I have different definitions for the use of “believe”, “think” and “know”. For the purposes of this article, what I will relate will be under the category of “believe”. While I was ill, the consequences of the pain medication and brain infection were hallucinations. The information below was given to me on the night of December 27/28 to the best of my recollection. I do not know if God was guiding me or an angel of the Lord. I do know that the guidance has given me peace. I will just call my counselor a spiritual advisor from the Lord.
I have had much time to reflect on this guidance prior to being able to write about it. Imagine being able to ask any question and receive an answer immediately. What would you ask first?
Me: What can I do to serve the Lord?
Counselor: Be a Man of God
Me: Can you clarify what that means? [I wanted to be clear of the counselor’s definition]
Counselor: A Man of God fights evil. A Man of God does not ask to be “picked” before he acts: he is guided by the Word. A Man of God surrounds himself with other Men of God. Men of God are guided by the Word. They work together to fight evil.
Me: [I did not ask the question but the Counselor responded to what I was thinking]
Counselor: Men of God do not fight amongst themselves. If there is a discussion on the meaning of the Word, then Men of God use the Word to keep on track. If there is division within your group of Men, then the source is not a Man of God but someone who is working against you by dividing you.
Me: [I asked about how I can impact a larger issue such as the attacks on our children. I do not remember the exact issue but the answer gave me great peace].
Counselor: You do not need to be concerned with the larger problems. God is in control and He is guiding their outcome.
Me: [I remember that the counselor always spoke in the same tone without inflection. He did not give me any reproach as if I had overstepped a boundary for what I could personally impact. I believe the counselor knew that I meant no disrespect and was not questioning God’s plan.
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I will update this article as I write separate articles on more answers that I was given concerning:
- The church
- Protests
- Law enforcement
- Shunning
- Our children’s safety and education
- Vaccines
At no point did the role of women come into the counseling: all work was to be done by Men of God. I am not alluding to anything other than it is up to Men of God to fight evil. This was a concept that I had not considered before in our time but it is written in the Bible that men are the head of the family.
I always knew that we are in a fight of good vs. evil. I never differentiated between being “picked” by God before fighting evil. I never considered a differentiation between the levels of fighting evil before. God never gives us more than we can handle: the trick is that we must rely on his Divine Providence in order to win. That is where faith comes in. God may pick us for certain tasks but it is our obligation to fight evil. This means physically and spiritually.
David DeGerolamo
Thank you for sharing this, I needed to read it.
You have been visited by the Lord. We should listen to our dreams or forecasts. Last night I dreamed of confusion. Our society was over ran with it, and people ran to and fro like confused rats. May God bless you.
Isaiah 6:8 He asked who would He send, not where He would send me… or you…
David, this is excellent! I believe the Ruach Hachodesh the one Yeshua called the comforting counselor spoke to you. So what a blessing! I would like to discuss this with you further in private or even in person if you are willing.
Well been praying hard for guidance! What I keep getting is , Do not deny my vengeance! Not sure what to do with that?
What would you ask first? Obviously, I would test the spirit to see if it was from YHWH. (1 John 4:1-6; Deuteronomy 13)
Thx
It never entered my mind that the counselor was evil. It never enters my mind to question any information sent from above. My prayer every day is to do the Lord’s work in His name for His glory. I read the above and started to laugh. I had a picture of Moses in front of God asking Him for credentials
I agree with all this this and look forward to more. The point that men are to be leaders is something that should be driven into every Christian man. We as men have failed this miserably and we need to be called out on it and encouraged (or driven) to do it. Keep it up.
God does not talk to us. He has given us his word.
Jeff, is this a statement of fact, or your opinion? If it is a statement of fact, please share where in scripture it states this. There are any instances where God spoke to those He chose to. I personally know of nowhere in His Word that He, or His appointed messengers, have stopped.
Hebrews 1
1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds
Also, just btw, this is the historic Christian view. Look at any historic creed or confession. When God spoke to Moses from the bush, do you think regular Israelites each got their own bush? Does the donkey talking to Balaam mean that God now talks to people through animals. God spoke through prophets who were in every case also performing great miracles to prove their position. Scripture does not paint a picture anywhere where regular people are being talked to by God outside of redemptive history. Is this where the patriotic militant right is now? Our leaders now hallucinate from drugs brain infection and get messages from God?
Sounds to me as if David is describing a messenger (counselor.) i believe we still have those messengers who are still in this day serving God.
We can not discount. Acts 2:17
In the last days…
17‘And it shall be in the last days, says Elohim, that I shall pour out of My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams,
Also, i do not look to David, or Wes as they are my leader, why would you? i would be content with them as brothers. Yahuah’s Son as my Master and our leader. Glory returns to the Father in this way.
Amen.
You are putting God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in a box…yes, the trinity, God in 3 persons. By your words you are putting limits on what He can do; and not do. He can do anything he wants with whomever He chooses; past, present and future. He has shown us through scripture that God has chosen average “joe’s” to be his vessels to do his work. No where in the bible does it state that the fruits of the Spirit have been halted.
I don’t know whether David was visited and spoken to by the Lord or one of His messengers, I was not there. However, he believes he received communication from Him and for now, that is good enough for me.
Thanks for the discussion. Religious things are important things. We can all agree on that. I usually feel that I have very little to contribute to this site and I am mostly here to learn from my betters. However, I am a student of Religion. The religious views being put forth here are novel and not old. John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence was preacher in my church. BenjaminFranklin spoke of my church when he said “it seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk thro’ the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.”. My family still sings from the psalter every morning and evening just like in the colonies. Did you all know that the Pilgrims came to America (among other reasons) so that they could be free to sing psalms. The psalter was the first book printed in the colonies.
Again thanks for allowing me to be so lengthy. I just wanted to quickly answer the scriptural objections given. Acts 2:17 is simply showing that the miracles at Pentecost were fulfilling the prophecy of Joel. This is similar to the church history in the OT, that great times in redemptive history were accompanied with miracles. I have in my possession the writings of the early church fathers (people who knew the apostle John) and they let us know that these miracles did not continue, but ceased as was taught in . John 14:12 teaches us the the church will do more great works in quantity as Christ was only in his ministry for 3 years. If you think that it teaches that your works will actually be greater than Christ’s works, you need to reconsider your religion. I actually believe that the beliefs held here are a result of communism (hegelian dialectic) in the church. If anyone is interested in worshiping on Sundays exactly as the christian church in the colonies, let me know. north central NC. And of course I am not saying that if you do not a gree with me you are not a honest, believing Christian, just that I believe in what the historic church called “the sufficiency of scripture” for the church.
but ceased as was taught in 1 Corinthians 13..
The New England Primer, the first schoolbook printed in the colonies contained the catechism from my church for the religious instruction of children in the colonies. King George called the revolutionary war “the Presbyterian war”. Remember over the past 40 years how the communists have been removing the 10 Commandments from our courthouses? Historically, our laws were based on the 10 Commandments, because the churches still believed in the 10 Commandments. I know many patriots who were very angry at the removing of the Commandments, but did not actually believe in the 10 Commandments. The knowledge of the Sabbath is in our constitution, and one of the first things that our Congress dealt with was should the federal mails run on the Lord’s day? Their answer was no. I am just trying to make a historic argument here, and I appreciate the owners of the site to allow me to continue. I will only post one more time. I am just trying to make the historical point that what I believe concerning religion is what the church has believed even up until the time of the founding of this country. If you all talked to Christians in the colonies like you are talking now they all would have thought you were pretty strange. Your novel views started appearing in the churches in the late 1800s.
How do you simply dismiss “in the last days?” Acts 2:17
You do not believe any one can be blessed by the Holy Spirit and have a one on one relationship with?
Does it bother you that the Sabbath day was changed back in History by the Roman empire?
Also would you list some Novel views?
And i do believe we can and should have these conversations as long as we can behave in the right way.
A follower. I do not believe that I am dismissing these verses, but just explaining what they mean. The Christians there were speaking in foreign languages here at the beginning of the NT church so that foreigners could hear the gospel in their own tongue. People responded with shock and even thought they were drunk. So this is the context. Peter explains what is going on by quoting an entire paragraph from Joel. Acts 2:17-21 is Joel 2:28-32. He is explaining that what is happening is the fulfillment of Joel. That is it. Period. Full stop. People use this passage as an excuse to introduce any kind of bizzaro false religion into the church. Of course I do believe in the work of the Holy Spirit in the Life of the believer. He leads us by making us more like Christ. He is a sanctifying influence on our hearts. By the Holy Spirit we are able to die more and more to sin and live more holy lives. Christ and The apostles changed the day in the NT. We know from the writings of the earliest church fathers that they worshiped on the Lords Day. The views that we are discussing are novel. The church has never used Acts 2 to to defend bizzaro stuff and the church has always believed that Christ changed the Sabbath to the first day of the week. If you do not think these are novel views then name one Christian writer who taught these things before 1900. Thanks. I know what I am promoting seems strange. But at the time of the founding of this nation, every single Christian would have agreed with me. Just point out a historical person that would disagree with me. Churches today do not teach church history because all of church history would disagree with them.
Has the “Day of the Lord,” (i prefer Master) happened?
What makes you think these things will not happen again before this day?
Who do you consider the church fathers?
There is a “church” that seems to promote a lot of bizarro stuff been in existence a very long time.
i do appreciate Charles Spurgeon a great deal.
Honestly i do not put much stock nor faith in many church writers and or “christian” writers. i may read what they say but i always go back to the actual scripture as needed. The Holy Spirit will guide us as He sees fit.
Thanks for replying and engaging in conversation. Will try to check back in morning. after that will probably move on to the next big headline.
Thanks for this info on Joel.
So we have prophecy and we see first fruits. Are we also told of Later fruit?
He most certainly does if we want him to. Chapter 12 of 1 Corinthians lists the manifestations of holy spirit. Word of knowledge, word of wisdom etc. This is specific information God chooses to give to an individual regarding a specific event that they could not know by their 5 senses. It goes beyond the written word. For example, God tells you not to go to NYC on 9/11. That’s word of knowledge.
Holy spirit in the born again believer is what allows us to do the works of Christ and greater, [John 14:12.] Many examples are in the book of Acts after Pentecost. This is what the manifestations are for.
He never claimed that God talked to him directly, but rather a “spiritual advisor from the Lord”. What does give me pause about the vision would be the sentence: “A Man of God does not ask to be ‘picked’ before he acts”. The title Man of God is only given to thirteen individuals in the Bible, mostly prophets, and all of them were clearly chosen by God.
My impression was that Men of God fight evil everyday. As I wrote, I will be giving examples in future articles. I also wrote that larger issues are under God’s control. Those issues will be dealt with by the Lord directly or by those who are picked by Him. This is easy: clean up your community. Do not become prideful or arrogant concerning a place in His plan.
Well said, sir.
Perhaps we just define the term “Man of God” differently? I would only ever use it as a formal title, such as “Moses the Man of God” in Deuteronomy 33:1. So I was keying in on that. I understand that some Christians use the term “man of God” or even “Man of God” much more generically; but I just can’t see YHWH using that phrase so casually. I’m not doubting you; I’m doubting the spirit. It just strikes me as odd. So take it for what it is worth. But yes, I will wait for the rest of your vision.
I used the term that the counselor used. As I wrote, I asked for clarification of the definition. I am not telling anyone what to do. I do believe that a man professing to follow the Word has an obligation to fight evil. Do you want to discuss what label is used to describe a follower of the way? Or do you want to fight evil?
Isa 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
I would not dispute another’s message from God, or judge him, that is between god and an other, not my business!
Again, David thanks for your tireless work and insight!
Women have their own duty as wives, mothers and keeper of the home. God is guiding and instructing us in our own right to prepare the home front with provisions, raising up children in the Word (doesn’t necessarily look like what churches say), guiding the younger women in Godly ways and lastly, we are to encourage and support Godly men as they obey His directives and calling to them. I am hearing that call and am seeing other women being led the same direction.
This has been heavy on my mind. The statement I hear continually- where are the men? -- I ask where are the women? We so desperately need real women to step up. Motherhood should be held in the highest honor. Her children bright, disciplined and respectful. A Wife, as a prize, a partner for life. Maybe this is why we have not engage the enemy. What is it that we are to pledge our lives for? Girls gone wild? -- fans? -- Your words have great meaning I hope they touch many ears.
The Bible outlines the hierarchy between God the Father, Jesus, the Holy Ghost, husband, wife and then children. Real men would never accept the evil that has seized control of our nation.
I found that women were more aggressive in the Tea Party and 912 movement than men 14 years ago. I am not marginalizing women or their role. I am chastising men for not fighting evil.
I am in agreement, we need both, back in traditional roles.
Precisely said, sir. I absolutely agree.
An excellent article, I thank you, David
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