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“THE TIME HAS COME, DRINK FROM THE BOTTLE OF LIFE”

A Message by AuthorNinjaearth

Composed June 3, 2000

Greetings from my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! It is good to be back in the pulpit after a few months of reflection and revelation from God. For those who may not know me, my name is Reginald Fredericks. I’m the Abstinence For God ministry leader and founder here at Redeemer. I’m an “A” and “B” honor roll junior student at Frederick Douglass high school. Over the past few months, I’ve been seeking God for revelation of my future. Today’s message is God’s reflection of my future as of now! Before I begin, however, I would like to share some of the wisdom God has given me over the past year and a half. Listen:

“One night, as I was sleeping, I dreamed of a world where it was stormy, raining, hailing, and quaking. The world was in its’ last moments of natural activity as people panicked and ran fearfully through the streets and the fields. Among the people was myself, standing in the center of this aching, screaming planet. Chaos and natural disasters occurred around me so treacherously, it seemed as if the entire planet had gone into a death convulsion; spewing up power and wrath at its’ inhabitants. I looked around concerned and afraid; hail, rain, and thunder began to fall from the heavens as blood and tears fell from the faces and lives of the people of earth. Suddenly, just as I died in my place, I heard a voice; a voice that was so thunderous and mighty, which sounded like bolts of lightning and claps of thunder chanting a powerful explosion. I heard a voice coming from all directions around me and from the heavens and the earth. The voice said, “The time has come! Drink from the bottle of life!” I gasped at this sudden tone and statement, while my internal spirit and intuition had immediately awaken from their fifteen- year- old slumber. As the voice echoed inside me and as the thunder struck the earth, my soul had a sense of resurrection and immediately recognized the voice of thunder. “My God!” I shouted in fear. Suddenly, thunder struck the earth directly before me, leaving in its’ path a sacred chest of gold material and red cloth. It opened from the mighty blows of the wind revealing its’ treasure; inside the chest were thousands of bottles of water. As I was about to partake of the sacred treasure, lightning struck the earth again. This time, it had stuck the back of chest forming a large golden-red clothed throne. The throne was so large that it was bigger than the world’s largest building! As I stood before the figure, which had come at the cost of another lightning bolt striking the throne, I noticed that it had robes of red and white. It had feet made of bronze and gold and hands of holiness and power. The figure was so huge, it seemed as if it was a God that had come from its’ domain and manifested himself on earth as a large king with a throne. As I begin to examine the great king with my own eyes, I slowly raised my eyes to his neck. Just as I was about to reveal his face, the whole world suddenly darkened. At that moment darkness covered my eyes and I awoke in my room still looking as if I had been raised from the dead. My final words at this hour were, “What kind of dream was that!”

My fellow believers, that brings me to my message today, “The time has come, drink from the bottle of life!”

God, my brothers and sisters, gave me that vision with a message from him personally. I already knew that God was the voice and figure in my vision, because I am his creation. The scriptures say in John 10:14, “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me.” So you see, God had now delivered me from the world. He was calling me to do his will, because my time had to serve him. Although I wasn’t a Christian, I prayed every night and knew just the basics about God. I didn’t know much about Jesus, however I did know that he was the Son of God. So much I had to endure around this time, being noted as a rejected person of the world and a member of my blood-related family. Why I was I wasn’t sure! However, God knew that I was automatically his child; I was his lost sheep and he called my name. He called me to come and be with his other sheep that he had already called. The time to serve and come to life with the blood of Jesus had finally arrived. A few months after that first vision, I had another one, which I will share later with another one after that one. The point that I’m trying to make at is that God had allowed me to hear his voice and be cleansed and dead to my sin. Of course, that’s when I accepted him as my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when I was baptized on August 9, 1998.

Remember when Moses led God’s people out from Egypt? Remember how he had promised them that He would deliver them from slavery? Well, God has delivered us from sin. I’ve been delivered from evil spirits that caused cursing, lust, and evil ways of living. I had been a slave to sin and death early in my life with all of these demons at my aid. I was so intelligent that I used my mind of sin and evilness to deceive girls to have sexual relations with them. I tempted them and manipulated them against their own will! Of course, consequences were paid, but not severely enough to persuade me from repenting of evil. As I lived on through those years, I slowly decided that some of the things I have been doing were not starting to be reasonable. Although I had unprotected sexual relations, the girl never acquired pregnancy. Neither did I get a disease nor did I stop this evilness. However, when God called me in my vision, He demanded that I stop and not be subjected to Satan’s power. My eyes were opened and I realized that I was a sinner who didn’t deserve to partake of the body and blood of Jesus Christ! I was one of those people who were good on the outside, but evil and dangerous inside. Just as God delivered the Hebrews out of Egypt, God delivered me from out of Hell!

Not only did God deliver me, but he changed me and prepared me to serve him. He had given me the opportunity to change these faults into the very opposite of what I had done. He allowed me to change my attitude in life, although it was pretty much the same as before. Only this time, I had an attitude to change my life for Jesus and to be one of the chosen sheep. As the song, “Amazing Grace” says:

“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I’m found; once was blind, but now I see!”

The sound of amazing grace saved me from the fiery pits of Hell and the torturing agonies of Satan himself. I was truly not favored by the world because something about me was pushing everyone away from me. Only now, since I had given my life to God, the world will truly see me as a follower of Christ! They rejected me before and said that I was powerless to survive with their rules! Now I have power in the spirit and can overcome anything in the name of Jesus! Only by the grace of God, was I spared ‘til this day, and maybe beyond.

This new sense of godly attitude had now prepared me for my mission. The youth of today’s society are in big trouble. Young men are disrespecting their parents, teachers, and authority while raping the young women. The young women wear unappealing attire that attracts us young men to come and partake of their lustful displays of immorality. They use their special gift of emotion and flattery to provoke us from being young men to young dogs or “dogs with lust!” They fight over boys who claims that they love them, but only wants to eat their lustful fruit and not pay the bill for service. The young men beat on the young ladies to display their so-called manly power, which they fail to realized that they are not powerful but powerless because they are slaves to sin. On the other hand, some of them don’t know that their actions are wrong because they have been taught evilness and not holiness. This goes back to the parents who are so-called responsible for their children! Only to find out that the parent or parents are working two jobs and had sacrificed time away from their children to leave them in the hands of the world. God has shown me that there are special youth who are called to stand up for the generation. They are trying to help their families and friends become slaves to righteousness. God has shown me things that society has taken out of its’ bag of tricks to brainwash the youth. Abstinence was one of the morals that society has rejected. God has shown me that abstinence must be addressed to the teens of this generation and thereafter. The abstinence ministry had now been planed, not by me, but by the Masterplan himself. So now, preparation had been established for my duty.

God has also given me gifts to glorify his holy name and to save souls of this world that are doomed. He has given me the gift of prophecy; I have seen, from his glory, three visions of possible outcomes of the end of this world. The first I had I explained above! To a better picture of what I was seeing, read Revelations 11:15-19. The second vision was nothing but a glimpse of the coming of Christ. The sky was bleeding, the moon and the sun were spots of blood. Coming toward the city across a field of green grass were legions of angels on white horses. This vision, I discovered, is mostly related to Rev. 19:11-21. The third vision started off as a dream. I was sitting in a restaurant eating lunch. As I sat by the window, I noticed that the sky had suddenly turned dark. I didn’t pay it any attention, and so I continued to eat lunch. Suddenly, I had a sensation to look again and I saw the sky leak a bright beam of light. With a rush, some people and I ran outside to see what this phenomenon was all about. Now outside, we looked up at the sky. The sky rolled up like a scroll and that beam fell on the earth. Coming down like a shooting star in slow motion, an angel came and spoke to us. Of course, in the vision, he was silent but just levitating. As we gazed at this angel, someone from the background clearly said, “The Lord is coming!” This similar vision can be found in Rev. 10:1-3. That describes theoretically what I was shown by the Lord.

My gift of leadership is also being used to carry out the abstinence mission for God. A lot students see me as a person who is different from other students and seems a bit odd. When I attended the abstinence conference in November, I came to a session that required group discussions. After the discussions, we had to meet the other groups in Hampton’s auditorium. When our group was called to share our discussions, our group leader wasn’t present. So, I looked around as the rest of the members did the same. The program leader urged us to find someone to share our group’s discussions very quickly. Suddenly, I noticed that the majority of the members pointed toward me. I questioned their judgement and they responded that they couldn’t do it. So, I presented our discussions and the group leader, later, was notified about that! Also, when I was in Spanish class the other day, our group had to share our research results to the class. Again, everyone agreed that I was the best spokesperson for the job. As I reflected on these events, I notice that a quiet person like myself is starting to be selected to speak for others. This leadership gift from God will nourish the AFG ministry very well because a strong leader is expected in this. So, you see! God has given me spiritual gifts to use in place of sinning and evilness!

Last but least, but most important, I want to share with you my mission that God has placed in my mind to achieve. The actual mission that God has for me is yet to be known, but is slowly being revealed even as I speak! But wait, wasn’t abstinence your mission? Not entirely false, but I believe that I have a mission that will be quite difficult to achieve above the average. Based on my studies of America and their past and present, I have a dream practically the same as another man’s dream that is still famous today. I believe that my mission is to save the generations of youth from immorality using abstinence. I also believe that my mission is to fulfill the dream of a man who had a dream that our people will live in a nation that judges not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. Also, that justice will be served fairly and everyone is at peace, love, and harmony, and not violence, separation, and chaos. Finally, I believe that my mission is to restore America to the true nation under God. All these mighty acts can be done in the name of Jesus. This is my destiny and, of course, God is still working with me on this. I know this mission will be tough, but by the power of God and his spirit my destiny will be complete! These are part of God’s own divine will to bring peace and love, or heaven, on earth. As John prepared the way for Christ in Nazareth, I will be one of the followers that prepares the way for his return. Brothers and sisters, I know this has been somewhat lengthy, but I do what to share one more thing with you, a parable!

Just as Jesus spoke in parables, I, also, love to write and use parables for teaching. Listen closely to this parable because it contains a very important message. The parable that I’m about to read is my final message for today. This parable is called, “The Calling.”

“One day there was a boy who was rejected from the world because of his ways of good. He sat in his room staring out the window to observe God’s power and beauty from the earth. He thought about his future and how all of his friends and relatives were all busy working. They had no time for him, and he basically lived a reclusive life. He had things that he could do, but he refused to do them. So, he decided to go read the bible. He took a dusty bible from his parents’ room and started to read Genesis. Just as he was about to begin chapter two, he fell into a deep trance. In the trance, he was standing in the middle of a dry, arid field. It began to rain, hail, thunder and lightning, and quake. Terrified, he felt this huge gust of wind come from all directions. It lifted him up into the air and it landed him on his knees. He looked down at the ground with an injured face and began to cry. Suddenly, a voice from all directions arose. After hearing the voice, the boy got up and held up his sword that had been given to him upon command. Suddenly, a bright beam fell from heaven and onto the sword, engulfing the boy and the sword with the blood of Jesus. Finally, the boy awoke and quickly ran to the mirror in the bathroom. Strange, he looks different, but he’s the same person that he was before! He stared at his reflections’ eyes and saw that he had a different spirit. Finally, he heard a voice from his spirit saying, “The time has come! Drink from the bottle of life!”

God has called me, but he is calling you too! AMEN!

Special Note: this is a message I gave at my church doing that time period. Much has changed now, but this is when I was still in high school as well. There are some more like this, but this is only other one that I have available. As far as for preaching, I've been quiet for quite some time, but will resume later in the future. It's all an interesting story, but it's also a long one. And now, I don't have the abstience ministry any longer for some good reasons, mostly spiritual. However, I do and always will support abstinence. And yes, these visions are real, still fresh in my mind as though it happened yesterday. You may have noticed that I left my real name in this work. Well..I couldn've edited out, like I do all my work, but I think the time is coming for me to reveal who I really am...just not that easily...heh!! Just think...you'll be calling my real name instead of Authorninjaearth or ninja. I have some other surprises too, just you wait and see!! God bless you and thanks for reading, please remember to leave a review, bad or good, encouragement or criticism, all is welcomed!!