| Ode to |
| 11:59 |
| The seasons change with such impressive regularity, yet the temporal side of man's soul appears to be inexorably vexed by jittering-like fireflies on a summer's eve. The passing days drain through the hourglass of time like so many grains of sand with perplexity as to what the morrow may bring. Even though we know Who holds the future, for all things were created by Him, yet mankind continues to contend for its own way(s) in spite of such revealed understanding. The world teeters on the proverbial brink of chaotic events while evil runs rampant across the face of the earth hooting all manner of religious jibjab purposed to confound the righteous mind of true-believers. Don't believe it?, watch Cable News anytime. What time is it anyway? |
| Yo Dorothy, why have you deserted Kansas and in turn led us @ 11:59 into the dark center of the forest, which belongs to the wicked witch? Man is increasingly loosing the blaze of his trail . Circles in the crops are imagined by some to be signatures of 6th dimension powers and principalities (demons) tweaking man's imagination in order to null our resistance to Kermit-like creatures about to emerge from the mouth of the pit. Hollywood is morphing the alien and weird into cuddly idols, while the Potter mixes his Sorcerer's brew. What kind of reality are the children going to dream about in their quite moments? |
| The unceasing jabber of media voices and talking-heads, in Max's room, have attempted to dull the senses of our spirit-man and his preeminence over the body and soul. As the times and seasons rush by, mankind's fleshly appetite(s) appear insatiable while the reasoned mind offers less and less challenge to resist beckoning fleshly indulgences. We are about to plentifully reap what we have already sown. The portal of Truth and Mercy remains open, yet the pathway to its threshold is strewn with all manner of feigned delicacies, snares and black holes of treachery from the enemy's camp. If you have ignored and/or fallen away from His call, prepare yourself for the terra-firma tsunami of the seventieth week which will predictably consume all in its path, unsanctified by Grace. There is still light to walk by, yet the wick is burning down to the knot at its end, while evil is becoming less objectionable, and at times given consent. We do live in the best and worst of times residing together as if in a symbiotic embrace and, for many, evidencing a less and less distinguishable difference. |
| The ersatz 'gospels' advanced by Postmodernism, Ecumenism, Universalism, Syncretism along with Dominion and Replacement theologies etc. are shamefully replacing Absolute Truth, with the counterfeit. Purpose-driven vs. faith-centered, synergism vs.Calvary, Rome vs. Jerusalem, Allah vs. Yahweh etc. are evidence of finger writings on the wall of contemporary history about to be unearthed (revealed) from the scriptural Tel concealing end-times events. As 9/11-type suddenlies and cataclysmic occurrences increase in type and number, familiar worldly securities will achingly give way to phantasmal elixirs and nostrums in an effort to salve the fevered souls of many from global uncertainties just over the near-horizon. (See 2 Tim. 4:3) Again, we must ask, what time is it? |
| The numbered four horsemen soon will ride and be unstoppable in their quests and use of prefigured annihilative powers. Quickly separate yourself from the wildly popular, artificially sweetened, psycho/social mammon-driven 'gospel' . This gospel gushes forth from the pop-pulpit of preachers/teachers/evangelists who are end-time hoodwinkers, just as the deceiving flute-lilt waffed through city streets from the Pied Piper of Hamelin. When they repeatedly hound you for your financial faith seed and beckon your wary allegiance to their mantra, BEWARE! Forget not "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!" ... without a financial quid-pro-quo. Those who fleece the flock, skin the sheep and require a deposit or advance for their "ministry services" are shepherds in wolf's clothing. Selah |
| On that day when we stand before the Bema Seat (Judgment Seat of Christ), it may be too late to offer a final repentance for our denial of hidden sins and/or gullible indulgences. In these days and more so the ones to come, those without the Sword of The Spirit will become easy prey for jackals which cruise the dusk of false end-time ministries and purveyors of religious mischief. All that we truly need has already been established and accomplished, by Christ, for us. As our Redemption draweth closer and nigh, let us cast off the surly bonds of man's religious connivances, put aside the pointy-hats, and no longer compromise His absolutes. Let us earnestly seek Him to increase within us so that we might be decreased, bring All things under His Headship and speak the Truth when He presents us with the opportunities, and do so unafraid and resolutely. |
| The bride-in-waiting The Church) is not quite without spot, wrinkle or blemish ... there is perfecting work yet to complete, for no flesh will glory in His presence. Be of good cheer for He will give the call to crossover the Jordan, on the waters of faith, to those who stand enduringly in order that He may fulfill the outworking of His end-time Plan ... listen for the sound and voice of His shofar. He finished the end before He began the beginning; thusly He knows the whisper of your next breath for all things are held together by the Word of His Power. With full faith and confidence in His Truth, Word, Promises, Atonement, Fellowship and Resurrection ... you lack for nothing. The "He" is the Eternal "I AM", Christ Jesus, and by no other name may you be saved and cometh unto the Father. Believe, He longs to be pleased with you, disappoint Him not ... for it is through His life we live, move and have our being. Amen Odes such as this one, are strang sounding reading, to the lost. |
| Jon D. Hannum, Ph.D. |
| Amen Ministries of Austin |
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