TRIBULATION

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Aloha Saints, Family and Friends,  beloved of Jesus and me,    John 3:16

TRIBULATION,   “WORTH CONSIDERING”     6/4/21       From Ken Smith<><

Christian entrepreneur Clay Clark, host of the Thrive Time Show on the internet, isn’t naïve about what is taking place in America right now. He knows exactly what the enemy is doing at this very moment to bring down this country which was founded more than 240 years ago on the Bible and Christian principles.    On a recent episode of my Strang Report podcast, Clark said he believes our newly-elected leaders are doing everything they can to partner with the kingdom of darkness—Satan’s government, as he calls it—to usher in a communist society. In turn, he says, that will lead directly to atheism, and that plays right into the hands of the enemy and the Antichrist, whom we all know by reading the Bible will come on to the scene during the end times.  Cancel culture, which I talk about in my new book God and Cancel Culture, is everywhere, and Christians are feeling the brunt of it every day. On another recent Strang Report podcast, Missionary Andrew Brunson told me that persecution is coming to the church, and a lot of members of the church, especially charismatics, aren’t prepared for it.     The transition to communism and a one-world government has been subtle. It’s one that many in the sleeping church have allowed, Clay says, due to the distractions Satan puts in front of us every day.    “We have been in a world where we are so irrevocably distracted—we’ve got soccer games, we’ve got the voices, the masked voices, and we’ve got the NFL and the NBA,” Clay says. “There is a new Netflix series coming out every day, we’ve got the Apple Watch, the smartphone, all of the apps. The average person is interrupted 100 times per day and now has the cognitive thinking skills of a third to fourth grader. The average American is so dumbed down by distractions that we need to take a time out, turn off the phone and do some of your own searching.

“Look it up. When you see that the CDC is calling for the implementation of Nazi-style concentration camps in America, that means you can’t put your trust in the CDC. So, go to timetofreeamerica.com and look up all these resources and then make a decision for yourself,” Clay continues. “What are you going to do? Every single person as a Christian—look at Luke chapter nine where Jesus instructs the apostles—needs to go out there from town to town, laying hands on people, praying for the sick, healing the sick and sharing the cause of Christ.   “I’m pretty positive the apostles and Jesus weren’t worried about their 501c3 status. They weren’t worried about lawsuits. They were worried about sharing Christ in a dying world that would be forever damned to hell without the salvation of Jesus Christ,” Clay says. “And that’s what we’ve got to do. It’s the time to wake up, everybody, and share the irrefutable Word of God; to share the truth and to let people know the only way through to get to heaven is through these narrow gates—And that is by accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.”  By Clay Clark and worth considering.

A lot of Christian voted for Joe Biden because they did not like Trump and we are now experiencing the socialist results   If Christians do not  flush out the Socialists in the House and Senate this next year and replace them with Ethical Constitutional Conservatives we may end up as slaves in the Socialist States of America.  It has happened to other countries.

GREAT QUOTES,   -Sermonindex.net
“The greatest wisdom on this earth is holiness.”   – W.S. Plumer
“The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is.   The evening services show how popular your pastor is.  Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!”   – Leonard Ravenhill
“If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free.” – François Fénelon
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.” – John Bunyan
“Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.” – Charles H. Brent
“The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God. It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.” – John Mott
“When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without a heart.” – John Bunyan

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It is astounding to realize that so many failed to apprehend this spirit, and Paul makes it clear that this example has the most serious implications for New Testament believers. The spirit of wholehearted commitment, apparently rare as the finest rubies, receives the inheritance, the rich rewards of the “Promised Land”. What this “Promised Land” may be for those who are as faithful in the present age, we may wonder. But be assured it will flow with “Milk and Honey” just as the Land of Israel did in those ancient days, (and is again experiencing today!) Following God “with all that we had” will qualify us for the greatest eternal rewards.    The great test for Joshua and Caleb involved the godly courage to face massive giants in battle. They had learned and believed in the miraculous power of God to deliver, protect, and provide for His chosen. And Caleb, because of his great faith, was able to maintain his youthfulness even at the age of 85. (Joshua 14:10-12)    (Keep me in prayer about this one, I am pushing 89 and would still like to whack a few more giants before I go home.   Ken<>< )

Around the World:   Researchers conducting human-animal hybrid experiments struck fear into federal lawmakers worried that nightmare scenarios of Frankenstein creatures have become a reality.     China State Media Says Country Must Prepare for Nuclear War With U.S. After Biden Asks for COVID Probe.   The Hungarian and Chinese governments have agreed to set up a factory in Hungary to produce the Chinese coronavirus vaccine in a move expected to raise eyebrows within the European Union.    Israel’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday it had found the small number of heart inflammation cases observed mainly in young men who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Israel were likely linked to their vaccination.   A suburban Detroit school district is claiming the legal right to censor its students under the banner of “pedagogical interests” after stopping a valedictorian from giving a speech it deemed too religious.    Religious freedom advocates are awaiting a major ruling from the Supreme Court this month. It hinges on LGBTQ advocates trying to force a faith-based foster agency to violate its religious beliefs.  Fauci Emails Exposed by Freedom of Information Act Exposes Serious Misformation, Critics Call for Fauci’s Firing

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

HUMILITY

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HUMILITY,     “WORTH CONSIDERING”    6/2/21   Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org

Take 10, hang 5 and check these out to open your heart to the Holy Spirit:
HUMBLE THY SELF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxWKuaCeNiY
BE THOU MY VISION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihJAJA4ibEs

Tuesday evening 6/1/21,  a few of us came together at 5:30 for a shared meal and a gentle discussion on the deep meaning of humility as found in the Word of God.   It was a forum not a top down religious Bible study and everyone got into the mix.  It was not long as Curtis has to get up about 1 AM to go to work.  So we closed at 7:10 with everyone praying around the table.  For me, I felt very comfortable that the Holy Spirit was in control and all seemed to be at peace and totally interactive.  

So what I came away with?   Jesus never in his whole life ever got out in front of the Holy Spirit but in humility always followed and did as he was told to do.  So as the Son of Man he was totally tested and always walked in absolute obedience.  Could Jesus have sinned, certainly.   Could HE have followed his own will, absolutely.  But HE choose not to.   We too are also encouraged to learn how to walk that obedience out in humility and the Grace of God.  And through the Holy Spirit we too can learn to be in humility and obedience as was Jesus.  

We often think of humility as being weak when actually in obedience we can be called on to do some very aggressive things as Jesus did in tossing the money changes out of the Temple.   Check Heb. 11.   On one side the Holy Spirit can help us learn to speak for edification, exhortation and comfort but then we can talk to the next person and out comes rebuke, reproof with all long-suffering and doctrine.  Humility is simple to decide to be,  OBEDIENT….

It is interesting in the Sermon on the Mount that the first thing that Jesus shares about is how that the pure in spirit (humble, teachable, obedient ) shall inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, Matt.5:3.  It takes humility to take myself off of the pride throne room of my life and allow Jesus to take that position and authority as LORD in my life.  And to actually, take the time, to  seek to know HIS Commandments in the New Testament and commit myself to not only finding them but in obeying them..  Jesus once said, “If possible remove this cup from me (considering a very painful death), but never the less, not my will, but thy will be done.“ Yes, Jesus had a will just like you and me.  He could have said, “No! that is just too much to ask of me.”  But it is amazing how much pain we get into by not following the loving advice and will of the Holy Spirit each day.  We are so prone to think and act like we have all of the answers.  Unless we learn about humility we have no ears to hear GOD speaking through others or even in hearing HIM for ourselves.

So in humility let us take a look at how our master made the 1st Great Awakening.   First he went outside the religious world and looked for men who were honest and seeking light.  At first there was only Peter, James and John.  Then going forward 9 more disciples were gathered into being of one mind and one Spirit.   He spent 3+ years with these guys 24/7 in binding them together (John 17.)   And as there were 70 disciples they were healing the sick and raising the dead. And when they got to be 120 disciple they blew the roof off in Jerusalem through the Holy Spirit and in Acts 5:16 ALL that came to the gatherings in Jerusalem were healed and set free of demons..  That same Holy Spirit is with us today.  Jesus built no buildings, wrote no books, did not collected any tithes.   He just shared GOD’S HOLY TRUTH.   Jesus left us with this concept, “The things that I do, shall ye do.  And greater things shall ye do because I go to my Father.”     “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.  16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.”  1 Jn.5:14-16    We need to learn how to do this.  There are the factors of love, humility, obedience & faith in knowing the will of God and walking it out.  There is also the Unity factor. Accord is listed 731 times in the KJV Bible. Gen.11:5-6,  20 times alone in the Book of Acts, 18 in Romans.  John recorded a whole chapter 17 as a prayer of Jesus for our unity.   To live in the Kingdom we need God’s Truth in loving unity, humility and obedience.

Yours, in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org
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All who Love, Honor and Obey HIM are eternal members


Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;
Billy Graham, who died just months shy of his 100th birthday, challenged us with a simple but profound phrase that all of us need to take to heart. And if you’re in any sphere of leadership, it’s doubly important. God continues to “shake everything that can be shaken” while man continues on a precarious path to destruction apart from another Great Awakening.    Psalm 11:4-5 The Lord is in His holy temple, The Lord’s throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. The Lord tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.

World Issues:    Iran holds a quantity of low enriched uranium nearly 16 times higher than the limit authorized in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, according to a report Monday by the International Atomic Energy Agency.      According to genome databases, such as nextstrain.org, there are now more than 1,000 known variants of the SARS CoV-2 virus.   According to the Iranian Fars News media outlet, the Hamas Palestinian terror group that controls the Gaza Strip is already rebuilding its rocket arsenal in readiness for the next war with Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Hamas is sponsored by Iran’s Islamic regime.     Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that if pushed to choose between a lack of friction with the US or defending the country against the nuclear threat from Iran, Israel will choose to confront the Islamic Republic.    China’s Communist Party police beat up a Christian pastor in Guiyang, Guizhou province on May 23, leaving him critically wounded, International Christian Concern reports. China currently ranks 17 on the US Open Doors Watch List of countries that persecute Christians.    The secretary of the Atheists in Kenya Society (AIK) has resigned his position after coming to faith in Jesus Christ, Tuko Kenya reports. Seth Mahiga had served as secretary of the society for 18 months before resigning on May 29.      Washington Post Corrects 15-Month-Old Headline Falsely Calling Wuhan Lab Theory ‘Debunked’    Rand Paul ‘Very Worried’ U.S. Funding Being Used For Chinese ‘Frankenstein Super-Virus’ Bioweapons

COMMING WORLD EVENTS

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Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,  Beloved of Jesus and Me,    John 3:16

COMING WORLD EVENTS    “WORTH CONSIDERING”   6/1/21     From Ken Smith<>< 


Matt. 24   Christ Jesus gives us a prophesy concerning this end time.  Also Mark 13 & Luke 21

Matt.24:3: “ And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the age?”
Matt:24:4-14:   Jesus taught a short over view covering the remaining 3,000. years till the end.
Matt.24:21-15-20:   Jesus taught to quickly leave Jerusalem at the coming of the Roman Army.
    This came to pass in 70 AD and most Christians fled Jerusalem and were safe.
Matt.24:21-36: Jesus covers again the events more in detail for the same 3,000 years till the end.
Matt.24:37-51: Jesus goes back into the prophesy to teach about the Rapture or removal of HIS CHURCH.  We are already 2,000 yrs. into this prophesy almost to the Rapture & the Great Tribulation.

We seem now to seriously be entering the period of the “Birth Pains” in verse 6 of wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes and false teachings that deceive many, Which also result in major persecutions like in N. Korea, China and Islamic Africa today which all start the count down.  Also Israel returning to the land is included as a sign.   So what ever we plan to do to honor and obey Christ Jesus we should be doing.   And the darkness is going to get darker but the Light is going to get brighter.  The last church of Laodicea, Rev.3:14 is now headed into the dust bin of time but those who overcome are to be with Jesus, verse 3:21.  Notice that Jesus is not in that last church, HE is outside knocking to get in.  That church has it’s own traditions and is naked, blind, poor and without the Holy Spirit.  So the True Church of Christ Jesus will be drawn together in Power as per John 17 as the Laodicean Church is rejected and judged.  And also during this time there will be a great revival as many in the world will fall in love with Jesus through experiencing HIS real Church of Love,  humility, obedience & power that looks like HIM.

So we can expect world conditions to get worse and should prepare ourselves and others during this time.  As the last soul finds it’s way into the Body of Christ, the door will slam shut and the Church will be snatched away to meet the Lord in the air.   It will be during a time when all feel safely in a false peace.  No one will suspect the timing of this event.  Read Matt.25.  There is much in Holy Scripture to read on this subject that is in process of being fulfilled as the Jews returning to Israel in 1948…  The only nation in the world to be destroyed and then to be restored with the same religion.

At this time, earthquakes are increasing, as are famines, major persecutions. Atheistic Socialism is expanding, We are going through a deadly world pandemic.  And many wars and future wars are expected and in the making.   We are not yet into Rev.6 and the white horse of the antichrist but we are certainly into Matt.24.

EMP
“In general, the strong electromagnetic pulse generated from nuclear bomb explosions between 30 kilometers and 100 kilometers [18.6 miles and 62 miles] above the ground can severely impair electronic devices, electric machines, and electromagnetic grids, or destroy electric cables and safety devices,” said the article authored by Kim Songwon, dean of Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang. North Korea.    “The discovery of the electromagnetic pulse as a source of high yield in the high-altitude nuclear explosion test process has given it recognition as an important strike method,” he stated.    The official discussion by North Korea of plans to conduct EMP strikes will likely fuel debate over the threat. Former CIA Director James Woolsey has said North Korea is capable of orbiting an EMP nuclear weapon in a satellite.

ALSO the UK government warns Earth will only have 12-hour warning to deal with massive Sun flare explosion.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event)  We must get ready for either a solar or terrorist EMP event that could obliterate everything electrical and bring life as we know it to a screeching halt. That’s why we at Self-Reliance Central are constantly reminding you how to make Faraday cages, or use your microwave to protect phones and laptops, and how to use non-computer and off-the-grid communications devices for staying in touch with people and whatever services you might need. Now, we must also worry about nation-state cyber attacks and as the UK Government points out, a built in disruption of electronics.   

Also just look around you. In the Middle East the shameful Iranian nuclear deal has come to pass leaving that fundamentalist state all set to launch nuclear warheads. Once they go live, expect other nations to crank up their centrifuges. The US and Russia are embarking upon a new nuclear arms race. North Korea is run by a nut job who really could push his red button and launch an attack on South Korea or worse, the west coast of the USA. In another war, one with a level playing field where no amount of military hardware can help the United States is losing. We are arguably the most vulnerable nation on the planet to cyber- attack.  We have an immensely target-rich nation, filled with decades old critical infrastructure woefully ill-equipped to defend against our enemies. A few well placed viruses and as the hacking on the formidable NSA this week demonstrates, the nation could grind to a halt.   And in this document from the UK government you’ll see that there is also a big threat from nature. They anticipate that we are massively unprepared to deal with a naturally occurring solar flare, which would have the same effects as nuclear powers detonating an EMP in low earth orbit. They warn that we would have just 12 hours warning of a naturally occurring event.

So is your security based in TRUTH or FICTION?  50 to a 100 years from now, then what, are you sure?  How do you know for sure?  Most folks I talk to have built their own sense of security around their feelings as to what is truth.  But can you trust your feelings?  How do you know for sure.  For me, for 66 years, Christ Jesus has been my security.  He is the only one to come back from the other side to tell us about it and with many many witnesses for over 40 days.  Might want to check it out?

Yours, in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace & Mercy, Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org

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all who trust, love, honor and obey HIM as LORD are eternal members.

LIFE

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LIFE
WHY ARE WE HERE
WHERE DID WE COME FROM
WHERE ARE WE GOING

Many believe we are here by accident, there is no Intelligent Design and when it is over there is nothing else.  If you follow that logic then you become subjective in what is good or bad, constructive or destructive and self centered in all that you do.  If it feels good, do it.  There really is no moral ethic about life only the effort to avoid any pain or reciprocity by society.   And with the Socialist forms of government there are no limitations as to how the control of the masses.

But if you elect to believe in Intelligent Design then what does the Creator want from the creation?  Especially if freewill is involve as with man.  

So there are many roads of many different kinds of god roads to consider now on planet earth.  And each once says very clearly, they are the true path regardless of inconsistencies, hypocrisy and unethical behavior.  Even with those who follow Gautama Buddha, Christ Jesus or Islam there are great divisions.   So which is the most likely to be true.

In my life study of all of this, I have concluded that there is Intelligent Design and that which would be most pure would be devoid of ego, pride and self contentedness.   It would come out of an objective form of love which would be for the highest good for others regardless of cost to self.  Objective Love could be the key to opening the door to the vast amount of Truth that is sought. It would be people sitting at table together and serving each other rather than seeking to hoard all of the food for themselves.  It would basic be to “do no harm to others.”  Which would include all aspects of life and in evaluating objectively.

Like in Marriage a man and woman have a better chance of success in the marriage if they are virgins.   As to having a solid marriage in all aspects of the union of spirit, soul and body with husband and wife.  And as family is the core health of any successful community this would cause respect and protection for both men and women.  And even if not a virgin that the community would know that each sexual experience prior to marriage weakens the glue that binds that marriage together.   The community would enforce rules against both fornication and adultery.  Moral Values and Ethics would be the basic issues for the health of any community or government.  I see this deeply embedded in the words of Jesus and have gone with HIM.

Due to the lack of understanding of these basic principals the fabric of the U.S.A. is falling apart.  Our nation is seeking freedom from any restraints and committing suicide in the process.  This self contentedness is now destroying 400 years of understanding.   Without moral and ethical excellence the Constitutional Republic of the United States is doomed to failure..  In my school years beginning in 1937-8 going to public school was sort of like going to church.  10 commandments by the light switch and door to the classroom.  30 kids being led in prayer, Bible reading, singing of songs including hymns, Pledge of Allegiance and Star Spangled Banner included before the classes began.   Our conscience was trained to know there was a loving God that we would one day answer to for our deeds done in the flesh. Today’s schools are totally teaching the reverse and we wonder why there are drive by shootings for no reason at all except just pure hate and anger.  And this basically due to no home or ethical and moral values being taught.

So for those of us who believe that there is a Creator to whom we will need to answer to it is up to us to help those who are confused in our world, if they will accept the help.  The Creator has given us a FreeWill so we can choose either the light or the darkness.   And we can help others to find either the darkness or the light.   The self centered fiction of lust or the selfless support of creative LOVE.   Are we headed into the light of the Creator or are we headed into the darkness away from the Creator and taking others with us?  Are we headed upstream to the clean water or downstream into the swamp.  You are on your way, one way or the other.   That is why we have only a limited time on earth in which to decide.  But the decision will be for eternity.

Yours, in HIS great love & wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org

Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;
There were times that Yeshua (Jesus) separated himself from the multitudes — and there are times when we need to separate ourselves from our lives and ministry, and spend some time with our Lord.   I love how Yeshua climbed a mountain. It made me think of an interesting analogy. Picture the shape of a mountain. It starts out wide at the bottom — the higher we climb, the narrower it becomes — and the more we must stay close to the center. As we go even higher yet, there’s less room to move to the left or the right — and there’s less and less ground that can be compromised — the more focused we need to be and the less we can afford to be distracted. The higher we go, the less room we have to fool around!  Whatever you may be dealing with, you may just need to separate yourself and climb up to spend time with the Lord — get centered on Him and focused on what He’s calling you to.  Trinity Fellowship Int., God wants us to learn to climb to the top and focus all of our lives on His will! Let’s take out some time this weekend to try it!

WORLD NEWS BRIEF:   Many Afghan military units surrender to the Islamist militant Taliban group as American troops withdraw, a report said Thursday.    Gaza’s Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar claimed on Wednesday that Hamas has 500 km. of tunnels in the Gaza Strip and that only five percent of the tunnels had been damaged in recent clashes.   Terrified residents have fled areas in northern Burkina Faso after suspected Islamist militants killed 15 Christian converts at a baptism service, authorities and Christians say.      More than 10,000 vaccine breakthrough infections have been reported in the U.S. in individuals who had already been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.   A new survey from evangelical pollster George Barna shows that only 6% of Americans have a distinctly “biblical worldview,” the Christian Post reports. The 2021 survey was conducted together with the Family Research Council (FRC), a Christian conservative group that Barna recently joined as a senior fellow.   President Biden is set to propose a budget totaling $6 trillion in the coming days, The New York Times reported early Thursday, about a third higher than pre-pandemic spending levels.   (About twice the tax collections so about 3 trillion from printing Monoply $ and a lot more to our 30 trillion debt.  We need a balanced budget amendment badly and term limits.  Bogus Printed money causes inflation.)

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Jesus, Son of Man

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The Word of God speak for itself:
Concerning the complete and total Humanity of Christ Jesus as the “Son of Man”

Isa.53:2-3″ “For [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He has no form or comeliness [royal, kingly pomp], that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him.  3 He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him.”   “Isa.61. “ The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;  Matt.17:9, “And as they were going down the mountain, Jesus cautioned and commanded them, Do not mention to anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.   Luke 22:42, “ Saying, Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but [always] Yours be done.”   Acts 2:22, “You men of Israel, listen to what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited and pointed out and shown forth and commended and attested to you by God by the mighty works and [the power of performing] wonders and signs which God worked through Him [right] in your midst, as you yourselves know.”  Heb.2:17-18: “So it is evident that it was essential that He be made like His brethren in every respect, in order that He might become a merciful (sympathetic) and faithful High Priest in the things related to God, to make atonement and propitiation for the people’s sins.  18 For because He Himself [in His humanity] has suffered in being tempted (tested and tried), He is able [immediately] [c]to run to the cry of (assist, relieve) those who are being tempted and tested and tried [and who therefore are being exposed to suffering].”  “ For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Heb.2:16, “ “Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. “    Heb. 12:2.  “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.    Rev.3:21, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. Rev.3:21.”   

It is the humanity of Christ Jesus as the Son of Man that gives me the faith that through the Loving Grace of God and indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit and my LORD’S victory that I too can enjoy the victory of Jesus as the Son of Man. The power of the Holy Spirit came upon him at John’s baptism.  That is inspiring and full of faith for me that the same can happen to us.

Jesus was totally the Son of Abraham, David and Man while on earth, Heb.10: 9-12.  In the God dimension Jesus was always the Word of God and HIS victory was seen in God’s absolute foreknowledge from the beginning of time.  But it was incomplete until walked out in our dimension of time as the Son of Man and then Jesus gained the position as the Son of God, the Word of God, made flesh.  So our Creator God validated HIS right to Rule by totally limiting Jesus to becoming the Son of Man to prove to all that it could be done.  As we make Jesus LORD and become the Children of God, we also need to, by God’s Grace, learn to walk out our lives in Righteousness and Sanctification..   Our Creator God is Creating a Holy Family of Righteousness to govern the universe as HIS “Rod of Iron.”    Ken Smith, 5/30/21, Kealia, HI

GOD AT WORK

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Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,    “Worth Considering”   5/26/21   From Ken Smith

We are living now in a fast changing world into hypocrisy and atheism where the lusts of the flesh, lusts of the eyes and pride of life is becoming god for many.  Many are making up their own theology that is in total contradiction to the Word of God.   There are so very few in the world today that really reflect the Holy Spirit in their lives a clear example of GOD at WORK.

1 John 5,  AMP.  Everyone who believes (adheres to, trusts, and relies on the fact) that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah) is a born-again child of God; and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him (His offspring).  By this we come to know (recognize and understand) that we love the children of God: when we love God and obey His commands (orders, charges)—[when we keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and His teaching].  3 For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous).  4 For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.  Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]?  6 This is He Who came by (with) water and blood [[a]His birth and His death], Jesus Christ (the Messiah)—not by (in) the water only, but by (in) the water and the blood. And it is the [Holy] Spirit Who bears witness, because the [Holy] Spirit is the Truth.  7 So there are three witnesses [b]in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are One;  8 and there are three witnesses on the earth: the Spirit, the water (body), and the blood (soul); and these three agree [are in unison; their testimony coincides].  9 If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [if we are willing to take human authority], the testimony of God is greater (of stronger authority), for this is the testimony of God, even the witness which He has borne regarding His Son.  10 He who believes in the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] has the testimony [possesses this divine attestation] within himself. He who does not believe God [in this way] has made Him out to be and represented Him as a liar, because he has not believed (put his faith in, adhered to, and relied on) the evidence (the testimony) that God has borne regarding His Son.  11 And this is that testimony (that evidence): God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.  12 He who possesses the Son has that life; he who does not possess the Son of God does not have that life.  13 I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the Son of God [in [c]the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, [d]yes, eternal life.

Weill informed read by Francis Chan,
https://www.charismanews.com/us/85542-in-wake-of-leaders-leaving-the-faith-francis-chan-calls-churches-to-sacredness?utm_source=Charisma%20News%20Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:1158391&utm_campaign=CNO%20daily%20-%202021-05-26

Christianity is NOT
Knowing cute Hillsong Lyrics
Having a bible verse in your IG bio.
Following the World & Chasing Worldly Possessions
Following Jesus only when you fell like it
Being Holy during lint or Holy Week then back to your dirty ways after “Good Friday.”

Christianity IS
Denying yourself and dying to yourself
Being Doers of the Word, not just Hearers
Living for God 24/7 & worshiping HIM no matter how hard life gets.
Pleasing Jesus rather than people, even if it costs you to lose relationships.

Really don’t know who put this together but felt to pass it along.

Our little farmstead is coming along,  more garden growing beds in this week.   New water lines.   Almost ahead of the weeds.  We are working towards being self supporting.  Today we might be ready for a few chickens.   Planting leaks.  Tomorrow the bees and rabbits.  Grew up on a farm as a boy in Kentucky,  nice to get some dirt under my nails once in a while.   Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace and Mercy,   Ken<><   www.trinity-aloha.org

HUMAN CREATION

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HUMAN CREATION,     “WORTH CONSIDERING”   Ken Smith, 5/22/21  Gen. 1:26

The 7000 years that God has given man in time started with Adam in his creation as the first living soul in the Image and likeness of God with being the first species with freewill.    Humanity is nearing the 6,000 year mark down that time line and we are now into the Jesus prophesy of Matt.24, Mark 13 and Luke 21….  Be teaching about this prophesy on Tues. evening 5/25  (shared pot-blessing meal at 5:30,   Study about 6.)    The 7, 000 year time line is all a matter of prophesy in which the 6,000 year have been very accurate.   So, personally I expect the last 1000 years to be right on as well.  2 Pet.3:8.
So we are living in a temporary time dimension of one week of our 1,000 yr. days.  We are here to learn how to use our free will for righteousness and how to walk by faith as so does our Creator.

In Gen.1:26 the statement is made “Let us (God is a trinity) make man in our image and likeness.”   Of course we run off with thinking that was an immediate action and not seeing the process that would need to happen to accomplish that vision.  It took 4,000 years for God to bring to pass the 1st to accomplish that vision in Christ Jesus as a human being born of the blood of Abraham and David,  fulfilling that vision exactly in the Old Testament.   And in the New Testament,  2 Peter 3

So lets spend just a little time getting to know who we are and what we are in this process of perfection.  1 John 3-9:3 For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous).   4 For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.   5 Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]?  6 This is He Who came by (with) water and blood [[a]His baptism and His death], Jesus Christ (the Messiah)—not by (in) the water only, but by (in) the water and the blood. And it is the [Holy] Spirit Who bears witness, because the [Holy] Spirit is the Truth.  7 So there are three witnesses [b]in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are One;  8 many coincides].  and there are three witnesses on the earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree [are in unison; their test9 If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [if we are willing to take human authority], the testimony of God is greater (of stronger authority), for this is the testimony of God, even the witness which He has borne regarding His Son.  1 John 5:5-9    “For the life (the animal soul) is in the blood, and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life [which it represents].”  Lev. 17:11.   5 Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [[a]even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God.  6 What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.  John 3:5-6.

Jesus teaches that humanity is born spiritually dead and needs to not only have a physical (water) birth as human but also must have a (spiritual) birth for the soul to have eternal access to the Kingdom of God.  The is found not in good works but by having a spiritual birth and relationship in Christ Jesus as LORD and to keep HIS commandments.

Isa. 28:9-20 is also a good read on the subject along with John 3.

Body = water =  Word of God
Soul = blood =   Holy Spirit
Spirit = spirit =   Heavenly Father
Gen.1:26,   God began the process of making man in HIS Image & Likeness.   as per the star of David used in the flag of Israel….  Jesus is the first to fulfill that vision.   In HIM we have the same potential, if we are up for it?

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><  www.trinity-aloha.org
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Nature of Man - doctrine.orgSo how you doing in training your soul to love God and to seek for HIS Righteousness?  If we don’t learn humility (To have ears) and obedience.   Do you really expect God to replace your temporary body with another eternal body in which to make his universe like the planet earth?

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MONEY AND RESURRECTION

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MONEY AND THE RESURRECTION,     WORTH CONSIDERING,    5/20/21
THE RETURN OF THE KING    Dr. Larry L. Goldman “Chrislam”
•What is the timeline of current events leading to the appearing of the Antichrist?
•What are the Abraham Accords and how does it play into the End Times?
•What role does the Roman Catholic Church play in the End Times?
•Why should we be concerned about the rise of Chrislam?

•How are evangelicals committing spiritual fornication?
•How can we know when the Lord is returning?
•Where are we right now in the timeframe?
•Why is Satan loosed after 1,000 years?

•What is the purpose of the Tribulation?
•What happens before the Tribulation?
•Who are the Tribulation saints?
•What is the covenant of death?

•Who is the False Prophet?
•Who is the Antichrist?

COMMERCE or CHRIST?  By Gerald Chester   -SOURCE: www.strategieswork.com
In his gospel record, the first-century physician Luke quoted Jesus: “No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money” Luke 16:13 (NIV). Hence the worship of God and money are mutually exclusive. Please note that I did not say that God and money are mutually exclusive, but rather the worship of God and money are mutually exclusive.   Most of us do not consider ourselves to be worshipers of money.   Instead we claim to be worshipers of God. But if Amy Domini is correct and the signs and symbols of the culture reveal what people really value and therefore worship, do the signs confirm that we are worshipers of money?  Consider the following signs:  Sign #1: Success is denominated in terms of money. When the label “successful” is applied to a person, we are commonly referring to his or her financial success. Unless the person is an outright criminal like Bernie Madoff, the level of success that one enjoys is directly proportional to one’s financial fortune.

Sign #2: Americans live as consumers not stewards. This is so obvious to the workplace that business pundits have labeled Americans as “consumers.” Furthermore, our economy is built on consumption; hence, when personal consumption drops, so does the economy.  Sign #3: An entitlement mentality has emerged in America regarding the right to a certain standard of living, disaster aide, health care, and financial safety. Most people expect the government to care for them if something goes wrong and when they get old. There is no compelling reason to responsibly save money or to help each other.  Sign #4: Almost everyone chooses their work based on money. People, as a general rule, accept jobs and leave jobs to make more money. Any other factors that might be considered are secondary.

Sign #5: Money, for the most part, dictates where people choose to live. Most people determine the largest mortgage they qualify for and shop for a home that will match that mortgage. Because of this, many people live “house poor,” meaning that they cannot adequately furnish, decorate and/or maintain their homes. Further-more, because people live on the edge financially, when economic stress comes they often lose their homes through foreclosure.

As I consider these signs, I am persuaded that money is very important to people-far more important than God. Having been active in Christianity for more than fifty years, my anecdotal observation is that God is important to people for a few hours each week on Sunday, but the rest of the time most people focus on money. Money defines who we are-how we view and use money, our social standing, our public policy, where we work, and how we live. Where is God in all of this?

As noted above, one of the rules of God’s universe is that people cannot worship both God and money-a choice has to be made. Sadly, few seem to understand this reality-many professing Christians display the signs noted above, which means that they are trying to worship God and money.  Let us be clear: when we break God’s rules, there will be consequences. Note the words of the apostle Paul in Galatians 6:7: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” [NIV]. It is deception to think that we can sow seeds of rebellion by violating God’s laws and not have consequences. Yet,  this is what we are doing. We think that we can worship God and money, but God has said that we can’t…

The popular paradigm of present day Christianity focuses on getting people to make a decision for Christ, as if one decision is all that we need to make. This implies that all other decisions can be made without Christ. When you read the New Testament, it is abundantly clear the apostle Paul viewed Christ and his teachings as the basis for making all decisions (e.g., Colossians 2).   About a year ago, I heard a speaker say that he was not trying to get people to make a decision for Christ, rather he was trying to get them to make every decision for Christ. This is the biblical perspective.    I think the signs of the times are clear. The professing Christian  community, particularly in North America, has abandoned the worship of Christ and chosen to worship commerce (i.e., money). This choice will have undesirable consequences. Perhaps the current economic calamity is part of the consequences.     Hosea 13:2 reads: “Now they [the Israelites] sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen . . .” (NIV). Note that the craftsmen (i.e., the workplace) simply accommodated the wishes of the people. The real driver in a culture is the worldview of the people. The workplace and public policy of a culture merely reflect the people’s worldview. If the people choose to worship God, then the workplace and public policy will worship God. And if the people choose to worship money, the workplace and public policy will also worship money.   Choosing to worship money instead of God will lead to judgment (see Deuteronomy 28). But if people repent and worship the one true God, then there will be blessings. So the choice is      ours,   commerce (i.e., money) or Christ-what will it be?  Know this: because of the sin of man, the default answer is commerce. So if you want to change, truly change, you have to proactively engage in rejecting the worship of money and choose Christ…

Yours, in HIS great Love & wonderful Grace & Mercy, Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

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FAITH & RAPTURE

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FAITH & RAPTURE,     “WORTH CONSIDERING”   5/18/21,    From Ken<><

To be included, everything in the Kingdom of God, is a matter of faith.   Without faith it is impossible to please GOD.  If we don’t have faith to make Christ Jesus LORD, we remain lost.   If we don’t have faith to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit we remain powerless.   If we don’t have the faith to get out of the boat,  we will never learn to walk on water.  Faith is the Substance and Evidence of things hoped for and not seen.

Why did I have to wait 13 years to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit?    It was due to my false doctrine and lack of faith that needed to be corrected.   Above all things, God honors our freewill but only in faith & truth.  “Be it unto you according to your faith.”  Matt. 9:28-30.    If you are set on going through part of the Great Tribulation,  that is your faith?   There is but one Rapture, not 2 or 3.  Frankly I feel I will be with Jesus booting lucifer and his minions out of the Kingdom of God from the beginning to the middle of the Great Tribulation.   The time of the Rapture (Rev.12:11 is still with God and will come as a thief in the night.   We need to be on a constant watch for it.  Matt.24:42-44  Jesus tells us that we will not know until in the instant that it happens.  And only those with oil and bright lamps of faith will get to go.

In Essentials, Unity.   In all else Love. 
Essentials:
The Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:1, John 20:28, Heb. 1:8 9), the Creator God Himself (Col. 1:16. Compare Gen. 1:1). Who “laid the foundation of the earth” (Heb. 1:10 12. Compare Psalms 102:24 27).
The Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7:14, Mt. 1:23, Luke 1:27).
The Blood Atonement (Acts 20:28, Rom. 3:25, Rom. 5:9, Eph. 1:7).
The Bodily Resurrection (Luke 24:36 46, 1 Cor. 15:1 4, 1 Cor. 15:14 15).
The Second Advent of Christ Jesus to set up His Kingdom on Earth and in Eternity (Isa. 9:6,7)
The inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures themselves (Psalms 12:6 7, Rom. 15:4, 2Tim. 3:16 17, 2Pet. 1:20). This is a reference to people who claim to have revelations apart from the Holy Scriptures and which can not be supported by Holy Scripture.

An expanded confession of faith:
I confess that Jesus Christ is my Lord, Master, and Savior. By faith in Christ Jesus, I am forgiven, cleansed, healed and made a citizen of His eternal kingdom. Jesus Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law of sin, sickness, weakness and eternal death through His death on the cross for me. I believe in the Trinity of one God: Almighty Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Creator made flesh, The Word of God who was begotten as the second Adam. He was born of a virgin, died for my sins, rose for my justification and is coming again soon, in great glory, to establish His Kingdom on earth. I believe in the new birth from above, the baptism in water, and the baptism in the Holy Spirit. I confess that the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all my sin and I am now made the righteousness of God in and through Christ Jesus. I confess that I can do all things through Christ who is my strength as I abide in Him. I confess that this world is not my home. I confess that I am a pilgrim in a foreign land and I look for that certain return of my Lord Jesus Christ and His Kingdom. I confess that there is but one holy universal and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ and all those who are born from above are brethren and citizens of His kingdom. I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ is being perfected by the Holy Spirit through the Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers and other ministries of His Church until all the faithful come into the unity of the faith and the bond of peace and are changed into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ, (Eph. 4:1 16).

Our present world.   Prophesy of the last days Church by Apostle Paul: 2 Tim. 3:1    

But understand this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear].  2 For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.  3 [They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.  4 [They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God.  5 For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].

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A new poll by Rasmussen shows that around two-thirds of American voters consider the current migrant situation at the US-Mexico border to be a “crisis,” and half believe the Biden administration is to blame for it, Fox 28 reports. The survey of 1,000 likely US was conducted on 9-10 May 2021.     China’s Communist authorities have launched a digital revolution against Christianity, according to Christians familiar with the situation.      Islamist militants killed and injured numerous Christians in a church and towns in central and northern Nigeria, Christians confirmed Thursday.   An open letter by Retired Military leaders who have served in recent administrations blasted the Biden administration, his mental fitness, and stated the election was rigged in their open letter published this week. Some highlights:      The letter questioned the integrity of the U.S. election     Questions Biden’s Mental Fitness       Stated that the Biden Administration is launching a full-blown assault on our Constitutional rights in a dictatorial manner The loss of Freedom of Speech,   Blasts the Iran deal,   ‘Anarchy’ cannot be tolerated
‘Illegals are flooding our country’   Conservative lawmakers in over thirty US states have introduced legislation to prohibit transgender youth from competing in female sports, the American Family Association reports.    The Biden administration said in a court filing last week it may reverse a 21-year-old restriction on the abortion pill and allow it to be distributed by mail, even after the pandemic ends.  Row verses Wade to be reconsidered by the Supreme Court.

TODAY’S WORLD
U.S. Customs and Border Protection just released the official count of border apprehensions from April, and the numbers unsurprisingly SURPASSED March’s record high apprehension numbers:      More than 178,000 migrants in total ILLEGALLY crossed the Southern Border in the month of April ALONE     Over 17,000 of those migrants were unaccompanied children.   This is the HIGHEST one-month total of illegal crossings in the past 20 years. And more are coming…  This is unconstitutional as it violates national laws to protect our nations boarders.

Be Blessed in your day,   Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org