Why my name is FireStorm in the Forums

In the mid to late 1980's, I was in an interesting position.  Basically, I was running from a call of God on my life.  It isn't that I didn't trust God, but I did not understand that it is through God that we can do anything and that it did not matter that I knew all my own weaknesses and problems.  God does it through us... and because I was not looking to Him, but thinking of my own weaknesses, I ran for a few years.

During this time, I would have a recurring dream 1-3 times each week.  This is not your standard dream.  Although there would be differences from time to time, the basics of the dream would always be the same.  I felt actually tormented in this time because the dreams would get more and more intense as time went on.  

The dreams followed this line... God had given me a mission... a message to get out to as many people on the Earth as possible.  I only had a certain amount of time, because a terrible storm was coming to the land.  I would speak to so many people in so many places and in so many ways.  Many times it would seem like the great crowds listened, but the message was to get into a certain place before the storm hit or you would be caught in the storm.  And it was not just any storm, but a "FIRE STORM"  I would ride or run or walk from place to place giving the warning given to me by God, and in those times, the power of God would be rising in me and around me as the storm clouds gathered as in a circle around us moving in.

At the end of each dream, all that had listened would be in the same place (I know that's a metaphor and not a literal location).  And I would see the sky catch on fire.  The clouds that had been dark and threatening, literally caught on fire and a tornado of fire would reach down out of the swirling clouds and lightning and start to consume the land... the land would catch on fire as the firestorm had started its work of judgment.  I would be at the door and would be looking for anyone else, for there was only a small fraction of those who had heard the message that had actually made it.  Only a fraction of the people that seemed to hear and receive was actually there when the time came.  And as the storm started to come, God would say step away from the door, and it would shut!  We who had listened would be safe and were about to be taken where we would be safe from the storm.  But everyone who had heard and not heeded was now locked outside, where the firestorm consumed.

This vision of judgment was so intense in me as a young man, that one time I had driven for hours up around Shelby County, KY to see my cousin Perry, and in front of me was a powerful storm, and I nearly turned around and went back to Southeastern Kentucky.  Why?  Because it was so electrical, that it looked like the clouds were on fire somewhat... enough to remind me of the dream I had just had the night before.  It took prayer and a lot of self-control to keep on the road to my destination seeing that approaching straight in front of me.

The funny thing is, that after I embraced who I am in the Lord and walked fully in to the ministry that God has called me to, I never again had one of those dreams.  They just stopped once I became obedient.  Now, I understand that God formed and called me from my mother's womb to be who and what I am in Christ.  I hate that I ever ran, because it wasn't just God I was running from.  I was running from who I really am.

I have been given the opportunity to sound the warning in a number of places, and in a number of ways by the Lord.  I now understand, that the numbers of who responds are not my responsibility.  My responsibility to God is to be faithful to deliver the message, and do it in love and power with passion, for the time of the firestorm is truly coming.  There is a storm coming to this land.  I believe that God is going to allow me to have one last big push (the 11th Hour) before the end of this work.  And while I work in local churches, I will continue on the Internet as FireStorm to bring the Word of God and the warning that Jesus Christ is soon to call His church out of this world... the end of this age is at hand, and we must make ourselves ready.  

I know that only a fraction who hears will actually be one of the 5 Wise Virgins (Matthew 25) that is ready when the Midnight Cry is made.  But, God has called me for this hour... for this time... to be faithful, and some will listen.  Some will hear this one that is sometimes called FireStorm.  I must be faithful to God, and I must sound the message that He has given.  Some will hear the Voice of the Watchman.  Will you?

James Coldiron

Can you Spot the NUT?

Can you Spot the Nut?

Now boys and girls, it is time to play once again, "Can you spot the Nut?"

To begin with, let us consider that all of the law in the United States is founded on the foundation of the U.S. Constitution.  And in our Constitution, there are 10 initial amendments called, The Bill of Rights.  They are the foundation of liberty in this country and the spirit of our founding fathers in giving liberty the protection of law.  The very First Amendment is one of the most important, and yet the one that seems to aggravate certain loonies who have weaseled their ways into our legal system.  As I did in my last BLOG, I will quote from the First Amendment:

QUOTE:  "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

It says that Congress will not make a state-run religion, and that they will not do anything to prohibit our free exercise of religion.  In other words, we have Freedom of Religion, and it is not the government's place to stick its nose into our faith and our faith practices at all... ever!  The so-called separation clause is not even in the Constitution, but in a letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists taken from  his understanding of the No Establishment and the free exercise clause from the First Amendment. He was telling them that they would keep their governmental and judicial noses out of their religious business.  The Supreme Court in the last century totally reversed the meaning of this letter to mean the opposite than its original intention.  Can you spot the Nut there?   Ahem... anyway, in a blatant abuse of the Judicial Branch's power in actually making U.S. Law and policy instead of judging a law's constitutionality, the court used this as an excuse for laws to be able to stifle the free exercise of religion in any venue where the government funded, such as schools, etc.  Thomas Jefferson would have been sickened if he knew his letter to comfort Baptists had been used to attack the church.

Slip back to today and PORT WENTWORTH, Georgia.  The Ed Young Senior Citizens Center at Port Wentworth (near Savannah) now tells its elderly residents that they CANNOT PRAY BEFORE THEIR MEALS because the federal government helps pick up the cost of their meals (besides a .55 cent copay).  Since the U.S. Government is helping to pay for their means, they are FORBIDDEN TO PRAY OVER THEIR MEALS at this SENIOR CITIZENS HOME.  

If this were the old Soviet Union or Communist China, this kind of religious persecution would be expected.  It is expected in Police States that the innocent is not allowed to practice their faith as in praying over their meals.  But this is the United States of America where the Constitution gives us the clear cut right to pray if we want to pray, and this nursing home has forbidden the praying over your meals.  I wonder what the penalty is if you dare to pray?  Are these older folks allowed to eat if they dare to pray?

I found this very heartbreaking and insane article at http://www.wsbtv.com/news/23495797/detail.html , and it reports that the Vice President of Senior Citizens, Inc. said, "We can't scoff at their rules,.. It's a part of the operational guidelines."  Okay folks, its to to play, "CAN YOU SPOT THE NUT?"

First of all, it is unconstitutional for a government to tell any one of its citizens that it cannot pray no matter where they are at the time.  They now have to have a moment of silence, and nobody can vocally pray out loud at their meals.  I suppose if you wanted to pray out loud, you would not get to eat at their nursing homes.  The First Amendment makes it clear that the government cannot do anything that will prohibit the free exercise of religion.  YET, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS DOING!  Is the NUT in this case the government, or the black robed justices that have reversed the meaning of the Constitution?  Is the NUT the nursing home administrator that is either so fearful of the government that he is forcing some of the most defenseless people in the world to not be able to exercise their Constitutional Rights?  Who is the Nut, because somebody is!  This is a lunatic kind of ruling.  

Either this is a lunatic loss of sanity in giving into an unconstitutional law out of fear, or this is a more plain evil hatred of faith and using the current direction of court as an excuse to keep the elderly from praying  Either way, it is a sad day that we have come to this in the United States.

James

Have you ever wondered, "What are they really saying?"

Just a quick note this Sunday on the "oddness of things" and what leaders say and what it seems to really mean.  Today, I read that President Obama (reported by the AFP) was speaking at Hampton University in Hampton, VA.  And in his speech, he was complaining about the age of free information and the technology of the day.  He put iPads in with Xboxes and iPods and spoke about how in the light of these technologies (which he says that he does not know how to use), that we are living when information is more for entertainment than for education.  He went on to complain how people who really do not know what they are talking about are able to share their erroneous views with the public, and many times they catch on even though they are not true.  He thought that this was a threat to democracy.  Okay... this struck me as being very odd.

One wonders if he is trying to be the 'CHAMPION OF TRUTH', lifting a standard against those who would dare to lie to us!  This is coming from a politician that used every trick known in his Chicago-brand politics to pass a Health Care Bill that the vast majority of the country screamed not to pass.  This comes from a man who makes jokes about the laws in Arizona, not taking into consideration the common-place murders, kidnappings (316 in Phoenix alone in 2009 connected to over the border drug trafficking) and mayhem that the drug trade coming over the border is causing there (to the point that until 2009, suspects with less than 500 pounds of narcotics were not prosecuted due to the high amounts of illegals caught).  As the Governor of Arizona shared with a video to President Obama, nobody in Arizona is laughing.  The Obama Administration is not coming across really as the champions of truth over the lies of others... harrumph... we shall let that one lie where it is, and go on.

Mr. Obama seems to be concerned that information is shared too freely, and that people that the powers that be deem irresponsible are able to actually share their ideas with the world.  Uh... this reminds me of something.  It was in that "Constitution thing"... the Bill of Rights or something... what was it now?  Uh... uh.... Freedom of Speech?!?  Oh yeah, that's it!  

To Quote the First Amendment to the United States Constitution:  'The amendment prohibits the making of any law "respecting an establishment of religion", impeding the free exercise of religion, infringing on the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.' 

But honestly, it would seem that freedom of speech is not the only part of the First Amendment that gives some of the "Powers that Be" some concern... but that is the one being addressed today by our president today at Hampton University.  Could it be that blogs like this one might not be appreciated by some?  Could it be that the real problem is a "lack of control" by the government?  Could it be that the free access of information that is not controlled or shaped by the government would help people make a more informed and unbiased judgment on the condition of their world and what is really going on?

I remember when President George W. Bush was president.  I need to preface this by saying that I am not overjoyed by the Iraq War myself.  I think I have a different take on it than a lot of people, but it grieves me that any way at any time becomes necessary.  And it is even more grievous when there might have been a way around war and it is not taken.  But that is another topic...

on this one, I noticed this.  The press only covered parts of what was happening.  And the press told us to hate Mr. Bush.  The press told us that even when it was the act of others, it was still Mr. Bush's fault.  The press told us that GWB was the root of all evil on Planet Earth and that if he could only be removed, peace and prosperity would come to the planet and the environment would be fixed.  Uh... even though I am not exactly a "fan" of Mr. Bush, I found myself defending him at times because people seemed insane in their hatred of him.  People blamed him for things that could not possibly be his fault, and it became irrational.  I would find myself defending him because their hatred for him was on the insane level, and he could not have possibly been guilty of what they were saying (even though as I said, I was not exactly a fan myself).  I recognized that the PROPAGANDA MACHINE was at work shaping the common sheeple's mind into thinking that he was evil... just accept what is offered on the other side when the time comes.

Well, the sheeple did, and what they accepted was a man who has clear Socialist Politics (that was not particularly hidden), and had the most liberal voting record at the time (also a matter of record if you cared to look).  People who called themselves moderates and many conservatives voted for him (though they are complaining the loudest right now as he has had record low poll points) because they had been manipulated by the media machine into thinking that this was the way.  Mr. Obama is the new messiah (in fact, there was scary connections to the idea of him being some kind of messiah).  He has not however, led anyone to any kind of Promised Land.  

I think its kind of odd that he would put the iPad (which is basically the future of computers and information connectivity) and the Xbox (which is just a gaming system) together as if they represent the same thing.  I suppose they both represent electronics and networking, but the similarities kind of die out after that.  And considering Mr. Obama's use of his own Blackberry, I don't think that he is that ignorant of electronic devices.  This is not a stupid man.  I don't know about his wisdom, but he isn't stupid.  I find it difficult that he does not know any better or know how to use them.  Oh well, maybe... but I still find it hard to swallow.

What I truly hope is not really being said (and I mean that... I hope this is not what he is really saying) is something like this, 

"I am uncomfortable with today's Internet-connected devices that allow people who are not part of our controlled information machine the ability to influence others with their ideas and data that we have not sanctioned."

I most seriously hope that this is not the real message, but it feels a little like it to me.  Understand that I am not saying that this was the actual meaning of his speech.  I am not saying that I know the man's hidden thoughts or his heart.  But it does seem likely that this is the thrust of what is behind his speech.  It would seem that he either is thinking this way, or he does not understand what he is really saying, because it does not compute.  But I have to wonder sometimes if this isn't the undertone to many of our leaders when they say things like this.  I keep reading of those who want to clamp down on the Internet and the ability of people to blog freely and share ideas.  It is an attack on Freedom of Speech.  

I know that there are "crazies" out there that really are dangerous and promote dangerous things.   But there are intelligent, thinking people out there as well.  We need to read and learn so that we can discern the difference.  Because there is a lot of shaped, non-factual information that is passed off to us as "the news" sometimes, which does not have a lot to do with what is really going on.  When news agencies have to shape and reshape what has happened in order to give a particular slant on something, this is not journalism.  It is propaganda.  

I remember back in the 1990's, we were watching a satellite news feed from a "certain news agency" in Israel.  It was the news feed back to their home base in the USA and had raw video on it before it had been edited (back before they were doing more encryption... we were able to pick it up).  They literally paid these teenage Palestinian boys to set a car on fire and act like they were angry for the cameras.  The sad thing is that the cameras were on them when they paid them.  We watched this and then we watched on the network it was shown on, the edited product.  And IT IS A PRODUCT, TOO.  They reported it as more Palestinian violence as the conditions worsened for them from the "oppressive Israeli government."  The truth is that it was a set up drama that was a result of this news agency creating news.  I and some cousins of mine witnessed that.  That is propaganda, and not news.

I find that I can find benefits from reading many opinions and viewpoints that are far away from my own.  I learn from other points of view.  It helps me to understand why people believe what they do, even when I do not agree with them.  According to the article, Mr. Obama "bemoaned" the pressures that these people who are able to distribute their views as a threat to democracy.  I think that there is some shaping of opinions of the crowd against those who would dissent there.  But as far as democracy goes, the First Amendment gives us the right to actually complain when we believe things are not right.  That really is our right.  This is democracy actually.  Promoting Free Speech does promote democracy.  It isn't a threat to it.  That one line is what prompted me to write this.  

The Internet and the current electronic age and even blogs and vlogs have open the doors for new points of view to be distributed.  YES, we need to use caution in what we believe, and weigh it against the truth that we already have.  We need to use self-control and wisdom in distributing our own views to the world, or people will not listen.  We need to exercise self-control in our freedom and not use it for an excuse to just hurt others.  I understand that balance.  But the availability of information via the Internet today has added to mankind's knowledge vastly.  It has allowed us to see more of the truth of things if we take the time to look at the sources and weigh them in the balance, rather than just taking the prefabricated version spit out at us at times.  

More information allows us to have a more balanced education, and not just a pre-programmed one that tend to make clone-like people who think and speak just alike.  We are individuals, and we can learn to grow and enhance our lives through one another.  

Oh well... 'nuff said on this one.

Jim