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17 Things Christ Did not say in Regards to the Last Days
God chose to use and increase dreams and visions, as well as increase the use of them in the last days. I trust that you will be able to expand your understanding and comprehension that God loves humanity so much that he chose to use a personal method to get their attention. We all need to keep in mind that it was not this author, or the church that stated God would pour Out His Spirit in the last days and people would dream more; it was God himself. This is why it is such a privilege to share on dreams; it was a promise from God and nothing manufactured by any church.
And God chose dreams to manifest himself through us, as He knew the man-made efforts of humanity would require divine intervention to allow individuals to see past man’s feeble efforts to gain salvation.
~ Michael L. Mathews
This may be why the world and wiser people in the Kingdom have realized that during the last 20 years the more music, churches, conferences, studies, dramas, and books that religion has created, the worse the church became. The evidence and statistics indicate that despite all the growth and improvements that man has made, that the sin and accountability within the church has grown in the opposite direction. Even though this sounds sad, God is now having His way and trying to help man believe that He is the author and finisher of the faith, not the man made efforts we have created. I would back away from this somber conclusion if we could support all the efforts of the modern church with man-made Scripture passages that said something like the following 17 statements which closely reflect what has taken place in the modern church movement:
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will build mega churches.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will have more songs written.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will have better songs written.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will copy Hollywood and other methods to reach people, because the world can produce better quality than I can. (Ouch, Ouch, Ouch).
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will have more conferences for people.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will create more religious opinions.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will create more denominations.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will send out TV evangelists.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will have greater fundraisers.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will help churches celebrate how great they are and celebrate every anniversary with them.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will create greater parachurch ministries.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will use human love to have a love-fest with humanity so eventually they can introduce them to me.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will let the church compromise my position so people do not feel so offended.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will save humanity through a different kind of gospel as my original gospel was too confrontational.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will view politics as more interesting than the gospel and we will focus our energies on elections, debates, and human intellect.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will change the gospel of hell, judgment, and righteousness because I was just joking around about those things to scare people.
- In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and I will refocus the intent of my son, Jesus, so he will be perceived as “Only Love” as people became too offended in the 21 distinct personalities/responsibilities that I gave Him!!
I believe that these 17 simple examples when compared to what God’s Word really does say, “In the last days I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and old men shall dream dreams, and your young men will have visions. And your sons and daughters will prophesy,” we can conclude that man cannot create methods to personalize the gospel like God can. And God chose dream to personalize His love and direction for humanity. I believe that God chose dreams because He foreknew that in the last days the church would get consumed and twist things enough through some of these 17+ methods that He would have to intervene and go directly to each person through dreams and visions stating things such as:
- I am real.
- I am coming back — soon!!
- I will build a new heaven and new earth and this one will pass way.
- Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
- Wide is the gate that leads to destruction and narrow is the gate that leads to life everlasting.
- I want to help you get on the narrow path.
- I want to save you from hell (Job 33:14).
Almost all the dreams I have had the pleasure of hearing correlate in some fashion to one of these seven simple God-given instructions that we are blessed to be reminded of.
“And God chose dreams because He foreknew that in the last days the church would get consumed and twist things enough through human effort that He would have to intervene and go directly to each person through dreams and visions.”
~ Michael L. Mathews
What an awesome God, who personalizes the gospel to a perplexed world in which religion has become so distorted and hindering. The phrase, “Let my people go,” takes on a whole new meaning when ministers and churches realize that God chooses to use all His people in the last days — not just talented musicians, ministers, and puppeteers.
“We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.”
~ Carl Jung
“The phrase ‘Let my people go,’ takes on a whole new meaning when ministers and churches realize that God chooses to use all His people in the last days — not just talented musicians, ministers, and puppeteers.”
~ Michael L. Mathews
Happy Dreaming!!
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