1 Ch 12:32 Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command.

The sons of Issachar were intelligent men, who understood the signs of the times, well versed in political affairs, and knew what was proper to be done in all the exigencies of human life; and who now perceived that it was both the duty and political interest of Israel to advance David to the throne.Today we seek sons and daughters of Issachar, men and women who understand the times we are living in and know what is to be done in all the exigencies of human life to advance King Jesus to His throne.

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Thursday, December 30, 2021

A parable for our day

 A parable

There once was an evil prince in a kingdom that wanted to become the king of the kingdom. The King of this kingdom had many loyal subjects who loved and served the King. The evil prince devised a plan to kill many of the King's loyal subjects and deceive the other residents of the kingdom so that they would make him their king. He had his alchemists create a deadly plague that would quickly spread throughout the kingdom. He even had them create an antidote for the plague, but the antidote was to cause even more sickness and death.

The King of the kingdom was enraged and set out to use the evil princes’ plan against him. The King caused the plague to mutate into a rather mild disease that quickly spread throughout the kingdom. This mild disease created antibodies that provided protection from the evil princes’ plague rendering it useless.  When the people of the kingdom saw what the King had done, they greatly rejoiced and the kingdom grew even stronger than it was before.   

A lesson about spiritual warfare

 A lesson about spiritual warfare

Luke 8:22-39

Jesus sets out to start a movement in the region of the Gadarenes. This movement will involve an encounter with the demonic. He gathers His disciples and sets out across the Sea of Galilee. The demons knowing that Jesus is coming cause a great storm to arise. Even though Jesus is in the boat with them they become terrified thinking that they will perish in the storm. This is a test for the disciples. Will they face the storm because Jesus is in the boat with them? Will faith in Jesus overcome the fear? At least they do turn to Jesus, awaken Him and cry out to Him to save them. Jesus then rebukes them for their lack of faith. Then, with a word, Jesus rebukes the storm and they safely arrive at the other side of the sea. When they encounter the demonic, the demons are afraid of Jesus.  He disposes of them and sends the formally posed man to start a movement in the area by telling all what Jesus had done for him.

Today, we Jesus’ disciples are facing a great demonic storm. What will our response be? Jesus will rebuke the storm, but does He want us to stand up in faith in Him and in His name rebuke the storm ourselves? Jesus has given us the authority and the power to deal with the demonic through the power of the Holy Spirit. This is a test. This time let us let our faith arise, stand and face the storm, rebuke it and start a movement that will spread through the earth to rescue many souls from the hand of the enemy.

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Update, The Rapture of the Church

 

Link to: The Rapture of the Church

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19cpUjrRO2_6xQNjCzAP2HgTHMpKxosXy/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110911195458394075036&rtpof=true&sd=true

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

A modern-day parable about the future

 A Story Line for “Chuck the Sequel” – a story that was never written or aired. A modern-day parable.

D.P. Weary, December 2021

The original TV series “Chuck”, aired between September 2007 and January 2012, contained hints of real situations and events that would come to pass in the future, events preceding the rapture of the Christians from the earth. The story “Chuck the Sequel” will also contain hints of situations and events that will come to pass in the future. For those with “eyes to see” it will be a parable about events in our world that follow the rapture of Christians from the earth.

The background: Chuck the TV series begins with Chuck and a secret CIA computer program that inputted a complete CIA database into Chuck’s brain. Two CIA agents, Casey and Sarah are assigned to guard Chuck as he became both a liability and an asset to the CIA. The CIA soon finds that Chuck is a tremendous asset and assigns Sarah to be his handler and partner and begin training him to be an agent. Through several adventures and missions, Chuck and Sarah become friends. The cover story for Chuck is that Sarah is his girlfriend. Soon this cover story becomes reality and Chuck and Sarah develop a real boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. As their many missions continue their relationship grows to the point that they became lovers.

Many of these missions involved either Chuck or Sarah getting into desperate situations and the other one, at the last minute coming to the rescue. Many of the missions in the series revolve around the secret computer program that Chuck carries in his head.

As the story develops, Chuck and Sarah get married. The final season of the TV series are missions and adventures with Chuck and Sarah, now married and operating as an independent security company called Carmichael Industries. While they advertise as a security company, they are still working as spies. This eventually leads to a real problem involving the CIA computer program called the Intersect and the end of the series.

During their final mission as spies, Sarah sacrifices herself by putting a flawed computer program called Intersect 2 into her brain. With the power and special abilities the program gives her, she is able to save her long-time spy partner Casey (part of the Carmichael team) and herself from some very bad guys with big guns that are trying to kill them. But there are side effects of the Intersect program. Side effects that cause brain damage and memory loss. A very bad rouge ex-CIA agent takes Sarah captive and keeps Chuck and her NSA partner Casey from saving her from the bad effects of Intersect 2 and the memory loss. The rogue CIA agent lies to Sarah who has lost her memory of the past days and tries to get her to kill Chuck. These attempts fail and Sarah learns the truth about what really happened. She believes it but she does not have any memory or feelings about her past life with Chuck. She feels confused, alone, hurting, and lost, not knowing who she really is having no memory of her life with Chuck or with the Carmichael Industries team.

It is at this point in the story that the team that was Carmichael Industries breaks up and go their separate ways with a final goodbye. The last scene is one of Sarah and Chuck sitting on a beach, both lost and hurting, not knowing what the future will bring.

 

Chuck the sequel

Our story begins where the original TV series left off with the last episode of season 5. Sarah asks Chuck to tell her again about their life together as they sit on a beach that has been special to them in the past. Then Sarah asks Chuck to kiss her. After they kiss, Sarah takes Chuck’s hand and says, “I felt that”. With that kiss, the process of restoring her lost memory of their days together begins. As they leave, Sarah to her apartment and Chuck his, Chuck asks Sarah for a date.

Chuck takes Sarah to a restaurant that was a special place for them in the past. They talk about what they each are going to do to support themselves now. They decide that they will not dissolve Carmichael Industries but as business partners turn it into a strictly intelligence-gathering operation using Chuck’s technical knowledge, electronic skills, and computer skills, and Sarah’s knowledge of intelligence agencies, spies, and how the spies and spy agencies work. They agree to do this but without getting personally involved in actual physical field operations. As they are talking about all of this Sarah gets a memory flash of the two of them sitting at the same table on a date somewhere in the past.

As Chuck and Sarah launch the resurrected Carmichael Industries, they contact General Beckman, director of the CIA,  because she had given them an invitation to rejoin the CIA. They lay out their plans to make Carmichael Industries an independent contractor to provide intel information and surveillance services hoping to get some jobs from her.

The General knows that Chuck is filled with Intersect 3. This is an updated Intersect program that contains CIA information about operations and people, both good and bad. It also contains information that enables anyone with the program to have special abilities and capabilities. It is an upgraded Intersect 2, a program that had several flaws and adverse side effects. It was these side effects that damaged Sarah’s brain and her loss of memory. With Chuck’s abilities as a former CIA spy and his special abilities and information of the Intersect 3, and because of Sarah’s special effectiveness as a CIA operative, Beckman wants to get them back into her service.

A little while later Beckman calls Chuck and Sarah with a proposal of her own. It turns out that while the Buy More electronics store above an underground CIA facility called the Castle was sold, the CIA facility was never sold and the CIA retained control using it only occasionally. Beckman agrees to contract with Carmichael Industries for services and proposes that Carmichael Industries lease the Castle from the CIA, now equipped with only electronic intel gathering and surveillance equipment. She also has a first job for Chuck and Sarah.

During these early days of starting their business, Sarah finds herself working long hours as long as Chuck is around, not wanting to go back to her apartment and having to be alone. And she hates eating alone, always finding ways and excuses to have meals with Chuck. And Chuck is always more than eager to be with Sarah.

During Sarah’s nights alone in her apartment, strong emotions of loneliness sweep over her. Her nights get long and she does not sleep well. When she does sleep, she begins to dream of places and events that seem somehow familiar but there are no specific memories that come with the dreams. One night she dreams that someone is lying beside her and she reaches over to touch. But, no one is there. Bit by bit pieces of memories of the past with Chuck are beginning to reappear.

It is not many days before Sarah tells Chuck that she wants to come home but that she still needs time and space, not yet ready or able to resume the role of his wife. Chuck tells her that he made a covenant with her to love her and protect her till death parts them, no matter what happened or what the future brings, and with tears in his eyes, he welcomes her home with a great big hug.

Chuck gives Sarah their old bedroom and he moves into the guest room, hoping that her being in the room will trigger more memories.  And sure enough, one night as Sarah sleeps, she finds herself reaching over to Chuck to cuddle and for a moment was surprised to not find him there.

In the Middle East Israel has attacked Iran’s nuclear development facilities and a military installation where Iran was keeping its almost completed first nuclear bomb. In response Iran along with several other Islamic nations north of Israel and backed by Russia attack Israel. Now someone is trying to negotiate a cease-fire treaty; someone with a lot of influence in both Israel and the nations attacking Israel. Chuck and Sarah are contracted to find as much intel on this person as possible. What they find is going to change the whole world.

Their electronic search for information on this new figure on the world stage takes them to many locations in the Middle East and Europe. Some of these locations and the people Chuck and Sarah investigate are the same places and people that they encountered in their previous missions for the CIA. This again triggers a little vague but real memories for Sarah of their missions together before her memory was taken from her.

Beckman keeps giving Chuck and Sarah more jobs and often they trigger memories for Sarah of special times with Chuck. Interestingly, the memories are generally of highly emotional times when Chuck had rescued Sarah or Sarah had rescued Chuck but not of the traumatic painful events of their missions. Often the memories triggered are of their romantic encounters as their relationship developed from CIA partners to friends, then to being real boyfriend and girlfriend. The pieces of Sarah’s past like pieces of a picture puzzle are starting to come together.

The next job for Chuck and Sarah involves monitoring a mission for another security contractor led by Casey’s girlfriend Greta. Casey is now working with Greta and is on a mission in Alaska tracking down some bad guys who are involved in child trafficking. As Sarah watches on her monitor, Casey is complaining that he is as cold as he was the night he and Morgan rescued Sarah when a rogue CIA agent was trying to kill her by freezing her to death. At this, a new memory flashes in Sarah’s mind. It is Casey carrying her out of the cold room and taking her to Chuck. She remembers Chuck stripping the freezing clothes off of her leaving her naked, laying her on a bed then climbing in with her, embracing her with a full-body hug, and wrapping the both of them in a blanket. Sarah turns looking at Chuck almost blushing.

Later, on another job, Sarah and chuck are monitoring two CIA agents acting like a couple as cover on a mission. Their job is to identify some bad actors in the room for the agents. As this couple is dancing a very sensual dance, a memory of her and Chuck once doing the very same thing comes that is very strong and clear and she feels the passion that she had felt that night as she and Chuck danced. Sarah turns, looks at Chuck sitting before their monitor, jumps into his lap, and kisses him with a new level of passion and love.

During another job for Beckman, they are tracking a personage in Paris. They find him in the same hotel overlooking the Eiffel Tower as they were in after Chuck had saved Sarah’s life. The scene triggers a memory of her waking to find Chuck at her bedside lovingly taking care of her, she reaching out to him, and he climbing into bed with her as they make real love together for the first time.

Not too long after this, one night as Sarah and Chuck are retiring for the night, Sarah calls out to Chuck and asks him to come help her for a minute. As he opens the door to her bedroom, he sees Sarah standing by the bed in the very sexy red negligee that she often wore in the early days of their relationship as lovers. In her eyes was that old familiar seductive look of “please come and make love with me”. After this night they never sleep alone again.

After many more jobs for the CIA, Carmichael Industries' reputation begins to spread and they find other people and corporations contracting with them. The business is beginning to flourish.

The next big job for the CIA involves identifying and tracking down some high-level bad guys that are dealing in contraband and human trafficking. A giant meteor has fallen into the Mediterranean Sea damaging many ships in the area. Some of these damaged ships are found to be transporting military contraband, and others, victims of human trafficking. Sarah and Chuck are tasked to identify the key players in these operations and locate them so that Beckman’s agents can put operations in place to take these people down. It is a very successful operation and many really bad guys and their illegal operations are taken down.

One day Chuck receives a call from a new client, a client he was not aware of. It seems that Sarah has contracted with the client without bothering to confer with Chuck. Being a bad day for Chuck anyway, he confronts Sarah with some harsh words and gets angry with her. Sarah then gets upset and angry. As she turns and begins to walk away, a memory of their first real fight flashes before her. It was a time once before in the early days when she had done something without telling Chuck. Turning to Chuck, she just runs to him saying, “I remember the time we got mad at each other. It was terrible and I don’t want that to ever happen again. I love you so, so much”. With a passionate kiss, they get back to work.

By now the business has grown to the point that Chuck and Sarah are swamped and overworked. As they contemplate hiring more staff, the issue is who has the skills they need, and who can they trust? Though wild and crazy guys, Chuck remembers the extensive technical knowledge, and hacking skills of their old friends Jeffery and Lester. Contacting them Chuck finds that their musical careers are not going so well and they almost plead with Chuck to hire them. So, Jeffery and Lester become part of the Carmichael team and are involved in many future jobs. Their hacking skills prove to be very valuable to the team.

Morgan and Alex have been living together in the apartment next to Chuck and Sarah’s this whole while. The relationship between the two couples proves to be very valuable and effective in the process of restoring Sarah’s memory. Their daily life experiences often trigger good memories for Sarah.

Then Alex and Morgan find that Alex is pregnant. The pregnancy only draws Morgan and Alex closer but Alex’s pregnancy also provides many situations and encounters with Chuck and Sarah that draw out old feelings of someday becoming parents themselves. Sarah also begins to regain memories of special times with Chuck’s sister Elie during her pregnancy.

The event that completes Sarah’s healing occurs the day Alex delivers her baby. Chuck and Sarah find themselves in the same hospital, on the same floor, and sitting on the same bench as the day Elie delivered her baby. As they are sitting there, Sarah suddenly begins crying and laughing at the same time. Turning to Chuck, she jumps into his lap, holds his head in her hands, and begins kissing him with the passion and love that she did the day Chuck proposed to her in that very same spot. Her only words are, “I remember”.

As Sarah and Chuck go into Alex’s hospital room, while Sarah is holding Alex’s newborn, she remembers the first time she held Allie’s baby. As the memory returns, for the first time, Sarah feels a deep emotion of wanting a baby of her own.  

The business continues to flourish providing the team with a very nice income. Through many jobs and assignments from Beckman, many people are touched by Carmichael Industries. Missing and lost persons are found and rescued. Bad guys are identified, tracked, and set up to be taken down. CIA field agents find Chuck and Sarah’s support to be a large part of their successes in their missions. Their civilian clients find their services to be very valuable in difficult and sensitive situations. As a result of all this success, Sarah soon finds herself standing in from of her white with red door dream house on a beach; a very, very nice house on a beach. One more piece of Chuck and Sarah’s dreams coming true.

One special job for Chuck and Sarah occurs on a quiet night when Chuck leaves the Castle to get them some burgers and a malt. Sarah is alone in the Castle when suddenly the monitor lights up with General Beckman on the screen. One of her agents is on a mission to protect a foreign dignitary during a conference where he is a speaker. The bad guy the agent is looking for does not appear anywhere in the audience and Beckman suspects that another assassin has been assigned the job of killing the dignitary. Beckman needs Chuck with his Intersect 3 capabilities to search the audience for another bad guy and identify him to the CIA agent.

As Sarah calls up a video monitor of the scene, she sees the dignitary beginning to walk onto the stage. She also knows that Chuck is a least 20 minutes away from the Castle and they have only minutes to identify the assassin before he kills the dignitary. What Sarah also knows is that Beckman had brought Chuck some Intersect glasses with an updated program and they were right there in the room with her. She knows what she must do. She gets the glass and looks at General Beckman on the monitor.  Beckman reassures her that the updated Intersect 3.1 is very safe and controllable with no adverse side effects and if she chooses, she can use them.  Putting them on, Sarah does see the new assassin in the audience and she sees him beginning to draw a very nasty-looking, silenced handgun. She relays this intel to the agent just as the dignitary is approaching the podium. Then just as the assassin is raising his gun, he drops dead with a bullet in his head.

As Chuck returns to the Castle, he sees Sarah with this strange look on her face and he also sees the glasses on the desk before Sarah. Chuck asks, “what have you done?” As Sarah is explaining what has just occurred, she ends with, “now there are two of us with the Intersect. We are double trouble for the bad guys now”.

About this time another major natural disaster strikes the earth. A large comet passes very near to the earth dragging its tail across a large area of the earth. Deadly contamination is spread across the land especially affecting the waterways and oceans. There is chaos in many parts of the world with many people dying, many missing persons, and many ill and isolated. Beckman, several law enforcement agencies, and some foreign governments contract with Carmichael Industries to help. Chuck and Sarah put together, mobilize, and lead a large technical team to locate people and set up rescue operations. Using all the electronic tools available to them they identify, locate, and direct rescue and medical teams to those missing, lost, and/or very sick needing immediate medical attention. A great many people are saved due to the efforts of Chuck and Sarah’s team.

It is not long after this that situations in the world grow very dark, both literally and figuratively. Contamination in the air from natural disasters, and large oil field fires have significantly dimmed the light from the sun. Unusual changes in the sun itself only add to this problem. The problems are further compounded by political unrest, especially in the Middle East. The man who negotiated the cease-fire of the war against Israel has grown in power and influence. He is trying to extend his influence and power over several nations in the Middle East, Europe, and even Russia and the Far East. This is causing serious unrest and trouble in these areas of the world. To compound these problems, very serious internal problems have arisen in the West, especially in America.

About the time the original Carmichael team dispersed, serious changes occurred in the government agencies of America. Many people came into power that are doing great damage to the democratic foundational principles of the nation. As they attempt to drive the nation to become socialistic and part of a new one-world global government, the resistance among the people of America grows. General unrest and displeasure with the government are causing mass protests, riots, civil disobedience, and a general atmosphere of chaos. All of this plus a generally negative political position against Israel is keeping America essential out of the situation in the Middle East.

In Israel, a very, very bad situation has developed. Just as a new Temple is completed in Jerusalem, the man who negotiated the cease-fire treaty stands in the Holy of Holies in the new Tempe, demands that the Jewish sacrificial rituals cease, and declares to the whole world that he is God. The whole Jewish world suddenly goes berserk. Other nations are involved as the man now demands that all people worship and obey him. He reveals that he and a coalition of ten other nations under his leadership control much of the world's financial systems and that he has put together a very large and dangerous army. Like a mad man drunk with power, he begins to persecute and even kill those who do not obey and worship him, especially Jews. The trouble and tribulation in Israel are so great that it is called, “the time of Jacob’s trouble”.

Even as Carmichael Industries is getting involved, Chuck and Sarah decided that they want to renew their vows and get “married” again. As they share this with Morgan and Alex, they also decided it is high time that they get married. Together both couples begin planning the weddings. One important part of this is to get the whole Carmichael team and all of their family members back together for the weddings. This will be no easy feat in light of who some of the team and family members are, where they are, and what they are doing.

In light of the turmoil in the nation, and indeed in the world, and the problems and dangers of getting all these people to gather in one place, they are going to need a very, very, safe and secret place to hold the weddings. For this, they turn to their old friend General Beckman.

In a call to Beckman, Chuck and Sarah ask her if it would be possible for her to arrange for a very safe, secure, and secret place where they could gather and hold the weddings. In gratitude for all Carmichael Industries and Chuck and Sarah have done for the nation, Beckman begins making calls.

Soon the General calls Chuck and Sarah telling them that she has a place for them. At an appointed time, they are all to go to a particular airport where Beckman will have some of her people pick them up and take them to an undefined, secret facility for the weddings. It will turn out to be a very, very nice facility.

With the resources at their disposal, Chuck and Sarah are able to contact everybody and make arrangements for them to get to the designated airport at the appointed time. From there they are all escorted to a very special secret government facility where a reunion of all reunions takes place. As family members are reunited and old friends share stories of their adventures together, there are many tears and much laughter as they prepare for two very special weddings. For all, it is a very emotional and special time as Morgan and Alex exchange vows and Chuck and Sarah renew the vows that they made to each other so many days ago.

The last scene of this story is of Morgan and Alex, and Chuck and Sarah, decked out in all white beautiful wedding apparel, standing before all of their friends and relatives against a most beautiful scenic background. As they embrace and kiss, their families and friends break out in great rejoicing.

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

The Parable Explained

The story is of Sarah regaining her memory and identity piece by piece.  Beginning with the days of being a partner with Chuck, the story takes them through the days of becoming boyfriend and girlfriend, then lovers, then a married couple.

The parable is about the days after the rapture of the Church as presented in the Bible.

The good Intersect 3 is the Holy Spirit.

The corrupted Intersect in the power of Satan

The bad guys represent servants of Satan whether they know it or not.

The dispersion of the Carmichael team is the rapture.

Chuck represents the 144K Jewish believers working during the first 3 ½ years of the tribulation.

Sarah represents those who become believers right after the rapture who do yet know who they are as born again, Spirit-empowered children of God.

The new leader in the world is the Antichrist.

 Chuck, Sarah, the old Carmichael team, their families, and friends represent all who become Christians during the first 3 ½ years after the rapture and are taken to a special, secret place to be protected and cared for during the last 3 ½ years of the tribulation.

The reunion is symbolic of all the saints being gathered together to return with Jesus at His second coming.

The wedding is symbolic of the wedding between Jesus and His church, all believers in Jesus down through the ages. The bride of Christ now becomes His Queen to rule and reign with Him for one thousand years on the earth.

 The parable is about churchgoers that are left behind at the rapture. Then right after the rapture, they really give their lives to Jesus and become born-again believers. At first, they do not know who they are as children of God. The story is about them finding their true identity as they are discipled by the 144 thousand Jewish evangelists. Through many adventures, they learn who they are as born-again, Spirit-empowered believers, and the bride of Christ. Together with the 144 thousand, they rescue many people from the terror of Antichrist’s kingdom during the first 3 ½ years of the 7-year tribulation. They also grow in the love of God. From just knowing about Jesus, they grow through stages of becoming friends, to first falling in love, to the intimacy of knowing that they are the bride of Christ. Then they find themselves with the 144 thousand, being carried away to a secret place where the Lord protects and cares for them during the last 3 ½ years of the tribulation. Then comes the wedding at Christ’s return and the great wedding banquet where they and all believers down through the ages become the wife of Jesus the King and rule and reign with Him on earth for 1000 years.