THE JOURNEY IS ETERNAL

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HIDDEN TREASURE

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THE PURSUIT  of  JESUS is  Like going on a TREASURE  HUNT/  

It  is SUPER  Hard to Find Hidden Treasure/  you have to Dig really deep. Digging takes Years/  
Once in a while you will find a Nugget/  So you are encouraged to keep on Digging/   

After Years and years and years of searching,  and digging/  One Day
You will Suddenly Strike GOLD/   

But for those who are still Hungry for more/  this will only give them a New Desire to  keep asking
and searching for more/  

SUDDENLY  without warning  the TREASURE will Just  Show Up  and  begin to Pour out  Himself  without measure.   

The Eternal One is  the Treasure and  when he Reveals  Hidden things  about   himself  that
have never been  Known/  its  like being given  a secret  gift  from a secret place /  

Mysteries Unfolding and  Unknown Secrets coming to Light/  and its all  being  shared 
  from  his Heart.

Jesus is sharing  from  His  Heart/  
Secrets about himself /  Secrets Hidden from  outside the Vail of Time.

I found the The Secret Treasure/  its Jesus Heart.

Matthew 6:21   For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
11/22/2025

 

 

 

 

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FUTURE LAG

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I Was   Forewarned in a  DREAM  that the Lord was Fast Forwarding me into my Own FUTURE.   BLASTING  me  into  a  New Beginning.

So I was Forewarned/  But I did not get that I would have to Go through MUCH TRIBULATION
 to  Enter into it :

Things  are changing Daily/  I am seeing the Lord STAND UP for my HELP and make the
Storms  that keep coming  a Calm/  Hearing his Voice getting Direction  day by day/   It is an  IMMENSE  SPIRITUAL GROWTH CYCLE/

THE LORD  is Moving me through Enormous problems that keep Coming
But he keeps Resolving them.  Its like moving through another  Mine Field.

ONE DAY  I AM UP  the NEXT  DAY, I GET HIT AGAIN/  THEN  I stand still and WAIT
on the LORD/   and  things  just  change as the LORD is working all things together
for my GOOD/

He KEEPS  ENCOURAGING ME  in  NEW WAYS/ 

ENDURANCE  TEST,  CLINGING  to JESUS  for Dear Life to Survive some days.

HIT on Every  Level,  Spirit, Soul, and Body/   Fighting to just walk straight some days.
( sick physically )

The  Lord  Gave me this Scripture:  Its in Reference to Daniel having been transported
AHEAD  in  Time  to  the FUTURE.

Daniel 8:27
And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the 
king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

He Comes Back  from going into the Future and Now  he  gets  Physically Sick/  
This is a Real Mystery.

When  GOD  FAST FORWARDS  you  /   Apparently  there are Side Effects

MUCH  Like  JET  LAG:    FUTURE SHOCK  LAG :  FAST FORWARD IN THE SPIRIT  LAG. 
Breaking  the gravity  barrier  LAG/ 

Being Blasted into  the FUTURE  Produces  some Kind  Of  LAG , Or DRAG  on
the  Body  upon  Re Entry  back  into  TIME.   You HIT  the Gravity Barrier and BOOM,
SUPER SHOCK. 

I dare say: not many have Gone Where No Man has Gone Before,  so  we have next to No
Info   on  this  Subject.  

SO  I am grateful for  this  small word  from Daniel: I Hope to  Hear More.  I too am still
recovering from Future  LAG.

 

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
10/9/2025
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SING A NEW SONG

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PSALM 96: 1 O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.

Ephesians 5:19 Speaking unto yourselves in Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs,
 singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts,

John 4:23-24
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God
is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

THE SPIRIT is NOT a PATTERN/  He isn’t RECYCLING  OLD  Melodies.  HE Isn’t
Running  out of NEW NEW NEW  Melodies.

THE SPIRIT is SPONTANIOUSLY  Creating NEW MUSIC  that  is  Coming from the
HEART  RIGHT NOW.

Why would you be singing a Recycled Song written by someone Else. ?

You are to be Singing and Creating your Own Songs that are coming out of your Heart
   RIGHT NOW,      or   it  isn’t    YOUR  Worship.

You can not RECYCLE  WORSHIP/  You can   not COPY  someone else’s  SONGS
from  their HEART    and   say  your Worshipping the LORD,  No  your Recycling
someone Else’s  WORSHIP/    YOUR ROBOTIC  DUH

Psalm 40:3
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear,
 and put their trust in the Lord.

IN OTHER WORDS  KEEP SINGING  NEW SONGS/  IF YOU DONT HAVE A NEW
SONG TO SING,    YOUR GOD  IS NOT  ETERNAL/  

 THE ETERNAL  SPIRIT ISNT RUNNING OUT OF  BRAND NEW, NONE STOP 
SPIRITUAL SONGS  TO SING.  

HE IS ETERNALLY SINGING  NEVER HEARD BEFORE MUSIC  FROM ETERNITY/

GET FILLED with THE SPIRIT,   and  Start SINGING  Songs From ETERNITY/   

HEAR  NEVER ENDING LOVE SONGS  from  THE  ETERNAL ONE /  

Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord your God is with you as a hero who will save you. He
 takes great delight in you. He will quiet you with his love. He will rejoice over
you with singing.”

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
9/24/2024

 

 SING  and MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC

TODAYS CHUCH is into   JUDUS WORSHIP/  He would  Sell anything for money. 

Do You Sell Videos  of your INTIMATE bedroom time with  your Spouse ?
Yet People are Selling  their so called Worship songs for Money. ?
That is like saying my Relationship is so Cheap/  Iam selling it, its not intimate at all.

  Can you Image  DAVID  selling his Psalms. ?  GEEZ

YOU Have Made  JESUS CHEAP.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PROPHETIC DREAM

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Jeremiah 33:3
 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and 
[a]mighty things, which you do not know.’

 

This is a Word the Lord gave me and I have been calling now for sometime, to Hear
Great and Mighty things.

This is part of Jesus also saying he is making all things NEW. 

 Expecting  New things, Great and Mighty things, takes  Great FAITH/  

So the Lord has moved me on to a Place of Expectancy /

HAD a  DREAM  LAST NIGHT/  

I was FLYING  in the  SPIRIT  really really  really Super Fast.  I was going  soooooo  
Fast,  and  trying Hard to go Faster.

I was trying to stay ahead of my Dad who  was  behind me/ (  my real dad was a pilot )
So I am out flying my  Dad, out running my past. 

Then I saw myself;  The Future Me.  Or I Encountered myself in the Future. 

I had a whole New Look/  I was looking at myself and I liked the way I looked/
 My hair was different/   and I had on a  Great Head set  that Looked like  a Mystic/
 I saw the  Future Me. 

Wow/  This happened to me once before/  I saw myself in the Future giving my
old self something.  

So I am Evolving into who the Lord has planned for me to be.

  I am out running  my Past and Moving on to  Great and Mighty  things  of the
Everlasting Future.  

The FORERUNNER/ 

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
7/25/2025

 

 

Cross References to Jeremiah 33:3 

Isa 42:9    Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do  I declare: before
they spring forth I tell you of them.

Isa 48:6    Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee
new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

 

 

 

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WAITING FOR MY RIDE HOME

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Psalm 68:17 
The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands
upon thousands; the Lord is among them;

 

Matthew 24 :31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they
shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

I  have  been  stuck  camping  out in  this  Prison  for 82  years/ Waiting for My Ride Home.

Waiting for this Mission to End and for My TRANSFORMATION  to Manifest.

I’m  ENDURING  beyond  Enduring  Like  I was Told/ Enduring till the END of this AGE.   .

Matthew 24: 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Mean While,   Learning  to  Stay Eternity  Minded  is  the Task  at  Hand.

So  I am  Stuck talking to ROBOTS who have ZERO FAITH on  STAYING ALIVE.

THEY are Intent on going to their own GRAVE.  

Iam  getting Better  at  Knowing I am ALIVE  Forever More.  It has become REAL
to  me.   But  by  Now  I should have  met  another  Son of God,  who knows they
are Alive Forever More.

Iam  seeking   a  WITNESS;   Perhaps  that is all it takes  /   2   TO  Witness
ETERNITY  is REAL.  NOW.   CAN  I  GET A WITNESS  ?

Is there anyone out there  Who is STAYING ALIVE  FOREVER ?

Anyone out there who knows  JESUS,  the  ETERNAL ONE ?  ANY ONE WALKING
 and TALKING to  the  ETERNAL ONE/  ?    

IAM  LOOKING  to  Encounter  Another  ETERNAL   /   

Romans 8:19
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
5/6/2025

 

The Sons of God :meaning:   A Generation Born knowing they will never Die.
JESUS OFF SPRING.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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NEW DELIGHTS

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The  WAYFARING  JOURNEY

The Lord gave me a Dream:   Forewarning me  that he is Moving me on  to  a
NEW BEGINNING.

As we Allow the Lord to Move us HIGHER,  then we can Continue to
EVOLVE  BEYOND .

He Beckons us  to  Keep Moving  HIGHER,  but this Requires  GREAT FAITH.

You have to FIRST LET GO of where your AT in order  to  MOVE OUT into
the UNKNOWN.   

You SEPARATE  YOURSELF  from  your Own Comfort ZONE,  and  Reach Out 
to keep MOVING  On  with  HIM  to  NEW  ADVENTURES .

THE NEVER ENDING FUTURE  AWAITS US/    The WAYFARING  TRAVELER
   KEEPS TRAVELING  on and On and On  into  the  Everlasting   FUTURE  of
ENDLESS  NEW Places  to Travel on to.

THE MORNING STARS  are  the WAYFARING TRAVELERS;  They Keep
Moving on into New REALMS  of  the SPIRIT,  as  they  Delight  in  Discovering 
UNKNOWN MYSTERIES of  ETERNITY.  

As We PURSUE  the ETERNAL ONE and DELIGHT ourselves in him. 
HE DELIGHTS in showing us  New Realms  we  have never known.  

JOB 38: 7  
 From the dawn of Eternity the morning stars sang together, and all his  eternal sons 
shouted for joy.

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
2/12/2025

Hear him  Calling you from the Everlasting Future

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Iam at a Dead End of Talking to SPIRITUALLY ILLITERATE  PEOPLE   who  don’t
know anything.

I DON’T KNOW anyone WHO KNOWS  ANYTHING/  THERE ALL SPIRITUALLY
ILLITERATE.

MOST HAVE NO IDEA   OF WHAT FAITH IS OR HOW TO GROW IT in
their own LIFE.

THEY QUOTE  SCRIPTURE/  BUT NOTHING EVER PRODUCES/

THEY ALL  DOWNGRADE   GOD with CONFESSIONS OF LACK OF FAITH /

EVERYTHING THEY SAY PROVES  they HAVE NO IDEA WHAT UP GRADE MEANS.

Mean While I am Growing by Leaps and Bounds, Leaping over Walls and even when I
am in a Pit/  I am doing better then most on their best Day as far as Living by FAITH
in his VICTORY.

I may not Feel Good/ I may feel Awful, but I’m never ever giving the enemy any credit
or talking about him as the source of the problem. 

That is  CALLED DOWNGRADING GOD,  instead of  STANDING ON  HIS
VICTORY.  The Lord is authoring and finishing my FAITH,  not  the enemy.

I’m going to  the Gym even when I’m struggling with pain, while others are going to
the Doctor,  and they are Quoting Scriptures to me ?  Think of it ?  Braindead Robots !!

So Asking for Prayer when I don’t feel good is like Asking to be INSULTED with
a DOWNGRADED VERSION  of someone trying  to  Treat me the Way JOBS
friends treated him.

ZERO comfort/  and a lot of  babble  and talking about the enemy.  ZERO FAITH .

SO NEVER MIND ASKING ANYONE for PRAYER/    NO ONE KNOWS HOW
TO PRAY  ?

I HATE PEOPLE QUOTING SCRIPTURE/     GEEZ  that is ROBOTIC.

KNOW ONE NOS WHAT COMFORT   MEANS,  and they sure do not know how
to Minister it to anyone.

JESUS got Treated the Same Way/    He had 12 Disciples and NONE of them
knew How to Pray/   They all went to Sleep when Jesus DISPARATELY   needed
someone to Stand with him ?   So  I’m in Good Company/   

EXPECT NOTHING  from  anyone/  They have Zero Awareness on   HOW TO
JUST PRAY a BLESSING. ( Lovely Words about Jesus Lovingkindness/ 
not scripture quoting.)

BLESSING PRAYER;  EXAMPLE

THANK YOU JESUS  for the COMFORT of your HOLY SPIRIT . Thank you for
Ministering the Blood of the Everlasting  Covenant  over them Spirit, Soul, and Body.

Thank you for Restoring Health and Wholeness unto them, and making this Storm a Calm.
Thank you for giving them your JOY as their Strength/ Surround them with your Peace
and let them begin to Rest beside still waters, as you Refresh and Resurrect them by
your Spirit in Newness of Everlasting Life.  Thank you JESUS for your Faithfulness. 
AMEN

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
1/12/2025

Prayer Partners  can become Prayer Drainers, when someone has no sense of Over
Stepping, Over Loading,  or  dropping their problem on you when you are already DOWN.

You just don’t do that/ Means you have ZERO sense of timing/  If you don’t know when to
stop talking about you, you will lose the prayer partner.  Who would want to
keep talking to you ,  when all you want to do is  talk about you ?  

Like I Said:  I’m at a DEAD END.  I’m done  Listening.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Lord is Enlarging me to live his Life through me. I’m his vessel, Anointed
to Partake of his Divine Nature. He is making me Ancient,  I’m  ETERNAL.

SHARING /

John 15:14-15
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord
doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father
I have made known unto you.

The Lord Needs  to  Share things: He can’t  Wait  to tell us  NEW THINGS,
But he can’t find anyone to talk to.  Know one is Asking to Hear more from
the Everlasting Future.

They are all recycling  THE OLD DEAD PAST.

Mean While :  The Lord is Making all Things Brand NEW,   so how can he talk
to you ?   Your   Living in the Dead Recycled Past. Your DULL of HEARING, Duh

Your 2,000 years Behind in Time :

Jesus Moved on into the Everlasting Future:  you were INVITED to FOLLOW .
 
by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
11/14/2024

GUESS WHAT

John 10:27 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

How can you think you’re following Jesus ? by rehearsing his dead past ? mum

John 14:4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know

THE WAY is into the EVERLASTING FUTURE/  He is NEVER, Looking Back
He is New Every morning.   NOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SITTING ON THE THRESHOLD
OF A NEW BEGINNING

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Looking Out  /  Looking  Above /   Looking   Above  to Beyond/

Looking  to   GO WHERE  EVERYTHING  IS BRAND NEW/  NEVER HEARD OF
OR SEEN  BEFORE/  NEVER  BEEN  WRITTEN/  

  Where  ETERNITY  UNFOLDS

Sitting with  JESUS./  The Eternal One.

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
10/12/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

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WALKING in a MINE FIELD

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Walking  Through  a MINE FIELD

Psalm 78:49
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a
company of destroying angels.

1 Peter 4: 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,
as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1 Peter 1:6-7
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by
various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that
perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and
honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I have been walking through a Mine Field for about 2 months now.

One Weird  thing after another/   none stop obstacle  course  of Leaping
Over  Walls  that Suddenly appear  out  of No where/  ( mental and physical
issues, and obsticals )  

Cant explain it/  Its as if the Unexpected  is now the Norm/  That the LORD
is TRAINING me  to expect  the unexpected . ?  

But it is an Endurance  Course/  Knowing  in the Midst of the explosions going off/  
I am OK  and Moving  on some how.  The Mines are not Real so I will not walk by Sight/ 
I must Leap over them/  knowing  that I am HID  In CHRIST/   and  getting his Mind
on how to keep moving Up not looking down/  or getting Stuck in the Mine Field.

Knowing the Lord is marking out a Plain Path for my Feet/  so  as I Wait on his Plan,
and Listen/   Then I can walk the course safely.

I can even get a Course Correction if I  Walk slowly and ASK  for WISDOM
On how to get through this.  

Letting him make the Crooked places Straight/ I stand still and wait for the next
Course Correction.
 
So Little by Little  the Path is getting Straighter/   

 Right Now Time is  Standing Still/   Waiting for another Course Correction.  

 

STUCK/    

Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
9/6/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVES

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1 Corinthians 2:9  
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered
 into the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him.

 

 

ETERNITY  CONSCIOUSNESS  EXPANDS/    CONSCIOUSNESS  EVOLVES

CONSCIOUSNESS  that is EXPANDING  isn’t   Rehearsing the same old programs
OVER, and OVER, and OVER  and OVER  /  etc, etc dido duh

THAT IS A DEAD END.  

CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVING  is  Hearing NEW NEW NEW NEW, NEVER BEEN
HEARD  of  NEW THINGS.

Your Carnal Mind Loves Repetition.  It Loves Repeating  the ABCS as if that
is all there is/   It Loves knowing it knows something. It creates
patterns to stay locked into. You create B.S to stay Limited to.

ETERNITY IS AN ON GOING, EXPLOSION of NEW PLACES NEVER HEARD OF.

NEW THINGS  TO HEAR/   NEW  PLACES TO MOVE ON TO THAT KNOW ONE
HAS EVER BEEN  TO  BEFORE.

EACH NEW BEGINNING  makes the Last OBSOLETE.  

ETERNITY is in a Continual State of BECOMING  SOMETHING BRAND NEW.
ETERNALLY.

So Guess What.   There is Nothing to Read/   It isn’t written.

ETERNITY   is  a  CONSCIOUSNESS /   an Unknown Surprise.  . An Unknown
ADVENTURE into the UNKNOWN.   A QUANTUM LEAP  of FAITH  into
knowing  Nothing  /    There is nothing to know about the unknown.

Matthew 7:14
But the gateway to eternity is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only
a few ever  find it.

Few ever find it,  they have No Faith.
 
by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
6/14/2024

 

 

by the way

THE UNKNOWN  JOURNEY /  The LORD CALLED to ABRAM/

Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred
 and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

THE JOURNEY IS A FAITH  JOURNEY  /  FAITH  KEEPS MOVING to NEW
LEVELS of NEW QUANTUM  LEAPS of  FAITH. FAITH is an ACTION.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE GATEWAY HOME

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THE WAY HOME

John 14:4   And you know where I am going and how to get there

Matthew 7:14
But the gateway to eternity is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever
find it.

Iam  colliding  with the Future, while Haunting my own past. Returning to my Journey
of my everlasting  Home.

Looking for my place to Abide/  I wander endlessly, Searching for that Home.

My Home is in the Future  It beacons me on to follow,  I hear the call to Return, 
Return to where I came from,  Return beyond time  Return to my own Future.

Now this  Time is at a stand still  Iam watching it racing by

FAST FORWARD  to  Escaping,  Where all is Left  behind.

 

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
5/9/2024

 

 

 

 

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CHOOSE LIBERTY

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2 Cor 3:17
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is LIBERTY.

 

ROMANS 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not about carnally minded things of this life,  but righteousness,
peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Renewing  and Staying  in the Right Spirit is how you Stay at LIBERTY to Walk
in  the SPIRIT.

You Choose Peace  to Keep your JOY   by   letting  go the cares and woes of this Life, 
   and  Continue to Move on and  Not Look Back.

You FORGIVE and MOVE  on.  Staying at LIBERTY.   NO CARES AND WOES.

NO DRAMA,   JUST PEACE,  and  JOY while Staying  at  LIBERTY.

LIBERTY  is a Choice/    It   takes  WISDOM  to Choose it and continue to keep
  walking in it.  

LIBERATE  Yourself/  Disentangle yourself from the cares and woes of this life.

Colossians 3: 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

Seek those things which are ABOVE, stop looking  down at this poor and pitiful life.

Move up and on  to New Heavenly Places /  

SET YOURSELF  FREE/   Why don’t you  want  to be FREE ?

Romans 8:6
For to set the mind on the things of the flesh is death, but to set your mind on
 the Spirit is life and peace.

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
4/27/2024

 

 

 

 

 

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PROPHECY  FAILED

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Psalms 19 :1
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

 

 

 

OMENS  from  ETERNITY

1 Corinthians 13:8
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues,
they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

SINCE There  is NO FUTURE HERE/   There is Nothing  more to Prophesy

THE FUTURE  is  in  ETERNITY.   Nothing to  Prophesy  about something  that is 
ENDLESS & TIMELESS.    

So  PROPHECY  HAS COME TO AN END.

That is the Revelation/   All REVELATIONS  are Now  IRRELEVANT

Hebrews 8:13
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming
 obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

1 Corinthians 13:10
 But when we have been made perfect and complete, then the need for these
 inadequate special gifts will come to an end, and they will disappear.

Meaning/  This Reality will Vanish Away/  It has come to an End.

by
Prophetess Ms Terry
The Eternal One
1/29/2024

Footnote

1 Corinthians 12:7
And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations Therefore,
 in order to keep me humble and weak, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger
of Satan, to torment me.

ETERNITY  AWAITS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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