Recently, someone calling himself “Refiner’s Fire” (ironically) condemned my writing style as an obstacle:
Did you sow the seed of “truth” in this person, or did you reject this person with your words? Yes, I know people need to hear the “truth”, but how can they, if their writing style is nailing them in the head with a 2×4?
Have you ever read where Paul, like Yeshua, must have offended some? “So have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?” (Galatians 4:16).
There are many others who write in a softer style. That is your prerogative. I am not speaking against their approach, as the Bible basically teaches “different styles for different people.” After all, tough love is tough love.
Have you ever read where Yeshua spoke of how some will make up any excuse under the sun regardless of the effort to reach them, whether we dance for them or cry?
Luke 7: 31-35
31 “To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? 32 They are like children sitting in the market and yelling at each other:
“‘We play the flute for you,
and you didn’t dance;
we sing a dirge,
and you didn’t cry. 33Because John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, “He has a demon.” 34 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say: ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and “sinners.” 35But all her children prove that wisdom is right. “
If someone is of God, or is being called by God, they can get good and angry like Herbert W. Armstrong did with his wife with his “bigotry” on the seventh day of Saturday: angry enough to prove it, which he did, and then he saw that he was right! And he was humble enough to admit it and submit to it and to turn from pagan Sunday to holy Saturday.
My responsibility is to share the plain truth of the Bible as God has given me to understand it. The way people respond to the plain truth is not my responsibility. It is between God and them. That being said, I believe that the time of the “soft spoken” ministers is about to end and that we need more. refining fire ministers (no dying embers) or refining the servants of God’s fire (no dying embers) willing to flip some tables and kick some chairs and drive some men and animals out of the Temple courtyards with whip in hand, turning head and raising eyebrows as needed.
The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11 will certainly not speak in platitudes and the whole world will hate their guts and wish them dead! Those who simply want to hear soft things will continue to hear soft things from their false prophets and lying ministers.
Isaiah 30: 9-11
These are rebellious peoples, deceitful children [1 John 2:4],
children who do not want to hear the Lord’s instruction.
10 They say to the seers:
“See no more visions!”
and the prophets,
“Give us no more visions of what is right!
Tell us nice things
prophesy illusions.
11 Leave this road,
get out of this way,
and stop confronting us
with the Holy One of Israel! “[by replacing him with a Gentilized Jesus, a counterfeit gospel and a different spirit]
2 Timothy 4: 3-4
3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine. Instead, to satisfy your own desires, a large number of teachers will gather around you to say what your itchy ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn away from myths [like Christmas and Easter].
Since our countries are incurring the wrath of God, and will soon suffer divine punishment for our pagan holidays like Christmas, pretending to be Christian, part of our idolatry and national immorality that we must confess and abandon to warn of a nuclear holocaust, it is time to love and obey God and:
Isaiah 58
1 Cry out loud, don’t stop; raise your voice like a trumpet; Tell my people their transgression [the Church and Synagogue], And the house of Jacob [the family of Israelite nations – all Twelve Tribes of Israel] your sins. 2 Yet they seek me every day, and delight in knowing my ways, as a nation that did justice and did not abandon the ordinance of their God. They ask me for the ordinances of justice; They delight in drawing close to God.
People who continue their pagan ways and hollow days will be left without excuse. God won’t accept the lame excuse: “Well, we don’t appreciate how people like David Ben-Ariel met.” God will simply say, “Why weren’t you like the noble Bereans and see and see if these things were like that and act accordingly?”
Acts 17:11
11 Now the Bereans were of a nobler character than the Thessalonians, because they received the message with great enthusiasm and they examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
Enough of apologies!
Revelation 3:19
I rebuke and punish everyone I love. So be jealous and to regret.