Nasrani

"When you mourn,
I mourn with you.

I bear your griefs and sorrows,
I carry your pain and suffering.

I am hungry when you are hungry.
I am thirsty when you are thirsty.

I am with you always.

Neither death nor life,
neither persecution nor sword,
will ever separate you from My love."

(Romans 12:15, Isaiah 53:4, Matthew 25:35, Matthew 28:20, Romans 8:35-39)

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Art: "Marked"

"Live In My Sacrifice"

"Listen to My Spirit, poured out
just as My blood was poured out on the Cross—
in love for the world and
with forgiveness for My enemies:

Many follow Me in name but
do not know what manner of spirit
they are truly following—
a different 'Christ' teaching
the ways of man instead of God,
opposing Me just as in Judea.

I am calling you to follow Me to your cross
and to pour out My Spirit to them—
to forgive and pour out your lives for those
who live today as enemies of the Cross,
just as I forgave and poured out My life
for those who put Me on the Cross.
Live in My sacrifice—in My Spirit."

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Art: "I Loved You, My Enemy"

"Are You Willing?"

"Are you willing to suffer for My sake?

Are you willing to let your rights be taken away
for the sake of the gospel?

Are you willing to embrace with My love
those who persecute you?

Are you willing to follow Me even if
you have to go to prison because of My word?

Are you willing to carry a cross
if I set one before you?"

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Art: "For My Sake"

Justifying the Sacrifice of the Innocent

"My children! You are making martyrs!
The mercy you have failed to show others will be the standard
by which your enemies will withhold mercy from you!
The justification you gave for sacrificing innocent lives
will be the same justification that your enemies use
when they sacrifice the lives of the innocent among you!

"My people, I called you:

'to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free and break every yoke;
to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter;
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood;
to do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk;
to spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed.'

"I have called you to sacrifice yourselves,
not to sacrifice the lives of your enemies!
I have called you to bless those who curse you
and to pray for those who mistreat you,
to love your enemies as I loved you
and laid down My life for you
while you were still My enemies.

"But if you compromise My love in order to justify
your nation, your politics and your wars,
your enemies will retaliate with the same cold love.
If you strike with the sword today in My name
—the sword of justifying your violence—
you will ensure the suffering of the innocent among you.

"They will be innocent in My sight and I will save them.
But you who have ignored My commands to justify your violence
will have chosen your own 'justification' instead of Mine.

"The hour grows late!
Set aside your pride and repent!
Come out of spiritual Babylon, My people in America,
for your house will be left desolate!
Do not lay down your lives justifying your nation
but be martyrs for My testimony alone,
and for sharing love I gave you in the Cross."

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Art & article: Reaping Nagasaki

The Way of the Lamb

"When they hurled their insults at Him, He did not retaliate;
when He suffered, He made no threats.
Instead, He entrusted himself to Him who judges justly...
To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you,
leaving you an example, that you should follow in His steps."
(1 Peter 2:23,21)

"My people, I am calling you to carry a cross during the end times.
I am not calling you to justify yourselves, nor to defend your image.
You cannot follow the Lamb and keep your pride at the same time,
for My steps lead to forgiving those who are crucifying you
and even laying down your life for them because I love them so much.
Will you take up My love for them and suffer for them if I call you to?
You cannot represent My name and My gospel if you shun the cross."

"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat
falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone;
but if it dies, it produces much grain.
He who loves his life will lose it,
and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me;
and where I am, there My servant will be also."
(John 12:24-26)

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Art: "The Cross"

Passing Through Woe

As He approached Jerusalem and saw the city,
He wept over it and said, "If you, even you,
had only known on this day what would bring you peace
—but now it is hidden from your eyes."
(Luke 19:41-42)

"My eyes fail from weeping,
I am in torment within,
my heart is poured out on the ground
because my people are destroyed."
(Lamentations 2:11)

"I know how hard it is to see destruction coming.
I know you wish you didn't have to watch as it approaches.
I know you wish it would pass quickly and be over with.

"As you share in My sorrow,
so also you shall share in My comfort.
I am the Lamb of God given to the world.
I carried every sorrow and grief,
and I passed through death to resurrection!

"I am the Redeemer of all things.
I am He who wipes every tear and makes all things new.
I am the Restorer of all things
and the Creator of the new creation.

"Rest in My arms and let Me hold you through the night."

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Art: "In the Arms of the Restorer"

Hidden Manna

"My children, My children, be of good cheer, My children! You will be protected in the days of darkness that are coming. In Me you will find peace and refreshing. Outside you will see darkness and disaster, but in Me nothing will harm you. I am your place of rest, I am your place of safety. In the world you will have tribulation, darkness, famine and war. But in the midst of these I will give you pasture in Myself. Outwardly you may waste away and be given over to death, but inwardly I will renew you."

The Call of Revelation

"I am coming soon, and as I declared to My disciples,
so also I declare to you: 'They will put you out of the synagogue,
and they will kill you thinking they are offering a service to God.'
They will do such things because they have not known the Father
or the Son who was given by the Father to die for His enemies
because He loved them so much.

"As the Father sent Me, so I am sending you:
I am calling you to love your enemies
as I loved you while you were My enemies.
Therefore you will be hated as I was hated—
not by sinners and the ungodly,
but by those who seek an earthly kingdom in My name.

"I am calling you to put on sackcloth and prophesy
the word which will make your stomach turn sour:
I am calling you to repent to the nations for your brothers and sisters
who have loved their earthly kingdom and hated their enemies in My name.
I am calling you to repent on behalf of those
who have destroyed My inheritance—the nations are My inheritance—
in order to secure an earthly inheritance.

"Be faithful and do not cease to hold to My commandments.
This is My command, that you love one another
—even your enemies—as I have loved you.
Do not let your agape grow cold."

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Art & article: "The End of All Things"

Embrace Oppression

"My people, do not be discouraged when I allow your churches,
organizations and institutions to be shaken and destroyed.
Long ago I told you that the earth and everything
in it would pass away, but My words would not.
I have allowed your places to be taken away in order to reduce you to My Word.
I have allowed many things you did not need to be taken away from you,
so that My light might shine brighter through you.
Do not be discouraged, for you were born for such a time as this!
Embrace your cross and forgive those who have stolen from you and oppressed you.
Pray for them and love them as I loved you while you were My enemies.
Walk the path I have set before you,
whether to better places or to captivity or to the sword,
for you know that you have an eternal house in heaven."

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Art link:
"Hope and a Future"

"To My Bride"

"My precious, My beloved, My bride,

"I love you so much! I am so enthralled that you want to be with Me, to know Me intimately as My bride. I am overjoyed that you have discovered My love for you in the book of Revelation, and that you want to have eyes only for Me.

"It is because I love you and treasure you that I will now interrupt your attempts to pursue Me. My beloved, you already have Me, and I did not have Revelation written so that you would attempt to cry out 'Come, Lord!' harder and harder. I accept your love, and I will come at the perfect time.

"When I said that My Spirit and My bride say 'Come', I said that they cry 'Come' to the thirsty who need My water of life. My bride, I am not calling you to cry out harder for Me to come; I am calling you to cry out to those who are dying of thirst!

"My bride, I am enthralled with you and pleased with you. Please know that. You have already won My affections and My love! Now I want to share My heart with you. I want you to rest in My love for you, and listen to what's on My heart:

"I love them just as much as I love you! The thirsty, the broken, the addicted, the outcast, the ones who look like your enemies... I love them! I want them to be My bride, too!

"Do you want them just like I want them? Ask Me for that love. Ask Me for My love for them. I want to be with you forever, and I want to be with them forever. Ask Me for love to want to be with them forever, too. Ask Me for love that will suffer for them. Ask Me for so much passion for them that you would even die for them. Ask Me how much I love them!

"Hear My heart, My beloved! Hear My Spirit! I cry, I cry! I cry out, 'COME! COME!' Cry out with Me, My beloved! Cry out with Me!"

"As I Lost My Life"

"My people,

"I am with you! I am with you! Do not be afraid as the world around you trembles. Do not fear the destruction of your lives and your ways of life. I have told you that such things will certainly come, and that I will never leave you nor forsake you. In the midst of tribulation I will lead you to springs of living water.

"Understand! Understand! Understand the times in which you live! Many who proclaim My name have forsaken My agape love, preferring instead the gods of the world: money, power and self-righteousness. Many declare My name alongside their politics, economics and wars. They have set forth as the rider on the black horse, weighing peoples on their own scales and exploiting them, but protecting their own interests.

"Discern the spirit! Discern the spirit! Discern the spirit behind beliefs! Walk in the light of the Cross! Do not forsake My command to love one another—even your enemies—and do not forget that I loved you and gave My life for you while you were My enemies.

"If you do not follow My love, you do not follow Me. But if you accept My life, you will know that My life was given for all peoples, including those who appear to oppose you. I have not called you to love your life, but to lay it down for My sake.

"I have told you that if you attempt to save your life, you will lose it. Therefore I tell you that to attempt to save your life is to follow Death. Do not be deceived by those who urge you to save your life instead of picking up your cross.

"As I lost My own life, so you must also lose yours. As I drank from the love of My Father, so will you also drink of My Spirit during tribulation."

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See also: "Wells of Living Water" (art link)

"My Cast-Out Ones"

"They will put you out of the synagogue;
in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you
will think he is offering a service to God."

- John 16:2

"To My weeping messengers:

"As I was with Jeremiah, so shall I be with you.
As I sustained him, so shall I sustain you.
As things were in his day, so things are now in yours.
Rest in My hands and in My love,
for as I was comforted, so shall you be comforted.

"As I was hated, so shall you be hated.
As I wept, so shall you weep.
As I was accused, so shall you be accused.
As My servants were put out of the synagogues,
so shall you be put out of churches.

"But you shall not be put out of My love!"

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Art: "Rejected Again"

"My Father's Love"

"Love your enemies! Love your enemies! Share My Spirit! Know My Father's heart! Share in His perfect love!

"I am the rain of heaven, given not only for your sins but also for the sins of the whole world—even the sins of your enemies.

"If you love your enemies as My Father has loved you, you will show yourselves to be My Father's sons and daughters."

End-Time Distractions

"There will be no easy 'battle lines' which you can use to know that you are with the righteous. There will be no guarantee that you will not be touched by calamity. There will be no place you can run to which will be safe from persecution.

"You will have no other way but Me in the last days. I have not given you a map to navigate your way; I have not given you a schedule of 'events'; I have not given you a book of symbols that can be interpreted—and indeed no one has interpreted it correctly, for those who sought to intepret were seeking a map and seeking a schedule. I am not calling you to seek those things; I am calling you to seek Me instead.

"I will be your place of safety. I will be your eternal life though your body perishes. I will be your guide in the darkness. I will be your comfort, and I will send you to bring comfort to those who cannot see during the night."

"As Father Sent Me"

"Behold, all who desire to live in Me will suffer persecution! I have told you that the world will hate you as it hated Me. I have told you to abide in Me and obey My commands—to love one another as I have loved you. And so you will be hated, just as I was hated. Do not be surprised if the world hates you, and do not be surprised when persecutions come to you. Do not hate those who persecute you, but love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you and bless those who curse you. As I was crucified, I am sending you to be My witnesses—to be arrested, bound, killed, and to forgive your persecutors as I forgave you from the Cross."

Treinta Piezas de Plata

El Rey les responderá: "Les aseguro que todo lo que hicieron por uno de mis hermanos, aun por el más pequeño, lo hicieron por mí."

- Mateo 25:40

Outpouring of the Spirit of the Cross

"My children,

"Do you imagine that I will pour out My Spirit mightily
in order to help you drive out your enemies from your land?
Do you believe it is My will for you to defeat your enemies
and secure the land as your own 'godly' country?

"I will do no such thing!
I gave My Son on the Cross to die for
the sins of both you and your enemies,
not so that you would gain land and hate one another,
but so that you would gain Me and love one another,
even as I loved you while all of you were My enemies.
My Son died for the sins your enemies have committed against you,
and My Son died for the sins you have committed against your enemies.

"The nations are My inheritance, not your land.
You, your neighbors and your enemies are all My inheritance,
My precious treasures worth the price of My Son.
Israelis, Palestinians, I am speaking to you!
You will not know My peace until you embrace the spirit of the Cross!
You will not know the outpouring of My Spirit until you repent
of your lusting for land and country,
and abusing one another to gain these.

"My Spirit is the Spirit of My Son crucified.
When you join in the spirit of the Cross,
then you will know the outpouring of My Spirit.
But until then any victories you have
in your lust for your historic land,
for vengeance and for your religious glory
will be given by a spirit of darkness,
by a principality of evil instead of by My Spirit.
No matter how divinely blessed your victories may seem,
they are not in the spirit of the Cross.
If they have not the love of My Son crucified,
they are nothing in My sight and are fuel for eternal fire.

"Yet in times of darkness and distress,
before you have succeeded in eradicating one another,
I will pour out My Spirit on those who look to Me,
who cry out to Me in intercession for My love for one another—
instead of crying out to Me for victory taking back 'land'.
I will raise up among your brothers and sisters a people
who will be filled with My heart for your enemies
as I was filled with love for you at the Cross.

"They will receive My Spirit,
and will walk forth speaking words of life
—words of repentance and forgiveness—
in the midst of your battles against one another.
They will care about My land—that is, people!—
instead of sacrificing lives for perishable things
such as dust, dirt, buildings and borders.

"They will arise in My Spirit, the spirit of the Cross,
and they will be hated even as My Son was hated and sent to the Cross.
They will be hated, slandered, spoken against, persecuted
and martyred for My sake and for the sake of their enemies.
But I will continue pouring out My Spirit on them and through them
to the broken, to the thirsty and to the wounded among you.
Even as they are slain their testimony will continue to sound."

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Art: "Outpouring"

"Call and I Will Answer"

"I am He who was and is and is to come,
I am the Lord."

"Behold,
I am the First and the Last,
the Alpha and the Omega."

"I am the Beginning and the End,
and behold, I am drawing near!"

"I have spoken,
and as I have spoken it shall come to pass."

"Call out to Me for understanding,
and I will open up My heart you:
What has been sealed in ages past shall be understood,
what has been hidden shall be revealed,
what has been veiled shall be uncovered,
what has been unknown shall be known,
and what has been unfulfilled shall be fulfilled."

"Call upon Me,
and I will teach you what generations past
searched out but could not find,
what saints longed to see,
but has been kept for your eyes."

"You know in part,
but the Whole draws near.
I am the Whole,
in Whom all is complete,
finished,
and accomplished."

"When I come,
all shall be finished,
for I am the End."

"Call upon Me,
and I shall confirm My testimony in you;

the testimony of the Father
given in the Son
revealed by the Holy Spirit
of the goodness of My grace to you
poured out in the blood of My Son
upon the Cross for your sins
risen on the third day
ascended to the throne

"Behold, My testimony has already been given
and is complete in My Son.
Call out to Me for understanding,
and you shall see
with ever-increasing understanding and glory
that My heart has fully been revealed
in My Son
crucified for you
raised victorious
seated in glory."

"I do not call you to a map,
I do not call you to a sequence of events,
I do not call you to politics,
I do not call you to watch the nations,
I do not call you to contest for land,
I do not call you to fight for your rights,
I do not call you to secret knowledge."

"But instead I call you to what is revealed:

"I call you to My Son
I call you to My heart
I call you to listen to My Spirit
I call you to take up your cross
I call you to speak My word
I call you to intercede for peoples and nations
I call you to lay down your life
I call you to love your enemies
Even as I have loved you."

"Do not be distracted from My gospel,
do not depart from My heart of agape love,
and do not be afraid,
for I am with you."

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See also: "Revelation Prologue" (art link) and "Revelation 1: Prologue" (Study)

Called to Stand

"To the Church:

"I have told you that wickedness will increase in the world in the days before I return. So do not let your love grow cold! Do not abandon agape love even though you see enemies multiplying around you. Your reaction is more important than the acts committed against you and those you love. How will you respond?

"I am love. And without love, your faith is nothing. I am calling you to love your enemies even as I have loved you. Do not leave the faith by leaving My love! Stand fast and remain firm in My love.

"I am calling some of you to suffering and martyrdom. Do not give up your crown."

"Follow Me"

"Do not pass on taking up the cross when it comes to you! Behold, I am allowing the cross to come into many of your lives, and I would not have you flee from following in My footsteps. I know you are afraid and do not want to suffer or die, but be confident that where I have gone, you also may follow.

"Follow Me! Embrace the cross and the suffering ahead. I will be with you, always."