Volume 8 Issue 16

Message for reflection – Sr. Angelica AJ

Neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem!

Yesterday we celebrated the 6th Anniversary of the National Worship Centre in Chennai.

In the Old Testament  people worshipped the Lord at the command of the king.

2 Ch 29:25, 26  And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king's seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.   The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. 

Today regarding worship, the command  has come from the Government as an order!

Today  the Governments and rulers of all the nations have decreed that nobody should go to temples, Churches, mosques, pilgrim centres,  gurus, but they have to worship in their own houses.

What Jesus said is being fulfilled through this.

Jn 4:21-24  Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.  You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.  But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 

“Real Worship” is restored on earth by Government  order!     

During the time of Daniel, the same thing happened.

Dan 6:25, 26  Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: “Peace be multiplied to you.    I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end. 

The Lord dwells with us now.  We are the "Ark of the Covenant".   We need not go to a particular place to worship. The real worship should come from within!  

In the New Testament, for the past 1700 years, we used to have worship services, song services in the "Church Buildings". But the Lord has brought a major change in our life today,  introduced through our political leaders.  The  Governments of all the  nations have formulated a law that

People should not go to any Church buildings ,  but worship in our own houses.

We are the temple of God!

We should worship the Lord in this  Temple, i.e. our body (person). What a great privilege!

Let us thank the Lord for this great blessing.

Praises and worship will be offered from our own “temples” to the Almighty!

Result?

You are becoming the Worship Centre! Your house changed into the “Temple of Jerusalem”

You and  your family the worshippers!  Blessings poured into your life! Blessings poured  into your family! It flows from you and  from your house to the neighbourhood! To the streets! To your village or town or city! Your Village/Town/City is blessed! Blessings cover the whole nation.The earth is filled with His praises and  worship!  Heaven comes down to the Earth! India will be transformed!

India will become the dwelling place of the Lord Almighty! India will reflect the glory of God!

Warfare prayer of the soldiers of the Army of Jesus to bind and destroy the works of the devil

Let us bind and destroy the works of the devil in the name of Jesus Christ who has conquered sin, satan, curse and death on the cross

Pr  28:9 The spirit which makes one turn away his ear from hearing the law

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Nazarette School of Family Building

The lockdown has come as a blessing in disguise. The Initial AOJ Gift school plan involved extensive travel to cover all TN constituencies but due to country wide lockdown the Lord has opened the door to harvest souls across the country through zoom. The first NSFB (Via Zoom) was conducted on 29th and 30th March, by God's grace we had about 33 participants from across the country.  As a team we have prayer fellowship through phone conference call every Thursday. God provides strength, comfort and direction during these fellowships. As per God's vision to Dr. Sujatha, He has assigned us to reach the unreached" and hence we are in the process of developing national and local level teachers who can share or translate the material so that it can reach the far corners of our nation. Our next zoom meeting is scheduled between Apr 17th to Apr 24th it is to be conducted in Tamil. This would be conducted every day in the evening between 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Through our school our aim is to raise troop churches that can sustain and nurture the seeds sown during the meetings. All Praise and Glory to our heavenly Father.

Article – Going to the house of God ? 

Let’s check our going!

We go to the house of God in love for Him, in search of Him, in need of Him or in times of trouble or as a routine or whatever...

How do we go? Have we ever checked our going? Does going itself requires certain discipline ? Can we not go the way we are?

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Yes , going to the house of God requires discipline - guarding our step

- guarding our step with readiness to hear,

- guarding our step that we may not offer sacrifices of fool

What readiness to hear mean?

To hear is to receive, submit, obey, and channelize (convey)

To hear is to remain humble

To hear is to fulfill the vow we have made

To hear is to speak a few words

 

Hearing is - fearing God

What - not to offer sacrifices of fool mean?

Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

A hearer who fears God knows God is in heaven and he is in earth and  that his words are to be few ( voice of Publican Luke 18:11,12 )

But a fool who is neither bothered to know nor bothered to hear, voice out his foolishness with many words - rash and hasty (voice of Pharisee Luke 18:13 )

Ecclesiastes 5:4 when thou vowest a vow unto God defers not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

Ecclesiastes 5:6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

 

A hearer fulfills the vow and presents himself pleasurable before God.

But a fool delays fulfilling vow and present himself is not pleasurable before God

Or even disagree provoking anger in God.

And now, sacrifices of fools are apparent.

They speak multitude of words - rash, hasty, and contradictory.

 

But those who fear God show readiness to listen speak very few words.

Going to the house of God?

Let’s watch our steps guarded!

Watch that we go in readiness to listen!

Watch that we don’t land up in offering sacrifice of fools!

Sol. Sujatha

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SMP Updates

The Shadow parliament for Tamil Nadu was planned to be held on 4th and 5th April in Madurai, but the Lord had a different plan for us, due to the lock down we were not able to travel. Hence the Shadow Parliament was conducted through zoom video conferencing. It was a great success and we were able to present our report through zoom. The Lord taught us a new warfare method, now we use video conferencing to conduct gift schools, troop church and other meetings. This method is cost effective and people all over the world are able to attend the training program and get benefited, SMPs from remote parts of Tamil Nadu attended the shadow parli. We were all encouraged. Hence brothers and sisters I urge you to conduct your shadow parli for your state and region at the earliest. God bless you.

Sol Dr Benedict, SMP Speaker, Tamilnadu Shadow Parli

David School of Worship

Nehemiah 9:6 “You alone are the Lord. You have made the heavens, The heaven of heavens with all their host, The earth and all that is on it, The seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, And the heavenly host bows down before You.

Psalms 96:9 Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth.

John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Learn how to worship him in spirit and truth and to have a deeper relationship with our Lord.

During the lockdown, the Lord has opened the doors for us to reach even more number of students through zoom meetings. In the last week of March 2020, we conducted the worship school in Tamil. In the 3rd week of April 2020, we are conducting worship school in English across the Nation.

Also we have started 24 x 7 x 365 worship across the country. Worship is going on constantly and praises are being lifted by to heaven. All glory to God. We have distributed the worship slots evenly across the country. And all the worshippers are worshipping from every part of our country. All glory and honor belongs to our God.

Troop Church

So far 19 Troop Churches started from 11th April.

Chennai North SMP have started 4 Troop Churches so far.

All Troop Churches are conducted online, through Zoom.

For further information about Troop Church. Please contact TN troop church team.

Zoom Troop Church Details

  1. Joshua TC -  Mohan and Sol. Pradeep  -    11/3/2020
  2. Aradhanai TC - Pradeep - North Chennai   -   4 Familes    -  11/3/2020
  3. El – Shaddai TC - Albert - Thirunalveli   -   10 members    -  11/3/2020
  4. Alpha TC -  Angelica     -   Ernakulam    -   10 members    -  8/4/2020
  5. Apostles TC - Angel    -   Dharmapuri   -   13 members    -  8/4/2020
  6. Noah TC  - Shakespeare     -   Vellore    -   7 members    -  9/4/2020
  7. Abraham TC - Shakespeare     -   Vellore    -   10 members    -  10/4/2020
  8. Mathew TC - Maru    -   Salem  -   8 members  -  10/4/2020
  9. Mariyal TC - Mohanraj   -   Erode  -   2 members   -  12/4/2020
  10. Ezekiel TC - Paul    -   Dindugal  -   13 members   -  13/4/2020
  11. Samuel TC - Beno    -   Other States (English)  -   5 members   -  13/4/2020
  12. Bethel TC - Pradeep and Sol. Juliet -   3 members    -  14/4/2020
  13. Kirubai TC - Pradeep -  3 families    -  14/4/2020
  14. Moses TC -   Erode  - 3 members   -  14/4/2020
  15. John TC - Shakespeare - Vellore   -  9 members 

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Prophecy NEWS Update

A Day's Wage for A Loaf Of Bread

"When He opened the the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, 'Come'.  And I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on him had a pair of scales in his hand.  And I heard as it were a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, 'A quart of wheat for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine."  Revelation 6:6

The verse above is the description of the 3rd of 7 seal judgments of the 7 year tribulation, or 70th Week of Daniel.  My goal here is to bear out the possibility that we are now living in the circumstances that will lead to the fulfillment of this verse in the tribulation period.  These circumstances are being driven by what is called Modern Monetary Theory, which is now being fully implemented by our government and the rest of the world.  I'll get into this in a minute. You can find various perspectives regarding the meaning of the above passage.  It is pretty much universal belief that a denarius was a about a day's wage when John wrote Revelation.  Matthew 20:2 seems to confirm it.  And a quart of wheat would make a loaf of bread.

What is not obvious is what the scales, oil and wine represent.

Some interpret this passage as famine with hyperinflation.  Seems reasonable.  Although the 4th seal is the judgment death-by-famine-and-pestilence, and not the 3rd seal.  That brings into question the scales, oil and wine and their meaning. I interpret this verse symbolically.  The scales are clearly symbolic of something, as are the oil and wine.

Some say the scales represent famine because it would be necessary to measure out the wheat and barley carefully and precisely, due to scarcity.  Some say they represent judgment.  From what I can tell, this is primarily because our symbol of justice is lady liberty holding a sword and scales. I think perhaps the scales represent balance and fairness, or justness.  I also have an idea that the oil and wine represent plenty and abundance.  Bread was a basic staple, but oil and wine were luxuries. This passage may be describing a situation where hyperinflation is rampant and those with little can barely pay for basic necessities.  However, in this not-so-distant period, the wealthy are not suffering, and still can have their treats. 

Today in the U.S. and the world, economic inequality, whether measured through the gaps in income or wealth between richer and poorer households, continues to widen.  According to the Pew Research Center, "the wealth gap among upper-income families and middle- and lower-income families is sharper than the income gap and is growing more rapidly". The Brookings Institute says, "the top one percent of the usual income distribution holds over $25 trillion in wealth, which exceeds the wealth of the bottom 80 percent. That is more than all the goods and services produced in the U.S. economy in 2018".

In Scripture, one of the purposes for the Year of Jubilee, was to prevent the majority of wealth from winding up in the hands of just a few.  You can find my article about it on my website.

So, in my hypothesis, what you have in this verse is the lower income strata struggling to survive while the elite wealthy are living their lives essentially unchanged.  The scales then would represent a lack of balance and fairness. 

Modern Monetary Theory is Now the Rule

Until recently, I had no idea about this theory.  Now that I understand what it is, so many things make sense. 

I understand why authorities have no problem printing and spending more money to solve any problem that arises.  I understand why Bernie Sanders and other radical leftists have no problem advocating for universal healthcare, universal government paychecks, universal EVERYTHING! In short, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is the belief that by printing more money, any economic problem can be mitigated (I'm getting sick of that word).  It is the anti-orthodox, macro-economic framework which says that any 'monetarily sovereign' country does not need taxes or borrowing for spending since they can print as much as they need and are the monopoly issuers of the currency.

A monetary sovereign country is one that has exclusive, unlimited power to create their sovereign currencies.   The U.S., U.K, Canada, Australia, Japan, China and the European Union are entities that are monetarily sovereign. Because the U.S. is monetarily sovereign, it never needs to tax or borrow, according to the premise of the theory.  It can just print money to pay its bills.  Theoretically, the country can never be pushed into insolvency. 

To quote one source, "Everything you believe about your personal finances -- debts, deficits, spending, affordability, saving, and budgeting -- are inappropriate to U.S. federal finances. For this reason, your personal intuition about U.S. financing likely is wrong." Traditional thinking would say that's nuts.  But according to investopedia.com, MMT supporters say, "large government debt isn't the precursor to collapse we have been led to believe it is.  Countries like the U.S. can sustain much greater deficits without cause for concern, and in fact a small deficit or surplus can be extremely harmful and cause a recession since deficit spending is what builds people's savings."

In this theory, taxes are actually a mechanism to take money out of the money supply to control inflation!  In other words, tax revenues are simply destroyed, or erased from the money supply! Conventional thinking would say that the natural consequence of this policy is hyper-inflation.  But MMT'ers would say nay, you can just adjust policies to correct inflation.  Does the Fed rate come to mind? 

Right now, the Fed Rate is .25%.  That's the rate banks can borrow money.  The lower the rate, the cheaper borrowed money is (and the more commercial and personal debt increases), and the slower inflation would creep. Do some research on it.  Investopedia gives a very nice explanation. 

The Coronavirus Play

So now comes the coronavirus.  My spidey sense is at 100%.  I try to get a 30,000 foot spiritual view of the situation. This germ panic has prompted governments to declare a lockdown of the entire world economy.  The result of this lockdown is the most unprecedented (I know that's redundant) printing-fest of fiat currency in the history of the world.  Trillions of new dollars are being printed to ameliorate the economic hardships of the man-made economic shutdown. Recently, White House economic advisor, Larry Kudlow said that the U.S. economic stimulus package will reach $6 trillion.  $4 trillion would be immediate liquidity (that means cheap borrowing and bloating of the money supply) and the other $2 trillion would be paychecks, essentially. 

Kudlow called it, "the single largest Main Street assistance program in the history of the United States".   Duh The world is at full tilt printing new money.  Can you see the picture developing and the rationale behind my interpretation of Revelation 6:6?  Massive debt, hyperinflation, incredible wealth gap, economic depression. 

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Christian News

'Prayer Was the Difference': COVID-19 Survivor Praises God, Thanks Healthcare Professionals for Saving His Life

Worry and anxiety. They're everywhere right now, and many of you have felt them. I know I have.

Certain words and phrases trigger fear, such as “pandemic,” “shelter in place” and “quarantine.” We begin to play the “what if” game. We panic, asking, “What if THIS happens?” or “What if THAT happens?”

We have to be concerned and we have to be diligent – the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a real and serious virus – but we don’t have to panic.

Did you know that the word “worry” comes from the Old English root word, “wyrgan,” which meant “to strangle” or “to choke”?  Worry squeezes the life out of us.

Jesus said, “And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? … Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble” (Matthew 6:27, 34 ESV).

One of my personal heroes, Corrie ten Boom, put it this way, “Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

So, how should we respond to this global health crisis?

REPLACE WORRY WITH FAITH

We must “... fix [our] thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise” as the apostle Paul tells us in Philippians 4:8 (NLT). These are eight different kinds of things we can fill our minds with!

We can also pray for others. Pray for those who are sick, pray for those who are at risk, pray for the doctors, nurses and researchers who are treating patients and are working to stymie the virus. Pray for the government officials who have to make difficult decisions, and pray for your friends, family members and neighbors. Thinking about others takes the focus off of ourselves and actually helps to reduce our worry and anxiety!

WHEN FEELING AFRAID, WORRIED OR ANXIOUS, TURN TO THE PRESENCE OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER

When a child is afraid of the dark, the best thing to do is to turn on the lights. Then the child needs the presence of an adult, preferably mom or dad, to comfort and reassure them. The same is true for us.

Instead of listening to or reading the news as soon as we open our eyes in the morning or before we go to sleep at night, we can start or end our day with prayer or Bible reading. We can meditate on the hopeful words that God himself gives us in Isaiah 43:2, “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.”

TURN OUR WORRY INTO WORSHIP

When anxious thoughts come sweeping into our minds, uninvited and unwelcome, we can sweep them back out with praise. We can listen to worship music, sing songs, dance, play instruments and create works of art — or do whatever we do when we express our love for and awe of God.

There will always be something that will frighten us in this life. But in these uncertain days, we can take the time to count our blessings and thank God for his divine provision and protection. We don’t have to be filled with fear, anxiety and worry.

Crosses Removed from Churches across China for Being 'Higher than the National Flag'

Numerous crosses atop churches in China were recently removed by the Chinese Communist government which asserted that religious symbols cannot be raised “higher” than the Chinese national flag, The Christian Post reports.

Religious liberty magazine Bitter Winter has reported on numerous cross removals across China over the years. In mid-March, the outlet pointed out that crosses were removed from multiple churches in the eastern provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui and in the neighboring Shandong, the prefecture-level city of Linyi.

Churches approved by the Chinese government are not exempt.

In February, officials removed a cross from a government-approved Three-Self church in Hexi village. In 2007, the church was built in compliance with state regulations, implementing the four requirements of the government’s religion “sinicization” campaign.

Despite canceled church gatherings because of COVID-19, churches were still removed.

“The government does not provide enough help during the epidemic but instead demolishes crosses,” a local believer told Bitter Winter.

In December, additional crosses from Three-Self churches were removed in Hegang, out in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.

One church member in the city’s Dongshan district told Bitter Winter that a local official threatened to close down the church if the cross was not removed because “it was higher than the national flag.”

In the same month, crosses of Christ Gospel Church and Luobei Christian Church in Hegang’s Luobei county were removed as one county government employee explained that the crosses “were too eye-catching,” and they would “attract people into the churches.”

In November, the cross from the Ranfang Church in Gushi county in the central Henan province was removed as government officials told believers that it’s “the Communist Party that gives you food and money, not God.”

Pastor Jian Zhu, director of the China Institute at Lincoln Christian University in Illinois, recently warned that China’s persecution against house churches is now the worst he has seen since 1979.

“The Chinese government now has placed severe restrictions and policies on the house churches, asking neighbors to spy on one another, pressures schoolteachers and college professors to betray and sign a statement to denounce their faith as well as to do the same to the students,” Zhu said.

“Now, they are trying to eliminate Christianity from public life,” he continued. “Cameras are all over to watch church and Christians go to Sunday service. Families are threatened to not go to church or they will be punished or their relatives could be in trouble.”

The Open Doors USA’s World Watch List ranks China as one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to Christian persecution.

Churches are seen as a threat if they become “too large, too political or invite foreign guests.”