ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED, RIGHT?

MAYBE NOT!

Once saved always saved is a very dangerous doctrine that is sending multitudes to hell. The pastors responsible for teaching this, GOD will hold accountable. Many people use it as an excuse to live however they want and worship a god they have made up in their head. They think they are worshiping the true GOD, but, they usually aren't if they are living they way they want, not in obedience to the True GOD. Works do NOT save us, but obedience to GOD proves that we are truly His. Is it faith that saves us or faithfulness? I know, that sounds like a works doctrine, and quite frankly, I do not care. We are saved through our faith and trust in Jesus, but we prove our faith by acting upon the words He taught us.

Let's examine the word "saved." Notice that it is the past tense of the word. How can we be saved if we are still here on earth. We aren't actually saved until our life is over, and we are securely in Heaven with our Savior. What we are doing down here is as Paul said is, "Working out our salvation with fear and trembling." The fear of GOD is the beginning of wisdom. Those who believe in the safety net of "once saved always saved," do not truly fear GOD, because that doctrine has given them a license to live in sin. They say, "we are under grace not law," hence they make grace and free will their idol to live however they want. We will be judged by the Law, everyone of us. We aren't saved by following it to the letter, but we will prove to YHVH GOD and ourselves that our salvation and future in heaven is true if we observe as much of the Law as humanly possible. Even Yeshua could not observe the 613 Laws of Moses, because he was not a woman, hence he could not observe the laws for woman, nor was he married, hence he coud not fulfill the Laws pertaining to husbands and wives. Do you see? There are many aspects of the Law we cannot fulfill, and that is where that wondeful word GRACE applies. GOD knows that we cannot follow the whole Law, but does the wipe it out? As Paul send in Romans, Heaven's NO!

   

My (ex) husband says, "We are all sinners." and that seems to give him the excuse to abandon all his vows he made to GOD and his family and me ten times? That's like your child coming out of your womb, or wife's womb declaring themselves you child who will at times break your rules, hence they won't live by any of them, but they'll still be your child because he has your name. Would you then not hold him accountable to the rules in your household because both of you know that he won't be able to obey all of them all the time based on the fact that he was born a sinner? Of couse not. If you love him, you'll teach him right from wrong and if he loves you, he'll strive to learn from you. My husband is convinced that he's saved just because he believes that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but he has no interest in doing and acting upon the things of GOD. I have tried to tell him that living in rebellion outside of GOD's will is proof that he is not interested in the True GOD of the Bible, just just the one he's created in his own image, one that he can accept, instead of the other way around. One thing Jesus promised with athe assurance of salvation is the Holy Spirit, whose job it is to teach us within and guide us and lead us. He also has the job of convincting us of sin. If one is not convicted of an obvious sin, like doing what GOD hates, then one must not have the Holy Spirit living in them. Can one sin with the Holy Spirit living in them? Of course, we are human and GOD does not expect perfection. It is possible to quench the Spirit in us and only living out the Laws we "want" to live and still trust Jesus for our salvation. It is for GOD to decide whether we truly wanted to know Him or not, and definitely not anyone else's business.

Some carnal-minded people will go up against the will of GOD, claiming that man has free will, and all sins are forgiven, past, present, future. There is enough truth in that to be deceiving, because that's how the devil works. He puts truth mixed in with his lies to deceive many. They've been taught once saved, always saved, and they use that false assurance as permission from the god they made up in their heads by their faulty reasoning as an excuse for their carnal lifestyles. Jesus says he will vomit these lukewarm, deceived church goers out of his mouth. The Greek word for "spit you out" really means VOMIT. How being called vomit doesn't bother some, behooves me.

Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to love GOD with all our hearts, our souls, and our mind. I don't know about you but when I love someone like that, I'm going to do anything to please them, even if it means living completely contrary to what my carnal flesh desires. I have been my husband's wife for almost thirty-nine years, and for a good many of them, he was devoted to doing the things of GOD. He was devoted to being in the church and serving, and yet, somehow, all that has changed. He goes to church, a mega church where he can hide in the shadows, but doing the hard things of GOD, well, he's decided he doesn't have to, because once saved, always saved is his belief. It suits his lifestyle. I don't claim to know the things of GOD and who will end up where, however, right now it appears as if my ex-husband may not be truly saved, and that grieves me to no end. I know GOD's Grace is huge, but I don't believe it is cheap. How do I know that he knows he's doing wrong? I asked him, "Is GOD telling you to divorce me. Just give me a yes or no answer." He said no. He admitted to going up against the will of GOD when he divorced every vow he made to GOD and me and his children. I think the people who need to worry the most about whether or not they are saved, are the ones who are sure they are, based on that faulty man's doctrine of "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED." If you are living outside the will of GOD and know it, then maybe man's doctrine is not what you should be following.

Hebrews 6:4 is one of those verses that most eternal security preachers will avoid like the plague, as well as the ones listed below. Many of them they cannot explain away, but they will avoid them because they do not fit their own man-created theology. What is theology? It's man trying to explain GOD, now, how hilarious is that? Many times in the Hebrew Scriptures, as I call them, as opposed to the Old Testament, which gives us the impression of them being obsolete, GOD sent His prophets to warn his His people that they had committed spiritual adultery mixing in the current pagan religions with the Mosaic Laws GOD gave them. They found no harm in practicing both. Sure, they were GOD's chosen people, so their lives were secure, (or so they thought), but their neighbors religions seemed harmless to them, so they combined them. Eventually both the northern kingdom as well as the southern kingdom (Isreal and Juda) were conquered by those pagans with pagan gods because they would not turn back and obey only YHVH GOD with all their hearts, all their souls, and all their mind. A thorough and clear observation of how GOD dealt with His people throughout the ages will prove that one can be a follower of Jesus and not be saved. One must check their heart of devotion and dedication to the Father, before one uses a safety net with more holes in it than swiss cheese.

Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

 James 2:14 What use is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 17 In the same way, faith also, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

Matthew 24: 10 And at that time many will fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will rise up and mislead many people. 12 And because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will become cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end is the one who will be saved.

SO, YES YOU CAN LOSE YOUR SALVATION BECAUSE YOU MAY NEVER HAD IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!

  Take it to the proper place, Facebook!

      Everyone says never to air our dirty laundry publicly on Facebook or social media, but I think GOD disagrees.  Usually what man thinks, GOD is thinking the exact opposite, but with a twist of Omniscient Wisdom mixed in to it.  Some of us need to process our thoughts and pains and we think out loud. I used to be a journaler until arthritis made holding a pen so very unpleasant.  Age does that, it makes our thoughts clearer and our penmanship more difficult to decipher to even ourselves.  Do we have examples of journalers in the Bible?  I dare say yes, at least 150 times if not more. The book of Psalms is the writer publicizing his agonizing and invigorating thoughts for the readers to digest into their own lives. The Psalmist is processing his pain and the confusion into eloquent words until by the end of the Psalm, for the most part, he has acquired valuable wisdom from Above. Unfortunately, with much of that wisdom came even grievous sorrows, ah yet, to pull out his pen and start all over. 

      The book of Ecclesiastes is the work of the wealthiest and wisest king of Israel, in which he is griping about how meaningless life is.  All the way through it, Solomon is trying to process the intense Wisdom from Above, because he was given more than a flawed human would be able to bear and carry.  Let me tell you, it's true, the more you know, the more you wish you didn't know. By the time he gets to the twelfth chapter, he is able to put all his complaining and moaning together and come out with timeless wisdom that for 3,000 years we have benefited.  David and Solomon are gone, happily in Paradise, but they are still bearing fruit down here.  

     That my goal in life.  I want to bear fruit when I'm up in heaven, not while I'm down here. I know myself pretty well, and GOD knows me better.  I would not do very well with success. Failure, on the other hand, I excel at, and I am able to take it all in stride as I am quite used to it.  Failure is  safe, especially in obscurity.  It's in the failure that we learn the most about us, other people, life, and our Savior and GOD.  People give me a hard time about all the stuff I put up on my Facebook page, but what they don't realize, those are the little 2 am sessions are lessons of wisdom I get usually when insomnia from menopause takes control of my sleep schedule. It seems I sleep like a cow grazes, a nap here, a nap there, sometimes even standing up.  Those early Facebook posts are how I process the pain and lessons of the past twelve years.  Thank goodness for the delete buttons that I can just move those thoughts from Facebook to a blog post and delete the rough draft on my social media.  I always ask GOD the big questions during those, what I call, toddler temper tantrums, because to Him, I am that.   So, while I was having my little fit,  one of those deep questions.  "WHY ME?"  Not very original, but usually the question is "WHEN will this end?" to which there never is an answer.  So, I decided to go with a different approach today.   There are so many players involved in the causes of my broken heart and tears, and none of them are crying over it.  I happen to have a very deep and sensitive heart that holds on to things like GOD does, and I can never let it go, like memories, people I've loved, the things that hurt Him the most hurt me just as much.  GOD is the Author of our story so if someone has crushed us by doing us bad, it was GOD who took that bad thing to use it for good.  You could say He brought those waves into our storm, playing "devil's advocate,"  if you'll pardon the expression.  

     We all know the story of Job, and how GOD wagered a bet with the devil, knowing full well that He would win that bet, but the devil challenged GOD anyway, because he is evil and wants to do nothing but harm to YHWH's beloveds.  The Most High gave him free reign up to a certain point to wreak havoc in Job's life.  If you notice, he used weather, armies, and people partying to do all this damage to Job.  Then, when given another shot at it, GOD let him use sickness, and the devil messed him up good.  He was unrecognizable by his friends when they finally did come to his "aid."  The book says that they sat quietly with Job, not saying anything, which some people say was merciful.  I have a different perspective.  I'm going to guess they were processing all the bad that happened to Job and plotted in their minds just how they were going to explain this to him, putting all the blame on him, because, by golly, for it to be random, meant it could happen to them, so they had to place the blame somewhere.  They placed on a person, while Job the entire time placed blame on God, where it should have been placed.  

  

     This is not the lesson you would hear in a Sunday sermon, I can guarantee that.  So, when I asked GOD, the why me question, why am I the only one crying when there are multiple actors in this tragic literary story of my life, and like always, the answer came before I could finish the long e vowel sound in me.  He said, "Because, Kristina, you know how and where to process all this pain. They don't. "   GOD doesn't speak audibly to us, but He will put the answer in our head in a manner of thought, usually before we finish asking the question.  If the answer is bathed in Wisdom, something you wouldn't have thought of yourself, or the perfect answer, then, it's likely from GOD.   So, then I asked GOD, "Okay, I'm taking my griping and complaining to the right source, You want me to come to You, I get that, but I have to teach it to other bruised reeds, so You are going to have to show me and example in the Bible." And of course, before I finished the L sound in Bible, immediately John-the-Baptist pops into my head.  

     The poor dude was thrown in prison for doing what?  He was preparing the way for the Messiah, he was teaching about repentance, and he had the nerve to approach Herodias and Herod with what they were doing wrong. Well, that was gutsy, but it got him thrown in a dungeon for a set amount of time of which we are not informed.  After a while, hunger and fatigue started to get to him, and before you know it, he is starting to doubt the Lamb of GOD who takes away the sins of the world, when he was the one who gave him that title.  He saw the Holy Spirit come down on him, that was his cousin, the one that he experienced while still in his mother's womb who caused him to leap for joy. Now, he's starting to doubt?  Tell me, did he start griping to his disciple or guards or other prisoners with his doubt?  No, he went straight to the source and asked the Son of GOD himself, by way of messenger.  Did Jesus reprimand him for doubting?  Of course not, he gave him the answer that he needed to hear to comfort him while literally "dying" in prison.  

         So, I got my tears and frustration out on the Playwright to the story of my life. I sat there and griped and complained about how the waves were leaving me water-logged with no shore in sight, and here comes Yeshua, walking on water with the lesson I needed to calm the seas, and stop the tears.  It was wisdom from above that most people would not hear from a shame-inducing, holier-than-thou pew warmers who would never have gotten themselves in that kind of mess, hence they assume siliently to themselves that it was the bruised reed's fault.  As Job and Naomi right proclaimed, it wasn't always the broken person's fault, but it was in GOD's plan for their lives.  So, when am in suffering from another case of insomnia, because my arthritis has gotten so bad, instead of writing the question and answer session I've had with GOD  in my journal, I post it on Facebook.  Before I know it, I've posted a multi-paragraph post, and I realize that it's another blog post, so I copy and paste.  That my friends was how GOD's servants did it in the Bible in the wisdom books such as Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, and that is why GOD gave us the book of Job.  I think that the friends of Job are a type of church people who need to blame the sufferer, lest such an unfortuante turn of events happens to them. 

   

DO SOLAR ECLIPSES PREDICT EARTHQUAKES?

THEY HAVE IN THE PAST.

Tornadoes come with moments to days' warnings. Hurricanes have weeks' worth of warnings of their impending landfall, but what kind of warning do earthquakes have? None that we know of, right? Is it possible that GOD gives us warnings based on history? Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us what has been will be again, and there is nothing new under the sun. That being said, in 1806 there was a total Eclipse draped across America, then again in 1811. Those two eclipses intersected just like the 2017 and 2024 eclipses intersected each other. What is worrisome is where they intersect, the center of the country near the New Madrid Fault Line. The Great Comet lit up the skies near the time of the eclipse in 1811, and very soon we will see The Devil's Comet in our night skies. Could GOD be warning us that the plates under the New Madrid fault Line, which are well overdue, are about to move, hence bringing on an earthquake similar to the tremendous earthquakes of 1811-1812? One of them was so powerful as to reverse the course of the great Mississippi River, causing it to flow upstream for a few hours and completely demolishing a town, causing it to fall into the Mississippi River. 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes Please do some research on this forgotten national tragedy. Can you fathom what an 8.0 earthquake would do to our huge metropolises like Louisville here in Kentucky or Nashville in Tennessee, which is even closer to the fault line?

What is even more troublesome is there is a Scripture that could be describing this time we are living in. (“For thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations..,  8 'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD Almighty. 9 'The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. 'And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty.”) There is a plan to bankrupt the central bank which hold's the nations of the world in endless debt, enslaving us much like the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt 3500 years ago. Including in the plan to save America is to bring an end the Federal Reserve, returning us back to our own national bank and gold-backed currency. We are in a serious battle of good vs evil right now, and nothing we see on TV or the Internet can we believe. It is a well-planned covert military operation to take back America from the deep state and world-wide cabal.

It also concerns me that two cities named Nineveh were in the direct path of the darkening of the sun from the moon's eclipsing the sun. We know from history that the ancient city of Nineveh experienced a total eclipse then a massive earthquake before Jonah arrived to pronounce judgment upon that city. and that was why they were so quick to repent and seek GOD's mercy. A city of 120,000 people, including their livestock fasted for days to entreat GOD to not destroy them. One other thing that occurred to me tonight is that my number 5 child and her husband were just transferred a mere 700 miles away from their tower apartment in Louisville. It also had a multi-level parking garage, and can you just imagine what could happen to a 600-unit apartment building and the multi-level parking garage if an 8.0 earthquake struck 200 miles southwest of them? Maybe it's too much to think that GOD was protecting my daughter from impending disaster, but it is something to think about, and I hope you will.

I'm not prophesying or predicting, I'm only taking notice. Scripture speaks of earthquakes, and Haggai 2 speaks of one consistent with gold and silver. We cannot predict, but we can take notice. Future proves past, in other words, world events happen, then we find in Scripture where GOD said He would do that exact event. Too many circumstances seem to point to a devastating earthquake right here under our feet. I've done a lot of research and I'm quite concerned. We won't get any physical warning of such a geological disaster, but maybe GOD gave us a sign in the heavens. History, and Scripture, adding in the current events, an election year, all add up to too much probability. It is definitely something I think we need to pray about and be concerned about.