I clicked this because of the title "I Have Been Arrested." I'm a former police officer who used to arrest people, so I was wondering just what "crime" you might have committed! :)
I find it incredible that God has created man and animals to have curiosity as a part of our nature. I include animals here because God included them in His Word and especially in His covenant with man immediately after the flood...AND because ministering to animal lovers is my "ministry!" I LOVE that you have a curious nature that you are researching and exploring the spiritual topics that you mentioned.
It doesn't matter to me whether I will be raptured before the great tribulation, during it, or after it. I don't care because I have NO FEAR of what will happen on earth. God has promised protection and provision and He is faithful and His Word is Truth! I don't care about dispensationalism theories but I am committed to praying for the peace of Jerusalem since this is what the Word tells us to do. I embrace both the old and the new testament as the Holy Spirit uses both testaments to speak to me! But what I DO care about is fixing my eyes on Jesus. He is not only my Lord who I have surrendered my desires, my plans, and my will to so that He can use me to bring Him the utmost glory. He is my Savior where I acknowledge that He died to save me from my sins and He is THE WAY, the only way, for us to become holy through Jesus and to spend eternity in God's Kingdom.
But Geoffrey, even though I might not agree with everything that you wrtie (to be honest, I have not read all that much of your writing) and even though much of what you write doesn't intrigue me (the topics you mentioned in this post don't really resonate with me---I came to read about your ARREST RECORD, not about dispensationalism), I AM EXCITED to know that you have listened to Holy Spirit and that you are building a platform here based on God's Word! YOU GO, GUY!
RE: Heavenly father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are leading you into all truth and (that is only because) you are ALLOWING them too!
Or, in other words, Humanism’s un-crucified self-willed flesh presumptuously declares its Humanist Gospel to Geoffrey Stroud—
Heavenly father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are gratefully leading you into all truth because you (i.e. the self-willed lump of clay in the LORD Potter’s hands) self-righteously made a carnal-minded decision to sovereignly grant its Humanist permission, that graciously ALLOWS them too!
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When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit. At that moment the Old ‘wineskin’ Covenant veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.…Matthew 27:51
For the good lawful commandments in the Old ‘Wineskin’ Covenant that I self-righteously will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in my unregenerate ‘old wineskin’ covenanted heart. I find then a law, that evil is present with my circumcised ‘old wineskin’ covenanted heart, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the Mosaic law of God according to the circumcised ‘old wineskin’ hearted inward man. But I see another law in my carnal-minded members, warring against the Mosaic law of my ‘old wineskin’ covenanted mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this unregenerate ‘old wineskin’ hearted body of death? I thank God for putting to death the ‘old wineskin’ Mosaic Covenant law —through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then (before Saul’s miraculous regeneration on the Damascus road, receiving Christ’s Holy Spirit filled ‘new wineskin’ heart), with the circumcised ‘old wineskin’ covenanted mind I myself serve the Mosaic law of God, but with the un-crucified flesh’s carnal-minded self-will, the law of sin.
The word of the LORD came to me, saying…I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new faithful (new wineskin) heart and put a new obedient spirit within you; I will remove your unbelieving (old wineskin) heart of stone and give you a repentant heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit (New Wine) within you and compel you to dependently walk in My statutes and desire to carefully observe My ordinances. Ezekiel 36:25
Therefore, beloved wise virgins in Christ’s Bride, continue to joyfully take up your daily martyrs cross and obediently work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who compellingly works in you to will and to act on behalf of His foreordained good purpose. Philippians 2:12
Not sure whether you are yeh or nay. No likes, so I am assuming you are nay. If you are sitting under the fig tree, the tree withered over 2,000 years ago. If under Christ, hallelujah!
Not sure whether or not you have been regenerated with an obedient ‘new wineskin’ heart by which the indwelling Spirit (New Wine) of God’s holy will sovereignly compels you to obey His holy commandment in Revelation 18:4. Disobedient foolish virgins from Christ’s holy Bride idolatrously sit as digitally-marked (SS#) dependent wards that are happily held captive, from cradle to grave, within the abominable Socialistic Security System of the Marxist Beast’s UN Global Village. Wise virgins in Christ’s socialistically-un-secured Bride, cannot entrust their soul’s welfare and security within the beloved hands of two diametrically opposed masters—both the Orwellian Marxist Beast (Big Bother Uncle Sam) and the Lord Christ Jesus. If you are repentantly led to sit under Christ’s regenerated fig tree that withered over 2,600 years ago and overlooks the resurrected dry bones in Jordon’s valley (Ezekiel 37:1-14); hallelujah! (Ezekiel 36:24-27)
I never could understand why so many split off the 70th week from the 69th week, when they all go together as one continuous period of time.
And as I have looked at those 70 week charts, I have seen tacked on to the beginning of the 70th week, the non-Biblical teaching of a secret rapture. Many have been so misled by this teaching. The Bible teaches there is only one "ride" to heaven, and that is when Jesus returns, and the righteous living WITH the resurrected righteous, meet Jesus in the air, and return to heaven with Him.
I'm excited for you and will be watching for your future posts!
I'm so glad Heavenly father Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are leading you into all truth and you are allowing them too! This is truly wonderful to hear and letting go of man's traditions of errors and instead listening to the great Shepherd, master and teacher Jesus sitting at His feet. I'm very excited for you!!
After a period of contemplation, I have concluded that an 'explanation' of my prior allusion to being HUMBLED might - somehow - HELP someone, somewhere...
Recently I underwent a Surgey to remove a mid-sized Tumor in my Bladder.
Thereafter, that bioptic sample was sent out for a Pathology evaluation... the results were not 'Good'.
Type: Sarcopenoid...Hyper-Aggresive
Prognosis: 6 months to two years...no more.
Unbelieveably, being told that had ZERO effect upon me. Someone could have just told me what they ATE for lunch.
They explained that they WANTED to basically 're-plumb' my urinary tract, basically gutting me like a Fish.
I said, NO.
They then held out the possibility that Chemo, another surgery identical to the first and thereafter Chemo/Radiation MIGHT give me a 'few more months'.
I thanked them and went upon my way...
My friend who had accompanied me that day was CRUSHED. I comforted her throughout the long drive back...
Thereafter, I called to inform my family of the Grim News. All reacted as had my Friend, ALL I ended up comforting.
My 83 year old Mother FLEW to Seattle, thinking to accompany me through the process. There I comforted HER also.
Still, I was unaffected by my Dr's "Yea, though I WALK through the Valley of the Shadow of DEATH' speech. I knew what had been said...yet none of it elicited any FEAR within me.
????
None near me could fathom WHY I was so unaffected...neither could I.
Thereafter I was COMPELLED to return FAR North to put my House into 'hibernation' ere - I thought - returning to Seattle.
Such was NOT to be...
My family had been stridently attempting to convince me to return to the MidWest however I had concerns about UPROOTING my treatment and travelling across half the Nation.
Arriving at my HOME my Mother was somewhat weary from the travelling and I was yet FAR too energized from driving to rest...then.
I convinced her to just lay in my bed and SLEEP.
As I sat on my couch the urge to PRAY came upon me,
"Father, if EVER I NEEDED GUIDANCE, IT IS NOW...."
No sooner had the LAST word been formed in my mind than the HOLY SPIRIT WAS present...
"GET THEE UP AND RETURN TO YOUR FAMILY...LEST YOU SHALL SURELY DIE."
I did not 'take that' to the LEFT or to the RIGHT...I simply OBEYED.
Calling the VA in my - prior - homestate, I informed them of my pressing NEED to relocate BACK...and of the DIAGNOSIS at hand.
They PERKED UP THEN and after confirming the diagnosis said, "Come BACK NOW...We will MOVE Heaven and Earth to MAKE this happen."
And they DID...
HOME AGAIN, I settled in...
The appointments came FAST and FURIOUS...
I was quickly - ultra-speed - scheduled for a Chest CT AND a PET Scan...both intended to determine WHERE and WHERE NOT the Cancer WAS...
The CT Results were IMMEDIATE...CLEAR.
We awaited the 'Other' results. Presently I received a call from my NEW Oncologist...who had already previously, confirmed the WORST.
" Your PET is virtually CLEAN except for the INTERIOR of the Bladder. I have to tell you, this Cancer IS RARE and Viciously aggresive. We only see perhaps 500 cases a year GLOBALLY of this and we NEVER 'Catch it QUICKLY enough' to make a Difference.
HERE...for possibly the FIRST TIME EVER THAT opportunity EXIST! I am CANCELLING your Chemo AND your Radiation protocol; we CAN DIG THIS OUT!"
Naturally, I thanked him...and sat in a state of unnatural PEACE but ALSO in a heightened State of AWARENESS such as I have never experienced: COLORS WERE BRILLIANT!...I HEARD INSECT CRAWLING THROUGH THE GRASS, MOLES DIGGING IN THE SOIL NEAR ME, I SMELLED things I never have before...
Later, I spoke to a TRUE CHRISTIAN Friend of mine, describing the prior weeks AND what I had also experienced when the DOOM upon me WAS LIFTED by a Mighty HAND...
"You ARE Blessed..." he began, "The PEACE that you have felt IS A MIGHTY GIFT; the PEACE THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING! What you experienced after your Oncologist called is UNKNOWN to me...but that can scarce be OTHER than another GREAT GIFT, one for which we have NO NAME."
I am a Sinner...I AM surely - at MOST - the LEAST of my Father's Servants on EARTH and I do NOT DESERVE any extraordinary treatment, IN MY OWN SIGHT.
It IS a Mystery unto me.
We not only CANNOT comprehend our Father's LOVE for us...we cannot even BEGIN to UNDERSTAND HOW HE VIEWS US.
As stated...I was RECENTLY Humbled - in EXTREMIS.
Be WELL, please be SAFE in the coming Days...and BE BLESSED beyond MEASURE.
I clicked this because of the title "I Have Been Arrested." I'm a former police officer who used to arrest people, so I was wondering just what "crime" you might have committed! :)
I find it incredible that God has created man and animals to have curiosity as a part of our nature. I include animals here because God included them in His Word and especially in His covenant with man immediately after the flood...AND because ministering to animal lovers is my "ministry!" I LOVE that you have a curious nature that you are researching and exploring the spiritual topics that you mentioned.
It doesn't matter to me whether I will be raptured before the great tribulation, during it, or after it. I don't care because I have NO FEAR of what will happen on earth. God has promised protection and provision and He is faithful and His Word is Truth! I don't care about dispensationalism theories but I am committed to praying for the peace of Jerusalem since this is what the Word tells us to do. I embrace both the old and the new testament as the Holy Spirit uses both testaments to speak to me! But what I DO care about is fixing my eyes on Jesus. He is not only my Lord who I have surrendered my desires, my plans, and my will to so that He can use me to bring Him the utmost glory. He is my Savior where I acknowledge that He died to save me from my sins and He is THE WAY, the only way, for us to become holy through Jesus and to spend eternity in God's Kingdom.
But Geoffrey, even though I might not agree with everything that you wrtie (to be honest, I have not read all that much of your writing) and even though much of what you write doesn't intrigue me (the topics you mentioned in this post don't really resonate with me---I came to read about your ARREST RECORD, not about dispensationalism), I AM EXCITED to know that you have listened to Holy Spirit and that you are building a platform here based on God's Word! YOU GO, GUY!
Thank you…your insight is greatly appreciated.
Scripture is often ‘thick and inscrutable’, it is a joy to have someone with INSIGHT to decode it.
JOG…Many Thanks.
Thanks for the encouragement.
Geoffrey Stroud
RE: Heavenly father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are leading you into all truth and (that is only because) you are ALLOWING them too!
Or, in other words, Humanism’s un-crucified self-willed flesh presumptuously declares its Humanist Gospel to Geoffrey Stroud—
Heavenly father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are gratefully leading you into all truth because you (i.e. the self-willed lump of clay in the LORD Potter’s hands) self-righteously made a carnal-minded decision to sovereignly grant its Humanist permission, that graciously ALLOWS them too!
----
When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit. At that moment the Old ‘wineskin’ Covenant veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.…Matthew 27:51
For the good lawful commandments in the Old ‘Wineskin’ Covenant that I self-righteously will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in my unregenerate ‘old wineskin’ covenanted heart. I find then a law, that evil is present with my circumcised ‘old wineskin’ covenanted heart, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the Mosaic law of God according to the circumcised ‘old wineskin’ hearted inward man. But I see another law in my carnal-minded members, warring against the Mosaic law of my ‘old wineskin’ covenanted mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this unregenerate ‘old wineskin’ hearted body of death? I thank God for putting to death the ‘old wineskin’ Mosaic Covenant law —through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then (before Saul’s miraculous regeneration on the Damascus road, receiving Christ’s Holy Spirit filled ‘new wineskin’ heart), with the circumcised ‘old wineskin’ covenanted mind I myself serve the Mosaic law of God, but with the un-crucified flesh’s carnal-minded self-will, the law of sin.
The word of the LORD came to me, saying…I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new faithful (new wineskin) heart and put a new obedient spirit within you; I will remove your unbelieving (old wineskin) heart of stone and give you a repentant heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit (New Wine) within you and compel you to dependently walk in My statutes and desire to carefully observe My ordinances. Ezekiel 36:25
Therefore, beloved wise virgins in Christ’s Bride, continue to joyfully take up your daily martyrs cross and obediently work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who compellingly works in you to will and to act on behalf of His foreordained good purpose. Philippians 2:12
Not sure whether you are yeh or nay. No likes, so I am assuming you are nay. If you are sitting under the fig tree, the tree withered over 2,000 years ago. If under Christ, hallelujah!
Geoffrey Stroud
Not sure whether or not you have been regenerated with an obedient ‘new wineskin’ heart by which the indwelling Spirit (New Wine) of God’s holy will sovereignly compels you to obey His holy commandment in Revelation 18:4. Disobedient foolish virgins from Christ’s holy Bride idolatrously sit as digitally-marked (SS#) dependent wards that are happily held captive, from cradle to grave, within the abominable Socialistic Security System of the Marxist Beast’s UN Global Village. Wise virgins in Christ’s socialistically-un-secured Bride, cannot entrust their soul’s welfare and security within the beloved hands of two diametrically opposed masters—both the Orwellian Marxist Beast (Big Bother Uncle Sam) and the Lord Christ Jesus. If you are repentantly led to sit under Christ’s regenerated fig tree that withered over 2,600 years ago and overlooks the resurrected dry bones in Jordon’s valley (Ezekiel 37:1-14); hallelujah! (Ezekiel 36:24-27)
I am indeed.
I never could understand why so many split off the 70th week from the 69th week, when they all go together as one continuous period of time.
And as I have looked at those 70 week charts, I have seen tacked on to the beginning of the 70th week, the non-Biblical teaching of a secret rapture. Many have been so misled by this teaching. The Bible teaches there is only one "ride" to heaven, and that is when Jesus returns, and the righteous living WITH the resurrected righteous, meet Jesus in the air, and return to heaven with Him.
I'm excited for you and will be watching for your future posts!
Thank you Allison. I am excited too. Christ is King now and reigns at the right hand of YAH. Please feel free to contact me any time. Bless you.
I'm so glad Heavenly father Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are leading you into all truth and you are allowing them too! This is truly wonderful to hear and letting go of man's traditions of errors and instead listening to the great Shepherd, master and teacher Jesus sitting at His feet. I'm very excited for you!!
Thank you Ma'am!
I was recently HUMBLED in Extremis. That DOES give one 'NEW EYES' with which to SEE...Doesn't it?
Praise the Lord GOD ALMIGHTY!
AMEN!
JOG
After a period of contemplation, I have concluded that an 'explanation' of my prior allusion to being HUMBLED might - somehow - HELP someone, somewhere...
Recently I underwent a Surgey to remove a mid-sized Tumor in my Bladder.
Thereafter, that bioptic sample was sent out for a Pathology evaluation... the results were not 'Good'.
Type: Sarcopenoid...Hyper-Aggresive
Prognosis: 6 months to two years...no more.
Unbelieveably, being told that had ZERO effect upon me. Someone could have just told me what they ATE for lunch.
They explained that they WANTED to basically 're-plumb' my urinary tract, basically gutting me like a Fish.
I said, NO.
They then held out the possibility that Chemo, another surgery identical to the first and thereafter Chemo/Radiation MIGHT give me a 'few more months'.
I thanked them and went upon my way...
My friend who had accompanied me that day was CRUSHED. I comforted her throughout the long drive back...
Thereafter, I called to inform my family of the Grim News. All reacted as had my Friend, ALL I ended up comforting.
My 83 year old Mother FLEW to Seattle, thinking to accompany me through the process. There I comforted HER also.
Still, I was unaffected by my Dr's "Yea, though I WALK through the Valley of the Shadow of DEATH' speech. I knew what had been said...yet none of it elicited any FEAR within me.
????
None near me could fathom WHY I was so unaffected...neither could I.
Thereafter I was COMPELLED to return FAR North to put my House into 'hibernation' ere - I thought - returning to Seattle.
Such was NOT to be...
My family had been stridently attempting to convince me to return to the MidWest however I had concerns about UPROOTING my treatment and travelling across half the Nation.
Arriving at my HOME my Mother was somewhat weary from the travelling and I was yet FAR too energized from driving to rest...then.
I convinced her to just lay in my bed and SLEEP.
As I sat on my couch the urge to PRAY came upon me,
"Father, if EVER I NEEDED GUIDANCE, IT IS NOW...."
No sooner had the LAST word been formed in my mind than the HOLY SPIRIT WAS present...
"GET THEE UP AND RETURN TO YOUR FAMILY...LEST YOU SHALL SURELY DIE."
I did not 'take that' to the LEFT or to the RIGHT...I simply OBEYED.
Calling the VA in my - prior - homestate, I informed them of my pressing NEED to relocate BACK...and of the DIAGNOSIS at hand.
They PERKED UP THEN and after confirming the diagnosis said, "Come BACK NOW...We will MOVE Heaven and Earth to MAKE this happen."
And they DID...
HOME AGAIN, I settled in...
The appointments came FAST and FURIOUS...
I was quickly - ultra-speed - scheduled for a Chest CT AND a PET Scan...both intended to determine WHERE and WHERE NOT the Cancer WAS...
The CT Results were IMMEDIATE...CLEAR.
We awaited the 'Other' results. Presently I received a call from my NEW Oncologist...who had already previously, confirmed the WORST.
" Your PET is virtually CLEAN except for the INTERIOR of the Bladder. I have to tell you, this Cancer IS RARE and Viciously aggresive. We only see perhaps 500 cases a year GLOBALLY of this and we NEVER 'Catch it QUICKLY enough' to make a Difference.
HERE...for possibly the FIRST TIME EVER THAT opportunity EXIST! I am CANCELLING your Chemo AND your Radiation protocol; we CAN DIG THIS OUT!"
Naturally, I thanked him...and sat in a state of unnatural PEACE but ALSO in a heightened State of AWARENESS such as I have never experienced: COLORS WERE BRILLIANT!...I HEARD INSECT CRAWLING THROUGH THE GRASS, MOLES DIGGING IN THE SOIL NEAR ME, I SMELLED things I never have before...
Later, I spoke to a TRUE CHRISTIAN Friend of mine, describing the prior weeks AND what I had also experienced when the DOOM upon me WAS LIFTED by a Mighty HAND...
"You ARE Blessed..." he began, "The PEACE that you have felt IS A MIGHTY GIFT; the PEACE THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING! What you experienced after your Oncologist called is UNKNOWN to me...but that can scarce be OTHER than another GREAT GIFT, one for which we have NO NAME."
I am a Sinner...I AM surely - at MOST - the LEAST of my Father's Servants on EARTH and I do NOT DESERVE any extraordinary treatment, IN MY OWN SIGHT.
It IS a Mystery unto me.
We not only CANNOT comprehend our Father's LOVE for us...we cannot even BEGIN to UNDERSTAND HOW HE VIEWS US.
As stated...I was RECENTLY Humbled - in EXTREMIS.
Be WELL, please be SAFE in the coming Days...and BE BLESSED beyond MEASURE.
JOG
Thank you Hephzibah. You are a blessing to me.
Thank you Chris. Transparency is always the best policy. I will never die wondering if I had done my best with what I had. All glory to Christ.