I’m not a prophet of Utopia.
Mankind will grovel in his own sewage until God gets tired of it and removes the entire universe. Then we’ll all discover the rest of Creation, which is much bigger and far better, but invisible to us. So I can’t offer any visions of a better future with fields of flowers and endless food and energy resources. It doesn’t have to be awful, but it will never be wonderful. I’m a prophet of the best of bad deals, offering a path to as much as God says He will offer on this plane of existence.
Honestly, folks, the Bible is brutally otherworldly. Towards the end of the Scripture, you get the impression your own demise should struggle to hold your attention. What’s waiting in the other realm for those who manage to embrace Christ here is better than fields of flowers and endless food and energy resources. It’s so good no one can possibly explain it.
That’s the real deal. You tolerate the crap here with an otherworldly attitude that shows you really aren’t that concerned about what’s going on here. Yes, I could offer a really solid improvement over what we have now. Part of the problem is virtually no one living today is capable of recognizing that it is an improvement. I can tell you about God’s Justice and the moral fabric of the universe, but there is no way I can make you see it.
So I won’t tell what I think about the Zimmerman-Martin case, for example, because there are too many layers of falsity wrapped around the event itself. The context is so overwhelmingly evil, there can be no justice regardless of what came of the trial. There was no good-guy/bad-guy in the question. The Bible says we better hope we get mercy, not justice, because we all deserve a short miserable existence, a lingering painful death and eternity in Hell. God’s Justice is not about purging sin from the human existence, but about making life tolerable in this fallen universe. We aren’t anywhere close to that standard.
It’s grace that purges sin. You see, the entire history of covenants in the Bible all pointed to one hope of mankind: to escape this fallen universe with God’s favor. Before Christ’s birth, you would have to wade through the Law Covenants before you were in a position to even recognize a spiritual awareness. Now, God grants it in such a way you can’t miss it. He gives His Spirit freely and allows you the leisure of some time here on earth to bring that spiritual awareness to His Law Covenants after the fact.
We still can’t possibly comprehend with our minds how God chooses to dole out that spiritual awakening. We are offered only correlations and something about our responsibility to share His message, but stoutly warned to never believe that is all it takes. We are stoutly warned no one can possibly decide to be born again, that no one can even want it prior to experiencing it. Yet, He insists we act as if people can decide.
Those of us who have experienced God personally cannot resist that inexplicable call. It takes each and all of us in our infinite variations and weirdness, and our natural conflicts of understanding. He chooses whom He will call, and He chooses whom He will use to bring that calling to awareness. Our job is not about the change, but the awareness.
My calling as prophet was never about some universal message on the level of Scripture. As with any other person granted spiritual birth, I’m just offering my experience with God, in hopes it sounds some note of recognition in your soul. How you respond is out of my hands, though I can surely participate in the celebration. I can’t make this message any more clinical than that, and to some degree this is the nature of my prophetic calling — to communicate His eternal message in yet another unique fashion. The message has not changed; it has simply gained yet one more kind of wrapping.
My job is to offer the best of a bad deal, because nothing better is remotely possible here and now.
