WHY DOES GOD ALLOW PEOPLE TO HURT OTHER PEOPLE? WHICH ANSWER ALSO ANSWERS - WHY WILL THERE BE A 1000 YEAR MILLENNIUM?

PART II OF THE MIGRAINE HEADACHE POST

St. John The Divine - Gothic Cathedral at West 110th St & Amsterdam Ave, NYC

(PART II of Migraine Post)

In 1990, living in my NYC apartment overlooking St. John the Divine Cathedral¹, I was still active in the ministry that I’d joined in 76’. My NY state ‘leadership’ was a minister up in Latham NY, a popular preacher named ‘Vince’. That year, Vince announced he was going to teach a class on the book of Genesis. It sounded very interesting, and he was a terrific Bible teacher, so I registered for his class.

GERMAN GIRLS TOLD NOT TO COME

Back in the 1985 I studied Spanish in Madrid, Spain; where I met 2 Italian girls, Mikela and Alessia, and a German girl, Beate. We all became good friends. In 1986 on my 2nd trip to Spain for Spanish language immersion, all 4 of us were together there, again. This time I was placed in a residence with Beate, the gal from Wetzlar.

El Retiro Park, Madrid Spain

This year, Beate shared with me that her mom had been diagnosed with cancer. Short story →I prayed for her mother. Some days later, Beate returned to our residence from the local phone depot in tears! Her mom had been declared ‘CLEAR OF CANCER.’

Beate went home and took the Bible class (that I still run to this day) in Germany. One morning at about 5 am in NYC, the phone in my 110th street apartment rang. Somebody was on the other end, babbling in a language I didn’t understand. Then she started giggling. Beate had graduated the Bible class, and was on the phone speaking in tongues!

Sooner or later, Beate wound up witnessing Jesus to 2 German girlfriends - Sigrid, and Ulrike. They all visited me in NY and we became great friends!

In 1990, I told the 3 of them about Vince’s Bible class on the Book of Genesis. They ALL decided it was a good idea to visit the US again, and attend the class with me.

So, Vince registered them, and cashed their registration checks. After which they bought airline tickets from Germany to NY, for the class that would start in 41 days.

40 days later my apartment phone rang; It was Vince. He said to me - ‘I don’t think the girls should come to the class’. I was shocked.

I said - “But Vince! They registered for your class 40 days ago! They bought their airline tickets weeks ago, and are due to arrive at JFK TOMORROW!”

Then I remembered the strange relationship between the American ministry and our European sister ministry run by a guy named Chris Geer. So I asked Vince..

“What happened? Did Chris Geer call you?”

As they say… “IF YOU’RE TAKING FLAK - YOU’RE OVER THE TARGET.”

Vince went ballistic.

He was screaming so loud I had to put the phone arms length away from my ear. It was not the first time the man had screamed at me in the years I knew him.. but this time it involved others.. He finished his verbal screed dropping this bomb- “DO NOT COME TO THE CLASS.”

Beate, Ulrike and Sigrid arrived the next day, and I sat them down to tell them the situation. We decided to go ahead and drive up to Latham (2 hours north of NYC) and take our chances.

We got to Vince’s house, and his secretary Georgia M, met us at the gate. She opened it and welcomed in Beate, Ulrike, and Sigrid - for the weekend of Bible teaching, and closed the gate in front of me, turned her back and walked away.

I drove around upstate NY for a few days, alone. Vince’s screams still in my ears.. his secretary’s display of abject coldness replaying over and again in my head.

Shortly after this episode, I moved to Ossining, NY.. where the headaches began. But I had never made the connection about the onset of migraine headaches and this awful experience = until Jesus pointed it out yesterday.

John McCabe said a ‘demon had infested my sinuses’.

Jesus said it was from TRAUMA.

Putting it together, the screaming, the rejection, and losing the time with my friends, and the lonely weekend incubating it all - opened me up to a trauma spirit, which caused splitting headaches.

Friend, If you have Migraine headaches - and if you can pin the onset to a trauma in your life, you can be helped by ministering prayer - to evict the spirit that got a foothold when your emotions were cracked open. I can do that for you, or I can recommend a tremendous man of God in Iowa -Keith Versteegh.

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BTW - This story also answers the age old question of - Why does God (appear to) allow people to hurt others’.

The first time Vince ever screamed at me was years before, in the 1980s,. on a stage in front of an entire audience, just before I was to sing for his Bible service.. (40 years ago, my self esteem was such that I took the abuse, and sang for his service anyway.)

Later, I obeyed Jesus, and forgave Vince.

But I had yet to learn that forgiving someone does not necessarily mean trusting them again. My hunger to be accepted set me up for that next episode of abuse, being screamed at and evicted from his class - in 1990.

After which, I forgave him again. (These episodes were all just a year or 2 apart. Like some people, it took years for me to understand how not to let people abuse me).

In 1992 I was finally to leave for Monterey, California, to attend the Defense Language Institute, and needed to find somewhere to put my beloved Australian Shepherd, Pushkin, for the year. So, I turned to my state leadership, Vince, to put the word out. After all, as the ministry leader for the state, he had a huge rolodex..

OK.. Here it is - Watch this..

Jesus SHOWED ME by revelation - that Vince would take the dog himself and keep her with his family. So when Vince called to tell me that → I ALREADY KNEW that he meant to take her for the year!

What Jesus DID NOT tell me, was that - when I’d return in 1993, a year later, the ‘minister’ that I’d trusted again - would decline to return my dog to me.

It took me a year to finally get her back. In 1994, the Army sent to Washington DC. Finally in Virginia, living in a nice house paid for by the Army, I drove 9 hours to Latham NY to retrieve my - then 5 year old - dog. When Pushkin heard my voice from Vince’s front door, she raced to me - jumped in my car and never looked back.

(I’ve not written about my military year at DLI’ (1992 -1993) Both the ministry in California, and the military (in the person of some Special Forces goons) paid me egregious assaults. The entire mission in California was a spiritual battle.)

Look friend, this IS a spiritual battle. There are no neutral parties in this war. Knowing this- When God builds a Church, satan builds a chapel.. his henchmen are everywhere. If we are doing anything for the Kingdom, or if he deems we might someday do so.. we become a target. And your local church is not necessarily different. Our job is to see past the mask. Our enemy is not the person in front of you. it’s satan.

satan did NOT want me to go to DLI and take RUSSIAN to begin with. Once I was in Monterey, he did everything in his power to drive me from the school. And for that task he uses … people.

The Apostle Paul pleaded with God to ‘remove the thorn in the flesh’ - that was satan’s people persecuting Paul.

God could not remove them - because persecution is PROMISED to those who faithfully follow Jesus. Instead He promised to give Paul ‘grace to endure’.

Yea, and ‘ALL’ that will live godly in Christ Jesus ‘SHALL’ (absolutely) suffer persecution. II Timothy 3:12

BUT GOD..

..LED ME TO TRIUMPH IN CALIFORNIA.

I not only GOT to DLI to begin with, (after a 2 year struggle to get the orders)..

by God’s mercy and abundant help - I GRADUATED FIRST IN MY CLASS

Even after a year of serial - moral, sexual, and psychological abuse in the school, I remained ‘the last man standing in the ring’, and graduated out of 300 LANGUAGE STUDENTS, with the highest grades - 3-3-3 in Russian. (Passing even Navy Officers and FBI agents, that had 4 years of college Russian)

(Some of you in the military may know what it means when I say I graduated 1-year of Russian Language training with a score of 3-3-3! That’s why they sent me to Washington DC.)

SO -This period of time involved some of the most tumultuous years of my life., and it all took place without any family or ministry support. I came home to NYC, with no welcoming committee, no where to go, and my dog in captivity. But I got through it. Like I tell my son, just be the last man standing in the ring - you’ll get the prize.

I would NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP - because I would never give the devil the satisfaction of seeing me quit - AND because I love Jesus so much. He spoke to me when I was a kid - and it has sufficed me a lifetime.

NOW - Here it is -

• Jesus told me that Vince would offer to take care of my dog for the year.

• WHY DIDN’T HE ALSO TELL ME, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN LATER?

• Why didn’t he tell me that Vince would refuse to return Pushkin to me?

• And that when I would take her back, he would turn people away from me?

• Why didn’t Jesus warn me of this?

The answer explains everything going on in this world.

Jesus is not going to STOP someone from doing something evil to another person.

Nor does GOD stop men and nations from perpetrating evil..

WHY?

Because it is God’s whole reason for this world. CHOICE.

It is the reason Elohim divided the light from darkness in Genesis chapter one. Choice.

He did NOT ERADICATE the darkness after the rebellion of lucifer and the ‘perishing of the world that ‘then was’..

He left darkness there, next to light, so that men would have to choose.

God doesn’t TEMPT men with sin, the tempter does; But people have to make that choice- to love light or darkness. There is no neutral territory.

Help your loved ones to choose well. We all only get one life to choose in. (And everyone will get that chance.. watch..)

God has to let men do what they will, because just like a court of law in this world, you CANNOT CONVICT SOMEONE OF SOMETHING THEY ‘MIGHT HAVE DONE.’

THEY HAVE TO HAVE CHOSEN IT - AND DONE IT.

God lets men be who they are, and do what they will do; But there are angels whose job it is to record everything.. No jot nor tittle will be overlooked.

(And don’t think, Christian, that you can pass it all off on ‘once saved - always saved’. There are too many troubling Scriptures to suggest otherwise.)

There is a day coming when that man, or minister, or IDF soldier will stand before him and say, ‘I WOULD NEVER have done such a thing’.

And God will say ‘Yes you would.’ You DID! Here’s the video…”

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THE REASON FOR THE 1000 YEAR MILLENNIUM

But what about the poor suffering people, the babies that died before their time, the men and women that never got their chance to ‘choose Christ’ in this life - having had their lives cut short, or suffering a behavior so egregious by a minister, or a pope or rabbi.. so that they were turned off from ‘religion’ in their life.. What about them?

That’s why there is to be a 1000 year rest. The whole world will finally be at peace. satan will be in chains for 1000 years.

People, babies, who never got a chance to choose, will get that chance. Which explains why, at the end of 1000 years of peace on earth there will STILL BE THOSE WHO REBEL!~ because having finally been given a choice - some will choose darkness.

BUT THEY WILL LIVE AGAIN AND GET THAT CHANCE → REVELATION 20:4

‘Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them.

I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God,

AND [I saw] those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their foreheads and on their hands;

and they CAME TO LIFE and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. Revelation 20:4 (Amplified Bible)

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And I saw thrones, and some who were seated on them, to whom judgment was entrusted.

I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony that they had borne to Jesus and on account of God's Message,

[I saw] ALSO the souls of those who had not worshipped the Wild Beast or his statue, nor received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands;

and they CAME TO LIFE and were kings with Christ for a thousand years. (Weymouth New Testiment)

This is one area where the King James Version is not clear. Revelation 20:4 teaches that Christian Martyrs, who were killed for their witness of Jesus, AND ALSO those who had not worshipped the beast, nor received his mark, will ‘live again’, in the Millennium.

THE RAPTURE

It needs to be pointed out here, that the ‘Christian martyrs’ in this verse, are those who came to Christ AFTER the rapture of Christ’s Church. The raptured Church will NOT BE ON EARTH simultaneous with the antichrist, but will be with Christ in heaven, until his return to earth WITH 10 thousands of his saints (Revelation 17:14).

The Raptured saints will not be on earth when antichrist is killing Christians. WE were given AUTHORITY over satan, (Luke 10:19) do you not suppose we also then would have authority over antichrist? His work will be post factum the ‘Calling up on High’.

Those who had not worshipped the beast or received his mark, includes all of earths dead - before their time - ‘aborted children’ ‘those who died before the age of accountability’, ‘or were murdered before the age of accountability’..

They will live again, and get their chance to choose.

The rest of the dead - i.e.. those who worshipped the beast (Taylor Swift types) and those who take his mark.. will not live again until the resurrection of the unjust.

Then the books will be opened..

And at the end of the whole story - the END of the END - the ‘TELEIOS’,.. this earth will be cremated - burned up - and remade. Totally recreated, so that ONLY the righteous are there.

There will be NO liars, swindlers, thieves, murderers, whoremongers, warmongers, haters, idolaters, fearful, unbelieving, crisis actors, false flaggers, drug-makers (sorcerers). All gone.

Revelation 21:

1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:

for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

² And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

³ And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,

and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

⁴ And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;

and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,

neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

⁵ And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.

²² And I saw no temple therein:

for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

²³ And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it:

for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

²⁴ And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it:

and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

²⁵ And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day:

for there shall be no night there.

²⁶ And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

²⁷ And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie:

but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.’

Even the memory of this world will be gone. The time to prepare for eternity is now. Remember the words of Paul, a man who suffered like few ever do, yet said this:

 ^‘In my opinion whatever we may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future God has planned for us’. Romans 8:18 (Phillips NT)

Can I hear an ‘amen’?

I pray that everyone reading these words, get’s their name written in the Lamb’s book of Life.

VJCB

It remains to be seen if he will respond to the ‘treatment’ I enjoyed.

II Peter 3:6 ‘Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished’

57.. counting down to the Rapture.

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