Lily Among Thorns
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The Remnant
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A Small Portion That Remains
The Remnant
Revelation 12:17, And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The Remnant of the LORD
The Remnant of the Lord are a people who remain Faithful & True to the Gospel Message of Salvation of Jesus Christ in times of universal Apostasy, Betrayal & Treachery.
Holy Scriptures impart the Remnant as it is written in Revelation 12:17, And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Chris
The Holy Scriptures Speak Truth to Power of the “Global Beast Cabal” in the fulfillment of the dangerous obstacles of the “Last Days.” Explained in the Bible as the Great Tribulation as it is written in Matthew 24:21 For then shall be Great Tribulation, such as was since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
The Holy Scriptures reveal to the Remnant the “Last Days” are the Summit of Wickedness.
In the novel Lily Among Thorns, it delves into this most perilous time in history, which will affect the lives of millions of Christians and the world.
The character Lily, the ideal archetype of a young Christian woman, Lily faces a world where Bible prophecy has been realized and rapidly on the rise is a “Evil Global Governance” belligerent toward Christianity and the Gospel Message of Salvation.
The prophecies of the Bible reveal a dystopian future of Christian oppression. The “Last Days” unveil a fallen character so profane, and full of destruction the Bible refers to him as that “Man of Sin” as it is written in 2nd Thessalonians 2:3, Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
Psalms 5:3, My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and look up.
1st Thessalonians 5:3, For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
2nd Timothy 3:1, This know also, that in the last days perilous time shall come.
Luke 21:32. Verily I say unto you This Generation Shall Not Pass Away till all be Fulfilled.
The Bible relates in the “Last Days” the Faithful such as Lily shall be vulnerable to the cruelty of a “Beast Global System!”
“I feel like a small benevolent cog in a gigantic fierce malevolent machine.”
Hell has come to planet earth and the Faithful rapidly become the enemies of the “Beast State.” The whole world plunges into the deceptions of the “Antichrist System,” and the Dangers of Betrayal are as personal as those closet among us as it is written in Matthew 10:36, And a mans foes shall be of his own household.
The Bible warns the believer of grievous “Devilish” deceptions (James 3:15, KJV) as it is written in James 3:14-16, But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly sensual and devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Lily’s formidable defense is to stand firm against these incorporeal dangers by donned the “Whole Armour of God,” as it is written in Ephesians 6:11, Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. —Proverbs 29:2, KJV
The Remnant
1st Peter 5:8, Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
Revelation 6:8,And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was death; and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the forth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
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Revelation 8:2, And I saw seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Revelation 8:3, And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
The Land is Defiled
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. —Leviticus 18:25, KJV
During the “Last Days” the Lord Jesus says it shall be as in the “Days of Noah” as it is written in Matthew 24:37, But as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
The Violence in the “Days of Noah” so shall it be in the “End of Days.” The Faithful such as Lily endure the full forced of the definition of violent behavior which include the debase behavior of Brutality, Savagery, Sadism as it is written in Genesis 6: 11, The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence
Corruption in the “Last Days” lead to tyranny and eventually to the “Mark of the Beast,” and as directed by the Lord and Saviour Jesus. Lily and Caleb as the Remnant pray daily to escape all these things coming on the earth as it is written in Luke 21:36, Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
In Book Lily Among Thorns the persecution comes to Lily’s church, one fine Sunday Service when her humble and charitable pastor is replaced and in the pulpit is a instrument of the “Beast Global Regime” regurgitating the state’s official hard-line of heresies against the “Faithful Remnant.”
The “Last Days” as in the “Days of Noah” there shall come Scoffers and Mockers succumbing to the spiritual pitfalls in the end times, dismissing the all dire warnings in the Holy Scriptures as mere truffles as it is written in 2nd Peter 3:3, Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.
During the times of Revelation Society shall wax worse and worse by the descending into the stumbling blocks of deceitful lies as it is written in 2nd Timothy 3:13, But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Revelation 8:4, And the smoke of the insence, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angels hand.
Mark 13:27, And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Revelation 1:1, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.
The "Mark of the Beast"
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: —Revelation 13:16, KJV.
The “Mark” is by preponderance the most hazardous peril of the “Last Days.”
The Faithful couple Lily and Caleb as part of the Remnant and must at all cost avoid coming under the subjection of the “Beast Control” and its genuine plan by the government to condemn the Souls of men and thereby eternal separation from the Most High GOD.
Lily expounds on the “Beast System” present dangers: “[A]ll finances will be transferred into a new… system—a system which will require all citizenry to be directly identified by use of the right hand or the forehead.”
So as told in the story Lily Among Thorns, which summarizes from Book of Revelation. The Remnant who refuse the application of the “Mark of the Beast” will be Rejected and Excluded from society. Outcasts barred from participating in the economy and are ultimately forced to live as one with no continuing city, as it is written in Hebrews 13: 14, For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Ultimately the Remnant choose the Freedom in Christ Jesus rather than the temporal bondage of the “Global Beast System.”
The Remnant
Psalms 11:5, The LORD trieth the righteous : but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
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Micah 2:1, Woe to them that devise iniquity; and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
The Advancement of Tyranny
The novel Lily Among Thorns presents a scenario of a Dystopian Nightmare and coming to Fruition is established an enforcer referred to as the “Security Police Force” or the (SPF). A savage strong-arm of the law come to arrest the blameless such as Lily in the wee hours of the morning for her profession of Faithfulness to the Holy Scriptures; there is no jurisprudence, only Brutality and Terror.
One of the Forthright characters SPF Commander Strobeck, new and repulsed at the foul activities at Headquarters. Warns Lily, “You are now considered a ward of the state, and believe me at times the state can be a harsh task master.”
In the “Last Days” the “Global Beast Vile Governance,” the state targets believers exclusively.
The Faithful such as Lily’s imprisonment is a representation of how quickly the Bill of Rights can be taken from the individual, and thus when a government utilizes dominance to control the populous, the pinnacle of treachery is next demanding nothing less than to be worshiped and to eradicate all dissent.
In the riveting novel Lily Among Thorns a police state is quickly emerging from a once Great Republic where at one time was chivalry expressed in the Pledge of Allegiance.
I Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.
The 1954 (Current version). The current United States Flag Code States:
The Pledge of Allegiance should be rendered standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart.
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Preverbs 29:2, When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Luke 21:28, And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Matthew 24:13, But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
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