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ICANN

Posted on October 1, 2016 by tigerhart

The Internet Corporation for Assigned NAMES and NUMBERS is on the precipuce of controling the internet. Obama has been working since 2014 to give the oversight and control of the Internet to this international governing body, with absolutely no push back from Congress. There is a last ditch attempt as of today, September 30th, 2016 to sue Executive branch for an abuse of power in giving away something it does not have the power to do. Now why in the world would the United States of America, the land of the free want to even consider giving away the rights to control names and numbers ( IP addresses) to an international corporation? Honestly, I have no idea. Our military created the WWW for the armed forces and then our brilliant computer science teams fined tuned and let this most powerful of communications out to our public. It literally became the World Wide Web and now it is everywhere. We govern the control within the confines of our constitional laws of free speech, press and religion. There are several countries that are part of ICANN that DO NOT hold the free values of speech, press or religious speech. With ICANN in control they can deny names or numbers based on what they “feel” could be racist, sexist, anti-religious or too religious….the list is too long to even think about.

My first thought was this is crazy, I called my senator, but it appears neither one listened and did not try and stop the president. Pretty upsetting to say the least, then I supported the ACLJ and signed a petition to stop this, but once again I am a lone person in a sea of virtual media black out. When something this monumental happens I can only believe it has deep spiritual undertones and God is allowing this to happen for a reason. ICANN uses powerful “Buzz” words that stood out to me. NAMES and NUMBERS. These are two words associated with a one world order in which people are controlled and must pledge their alliegience to this system or not be able to buy or sell. It is really easy to see how we are headed to a cashless society, buying online, banking online, paying bills online, etc. But a mark with a NAME or NUMBER is more than just a simple name or number, it is a system that you believe in, adhere to and want to see succeed. It is not just the name of a leader or the number of his name.

I was reading the Shema last week, and it starts out Hear Oh Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is ONE. Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your oils, and with all your strength. These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. Repeat them to your children, talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as a SIGN on your HAND and let them be a symbol on your FOREHEAD. Write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-6 ( Capital letters are mine). This is what the LORD wanted the children of Israel to hear when they left, who they were to pledge allegiance to and to whom they should love and learn all about. It was and is a way of life, to do during the day and before bed. Binding names or words on your address ( door posts and gate) on your person ( your personal IP address) just seemed to jump out at me when I read this in conjunction with an international corporation that will soon control what name or IP address I can use, how I can use it or if I will have to “listen, O World, The UN is one with the World, pay homage to the UN, esteem the world, join with the world, globalism is good, tell your children, teach them, make sure they know how to include everyone, make sure they value neutral and non-biased speech, speech that the UN deems good……. This is just something that I made up of course, but do you think this could happen? It has in the past, just not on such a global scale, with the ability to know everybody’s name and number and make sure you are not following the wrong “world value system”. They could stop you from buying or selling, getting a pay check, paying a bill, the list goes on.

So although this may not be as scary as I believe it to be, it is the beginning of Global powers overruling our sovereignty and our constitution in favor of what ever the UN deems to be best. You can join them, after all they will control your name and number or you can remember the LORD your God and His son Jesus Christ and have no other gods before Him, remembering He came in human form to take our sins, the wrong things of the world, upon His spirit, taking our judgement and dying in our place; for the wages of sin are death. But He did die and took our wage of death, but then HE ROSE AGAIN to show us who believe that we too shall rise again and live eternally with Him. It is good news.
So whether or not ICANN is the beginnings of the end, we know God is in control, He already took the wrath and we will live even if we die. That is the Shema and it seems fitting to write this at the beginning of the Feast of Trumpets. Hear Oh Israel…..Here the trumpets , repent and believe , Christ Jesus loves you so.

Restless yet trusting

Posted on May 12, 2015 by tigerhart

Can life get any worse? I am sure it can. The poorest of the poor get hit with another earthquake, Christians lose their lives for holding to the testimony of the Lamb, sweet babies fall into the arms of Jesus too soon for us still left here on earth. But for me it this is a time of sweetness but as it goes down it becomes bitter and gives you an upset stomach.

The sweetness comes from hanging onto the cross , running into random Christians who fix your direct tv, having bible study with Monday night tribe and seeing God answer prayers; the bitter…..pain of a mothers broken heart. When your child , no matter the age, comes down with a disease it is life changing. When there is no cure and it comes with social stigma it is even worse. Making hard decisions that make you second guess your plan, your motives , what is best for all and still wishing you could fix it right now; it also makes you question what is the right path to treatment causing a deep deep groaning in your spirit and soul.

Knowing that Christ is interceding on my behalf and my familie’s life brings comfort. But if you asked me what life I would want to have I would choose this difficult one over and over again. I don’t think I could honestly say that in the past. When life is easy , when you don’t have trouble or struggle you never get to exercise faith. If things just go smooth according to your own dream plan you never need to pray or ask God the hard questions. You can just assume all is well and you are blessed because life is smooth.

Mine is not, never has been. It is a true path of struggle , pain, sin, shame, and one that must be lighted by the word of God. I have had a hard time living my own personal path when I keep comparing my life to others. I have known people who cruise through life , they are Christians for sure, but their path is not a curvy up and down steep mountain drop off a cliff kind of path. Theirs is a straight road with the wind blowing in their hair and laughter all the way home to Jesus. I used to be jealous. I used to want that life and wonder why God loves them more than me to bless them with such a families that never break down.

But I am set free from that. I have seen people suffer more than me and still love God. I believe God made me to live in this time and have these kids and this husband. My family needs each of us to stand in the gap for such a time as this. I now embrace where the Lord is taking me. I even know He uses my sin to foil the plans of the devil. I can’t out sin His grace and I don’t want to. I don’t want to covet a life that is not mine. I am not bored ( laughing at that word) and I am in deep pain but my God has a bigger plan. He sees from a far and knows what needs to be Knit together and then puts me where I need to be. So just when I thought peace was here we get hit with news of ours sons brain disease. I still have hope and love. I will borrow that phrase from my sweet and dear sister in Christ, Mary, who lost her son last week. HOPE AND LOVE. I want my life. I want this beautiful mess I want to walk where others fear to go, I want to shout at the enemy and watch him leave as I submit to God. I want to be a part of this unperfect family that I Love so much. We may not be smiling all the time, we may not even have a thing to smile or laugh about but we will anyway. So when you see us don’t judge , you don’t know what path God has for us. What He needs to do from past generations to move us forward with new generations. But I am finally free to let it go and carry on. Yes I am a beautiful mess, I may not look beautiful or act “Christian” enough for some but my love for Christ grows daily and my trust and faith in His plan is growing deep roots so I may weather this storm and those to come. When I am weak He is strong. So let me be weak , let my fragile family be weak for He has a plan and it is specific to us.

Peter was so concerned about what Jesus said about John that he had to be rebuked by Christ. Jesus said “what is it to you Peter if John doesn’t die?” ” you follow me and where I want you to go “. I wants this life that causes me to cling to faith as I ride along the side of a curvy steep path along the edge of a cliff because it is here that I can only trust my maker. I would never call on him along a straight easy smooth road , I would trust in myself and think “I got this”. So God , thanks for knowing me better, thank you for all the beautiful messes because I know that is how you are crafting me into the likeness of your son. I am humbled you still love me and I believe in miracles. Just thank you Lord. I surrender

What if we are wrong?

Posted on March 3, 2015 by tigerhart

I have to admit I am somewhat of an end times junkie. This all started years ago when my children were little and I wanted to add to the holiday fun for the family. I listened to Focus on the Family and they had recommended a book that I can’t remember the name of, but it had great ideas to add to each holiday to make it Christ relevant and fun. This was exactly what I was looking for. In this book was a section on a “christian passover” After reading about it and diving in full force ( those who know me understand I have two speeds, fast and full-blown) I hosted my family and in brother and sister-in-law and 6 small toddlers and babies to a 4 hour nightmare of full on kosher “Christian Passover” meal and Seder. Let’s just say it was a disaster, but it whet my appetite for bible study and I dove in head first and I haven’t had my nose out of those books ever since. I teach a lot about the 7 feasts of the Lord and the end time significance that they imply. After seeing Christ fulfill the first three feasts to the day and the Holy Spirit fulfill the fourth to the day I was hooked. I knew the Lord was teaching us something important if we only had eyes to see and ears to hear.

This short article is not about all the study on the feasts, that is reserved for another time, it is not about the wedding feast and wedding preparation either, again for another article; this is about missing what God is doing. Kind of like missing the trees for the forest, or is it missing the forest for the trees? I never remember, but either works fine for me.

You see we tend to have preconceived notions about how and when Christ will return. There are those who simply quote “no man knows the day or hour except the Father” so they ignore it all and put their head in the sand, not realizing the play on words Jesus was using. Then there are those who have charts and 7 years and 3 and 1/2 years and peace treaties they try to tie it up with a bow and take all christians out of the picture up to a grand wedding supper with the Lamb of God all the while the bride is still on earth….but you see there is one body, ONE BODY. Ephesians 4 sums in up nicely. We ( non jews, Hebrews ,GENTILES) were once far away and separated and excluded, utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation–strangers with NO share in the sacred compacts of the Messianic promise. We had no hope, being in the world but without God. But now, Christ Jesus has brought us near by His blood, He is our peace our bond and unity. He has made us both Jew and Gentile ONE BODY and abolished the dividing wall between us. By abolishing HIs own crucified flesh the enmity caused by the Law with its decrees and ordinances, which He annulled; that He from the TWO might create in Himself ONE new man–one new quality of humanity out of the TWO, so making peace.

When I read these words in Ephesians I am more convinced than ever that we, the gentiles are grafted into the olive tree ( Israel) and we now follow them, and their God is now ours and we are one with them. Ruth displayed this perfectly when she left her land and became a Jewess and followed what Naomi told her to do. But that is not what I read or hear about. All I ever read about now is how the body is secretly removed, without the dead in Christ rising first, and then God deals with Israel as a separate entity. I think we are looking at this all wrong. We are looking in the wrong places and trying to make the end of time fit our model of what we want and what we think we should get. The Pharisees and Sadducees did the same thing. They fit the coming of the Messiah to conveniently fit the mold of Christ coming in the power of the throne of David and ruling over all the world and putting and end to their enemies, presently Rome. The problem was they were looking at what they saw in themselves according to the word of God and not what it said about all the people. they forgot God told Abraham they would be a light to the gentiles. God already planned to make them one body Re-Read Ephesians 2 again, slowly and in as many versions as you like. Christ unites us into one body–one body marries the lamb, one body is the bride, one body to love and enjoy Him forever. We become the people of God through Christ, just as they become fulfilled through all the law and prophets when they believe and trust the Christ Jesus is their messiah. No one comes to the Father without the Son. We both are joined in His death and His resurrection.

So when I see the fall feasts i Look for Christ and the implications of the great deception the God is sending; and the falling away of the love of the body and a lawless man arising; I am on the lookout. Satan doesn’t know when either, so he must always have a man of flesh prepared in every era of time, ready to fulfill the scriptures. Don’t look for your ticket out of here, look to those who are around you and need to know. What do they need to know? That you believe, that you believe in this Christ, enough to stake your life on it, and the lives of your children and families. Tell them what He has done for you. Ruth did, she followed Naomi and did what she was called to do and Naomi’s God became hers, She , the moabite, cast out of the family of israel for 10 generations because of her people could not be in the congregation of the Lord now became the 10th generation, the one to break the curse and then to become the great grandmother of David. Tell them so they will not be deceived, or ambivalent or a scoffer, Or do you think that Christian persecution will not happen here?

I don’t have the answers, I am just a fellow disciple on the road following Christ like you, but I choose to look to HIm and wonder–not at a set plan that men have said must happen before Christ returns based on tradition and man centered ideas. , The Jews during the time of Jesus missed it and Jesus wept over them. This tribulation will be even worse, if possible the Word of God says, so increase your diet of scriptures, take them to heart. teach them, learn them, and then mentor others. We all have a piece to play in this puzzle–being a part of the body, one body, one Israel, is the most amazing thing I could have read tonight. Iam reconciled to His plan through a people He chose from the beginning knowing His Son would bring peace to this world, but only through a magnificent death and resurrection. I for one am praying for those under extreme persecution from ISIS and pray that godly teachers will hear from God and tell us to be ready,to not be deceived and arm ourselves with the full armor of God, for we are in battle…the battle for souls… God Bless and get your nose in that bible as soon as your eyelids open.

Christ returns on a white horse and every one will know who HE is..