Behold A White Horse

Designed to bring you closer to God and the true primitive Christianity begun by Jesus through understanding scripture and prophecy.


Religion today is in very real danger of crumbling under the weight of perception and public opinion. Atheism, agnosticism, and disenchantment are all on the rise. Religion suffers attacks from within and without. It is also viewed as being archaic, out of touch in addition to being a source for a great deal of abuse. It is, unfortunately, true that religion, by its very nature, has brought a lot of this upon itself and as a consequence of this much of the message, specifically the prophetic message, is being lost.

But religion is not faith, nor is church a building or a brand denomination. Religion is nothing more than the man-made rules and structures that have grown up and surrounded the simple truth of faith, belief and understanding.

Through the pages of this blog I intend to explore the simple truth and simple church brought to us by Jesus. In finding the church that Jesus founded, unhindered by man's rules, we will be able to find the truth to the prophetic messages of the Bible and a simpler, truer way to live.

I hope you will enjoy taking this journey with me and feel free to comment or share your own stories.

Tracey Alley

Sunday 20 January 2013

Charisma - God's Gift or Satan's Curse?


Charisma - you don't always know exactly how to define it but you definitely know it when you see it.  It's a rare gift, despite many people being labelled as 'charismatic', in fact there are usually only a few who truly deserve the label in each generation.  Unfortunately it seems that many people who do have the gift seem to use it for ill rather than good.

Hitler, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Napoleon, Julius Caesar - to name but a few.  They were all highly charismatic people with that incredible gift of being able to draw people to them, to have people follow them - almost slavishly at times.  I'll never forget my exposure to 'real' charisma when I was a teenager studying history in High School.  To demonstrate how Hitler had managed to gather such an enormously devoted following our teacher played the class a video of Hitler delivering a speech, from beginning to the end.

Unlike most of the speeches we see in news clips, which are only brief excerpts and usually taken from the latter part of his speech, when you actually see his entire speech from beginning to end it is breathtaking.  He would begin very slowly, very quietly, forcing the audience to be still and really pay attention and then gradually dragged you into the full force of his personality.  Even though I didn't speak a word of German and the video had no sub-titles, I honestly felt so caught up in the moment that I would have followed him anywhere.  It was a devastating thought to have once the magic had been broken and I could think clearly again.  It also frightened me - it still does.

We know that in the last days there will come an Antichrist.  God's last human opponent, controlled by and devoted to Satan.  We know, because the Bible tells us, that this man will be so charismatic and have such a powerful personality that 'unless the days were cut short even the very elect would be deceived'.  Almost the whole world will fall under the sway of this soon to come world leader.  Like the people of Germany in World War II the world will follow this Antichrist's lead - right to the gates of hell on earth.


Only those with Christ living within them will be able to break through the spell, not by their own power but by that of the Holy Spirit within them.  Only those truly devoted to Christ and true follower's of His Way will see the truth of this coming charismatic leader.  And it will be a very hard road to walk, feeling almost as if you are all alone in not following this man.  Virtually everyone you  know will almost certainly fall sway to his spell and you will feel extremely isolated and even question yourself about whether you are correct in your thoughts.

It is always important to stay as close to Christ as possible.  He should always be the invisible presence walking beside you.  In the last days however, when confronted with the power of the Antichrist it will be absolutely vital that Christ is at your centre.  That is the only way for you to not be deceived.  We must try and remember also that this man will seem to come in peace, preaching love and tolerance.

He will not immediately implement his campaign of hatred and destruction but the Bible tells us that those times will 'be worse than anything ever seen before'.  The worst atrocities of Hitler, the brutal purges of Stalin, the blind ambition of Napoleon - all of these things will seem like a child's fairytale in comparison to what is to come.  As devastating as things have been at times in history, the coming Tribulation will be far, far worse.

Am I trying to deliberately frighten you?  Maybe a little.  You need to be frightened.  You need to be very aware of your need for God and our High Priest, Jesus Christ.  Only through them will any of us see salvation through those times.  Although Christ's elect, those who form the body of Christ or His true church, will be protected, probably by supernatural means, from the bulk of the coming Tribulation many other billions will not.  The simple and sad truth, is that Christ's true church is and always has been, a small group of people. 

However, there is hope for everyone because Christ died for everyone.  The Bible tells us clearly that 'a great multitude', meaning almost without number, will be washed clean in the trial of the Tribulation and come into God's coming Kingdom wearing clean, pure white robes.  Their suffering will be great but their reward will be far greater.  

So those of you out there who perhaps have loved ones who you know do not have Christ at their centre need to know that God has set up provision for them to bring them to His side.  Only the very worst of the worst, those who utterly refuse God and His truth, even when shown it irrefutably, will be lost forever.  Never forget that Jesus died for every single human being living or dead or yet to come.

So stay close to God, prepare your heart for the end of times but you do not need to worry about your physical body or life.  God says that 'those who try to save their lives will lose them and those who give up their lives will save them'.  For right here and right now, just be a little wary of those who seem very charismatic, it is not always a gift from God but very often a tool of Satan, used to deceive.


In peace and love,
Tracey.

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