Just because we can speak freely…I never thought Jack nor Goodboy actually took what Pasotr JD has stated or believes out of context. Goodboy was stating what he did agree with with JD’s feeling that the rapture is near. Though Goodboy used “overdue” where pastor JD may not have. Goodboy used it to highlight how “he” Goodboy was also feeling. That he would like it to be here already. Later though did clarifty that JD will always look for sooner consideration rather than later. That is just how JD rolls.
Nor did i take it that Jack took Goodboy to mean anything by it. To me it came across that Jack was commenting with Goodboy along side him like a brother. Not necessarily a correction but like an understanding friend who would put his arm around a brother and also note that “where we might long for Him for sure, we can wait…because God’s timing is perfect.” Almost like consoling Goodboy or maybe just understanding it feels like for Jack would feel that too. But just like encouraging all of us to be encouraged no matter how long we wait.
Knowing Jack, his comments would have nothing to do with JD nor Goodboy in contrary. But like a general statement of encouragment. That is kind of what i like about our forum is that even though we are all really different, there is a core care here. @Myrrh, even you reference of perhaps being out of context was in care fo JD. Amen.
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So the reason i am posting this is because this is a very unique place. My affirmation to Jack, for me, would be in the general sense that overall I’m pretty much the only one in this forum that would see 90% of looking at end times through the lens of the approaching tribulation is not the hermenuetic to use. I see the age of grace as stand alone enough to warrant that conviction. I would sense that pretty much all watchers that use the tribulation as a plumbline to line the age of grace up by are not letting God do His thing. That is why i would agree with that statement. In no ways would Jack mean that. But i would. Yet i am here and doing my best to understand where some of the views the watchers here have might overlap here or there. They can be helfpul.
The way i see it is no matter how you slice it…there is no person on earth that won’t do something out of His context. What i am grateful for here as i reflect is like with April 8. Pastor JD is excited about it. There are a lot of doom scenarios out there. And i guess we will see. But i am blessed pastor jd uses it to read But God testimonies over the pulipit regarding it. That kind of beautiful godly gravity melts my heart.
Jack shares his dislike toward bridge theories. I like that. Its sober and strong. Pastor JD shares about it having explosives and its an inside job. This is kind of closer in how i look at it. But i’m actually between Jack and JD on that. Pastor JD when making these claims kind of has fun with himself knowing he looks like the odd one out. But that is who he is. So in this sense i believe we love his honesty, his holding his own ground even if its not the status quo.
Earlier today, I watched a YT channel from my reformed days about the coming Solar Eclipse. I almost wanted to post it here because of the many sober approaches to scripture that channel takes (even though i am no longer reformed). But after watching some of JD’s take on from a week ago on Eclipse, i was like, “There is no real point. JD is enjoying how he is seeing things with a love toward God and a cheerful heart in Him.” For me to post the other video i watched would be kind of in line with “Be happy” mood but contrast some of the tecky differences in how Pastor JD gets there. So really, it would not be all that encouraging on all fronts–where that (seeing April 8 with joy in heart) would seem in point to matter quite a bit more. And what looks more important is the spirit that God uses His transcence onto this forum. So i decided with that and chucked that video i had watched.
So i am posting this because you guys have one like me who would be your most adverse in views from watcher perspectives. And i consciously in godly sincerity (although the flesh can interfere of course) work toward the context here of how God is working in all of our hearts. No one will do that perfectly. But i really consider this forum my online family home. Because there is that holy hue or glow to our care for one another. Imperfectly. But “alive.” And as pastor JD had desribed holy on at least one account: whole. We seek for wholeness in each other. Granted that might be a challenge at times with one like me. But we are in a very blessed forum. A forum that leans us toward one another in Him. And yet we remain who we are and have been created by Him to be. And out of such diversity…we work for wholeness. @Myrrh @BayouBushi and @goodboy yeah we seem to so do.
Whereever we agree or don’t or see it different over here or over there…the spirit in which JD received His awesome love and care obviously spills over onto this forum. And it is because a pastor like JD is open to Him in this way…that there by the grace of God on His forum…we live and breath and move and have our being. Its a pretty awesome time for that. One alternative side definition of holiness i would extend in that sense is how we can experience His intimacy toward us as an after glow of JDs ministry. A sobering and delightful thought. Blessings.