Another Chicken Little? - Now Think On This Steve Martin

Another Chicken Little?

Now Think On This

Steve Martin

"There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves..." (Luke 21:25, NAS)

Back in the day, and maybe even today, there was a cute children's story we learned as little kids. You may remember it. Chicken Little (*Henny Penny, 1823). 

If my memory banks serve me right, Chicken Little went around saying the sky was falling. Wherever he went, he told people, "The sky is falling." He was wanting them to be ready, but when it didn't fall, he became the laughing stock.

All around us in these days, particularly in Christian circles, there are many declaring that the sky is falling, and we better be prepared for the times we are living in. Some laugh and call them crazy; others would fault them for being over spiritual, for after all, these aren't the only times "the sky has been falling."

You know, I for one believe them. I am taking heed to the ones who are saying to look up, to get ready, for these are the times when the signs in the heavens are telling us the sky is falling. Maybe not literally, but maybe so.

Men of integrity and prophetic insight, such as Jim Bakker, Jonathan Cahn, Jesus, Mark Biltz, Perry Stone, Michael Snyder and rick Wiles, to name a few, aren't to be scoffed at. The Lord has given them a word of warning, and we are the foolish ones if we think they are nuts. Again, I for one am eating those words they speak forth. Based on their past history in prophetic understanding, I suggest you might too. (That is why I regularly post their messages on our Love For His People website.)

Personally, I get the weird look from the other's eye when I tell people I have food stored up in my closet. (After all, North Carolina has had hurricanes before.)

"You lack faith if you do that," was one comment many people will profess. Oh really?

Did Noah lack faith when he was told by Someone not seen to build a big, big boat in the middle of a dry, dry desert, for a worldwide flooding rain storm that he didn't even know would really come? But he did. And it did. 120 years later - after he was first told.  It took him between 55-75 years to actually accomplish the immense task, trusting and obeying all along the way. (You have to keep doing it, from start to finish!) But he did obey in faith, and thus he was ready.

Did Joseph lack faith when the Lord God of the Hebrews (Israel) told him how to prepare for the coming seven years? Where did Jesus keep His bank account, other than in Judas's back pocket, whom He knew would do what he would actually do with the money. Yeshua wasn't putting His trust in that back pocket, nor did He have a 401(k) to live off when He retired.

"We must save for the rainy day?" Where in the Bible does it say to do that? Not in my Bible - the Complete Jewish Bible, New American Standard, New King James, The Tree of Life, and others I read and quote from daily. That is truly a European/American financial concept, because people quit believing in the Lord of All, Jehovah Jireh as their provider, and thus had (have) to trust in their money. 

What happens when the money is not there the day you are going to need it? Then whose god are you going to trust in? Wall Street's, or the friendly banker supposedly holding your cash in their vaults? It won't be there anymore when you really want it. 

Ever try getting a few thousand in cash out of your bank account today, if you have that much? The majority of people don't even have a few hundred to draw on. The worldwide financial system is making it more difficult every day to handle your own money. They really don't want you to have it, as they make their wealth off of you. This I know, for the bank tells me so. I work in accounting/finance.

Chicken Little may have a good point if the story was to be rewritten today. The sky may not be literally falling, but the sun, the moon, the stars - put in place at the very beginning of creation, literally, by the Creator Himself, are there for a purpose other than just light. God the Father, and His Only Son Jesus Christ, gave them to us, to speak to us, so that we would not be unaware of the times and the seasons.

"Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. 17God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day." Genesis 1:14-19

"He himself existed before anything else did, and he holds all things together." Colossians 1:17

"Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am." John 8:58

"I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, blood, fire and columns of smoke." Joel 2:30.

Today may not be the day the Lord Jesus returns in glory and power, as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, but it might be. It certainly is closer today than when He left the first time, promising to return. Among all the prophets of the Jews (who through the Holy Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh) gave us the full Bible, Yeshua was among the chief prophets. 

Yeshua (Jesus) said He would be crucified, die, and would rise on the third day. It happened. He did. Just as He said it would.

And that which He prophesied about the End of Days, the times which I firmly believe began moving forward in the fast lane, is ticking majorly on. That historically and spiritual eternal timepiece started the fast track in 1948, when the Jews got their Promised Land back and Israel became a nation again. The fig tree burst forth and is growing rapidly. Have you considered the reality of Israel lately, and the ingathering of the Jewish people? I highly suggest you do.

You have the choice to believe or not what the Lord is clearly displaying in the heavens. How you act upon it is your choice.

Shalom and ahava (peace and love in Hebrew).

   

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

Love For His People, Inc.

  

P.S. I like that this is my number #307 published Now Think On This message. I believe the Lord gives us numbers for a purpose...

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*Wikipedia: Chicken Little The story is listed as Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 20C, which includes international examples of folktales that make light of paranoia and mass hysteria.^[2] There are several Western versions of the story, of which the best-known concerns a chick that believes the sky is falling when an acorn falls on its head. The chick decides to tell the King and on its journey meets other animals (mostly other fowl) which join it in the quest. After this point, there are many endings. In the most familiar, a fox invites them to its lair and there eats them all. Alternatively, the last one, usually Cocky Lockey, survives long enough to warn the chick, who escapes. In others all are rescued and finally speak to the King.

In most retellings, the animals have rhyming names, commonly Chicken Licken or Chicken Little, Henny Penny or Hen-Len, Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky or Ducky Daddles, Drakey Lakey, Goosey Loosey or Goosey Poosey, Gander Lander, Turkey Lurkey and Foxy Loxy or Foxy Woxy.

The moral to be drawn changes, depending on the version. Where there is a "happy ending", the moral is not to be a "Chicken" but to have courage. In other versions where the birds are eaten by the fox, the fable is interpreted as a warning not to believe everything one is told.

In the United States, the most common name for the story is "Chicken Little", as attested by illustrated books for children dating from the early 19th century. In Britain and its other former colonies, it is best known as "Henny Penny" and "Chicken Licken", titles by which it also went in the United States.

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The Restoration of Jim Bakker - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

The Restoration of Jim Bakker

 “The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.” (Job 42:10-11, NASU)

Cindy Jacobs, co-founder of Generals International in Texas, along with her husband Mike, were at Jim Bakker's new Morningside ministry site over the July 4^th, 2017 weekend.

Jim and his wife Lori have a new TV program called "The Jim Bakker Show", viewed by millions on TV and the Internet. I am among those, almost daily watching the hour show for the last two years. Many of the shows I have posted in our Love For His People blog.

Program aired July 12, 2017 - from the July 4, 2017 weekend live show.

As many know, Jim and his former wife Tammy Faye (who died of cancer in 2007) had the Heritage USA ministry "resort", along with the worldwide PTL Network, until 1987.

The Heritage USA park also included the Grand Hotel, the Barn, the Studio, a major waterpark, and at least two very nice camping grounds. Located just south of Charlotte, North Carolina in Fort Mill, South Carolina, it was a great place for Christian families and all to spend 3-7 days as a vacation spot. At its height, it was the third most visited place in America, just behind the two Disney locations.

 Heritage USA road sign in 1985

 How do I know? We were PTL Partners. We had bought three lifetime memberships in 1984 and 1985. We spent two summer vacations there with our family and stopped again in 1987 on our move from Michigan to Florida.

In 1989 Jim Bakker was convicted (wrongly, in my opinion) for some questionable financial situations, and sentenced to 45 years in prison. Not only were the charges unfounded (as proven later) but also the single judge's sentence was absolutely beyond any reasonable just time, based on the conviction. Judge Robert Daniel Potter reportedly said it was to teach Christian TV ministers a lesson.

In February 1991… the court held that Potter's statement at sentencing that Bakker's actions resulted in "those of us who do have a religion" being lampooned as "saps from money-grubbing preachers or priests" was evidence that he had injected his own religious beliefs into considering Bakker's sentence. The sentence was reduced to eight years. In 1994 he was released from prison, after serving five years. Wikipedia

Jim had lost everything. His wife divorced him. In 1993 she married the main contractor of Heritage USA, Roe Messner.

Jim’s children, Tammy Sue and Jamie, were treated mostly with contempt, for decades, by many so-called "Christians".

His beautiful home near Tega Cay, South Carolina, owned by the ministry, was sold while he was in prison. Later it mysteriously burned to the ground.

Living close by, near Charlotte, then and now, I knew of these things on TV and in the newspaper. The Charlotte Observer did all the reporting on all subjects, as much as they could dig up. Before, during, and after Jim's downfall.

Once in prison, he had lost it all. Speaking of Job, Jim Bakker was as the same. No wife, children gone, his former residence burned to the ground, over two decades of ministry lost, and no friends to speak of. Only the Billy Graham family and Rick Joyner of MorningStar stood with him in prison, and after he was released.

During his time behind bars, Jim has repeatedly said, later on his current TV show, that he had spent the time with the Lord Jesus, reading and studying His Word. He got to know the Lord. Jesus had told him that that was the purpose of his time there.

Now let’s go back to Cindy and Mike Jacob on the July 12, 2017 airing of The Jim Bakker Show.

Half-way through the hour, Cindy shared a profound prophetic word. (Watch the program here.) In essence, the Lord spoke that restoration, double of all that Jim had lost back then, was coming forth.

The Jim Bakker Show - July 2017 program

Already he had remarried (Lori Graham Bakker), has had his children restored in their relationship with their father, and just last year (2016) got the name of the ministry TV network back, the PTL Network. (He now said it stands for the "Prophets Talk Loud" network, having many well-known, faithful, accurate prophets on the daily show.)

On the TV set, Cindy declared that not only was restoration coming double fold, but it even included that an actual miniature train, and merry-go-round, similar to the famous and popular ones back in the days of Heritage USA, were going to be restored to Jim. These had been dear to his heart too, for the kids he loved. As she spoke these words, you could see the emotion swell on Jim’s face.

Restoration! Prophetic word from Cindy Jacobs: 

She heard a train whistle as she came ion the new property.

Jim will get his train back...and another merry-go-round!

(Photos from Heritage USA 1983-1985.)

Even as the Lord restored all that had been lost for Job, so it is happening before our eyes these days 
for Jim Bakker. 

“The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold. 

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.  He had seven sons and three daughters.” (Job 42:10-14, NASU)

I have always admired Jim Bakker. He is a man of faith, a man small in stature but having a big heart, and a builder, both in the natural and the spiritual.

I have met Jim. I like him a lot, and rejoice to see the wrong now being righted. We serve a just God.

Full restoration is promised by the Living God of Israel. We see it with His chosen people the Jews; we see it testified by believers over the centuries, and now we see it in the life of Jim Bakker.

Morningside near Branson, Arkansas 2017

“I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate, the grasshoppers, shearer-worms and cutter-worms, my great army that I sent against you. You will eat until you are satisfied and will praise the name of Adonai your God, who has done with you such wonders. Then my people will never again be shamed. You will know that I am with Isra’el and that I am Adonai your God, and that there is no other. Then my people will never again be shamed.

“After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions, and also on male and female slaves in those days I will pour out my Spirit. I will show wonders in the sky and on earth — blood, fire and columns of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai.”

At that time, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as Adonai has promised; among the survivors will be those whom Adonai has called.” (Joel 2:25-3:5, Complete Jewish Bible)

Thank you, Lord Jesus, for restoration! We all can have restoration in our lives.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

Love For His People, Inc.

P.S. One of the main reasons I believe the Lord has restored Jim Bakker is because of his love and support for Israel and the Jewish nation. Even at Heritage USA he had built the "Upper Room", a replica he had done on the South Carolina property after his trip to Israel. On his current show, he often has guests who support Israel. Last year he went on another tour of Israel with Rabbi Jonathan Chan, a frequent guest, and author of the best-seller The Harbinger.
                         The Upper Room - still stands in 2017. Less than seven miles from our house.

                                 Rabbi Jonathan Cahn on the Jim Bakker Show 2017

  

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The Word of the Lord Shall Come Forth From Jerusalem - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

The Word of the Lord

Shall Come Forth From Jerusalem

Now Think On This

Steve Martin

“And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that He may teach us concerning His ways and that we may walk in His paths. For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”

(Isaiah 2:3 NASU)

The Word of the Lord shall again come forth from Jerusalem. The very place where the Lord God of Israel chose, of all the places on earth He could have chosen, is the land of Israel, Eretz Yisrael. His Word will again go forth in power and truth from that very location. In our day.

I like how The Message also states the verse above, as I have included more verses in order to get a fuller picture of what the prophet Isaiah proclaimed centuries ago. This very Word of the Lord is coming forth in our time, directly from the land of Israel.

“The message Isaiah got regarding Judah and Jerusalem: “There's a day coming when the mountain of God's House will be The Mountain — solid, towering over all mountains. All nations will river toward it, people from all over set out for it. They'll say, "Come, let's climb God's Mountain, go to the House of the God of Jacob. He'll show us the way he works so we can live the way we're made."

Zion's the source of the revelation. God's Message comes from Jerusalem. He'll settle things fairly between nations. He'll make things right between many peoples. They'll turn their swords into shovels, their spears into hoes. No more will nation fight nation; they won't play war anymore. Come, family of Jacob, let's live in the light of God.” (Isaiah 2:1-5, THE MESSAGE)

I have become more attuned in recent years to those Jews whom the Lord has chosen, saved and now set in place, as teachers in the Body of Christ, the Body of Messiah. These are ones who even more so are prophetically and accurately speaking to the nations. From their lineage, history, culture and with a deeper, fuller understanding of the Scriptures, these ones get it, and are giving it. And now they are the ones chosen by the Lord to proclaim it to all the nations.

They are the Messianic Jews, or “believers” as some of them prefer to be simply called.

As I look back at the great Bible teachers in my lifetime, men such as Derek Prince, Bob Mumford, Charles Simpson and several others, I have realized that these were (still) all Gentiles. The Holy Spirit had anointed them with the gift of teaching, and they did an excellent job, equipped with the understanding and knowledge having been given to them. They had brought us thus far.

But now, as the days of the Gentiles are waning, the years of the Jewish believers are coming on strong. It is as it has been prophesied.

As Yeshua (Jesus) Himself proclaimed and prophesied, “And they (the Jews) will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” (Luke 21:24 NKJV)

The time of that time is now.

In 1967 the nation of Israel, the Jews, once again took rightful control and ownership of all of Jerusalem, as they were the victors during the Six Day War over the millions of Arabs who had surrounded them. Not since 70 A.D, when the Roman General Titus destroyed Jerusalem, and in particular the Jewish Second Temple (which was standing on what is today the Temple Mount), did the Jews possess this sacred parcel of land - the very land which the Lord Himself had said He had put His name on it. Forever. For all eternity.

Scripture says, “…in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers — only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them." (2 Kings 21:7-8 NKJV)

The Jews were scattered throughout the earth as it been so prophesied. During the days of King David and King Solomon (Jewish kings), the Jewish prophets were speaking of return. And then, since the days of the Roman (Gentile) rule over this land, when the Romans drove them out, scattering the rightful inhabitants of the land, the Jews, to the wind, Gentile kingdoms ruled over the land. For these past 2000 years, Gentiles had “trampled” the land. 

But that has now come to an end.

Again, as historically written, and proclaimed in Luke 21:24 by the Messiah Himself, Yeshua, Jesus Christ, these times of the Gentiles were coming to an end at some point in time. That time has now been fulfilled, since that historical triumph at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in 1967. It ended the Gentile rule.

It is now the appointed, prophesied time for the Jewish believers to take the lead, to be the ones taking charge. They shall be doing the proclaiming and teaching.

As I understand it prophetically now, Yeshua-believing Jews are now the primary ones we should be looking to, as they are being raised up to bring forth the Word of the Lord from His Land. Those Jewish teachers and prophets from the group of Messianics, the Jewish believers in Yeshua HaMashiach. They will have the most current word for the nations. They do even now.

I have found myself listening and learning more and more from Messianic Jewish Bible teachers and prophets in these past years, than from any other teachers of the Word. Men like Jonathan Cahn, Barry Segal, Joel Rosenberg, Peter Wyns, Michael Brown, Warren Marcus, Sid Roth, Ron Cantor, Sam Nadler, Chuck Cohen, Scott Volk, Jonathan Bernis, Aviel Schneider, Richard and Carolyn Hyde and many more.

Though not all of these fore mentioned men of the Lord are currently living in Israel (not yet), they are Jews, believers in Yeshua, who are expounding on the full Word of the Lord, from Genesis to Revelation. Their understanding of the Jewish prophets, from Moses through Micah, is beyond any of that which Gentile teachers have understood thus far. They have been given the fuller package.

Ruach HaKodesh (Hebrew), the Holy Spirit, has once again chosen the Jews to bring forth the Lord’s word from Zion, and specifically from the Jewish city of Jerusalem.

I encourage you to watch them on TV, get their emails, read their websites, and subscribe to their YouTube messages. You will be blessed if you also pray for them, and give financial support (out of your wallet, checkbook or credit card!) for their ministries. My good wife Laurie and I certainly do, and have been for over a decade.

Since the first days of the church, beginning in Acts with Peter, James, John, Paul - or should we call them by their Hebrew/Jewish names (Peter was Shimon, James was Yakov, John was Yocahanan, Bartholomew was Bar-Talmai, and Paul was Saul) – Jewish believers have once again been gifted with His word, to be proclaimed in the nations now.

The Jewish prophets proclaimed this would happen. Our Savior Yeshua affirmed it. We are living in the times of the end when it is happening now. What a blessed people we are – the One New Man of Jews and Gentile believers!

I encourage you to listen and learn from them. I believe they have been given the NOW word, for these days and times the world has entered.

The marathon baton has been given back to our Messianic Jewish brothers, for this final sprint, to take the lead in telling the world of the good news of Messiah Yeshua, Jesus Christ.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

Love For His People, Inc.

                     

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