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Artificial Intelligence in the Church

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People get vehemently angry about artificial intelligence generating sermon material for spiritual leaders, and yet for years and years, we have allowed false teachers to creep into the church of Jesus Christ. Many have placed their own Bibles aside during the week. Countless ones have refused to commit Scripture to memory. Multitudes have flocked to what appear to be entertainment venues in order to be uplifted by pep talks peppered with Scripture, rather than to be honestly challenged by the sharp sword of God’s holy Word.

Now, we stand flabbergasted at artificial intelligence. Let me tell you, unknown numbers of “Christians” have been fed by demons through the watered-down, false gospel long before AI became the thing about which to be disturbed.

Far too many Christians ceased to be troubled by the trends of the modern church a long time ago. As a faith culture, we compromised with the devil when we accommodated diluted sermons, so that people could be at peace with their compromised lifestyles and lack of passion for Jesus Christ.

When the church’s view of Scripture diminished, when we could no longer tolerate long sermons and teachings, when we began to value the look of the “stage” and the “worship leaders” more than the content of the Word of God, when how our buildings appeared to the world mattered more than how the sermons appeared to the Lord God Almighty, that is when we gave in to “artificial” intelligence.

True wisdom comes from the Lord. To be precise, it is found in an honest fear of the Lord. If we had continued in sincere fear of the Almighty God, we would be less worried about artificial intelligence in the church.

Nothing is more artificial than the devil substituted for God. The greatest imposter projected to people, rather than the embodiment of Truth. And yet, here we are …

– Shelli Prindle

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in the later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.” (1 Timothy 4:1)

Are You Sure You’re Going to Heaven?

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Do you ever wonder if you will make it to Heaven? Do you consider your entrance into Heaven something of which you cannot be ultimately sure until you die? If so, then you need to understand that God has given us a deposit to guarantee our admission to God’s home.

Unlike a physical ticket or admission pass, God’s people receive an unbelievable gift as their guarantee for Heaven. The gift is a Person – the third Person of the Triune God, the Holy Spirit. He is the proof positive that we have access to Heaven upon our exit of this world.

We read the glorious words of 2 Corinthians 5:4-5 in the New Living Translation, “While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.”

Do you see that my insurance on a new, heavenly, undying, and sinless body is the Holy Spirit living in me? How much more proof could I possibly need, but to have God living in me moment by moment? Despite the struggles and strains of life, in my heart abides the Spirit of God, and He gives me a peace that goes past the turmoil and sadness of this life. He witnesses to my spirit that I do, in fact, belong to God and to Heaven.

Again, we read of the coming day of redemption, the time when we are fully redeemed (bought back) from brokenness and this old world. Listen to Ephesians 4:30 in the English Standard Version: “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”

The Holy Spirit actually provides the seal that declares that my entrance to Heaven is as good as done! For what more could I ask?

This Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. Jesus sent His own Spirit to live in His followers when He exited the world and ascended to Heaven. That precious Spirit is the guarantee that we also will exit this world and go to Heaven. Jesus paid for my salvation, and His Spirit witnesses to my salvation. Jesus is the way to Heaven, and His Spirit is the deposit I hold for that day. Until I am able to see Jesus, I have Him living in me by His Spirit.

– Shelli Prindle

Did Jesus Descend to Hell?

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The notion that Jesus went to Hell when He died stems primarily from the Apostles’ Creed, which states of Jesus that He “was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead.” It is vital to note that the Apostles’ Creed is not Scripture. It is a summary statement of core doctrine that was written in the second century. It was not written by the Apostles. In the creed’s earliest forms, the “descent into hell” clause is not included.

We must keep at the forefront of our minds what the Word of God says concerning the efficacy of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. His shed blood is what has freed us from our sin and made us kings and priests to God (Revelation 1:5), not some supposed suffering of Jesus in the throes of Hell. “In him we have redemption through his blood” (Ephesians 1:7). We must read the Bible both for what it says and for what it does not say. We are never instructed that our forgiveness and restored relationship with the Father has come by some torment of Jesus in the fires of Hell. We are consistently instructed that by His blood and death on the cross, we have been saved and set on the road of righteousness and Heaven. One of the most concise statements regarding where our sins were carried to the fullest extent of punishment is in 1 Peter 2:24, “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.” Notice, again, the penalty for my rebellion against God was absorbed by Jesus during His work “on the tree” – not in the grave or in Hell.

In Scripture, we are presented with a statement the Apostle Peter makes in quoting a Psalm of David. Peter instructs us in Acts 2:31 that David “foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.” Sure enough, Psalm 16:10 declares, “You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.” [This is a prophecy with ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, as affirmed by Peter in the aforementioned sermon recorded in the book of Acts.]

Note that Psalm 16:10 speaks of the Messiah not being abandoned to “Sheol” in the English Standard Version, to “Hell” in the King James Version, to the “grave” in the New Living Translation, and to the “realm of the dead” in the New International Version. Was Jesus rescued from Hell? Or was He rescued from the grave? The best rendering here is Sheol, which is also how the New American Standard Bible and the New King James Version translate the original Hebrew. In the Old Testament, Sheol was a simple – yet mysterious – reference to the place of the dead. The word “Sheol” does not differentiate between the place of death for the wicked or for the righteous; it simply means “death.”

In the New Testament, “Sheol” becomes “Hades,” when referencing the place of the unsaved dead. In other words, the Greek of the New Testament begins to differentiate the destination of the dead, according to whether the person is righteous or not. Hades is the destination of the unsaved, and “Paradise” or “Abraham’s bosom” refers to the destination of the saved at death. We read of these two separate destinations in Luke 16:19-31. In reading the words of Jesus in this text, we see the stark contrast when it comes to the death of the righteous vs. the unrighteous.

When Jesus is on the cross and speaks to the repentant thief, he promises, “Today you will be with me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:43). We find the exact same Greek word in Revelation 2:7, when referencing the tree of life that we shall one day partake of again in the New Heavens and New Earth, “To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.” (See also Revelation 22:2). The Apostle Paul also uses the same Greek word for “Paradise” when he refers to the third heaven, the place of God’s presence, “And I know that this man was caught up into paradise” (2 Corinthians 12:4). Therefore, we rightfully conclude that when the Bible proclaims that Jesus was not “abandoned to Sheol,” that this does not mean that Jesus spent any time in Hell. Our Lord died; He visited the grave on our behalf. He went to the place of death, but God did not leave Him there! His body never corrupted; He rose again!

It is to be noted also that Jesus unequivocally stated that He was placing His spirit into the hands of His Father at the point of His death. (Luke 23:46) While His body stayed on the cross and then was deposited in the tomb, Christ went directly into the presence of His Father. In corroboration of the fact of Jesus going to the Father and not to Hell to finish being punished for our sin, we read in John 19:30 that the Son of God proclaimed at last on the cross, “It is finished.” Those same words are found written on papyri receipts for taxes, and the words mean, “Paid in full.” Jesus completed payment for our wickedness on the cross, where He died. Colossians 2:14 instructs, “God made us alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.” Our debt was nailed to the cross. It was not shed in Hell; it was nailed to the cross!

May I add that the finality of Hell in its eternal state, is the lake of fire. Just as the finality of Heaven in its eternal state, is the New Heavens and New Earth. No person has yet entered the final Hell. That place, said Jesus, “is prepared for the devil and his angels.” (Matthew 25:41) The antichrist and the false prophet will be the first two people deposited into the eternal lake of fire. Satan will follow. Then, at the Great White Throne Judgment, all of Hades and Death will vomit forth its contents, and the unsaved from all ages will receive final sentencing and go to Hell, the eternal lake of fire. (Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10, 14, 15)

So then, Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels. This is clear, straight from the mouth of Christ Jesus. Make no mistake, humans go there. However, it was always God’s intention to provide the way of escape from the torment of eternal Hell. That way is Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross. What the infinite Son of God did on finite hours on the cross could absorb all the sin of the world. Those who reject the work of infinite Jesus, will have to exist forever in a state of suffering, and still never be able to pay off the debt of sin, for we are finite beings.

Jesus was able to stand in between us and Hell. Our deposit in Hell never has to happen. Sinless Jesus stood in our place, paying the price for our sin, in the realm in which we currently live, so that we would never enter the realm of Hell, but rather live righteously in the presence of the Father. Humans end up in Hell by actively rejecting Jesus Christ and His work of salvation by His shed blood. He really died, and that was truly enough. He did not have to go to Hell – the place He created for Satan and the demons. His earthly and infinite payment was enough to blockade Hell from our destiny. Even greater, His work was enough to make the way for full restoration with God and living in His glorious presence forever.

There exist few other, enigmatic Scriptures that people point to in asserting that Jesus went to Hell and suffered. Those verses are highly debated among the best of scholars and give no impetus to the flawed premise that our sinless Savior ever suffered in Hell. The overwhelming Scriptural evidence points to a Savior who accomplished it all on the cross on which He died willingly for you and me.

– Shelli Prindle

Spiritual Confusion – March 1, 2023

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What I would say to every one of us is this: We need to be sure that whoever we listen to and learn from for our spiritual growth, centers always and primarily on the Person and work of Jesus Christ. The presentation of the reality of Jesus Christ must not be peripheral, it must not be simply mentioned in the mix of an otherwise “self-help message,” it must not be a side note; rather, the presentation of the Person and work of Jesus Christ must be altogether the central focus.

He is, in fact, the thread of all of Scripture – from Genesis to Revelation. All other issues – psychological, mental, spiritual, physical, financial, relational, society – ALL other issues are secondary to the issue of building trust in and relationship with Jesus Christ. The other issues resolve themselves in Christ, and in Christ alone.

We should walk away from any preacher/teacher thinking, “Jesus has been made bigger and clearer to me.” We should fall deeper and deeper in love with the Savior – not deeper in love with a philosophy or a method of helping ourselves.

Always discern the core and details of messages. Always weigh all things against the Bible. In this season of a growing antichrist spirit, we will find Jesus “once removed,” if you will, from many messages and teachings. He is “added in,” but He is not the focus.
It is impossible to identify every teacher/preacher/ministry/church that is biblically “off” to some degree. But IT IS possible to know and love the truth, in order to spot what is counterfeit with Holy Spirit-empowered discernment.

That is my word of advice, after having served the Lord all these years, after having taught and preached the Word all these decades in churches of many denominations, after having specialized in apologetics and Christian worldview training, after studying deeply and broadly biblical prophecy, and after growing every single minute in my pursuit of a better relationship with God, through Jesus Christ.

– Shelli Prindle

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. (2 John 1:7)

You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is those very Scriptures that testify about Me; and yet you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. (John 5:39-40)

Big Vision of God – December 1, 2022

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Big Vision of God

I believe that one of the primary things for a thinking person to recognize is that God, who created time, space, and matter, exists outside of time, space, and matter. God, by definition, must transcend that which He creates.

The Creator used no substance or energy to make the universe; it came from nothing but His own word, or His own reasoning. We humans use the substances, energy, and creative thinking patterns that have already been provided to us. In a very real sense, we “create” nothing; rather, we “rearrange” that which God has already given to us.

To understand that the God of Bible, while choosing to enter our world and interact with our world, is nonetheless infinitely greater than our world and is the only self-sustaining being, is a basic tenet of faith. From this starting point, we gain the “big vision” of God that is necessary to comprehending what He has revealed in the Bible.

– Shelli Prindle

“By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” (Hebrews 11:3)

Do You Know a False Jesus? – October 3, 2022

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Do You Know a False Jesus?

If you hear the name of Jesus spoken in your church or in the culture, and His name is not often and readily mentioned in conjunction with that long-forgotten word, “sin,” then you most likely are not hearing of the true Jesus.

If religion seems powerless or boring to you, or if it appears to be one of many tools for use in your life, then it is probably because you have not yet encountered the true Christ. In fact, I will go so far as to say that the very dangerous spirit of the antichrist can be closest when Jesus is spoken of, but not accurately so, or – more subtly – not fully described in terms of His essence and mission.

The angelic announcement of His coming to Joseph puts it all in perspective. The very words of God’s supernatural herald ought to be known, repeated, pondered, and upheld in every circle of ministry that claims the title “Christian.”

“Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:20-21)

And from that introductory statement of who Jesus is and what He does, spoken to Joseph and to us, we see two indisputable and critical facts:

1) He is God, not born of the seed of man, but placed in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit; and yet, He is in flesh, sharing our humanity; and

2) He came to save us from our sins.

In Christendom today, we see the weakening of pure doctrine from the lips of unfaithful people. In alignment with Scripture’s prophecy that spiritual delusion will swell, false teachers will abound, and the spirit of the antichrist will gain ground, we observe so much spoken of Jesus, except the essence of His reality and mission.

Jesus Christ is the God-Man who came expressly to save us from sin. Sin is not only what goes against God and His standards; it is whatever falls even the tiniest bit short of His all-encompassing glory. Sin is rampant in us. Moreover, we cannot be delivered from it without Jesus. We cannot draw near to God and His holiness without the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, the God-Man. He is God with flesh on, to stand in our place and pay for our sinfulness.

Jesus is not your moral teacher. He is not your example. He is not your source for community leadership. He is not a political pawn. He is not one of many ways to God. He is not a cosmic consciousness. He is not the source of holistic medicine. He is not someone who comes along to make you a better version of yourself.

He is the Savior from sin. He is the Re-Maker of a human heart. He is the only Restorer of relationship with the Father.

We are not simply “better off with Him.” We are lost in sin without Him.

Sinners need a Savior. If no one speaks of sin anymore, then people do not know the Savior; they instead know a false Jesus, an antichrist.

– Shelli Prindle

Red Heifer Delusion – September 28, 2022

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Red Heifer Delusion

It is true that red heifers have been delivered to Israel from Texas. As reported by The Jerusalem Post on September 20, 2022, “Five perfectly red heifers required for the ritual purification of those who have touched a dead body, arrived in Israel from a ranch in Texas on Thursday, as the Temple Institute continues preparations to lay the ground for the construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem.”

As someone who has been teaching the books of Daniel and Revelation for years, I have boldly declared the biblical truth that a temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt in preparation for the coming Antichrist to declare a peace treaty with Israel that allows Jews to reinstitute the sacrificial system. Antichrist will break the treaty midway through the tribulation and stop the sacrifices in the temple, as the beast himself will then demand worship from the world. This I wholeheartedly believe, for Daniel 9:27, Matthew 24:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, and Revelation 13:15 are just some of the Scriptures proclaiming the coming event.

Many Jews and people associated with the Temple Institute are working to prepare for the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. They do so, however, with an intention that is antithetical to biblical Christianity and our trust in Jesus Christ as Savior. Strangely, their wrong motives are being used by God Almighty to accomplish His plan for end-time events. The very people, the Jews, are the ones who the Lord will focus on saving during the tribulation period. God is using every circumstance to bring about His intended end.

The current goal of the rebuilding of the temple has nothing to do with Jesus Christ. In fact, the website of the Temple Institute clearly says, “This is the role of the Holy Temple in the life of man: to enable one to realign himself, to dedicate one’s whole self to G-d, to elevate every aspect of the human experience to holiness and return the energy which He gives us to His service.” As biblical Christians, we understand the pivotal truth that nothing can make a person right with God except for Jesus Christ. We depend on His death and resurrection as the sacrifice for our sin. Sin is not mentioned as a problem for the people who are seeking to rebuild the temple, nor is the name of Jesus mentioned in any context. Clearly, the efforts behind the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem are religious in nature. In other words, humans are attempting to reach God without the only Mediator, Jesus Christ.

Priestly garments and vessels for the temple are being prepared. And the long-awaited red heifers have arrived. Why does it matter that these red heifers have been delivered to the land? I quote here from the Temple Institute’s website, “Perhaps it would be difficult for some to believe that a cow could be so important. But in truth, the fate of the entire world depends on the red heifer. For G-d has ordained that its ashes alone are the single missing ingredient for the reinstatement of Biblical purity – and thereafter, the rebuilding of the Holy Temple.”

I must be unequivocally clear on this: no one, not me, or you, or anyone, can have sin forgiven and spirit renewed and relationship with God restored without the blood of Jesus Christ. His blood – and His blood alone – is the only substance that brings “purity.” While it is true that under the old covenant of law, the Lord required “a red heifer without defect, in which there is not blemish, and on which a yoke has never come” (Numbers 19:2) for purification for temple service, that requirement has been completely absorbed by the work of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Read carefully the following pivotal passage from Hebrews 10:11-13:

“And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.”

Jesus paid the price for all sin at one time. There is no other offering that can be given. There is no other blood that could be shed. There is no other death that could be effective for forgiveness and restoration with God Almighty. Jesus did it all.

Speaking of those who had once followed the law but now trust in the work of Jesus, the writer of Hebrew then adds in verses 15-18 of chapter ten:

“And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,’ then he adds, ‘I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.’ Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.”

The red heifers are part of a greater plan of religion that looks to laws of purity and sacrifice to attempt to walk with the Lord. However, no work of man can produce this outcome. Every sacrifice of the Old Testament times was a foreshadowing of the ultimate and only sacrifice that can save us – Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection.

In fact, those who seek to rebuild the temple and employ sacrifices once again, are clearly looking to the physical temple in Jerusalem as their source of relationship with God. The Temple Institute website declares that the Holy Temple “was the world’s true spiritual center, and the medium for that unfolding relationship.” Then, “It is the reality of the living memory of that relationship as it once was, and the dream of its renewal, that keeps the fires of the Temple altar burning within the collective heart of the nation of Israel, and the hearts of all those who cherish her G-d and His message for humanity.”

My friends, the physical temple and the animal sacrifices are not the greatest reality. These things only pointed to the greatest reality. Speaking of the priests and sacrifices of the old covenant, Hebrews 8:5-6 proclaims, “They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things … But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.”

The red heifers are part of the old system whose purpose was to point to the devastating sinfulness and impurity of mankind without Jesus Christ. Every drop of blood and every burnt offering pointed to the offering of Christ on the cross. To those who believe in Him, they are restored to relationship with the Father. (John 1:12) The red heifers (whether these ones or others to come) are part of the human effort to bring about a “God consciousness” that is not substantive. It is a diversion from the only Way, the only Truth, and the only Life – Jesus Christ. (John 14:6).

Nonetheless, these things must take place, according to biblical prophecy, for this temple that will soon be built in Jerusalem will eventually become the temple of Antichrist. This makes complete sense, for everyone who denies that Jesus is God in the flesh, is already operating by the spirit of the antichrist. (1 John 4:2-3) Know this, when people believe that in any final sense a human work of sacrifice can placate the wrath of God and please the Creator’s heart, they are of the antichrist spirit of this world system.

As a matter of fact, so central is the work of Christ on the cross as our ultimate sacrifice, that He is referred to as “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”! (John 1:29) And when we who trust in Jesus finally see “the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God” (Revelation 21:2) the Apostle John proclaims, “I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.” (Revelation 21:22) Did you hear that? The heavenly Jerusalem of the New Heaven and New Earth will have no temple! None is necessary! For Jesus is the temple of God. The Lamb has fulfilled all the requirements of the temple.

For now, we watch prophetic events unfold, but we must do so with an eye toward Jesus always. Do not get caught up in the “hype” of events, without pointing people to our only salvation. Because – after all- the God who superintends all end-time events is the God who sent His Son to save the world.

– Shelli Prindle of Hope & Passion Ministries, Inc.

Spiritual Inventory – September 19, 2022

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Spiritual Inventory

Are you on cruise control, or are you building yourself up in your most holy faith? Do you take your relationship with Jesus for granted, or are you actively investing in your walk with Him?

Are you going through the motions of everyday life, or are you praying in the Holy Spirit? Are you repeating rote prayers, or are you allowing the Spirit of God to direct what you bring to the Lord?

Is your receiving of the love of God something you think of as past tense, or are you carefully guarding the love of God in your life? Do you treasure it and grow in it?

Finally, are you stuck in thoughts of the here and now, or are you eagerly awaiting the greatest of mercy of Jesus Christ that we shall ever receive – the entrance into sinless and everlasting life? Do you crave the day of full redemption when we shall stand in glorified bodies with the King?

The above is a real checklist for those who claim to be Christians, for the Word of God bears forth the reality of believers. Hear it in the tiny book of Jude:

“But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.” (Jude 1:20-21)

– Shelli Prindle

Why a Pillar of Salt? – September 16, 2022

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Why a Pillar of Salt?

Lot’s wife stood in her sad tracks with head looking backward as a pillar of salt on the plain. She directly disobeyed God’s command to “not look back” at the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and she was turned into a statue of salt. Dead on the spot. Memorialized as a hunk of rock near cities still burning under the judgment of God.

Jesus minced no words about how we are to process what happened to Lot’s wife. “Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.” (Luke 17:32-33)

Clearly, Jesus is setting this example before us to warn us that true salvation leads to a devotion to the cause of Christ that is unmistakable. We must be willing to leave behind our sinful and selfish life to follow the Lord and His plan. We cannot “look back” longingly on the “old life” or the “familiar sins.” We must yield our heart, mind, and body to Jesus and to the work of His kingdom.

Lot’s wife became a pillar of salt. Why salt in particular? Could it have something to do with what Jesus said in Matthew 5:13? “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.”

Christians are to be the preservative of the world. (Salt was used in Bible times as a critical source of food preservative, for there existed no refrigerators or freezers.) We are also to show to the world the flavor of righteousness. By our living differently and righteously, we both present the reality of what Jesus can do in making us new creatures, and we help preserve the world from God’s judgment.

Right before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham interceded for those sinful cities. However, it was determined that not even ten righteous people remained in these places, and so God decided the time for judgment had arrived. He would have spared it for even ten righteous people still standing as a testimony to God, but since there was not enough “preservative,” destruction fell.

When believers do not act as believers, or when people who profess Christianity act just like the world, what use is the profession of Christianity? When the salt loses its flavor, how damning is the outcome! If Christians are not holy – set aside for God’s purposes – and showing the world what righteousness is, they do more damage to the world than good! A person who says they are Christian but acts like an unsaved sinner leads more astray than an atheist! People look at the “worldly Christian” and say, “So that’s what Christianity is?” And the truth is perverted and hidden.

In the days of Sodom, Lot’s family lost its saltiness. There is myriad fallout from Lot’s compromised life. We have not the space here to discuss the sadness of it all. And because of the lack of righteous people, God brought judgment, for the place would now self-implode from rampant and degrading sin.

Apparently, Lot’s wife looked back longingly at the familiar place of sinfulness, when she should have been running for her life toward the will of God and His escape route! Therefore, having lost her saltiness, she became “good for nothing” as far as a testimony to the world is concerned. Instead of being the salt of the world in vibrant, forward motion with the Lord’s will, she became a statue of salt – stuck in a backward glance – with a totally divided heart toward the Lord. It’s as if God said, “If you won’t be a part of preserving the world like salt does, you will be preserved as a monument to disobedience and half-heartedness.” The very thing you rejected will be the thing that damns you.

My friend, there is no place for indecisive discipleship. When we decide to trust Jesus as Savior and Lord, we must move forward. We must not long for what “used to be,” but for what the will of the Lord is! We must run toward righteousness and Heaven, and never look back at sinfulness and Hell.

– Shelli Prindle

But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26)

Temple Mount Tensions & Prophecy – September 15, 2022

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Temple Mount Tensions & Prophecy

The coming Antichrist inevitably sets himself up in the temple of God and proclaims himself to be God. (2 Thess. 2:4) Of this fact, there is no doubt. It will happen midway through the Tribulation. This will take place in Jerusalem, at the Temple Mount.

The prophet Daniel declares by inspiration of God’s Spirit, “He [Antichrist] will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven’ [set of years]. In the middle of the ‘seven’ [set of years] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” (Dan. 9:27)

Antichrist will be the one who is finally able to resolve the Temple Mount issue in Jerusalem between Jews and Palestinians. He will enact a peace treaty with Israel and allow the Jews to reinstitute their Old Testament sacrificial system. (Plans for this are already well underway; check out the Temple Institute of Jerusalem.) For now, the Temple Mount is a constant source of battle, as the Muslim “Dome of the Rock” shrine now sits on the temple mount. Jews and Muslims both desire to pray and worship at the Temple Mount.

“Temple Mount is a near-constant point of tension in Jerusalem.” This quote is from an online article at “The Jerusalem Post” on Sept. 13, 2022, titled, “Jewish, Arab activists issued restraining orders from Temple Mount.”

Things are ramping up over there in Israel around this area held sacred by both Jews and Muslims. The biblically prophesied Antichrist will be given the power to barter peace in the area that lasts for 3.5 years, in which time Jews will engage in their sacrificial system at the newly built temple. When the 3.5 years is over, Antichrist will break his treaty with Israel, throw off the help of another group of ten world leaders who had assisted him, and he will demand to be worshiped from that same temple. He will proclaim himself to be God of the world.

Revelation 13:5 declares, “And the beast [Antichrist] was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months [3.5 years].”

And Revelation 13:15 proclaims, “And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.”

When you hear news from the Middle East, including that of rising tensions over the Temple Mount and religious worship, take note. The Lord has prophesied from the Old Testament into the New Testament that these things would take place. We are now living in the time of the end. We may be in the last days, or – more likely – the last of the last days.

In any case, all that is happening in the world aligns with the setting of the stage for God’s end time plan. It could be any day that Christians meet Jesus in the air.

– Shelli Prindle of Hope & Passion Ministries, Inc.

Antichrist Operative – September 12, 2022

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Antichrist Operative

The antichrist spirit is not simply working through the spiritual leader who outright comes against Christ and denounces the Jesus of the Bible. In fact, this type of leader is perhaps the least dangerous.

The antichrist spirit works most readily and effectively through the pastor or teacher who acknowledges Jesus and uses the Bible, but who also diminishes the subject of human sin and the blood of Jesus Christ. The preacher who talks of Jesus but ever so unrecognizably begins to diminish Christ to a moral teacher, agent of change, social reformer, or the source of self-actualization, is a pastor who is operating by the influence of the antichrist spirit.

There is no middle ground. You are either holding fast to the Jesus Christ of all the Bible, or you are working for the devil – knowingly or unknowingly. Every leader who operates by the antichrist spirit will be held responsible, for at some point, he or she neglected the full Gospel. Perhaps they did so because of a motivation of selfish gain or increased popularity. Maybe they neglected the full Gospel out of laziness of study, absence of sincere prayer, or inundation of cultural “norms.” Whatever the reason, each is culpable.

The Bible speaks for itself. And when preachers avidly, purposefully, and prayerfully study and teach its contents, Jesus Christ will be exalted.

Be wary, my friends. The antichrist spirit is not simply the spirit that is “against” Christ; it is also the spirit that is “in place of” Christ. So many churches have exchanged the fullness of the Christ of the Bible with a Christ of their own, worldly making.

– Shelli Prindle

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
(1 John 4:1-3)

Point of Rapture – September 9, 2022

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Point of Rapture

As demonstrated in the historical truth of Sodom and Gomorrah, when Lot was taken out at the last minute before destruction, and as indicated by the Apostle Peter, that the Lord, to our understanding, seems slow to keep His promise of return, because He desires that no one perishes eternally, we know that Jesus will come suddenly to snatch His people from this world right before the judgment of the tribulation.

God is waiting for every last soul that will put their trust in Jesus as Savior to do so. Simultaneously, He is waiting for wickedness to reach a threshold that He will no longer tolerate, to the detriment of His people.

Therefore, when these two factors meet that God-given point of intersection, Jesus will whisk away His followers from this world, and then God will usher in the tribulation period.

The number of truly righteous people declines as the last-days apostasy sets in, and wickedness grows as godlessness and lawlessness increases. Surely, a number of falsely “spiritual” people still exists, but only those dedicated to the truth of Jesus Christ are righteous, for it is only the blood of Jesus Christ that He shed on the cross that can make any of us right with God.

The rapture is coming. Judgment is coming. Jesus is then coming back with His people to set up His millennial kingdom. Amen!

– Shelli Prindle

“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but hat all should reach repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)

“As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, ‘Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.’ But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.” (Genesis 19:15-16)

“And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.” (Matthew 24:10-12)

“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)