If a psychiatrist had a patient with the visions of the prophets , if a prophet or saint for some reason talked to a psychiatrist about his or her visions... would the psychiatrist not say that the prophet or saint was hallucinating ?
Would the statement by the saint that he knew all truth of God and understood the future not be treated as delusions?
Is this not indeed going to be the actual fate of the few saints when the world turns against them ? {Rev 13:3-7]
OK , so some brains do cause people truble by sending messages down the wrong pathways , and it can indeed disrupt people's lives much , or even completely , even cause suicide in quite a few hard-pressed souls ... but can one not learn something about oneself and others from not treating this as 'madness' or 'illness' , can one not take this seriously as nevertheless output of something from within the being? [even when it competes with what that person wants ]
Equally , if there is faith in Jesus, does one not also have faith that God can heal ... did not Jesus and the disciples show the gift of healing by the spirit of truth of God Himself?
Thus ironically would not a saint who would himself be diagnosed as 'ill' by doctors , be the very one to seek out for a cure ?
It is a deep contradiction in the modern world...
It is also a symptom of the apostasy of christianity that the churches do not systeatically heal people, and so do demonstrably not have the spirit of truth that would UNITE them into ONE truth [John 16:13] as promised by Jesus..
Without this complete truth of God from His holy spirit the churches cannot heal [an one has to wonder what their basis is] ... one is left than with one's personal extent of faith given by God in calling one , at least some knowledge of the truth and maybe some ability to heal in a few... but who can find the few amongst to clamour of conflicting voices of modern apostasy?
Are we then to be grateful for the individual peace of God offered by thescraps of truth falling from the table of the saints, the children of Israel...?
Rather the scripture indicates [Rev 13:3-7[ that the power of Satan will offer healing and so grab centre satge to the effect of all the world worshipping ONE God and christ image ... but it will not be Jesus, Jesus says so hmself!
Then it seems to me that we can offer our friendshipand prayers to those troubled early in these increasingly troubled times that will eventually destroy the faith of billions [faith in their god image and image of christ edorsed by men ]at the return of Jesus ... then the true faith will be establshed in the saints in their translation to immortality...
but the rest shall not live again until the thousand years have past... what matter then this earth and its troubles when we know that billions will be saved in the new earth [Rev 7:9-10]
Be at peace then through His truth if you can grasp it away from the voices of traditional religion of men... for we CAN learn from scripture and from God in yearnng prayer for His truth [if we do so withand open mind toHis truth, ask Him with humble ignorance and innocence as would little children ask a Father]
Be at peace in Him as the world falls apart and do not be fooled when the antichrist unites world religion into one 'christianity, one faith of men... but almsot all men will be so fooled... are you oneof the very few who will not....
that stuggle then is now, and if you would succeed then one makes a stand with very few indeed [perhaps but about two thousand left alive of all the saints listed by Jesus [Rev 7:3-8] ... does one therefore want to suppress that struggle , to allow one to be 'normalised' to the untruth that we know from jesus that almost all men will accept in worship of Satan as God and Christ ?
Clearly the naswer is a cmpletely personal one, most men serve God by being 'bait; in God's trap for Satan [even without realising it] ... there isno shame nor penalty other than death for being deluded by God :-
2Th 2:11 And for this cause
God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Ro 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy
One should not thenbe afraid of death if one is thought 'normal' in onee's religion by one's peers
Equally one should not be cowed by misundestanding of almost all the world [bar only a few saints that one may never meet until Jesus' return] if one is moved to follow god's hard truth and face the terrible ordeal of saints that is coming, whenall the world is against them for their faith in God ...
Thus be YOURSELF, whatever that is FOR God ... we are what we are FOR Him, until He takes us to Him and makes us as Him , immortal spirit ...what then of value is this world and its trials and emptinesses? ... the world is nothing and of nothing , created and destroyed almost like a passing dream ... whose only memorial is that it showed that evil failed to show any promise whatsoever compared to love ...
would then that God did not think that he had to know that, then mna would not have suffered so ...
but that is an idle thought since god knows all things , and so in knowing he created... and here we are ... or so we see it that way ...
Yet wait then... are we , in seeing 'ourselves' as humans, making the mistake of not understanding that we were created in the image of Gd, the image of SPIRIT, not of flesh and bones! ...
And do we not believe that we shall be changed to immortal spirit ??
what then is OUR true reality? ... flesh and bones that we know are temporary or immortal spirit that is eternal?
It is rather clearly the latter I think, but then it is our fleshand bones, our 'selves' , our individual divided from God, that is illusion !
What then would psychiatrists say of me when I say this world itself is thus illusion , more like a passing dream bythe spirit that the 'physical REALITY' it is NAMED as !!
Thus am I ill to them... I do not doubt some would say that I am! Yet I do not feel ill, I am at peace as never before in my whole troubled life [of deepest depresssion at the world and the hate in it, the lack of love for all men]
AND WHY is that ? Why did peace COME as out of nowhere and to SENSES science does NOT acknowledge !
Simply I asked God, and FACED the terrible truth about MYSELF , that I am UGLY to God because of sin, but UGLY for His purpose, UGLY because GOD Himself requires men to reject sin ... but we cannot reject it until we have sinned , and so we becoe ugly .... and then god redeems us from that ugliness...
HOW does He do that? simply by pouring out His truth [Acts 2:17, John 16:13]
More importantly for unsderstanding , WHEN does He do that ?
and there is the problem , most men say that this scripture implies that our children already all prophesy,but I do not think they do :-
Acts2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God,
I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
Do we not KNOW that our children do NOT all prophesy?
Are we not puzzled then that all christianity says that men must be saved in THIS life ???
Why should pour His truthout on all that have died , who will only have life again after the second resurrection ...?
Think on it , God seals all flesh in His spirit AFTER death in the second resurrection, NOT in this earth [only the few of Rev 7:38 are saints in this life!]
So God gives all truth to MOST people in the righteous new earth, so we can ALL resist sSatan and be righteous, perfect our sould as saints in the new earth and be redeemed at the great judgment... it is not what most men say ... but what does the scripture Rev 13:3-7] about what most men will say at this time ? What does tHIS scripture say that SHOULD reprove that almost universal christian belief of men?
Something one can only answer by itense study of the scripture [since the above KJV version is mistranslated anyway , the words "last days" only actually read what might better be translated as "after this" ] and by pryer to god to see if he will reveal His truth a little to one now , ahead of schedule as-it-were ...
So be at peace with everyone , even those who do not understand you, even those who would kill you for that matter, as the saints were killed for their faith, BE YOURSELF because that is what God requires... do not follow the crowd unless that is what you ARE for now... we kNOW from Jesus himself that the CROWD is WRONG, not God !! Have faith in God then , not in the crowd, if that faith in God is yet given you... else believe in men with all your heart and be decieved with billions, they [we?] to serve God, just in a different way !
In His peace,
may it be with you [my prayer]
Roger