Some Tabernacle Prophesy

A few years ago I sit in a classroom and listen to a women give a report on the Tabernacle. There are a couple of things I would like to pass along. I do not remember The name of the lady so I can not give her the proper credit.

In Exodus 26:7 we see that the curtains were covered with a goats hair curtain. The Bible does not tell us the color of the first tent roof, but other Hebrew writing say it was black. In verse 14 two more coverings are made, the first here is made of rams skin and is dyed red. The next layer is made of Badger skin( or sea cow as some translation say). This layer is said to left white. So when we put them in order the colors are from the bottom are black, red, white. This was to done to show that sin(black) was washed with Blood(red) and makes us spotless(white) in Gods eyes.

The arrangement of the furniture is also a prophesy. As one entered from the East you came first to the Altar of Burnt Offering. In a strait line behind It was the Bronze Laver. The next two items The Table of Showbread, and the Golden Lampstand, which are placed on each side of the Tabernacle. The next was the Altar of Incense placed in a line through the first two. Then the Holy of Holies. If you draw a small drawing of the lay out you find that it forms a cross. You will also see that at the top of the cross is the Most Holy, the very spot where Jesus head would be.

Our Lord was showing the Children of Israel about the death of The Messiah even at this early date. It is hard for me understand how they can not see what He was telling them. Only He Who knows all knows.

Praise God that He made a WAY FOR US.

Attacks On Christian Rights

Today is a beautiful day, the sun is shining, a warm breeze and blue sky. I can not understand how any one can claim this is all a thing of chance.

The Bible tells us that The Lord made it all. He is The One Who put it all in motion. He alone is why we have all that we enjoy on this plant. Genesis 1 tells us the order He created them. There are scientist that try to teach the truth. When they do many loss their jobs, grants, and other moneys. A few years ago California tried to pull the license from a private college for teaching creation, they lost in court. I have taken this class at another college and found it to follow The Bible and to explain by science that The Bible is true.

Evolution is being taught in our schools as fact, not as a unproven theory. When we put this together with the loss of prayer in school, and other attacks on Christian beliefs it becomes a pattern of attacks on our civil rights. We are under siege. I know pastors that believe that it will not be long before they will be jailed if they teach that homosexual active is a sin. We are called intolerant, but sin is sin. Islam is not under attack for teaching the same thing, they execute people for homosexual active. Yet we are the ones called intolerant, another left wing attack.

We all know about the removal of The Ten Commandants from all Government buildings. The ACLU also tried to force the removal of a Cross from a memorial to veterans in California, because it was on Government land. They lost that one because Christian Lawyers fought it.

We must start to show that we will not be shoved aside. We must stand together as one body in Christ. Pray for our country, it is important for our rights.

End Times Part 2

Today I wish to discuss the political things that are happening that show the end times are near.

In 1948 Israel again became a state. In the Bible we are told that after this came to pass that, THAT GENERATION WOULD SEE THE END TIMES. Hal Lindsey was discussing this this weekend. He said that The Bible has 3 different lengths for a generation, 40, 70, and 120 years. We have passed the 40 year mark and the next one is only 10 years off. Even if the end is near the 120Th year we are close.

Russia must also become tied to Persia (Iran). If you read a newspaper or listen to the news you will notice that they are doing this. We are already fighting a proxy war with both of them. Russia supplies arms to Iran, and other technology. The Iranian President believes that he is to start the war that brings the end times. Shiite Islam teaches that the Messiah comes from Iran, and travels to Babylon. The plans to rebuild Babylon were made by Saddam Hussein and they have started the rebuild. Iran is building the road that they believe must be traveled to reach Babylon. Christians believe that the anti-Christ comes from Babylon and that the Messiah will return and destroy Babylon.

Next look at the wars that are going on. The Bible talks about wars and rumors of wars(Matthew 24:6). There are revolutions taking place, we are at war, Israel has been in many in its 60 years. Jesus that "all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. The next verse in Matthew tells us that nation will rise against nation, there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes, which I discussed in part 1. Then the sorrows begin. In the original Greek the term sorrow used here means labor pains as in child birth.

Matthew 24 continues by saying that lawlessness will abound (24:12). Look at our own Country, murder, rape, other violent crimes are an every day thing. Gang active is on the increase, drug use, along with all its problems, are part of most gangs normal activities. When I was young we didn't lock our doors even when we went to bed, today we keep them locked all the time. The love of many has grown cold as Jesus said it would.

The news from around the World is bad, but The Bible gives us the promise of a better day. All who are saved my His Blood know that as time gets short we are getting closer to Home. We should all praise Him with every breath, He alone is worthy.

End Times

The end times are close. Even the planet is showing us that it is near. I want to talk about this. Look at what is happening around the world. There has been a massive cyclone in Myanmar that as of today has killed 22000. This is near the same area that had the tsunami a couple of years ago. The Hawaii volcano is again spewing gas and lava. We are having earthquakes at a growing number. Food is becoming a problem for many in the world, because of flooding and then the lack of rain. Many are dying of starvation every year. There are riots for food taking place. In Revelations 6:8 it says that there will be killing with hunger.

Even in the U.S. we are having these weather problems, just look at New Orleans, and then at the rain fall in the south last year. A couple of weeks ago we had a Earthquake in the Midwest and the west. This year we have had a record number of tornadoes. Then we add to the food problem with our use of food for fuel. Revelations 6:6 tells use that the price of WHEAT and barley will rise. Look at how much a loaf of bread has gone up.
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Things are going to get worse. Revelations 8 tells us this. The first trumpet destroys 1/3 of all the trees and all green grass. Wheat is a grass. The second trumpet destroys 1/3 of all sea creatures. Then our water, 1/3 turning to wormwood, and many will die from the water. Then the light of day becomes 1/3 shorter. I think you can see thing are going to get worse on earth.

I believe that I will not be here for Revelations 8 or even 6., but the signs are pointing that we are getting close to that time. I believe that Jesus will come for his bride before this and those left behind will face the worst of these problems, but I think we will see some of these things start to happen.

I praise God that He has a plan for us. That we will be with Him. I believe that at the end of Revelations 3 the rapture takes place. The Church is not mentioned again on Earth until they return again with Him. We as the Church should strive every day to win souls to Him that saves all who will come to him. To show them His love and that He does not want any to go through the terrible things that are coming.

Drawing a blank

Today I went to the cemetery to visit my mothers grave. As I stood there and looked at it I thought she is the lucky one. She is home, her work is done, her journey complete, but mine has to continue. So today I again must ask the Lord for guidance. What work does He have for me now? Usually He gives me what He wants me to write, but today there seems to be a blank. So I must spend more time in prayer. But what am I suppose to pray about? I try to always pray for his will. Maybe He wants me to relax for a day. He worked for 6 days and then rested, maybe that's what I am suppose to do. Mom was in the hospital for 12 days and I was there everyday. Then of course there comes the funeral and Memorial service. I think all of this has taken it tole on me. So I am going to go to my prayer closet and wait on Him that can give me the peace to go on with His work. That is how and what I will pray.

Eulogy for Mom

Yesterday we buried Mom. This is the Eulogy I wrote in honor of her and I wanted to share it with Everyone



Today we celebrate the life of Nancy Wilma Wright Wilkinson . I could tell you that she was born Mar. 6, 1923 in Onton, Webster Co, Ky. To Lois and Ocia Wright. That she was 1 of 11 children, Or how she loved to sing and play the piano, a talent she taught herself. That she sang duets with her sister June in church. I could also tell you that after high school she moved to Evansville, In. and worked during WW II as a riveter, a working example of Rosie the riveter, where she meet James Paul Wilkinson and married him in June of 1944. That 3 children were born to them, myself in 1945, Kent in 1946 and Cindy in 1952. How one summer no ones garden would grow but hers did enough that she canned and sold green beans. That in 1955 she herded her 3 children onto a Grey Hound bus and moved to Fla. Followed by Dad after we were established there. That after returning to In. and Dad going to Calif. She again, in 1956, herding her 3 children together and we traveled to Calif. By the Santa Fe. railroad to join Dad. Again they had to set up their home. She always met the challenge. How twice while horse playing with her sons she got hurt. Once breaking her hip the other jarring her kidneys loose.

I could also speak of the trips we took to Kentucky, and how she enjoyed seeing her parents, and brothers and sisters and the pain she felt when she lost one of them. She loved the farm she was raised on, and the beautiful Green River.

That she was proud of the area she was from. Once as we were traveling in the mountains of Calif. She spot a car with Vandenberg, In. license plates. As we passed it she rolled down her window and yelled “Evansville” . She probably scared the people in the other car who probably though they had a crazy woman yelling at them from another car. Or that she enjoyed the Calif. Dessert and that her and Dad would go there many times a year, and had planned to retire there.

I could tell you how she took care of Dad as he was dying and how much she missed him after his death in 1976. Of her move to Wash., then to Idaho, then to Ks. To join Cindy, to again live for a while on a farm, which made her happy. How her brained turn against her, how her memory faded, and she was often confused. Or the fun she had at her 85th birthday party, there are pictures of this party on the slide show, but I won’t.

Instead I want to tell you about her first love. She loved Jesus! If you talked to her very long you knew of her love for Him. She was always ready to tell you about Him. Teaching at a Christian preschool was a labor of love. How many of us get to work at a job we love, but she did. She could help to teach the children about the Love of God. Being a co-pastor was a love, again she got to spread the word of God. Even through a bad 2nd marriage Jesus came first. She prayed for her children, her family and her friends. She continued playing piano and singing for the Lord and never passing a chance to tell some one about her Lord and Savior. Any time I called and talked to her the conversation would turn to God. One of her greatest achievements were winning others to God. This was always a labor of love for her. On Monday before she became ill I went to see her at the nursing home and found that she had been reading her Bible and doing her daily devotions. Even though her mind forgot many things she never forgot that Jesus loved her. There is a song written about the writer’s grandmother that says “she can’t remember my name but she remembers that Jesus loves me.” Mom at times couldn’t remember my name but she knew Jesus loved her. She knew that when she passed where she was headed. She had not doubt, she had that knowledge. The knowledge that only a personal walk with Jesus knows.

I know that when she passed Dad was waiting in Heaven for her. They enjoyed going to church together. They worked together for the Lord and now they are together forever. Forever they can worship Him that they both loved. They were both washed in the Blood of Jesus. Cleansed of all unrighteousness, by His Blood. I can imagine them together singing and shout His praises, and if you knew our Dad singing was not his thing. I also know that when she left us Jesus met her and told her WELCOME HOME MY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. COME AND RECEIVE MY PEACE.

Someday soon, I know I will see her again, and she will be healthy, with a perfect mind and body. She will not again have trouble remember names, or where she is at, no more confusion. There will be no more sickness, no more pain, no more sorrow, only happiness. She will greet me and all her saved family with open arms, then we will all be together forever. What a reunion that will be. Jesus, her and us. The circle will then be unbroken, never to be broken again. If anyone here does not know Jesus as your personal Savior, ask Him to come into your life, and you can have this peace that Mom had through troubling times, and you can see her again in glory. There are people here that will be happy to pray with you after the funeral. I can see her shouting with joy if her loved ones come to Jesus, all heaven will join her in rejoicing. The Bible tells us this is so. The Angels will sing and Praise God with her, for one of hers is His, saved by Grace through Jesus our Lord.

So long Mom, until we meet again on the other side of the Jordan, on those Golden streets where Your Lord and Master awaits. Fly away Mom, fly away home.

Mom Has Passed

Yesterday evening around 7pm Mom left us and went to be with The Lord. My sister, her husband, and myself by her side. This is a sad time and a joyous time for us. Sad that for a season we will not be with her, joyous because we know she is in Heaven.