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09/05/2026

Now and Then:
If you claim to be a Christian but have no questions you probably are not reading the word. Many years ago I felt as if my life has been broken and all my efforts to lead the Christian life was in vain. I attended church I gave all that I could but it just seamed that which was broken in me only got worse.
My minister probably spent more time than he liked trying to get me through my troubles , I would attend church for many months and then the wheels would come off, and like clock work my minister would come and visit. Sometimes he would bring another brother along, not that I was in trouble with them but that he knew I needed encouragement. I wrestled with my faith and with hardship of trying to raise and feed my family. I was without a doubt to young and under educated and couldn't keep my life going in a productive way. And this was a roller coaster of time in and out of church. I was friends with the gas man, I had went to school with his brother and he hated having to come and cut off my gas that we heated our house with, being that he cared he taught me how to take the lock off the meter so I didn't freeze.
But he would say just whatever you do catch up the bill. We'll we somehow managed to get through those times. But this lack of resources was at the heart of my roller coaster of going to church paying a tithe and trying to participate in the church. I honestly loved the church, I loved my minister and most importantly I loved the Lord. Still my life was out of control and I wound up in a divorce , and made decisions that I shouldn't have made. All of this was part of being broken from the beginning. Losing my dad at such a young age really broke me in ways you couldn't imagine, my mom remarried and just added to my brokenness. But still I had a need to hear the word of God. I spent many years seeking the Lord through hearing sermon after sermon, to a point that I only listened to preaching on the TV, I found a minister that seamed to hold my attention and I just continued , I remarried and tried again and again to participate in the church going back to my beloved church and minister but when my wife didn't want to go there I took her to the church she wanted to go to, but still I was broken and the same roller coaster continued. Finally I got older and because of family issues I just quit going to church at all. And believe it or not that's when the Lord came to me, I had not given up on the Lord at all I still wanted to know him completely, my problem was I couldn't read, I could read I just couldn't concentrate and comprehend what I was reading, so I listened and many times would set with my brother in law and just listen to him read and it just so happened that one day he read the passage about old men dreaming dreams and I just blurted out , I pray God will give me a dream , and he answered that prayer and so much more. The very first dream happened within a couple of days and the very first scene of the dream the Lord held me in his arms, like a Father would hold his child, I call that dream a five part mini series with many different scenes, I met a angel named Genisis and a second appearing of the Lord before me. Then another dream where my dad visited me , and then this on going conversation with the Lord and his prompting to read Paul's gospel and he would direct my study. So he answered my prayer and gave me so much more than just a dream, he gave me this study that I call Now and Then, and still everyday I am asking questions and waiting on the Lord to continue directing me. I like to think the questions were mine but I think just like in that very first dream I asked two questions, funny thing you can't control the questions you ask in a dream, and I think that's just how the Lord teaches, by forming questions in our thoughts so that he can answer them. You know if your always asking the wrong questions your never going to get the right answers. I actually spend a lot of time just listening to the thoughts in my head. It amazes me how the questions will come, many are just fundamental questions but they build the foundation of study.
So read and listen and seek the answers to the questions the Lord gives, that how my study has gone. I can't imagine a better way to study Gods word than to just trust him and read and listen. I am closer to the Lord now than when I was in church, I think the church is great but nothing should stand in the way of a personal relationship with the Lord, and maybe not everyone is equipped to be in the church.
I don't regret the church, I just think maybe it can distract you from that personal relationship.
All we really need is Jesus , if everything thing else fails, you still have all you need in him. So listening to others and thinking that is your relationship with him , probably won't help. You simply need time alone with him.
Lord bless

08/23/2026

Now and Then:
The reserection of the dead which Paul explains in 1st Corinthians 15;51 is the hope we are waiting for. Each of us as believers in Jesus Christ are sealed with the Holyspirit of promise as Ephesians 1;13 explains. The promises were made in Romans and 1st Corinthians, then in 2nd Corinthians 1;20 the promises are yes and amen, this means the promises have been fulfilled. But all this is contingent on the reserection.
What is misunderstood is that when Paul tells us the mystery the rapture watchers want to apply this passage to all Christians and the rapture, but it's about those Paul was speaking too then, telling them that when the dead shall be raised we (they)will be changed. The dead rise into our time line because they are the hope that comes and bares fruit as in all the world as Colossians 1;5,6 explains. Corinth means place of the peak because the reserection of the dead is the apex of time when perfect shall come as 1st Corinthians 13;10 foretells , as does 13;12, Paul was telling us that he would be among those that have been delivered from so great a death.
If you understand the prophesies of 1st Timothy 1;18,20 point to 2nd Corinthians 1;1 the first mention of the name Timothy then you should know that Paul was giving us prophesy of the harvest of the church. Think about the ministry of reconciliation mentioned in 2nd Corinthians 5;18 when Paul wrote this the church was still in its first 100 yrs, what could they have reconcilled while Paul spent much of his last days in prison. And why prepare Timothy for the last days as we see in the letters Paul wrote to Timothy if he wasn't implying that they would return to conduct the ministry given to them. It should be common knowledge this has to be prophesy. As believers in salvation do we not yearn for that day when we are actually saved. Its difficult to believe salvation has already come to a believer that has to bury a child or any loved one. I know having to see my parents laid to rest didn't appear like salvation to me, it simply looked like death .
No amount of consoling can take away the pain, my sister still crys about our mother, our mom died in 2003, our dad died in 1972 , and we still mourn their passing and our hope still resides in seeing them again.
So we see in 2nd Corinthians 6;2 that Paul states today is the day of salvation, this has to be prophesy, if we believe that death is salvation then we should pray they go ahead and kill us all now. But we fear death and do everything we can to not die. For me death would be better to be with the Lord and my family that has already passed but for the sake of my children I want to live for them.
As each of us do. So our hope is the promises and as Paul states in 2nd Corinthians 7;1 having therefore these promises, so the promises come after the reserection happens. I understand this but because of doctrines of demons this has not been understood. Preachers have always claimed when you accepted Christ and are baptized that you have been saved, but then you return back to your life and still experience death and all the troubles of this life, the truth was and is that when you come to faith you are sealed with the Holyspirit of promise, a promise is hope. Preachers should be able to explain this so when we walk out of the church that we understand it's a promise, we haven't become new creations, not yet, that's why Paul in 2nd Corinthians 5,21 Paul is still speaking in future tense that we may all become the righteousness of God in Christ.
If we believe what the ministers have said we believe all this has already happened, yet where is the evidence?
Lord bless

08/23/2026

Now and Then:
You know I used to watch all the rapture videos , there were many to chose from , always predicting when it was going to happen, from this date to the next always claiming they were watching for us. So I got to the point that I had enough. Near the end of my following these predictions I asked God for a dream and to my amazement he did just that and one dream changed everything for me, my dad visited me on my front poarch and we had a face to face meeting, he only said my name but we just looked at each other, he was young and perfect and not only did God give me dreams and visions but also a perspective that turned into a bible study which began back in 2019 and I have been posting ever since. The perspective was that the saints were going to rise as the dead in Christ which Paul spoke of in 1st Corinthians 15;51, the rapture watchers have always insisted this passage was the rapture but my perspective is that Paul was writing to his contemporaries, believers that he knew , these were many of those that actually witnessed Christ after the flesh in his reserected form. 2nd Corinthians 5;16 gives us the proof of who actually rises from the dead, he gives us this riddle to inform us that they lived before and actually knew Christ , he states ; Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh; yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Its a interesting verse to say we don't know any man after the flesh, then say we have known Christ past tense but then double down to say we know him no more. The only answer is these men have been reserected from the dead, 2nd Corinthians 1;9,10 also gives us information that confirms the passage that these men were reserected into new bodies in which they no longer know Christ after the flesh, in 2nd Corinthians 6;9 he once again implies this as he states; As unknown , and yet well known; as dying , and , behold we live; as chastened , and not killed;
The evidence of 2nd Corinthians thru 1st Thessalonians as the harvest is that certain things Paul stated have not yet happened and definitely not in Paul's time frame, who can claim they have been translated into the kingdom of his dear son as Colossians 1;12,13 explain, who can claim we have been delivered from the power of darkness, who can claim to have met a saint in light, and the inheritance of the saints in light , yet Paul writes this as if it already happened. His third visit to Corinth still has not yet occured but it's on this third visit that he comes for those that have heretofore sinned.
And he gives us so much good information that leads us to the church of the Thessalonians which are in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ. This is where we all want to be , to be delivered from the wrath, and become sons of the day and light. And all this happens before the well known rapture verse. I try to give as much information as possible with out writing a book . So each post i try and give a little different look at this study. Please if you read my post and have questions please ask , I'm more than willing to discuss the study. Lord bless you all, may Christ be yours , and you his forever Amen!!!

08/19/2026

Now and Then:
So I have come to see that the ministry of reconciliation is about the harvest of the church that is fulfilled in the church of the Thessalonians, evidenced by the opening lines of 1st Thessalonians where Paul addressed the church of the Thessalonians which are in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ . Too me this settled as to what I'm reading, I have shown much evidence to this that Christ Kingdom mentioned in Colossians 1;12,13 is about the faithful believers being translated into his Kingdom . But recently I have been trying to understand better how Matthew's gospel relates and I must admit it is confusing, because I see the harvest in Paul's gospel but then I see the harvest in Matthew's gospel. And from the looks of Matthew's gospel the tares are sown with the wheat, but in Paul's gospel the faithful appear to be the only ones that enter the Kingdom , because of 2nd Corinthians Paul is warning the churches that if he come again he will not spare as if those who make shipwreck the faith are removed. But Matthew's gospel which deals with largely non believers that have no faith. So what Kingdom is being preached unto the jews , we know that during this time frame that Christ was not dealing with the church even though the two times he said he had never seen such great faith , he was speaking of two gentiles that were not apart of this Kingdom that he was talking about. And these same people that he came too rejected him and crucified him, and only after this did he then offer salvation unto the gentiles. So these people the jews were offered a Kingdom but rejected it. And rejected him and they were under the law of Moses yet did not know that Christ was the law giver. So Matthew's gospel is about the old covanant that they claimed but they rejected the covanant . So how is there any Kingdom for those that rejected Christ. When Matthew's gospel is preached to the church is that not counter intuitive to the gospel of salvation given by Paul. I hear all the time people denying Paul's gospel and going back to Matthew's gospel claiming the Kingdom Christ preached to the jews is for the church yet Christ was rejected by his own. I talk about the way I interpret scripture is about the Now and Then of scripture , if we recognize that Mark's gospel was a time past gospel which is the beginning of the gospel , then Matthew and Luke's gospel is both time past and future tense it depends on how you see it. If it's future tense it must be about the time of the great tribulation. We see this in Matthew and Luke chapter 3;7 in both books pointing to this great time of wrath, but Luke 3;6 points to a time of salvation which leads us to Paul's gospel of salvation. It can be confusing but I think weather it be Luke or Matthew's gospel it's all about coming to faith which takes you to Paul's gospel , because the Kingdom Christ was preaching in Mark Matthew and Luke was rejected, so how can the jews have a kingdom if they rejected it? So it's my belief that if there is no faith you have no Kingdom to enter. And we see this example made to the church of the galations that have departed the faith and returned back to the law, and falling from grace, so its like believing you must follow the teachings in Matthew and Luke and forsake the teachings of Paul , even though those gospels were written to those that rejected the Savior. So I question is the Kingdom preached in Matthew and Luke's gospel even viable for the faithful? You can't deny that all this was preached unto the jews, they even held Jesus in their hands , and saw his many great works and still crucified him. So how does any part of what is preached from Matthew and Luke pertain to the church.
It has been my prayer that the Lord would show me what I need to know, and he has given me Paul's gospel to understand is the actual harvest of the church into Christ Kingdom that supersedes both Luke and Matthew's gospel concerning salvation. If the church began at the reserection of Christ , then all that occured prior to the cross has been rejected , not by the gentiles but by the jews. They have no Kingdom in which to enter from what I see, and they still hate the one that came to save them.
Anyhow I have been attempting to understand this , if you have any comments please let me know. Lord bless

08/16/2026

Now and Then:
Well I met a good looking young man named Q this morning and shared the gospel with him briefly, because he was working and I didn't want to get him in any trouble. So I'm making this post to give you a little more in debt look into this study I call, Now and Then. As I mentioned 1st Corinthians 13;10 is about when perfect comes and this is what 1st Corinthians 13;12 is about that when perfect comes that which is in part shall be done away, and then 1st Corinthians 13;12 gives understanding of that which is in part, For Now we see through a glass darkly, but Then face to face, Now I know in part but Then I shall know even as also I am known, so Paul is saying Now I know in part which means my knowledge is in part, and then he says but Then I shall know even as also I am known. So its my belief is that when Then comes Paul will be known as he was known, this is why I said Paul will live again.
You probably won't find one preacher that will agree with this or understand this but this is what the Lord has shown me.
And I think the text proves it, and the perfect that shall come are the saints as Paul announces the saints along with Timothy in 2nd Corinthians 1;1, its my belief that this is the reserection of the dead told in advance. The prophesies if 1st Timothy 1;18,20 also point to 2nd Corinthians 1;1 as this mention of the name Timothy is the first mention of this name.
And Paul stated these prophesies went before on Timothy and so the law of 1st mention points us to this first mention of his name, which occurs in the KJV of the bible , other versions use the name Timothy before in 1st Corinthians. Which to me causes us to not have a sure word, so I stick with the KJV because I want a sure word.
So the way I read 2nd Corinthians is that Paul is informing us that he and Timothy and the saints have been delivered from so great a death as 2nd Corinthians 1;9,10 explains, once again this is prophesy, and he explains all these things that will come, as I mentioned that in Roman's and 1st Corinthians Paul gives us the promises , and then in 2nd Corinthians the promises are yes and amen in verse 20 of the first chapter, but also in chapter 7;1 he states having therefore these promises let us cleanse ourselves of the filthiness of the flesh and spirit. So 2nd Corinthians is about all the good things of the good news but it is also about judgement which Acts 17;31 tells us that God will ordaine a man to judge the world in righteousness, remember I told you love your mother and father, that is a righteous thing to do, but moreover righteousness comes from faith without faith you won't receive the free gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace. So to more paint the picture the name Corinth means place of the peak and the mystery is told in 1st Corinthians 15;51 and as I claim comes to pass in 2nd Corinthians 1;1 so this is the place of the peak, the apex of time or as my study is named the Now and Then of Paul's gospel. When I said the harvest is written between 2nd Corinthians thru Thessalonians and to paint more of the picture Thessaloniki means victory over falseities, and the church of the Thessalonians are in God and in Christ so this is the victorious church where all have been delivered from the wrath and are no longer ignorant. And as I mentioned Colossians 1;12,13 where Paul mentions we have been delivered from the darkness and have been translated into this Kingdom that belongs to Christ and the name Colossia which means city of refuge paints the picture even more that we can see that Christ kingdom is a place of refuge where as in Thessaloniki we have been delivered from the wrath, that means refuge to be delivered from the wrath.
So it great news for the believer but for those that make shipwreck the faith it's judgement and I briefly mentioned those that make shipwreck the faith, take money form the congregation and never feed the poor. Anyhow that is the cliff notes to my study and I want to thank you Q for being the kind of young man that his parents can be proud of, as a young man you should know as parents we sit on pins and needles each time our children walk out the door hoping and praying we don't receive that call in the middle of the night , so as a young man that loves his parents always steer clear of trouble, anything that might cause your parents pain. You have no idea how much your parents love you, they might not say it but every parent loves their child. Always remember to pray for them and yourself and all those you love and for the lost and the poor.
I was honored to spend a few minutes with you this morning.
Lord bless you, you are in my prayers..Linn

08/16/2026

Now and Then:
Sometimes I feel like folks must think I'm the most desperate person this side of heaven writing all these post in hopes that someone might read my post and somehow be transformed , somehow see the gospel that I think they don't already understand. Maybe that is true, one thing is for sure, I am the most desperate person that I know of that wants salvation for myself and those I love. To say it's been easy would be a lie, I have fought for my family the best way I knew how, my children have been the hardest on me, to think how precious they are compared to my own life. I made huge mistakes wound up in a divorce that I really didn't want but didn't see any way around it. I seamed to be my wife's biggest enemy, she loved everyone but me. She was usually very funny and loving but if she took one sip of alcohol I knew it instinctively, we were members of the local church I was in the choir and still this battle raged on in our marriage, and I had all I could take and I did what probably any minister would say not to do. Anyhow we got divorced and I was miserable, I put on like I had made the correct decision and moved on with my life, just as she did. I thought the battle was over but it had just begun, for many years I wrestled with my decisions , I asked the Lord what went wrong and for many years I didn't hear from the Lord about why my life was in such turmoil.
As I said the battle wasn't over and had just begun, I had tried to stay involved in the church and even spent all my spare time watching sermon after sermon on TV, I guess one sermon a week wasn't enough, I listened to a preacher out of Singapore everyday as this battle for my youngest son had become the battle of my life, my two older sons had joined the military and appeared to have their lives under control but my youngest son had tried me as a dad. And I had to make difficult decisions regarding him, the worst was dropping him off at the salvation army when he was about 17 years old, he had just pushed me to the extreme , all the years of battle and him coming home after being on drugs and wanting to eat and take a shower and get a good night's rest and through this battle we would sit together on the couch and watch episode after episode of Joseph Prince, you would have thought our TV only tuned into Joseph Prince TV. I had a DVR that allowed me to record all his sermons and we never changed the channel, my son spent many years in and out of rehab and through it all he lived and I continued to desire to hear God's word, to a point that family thought I had lost my mind, I had remarried and even on vacation all my new family would be on the beach and I'd be setting in the condo watching TBN , every preacher that ever preached a sermon on TV I listen to them.
Somehow through all the battles my youngest son survived and today lives here with me and my wife and we share a perspective of knowing that God is real and he never stops loving us. All these post have been posted on my son's page that he started, he actually told me how I could use the page to make post. And today I have made maybe over a 1000 post. And I'm still desperate for salvation , I want it more that anything. There's so much more I could say, we lost the boys mom back in 2020 and it devastated the boys as you might imagine but through it all we have survived thus far. Once I began my study which I have stated I never read my bible and wasn't fluent with particular verses ,each time the Lord would speak to me I would have to search for whatever scripture he had pointed me to. I guess it was about the time I began my study, I was at work and this scripture was in my head, I could recite it yet I didn't know where it was located, I didn't even know who said it , but that day at work this scripture was on repeat in my head, and on my ride home just as I turned on to my exit , the Lord spoke to me, he said this is about divorce, I about crashed the truck. I couldn't believe my ears. But I made it home and went straight to my bible and opened it up, looked at it and thought I have no idea where to find it. But I had a new skill that my son had taught me, I googled it. The verse was Roman's 7;9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived , and I died. So as you can imagine as I was about to crash my truck , I thought what does this have to do with divorce , I read the verse there in my open Bible and like so many times the voice told me to read it all. So I began at verse one and then verse two hit me like a ton of bricks, For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead , she is loosed from the law of her husband . I thought dear Lord what does this mean, I know every preacher will say that's not what this passage means but all I can say it's that's what the Lord said to me. I thought I must be crazy , I questioned the Lord, but I remembered all the sermons by Joseph Prince and his theme was many times about mixing law and grace and how the two terms were not compatible, he had a sermon about Ananias and Saphira and he used the meaning of their names to tell a story , Ananias means God's grace and Saphira means like a stone that the 10 commandments were written on, and those meanings may be a little different but the idea of his sermon was that God was burying the marriage of Law and Grace. Once again this may be contrary to any good preachers interpretation of God's word , I can only remember these sermons and scripture rings out in my ears, but Joseph was the first to preach to me that the law was the ministry of condemnation and death. Its right there in 2nd Corinthians 3rd chapter. So as this war waged in our marriage I can only say that we acted out this ministry of condemnation and death, death to our marriage, we were both condemning each other. So I don't know how the commandment entered , I just know what I am testifying to today. That somehow our perception of what marriage should be, somehow got turned upside down. Was it God's plan for us, was it his divine wisdom to save our son, I can't say. All I can say is I'm desperate to know all I can know about my Lord and Savior , everyday I still spend in his word, I wake up in the morning with his words in my head and I go to sleep contemplating them. I think that somehow we can be most critical of the ones we love, and with our children we can lose our frigging minds, I talked to my brother about my son and the troubles we were having and he had one piece of advice, he said love your son, very simple thing, and through the years of this battle for my youngest son and my other boys I had to learn how to love them, I had to stop trying to correct every decision they made and just simply love them. You can't go back and restore every decision you ever made, I like to think that in the end to the extent that we could , that me and my wife had reconciled our lives together separately, the battle was over we both were left with many scares but we both loved our boys desperately. And we accepted our mistakes and paid for them dearly. I hope that you that read my post can not make the mistakes that I did, but at the same time I hope that you have the victories that I have had , all my son's are still alive and striving in their own lives, so many parents haven't been so fortunate. I still believe in my Savior , I will still probably not understand everything I want to know, I guess some knowledge is reserved for heaven. I pray that's the case. Lord bless you all , maybe someone will read this and find reasons to be thankful for what you have and not think of what you don't have.

08/15/2026

Now and Then:
As I have been sharing that through my study that I feel that the Saints will come, they will be perfect as 1st Corinthians 13;10 speaks of, not only will they be perfect but they will be vessels of mercy as Roman's 9;23 foretells. I have considered that these healings will be non-descrimanant . When I began receiving dreams and visions I had a vision of the healing of a sick man, he was completely healed and restored . So as I consider the climate of all the different beliefs that Christ has a plan to cause multitudes to come to faith. We obviously can't force a Muslim to come to faith but mercy is the greatest way to reach someone , be it enemy , or just one that doesn't believe, as I used the analogy of wanting to know the lifeguard that saves you, these vessels of mercy will be preaching the same gospel that we as Christians have known all along. As Luke 3;6 reveals that all flesh shall see the salvation of God , this will open the door for all faiths to realize the true faith found only in Jesus Christ.
This will insure that Christ loses none of his that were given to him. As scripture tells us the sun shines on the just and unjust, and we know that by faith are we justified. We need to understand doctrines of demons have created these false religions but all religions will want mercy that will be available. This mercy doesn't nessasarly equate to salvation, there still must be a confession of faith. We all must believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that Christ is our Lord.
Gospel means good news, so it can't be good for some and bad for others, I believe it will be the greatest time ever on earth.
But as I have claimed that Matthew's gospel gives us clues that the jews will be blinded, I say this because of Luke 3;6 and Luke 3;7 and Matthew 3;7 as many have thought that Matthew was written for the jews and the fact that Matthew 3;6 is not the same as Luke 3;6, its apparant to me this is a clue that somehow the jews will be blinded by salvation when it comes, this may not be the case but then why would there be a great tribulation where the jews would have to be saved. Apparently there will still be many enemies left that Christ will have to put down at the end of tribulation. My hope is very good that those that have failed to believe will come running to the cross . I pray this is true.
Lord bless

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