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Where is This Bus Going?
By Ron McGatlin
In our rapidly changing world, we seem to be as a passenger on a strange unfamiliar bus. We do not appear to be driving and are unsure where the bus is going. We are not even sure how we got on this bus. Apparently we were asleep and awoke rolling down the highway on a trip that we did not plan.
Certainly, it occurs to us that we may be on a bus headed to a destination that is not of our choosing. As we inquire from the passengers around us it becomes evident that none of them are certain about where we are going. They seem to have different conflicting beliefs as to where the bus might be headed.
Our thoughts turn toward the bus driver. We wonder what his belief is about the destination of the bus. We approach him to ask where we are going. However, we stop short when we see that he has head phones on and can hear nothing we say. His eyes are glassy and fixed on the road. He seems almost as a robot receiving instructions from someone else somewhere else.
Fear begins to enter our hearts as we look out the window to view a troubling sight. We see dry thirsty land without moisture to grow food, livestock waning for lack of pasture and water, desperate people walking beside the highway carrying starving children and a few belongings. As we approach a city we see smoke and hear the sounds of war. Entering the city we hear the roaring turmoil of thousands of people rioting in the streets. We welcome the nightfall and the darkness that limits our view as we drive on across the countryside where only a few lights dot the darkness.
Near the end of the night we begin to smell a musty order in the air. As dawn brings the first light of day, we learn the source of the strange smell. We are driving through miles of farmland with pools of standing water among destroyed and rotting crops. Among the residue of what has obviously been a huge flood, dead and bloating livestock spot the landscape. Many vultures that seem to have come from nowhere feast upon the carcasses and add the final touch of despair to the desolate scene. A short distance further down the road we drive through debris and piles of rubble from destroyed houses among trees stripped of all leaves and limbs. Turmoil and devastation seems to be in most every city along our route.
Awakening
We awaken from this discouraging dream to realize that God is doing something awesome that will forever change the course of this world. We have been placed in this point of time in the history of the world by God’s design. We have been transformed from citizens of Babylon, the ruling city of the lost and rebellious godless world order, into sons of God, joint heirs with Christ Jesus, to be a part of the glorious city of New Jerusalem, the holy, pure ruling city of the kingdom of God on earth.
What we are seeing now out the bus window is the beginning of the end of the rule of Babylon upon Planet Earth.
Where we are going is to become the seeds of the new order of God’s kingdom ruling on earth – the spiritual New Jerusalem descending from the heavenly realm to earth.
After the earth-cleansing judgments of God have brought to an end all that lifts itself against the one true God of heaven and earth, the remnant of true sons (male and female) of God will bring forth the new kingdom of God order on earth.
All who will come out of Babylon unto God, turning to Him with their whole hearts, will be spared the wasted loss of the plagues of Babylon. Those who continue to love their lives in Babylonian self-centered godless ways will suffer the fate of Babylon. And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues - Rev 18:4.
We have seen the beginnings of one of the most pivotal moments in all known history. The whole world is beginning to be shaken and teeters on the brink of the final transformation that Christ Jesus seeded into the world over two thousand years ago. From that time until now, the seed of Christ has been growing into the world.
Christ Jesus planted the seed (the living word of the kingdom) in substance of spiritual reality into this natural world. That seed is now maturing into this world in the hearts of the maturing sons of the kingdom. For the first time in history the word of the kingdom is being broadly proclaimed, and multitudes of men and women young and old are laying down their lives to become humble, set-apart sons of God in Christ - sons and daughters in whom Christ fully dwells. The kingdom of heaven is growing into earth now as we speak.
Wicked Babylon has long ago grown to rule most of the people of earth.
For many centuries the evil Babylonian system was veiled in religion and riches. It was very subtle in its deceiving approach. However, the evil armies of Babylon have now grown bold in their haughty arrogant rebellion against God and His people.
Satan, the ruler of Babylon has as his goal the destruction of the earth and everything of Christ and His kingdom on the earth. His antichrist army has greatly multiplied in Babylon and is now openly attacking followers of Christ. Insane with the madness of hatred for Christ Jesus, the wild army inflamed by demons and thinly veiled in religion is fully showing itself and its mission to kill and destroy Christ Jesus and His kingdom from the face of the earth.
The evil antichrist armies and all that Babylon has built into this world and in its people must come down and be removed as the kingdom of God is fully established on earth. Everything that can be shaken must be shaken. Only the kingdom of God which cannot be shaken will remain.
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world ~ John the Baptist.
In the New Jerusalem ruling city of the kingdom of God on earth from heaven, no longer will evil be respected as good and pleasurable. No longer will the one true God be disrespected among secular-humanistic thinkers who lead and teach the children of the world through education, entertainment, and mass media of every form. Self-pleasure, money, and every form of fleshly lust will no longer drive the hearts of the people to sin and violence. Children will be safe in homes filled with God’s love and blessings.
The reality of the mission of Christ announced by angels at the birth of Jesus will be fulfilled. There will be PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TOWARD MAN.
Peace shall reign on earth and the glory of God shall be seen in the people of God filling the earth with His love. The government of God shall be upon the shoulder of Christ and of the increase of His kingdom there shall be no end.
For more on spiritual Babylon and New Jerusalem see http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_topics.asp?FID=14 - Kingdom Growth Guide (#020) & (#007) http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_topics.asp?FID=14 - http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_topics.asp?FID=14
Keep on pursuing Love. Love never fails
and His kingdom never ends.
Ron McGatlin
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