[Yesterday (6/18) a "word" just came to me and I still had it in my
mind when I woke up. Then, I started "thinking" about things and
this below came to me. The word was "facsimile".]

Recently, I've spent a lot of time listening and reading about Teddy Roosevelt and his family. They were about as "blue blood" a family as America has ever produced. Teddy's father was surely one of the finest men you could ever read about and did so much to help underprivileged youth in New York city in the days when the streets were flooded with abandoned immigrant children. Through mostly his efforts and other rich of their day, he formed a society which sent many thousands to the mid west to families who needed or wanted children.

Also, Teddy Roosevelt, the son, did many good things and was a very Honorable person. Much of what he did was to live up to his father and honor him. Teddy's father was of age to go to war during the Civil War but, as was allowable and fashionable among the rich of that day, you could "pay" someone to go to war "for" you and that is what he did. Even though his father did MUCH for the northern troops by staying at home and initiating programs through Abraham Lincoln which benefited many, Teddy spent his life "trying" to live down that perceived "flaw" in his family's honor by being OVER zealous in many respects to do with war and courage. He did things unnecessarily and foolishly, at times, just to over compensate for the "flaws" (as he perceived them) in his family's role.

So, Teddy Roosevelt was a "good" person and "did" (or over did) much for his day. But, after ALL that I have heard and read of him, he spoke VERY, VERY LITTLE of a relationship with Jesus and I'm not so sure he went to heaven because his life was ALWAYS trying to produce a facsimile of his father. Either that or "filling in" where he perceived his father got it wrong.

Proverbs 14:12 (KJV)
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the ways of death.

So, is a "picture" starting to develop in your spirit?

Are you and I trying to "re-produce" an "idea" of God or "good" while missing out on "Who" Jesus is?

If so, we will come to an END of that which we "think" has been a "good" life and VERY LIKELY God is going to say to us, "I NEVER KNEW YOU!!!"

Matthew 7 (KJV)
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out
devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Laodicean (Reveleation 3:14-22) American churches TOTALLY FIT this mold. The pastors can get a "salary" for going by some "image" of what Christianity is and are "supposedly" teaching people about Jesus. But very few are "real" people. They're only "trying" to produce what someone else told them was real.

So, I have listened to Ken Peters' dream of the Tribulation many times and the part that REALLY touches me (and the part that, obviously, moved Ken) was that, even though a reality of Jesus' love and truth is NOT REALLY (sooo many times) a part of the so called "groups" which get together and call themselves "Christian" today, AFTER the rapture, there are NO MORE HERO PREACHERS!!! Just small groups coming together to find truth "if" they can.

And you do NOT have to believe the above. Just do NOTHING MORE than standard. Just say to yourself, "I like my life the way it is!!" OR "It worked for my family, it will work for me!!!" Just do that and I believe you will live on into the Tribulation but it won't be so pleasant finding out the above was true!!! Because Jesus is a Jealous God and He is NOT going to put up with such!!!!!!!!!!!!

Personally, I do NOT want ANY part of the Tribulation!!!

Micah 7 (NIV1984)
Israel’s Misery
1 What misery is mine!
I am like one who gathers summer fruit
at the gleaning of the vineyard;
there is no cluster of grapes to eat,
none of the early figs that I crave.
2 The godly have been swept from the land;
not one upright man remains.
All men lie in wait to shed blood;
each hunts his brother with a net.
3 Both hands are skilled in doing evil;
the ruler demands gifts,
the judge accepts bribes,
the powerful dictate what they desire—
they all conspire together.

Matthew 24 (KJV)
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a
trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the
four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch
is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that
summer is nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things,
know that it is near, even at the doors.

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