Fires of Revolution Iv: Victory

By James R. McCollam

The world has become an extremely scary and dangerous place. This book offers hope and peace in a time of such uncertainty and turmoil. The author wants to focus your attention on things eternal. Every bar of gold is produced in a furnace. This earth experience is when and where we have our metal tested to see who we want to be forever. If we endure the tests and trials of faith and come forth as pure gold, we are assured of victory and an amazing afterlife. Victory is attainable by everyone and nothing or no one can prevent you being victorious except you. Violently discard everything unholy and cast all your care upon Jesus. A great white steed is being prepared for your victory lap.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503557154

James R. McCollam

The author met the Lord Jesus as a young boy in 1961. Together with his high school sweetheart, they have two children waiting in heaven from miscarriages and eight adult children with twenty grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and counting. They all currently reside in Montana.

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CONTENTS

Run for Your Life

Why Judgment?

When God Won’t Listen

Warriors

Two Trees

Truth or Consequences

Tomorrow is coming

The Worth of a Word

The Two Witnesses

What are You Doing Here?

The Covenant

God’s Tackle Box

The Sword

The Pyramids are in Egypt

The Nutcracker

The Losers

The Letter and the Phone Call

The Harvest

The Greatest Offer

The Great Privilege

The Gods Have Fallen

The Garden

The Dream

The Deciding Factor

Two Crosses

The Church Split

The Canvas

The Appointment

Tea Party

Submission

Snake Bite

Show and Tell

Saul, oh Saul

Sanctification

Same Devil

Resurrection

Protocol

Prisoners

Prepare

Politically Incorrect

Perfection

Patch

Over Coming Sin

One Thing

One Minute to Six

One Crumb Hypocrisy

Not What You Know

No Other Reason

No More Churches

Mystery Babylon

My Offering

My Duty

Leprosy

Latter Rain, the Monsoon

Just Suppose

Jupiter

Inconceivable

Heavens Pause Button

Goliath

God’s House

God’s Character

God, I’m Mad at You

God Dethroned

Follow the Leader

Fire Proof

Finals

Fight or Die

False Prophets

Spinach and Ice cream

Dumb, Huh?

Don’t Just Stand There

Don’t Just Say No!!

Division

Demolition

Dry Paint

Deception

Damned Religion

Current Affair

Come Quickly Lord Jesus

Choose Your Side

Change

Boogie Board

Baptism of Death

Back in the Box

After

A Virgin Shall Conceive

A New Season

To Hell With the World

Going For Gold

R.I.P. No Parole

Run for Your Life

The organized churches of today have become so contrary to the Word of God the time has come for everyone that is serious about serving and pleasing the King to break free from the bondage of dead religion.

Instead of the body being perfected and each member contributing their portion as the Spirit has given gifts to all, they come and sit in their pew and endure through another service cut from the How to have Church manual.

Instead of being a healthy body the church has become a shriveled up, paralyzed deformity with a huge head called Pastor usurping the position of Christ. The word pastor and the position it denotes has been so grossly perverted from the true biblical meaning that dictator is more applicable.

If the men that disobediently bear the title of pastor won’t humble them selves and repent of their proud, rebellious ways then it is up to you to slip out from under their thumb, depart from their castle, and start gathering together with the other kings and priests sitting suppressed and idle in the pews beside you. Have you had enough of dead religion?

I contend that it is necessary now for everyone to meet together and wait on God as we have been commanded all a long in 1 Corinthians 14. Throw all programs and agendas out the window and don’t anyone move unless moved upon by the Spirit. Everyone should be reading the bible, praying, and seeking God at home so when they meet together they are a prepared vessel fit for the Masters use. Beware of the leaven of the bishops and pastors; they have thoroughly contaminated the bread of life teaching for doctrines the traditions of their predecessors. They repeatedly and belligerently resist the Holy Spirit as their Pharisee fathers have done. How shall they escape the damnation of hell?

The Church is not a building but a body. When the Holy Spirit is not free to minister through who ever he wants, when ever he wants, where ever he wants, we are completely out of order and will never see the power and glory of heaven manifested in our midst.

I seriously doubt that many pastors, denominational or not, will hear what I am saying seeing how they are living in rebellion to God’s word right now. I am writing this to everyone that is sick and tired of a powerless Christianity. Everyone that is hungry and searching for what they had at Azusa. Everyone that knows something is missing and there is so much more.

The pulpits have been filled with cowards that are afraid to preach the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Job security compels them to preach a comfortable message. It is impossible to preach the true gospel and not offend people. If people are not being offended then you are not preaching the true gospel. The truth will never make the flesh happy and comfortable. The flesh and Spirit are totally at odds with one another and can never live harmoniously together. If the wicked can come and worship with you and not be convicted and challenged to forsake their sin then you are not preaching the gospel and will answer for it.

All of the yellow bellied, self-serving hypocrites that answer to Pastor will receive a greater damnation because of living and teaching rebellion against the Lord and leading people astray. They pervert the word of God and cause the people to trust in lies.

Contrary to what most preachers are saying, God is not all that concerned with how comfortable you are right now and how much prosperity you can accumulate. He is concerned about you being as holy as he is. He is concerned about you denying yourself everyday and bowing before your king in total subjection. He is concerned about you abiding in him and producing fruit so you don’t get cut off and thrown on the burn pile. He is concerned about you living a sanctified, holy life, shining brightly and leading many lost souls into the kingdom of God where you and they will be comfortable throughout eternity.

He is quite concerned that you are trusting in the rapture fable and are not preparing your heart, soul, and spirit for what is coming by putting on the whole armor of God.

He is quite concerned with so many that go by the name Christian and yet they believe they will get into heaven with sin in their life. The damning doctrine of Eternal security comes wrapped in different packages. The Baptists have the once saved always saved lie and the Pentecostals have the God is blinded by grace heresy. The only way to be secure and stay secure is to live a holy, overcoming life unto the end.

• Mark 13:13

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved

• 1 Corinthians 9:27

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

The broad way that leads to destruction runs today right through the middle of our churches.

The churches are filled with people living in open adultery and adultery by re-marriage. I know of a local pastor that advised a man to divorce his wife and marry another woman in the congregation. Don’t want to be him.

Pornography and every kind of sexual perversion are rampant not only in the church but in the pulpits as well.

So called Christian women are murdering their unborn babies in the name of convenience. I can’t imagine on judgment day standing across from the most precious gift given to you and looking into the eyes of a child you had painfully slaughtered as if it were a cancer growing in your womb. Even animals will fight to the death to protect their off-spring. How far we have fallen.

The warnings of Jesus to abstain from covetousness have been discarded and replaced with constant messages of prosperity. His commands of deny yourself and take up your cross forsaken for be blessed and make yourself comfortable.

Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the bishops and pastors you won’t make heaven. Their watered down, mealy-mouthed, compromising, perverted and powerless gospel will send your soul straight to hell. Did I say hell?

I can’t believe how many in the church today are changing the fiery, eternal torment of hell into just a sad feeling of remorse. The serpent convinced Eve she would not die and he is convincing the church there is no hell. Eve did die and hell will burn until it is cast into the Lake of Fire along with every soul that has not surrendered to Jesus and lived a holy life.

• 2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

• Hebrews 12:14

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

• Hebrews 12:10

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

It is astounding to me how utterly flippant people have become over the word of God. They are even reversing the above scripture and saying that God no longer gets mad at his children and would never spank them which is in direct opposition to what his word declares from Genesis through Revelation.

People, we had better break free of the dependency we have on church leadership and seek God and his righteousness our selves. Your pastor is not going to stand in your judgment for you. He will stand in his own judgment and receive a greater damnation if he misrepresented God’s word.

We are held to a lot higher standard of holiness today then the Law of Moses that was written on stone. God has not abolished his laws but has written them on our hearts.

To those that would say we are not under the law I would ask, is it O.K. now to commit adultery, lie, cheat, and steal? Absolutely not.

The ordinances of the law under Moses such as tithing, circumcision, Sabbath, etc. have been superseded by the laws written on our hearts.

• Matthew 5:17

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

• Romans 8:4

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Make no mistake; sin will damn your soul for ever in the Lake of Fire.

The King is an austere man and demands perfection, he demands holiness, and he demands fruit. If we don’t produce a profit with the talents we have been given we will lose everything, including our souls. Excuses will not suffice or gain us a free pass nor will perverting Gods grace into a cover that makes our filth invisible to God.

It is not possible for you to be who you are in the kingdom as long as you sit paralyzed in a church under the control of a man. Save your soul and get out. Take your children and your money and escape before it is too late. The true body of Christ is free to serve their master as directed by the Holy Spirit and is not hemmed in between the walls of a building or under the control of a self asserting man. What the Spirit has planned for each gathering of the saints cannot be written down in a program and handed out at the door.

There are many that are satisfied with the church today and will not hear a word I am saying. Religion for multitudes today is simply an easing of the conscience. They think that their meager participation will earn them favor at their judgment not realizing that their meager participation will earn them a more severe sentence.

Revelation 3:15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would rather that you were cold or hot. 16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth. 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

It would be far better to live in a cave, wear fur skins, eat bugs and roots and please God then to have your name on a church roster, sit in your plush pew inside your stained glass cathedral and end up being vomited out of God’s presence forever.

True shepherds do not receive the honor given by men. They do not take the seat of preeminence or esteem themselves higher than anyone else. They will give their lives to save the sheep and so watch carefully for wolves in sheep’s clothing that come in deceitfully to spread their damning heresies. They lead by example rather than by mere words. They are faithful to speak thus saith the Lord even if it means no one will follow. They live to please the Lord and not themselves. They care not for what everyone is saying but their ear is turned always toward heaven to hear what the King is saying. They march to the drum beat of heaven and all of hell is petrified at their arrival. They know their God and are busy preparing for the greatest battle to ever take place on planet earth.

The recruiting officer of heaven is making some last minute appeals for any and all that are tired, hungry, and thirsty.

Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Why Judgment?

Isaiah 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 10 Let favor be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

A wicked person will not forsake his wickedness just because God is good. Wicked people are shown mercy every day being released from jails and prisons after serving a small percentage of their sentence. A wicked heart only takes advantage of mercy and kindness. They will mock the merciful as fools and go right back out and continue where they left off committing their terrible deeds.

When God’s sweetness doesn’t lure you into his net he will resort to throwing dynamite into the pool. Yes, a lot of trash fish will die in the process but he will not allow the fish that will be saved to be lost with the fish that stubbornly refuse his salvation. We are all trash fish before we surrender to Jesus and make our covenant with God. His net is open for all and he will not turn anyone away that comes in humility seeking salvation. I only recently came into a much deeper understanding of our entering into covenant with God and so I expect it will appear more often in my writings.

True salvation is a lot more than adding the name of Jesus to our life. It is a two way street that demands that we give our life to God in exchange for his life. It is an entering into a blood covenant with God unto death. It means forsaking everything to follow Christ.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Almost daily now the news is full of stories about God’s dynamite exploding in all parts of the globe. Calamities are happening with more intensity and greater frequency. The meek will give heed and get in the boat; those stubborn in their heart will ignore the warning and end up dying in their sin.

Psalm 76: 8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared and was still, 9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

There is a crowd today that rejects a God of judgment. They believe that he only fishes with sweet bait and forget about a barbed hook. What they fail to realize is that there are many fish that won’t respond to sweet bait. Judgment is not executed to bring in the lost that respond to God’s goodness but rather to bring in the ones that will respond to his terror. God is going to catch as many fish as he can with what ever means he deems necessary. Too forbear judgment will mean less souls will be saved in the end.

The end is so close that God is pulling out all of the stops. He is going to do a quick and very powerful work to draw any lost sheep into the ark before he shuts the door. Before he utters those fateful words in Revelation 22: 10-19

God’s judgment is a result of his love and mercy just as much as his goodness is. He prefers that we forsake sin and live for him just because we love him but he resorts to judgment to bring the hard headed ones into the fold before it is too late.

At the core of the whole issue stands pride and humility.

The proud stand in arrogance against God and have in their rebellious, conceited, attitude judged him as inferior to their wisdom. Lacking all fear and reverence, they boldly reverse his written word to accommodate their fleshly desires and give credence to their perverted theology.

The definition of the word ungodly used in the New Testament is: destitute of reverential awe towards God, condemning God, impious.

Many in the church today will stand before God with the same self righteous attitude that the Pharisee’s had and will receive the same condemnation. Like the prodical’s brother that had remained in church all of his life and so thought he deserved the Father’s blessing, many today will miss out on the wedding feast. Taking a bold stance and declaring his son ship instead of falling on his face in humility and begging to simply be a servant he ends up fruitless and rejected. Only the son who humbled himself was given the ring and the robe.

On the opposite side will be the humble of heart that constantly fell on their faces and cried out for God’s judgment on their lives. They begged for heavens spotlight to search every nook and cranny of their soul and spirit too reveal all unrighteousness. Because they were not capable of perfect judgment they demanded to be judged by the King himself.

They have learned that all of God’s ways are perfect and so worship him in spirit and in truth. They worship the Lion and the Lamb. They have not perverted his image too be only the kind, loving daddy that will never bring correction or punishment to his little darlings but honor him in truth as the Lion of Judah that executes his judgments in his body and the world.

Psalm 89: 13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

• Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

• Proverbs 21:3

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Luke 11:42

But woe unto you, Pharisees! For ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Hebrews 12:

5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way ; but let it rather be healed. 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Rejoice, when you find yourself in the woodshed for God is treating you as a son.

When God Won’t Listen

There are many people that frustrate the goodness of God. They are sure that he exists and they believe in heaven and hell but they continue to live contrary to what pleases him. As Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of stew they reject salvation for the pleasures of the world. They know that to surrender their lives to Christ will require them to give up some sin that is precious to them. They live with the hope that some day when they are finally ready they will get saved. After they have had their fill of the world and are finally sick of the pleasures that never satisfy, they will do God a favor and give him what’s left of their putrid life. They wasted their life and wagered their eternity on the bet that God was too nice to ever turn them down.

Proverbs 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

I wonder how many people just kept living their lives and scanned the horizon for clouds in Noah’s day? They really believed what Noah was saying but weren’t willing to look like fools before they absolutely had too. They didn’t want to help build the ark because that would interfere with their agenda. They knew that God was loving and merciful and so they would just wait until the ark was finished and if it started to actually flood they would go and board the ship.

Proverbs 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

• Galatians 6:7

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. .

Hebrews 12: 16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Matthew 25

1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9 But the wise answered, saying, not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Matthew 27 3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, what is that to us? See thou to that. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

• Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

I truly fear that multitudes have been lulled to sleep by the heretical rapture doctrine. They have been reassured over and over that Jesus is going to come and secretly snatch them away before the anti-Christ comes to power. This is in direct contradiction to what all of the scriptures declare.

The preachers that stubbornly hold to this teaching will not be held guiltless. They will have the blood of untold multitudes on their hands.

Preachers have not been granted the liberty of neutrality. They are required to declare Thus saith the Lord regardless of what their congregation wants to hear.

This fairy tale doctrine came along in the early 1800s and belongs on the same shelf as the book of Mormon and Awake and Watch Tower that also were vomited out of hell in that time period.

Instead of filling their lamps and oil pots with oil for the dark night that is coming, Multitudes are frivolously playing church counting on this abominable doctrine to save them from the troubles that are coming.

Every verse that is making reference to the Lords return is talking about the one and only second coming of Jesus. There is no division splitting his return into two phases. Anyone who has a bible and can read will not be excused because the preacher decieved him.

Each one of us will bear the guilt of our own sins.

Genesis 7: 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

Just as God shut the door of the ark to all but Noah and his family and he shut the door closing the wedding to the foolish virgins, many will find themselves shut out when Jesus returns.

• Luke 13:28

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

Warriors

David the shepherd boy becomes a warrior, why? Was it because he had a violent nature and