The Scarlet Cord - Moriel Ministries

FFrom The Director
"MORIEL"
GOD IS MY TEACHER
UNTIL HE COMES
So often I have tried to convey to our Moriel readers and friends why this time
in history is so different from the other times in history dating back to the early
church when true Christians thought they were in The Last Days before the return
of Jesus. This has taken on an expanded dimension of importance in light of the
trend to ignore the “BE ALERT” commands of Jesus in the Olivet Discourse with
the false teaching of Rick Warren and Mark Driscoll urging Christians to avoid the
study of eschatological prophecy in open defiance of the instructions of Jesus and
the unambiguous directives of His Word. The rejection and even mocking of the
doctrine of the rapture by propagators of error such as Gerald Coates, Rick Joyner
and others as well as by the disseminators of such bogus dogma as radical preterism
and Dominion theology compounds the challenge of proclaiming the return of Jesus.
The producers of the film “The Daniel Project” and I designed the film to engage the
unsaved evangelistically by the use of end time prophecy. But it is an exception to
the fledging popular trends of pseudo evangelism witnessed in everything from the
post modernism of the Emergent church to the false unity of ecumenical seduction to
market driven programs falsely called ‘purpose driven.’
Indeed, during the crusades the nations at the center of world events were the ones
geographically the same nations from biblical history and figures from Charlemagne
to Napoleon to Mussolini attempted to re-confederate the Roman Empire. Even great
apostasy has overtaken Christendom in times past, such as after the time of Constantine
the Great and the post Nicean church fathers in the patristic era. But as always,
we are left to ask why these times are not the same – just another constellation of
global events that resemble a potential apocalyptic scenario Indeed, Peter’s epistle
warns us in 2 Peter chapter 3 that people, even supposed Christians, would mock
those proclaiming the return of Jesus just as Noah was mocked before the flood.
This same chapter however tells us that a thermal destruction of the biosphere
would take place and we are warned by Jesus that if He does not return no flesh will
be saved. Never before in history however has mankind had the potential to exterminate
himself from the face of the earth by nuclear combustion. Moreover, the predictions
of Jesus in Luke 21:24 and Matthew 23:39 states that the Jews would need to
be in Israel and re-gathered to their capital Jerusalem to facilitate His return. This has
never taken place before and it’s taking place at a time when as Romans 11 predicts
Jews as the natural branches will be regrafted back into the church again as believers
in their Messiah Yeshua. This is why Satan has inspired false teachers like John Piper
and the late John Stott to mislead the church with replacement theology, and deny that
contemporary events in The Middle East fulfill prophecy, which is why Mark Driscoll
and Rick Warren are used by the devil to divert Christians away from prophecy.
A further difference however is that man’s science and technology is allowing him
to reverse the curse on the human race from the Tower of Babel where the language
barrier will soon be demolished by digital technology, where a Japanese speaker and
an English speaker can speak to each other by automatic translation via cell phone
or computer texting. God cannot allow man to reverse divine pronouncement. It is
likewise only the reduced longevity of the Third World that keeps average human life
expectancy below the 80 years God allows in response to sin. These are just a few of
the factors that with certainty designate the present time as different from other times
when believers thought it was the last days.
Our times are indeed different. And this is a message that The Lord has dictated
by His Spirit that Moriel is to proclaim. By His grace we shall endeavor to proclaim
it. This time is absolutely different. He is coming, and at least in relative terms, He
is indeed coming soon.
James Jacob Prasch & All at Moriel
Jacob’s Itinerary
FOR
USA & CANADA
– Winnipeg, MB –
October 11-13, 2012
22nd Annual Winnipeg
Prophecy Conference
The Victoria Inn
(near the International airport)
1808 Wellington Cres. Winnipeg, MB
– CALGARY, CANADA –
2 nd Annual Calgary Israel Bible
Prophecy Conference
March 21 – 23, 2013
Calgary, Canada
Moriel Quarterly • September 2012