No,
I don’t believe anyone here is going to “mock” you nor call
you insane!
In
fact, I just got through LITERALLY out loud applauding your
study you wrote for Doves!! http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2020/derrickd322.htm
And
I’ll take it a step further & say “I love you”! In
the Christian sense of course! Oh my, what a blessing
that was to read! And I’ve got to get out of here for a
short while now, but you’d better believe I’ll be looking at
& reading & studying Is. 24 later today. I give
thanks to the Lord for your Holy Spirit guidance in leading
you to connect Is. 24 with Revelation and also Luke 21.
FWIW
(for what it’s worth!!) sighs! I am SO sorry about
the suffering you endured from your “fellow brothers &
sisters in the Lord”!!! UNDERSTAND!!! Been
there!! Wait!~ “still there”!!
I
once confessed here something which happened nigh on 30 years
ago – and while I left that church in full repentance, the
tale-bearers never stopped talking about it….. even after 30
years!!!!! Funny how SLANDERERS are mentioned in the
Bible ~~ right along side MURDERERS!!! “To
this day” they murder my reputation & by chance I run into
any of them in public -- they quickly look the other way
and walk away as fast as they can! Treat me like I’ve
got leprosy!!
Sometimes
it hurts to the core of my soul; and other times I simply pray
FOR THEM that the Lord in His wisdom & grace will choose
to not hold it against their account/s. They’re going to
see a far different story anyway, than what they’ve been lead
to believe – when they are watching the “Judgment Day
video”!!!!!
At
any rate, for WHATEVER your church/es persecuted you
for: it’s such a common occurrence now days! It
ought not to be so, yet it is what it is.
My
story: since I have no family living & very few
friends left…. And in an effort to find some good, Godly
like-minded friends, I called the local Baptist church last
week to ask about their Bible study – it was on a “book” which
I consider the author a false teacher….. so didn’t want to go
there.
I
love studying the Bible! But I want it to be the BIBLE
alone – not some book ABOUT the Bible.
Years
ago we joined a dinky Baptist church – as I was traveling down
Nostalgia Lane of life & the size reminded me of my
childhood church. FIRST DAY we visited we were clearly
asked by a lady (who thought she “ran the place”) what we were
doing there!! HA!! How’s THAT for “welcome”!!
I said matter of factly, “we are looking for a place to
sit!” OBVIOUSLY they didn’t draw visitors on a
regular basis…. Hmm!! WONDER WHY??!!... 😉
One
time I attended the same lady’s Sun. School class only to find
out she had all the women enraged against the pastor – b/c in
their opinions, he “didn’t live up” to the one they’d had 10
years earlier!!! /laughs!! While nodding head
in disgust…..
My
eyes have since been opened to how many people in churches think
it’s THEIR MINISTRY to “run off the pastor”!!.....
And
it was over something so stupendously STUPID that they didn’t
care for in “this” pastor!!!! Absolutely
“NUTS!!” I tell you!!!!
Another
friend graciously reminded me that should I try out any of
these clubs or organizations I’ve been thinking about to be
careful of cliques!!! B/c it’s a VERY cliquish
world!!! And I know she’s 100% right!!! She
reminded me when she was in between jobs & merely
attempted to spend time volunteering w/Salvation Army &
instead ran into women who’d done it for 30 years – and how
they just wouldn’t accept a newbie….
Cold!!
Callous!! Uncaring!!
I
digress!!....
And
you’re right! The ones who are going to be raptured, by
all signs it appears to be VERY soon!! Our
fellowship there will be absolutely out of this world
divine!! Without any holding grudges against us or
focusing on OUR sins!! {they’ll have their own to worry
about at Judgment Time!!}
My
slate will be wiped clean; yours will be wiped clean.
We’ll never again think of them. God chooses to FORGET them
even.
But
alas, I understand your anguish and pain. Truly sorry
you’ve had to carry that all these years.
And
congratulations on deciding to put forth your real name.
Only reason I don’t is b/c it’s a WICKED scary world in which
we live and I’ve had 2 stalkers in life. So I use my pen
name as a cautionary measure.
THANK
YOU AGAIN for sharing your study & your heart! We
are blessed!
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Cor 10:31