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Saturday, March 14, 2015
Another
Coffee Break:
Signs, Part
2
March 13, 2015
Well,
I hadn't intended to do a Part 2 of this message, but after receiving some of
the responses from folks who'd had their own experiences, it just seemed
appropriate to do a follow-up. My
follow-up, by the way, does NOT include more discussion on UFO's. Some folks wanted me to explore that
discussion further but that would not have served the purpose of alerting
people to the signs in the heavens and in the earth.
My
first response and commentary comes from a friend -- Mike Huskey -- who has
been a Coffee Break reader for the past three years or so, and who has a rather
intense occupation as an air traffic controller. That job exposes Mike to a lot of events that
none of us would ordinarily even hear about.
Mike's comments relate to the events that occurred in 1994 with the
angelic visitations and the repeated warning, "the trumpet has been set to
the mouth," as well as our being in a Shemitah year. Here is some of what Mike shared with me.
"My comments here stem from the writings of Jonathan Kahn in his best seller, The Harbinger and ESPECIALLY his most recent book, The Mystery of The Shemitah.
Thursday Sept 25, 2014 was the 1st
of Tishrei on the Hebrew calendar and marked the beginning of the year of the
Shemitah. On the eve of this event that began at sunset on Elul 29 (Sept
24) and prior to sunrise on Tishrei 01 that next morning, the most bizarre
event happened to me. I should add here that I had just finished reading
Mr Kahn's newest release.
While driving down the highway here
in Memphis late at night I was struck from behind by a car traveling at more
than twice my speed. My car was totaled as the trunk was crushed entirely
up to the rear seat! The entire event immediately seemed odd to me in
many ways as it defied any rational explanation. The responding officers
just shook their heads as they would look at my car and then look at me
standing upright talking to them.
Before even arriving at the ER for
treatment God brought to my mind that this day was the opening of the Shemitah
and I had at that moment (and still do to this day) a sense that I was being
"sat up straight" and "awoken" to be watchful in this year
of God's unfolding. The year in which He "settles accounts".
I have been mostly silent these past
6 months with my mouth shut and my eyes/ears open. I truly have felt God's prompting, especially
the past three (3) months, to simply be still.
In my stillness I have observed many
global shiftings. One big example is that almost immediately after
entering this Shemitah year, financial markets the world over became unsettled
and the word "volatility" has now appeared in daily use. I have
no doubt that you are seeing this also.
Regarding your words:
"...No word could
better describe that which took place 21 times in 7 days as tunnels of fire
exploded forth from the surface of the planet Jupiter with accompanying
geo-magnetic shock waves."
John says (in Revelation 10:3, 4) that when the angel cried, "seven thunders (brontai) uttered their voices."
John says (in Revelation 10:3, 4) that when the angel cried, "seven thunders (brontai) uttered their voices."
1994 was significant also in that it
marked a Shemitah year, a year of resetting on God's timetable. This
grand celestial event that you have brought such clarity to came just a few
weeks prior to the closing of this 7 year cycle, the Shemitah, in Sept 1994.
The closing of the next such cycle
was marked by the falling of the twin towers in 2001 and the crash of financial
markets one week later. The following Shemitah (2008) closed with the
global financial meltdown.
Of importance, all of these events
transpired TO THE DAY with the closing of the Shemitah year.
As stated, we have been in the
current Shemitah year since sunset on Sept 24 and as you have shared, this year
then marks 21yrs since God's messengers spoke warning of His trumpet.
Is it significant that the sign that
God used to mark the cycles in 1994 consisted of 21 pieces spread out over a
cycle (God's cycle) of 7? And is it coincidence that this brings us to
the 21st year, 2015 and its significance to God's Sabbath Year?
The more I learn the more I
recognize that God has placed "order" in everything. Even
Martin Armstrong (a brilliant man) has noticed that all financial cycles
repeat on multiples of the number Pi. Yes, our God is a God of order.
As you surely have guessed, I remain
watchful, sir, as there are many other factors pointing to the timeframe of
Sept/Oct 2015 IN SUPPORT OF God's Harbingers!"
Rich and Gerry Verhoef are a part of our fellowship. Yesterday, Rich and I were discussing the things that Mike had written and he reminded me of something he had shared in the past which bears directly on all of this.
In
the spring of 1994, Rich felt prompted by the Lord to initiate a move here in
the Yakima Valley that he had heard about, called the March for Jesus. After some initial resistance by the local
pastors he was able to help organize a prayer over this valley in conjunction
with the March. They set up a tent pole
on Snipes Mountain to symbolize the tent covering over this valley, and then set
groups of folks at strategic high places overlooking the valley to pray for the
move of God.
On
June 24th of 1994, a prayer gathering took place in every single time zone
around the globe. The organization even
extended to moving ships into time zones in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans so
that every single time zone around the earth was covered as agreement in prayer
took place. Where possible, groups
marched through the various cities with declarations that those cities, states,
nations and regions were declared over in preparation for an outpouring of the
presence of the Lord with revival and renewal taking place.
The
fact that this all took place during this same Shemitah year with all of the
other attendant signs is highly significant, in my opinion. Here we are, 21 years later, in a "super
Shemitah" year, the second of two consecutive years in which we have two
blood moons on feast days. Is God
precise in the way He does things?
I
know that we are in the midst of some spectacular events unfolding around
us. The fact that we are in a Shemitah year – a year of debt
cancellation, a year of the Open Door, a year of great things for God’s people,
and a terrifying year for folks who are not in fellowship and union with the
Lord -- should make every believer sit up and pay close attention! God is putting Heaven on display!
Because
of an experience I had a couple years ago, I would not be at all surprised to
see a massive shakeup in our government and a replacement of the current
administration because of this president’s overt actions against Israel, along
with his deliberate efforts to undermine Netanyahu and interfere in the Israeli
elections so as to further his Iranian agenda.
For
the past few years I have become actively conversant (behind the scenes) in
some massive changes to the global economic system, and have been participating
in an effort to put our country’s (as well as Canada’s and other debtor
countries) currency on sound financial footing. Back in 2003, George W.
Bush set in motion a set of events with what are commonly referred to as the
Basel III Protocols which would get rid of fiat currencies and put countries
back on asset-backed currencies. While there have been some pretty solid
moves forward to accomplish that, our current administration has been fighting
it tooth and nail. Just in the past few
weeks the business news media (FOX Business News, CNBC and Bloomberg) have
commented on the fact that all of our major US banks are now Basel III
compliant.
For
those who understand the economic and spiritual symbolism of Revelation 17
& 18, these are signs, folks! Pay
close attention.
The
past few years have seen a close relationship develop with a brother in the
Lord who is exceptionally influential in the financial world. He has
acquainted me with the fact that a significant number of the Chinese elders
have become professing Christians and have taken a real interest in bringing a
resolution to the world's current economic crises. These families have – throughout many centuries
and millennia – gathered together the gold that was Solomon’s (its current
value is measured in excess of one quadrillion dollars) and have been actively
seeking ways to assist debtor nations in paying off their debts.
While
their interest in assisting paying off these debts is certainly Godly, it is
also self-preserving because without this taking place, we ARE going to see the
collapse of the Babylonian economic system John prophesied in Revelation – and
in my opinion, prematurely.
It
was two years ago (by my best recollection) that Chuck Pierce prophesied the
rise of China's influence globally from an economic standpoint, specifically
with regard to China replacing the United States as the number one economic
power. That was not a random prophecy,
nor some kind of emotional outburst because of his affection for the Chinese
Christians. Today, China has more
committed, believing Christians (numerically speaking) than we have in the
United States. By the year 2020, China
is expected to become the largest Christian nation (per capita) in the world,
surpassing the United States.
These
are signs, folks! Pay attention!
Two
weeks ago, at the beginning of the Chinese New Year, (they refer to it as the
Year of the Ram –and I see that as a reference to the ram caught in the thicket
which was the intervention of God and the salvation of Isaac from death) the
Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. declared their new year as “The Year of
Jubilee.” In case you hadn't noticed, "the year of Jubilee" is
NOT a conventional Chinese expression!
That, obviously, is in keeping with the Shemitah Year – 5775 – which we
are currently in.
I do
believe that we are on the verge of spectacular changes that will benefit the
body of Christ and cause the Glory of the Lord to be revealed in ways the world
simply cannot even begin to imagine. I also believe it will be a horrific
time for folks who stand in opposition to the move of God. Chuck Pierce’s
recent prophetic utterance regarding the massive shaking to take place in the
west and northwest plays directly to that.
Buckle
your seatbelt! We are in for a ride –
the ride of a lifetime!
There is, however, a growing conviction among
Christian leaders the world over that 2015 will bring some of the greatest
so-called natural disasters anyone has ever seen. Maybe so. Maybe it will come a little later. Nevertheless, no credible leader in the Body
of Christ that I know believes that we have a great deal of time left before
the Lord begins to unleash a series of occurrences that will alter the course
of human events.
The 1994 events simply presaged events to
come. They were – by all accounts – an
announcement of things to come. As Mike
has so carefully noted in his comments above, we are exactly 21 years from
those announcements. God is
spectacularly precise in His mathematics!
There have been a few naysayers who liken the
picture of the Shemitah year, the Blood Moons and the various prophecies
concerning them to the gloom and doom predictions concerning Y2K. Nothing could be further from the truth. During the late 1990's I was doing beta
testing for Microsoft for the new computer operating systems and was well
acquainted with the double-digit glitch in the 8-bit processors. It was clear to me, and to the overwhelming
majority of computer technicians and engineers I was acquainted with that the
whole Y2K fears were seriously overblown, and I warned Christian leaders at the
time not to focus on those fears.
Most of the leaders I spoke with ignored my
warnings and got caught in the fear and hype, some even treating Y2K as a
prophetic event. It was not! It was a minor hardware programming glitch
that was easily solved with none of the predicted chaos. I have other observations about the event
that will go unsaid here.
My point is that the Shemitah year -- 5775, the
Blood Moons correlating to God's commanded Feast Days, the "trumpet set to
the mouth" warnings, and the signs following the breakup of the comet
Shoemaker-Levy were indeed the kinds of signs that Daniel refers to.
Daniel wrote (Daniel 6:27), “He delivereth and rescueth, and He worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth…”
The question for you is this: Are we seeing those signs come to pass from Joel’s prophecy? Are we about to see an unfolding of signs in the heavens and in the earth beneath that will shake the human race to its core?
As I stated last week in the first of these two Coffee Breaks, having walked with the Lord for the better part of 70 years, there is no question that those who live Godly in Christ Jesus have nothing whatever to fear from any unfolding natural catastrophes.
Once again, quoting from Romans 8:38-39, “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
2015 -- the Hebrew year 5775 -- is not a year to take things lightly. Wonderful things are taking place! Dreadful things are taking place. And they all fit with Isaiah's prophecy.
Isaiah 60:1-3: Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
2015 -- the Hebrew year 5775 -- is not a year to take things lightly. Wonderful things are taking place! Dreadful things are taking place. And they all fit with Isaiah's prophecy.
Isaiah 60:1-3: Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Something is happening! Something is a fixin’ to happen, ready or not! Watch and see the signs. Ready?
Next week, we will begin a new series titled, Supernatural Maturity.
I remind those of you
in need of healing of our Healing Prayer Call on Mondays at 7:00 PM
Eastern. Once again, the number to call
for prayer is (805) 399-1000. Then enter
the access code: 124763#.
Our Sunday worship
gatherings are likewise available by conference call – usually at about 10:45AM
Pacific. That conference number is (559)
726-1300, and the access code is 308640#.
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
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RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
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Thursday, March 5, 2015
Another
Coffee Break:
Signs
March 6, 2015
Greetings,
Salutations and Blessings on you as we head into another weekend. I will continue this week with one more set
of stories before we resume doing series-type Coffee Breaks. Next week we will dig into the Sermon on the
Mount and begin taking a look at the character and nature of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Today, however, we're going to
stay kinda casual and relaxed as we talk around the morning table.
My French Double Roasted Columbian coffee (compliments of David Dnistran, who had it custom roasted in Beijing) – and man, is it ever dark today – is freshly steeped, my cup is poured, and I’m ready. Hope you are, too.
Ever seen a flying saucer? Maybe not a flying saucer, per se, but some kind of UFO? Ever wondered where they come from, or what they are doing here?
In case you are part of that group of skeptics who doesn’t believe in the existence of flying saucers, you’re looking at a guy (sorry…reading a guy) who has seen them on two separate occasions. I have many friends who have likewise seen them. In fact, one of the scientists I used to work with at NASA many years ago -- Bob Lazar -- was asked to come to the White Sands testing grounds to reverse-engineer the propulsion system on an extra-terrestrial craft in the possession of the federal government. His reports afterward made clear the fact that this was no sci-fi fantasy.
I'll never forget the day we had taken a
mid-morning break for coffee and discussions at the Palo Alto laboratories when
one of the scientists (he stood over seven feet tall!) came running in
breathlessly. It was a funny sight to
see him run, but what he had to share was rather startling for all of us.
"I've just been inside a UFO inside the blimp hangar at Moffett Field," he puffed, out of breath. There were a few skeptical glances thrown his way by some of the engineers I was talking with. He continued.
"A friend told me about this UFO that had been
flown in under the cover of night and was parked inside the hangar. Because of my Top Secret security clearance,
and the badge I wore, the guards didn't question me when I entered the gated
area; and I walked straight in to where the UFO was sitting. A ramp led up to an opening in the ship's
side, so I waltzed up like I belonged there.
Not until I was looking around inside did one of the security folks
realize that I didn't belong there and he quickly escorted me outside with a
stern warning."
So what was it? Where did it come from? Why was it here? Was it simply another sign in or from the heavens – albeit a very tangible sign -- in a long string of events that have happened since 1947? OK, how about this one?
The date was July 17, 1994. Della and I were working at the Calgary Stampede with Eileen and crew. A CBC news crew showed up outside the Country Kitchen really early, and decided – when they smelled the ranch coffee I was cooking, the fresh hot rolls being baked by Eileen’s sister, Rose, the Black Forest Ham Eileen had just pulled out of an oven, and saw the omelets Della was making on the wood-fired cook stove – they needed to have breakfast. Well, hey, wouldn’t you, with all those tantalizing smells hitting you in the face?
Anyway, the news crew was all abuzz about an astronomical event unfolding as we were talking. It seems that a comet – named for the two astronomers who identified it and its path – was just hitting the planet, Jupiter. Shoemaker-Levy had begun disintegrating – it broke into 21 pieces – and over the course of the next seven days, each of those 21 pieces collided with the planet producing a series of explosions unparalleled in recorded astronomical history.
The energy released exceeded one million megatons of TNT (that is another way of saying 1 trillion tons), dwarfing the power released if all of the nuclear bombs on the earth were to be exploded at the same instant.) It resulted in tunnels of fire on, and above, the surface of Jupiter as large as, or larger than, the state of Texas in diameter, and mushroom clouds above the surface of the planet larger than Earth. Shock waves were generated by these explosions creating a "sound" (inaudible low-frequency, geo-magnetic and gravitational waves) which reverberated throughout our solar system.
I’ll come back to this event momentarily. Less known was a series of non-astronomical events that had begun some five weeks prior.
They began on the evening of June 9th, 1994. On that evening, one of Eileen’s friends was driving in towards the city of Edmonton, and saw a hitchhiker. She would not have, under any normal circumstances, stopped to pick up a hitchhiker. The Holy Spirit prompted her to stop and pick up this hitchhiker, but she drove past, arguing within herself that it was "not the thing to do."
The Holy Spirit then said to her, "I said, Stop! Go back and pick up that hitchhiker." She was surprised by the urgency within her spirit, and obeyed.
Making a U-turn, she went back, turned around and pulled over to let the hitchhiker get in. He got in, and she proceeded back into the lanes of traffic. Because she was concentrating on the traffic conditions, she did not look directly at the gentleman sitting in the seat, but began to ask where he was headed. Before she could say anything, she heard him say, "The trumpet has been set to the mouth!" Startled, she looked over to where he was seated, and he vanished -- disappeared into thin air.
Obviously, she was awestricken. When she arrived at her destination, she called the RCMP office in Edmonton to report the incident. The officer on duty said to her, "Lady, you are the sixth person to call in with that same report tonight!"
To the south some three hundred miles, the RCMP office in Lethbridge, Alberta, received an identical report from three additional motorists. In each case the report was the same. The motorist stopped to pick up a hitchhiker. Shortly thereafter, the hitchhiker made the statement to the driver, "The trumpet has been set to the mouth," using exactly those words. The fact that nine motorists felt prompted to call the RCMP offices in Edmonton and Lethbridge that night is, in itself, astounding. It would seem that the Lord was making a statement that needed to be published abroad.
In the weeks that followed we began to hear of more reports. In five separate incidents, Montana state troopers stopped to assist individuals they thought were hitchhiking. In each instance, the report was identical to those we heard about in Alberta. The hitchhiker said to the trooper, “The trumpet has been set to the mouth,” or in a couple of instances, “I have set the trumpet to the mouth.” The case of the five troopers was very distinctive in that none of them were Christians, and at least three of them had been very antagonistic towards Jesus Christ and Christians in general. More spectacular was the fact that each and every one of those troopers accepted Jesus Christ that day as their personal savior. One trooper, who had been on the force for many years, resigned that very day.
In Tacoma, Washington, a Washington state trooper stopped to assist a lady who was walking along the side on Interstate 5. When he asked her if he could help, she looked at him and said, “The trumpet has been set to the mouth,” and vanished before his eyes. In Seattle, a nearly identical event took place with another state trooper. Another report came in from Portland where a city police officer stopped to check on a hitchhiker. He pulled over just as the other officers had done and asked the hitchhiker if he needed assistance. The hitchhiker said, “I have set the trumpet to the mouth,” and suddenly was gone.
We later heard of similar stories occurring in Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and even Toronto. No doubt there were many other similar events we did not hear anything about. Here’s where it gets really interesting. Every single one of these events took place on June 9th, 1994.
Signs. That’s what they were. Signs.
OK. How about this one?
The date was….dum..de..dum..dum…..June 9th, 1994. An earthquake of epic proportions struck in La Paz, Bolivia. Originally put at a 7.8 on the Richter scale, seismologists later upgraded its intensity to 9.2. The quake’s epicenter was more than 70 miles underground. It caused a ripple effect that reached along fault lines through South America, under the Gulf of Mexico, through the central states, and as far away as Toronto, Ontario. Though there was minimal loss of life (resulting in minimal news coverage), seismologists couldn’t remember any quake with such far-reaching effects.
When we heard of the quake, a couple Scripture verses from Isaiah 5:14 and Isaiah 14:9 went through Della’s mind, “Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure…” The verse in Isaiah 14:9 was specifically targeted at Satan, “Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee…”
Why all these seemingly unrelated events on June 9th? Why the unusual events that followed five weeks later?
We were -- and are -- being forced to throw away our textbooks and discard our doctrinal understanding of how the Lord is fulfilling many prophecies. He is doing it outside the realm of natural understanding, knowledge, and perception. That which was prophesied by John (in Revelation), was prophesied in and by the Spirit of the Lord. In order to see that which is taking place, it must also be unraveled in and by the Holy Spirit.
Any attempt to explain what the Lord is doing and how He is fulfilling His Word -- when that attempt is predicated on our knowledge of Scripture, our knowledge of history, and our perception of how the Lord has previously fulfilled His Word -- will only get us into trouble. All we will get for our efforts is a lot of dead bark in our mouths from the Tree of Knowledge. (Pun intended.)
By the same token, those who live daily -- 24 hours per day -- in the presence of the Lord, in an intimate love-relationship with Him will have no struggle whatever as the Lord fulfills His word, since He clearly explains that which He is doing to those with whom He has an intimate relationship.
What is the Lord saying in the midst of all these events? What is He doing? Anyone?
Was the comet event a sign from the Lord to confirm that "the trumpet has been set to the mouth?" Try this on for size.
There is another aspect of this event which bears consideration. The word in the Greek text for "thunders" is brontai. This word literally means, "a fiery and destructive sound." No word could better describe that which took place 21 times in 7 days as tunnels of fire exploded forth from the surface of the planet Jupiter with accompanying geo-magnetic shock waves.
John says (in Revelation 10:3, 4) that when the angel cried, "seven thunders (brontai) uttered their voices." Would you believe, 21 times (3 X 7) in 7 days? O.K.! O.K.! I know that this is not the traditional explanation for the "seven thunders," but I believe that it deserves consideration in the light of the other attendant events.
I spoke with an astrophysicist in Lethbridge, Alberta a few months after the Shoemaker-Levy comet struck Jupiter to ask him about the geo-magnetic shock waves. He likened them to ultra low-frequency sound traveling through our galaxy. Though they were inaudible to human hearing, our planet certainly reacted in the months that followed with auroral activity and tidal aberrations that stirred more than a little notice within the scientific community.
Let’s get a little more current. There are most likely very few of us who hasn’t seen the incredible footage of the massive tidal wave that followed a huge earthquake and struck Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and a host of other nations in the Indian Ocean causing an estimated 272,000 deaths. Was this a natural disaster, or was this a singular event related to coming judgment on this earth? Was this a sign?
Then consider this.
In Indonesia alone during the past twelve months, more than 400 churches have been destroyed or burned to the ground. More than a thousand church leaders, pastors, etc., have been shot to death, beheaded or tortured to death in other ways. I know of many leaders in the Body of Christ who clearly believe that Indonesia (which took the brunt of the loss of life (at some 156,000 deaths) suffered the judgment of God, who would no longer stand by while His anointed representatives were being tortured, mutilated and put to death. I have no statistics for any of the other nations, so I can’t speak to any of the spiritual causes or effects that could be related to the earthquake and tidal wave.
There is, however, a growing conviction among Christian leaders the world over that 2015 will bring some of the greatest so-called natural disasters anyone has ever seen. Maybe so. Maybe it will come a little later. Nevertheless, no credible leader in the Body of Christ that I know believes that we have a great deal of time left before the Lord begins to unleash a series of occurrences that will alter the course of human events. The 1994 events simply presaged events to come. They were – by all accounts – an announcement of things to come.
Daniel wrote (Daniel 6:27), “He delivereth and rescueth, and He worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth…”
Jesus said to the Pharisees, “O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” (Mathew 16:3)
On the day of Pentecost, Peter stood before the multitude of gathered folks and quoted from Joel’s prophecy, “And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Acts 2:19)
The question for you is this: Are we seeing those signs come to pass from Joel’s prophecy? Are we about to see an unfolding of signs in the heavens and in the earth beneath that will shake the human race to its core? What about the four blood moons in 2014 and 2015?
Of one thing I am certain. Having walked with the Lord for the better part of 70 years, there is no question that those who live Godly in Christ Jesus have nothing whatever to fear from any unfolding natural catastrophes. The apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8:38-39, “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
I have a personal conviction about 2015. I believe that this year will bring about some of the greatest miracles the world has ever seen. I believe that God’s people are going to experience an outpouring of His abundant blessings in an unprecedented manner.
There is one other thing of which I am positive: People who ignore the unfolding signs that we have seen, are seeing, and are about to see, in the ludicrous hope of escaping the wrath of God on an increasingly degenerate world – people who think they can ignore the great salvation available to them in Christ Jesus simply because “God is a merciful God” are living a fantasy.
God IS a merciful God. But He is also a just God. He is a God of righteousness. He is a God of justice and judgment. And, He is a God who absolutely keeps His Word!
Something is happening! Something is a fixin’ to happen, ready or not! Watch and see the signs. Ready?
Now that I’ve got your juices stirring, finish your coffee. Blessings on you! Have a stupendous day, and a great weekend!
I remind those of you
in need of healing of our Healing Prayer Call on Mondays at 7:00 PM
Eastern. Once again, the number to call
for prayer is (805) 399-1000. Then enter
the access code: 124763#. Also want to
let you know that our Sunday worship gatherings are available by conference
call – usually at about 10:45AM Pacific.
That conference number is (559) 726-1300, and the access code is
308640#.
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Email Contact: Admin@RiverWorshipCenter.org
Our book, A
Tale of Two Brides, published by Destiny Image, is available on
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Another
Coffee Break:
Point of No Return
February 27, 2015
'Mornin'
Folks! Had a good week so far? Great!
I'm continuing on reprising a few stories that go back ten years or more
when I first began publishing these
Coffee Breaks. I'm going to return to a
rather casual, kinda-round-the-table, relaxed way of writing (conversational
style, OK?) for this -- and next week's -- Coffee Break. This week's Coffee Break deals with a few
hair raising adventures.
You all know what a point of no
return is, don’t you? Where you’ve
committed yourself to some course of action or direction, and suddenly
something happens – maybe some event that means life or death – and you have no
choice but to proceed forward on your committed course?
Boy, do I have some stories and some
crazy experiences on that subject! Let’s
see where this discussion takes us today.
Got your coffee poured, yet?
Hurry up!
Traveling to Kotzebue,
Alaska one day from Fairbanks (this was a bunch of years ago) in
one of those Fairchild F-27’s – you “old folks” remember them, the upper-wing
planes with a pair of turboprop engines – we lost an engine. In case you don’t know the geography,
Kotzebue is roughly 450 miles west-northwest of Fairbanks
out on one of the western tips of Alaska in
the Bering Sea. Funny thing, though. We were 235 – 240 miles into our flight. That’s just over halfway.
Take a look at a map, will you. Except for some native communities, fishing
villages and the like, there’s a whole lot of nothing in that stretch! Nothing, meaning no landing strips or
airports big enough to accommodate an F-27 – especially one flown by Wien
Alaska Airlines. You had to have lived
there and flown Wien to appreciate that comment. When Noel Wien started his airline back at
the end of the biplane era, he flew freight and used whatever space he had left
for passengers.
Things never changed for as many
years as that airline existed in Alaska. Even when the first 737’s came out, Wien
would put a cargo buffer about midway through the aircraft. It was movable, and – depending on the amount
of cargo or freight being carried – the plane would carry anywhere from 20 – 60
passengers. The freight often matched
the entire load capacity, and passengers made our weight exceed the aircraft’s
rating. I think the only plane in Wien’s
history that never had a problem with the freight – passenger thing was the
DC-3 – the WWII Gooney Bird. That plane
just never seemed to have a weight problem.
‘Course it flew like a Mack Truck, too!
Took forever to get it moving, but once it was, look out!
Anyway, I digress. We’d just passed the flight’s point of no
return on the way to Kotzebue when we lost an engine. This F-27 flight wasn’t any different from
any other Wien flight: it was way overloaded.
So what do you think happens when
you are flying an overloaded plane and you lose one of your two engines? Hmmmm…….
Anybody? Yup. You got it!
The plane starts to come down.
You lose altitude.
And we started dropping. Normally configured, the F-27 probably held
45 – 50 passengers. With the freight and
cargo taking up most of the cabin, we had perhaps a dozen folks on that flight.
I looked out the window and saw the
engine sputtering, blowing smoke and all that, and finally the prop
stopped. The pilot came over the
intercom to advise us that we had lost an engine (Duhhhh. I wonder if anybody noticed!) and that there
were no other airports in range. We were
committed to Kotzebue.
This was one of those times when
you’d better be prayed up! The pilot was
fighting to keep the plane aloft long enough for us to reach Kotzebue, knowing
that it was really going to be close. I
saw some folks that day who probably hadn’t talked to the Lord in years – if
ever! They were going through their
gyrations and gymnastics, making the sign of the cross, lips moving, faces
etched with the fear of death – you know the program!
I sat back in my seat not meaning to
laugh or chuckle at what I was seeing, but having perfect peace in my whole
being. “Lord, from what you’ve told me
throughout the years, I know my time hasn’t come, so if you have to send a
couple of angels to hold up the wings and keep us aloft until we reach
Kotzebue, then do it – in Jesus’ name.”
It was almost eerie. But it was a peaceful experience knowing that
my life – our lives – were totally in the Lord’s care, and that there wasn’t
one blessed thing anyone of us could do about the situation.
You see, I had passed the point of
no return many years before. I’d
committed myself to obeying and following the Lord Jesus Christ , no matter
what He asked – regardless of the consequences.
There was no turning back. That’s
the greatest point of no return any person can pass in their life. Once you’ve passed that point, you’re
committed. Whatever comes – whether for
life or death – there is no changing things!
You can’t alter the circumstances.
And it doesn't matter! You simply
follow the Lord wherever He leads.
Watching us drop closer and closer
to the ground, I knew my fellow-passengers were near panic. I just smiled at them and said, “It’s
OK. The Lord has it all under
control. We’ll make it to Kotzebue just
fine!” I don’t know how much difference
those words made to anyone, but they seemed to take some assurance in my
confidence.
50 miles out from Kotzebue, we were
less than 500 feet above the ground.
Good thing the terrain was so flat!
The pilot radioed ahead, of course, and the airport folks had Kotzebue’s
one ambulance and one fire truck waiting for our arrival. We lined up for the runway with maybe 250 –
300 feet of altitude. The pilot landed
the plane smooth as silk on that one engine.
No bumping. No skidding. No sideways jerking. ‘Course, there wasn’t a bad pilot in that
entire airline. Those Wien Alaska
Airline pilots were the best anywhere in the world. We came in as though everything was
fine. It was, too. The Lord sent His angels to carry the plane
to its destination.
Then there was that experience when
I was traveling to Jackson Hole, Wyoming from our office in Salt Lake City. It was the winter of 1969, as I recall. I was the President of Intermountain
Electronics Corporation. The company VP,
Bill, was riding with me in our GMC van.
We‘d were headed to Jackson to sign a contract to maintain some
electronic equipment for a school.
In those days, U.S. Highway 89 was
no freeway. Still isn’t, for the most
part! The road had about six to eight
inches of fresh snow, and there was one set of tracks where a number of
vehicles had been. It had warmed up just
enough to form a crust, making it all but impossible to get out of the rut in
an emergency.
You could see a couple of places
where trucks had pulled off to allow other vehicles to pass, but they were few
and far between. Mostly, it was just one
set of tracks – ruts – right down the center of the highway.
We were somewhere halfway between
Logan and Garden City, Utah (according to my recollection) when we saw a
bridge. The bridge was elevated over the
creek, of course, and the road inclined upward to the bridge. It blocked our view so that you couldn’t see
anything coming down the road. We hadn’t
seen any traffic for quite awhile, and consequently were feeling OK about
driving 45 – 50 miles per hour, the ruts notwithstanding.
The van was handling just fine – no
rocking from side to side, none of the kinds of problems you would encounter if
the ruts were really narrow. There was
just one problem. It was starting to
warm up, and there was a glaze on the pavement.
You might call it black ice except for the fact that you really couldn’t
see the pavement.
As we start up the rise to the
bridge, we can suddenly see another car coming at us, maybe 500 feet away. No problem if you’re not doing 50 and not in
ruts. Hitting the brakes and trying to
get out of the ruts was a joke! We just
kept right on going as though the van was programmed to drive in a straight
line.
Know what? We’d passed the point of no return. Our speed, coupled with the ruts and the
slight glaze on the roadway meant we were committed to at least a quarter-mile
or better in front of us before we could stop.
The guy coming at us was doing
exactly what we were doing. He hadn’t
seen any traffic, probably since he left Garden City, and he was cruising along
like he had good sense. He was way past his
point of no return.
Got the picture? Two vehicles pointed directly at each other,
both going somewhere close to 50 miles per hour, 500 feet or so apart, and the
stopping zone about 250 feet the other side of the approaching car. Man, have you ever passed the point of no
return!
Even with instantaneous reflexes,
there’s no time to do anything. The
wheel doesn’t respond when you try to get out of the rut. Hitting the brakes is almost like hitting the
accelerator.
As we approached each other, I could
see the terror in the eyes of the fellow who was driving the oncoming car. It all happened so fast there was hardly time
to blink. My business partner, Bill, the
company VP, was a Mormon who wasn’t used to miracles, and sure wasn’t used to
shouting, “Jesus!” in an emergency. (No
offense meant to any of you readers who are Mormons. That was just where Bill was.)
I did what I’d been trained to do by
my mother in an emergency. We’d had
plenty of practice living in the arctic, and I’d had plenty of practice in
traveling with my mother and my brother as we raised money to build
churches. We had experienced some very
close calls on the highways and even had an event in which the front end of the
car Mom was driving came apart, and resulted in the car flipping over some
three times or more.
“JESUS!!”
The word exploded from my lips. It wasn’t a curse word. It was one of those split-second prayers when
you don’t have time for, “Dear Heavenly Father, I'm coming to you in my hour of
need. I’m in trouble and I need your
help and intervention right now! Get us
out of this mess in Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
By the time you pray all those words, it’s all over with. You better KNOW the Lord in those
circumstances. Formal prayers don't cut
it! Come to think of it, formal prayers
have no business in the life of believers who have a genuine, intimate
relationship with Jesus Christ.
Like I said, we’d long passed the
point of no return. So had I in my
relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
I was almost standing on the
brakes. “JESUS!”
The
van came to a stop. So did the
approaching car. Except for one
thing. We were 250 – 300 feet apart –
THE OTHER SIDE OF EACH OTHER!
It
happened in an instant. We literally
passed through each other like something out of a Sci-Fi movie. This was no science fiction! Just like Jesus passed through walls and
doors by dematerializing and then rematerializing, we passed through each other. In actual fact, we had shifted
dimensions. We had transitioned instantly
into a parallel dimension provided by Holy Spirit.
You
see, this sort of thing was very natural for Jesus! He was naturally supernatural. Know what?
If we are in Christ, and He is in us, so are we. We should come to expect this kind of thing
as natural! Supernaturally natural!
Bill
looked at me. He was white as a
sheet. “What just happened?” he
asked. I was so stunned myself at what
had just transpired that I only had a one word answer, “Jesus.” Guess I shouldn't have been so surprised, but
I have to admit; it was the first time in my life I'd experienced this kind of
thing. It turned out not to be the last
time, either! Guess that experience will
have to wait for another time.
We
got out of the van and looked back. The
driver of the other car was standing outside his car looking at us and
scratching his head and wiping his brow.
I'll never forget the look of horror on his face as we meshed into and
through his car. It was one of those
split second things you see that leaves an indelible impression. Standing outside his car in the snow, he
didn’t really know what had just happened, and he was wondering if he was still
alive or if this was some kind of strange dream.
It
wasn’t. It was real. OK -- for Bill and for the other driver, it
was surreal! (smile) We got back in the van and headed down the
road. It gave me a fabulous chance to
talk to Bill about the Lord Jesus Christ in a way he’d never heard. He was listening, too!
We’d
passed the point of no return in a life and death situation and returned to
talk about it. Kinda like the Apollo 13
astronauts. Remember them?
Apollo
13….well, I don’t have time to go there today, but most of you know that story
anyway. The astronauts had a major
disaster with their spacecraft – after they were committed to a trip to the
moon at several times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The accident happened when they were past the
point of no return. And they made it
back, miraculously, by the grace of God.
And
that’s another story. Maybe we’ll get to
talk about that another time. I’ve got
some more of those point-of-no-return stories that happened in Utah, but they’ll wait,
too.
Anyway,
have a spectacular day! Ohh…..and if you
haven’t passed the point of no return with Jesus, better take care of it –
NOW!! Don’t let any daisies grow under
your feet. It just might be too late!
I remind those of you
in need of healing of our Healing Prayer Call on Mondays at 7:00 PM
Eastern. Once again, the number to call
for prayer is (805) 399-1000. Then enter
the access code: 124763#.
Also want to let you
know that our Sunday worship gatherings are available by conference call –
usually at about 10:45AM Pacific. That
conference number is (559) 726-1300, and the access code is 308640#.
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Email Contact: Admin@RiverWorshipCenter.org
Our book, A
Tale of Two Brides, published by Destiny Image, is available on
Amazon.com as an E-book: http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Two-Brides-Relationship-ebook/dp/B00BSV6HZC/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1363139096&sr=8-8&keywords=A+Tale+of+Two+Brides#_
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