Today a pastor chastised me for believing that the Lord Jesus is not going to secretly take the church out of the earth before the great tribulation. Unfortunately, many who hold to the 'pre-tribulation rapture of the church' eschatology do not desire fellowship with believers who read the Scripture for themselves and takes Jesus plainly at His Word. Jesus says in Matthew 24 that He will return to earth "immediately after the tribulation of those days," and that the harvest of the elect is "at the end of the age."
Inasmuch as the response I gave to the pastor via email was 11 pages long, I thought to post it on this blog, in hopes that it may stimulate others to a closer examination of the Word of God. Perhaps in reading and investigating the Word of God, in order to prove my assertions 'wrong,' a brother or sister will come to the truth for themselves. Either way, time will prove all things as it pertains to the coming of the Lord and His gathering us to Him.
Additionally, I was warned that my over-emphasis on the importance and relevance of prophecy could lead to my becoming: unbalanced, very critical of others and perhaps even lead to my moral downfall. It was intimated that I will "end up with (my) internet prophecy 'ministry' safely criticizing everyone else."
My answer to these assertions by my brother is as follows:
There is no imbalance in the Bride being wholly reserved unto her Betrothed. The one who loves much, because of being forgiven much, will by no means turn
from her Beloved Jesus, nor ever faint
or become burnt out with following after her King and her Prince of Peace. A wholehearted commitment is what is required
and what is owed by the Bride to be; and that kind of commitment is rewarded
with eyes to see the reality of what Jesus prophesied to His disciples.
All that can be done is to plead
with all men to diligently search out
the Words of Almighty God Himself. For God
is a rewarder of those who diligently (not halfheartedly) seek Him in His
Word. The Word is so clear and bright as
to blind those who do not wish to see what the Lord says. This is why it is the foolish things which
confound the wise ones who believe that they see.
Paul, who believed he had sight
(understanding of the Law, himself being a Pharisee), and who himself did have
a love for the Father, had to be made blind to all he had learned from men in their traditions, and be taught directly by
Jesus what the Scriptures were really saying about the first coming of Jesus Christ.
In this, it was good for him to be temporarily blinded, that he might
come to see the truth of God and Jesus Christ.
Rev. 19:10 says, “the testimony
of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” In
this we understand that it is impossible
to overestimate the importance of God-given Biblical prophecy. Jesus repeatedly prophesied and warned His
followers. He did so out of love, that
we be not deceived. He needs us to know
that He is good and desires us to know truth.
He needs us to be ready, because He loves us. He has prepared His Bride
for His second coming, just as He prepared the Jews for His first coming.
Not that all who said they were Jews were even looking for His coming,
for many had not spiritual eyes to see, nor ears to hear. It was the
lowly shepherds in the field, the wise men who watched the heavens and read Daniel’s
prophesy, the fishermen, the adulterers and sinners who recognized Him at His
first advent. His second advent is sure to be missed by many who claim
they are awaiting His return. In fact many false Christs will come in His
name and will deceive many; those who don't know the real Savior will possibly
fall away after the counterfeit Christ.
I Corinthians 14:1 says, “Follow
after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may
prophesy.” Men of old, whose hearts waxed fat and full of the lust of the
flesh, killed God's servants the prophets. Even so, men have been killing
the prophets (the watchmen of their souls) for thousands of years. This
is prophesied to continue even until the end. Thankfully, God will not
allow His two faithful witnesses to be killed during Antichrist’s rule.
They will not be killed until they have finished their 1,260 days of
prophesying in sackcloth. Then they will be risen up on the last
day when Jesus returns and calls them to "come up hither" for every
eye to see that Jesus did indeed commission them and work through them and
testify of the truth through them.
The deception (of the pre-great
tribulation rapture) is so great as to deceive the very elect if that were
possible. Nevertheless, those who do
know their God will be strong and do great exploits in the last days. “That day will not come, unless…,” see, if you will, what that verse continues
to say. “The saints (Holy Ones) will be
given into his (Antichrist’s) hands for time, times and half a time.” Dan.
7:25 “I watched as he (Antichrist) made
war with the saints and prevailed against them.” Dan. 7:21
This is why Daniel was grieved,
even as one who had seen loved ones (believers/Saints of the Most High) being
destroyed by the little horn (Antichrist-Counterfeit Christ). Daniel could not eat; he fasted and prayed to
God to understand it all, to know how long it would last, and to know how it
would all end. God, in His goodness, desired to reveal the truth to
Daniel. Daniel’s prayer and pleading for
insight was honored on account of Daniel humbling himself and fasting
and praying and seeking to God alone for the answers and the truth. God
does not chastise Daniel for desiring greater insight into the prophecy
received in the vision. Quite on the contrary, because Daniel sought and
asked and knocked at God's door in prayer, God honored His promise to all who
ask, seek and knock. Yes, God gave Daniel the good and pure desire of his
heart: that Daniel would know the heart and mind of God and know what was the
meaning of the vision.
Daniel 10:11-14
11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man
greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand
upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me,
I stood trembling.
12 Then said he unto me, Fear not,
Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to
understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I
am come for thy words.
13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia
withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes,
came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
14 Now I am come to make thee
understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision
is for many days.
Jesus’s disciples are the
elect-chosen-holy priesthood to God. We
are Jesus’s disciples. At least I
proclaim that I am His and He is mine.
Revelation talks of the saints (the Holy Ones, the Elect) these are the
ones who are the Lamb’s, of whom Jesus spoke when He prayed to the Father in
His high priestly prayer before His self-sacrificing atonement was completed
for our sins on the cross. The idea that
any unbeliever, Jew or
Gentile, is Christ Jesus’s Bride, is anathema to all that Jesus has
taught. The Pharisaical Jews of the
Synagogue who chose to remain blind (even in their insistence of being
‘seeing’) were said by the Lord to be of their father the Devil.
Rev. 13:17: “It was given (allowed by God, as God also
allowed Job to be tried with the same boils which will later come on those who
take the mark) unto him (Antichrist) to make war with the saints, and to
overcome them: and power was given to him over all kindreds, tongues, and nations.
Antichrist does not kill his own,
his followers. No, he seeks to go after the woman who gave birth
to the male child (Jesus) (Rev. 12), and proceeds to go after the rest of her
seed who keep the commandments of God and who have the testimony of Jesus. Jews/Israelites who are not Messianic
believers, do not have the testimony of Jesus.
They believe Jesus was a liar and a false prophet, and they will join in
setting up the Beast’s throne in Jerusalem.
The Antichrist will absolutely not go after the unbelieving Jews, for they will be on his side. The two witnesses will be testifying for God,
contending for truth, and will testify against the union of the Beast and
Harlot and all her daughters.
Rev. 14:12: “Here is the patience
of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith
of Jesus.”
The patience is not that of
unbelieving Jews, it is the patience of the saints (Holy ones--who are made
holy by the atonement of Jesus's blood shed for our sins). This patience is like the patience of Job. Believers must not cry out as Job did, that
God was unjust to allow the persecution of the righteous ones. That, in fact was the pride of Job. His insistence that God was appointing him to
wrath by allowing Satan to destroy all but his very life. Job saw God as unjust in this matter, and Job
demanded an audience with God to plead on his own behalf and against God and
His sovereign will. Job was rebuked by
Elihu, the youngest, and the fourth of Job's friends. The elders did not get it, and God shamed
them by the rebuke of the younger Elihu (which means 'God of him'). Elihu defended God. Elihu was not later rebuked by God. The other three friends who contended
incorrectly were rebuked by God, and were presumably restored after Job prayed
for them. It is right to contend for God
and not for man.
Rev. 16:15: “Behold, I come as a
thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and
keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” This statement is just after the 6th
vial is poured out and just before Armageddon’s war and the return of Jesus
Christ (for they seek to war with God Almighty in this final war; whereas the 6th
trumpet war kills 1/3 of mankind and is the final of the 1/3 judgments before
Armageddon). Whom He loves, He warns;
thus the admonition to watch and keep your garments on. Jesus loves every member of His household and
pleads with them to stay awake, and watch, for we know not the ‘hour’ in which
our Lord comes. There will doubtless
barely be faith on the earth when Jesus returns, but there will be some who
survive (remain) unto the coming of the Lord to see His Glorious appearing (but
we very well know that He will come immediately after the tribulation of those
days, for He has proclaimed as much to us.)
Rev. 3:3 "Remember,
therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if
you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what
time I will come to you."
By implication, if one does wake
up, one will know ‘what time I will
come to you.’ Even as the faithful servant can observe the fig tree and know that it is near (Jesus's 2nd
coming), even at the door—(there is the ‘door’ reference again for all who have
ears to hear.)
Jesus said He will come as a
thief, to the ungodly, to those who will not watch, to the unfaithful harlot
who thinks herself a virgin. She is shut
out and not allowed a second chance.
Read the parable
please, I beg you. The unwise virgins
(half of them, 5/10 of them) are forever shut out because they did not have oil
for their lamps.
The oil is the filling of the
Holy Spirit and with the Word which is the light into the virgin’s lamp-stand;
the lamps are both the individual churches, and each one of us, because we are
the temple of God. The Holy Spirit is
our seal unto redemption and the mark of God on our foreheads. We must have our oil and be prepared—why in
the world would Jesus repeatedly warn us of something we will never need to
know?? Our Lord warns, and gives example
after example so that we may see clearly what lays ahead on the road. Our
good Lord does not want us to end up being blinded to the deception, because we
receive not a love of the truth of what He has said.
The unwise virgin is not given a
7-year warning shot across the bow, nor a 3 ½ year warning after the rapture. No, we
are all given the warnings of Jesus NOW, today, to start loving truth and
seeking it and clinging to it and not let anyone take from us what we have,
even if by smooth words of “did Jesus really say?” We are told about all that will happen in the
last days by Jesus, and it is made clear by the later revelation to John and by
what Peter, Paul, Jude and others wrote.
We are told to look for a 7 year
covenant which the little horn makes with the many (Dan. 9:27). We are given time periods of 3 ½ years (Dan
12:7, the time of the little horn trampling the saints) and 1,290 days (Dan.
12:11) of the saints being killed and overcome while the holy covenant (between
Jesus and His bride) is trampled. Jesus
tells us those days are limited to 3 ½ years so as to comfort us; so as to give
us certainty that Satan will not ultimately win the battle. We are commanded to persevere; to be patient;
to wait; to watch; to overcome rather than be overcome. The warnings about Jesus coming as a thief
are always made only to those who insist on walking in darkness (blindness, if
you will), insisting on closing their own eyes to the clear truths about how
the end will unfold.
Jesus made it clear to His
disciples that Jesus’s torture and death would result in the resurrection. He made sure to tell them repeatedly AHEAD of time, so that they would not faint (fall away) when they
saw Him captured and beaten and nailed to a cross and dying; and so that they
would hope and be absolutely certain of His resurrection after 3 ½ days. (The ‘silly’ women believed him and ran to
His tomb—that is just a side note.)
Likewise, in keeping with His
unchanging character, He clearly, forcibly and in perfect detail, foretells of all that is coming upon the earth; He
admonishes us not to be soon shaken in mind and not to fear the signs in the
heavens as the heathen do (in Jeremiah 10:2).
He loves us dearly, deeply, and eternally. He is light.
He is the giver of all knowledge.
He gives wisdom generously to all who ask in faith believing. He prepares us for all that is coming, so
that we will walk circumspectly, redeeming the time, knowing that many others
in His household need to be warned and pulled from the fire which is about to
destroy the whole earth.
By the way, the argument is
circular, and is a logical fallacy, which says: the end (return of Jesus) can’t
be known “because that takes away the ‘no man knows the day or hour’ aspect of
Jesus’s teachings.” It needs be
acknowledged that if a rapture of all
who believed took place at 7 or even 3 ½ years before the final return
of Jesus to earth, then Jesus would certainly NOT be returning as a thief in the night to anyone who was
‘left behind’ in their unbelief.
The pre-tribulation rapture hypothesis is discredited through one
of the very pillars that it insists
upon as a proof. The insistence
of arguing for the pre-tribulation
escape on account of the 'thief in the
night passage,' necessitates the very thing you argue against (the
destruction of the imminence). (Inasmuch
as you assert that a post-trib rapture would take away ‘the thief in the night’
aspect of Christ’s coming-thus showing a lack of imminence of the return of
Jesus.)
The advance rapture (at 7 or 3 ½
years to midnight, as the pre-tribber supposes) would absolutely be a
“clock-setting event” which would be an absolute herald of the return of Jesus to
the unbeliever (and the supposed ‘tribulation saints,’ who may come from
Laodicea, Sardis, Thyatira, Pergamos, or Ephesus) who could subsequently
then never be come upon as by a thief in the night. Either way the ‘imminence’ is
impossible.
Let it be settled then, that the
Lord does not preach imminence. He
preaches that those who are asleep and not watching will not know when He is about to return, and
thus may be caught being slothful and disobedient, or would fully fall away due
to the miracles/signs/wonders of the False Prophet. Read the parables after Jesus’s Matthew 24
sermon carefully, and this becomes obvious even so obvious that my children
understand it.
If first comes the rapture at 7
years prior to Jesus’s return, then the unbeliever knows to look to an event 7 years in the future for the return of
the Lord. That return, in that paradigm,
could never be imminent, as you suppose.
If harpazo is at the end, and it
is, then the believer knows to look
for the signs the LORD speaks of:
A 7 year covenant with the many;
the abomination of desolation of the temple; a 3 ½ year reign of terror of the
Beast brought about by the False Prophet’s deceptive miracles; a universal
currency/mark, without which no man can buy or sell; and Beast worship which is
mandated by the Universal Church and State system which is already being set up
in high places.
Only those who do not know the
Word of God, and rightly divide it, will be deceived. To those, Jesus returns as a thief in the
night. (The deceived in this case are supposed servants of God, again, read
the parables and see that they are all admonishments to servants of God in His
fields and in His house; Jesus is commanding them to be good workmen until He comes. He is not even talking to unbelievers.) Those sluggards are the ones upon whom the
Lord returns as a thief in the night.
Just as Jesus’s main admonishments in Revelation are to those in the church, i.e., believers, so are
Jesus’s parables written to prevent the believer
from falling asleep and falling away.
Jesus knows that His faithful
Bride will be watching and waiting, and that is why we have the approval speech
He gives to the church of Philadelphia (not coincidentally, I add, this is “the
church of the love of the brethren,” by which love the world will know that we
are true Christians).
Anyone who insists that Jesus
will void His own Word, by showing
the unbeliever when He is to
return (by signaling that it will be 7 years past the rapture) does not
understand that Jesus is the thief only in the eyes of the unbeliever and the
fallen away harlot. It is also wrong to insist that the faithful bride can’t
know the time of her own Bridegroom’s return (which she can know within a month
or so by witnessing 7 years past the covenant and 3 ½ years past the Beast’s
reign-1,290 days). Further, we know Jesus will fulfill the fall feasts,
so it is obvious He will return to fulfill Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot
at some point. It is as if you believe and assert that Jesus cares
more about the unbeliever knowing the day or the hour than the believer knowing
about the day and hour of His return.
Jesus’s return as a thief is to the one walking in darkness. We believers and faithful children are
conversely ‘children of the day,’ as spoken of by Paul:
I Thessalonian 5
1 But of the times and the
seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly
that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
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.
4 But ye, brethren, are
not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of
light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not
sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep, sleep
in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the
day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet,
the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed
us to wrath (just as Job was not appointed to wrath, but was sifted by
Satan), but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died
for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort
yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
12 And we beseech you,
brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and
admonish you;
13 And to esteem them very
highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
14 Now we exhort you,
brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the
weak, be patient toward all men.
15 See that none render evil
for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among
yourselves, and to all men.
16 Rejoice evermore.
17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give
thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
19 Quench not the Spirit.
20 Despise not prophesyings.
21 Prove all things; hold
fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance
of evil.
23 And the very God of peace
sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is he that
calleth you, who also will do it.
25 Brethren, pray for us.
26 Greet all the brethren
with an holy kiss.
27 I charge you by the Lord
that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
28 The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
I submit that Jesus loves us,
that He tells us beforehand exactly what to expect. This is the essence of all prophecy: that
Jesus be proven TRUE and honest in all His sayings. He proves that He is God, that He knows the
end from the beginning. He declares it
to all with ears to hear; He proclaims it boldly, ‘in order that we might see
these things come to pass, and remember that He told us beforehand that all
these things must needs be.’ Jesus
proves Himself to be the one true prophet, the omniscient one.
If the goodman of the house had
known the hour in which the thief came, he would have watched and his house
would not have been broken up and left to him desolate. That is a paraphrase. That parable pictures the workman who will
not watch. To that man, yes, the coming
of Christ Jesus to take His Kingdom will be as a thief in the night. That man will tell himself that the
abomination of desolation and the mark can’t be what they seem to be, even when
that man sees it for himself, because he has convinced himself that a “rapture”
of escape must happen first. Jesus
commands us to watch. He wants us to see
this unfold and be amazed that He foretold it.
Rev. 13:10: “He that leadeth into
captivity, shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be
killed with the sword. Here is the patience
and faith of the saints.” He is
comforting those who will be going through this trial, by telling them to hold
on, to persevere, to overcome, to remain faithful.
Rev. 3:10 “Because thou has kept
the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation,
which shall come upon all the world (not the unbelievers only), to try them
that dwell upon the earth.” The
temptation to believe the false miracles of the false prophet (who looks like a
Lamb (Jesus) but speaks like a dragon to the ears of the true believers who
know Jesus’s real voice), will be a great temptation indeed; and many will fall
away into even greater apostasy than we see now. The whole New Testament is replete with
warnings to know Jesus’s Words so that we be not deceived.
The day of the Lord, when He
comes to baptize the unbeliever and the faithless harlot with fire, judgment,
and destruction: that day comes like a thief.
The thief in the night comes at the END, when all will be laid bare—the
unbelieving ‘believer’ will be found naked, because he did not keep his
garments (as the faithful believer did).
II Peter 3:10 says:
10 But the day of the Lord will come
like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be
destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
11 Since everything will be
destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live
holy and godly lives 12 as you look forward to the day of God
and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the
heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But
in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new
earth, where righteousness dwells.
14 So then, dear friends, since you
are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless
and at peace with him. 15 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience
means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom
that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his
letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things
that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as
they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 Therefore, dear friends, since
you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried
away by the error of the lawless (the man of sin, the man of lawlessness) and fall from your secure position. (falling away because of the deceit and
hardship and martyrdom) 18 But grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and
forever! Amen.
All who are making their calling
and election sure will not fall away when the great supposed rescue from
trials and tribulations does not come as the false ministers of the gospel
proclaim it will. We will follow our
Lord wherever He leads, even as Peter did and as the church of Smyrna always
has. We will not be deceived, because we
have searched the Scripture, we know the truth as Jesus proclaimed it. We are not afraid of the hard truth, the
reality. We embrace our Lord and our vow
to Him, to be faithful. He gives us an
open door which no man can shut.
Revelation 3
“And unto the angel of the church
in Sardis write; ‘These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and
the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and
art dead.
2 Be watchful, and strengthen the
things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works
perfect before God.
3 Remember therefore how thou hast
received and heard, (you said, yourself,
you previously had received, and heard and held to the rapture-harpazo taking
place at the end when the righteous are resurrected—why did you wish to stop
believing what Jesus had shown you?)
and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I
will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come
upon thee. (If we watch, we will in
expectancy go to meet Him, we will put on our garment and shoes even at
midnight, and go to meet the Bridegroom instead of halting as the Shulamite
woman did—in Song of Songs 5:3).
4 Thou hast a few names even in
Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in
white: for they are worthy.
5 He that overcometh, (overcometh what? A life of ease? NO, he that overcomes this
greatest of all tribulations and persecutions which have been promised to come
upon all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus. Satan desires to sift the elect, and as Peter
and all the apostles were sifted, so we are no better) the same shall be
clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of
life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. (others’ names will conversely be blotted
out of the book of life if they take the mark, and worship the beast.)
6 He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.’
It may be that the two wings of
the great eagle (Rev. 12) will carry away the faithful Church of Philadelphia into the wilderness to be nourished from the face of the Serpent in a literal sense as well as in a spiritual sense.
Glory be to God if we His faithful are preserved here in the wilderness of Goshen!
But if it is our glory to be as the church of Smyrna, and if our God
does not choose to rescue us from the King and the Beast, then know this, we
will still not bow down to the statue and worship the beast. (Daniel 3)
The whole house of Israel was
kept from the last 7 plagues IN Egypt BEFORE the Exodus. Noah was preserved IN the Ark ON the face of
the earth. Daniel was save IN the lion’s
den. Hananiah (whose name means ‘Jah has
favored’), Azariah (‘Jah has helped’) and Mishael (‘who is what God is’ ‘who is
like God’) were preserved IN the fire of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace. They were found to be faithful and to be
truly walking with Jesus (the Son of God), by both GOD and by the
King who had put them there at the behest of the wicked sorcerers who hated the
fact that the faithful three children would not bow the knee to the statue
(image of the beast) which they had erected to glorify man and his
kingdoms. God will look upon those who love Him: He will favor them (as
He does the church of Philadelphia); He will help and preserve them in and through fire; He will show the
world those ‘who are His’ faithful.
For our part, those of us who
love and believe and follow with abandon are already going alone into
the wilderness to be nourished by our Lord Jesus, directly at His feet, hearing
all the Words, even the hard Words, and hiding the whole counsel of God (from
Genesis to Revelation) in our very hearts.
We are letting Him write, upon the tablet of our hearts and upon our heads,
His very name, that we be sealed now and forever by our Great Almighty God, so
that in the days of the 5th trumpet, when unsealed men are tormented
by demons, we will be as the Israelites in Goshen, untouched, unscathed by the
demons who make men desire for death for a span of 5 months.
Although they (of the Beast and
his kingdom) may eventually overcome our physical bodies, as they will with the
Two Faithful Witnesses, while we are in the body, we will speak boldly and
never cease to proclaim the Word of the Lord as preached to His disciples. God is true, and every man a liar, so do not
take any word of mine for it, seek the Scripture to see what it says, not what
the flesh wants to believe it says. The
Holy Spirit will Himself guide the
faithful into all truth; this is Jesus’s promise to us. That is why the Holy Spirit is such a
comfort, as well as a guide, a preserver, a healer, a helper. Jesus gave this great gift to all who are
redeemed.
The marriage supper of the Lamb
is in Rev. 19:9, at the second coming.
The birds of the air eat the flesh of the dead who have not repented and
who have been slain by Jesus at His return in glory as judge of the earth.
I could put the whole of the
Bible in this email, but if the heart is hard as steel, no amount of water will
penetrate the veneer of man’s heart. We
have to work up our own soil, or let God water it and work it up for us. He is after all, the Potter, and we are to be
clay (malleable) in His hands. If He has
to crush and grind us into powder and then pour healing water over us, in order
to reform us and to mold us into His perfect image and likeness, He will do it
for those who are His. Why not rather
come to the well? He gives water freely. Freely we likewise have received, so freely
we give.
I do not criticize, for God is
Judge of all. I do not herald from
safety; if I did, I would shy from proclaiming the truth, and would certainly speak
to no man. God desires all to know the truth. God’s faithful witnesses (His children) will
never cease to warn and to pray that all men come to know the truth. It is not out of pride that the one who is convinced proclaims the truth. It is out of urgency, not wanting any to perish and be deceived. It is out of love for the churches
that one desires to proclaim the already revealed truths of God and Jesus as in
His perfect Word to those in the churches, so that they too may have space to
repent and to be brought back into fullness of relationship with the
Bridegroom. If one speaks even as a dumb donkey, but speaks the truth and
the Word of the Lord, why not receive that one of low estate, for the Word's
sake, even if not for the esteem of the creature that speaks. God will
make rocks cry out if men and women will cease to proclaim His truth.
It is good that you have
replied. None other yet has, and that is
not a concern for the one who proclaims.
Most in this country are fully drugged asleep; at least you have the
vigor to argue back. That one who is awake
may at least be driven to further study, even if to disprove that which they
believe is false. In this way, both are
driven to the Word of God (the sharpening stone), each for themselves, to hear
what the LORD says.
Your reply has spurned me on to
an even deeper study today, this day, than I was already engaged in.
Indeed hours have passed this day and I have been driven to re-read much
Scripture on account of your email. I
thank you profusely for that! I have
seen ever more of what the Lord has in store because you have given me reason
to show myself approved, and to call to mind that which I have already been
shown. It is good to be able to give an
answer to all who respond, about the hope which is inside of me: The future
hope of my blessed Redeemer, and the lover of my soul returning in all glory
and power and righteousness to reclaim His bride, His faithful church. What a blessed and sure hope indeed!
You will no longer (after this)
be plagued with warnings of what is to come upon the earth; it is not my desire
to be contentious, but to contend FOR the faith and for the truth of the Word
of God (As young Elihu did in the book of Job).
If you desire to know more, God Himself will reveal all things to His
own in time. Draw near to Him and He will
in no wise cast you out. Ask and it
shall be given to you, seek and you shall find all truth, knock and that door
(which no man can shut) will be opened up to you.
This servant and child who has
been forgiven much salutes all who call upon the name of Jesus Christ.
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