MELISSA GABLER—Here is an example of how the Holy Spirit began to reveal how I had been in agreement with certain things in my life. He showed me that my fear and unbelief was rooted in a demon doctrine I was acquainted with years and years ago, and that is the belief that everything will be better when we get to heaven. Now, that is not something that I keep in my conscious mind at this point in my life. I made a decision a while back not to dwell on going to heaven but rather to spend the rest of my life being focused on what He has me on this earth to do. However, the teaching of things having to get worse so we can get to heaven for things to be better created a filter in me that resulted in unbelief and fear when faced with challenges. It even filtered the way I read the Bible. It made me look at most of the Bible as poetry or metaphor and I realize now there is very little of that and a whole lot of literal. For instance. I didn’t realize that I was navigating current challenges in my life and body through that filter. I was falling into the demon doctrines of aging and what that looks like until I started reading passages like this WITHOUT THAT FILTER: Philippians 3:20-21 “But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.” Before the filter got dealt with I would have seen this scripture as saying ‘we are citizens of heaven so we’re expecting the Savior, WHEN HE RETURNS, to transform our bodies.’ Here’s how I see it now: Our citizenship is in heaven RIGHT NOW because this scripture says it out right in a present tense not a future tense and Ephesians 2:6 says “and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:” This is not poetry it’s a literal, right now statement.
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Our mandate from our heavenly Father has not changed because there is political turmoil throughout the nation and throughout the world or because there is a natural disaster in several nations at one time. We don’t have to look for a new mandate because it is the same one we have had for a long time (Matt.10:7;28:18-20); we just need to begin to give ourselves, our effort and our money to it. We are still supporting missions and investing in our spiritual sons/daughters, still making plans for the future and increasing efforts for the Kingdom. There are people talking about changing their plans and goals for their church “because the coming of the Lord is so near”. What we best be planning is planning to live like we have never lived for the purposes of God. Perhaps we should put less emphasis on “talking” about a Savior and begin to “live” like we have a LORD Who has left us with a mandate.
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“Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.” (Gen 2:19, NKJ) We can immediately become jointly active with heaven by, at least, opening our mouths. What will you and I call people and situations in coming days?
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(Editorial by MG) Yet, another prediction of the end of the world and/or the coming of the Lord has been the titillating subject of conversations. This prediction set for April 23, 2018, was actually first made by a preacher in 1843, sort of like a re-run or a borrowed subject revisited. If it got attention in 1843, it is very likely that it will get attention again in 2018. The 
names of the predictors and their notoriety rocket to dizzying heights from which they fall, seemingly unscathed, until their next worthless prediction stirs the insecure masses yet once again.
Is the world (even the church) having to look to the sky for a sign of Jesus because there are no signs of Jesus coming forth from Christianity? It seems that people are continually looking up into the sky. If there were manifestations of the risen Christ continually taking place through “Christians”, how would there be time for people (Christians and non-Christians) to stand around looking up for a sign? I have heard Christians talk about how much hope it gives them to hear about signs in the cosmos and I hear about people praying to see those signs. Why not pray that Christians will start praying to see the redemptive power of the risen Christ manifested in our communities, in drug addicts, in diseased babies, in disillusioned and hopeless teenagers and the deliverance of the miserable thousands held captive in human-trafficking? Time might be better spent if each of us were to look into our mirror (instead of the sky) and ask, “Where is there any sign of the risen Christ?”.
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names of the predictors and their notoriety rocket to dizzying heights from which they fall, seemingly unscathed, until their next worthless prediction stirs the insecure masses yet once again.
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