Edition 17 - The Prophetic Scroll

This ministry has a distinct kingdom vision, identifying with God’s call and plan for Israel and the church. My position is pre-trib! I was saved in 1976 while working as a war correspondent, journalist, photographer, artist and environmentalist. My calling is to share with you the great end-time dramas, to stand as a watchman and above all, to glorify my God.

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Covid 19 virus is still spreading worldwide. Watch for this to level off. Watch for the infection rate to begin to decline. It will happen and soon. Watch for many leaders to turn to God. Some are!
China is to lift lockdown on April 8^th as 1.5 billion worldwide go into lockdown.
This pandemic is going to take a large chunk out of world economic growth and set back nations and people already struggling.
Interestingly the word “Corona” means “crown” it is also a fiery ring surrounding the sun visible at an eclipse. Does it symbolise a crown of fiery judgement?

►►Please watch this most important video clip by Jonathan Cahn entitled “The Return”

►►►Regular readers of The Prophetic Scroll are hereby informed that this Covid19 virus will not come near you. I and my prayer team are praying this as a specific prayer of protection over you.

These will change on Sundays or as the Lord leads.

Hosea 4:3 (No truth, mercy or knowledge of God in the land) “Therefore the land will mourn; and everyone who dwells there will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air, even the fish will be taken away.”

Job 12:24-25 “He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless wilderness. They grope in the dark without the light; he makes then stagger like a drunken man.”

2 Corinthians 5:15 “He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.”

Acts 20:24 “I do not count my life dear to me, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Yeshua, to testify to the grace of God.”

Shabbat (Sabbath) begins on Fridays at 6pm and ends on Saturdays at 6pm. The purpose of this report is to help the church and Israel become reconciled in Messiah.

27^th March 2020

Shabbat Shalom to all!

Watchmen who spy with their little eye:

A major goal of The Prophetic Scroll (TPS) is to be ahead of the curve. It is to have eyes looking into the future. It is to hear the word of the Lord and to inform and warn of things to come.

Here at TPS you will find teaching and encouragement for your heart and your head. You will be kept safely in the arms of our Lord, through the work of the Spirit of God.

The spread and growth of the coronavirus is often represented as a curve in a graph, with the largest numbers at the peak of the curve.

I have some good news for you:

The coronavirus has run its course and is over! You might think I’m mad! Well, there are two issues here. Firstly, that is the sense I get from the word of the Lord. Secondly that is what the graphs and charts are saying.

Of course it’s not over in reality yet, but the curve in most places has peaked. You may surprised to know that China’s Wuhan Province where the virus started and killed many is already back to normal with all services, factories transport and industries back to normal operation. (Look it up) Other nations are seeing a flattening of the curve after the peak. A few are still seeing an increase.

We are to look out into the future and not right at our noses. Yes I do believe there is going to be a lot of difficulty ahead, but the human spirit has strong bounce-back ability.

Stock markets are always anticipatory of future economic fundamentals. They price in the future now. We have seen world markets crash and then crash again. But in the last week or so they have registered repeated record runs higher, including the largest ever one day point gain in history on the Dow.

Markets create many signals including the reliable “key reversal signal” which is a capitulation to the downside and a “V” shaped spike higher forming a number of higher highs on the charts. This is just what we have now.

Can the markets still go down? Yes they can take another hit, but the main, furious downside is over.

All the pessimists including Christian pessimists can only see the reality of sick, dying and dead people everywhere! They can’t see the light in the tunnel because they are the dark tunnel.

The mass media have created a no-man’s land riddled with mine-fields saying, ‘don’t resist our opinions’. They have created a fortified ‘city’ full of so-called giants of their own opinions.

Let’s put this into spiritual terms with our two good friends of antiquity – Joshua and Caleb.

Joshua and Caleb:

These were two of the twelve spies sent by Moses to spy out the Promised Land of Israel.

This story relates prophetically to Israel’s future salvation, and also applies to God’s promises for the Christian.

We should all know the story. All the spies saw the same thing which was a land flowing with milk and honey, but with big giants and fortified towns. Ten came back and accurately reported what they saw and thought. They said that it was impossible to defeat these giants and the fortifications.

Joshua and Caleb saw the same things but in faith, looked beyond and came back with an outrageous, radical, good report in light of all the bad things. It defied eyes, ears and logic!

We have exactly the same picture with David and Goliath, which speaks very much of Israel’s fight for survival today.

Joshua and Caleb refused to see themselves as submitted grasshoppers controlled by evil.

The ones who went into the Promised Land had wholeheartedly followed God.

The ten evil spies had significant influence. They held the majority consensus, because they thought they could see with their eyes. The Bible says that the caused the entire congregation to murmur. (Numbers 14:17-38)

The ten with the evil report led the entire camp of the children of Israel to banishment by God in the wilderness, where they all died of the plague. Joshua and Caleb were the ones to lead the new flock into the land.

The ten spies are represented in the mass-media. They see with eyes that cannot see.

Tragically, much of the church today not only carries the virus of the ten evil spies relating to Israel, they actually facilitate it with their anti-Semitism and replacement theology.

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You must have spiritual eyes to hear God’s trumpet warnings, or the holy, golden, shining sword is coming your way fast. (Deuteronomy 32:41, Ezekiel 21:9)

I believe that’s not politically correct today to say a sword is coming! – Voetsak!

Two pretty neat watchmen!

The twelve spies were sent to spy out the land. Only two of the ten were God's watchmen.

●The word “spy” is Strong’s H8446 meaning to seek, search and explore.

●The word “watchman” is Strong’s H6822 meaning to keep watch, or to spy out and observe. Note that the meanings are almost identical.

Today we have many self-proclaimed watchmen. They are part of the ten evil spy network! They spy out what they see. They report on what they see and speculate with variables. They are repeatedly wrong. (I heard of one who recently claimed that the rapture would take place on Purim, because that’s when Jews get drunk in the streets! – What garbage!)

Some people are so thickly deceived that even if you show them the truth, they will still believe a lie. That is because deception is primarily an evil spirit, which becomes imbedded if not cut out.

So, if the Covid 19 story is on the way out, have we learned the lesson? Many have. Many are talking of national repentance. Many joined for urgent prayer and still are. But many have not. These are those who never will. They are the doomed ones. Please don’t be one!

How many large biblical abominations present in the nations, that led to their national curses will go? Very few will!

What is important and coming soon is the next round of catastrophic judgment on this world. This is because of the overall place we are in prophecy. It will speed up.

The truly blind media and their blind sheep have denied God and His word. They have by extension denied mankind the ability to see sin, wickedness and abomination.

►Here is a most powerful lesson for you in these days:

Deuteronomy 8:2 “The Lord your God led you all these forty years in the wilderness to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart. Verse 16: He might humble you and test you to do you good in the end.”

Psalm 106:14-15 “They soon forgot His works, they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tested God in the desert, so He gave them their requests, but sent leanness into their soul.”

Some of these end-time things are great surgical tools for your heart!

Psalm 71:20-21 “You have shown me great and severe troubles, You shall revive me again, and bring me up again from the depths of the earth. You shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side.”

2 Kings 6:16 “Do not fear, for those that are with us are more than with them.” The Lord opened their eyes to see mountains full of chariots of fire all around Elisha!

Welcome to TPS – your very own Joshua and Caleb for today’s exciting and unique times!

✡† Shalom...Joel.

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Edition 17 November 17th 2009

In this edition:

●Wise words of old. (Part one)

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Wise words of old for today

●This is a collection of some very powerful quotes relating to many things. They are from old-school preachers dating back from the 1700s to the early 1900s. None are from today's preachers and teachers. As you well, know I am no fan of modern preachers with few exceptions. Many of these quotes are shocking in today's terms, but this is because 'today' has moved so far away from yesterday. If these were appropriate hundreds of years ago, they are much more so today!

You can be part of the great apostasy or the great awakening. Both are gathering momentum today. To be part of the prophesied great apostasy (falling away from the faith) you need do nothing...just drift along with the flow. To be part of the great awakening, you need to set your heart and soul after our great Messiah with determined purpose and everything in you.

We are entering a time period where many things will be shaken. Ignorance will be the breading ground of great deceptions. The wrath of God, the wrath of the devil and the wrath of man will all hit the world together. To be ready and to be able to stand securely, you need a lot more than simply to know the truth. You need to have it forged and fired into the very core of your existence. To be safe and right with God you need a soft and broken heart before Him and to know deep spiritual truth backwards!

I've selected a very small handful of quotes from A.W Tozer, Watchman Nee and Charles Finney. They're in no particular order. These are from many books, perhaps a few hundred in all, which I've meticulously and lovingly digested over the last 30 years. I cut my spiritual teeth on the material from these guys and consider them my spiritual fathers. With the addition of Derek Prince. Paul the apostle said that it's good to have many instructors but few fathers.

I have so many of these quotes that from time to time I'll present you with more in some future editions. I'll space them out a fair bit because this is a departure from prophetic subjects, but nonetheless of great importance today.

Books and other publications by these three are available through the 'Resources' link at the top.

Jeremiah 6:16 "Ask for the old paths, where the good way is and walk in it; Then you will find rest for souls."

Tozer, Nee, Finney (below)

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The words of life:

A.W Tozer (late 1800s) The Old Cross and the New and some other books: He was a prophet of his time, and a prolific author. His legacy reaches well beyond his grave and has impacted countless millions calling them to a deeper life in God.

"All unannounced and mostly undetected there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles....From this new cross has sprung a new philosophy of the Christian life and a new type of meeting. The old cross would have no truck with the world. For Adam's proud flesh it meant the end of the journey. The new cross is not opposed to the human race, rather it's a friendly pal. It's the source of oceans of good clean fun and innocent enjoyment. It lets Adam live without interference. His life motivation is unchanged; he still lives for his own pleasure"

"God offers life, but not an improved old life. The life He offers is life out of death. It stands always on the far side of the cross. God salvages the individual by liquidating him and then raising him again to newness of life"

"Truth is the daughter of God. If you look for truth you may find comfort in the end. If you look for comfort, you'll get neither"

"Nothing less than the whole Bible can make us a whole Christian."

"Today we need those with a baptism of clear sight, who can see through the mists of confusion with prophetic vision"

"The neglected heart will soon be overrun with worldly thoughts, his life will soon become a moral chaos as the creeping wilderness takes over. Complacency is a deadly foe of spiritual growth"

"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."

"Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. Many Christians today have wasted their lives"

"The idea that this world is a playground and not a battleground has now been accepted by the vast majority of Christians...they are no different to dressed up drunks"

"Whatever a person wants badly and persistently enough will determine that person's character"

Sound Bible exposition is an imperative MUST in the church. Without it no church can be a New Testament church. Christianity today is man-centred and not God-centred"

"The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things."

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out with multiplying distractions and destroys our solitude"

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"The idolatrous heart assumes that God is other than He is, and substitutes for the true God one made after its own likeness. This God will conform to the image who created it - a monstrous sin. People today have modified God and created Him in their own image."

"Many today have an imaginary Christ to keep them satisfied, but they also have an imaginary salvation"

"Among the plastic saints of our times Jesus has to do all the dying and all we want is to hear another sermon about His dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the kingdom of mansoul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a Caesar; but we doom ourselves to the shallows and weakness of spiritual sterility."

"Before the church goes into eclipse, there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind"

"Christianity has become so entangled with the world that millions never guess how radically they have missed the New Testament pattern. Compromise is everywhere. The world is whitewashed just enough to pass inspection by blind men posing as believers."

"There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth at all"

"People who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion. Every person is as holy as he wants to be"

"Too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right, but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right"

"We become what we love"

"The Lord will not fully bless a man until He has fully conquered him."

"In Christ I have died yet I'm more alive now than before."

"I live here but I'm not at home here."

"I lose my life to save it."

"I am wisest when my reason is defeated."

Watchman Nee 1903 - 1972: The Normal Christian Life. The Salvation of the Soul. He was thrown into prison in China for his beliefs where he spent most of his life. Of the 100s of Nee books only one was written by him. All the others were collections of his notes smuggled out of prison. Prison authorities tore his tongue from his mouth in an attempt to silence him. He was a man of incredible suffering.

"Whatever is produced by the mind lacks spiritual power"

"Our end is God's beginning. Too many have gone too far for the world to use them and not far enough for God to use them. The Christian life is not a changed life but an exchanged life."

"Separation to God and from the world is the first principle of the Christian life."

"We will lose interest in the world and see it's doom and it in will lose interest in us when the power of the cross is at work in us."

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"With complete consecration comes perfect peace. I want nothing for myself and everything for my Lord"

"Are you living for the Lord or for yourself. Rest lies in looking to the Lord and not ourselves. It's a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own, but His"

"The soul renounced shall abound in the boundlessness of God's life."

"There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of one's life and then know that we have been on the wrong course"

"Unless self love is abandoned the believer will forever shrink back when called to take up the cross for Christ"

"God's way of deliverance from sin is altogether different from man's way. Man's way is to try and suppress sin by seeking to overcome it. God's way is to crucify the sinner"

"He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including dryness and barrenness and completely disregard self, is he who lives for Him"

Charles Finney 1792 - 1875: Revival Lectures (No preacher since New Testament times has ever had as many converts remain faithful until death as those converted under Finney)

"Christians are more to blame for the lack of revival than sinners for not being converted"

"Revival pre-supposes that the church has sunk so low. Revival is then a return of the church from its backslidden state. Only then can sinners be converted. True revival breaks the power of the world and sin over Christians. The salvation of sinners follows revival in the church"

"When a worldly spirit is in the church it is seen in Christians conforming to the worlds ways in dress, talk, reading of novels and their music, it shows that they are far from God. Even their prayer is an abomination to God"

"Today's Christians are half-converted and their conversion is of their own minds.".

"The unsaved are affected by the conviction of truth seen in its believers."

"Christians are to testify to the guilt and danger of sinners, the reality of hell, the necessity of a holy life, denying self and the soon coming of the Lord"

"Christians today make the impression that Christ loves the sinner so much and with such compassion, that they have nothing to fear. The church has given many a false comfort and hope."

"All sinners are on the very verge of hell and in a danger far greater than they can imagine. The sinner must be made to feel distressed. The comfort full of death relieves this blame."

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"God comes to the sinner with pardon in one hand and a sword in the other; repent and live or refuse and perish."

"If Christians accommodate a love for the world, they make the salvation of the world impossible"

"Most ministers today are rocking the cradle of a sleepy church, compromised with the world"

"Today's Christians make their vows to God and then go and bow down at the shrine of fashion and other worldly pursuits and then wonder why there is no revival. Christians declare by their conduct that there is no truth in the gospel"

"Millions of souls will meet you on their judgement day and if permitted to speak, would curse you for leading them to hell by your practical denial of the truth"

"The evils of gay balls must be condemned"

"Revival will cease when the doctrine shifts from truth, when there is disunity in the church, when the church no longer honours the Sabbath and when the church takes the neutral ground on morals."

"You can't obey God and error. The church needs more division. If they are not agreed on truth keep them out."

"True doctrine is indispensible to growth in grace. Rightly instructed and trained the Christian will take the right road, if not they will backslide."

"A want of entertainment and a lack of spiritual conversation is evidence of a backslidden heart."

"Where there is no revival it is all the fault of the church."

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In closing, I took this picture of this magnificent giant Baobab tree some 3000 years old and 40m in circumference. (There is another similar tree in the 'God's Garden section) To stand strong through time in the face of many storms, droughts, and upheavals we need to be deeply rooted in the things of our Messiah!

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Kind regards and many blessings...Shalom and grow in grace!

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