurney, and the normal activity of the emergency room had disappeared. The devil had a message to plant within my soul, and the time and circumstance were perfect to effect that transfer.

His message was focused and specific, and he delivered it as he amputated my son’s fingers. Holding the bloodied hand in his, he began snipping the bone and muscle and nerves of the badly damaged hand, and the remnants of fingers of my son began to fall away and drop on the bloodied towel below. I felt my knees buckle and my breath leave me; my body began to fail me.

I silently prayed to my Jesus for strength and help, and I felt the surge of the Holy Spirit lift my body straight, plant my feet firmly, clear my head of dizzy confusion and prepare me for the attack that was coming.

The devil talked calmly and confidently as he offered his testimony.

He told me that he knew I was one of God’s people, and he had something to say to me, and all of the people that are like me…

He said, “Life is a precious and beautiful happening. I will not waste the time I have to enjoy and learn and grow in this life, in this world, on some pretend faith that encourages focus on rejecting this life and waiting for the next life to come around. The concept that this life should be rejected for a life to come is obscene and wicked and does not say much for the God you worship or the King you follow. His plan of giving life to you, then causing you to not participate in that life, with a promise of a better life, is not a God that I will ever worship.”

Once the message was delivered in the midst of blood and gore, the devil left the body of the doctor, the emergency room became active, my son awakened and the emergency amputations were finished. Life resumed once again to the normal pace and the normal time, and the episode was over.

But the message lingered…every time I struggled to separate myself from the wickedness of this world, every time I made an effort to focus on the life to come, every time I shut out the worldly lusts and temptations that would cross my path…I would hear those evil words over and over in my mind urging me to enjoy the things of the world, because life is short and you only get one of them to live and enjoy.

“GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN! I REJECT YOUR MESSAGE!” I would shout each time the words would come to me, and eventually the power of his wicked words lessoned.

Christians must reject the wickedness of the world. The ways of the world include adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings and these kinds of things. These are the things that the devil desires, and these are the things of his testimony. It is exactly these things that Christians are to separate themselves from and it is these type of things that will prevent a person from inheriting the Kingdom of God.

Lucifer fell from heaven and the grace of the LORD GOD because he became enamored of his own bright light. He convinced himself that he knew a better way to be a god, and he tried to make man follow him and live a life with the principles of freedom to enjoy the works of the flesh and world. The Dr. Devil’s testimony on that bloody summer day, reflected the same tricking words that he used to cause Adam and Eve to sin and go against the LORD GOD in their time. Follow the way of Lucifer….and “you can be gods yourself” was the ultimate promise of freedom that led to the original sin and separation from God.

“GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN! I REJECT YOUR MESSAGE!”

Christians are to LIVE fully the life that they are blessed and graced by the LORD GOD to receive. All things are created by Him, and all things righteous are given to be enjoyed by Him. The music, art, nature, love, family, and moments are given to us in our life to enjoy. Our efforts and desires and hopes and dreams of happiness and fullfillment are notable to Him, and he desires us experience everything in life that He brings our way. We must embrace the things of God that he has provided in the life for us….We must live our lives fully and thoroughly furnished with the things that He Wills us to enjoy…to do less makes us less of a person, and causes us to become less than what He Will us to be!

I want to enjoy this life I was given and I want to experience it to its fullest. I do not want to hide in a cave or a bomb shelter in fear of the persecutions that are promised to come. I want to squeeze every bit of life that I can out of the blessings that are given me, and I am confident that my life will with a good measure of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,and temperance through the Holy Spirit as I walk the Way of the LORD GOD and Jesus Christ as it is walked in the Kingdom of God. Thanks be to God for the sanctified and rightous life that He has given me through His Grace!

Years ago, I published this article in another blog I wrote at the time. Although the account revealed a little deeper into the hidden things of spirituality that I normally don’t focus on and share, the event led me to a great understanding to the way a devil can plant words that can be activated later. After much contemplation, I decided to share my experience, with hopes that other Christians would recognize the words of the devil, and reject them when they came to them.

When I published this article, I braced myself for the backlash of Christian puritans who would argue that the devil is not active today. Amazingly, these arguments did not come.

But something really strange happened…an Internet forum of debunkers and deep thinkers read the article, and doubted it’s truthfulness. They did not question my account of the devil, but they were convinced that no emergency room doctor would perform the procedures recorded in our blog.

The account of my experience is true. We live in a wilderness area, with a small town hospital where emergency room doctors do what they need to do, as good as they can do, when they can do it. While I recognize that the civilized world would not be familiar with country practiced medicine, I can assure you that the events happened as I have written.

Because I still feel it is so important for Christians to be aware of the words of the devil that are subtly spoken around us, I have decided to republish this article, and pray that it reaches those whose walk with Christ can be strengthened as they consider the darker things that actively attempt to prevent our forward movement toward Him.