Below is but a small measure of revelation that my father had received from the Lord. I hope this will be a blessing to you. All that is written below are the words of my father.
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| In loving memory of my father Robert Louis (Bob) Padgett July 28, 1931-May 22, 2023 |
In our previous three messages we have shared about the most important exhortation in the Bible for us Christians ... namely, "prepare ye the way of the Lord." After we do our part, i.e., prepare the way of the Lord, then the Lord does His part ... namely restoration. In this series of messages, we will be sharing different aspects of restoration as they apply both to believers individually and corporately.
The prefix "re" generally means "again." So "restore" or "restoration" means to store again, or to bring back to a former position or condition. People talk about restoring a car or restoring a house. One of the major truths that is dear to the heart of God is restoration ... a restoration of the Church back to something that was always intended in the mind of God before the foundation of the world. Let us consider the need for restoration.
Charles Finney, the great 19 century revivalist once said:
Finney believed there was a direct correlation between the kind of legislation passed in Congress and the kind of preaching taking place in the pulpits of America's churches. He also believed that the churches are ultimately responsible for corruption in government. America's biggest threat does not come from domestic abortionists, gay rights activists, pornographers, drug dealers, or terrorists. Neither does it come from North Korea, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Russia, China, or Afghanistan. Our biggest threat comes from our nation's pulpits.
As with most topics, we do well to look at the life of Jesus on earth as recorded in Scripture. The religious elite of the day branded Jesus as a reactionary, a revolutionary, a heretic. They bristled as they heard Jesus say things that seemed to be contradictory to the law, as given through Moses. When Jesus was healing people, working all sorts of miracles, and feeding people with natural food, He was generally well-received, at least by the common people. However, the religious elite of the day objected strenuously when Jesus healed anyone on the Sabbath day because that was contrary to "their" law. Further, Jesus seemed to be a revolutionary heretic who threatened their comfortable religious system. So they crucified Him. Are there any comfortable believers in comfortable churches today? Jesus came to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
Reluctance to change is widely accepted by the field of psychology as a phenomenon of people. Max Planck, who received a Nobel prize in 1918 for discovery of the revolutionary quantum theory in physics, once stated:
Please think about that quotation in terms of the Church today. A major characteristic of our walk as Christians should be change. There is nothing static about Christianity. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever; but we should be changing! How do we change? by looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith ... by being obedient to the Holy Spirit.
The closer we walk with the Lord ... the more we allow the Holy Spirit to reveal His Truth to us ... the more we allow the Holy Spirit to change us into His image, the more we will be misunderstood and the more difficult it will be for us to try to explain to others what we have experienced. Anyone who really seeks only the will of God is a person who will be marked as "different." People do NOT like to be branded as "different." Also, the further we walk on with the Lord, the more people we will leave behind.
There is a price to pay to walk on with the Lord. That walk took Jesus to Calvary. It will take us to that same cross, not necessarily physically, but spiritually. Are we really willing to pay the price? If so, a crown of glory, rather than a crown of shame, awaits us. Salvation is FREE, but it cost the life of Jesus. To enter into the Kingdom of God is NOT free ... it will cost us OUR self life. Count the cost VERY carefully! May that love relationship we are honored to have with Christ propel us into fulfilling His purpose within us.
Arthur Schopenhauer, a 19th century German philosopher, said, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Many years ago I taught electronics for four years in the Air Force. One specific circuit that I taught was a rectifier, whose purpose is to convert AC to DC current, which is needful for computers. A rectifier is used to change the wave shape of an audio or RF wave from a sine wave to a square wave. The meaning of the word rectify, according to Webster's Dictionary, is to set right; purify; to correct by removing errors.
Likewise, after we have been apprehended by the Lord Jesus, we believers need a Divine rectification in our thinking and life style, which must no longer be according to the old man, whose focus is on me, my, and mine, but rather on the Lord Himself. This requires us to cut off from our minds our selfish focus on me and to understand and agree with the will of the Lord. The Lord will NOT do that for us! That requires a continual, daily, decision on our part! We must cooperate with the Holy Spirit and allow Him to rectify or change us.
Leonard Ravenhill, a well-known and respected 20th century revivalist said, in his book "Why Revival Tarries,"
A. W. Tozer, another highly respected 20th century revivalist, said:
In all of the history of the human race, there has never been a generation on the face of the earth that has been exposed to greater spiritual light than this generation in the United States. Most believers have heard an enormous amount of teaching, both through first hand exposure and through books, tapes, and videos. Yet the Church in America has strayed far from what the Lord desires. Those in positional authority within the Church have always been, and still are, the ones that must bear the brunt of the judgment of God. The problems always have been with the leaders, scripturally, historically, and experientially.
Two quips written by Dresden James, a British novelist, are very fitting for the times in which we live:
Would you believe that a Scripture says essentially the same thing?
In the past 52 years, the Lord has taken me to many churches, not for me to say anything, but rather so that the Lord asked me, "What do you see and hear?" I have seen a spirit of democracy, an independent spirit, a self-seeking spirit, a spirit of mixture, a spirit of materialism, the traditions of men, stagnation, complacency, lack of vision, lack of discernment, compromise, disunity, strife, division, entertainment, and yes, even idolatry, which have permeated the spirit-filled/charismatic churches in America and greatly affected believers. False doctrines abound, particularly the faith and prosperity teachings that thrill the flesh but anger the Lord. None of those spirits should have any place in Christianity.
Today, the watered-down Gospel is big business. Indeed, it is the best form of entertainment around! I have seen a few Sunday "sermons" that would rival a Broadway play. Some sixty years ago William Branham prophesied of this coming entertainment in "Christian" circles. We are aware, through a brother who was a very close personal friend of William Branham, that, "He [Branham] was particularly sharp in his insight and understanding of future events as well as of those personalities and organizations that would bring terrible confusion, mixture, and impurity to the body of Christ through religious programming, networking, television, Christian entertainment and music with a contemporary beat." He was right on! That was a true word of prophecy. This once new (but now old) charismatic breed of evangelistic showmanship never ceases to amaze the world with its Hollywood dress and Broadway appearance. Gospel recordings are at an all-time high. Gospel music is also big business!
Now perhaps some of you have thought, "But brother, none of that applies to me and none of that applies to us as a local church." Well I certainly hope that is true. But even if none of that applies to you directly, it definitely applies indirectly. Why? Because there is one Church, one body, and if one member of the body is suffering then the whole body is suffering (1 Corinthians 12:26).
Those verses, like so many others in the Old Testament, are prophetic of the time in which we live. They certainly apply right now to the charismatic churches in America which are a people robbed and spoiled. We have been robbed because those in leadership positions have not spoken the word of the Lord, but instead have been pastors who feed themselves. We have been spoiled on the milk of the word and by those who make a name and wealth for themselves. And we love to have it so (Jeremiah 5:31).
We are snared in holes and hid in prison houses and do not know it. Christianity is growing by leaps and bounds in China, India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. A few years ago I read, from a very reliable source, that in those parts of the world the increase is thousands of new Christians every DAY! But in the United States, the grapes are withering on the vine. It is rare for a charismatic church to have one new convert per MONTH. Why? These messages attempt to provide at least partial answers to that question.
Isaiah 42:22 says that we are for a prey. That means that we are hunted by the adversary simply because we are believers.
A mouse is a prey for a cat. What did the mouse do to deserve being a prey for a cat? Nothing! It was simply born a mouse. The second, third, and fourth generation of the Israelites who were in bondage and captivity in Egypt were also a prey. They had grown up in an environment and all they knew was a life of bondage. They had never experienced anything else. What had they done to deserve being in bondage? Nothing! They simply were born into that environment. They never knew there was a better way. Finally, after 400 years of increasing bondage, suffering, and hardship, the Israelites cried out to God and God sent a deliverer, Moses, who led them out of Egypt. In like manner, many charismatic believers today have grown up in an environment and just assume that their "leaders" are preaching the truth. These lovely believers have never known there is a higher way!
What about a "lawful captive?" We believers become a lawful captive whenever we sin through omission or commission, through word or deed. As a lawful captive we are subject to the will of the adversary. If we have become a lawful captive, no amount of prophecy, praise, or prayer will restore us. We must run to the cross and sincerely ask forgiveness for going astray.
Isaiah 42:22 says prophetically that none delivereth the charismatic churches in America. The blind are leading the blind. That same verse says that none saith, Restore! We can think of only three possible reasons why none saith restore. The first reason is fear, which comes in many forms. Fear of losing "our" money or position. We like to speak only smooth things to keep everyone happy and keep the money coming in. On November 4, 1977, the Lord gave me a word: "It is the fear of man that hinders the body of Christ from functioning; but it is the fear of God that compels us to function." Whenever the Church loses that scriptural fear of God, the enemy comes in like a flood.
The second reason is ignorance; none are able to see the need to proclaim restoration.
Paul, six times in the New Testament, says, "brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant of ..."(Romans 1:13, Romans 11:25, 1 Corinthians 10:1, 1 Corinthians 12:1, 2 Corinthians 1:8, and 1 Thessalonians 4:13). Peter says the same thing in 2 Peter 3:8.
The third possible reason is indifference, which may also include the desire to maintain the status quo, don't rock the boat, keep everybody happy, keep the money coming in.
The last verse, above, combines BOTH indifference and ignorance. We are not so naive as to believe that this is the first proclamation of the word "restore" in modern America. We are sure that this word is not hid in a corner. Neither are we so naive to believe that the mere utterance of the word, restore, is sufficient. This must be a heartfelt cry from the depths of our being! But enough is enough! It is time for the Lord to have His way! God will have that which He desires, with or without me and with or without you. We believe very strongly that God presently is in the process of restoration. A new sound is being heard in the earth by those who have ears to hear! We will set forth some scriptural, historical, and experiential guidelines concerning both how the individual believer and the Church should function during these last days if we desire His Divine restoration.
A word of caution is in order! What we present should not be interpreted as a cookbook approach to the restoration of the Church. Too many Christians today are looking for some "magic formula" or 1-2-3 steps to follow. Such an approach is always doomed to failure! Restoration is NOT about do's and don'ts. The Lord is no longer saying, "Thou shalt do this" or "thou shalt not do that." The Lord Himself desires to teach us by the Holy Spirit as we cry out to Him. Only the Spirit of God can shed His light into our hearts and dispel the darkness. The question is, do we want to be part of the problem (those who need to be recovered from the snares of the enemy) or part of the solution (those who will be deliverers in these end times), as foretold in Obadiah 21?
What does the mount of Esau refer to? The flesh ... the carnal mind.
May the Lord be merciful to us as we seek our part in His restoration! Amen.
The prefix "re" generally means "again." So "restore" or "restoration" means to store again, or to bring back to a former position or condition. People talk about restoring a car or restoring a house. One of the major truths that is dear to the heart of God is restoration ... a restoration of the Church back to something that was always intended in the mind of God before the foundation of the world. Let us consider the need for restoration.
Charles Finney, the great 19 century revivalist once said:
"If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it."
Finney believed there was a direct correlation between the kind of legislation passed in Congress and the kind of preaching taking place in the pulpits of America's churches. He also believed that the churches are ultimately responsible for corruption in government. America's biggest threat does not come from domestic abortionists, gay rights activists, pornographers, drug dealers, or terrorists. Neither does it come from North Korea, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Russia, China, or Afghanistan. Our biggest threat comes from our nation's pulpits.
As with most topics, we do well to look at the life of Jesus on earth as recorded in Scripture. The religious elite of the day branded Jesus as a reactionary, a revolutionary, a heretic. They bristled as they heard Jesus say things that seemed to be contradictory to the law, as given through Moses. When Jesus was healing people, working all sorts of miracles, and feeding people with natural food, He was generally well-received, at least by the common people. However, the religious elite of the day objected strenuously when Jesus healed anyone on the Sabbath day because that was contrary to "their" law. Further, Jesus seemed to be a revolutionary heretic who threatened their comfortable religious system. So they crucified Him. Are there any comfortable believers in comfortable churches today? Jesus came to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
Reluctance to change is widely accepted by the field of psychology as a phenomenon of people. Max Planck, who received a Nobel prize in 1918 for discovery of the revolutionary quantum theory in physics, once stated:
"This experience gave me also an opportunity to learn a fact - a remarkable one in my opinion: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Please think about that quotation in terms of the Church today. A major characteristic of our walk as Christians should be change. There is nothing static about Christianity. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever; but we should be changing! How do we change? by looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith ... by being obedient to the Holy Spirit.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:18
The closer we walk with the Lord ... the more we allow the Holy Spirit to reveal His Truth to us ... the more we allow the Holy Spirit to change us into His image, the more we will be misunderstood and the more difficult it will be for us to try to explain to others what we have experienced. Anyone who really seeks only the will of God is a person who will be marked as "different." People do NOT like to be branded as "different." Also, the further we walk on with the Lord, the more people we will leave behind.
There is a price to pay to walk on with the Lord. That walk took Jesus to Calvary. It will take us to that same cross, not necessarily physically, but spiritually. Are we really willing to pay the price? If so, a crown of glory, rather than a crown of shame, awaits us. Salvation is FREE, but it cost the life of Jesus. To enter into the Kingdom of God is NOT free ... it will cost us OUR self life. Count the cost VERY carefully! May that love relationship we are honored to have with Christ propel us into fulfilling His purpose within us.
Arthur Schopenhauer, a 19th century German philosopher, said, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Many years ago I taught electronics for four years in the Air Force. One specific circuit that I taught was a rectifier, whose purpose is to convert AC to DC current, which is needful for computers. A rectifier is used to change the wave shape of an audio or RF wave from a sine wave to a square wave. The meaning of the word rectify, according to Webster's Dictionary, is to set right; purify; to correct by removing errors.
Likewise, after we have been apprehended by the Lord Jesus, we believers need a Divine rectification in our thinking and life style, which must no longer be according to the old man, whose focus is on me, my, and mine, but rather on the Lord Himself. This requires us to cut off from our minds our selfish focus on me and to understand and agree with the will of the Lord. The Lord will NOT do that for us! That requires a continual, daily, decision on our part! We must cooperate with the Holy Spirit and allow Him to rectify or change us.
Leonard Ravenhill, a well-known and respected 20th century revivalist said, in his book "Why Revival Tarries,"
"Oh God send us prophetic preaching that searches and scorches! Send us a race of Martyr-preachers - men burdened, bent, bowed and broken under the vision of impending judgment and the unending hell of the impenitent ...
Preachers make pulpits famous; prophets make prisons famous. May the Lord send us prophets - terrible men, who cry aloud and spare not, who sprinkle nations with unctionized woes - men too hot to hold, too hard to be heard, too merciless to spare...
We are tired of men in soft raiment and softer in speech who use rivers of words with but a smidgen of unction. These know more about competition than consecration, about promotion than prayer. They substitute propaganda for propagation and care more for their church's happiness than holiness."
A. W. Tozer, another highly respected 20th century revivalist, said:
"If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting. Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear. He will contradict, renounce and protest in the name of God and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom.
Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken and a little bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the One and the salvation of the other. But he will fear nothing that breathes with mortal breath." ("The Size of the Soul," pages 128-129).
In all of the history of the human race, there has never been a generation on the face of the earth that has been exposed to greater spiritual light than this generation in the United States. Most believers have heard an enormous amount of teaching, both through first hand exposure and through books, tapes, and videos. Yet the Church in America has strayed far from what the Lord desires. Those in positional authority within the Church have always been, and still are, the ones that must bear the brunt of the judgment of God. The problems always have been with the leaders, scripturally, historically, and experientially.
And the common people heard Him gladly. Mark 12:37b
Two quips written by Dresden James, a British novelist, are very fitting for the times in which we live:
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed.
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the TRUTH will seem utterly preposterous, and its speaker a raving lunatic."
Would you believe that a Scripture says essentially the same thing?
7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it [discover her wickedness when she said ...]: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. Hosea 9:7-8
In the past 52 years, the Lord has taken me to many churches, not for me to say anything, but rather so that the Lord asked me, "What do you see and hear?" I have seen a spirit of democracy, an independent spirit, a self-seeking spirit, a spirit of mixture, a spirit of materialism, the traditions of men, stagnation, complacency, lack of vision, lack of discernment, compromise, disunity, strife, division, entertainment, and yes, even idolatry, which have permeated the spirit-filled/charismatic churches in America and greatly affected believers. False doctrines abound, particularly the faith and prosperity teachings that thrill the flesh but anger the Lord. None of those spirits should have any place in Christianity.
Today, the watered-down Gospel is big business. Indeed, it is the best form of entertainment around! I have seen a few Sunday "sermons" that would rival a Broadway play. Some sixty years ago William Branham prophesied of this coming entertainment in "Christian" circles. We are aware, through a brother who was a very close personal friend of William Branham, that, "He [Branham] was particularly sharp in his insight and understanding of future events as well as of those personalities and organizations that would bring terrible confusion, mixture, and impurity to the body of Christ through religious programming, networking, television, Christian entertainment and music with a contemporary beat." He was right on! That was a true word of prophecy. This once new (but now old) charismatic breed of evangelistic showmanship never ceases to amaze the world with its Hollywood dress and Broadway appearance. Gospel recordings are at an all-time high. Gospel music is also big business!
Now perhaps some of you have thought, "But brother, none of that applies to me and none of that applies to us as a local church." Well I certainly hope that is true. But even if none of that applies to you directly, it definitely applies indirectly. Why? Because there is one Church, one body, and if one member of the body is suffering then the whole body is suffering (1 Corinthians 12:26).
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? Isaiah 42:22-23
Those verses, like so many others in the Old Testament, are prophetic of the time in which we live. They certainly apply right now to the charismatic churches in America which are a people robbed and spoiled. We have been robbed because those in leadership positions have not spoken the word of the Lord, but instead have been pastors who feed themselves. We have been spoiled on the milk of the word and by those who make a name and wealth for themselves. And we love to have it so (Jeremiah 5:31).
We are snared in holes and hid in prison houses and do not know it. Christianity is growing by leaps and bounds in China, India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. A few years ago I read, from a very reliable source, that in those parts of the world the increase is thousands of new Christians every DAY! But in the United States, the grapes are withering on the vine. It is rare for a charismatic church to have one new convert per MONTH. Why? These messages attempt to provide at least partial answers to that question.
Isaiah 42:22 says that we are for a prey. That means that we are hunted by the adversary simply because we are believers.
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?Isaiah 49:24
A mouse is a prey for a cat. What did the mouse do to deserve being a prey for a cat? Nothing! It was simply born a mouse. The second, third, and fourth generation of the Israelites who were in bondage and captivity in Egypt were also a prey. They had grown up in an environment and all they knew was a life of bondage. They had never experienced anything else. What had they done to deserve being in bondage? Nothing! They simply were born into that environment. They never knew there was a better way. Finally, after 400 years of increasing bondage, suffering, and hardship, the Israelites cried out to God and God sent a deliverer, Moses, who led them out of Egypt. In like manner, many charismatic believers today have grown up in an environment and just assume that their "leaders" are preaching the truth. These lovely believers have never known there is a higher way!
What about a "lawful captive?" We believers become a lawful captive whenever we sin through omission or commission, through word or deed. As a lawful captive we are subject to the will of the adversary. If we have become a lawful captive, no amount of prophecy, praise, or prayer will restore us. We must run to the cross and sincerely ask forgiveness for going astray.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
Isaiah 42:22 says prophetically that none delivereth the charismatic churches in America. The blind are leading the blind. That same verse says that none saith, Restore! We can think of only three possible reasons why none saith restore. The first reason is fear, which comes in many forms. Fear of losing "our" money or position. We like to speak only smooth things to keep everyone happy and keep the money coming in. On November 4, 1977, the Lord gave me a word: "It is the fear of man that hinders the body of Christ from functioning; but it is the fear of God that compels us to function." Whenever the Church loses that scriptural fear of God, the enemy comes in like a flood.
The second reason is ignorance; none are able to see the need to proclaim restoration.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me: Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6
Paul, six times in the New Testament, says, "brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant of ..."(Romans 1:13, Romans 11:25, 1 Corinthians 10:1, 1 Corinthians 12:1, 2 Corinthians 1:8, and 1 Thessalonians 4:13). Peter says the same thing in 2 Peter 3:8.
The third possible reason is indifference, which may also include the desire to maintain the status quo, don't rock the boat, keep everybody happy, keep the money coming in.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth.17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Revelation 3:16-17
The last verse, above, combines BOTH indifference and ignorance. We are not so naive as to believe that this is the first proclamation of the word "restore" in modern America. We are sure that this word is not hid in a corner. Neither are we so naive to believe that the mere utterance of the word, restore, is sufficient. This must be a heartfelt cry from the depths of our being! But enough is enough! It is time for the Lord to have His way! God will have that which He desires, with or without me and with or without you. We believe very strongly that God presently is in the process of restoration. A new sound is being heard in the earth by those who have ears to hear! We will set forth some scriptural, historical, and experiential guidelines concerning both how the individual believer and the Church should function during these last days if we desire His Divine restoration.
A word of caution is in order! What we present should not be interpreted as a cookbook approach to the restoration of the Church. Too many Christians today are looking for some "magic formula" or 1-2-3 steps to follow. Such an approach is always doomed to failure! Restoration is NOT about do's and don'ts. The Lord is no longer saying, "Thou shalt do this" or "thou shalt not do that." The Lord Himself desires to teach us by the Holy Spirit as we cry out to Him. Only the Spirit of God can shed His light into our hearts and dispel the darkness. The question is, do we want to be part of the problem (those who need to be recovered from the snares of the enemy) or part of the solution (those who will be deliverers in these end times), as foretold in Obadiah 21?
And saviours [or deliverers] shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's. Obadiah 21
What does the mount of Esau refer to? The flesh ... the carnal mind.
May the Lord be merciful to us as we seek our part in His restoration! Amen.
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