The Bible is Not the Word of God?

I stumbled across this video today, and it made me realize that legalism really rules in Christianity as we know it. I was taught and believed the doctrine that Scripture is perfect and God-breathed. I know now that the Scriptures are the revelation that God gives me in the kitchen cooking or after a long season of prayer. They just happen to be really old.

However, the words in red I have always devoured passionately. I have always had this unrestrained curiosity about them and then restraint from them because I would be listening to luke warm Christians. "He doesn't literally mean turn the other cheek." After walking with him and reading Brother Yun's testimony, I now know he does, and it's time to pray with all my being and seek God daily. That's it.

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The End Times - A Foreboding Dream

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Now you might say that I've just seen to many zombie movies.
But why are there so many zombie movies? Could it be the truth is stranger than fiction?

There are 50,000. Fifty thousand of us that are resistant to the air-born virus that has been released into the world. The rapture has happened. Those with the seal of Christ remain uninfected and are relentlessly hunted for the answer to why.

Why are we hunted? How are we hunted? By intelligent people that have passed from life to death. The rest of the world, besides those in power who hide and control the masses, are zombies (perhaps that is why they have us eating so many preservatives - rigor mortis prevention). They are controlled with sparks of electricity emitted to the brain. They have accepted the Mark of the Beast (the chip).

Those of us left behind still hold authority in Jesus' name, and none of the rules applied to creation apply to us. We don't eat and yet we live. Our clothes do not wear-down. We can fly.

The dream started rather ordinary. I was in a high school setting being yelled at by one of my former classmates for acknowledging her on Facebook and ignoring her in real life. Then she moves into yelling at me about my lukewarm Christian life. I smile as I have just rescued a girl from bullying and feel quite good about myself. I tell the girl to my left, "That was refreshing." That was my reaction to the message of truth in the final days, but I did not change my ways. I continued to rely on my self-righteousness.

A few moments later the scene has changed. I'm in a classroom. I and several others have arrived late and the teacher is "making an example of us" in front of the other kids. I just sit down quietly. The scene passes quickly enough, but then I'm in another building in the school people start changing. And I discover my new found ability to fly. And I begin the mission of finding others in my family and flying them to perceived safety. But, nowhere is safe. We run and fly and flee until we are all hunted down one by one and eaten alive.

In one of the last scenes, I remember gathering my brother Frank and my cousin Jason and his girlfriend from a hallway. They are oblivious to the situation and are about to go to a party. It seems like the people around them have not become infected just yet. I tell them to run with me. They go to the party, and when people start biting they finally believe and flee with me.

I remember getting everyone into a red car, an old-fashioned convertible and saying to it, "In the name of Jesus, car fly." And it did. It pulled us away from danger for a little while. I hear my mother in an apartment hiding out and saying, "I am going to find out who's behind this."

And then, I am alone running through tall green grassy area. I can smell the grass as if it was just rained on. It's up to my waist. There is something about this garden. The oddly large and bright yellow and red flowers are like nothing I've seen in this post-information age world. There was no greenery. I am running and trying to take off and fly away. But, for some reason. I cannot fly. Suddenly zombies close in from all sides and I wake with a jump as they start tearing into my flesh.

I tremble. Those in high rebellion against Christ controlled the masses. They had plans to take our bodies in for testing to see how we resisted the virus; they thought they could harvest our power. None of us lived long after the virus was released into the air.

"In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!" (Revelation 9:6, NLT)

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Matthew 22:39

This was interesting. God woke me up way early and I could just sense that there was something that He wanted to tell me so I asked, "What is it Lord?" "What do you want me to do?" Then He told me to love my neighbor as myself. This prompted me to pull up some online tools on the subject and to my surprise I found out that when Jesus was talking about it in Matthew 22:39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself. What I found out by reading some commentaries is that it is understood in Jewish tradition that if you break one part of the law you are guilty of it all, and the part that I was ignorant of, when Jesus said 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. and then followed with "and the second is like it" <-- That Phrase Means It Is Equally As Great As The First. I always thought it meant that it was second in importance, but after reading the commentaries I understood differently. It is defined best in Greek as "corresponding to a thing" or the first thing mentioned.

The last thing I found and I remember reading in Extravagant Worship by Darlene Zschech is that there is no first and last law in the Jewish custom. They are all held the same so it is to be understood that these two mentioned are tied together with a cause and effect relationship. Out of loving God the way that you should you will love your neighbor as you are loved.

God was showing me more than that. He was showing that we should love everyone like He loves us. I was thinking impossible. Then I was thinking wow, that would actually make like a lot easier. He treats us with unconditional love. That's difficult to find. This lesson was so important I had to blog about it immediately.

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