A MESSAGE THAT EVERY PERSON MUST BE READY NOW AND IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU ARE CHRISTIAN OR NOT! MAY 21, 2008

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Many people have told me why waste time trying to figure out when Jesus is going to come back when, Jesus Himself said no man knows. Let me quote Jesus in Matthew 24:36 so you know what I am talking about. “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”  Now I want you to take notice what Jesus is really saying here in relation to Jewish thoughts and Jewish traditions.  The phrase “But of that day and hour knoweth no man” is a common Hebrew idiom for the Jewish holiday of “Rosh HaShanah”.  Rosh HaShanah is one of the 7 feasts (Jewish Holidays) and it also known to the Jewish people as the feast of Trumpets.  The feast of  Trumpets takes place in the fall.  In Leviticus 23 you see these feast are appointed times established as yearly rehearsals that taught both historically and prophetically the whole plan of God.  This plan included the coming of Christ (Messiah) and how Messiah would bring the redemption to all who received Him.  In short, God has given us His Biblical Calendar.  Out of the 7 Biblical holidays the only ones left to be fulfilled are the Fall feasts which are Rosh HaShanah (Trumpets), Yom Kippur which is the (Day of Atonement), and (Tabernacles). I am going to center on the Feast of Trumpets) because on God’s calendar this is the next in line to be fulfilled. Knowing this information let me get back to Jesus statement in Matt. 24:36 where He said no man knows the day or hour.

This verse has to do with the Jewish wedding.  The Father had to make sure his son had everything prepared and ready for the wedding.  If anyone would ask the Jewish man when is the wedding he would say ask my Father only he knows.  That statement was traditional response. When it came time for this wedding to take place the man would go out a midnight sound the blast by blowing the shofar letting his bride know he had come for her.  The feast of Trumpets or (Rosh HaShanah) points to the Jewish cultural evidence that Rosh HaShanah will be the appointed day of the rapture of the church.  As proof of this let me now show you what has already taken place with this Jewish wedding in relation to Jesus Christ and His bride the Church. 

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In a Jewish wedding the Jewish woman indicates she will marry him and does except his proposal by drinking a cup of wine.  What did Jesus do at the last supper? Jesus passed the cup of wine at the last super and those who drank the wine accepted being His bride.

Next, the Jewish man would have to pay a price to the brides parents.  What did Jesus do and what was His price He paid? Jesus paid the price for us as His bride with His own life.  The next thing the Jewish man would do to prepare for the wedding was to give his to be bride gifts.  What gift did Jesus Christ give His bride the Church?  Jesus gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit.  The next thing the Jewish man would have to do to get ready for the wedding was go and prepare a place for the both of them to live in when they are married.  Do you remember the Words of Jesus in John 14:3?  Jesus said, “ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”  This is where Jesus is right now, He is preparing the home for his church the bribe of Christ.  The next thing the Jewish man would do to prepare for the wedding is this, he would take a host of people with him and at midnight go out shouting and blowing the shofar for his bride.  The shofar is a horn.  Now read what Jesus told the Apostle Paul to write in 1^st Thessalonians 4: 15-16. Paul mentions the exact timing of this event twice! In verse 15, he says that this occurs at "the coming of the Lord," and in verse 16, Christ " comes down from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.". This is the point at which time Jesus will come for us, His Church just the same way the Jewish man  would go out at midnight and blow the horn for His bride.  This will be the next thing to take place on God’s calendar at the feast of Trumpets.  The next thing that would take place after a Jewish wedding, which came after the man went out to get his bride would be to spend 7 days alone with His bride to consummate the marriage in their wedding chamber.  When Jesus comes back for His bride the (Church), He takes the Church to heaven for a period of 7 years. Listen to what it says in Isaiah 26: 19-21. “Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.  For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.” These are the chambers Jesus will keep His Church in while the 7 year tribulation is taking place on earth. The Church (Bride of Christ), will be hidden from this troubled times.

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As you can now see, everything that Jesus has done was in accordance to the traditions of a Jewish wedding which is also based on the Holidays of the biblical calendar.   Now I want to get back to what the Apostle Paul had to say in (1st Thessalonians 5:1-4), when he stated the following, “But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.  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.  But ye brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.” Paul was a Jew and He understood that the signs of the end times would be taking place during the times and seasons, or the Jewish holidays. Here Paul eludes to the sign of Peace and Safety and he tells the reader they won’t be in the darkness because they would be watching for these events to take place during the Jewish Holiday seasons.  When you read Genesis 1:14 we see the word seasons which is the Hebrew word for appointed time.  The seasons, (appointed time), Paul was referring to was the actual day that Jesus was going to return on the Feast of Trumpets which would take place in the fall.  So when Paul told the Jews you have no need that I write unto you, being Jewish they understood exactly what Paul was talking about. The only people who will be in the dark when Jesus comes on this feast will be those who do not have the Word of God in them and do not have any understandings of these biblical matters. 

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Please take notice that in Rev. 3:3 Jesus tells the church at Sardis which was considered a dead church to repent from their ways and to WATCH, or what? I quote, “I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.”  Jesus is speaking to the dead church.  What he is telling us here is that, He only comes to the dead church as a thief, not an alert and alive church, they will not be caught off guard.  In Rev. 3:17-18 Jesus is now speaking to the church of Laodicea.  This is another church that is not ready and Jesus calls this church a luke warm church. What happens to a luke warm church? Jesus in Rev. 3:16 says, “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor not, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”   Notice in those verses Jesus tells them to go and buy white raiment “that thou mayest  be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear.”  What most people don’t understand is what this white raiment really means.  Another important fact is Jesus tell them in verse 18 to anoint your eyes with eye salve that you may see. Now I want to tie in what is written in Revelation 16 15. This will become clear to you why you have to make the connection.  Rev. 16:15 says, “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.”  Lets go back to Jewish traditions a law for a second and I will show you how this all fits in.  During the time that the Jewish Temple was standing the High Priest and the captain of the guard were known as “The thief in the night” and, this is why.  There were watch posts at the Temple were the priests had to be watching.  One of the things they had to watch for was that the fire on the alter would not go out.  This was a Godly fire that fell on the alter and it was commanded by God that this fire never go out.  The priest had to watch this fire.  If a priest was caught asleep and the captain of the guard came and saw the priest asleep he would take his torch which was set by the alter fire and set the priests garments on fire with his torch.  The priest would then run through the Temple tearing off the garments that were on fire and, the shame of the priest nakedness would appear. Now you see how Rev. 16: 15 ties in.   Now when you go back and read (1st Thessalonians 5:1-4) where Paul say, “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” You now know what is meant by the phrase, “as a thief in the night”.  In other words when Jesus comes back and finds you asleep and not on the watch you will end up like the priest, running in your nakedness and in shame because you were not ready for His visitation.

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Now lets look at Matthew 25: 1-13. Jesus here is talking to two group of virgins.  One group was ready and on the watch and, prepare for the bridegroom to come. This is a picture of the church  doing the will of the Father and keeping on the watch. Jesus here is again showing the Jewish wedding and His coming for His bride.  Jesus said 5 virgins were ready and had oil in their lamps when the bridegroom came.  Notice the bridegroom  here comes at midnight as the custom in Jewish wedding, notice also he comes with a shout as is the custom. The 5 who were ready went in to be with the bridegroom and the door was shut.  This is what will happen at the rapture of the church which we now believe will take place during the Feast of Trumpets on this Jewish Holiday. This is why it is so important to keep on the Watch at all times, especially during the Jewish Feasts.  What about the other 5 virgins who were not ready to go out to the bridegroom when He came at midnight. Jesus tells us they didn’t prepare. These 5 virgins did not have oil in their lamps when He came at midnight so they had to go and buy oil to light the way. However, when they came back to the door of the bridegroom the door was shut and the Lord said “Verily I say unto you. I know you not”. This is a picture of  all the people who were not on the watch and are kept outside the door of safety with the Lord. These 5 unprepared virgins is a picture of the all the people who will find themselves in the 7 year tribulation because they like the priests at the Temple fell asleep and they will be found as a thief in the night and become naked and ashamed.. 

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Now look at the message Jesus gave about the good servants and the evil servants found in Luke 12. Verses :37-40 is the message to the good servant. “Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.  Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.”  In Luke 12: 41-41 Jesus is now talking to the evil servants who were not doing the will of the Father, they were not watching for the thief in the night.  Jesus said to these evil servants, “The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.”. These are the people who know better, they know the Lord’s will but they are not doing the Lord’s will. The next verse tells us in verse 47, “And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.”  Are there so called believers who are not abiding in Christ today and are not doing the will of the Father?  There are millions of them!  These people we are told by Jesus that they knew His will yet didn’t  follow His will.  I speak with people who tell me they are Christians all the time, but upon questioning them about Christ and His will they haven’t a clue what I am taking about, nor they don’t see the importance of keeping on the watch as Jesus warned in so many places in His Word.  In verse 41 Peter asks Jesus straight out, are you speaking this parable to us, or even to all?  So his question goes to the core of the question  who is the evil servant.  Jesus answered Peter by telling him of the evil servants do not do the will of the Father.  Once again we see a group of people being split in half. First there was the 10 virgins, 5 were wise and ready, 5 were not and were unprepared. Now we see good servants watching and doing the will of the Father who will be blessed, compare to the other half, the evil servants who know God’s will but are not doing His will and are not keeping watch, they are beaten.

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One other important fact to remember is the Feast of Trumpets was known where no one know the day or the hour because it was based on the sighting of the full moon. This sighting could come without some Jewish people knowing when it started.  So, on the 30th of each month, the members of the High Court assembled in a courtyard in Jerusalem, where they waited to receive the testimony of two reliable witnesses. They then sanctified the new moon. The new moon is very difficult to see on the first day because it can be seen only about sunset, close to the sun, when the sun is traveling north. So, looking for a very slim faint crescent moon, which is very close to the sun, is a very difficult thing to do. If the moon’s crescent was not seen on the 30th day, the new moon was automatically celebrated on the 31st day. For this reason, Feast of Trumpet, (Yom Teruah) is always celebrated for two days. These two days are celebrated as though it is just one long day of forty-eight hours. The reason that it is celebrated for two days is because if they waited to start the celebration until after the new moon had been sanctified, they would have missed half the celebration because the new moon can only be sanctified during daylight hours. The command seems to be that we know the season, but not the day or the hour (Matthew 24:32-36). Yom Teruah, or the Feast of Trumpets, is the only feast that we do not know the day in which to keep it. Therefore, we have to be on the alert and watch for it.  When Jesus is saying you won’t know the day or the hour as recorded in Matthew 24:36 He is telling us it is the Feast of Trumpets because it is a this Feast and this Feast only that the Jews did not know the exact day or the hour in relation to when the full moon would be out. Hence the 2 day celebration.

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Lets go back to 1^st Thessalonians 5:1-6 and the statement Paul made. Now when you read this passage you get a clear understanding of what Paul was talking about.  In 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 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. 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 5:8 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 salvation5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.”  At the Feast of Trumpets Jesus will return to remove His Bride the Church, it will not over take the Church who is doing the Will of the Father and standing on the watch for the Master to return.   Paul speaks of this rapture of the church in 1^st Corinthians 15: 51-53) where he says, ““Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”  When Jesus comes out and calls His bride home we who are no the watch will be ready and we are going to be changed from these human bodies to heavenly bodies.  The question to ask yourself at this point is what class has Jesus placed you in? Are you one of the wise virgins who are ready to go out to meet the Lord, are you standing Watch for Him to return, or are you one of those 5 that are not ready and have no oil in your lamps?  Are you of those good servants who when Jesus comes will find you standing at the door on watch and waiting for the Master to return, or are you the evil servant who says he is a Christian but is not doing the will of the Father, those of who will be accounted with the unbelievers when the Master finally comes for his bride?  These are very important questions to ask yourself and here is why.

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 Here is where it gets interesting.  Right now leaders from many nations are in Israel calling for peace and safety just as Paul warned.  If by the end of 2008 Israel has a peace plan, (covenant) signed, and that covenant is for the time frame of 7 years than, I would say the blood moon which will be out in 2015 is the one which will be out to see Jesus return and, is the one mentioned in Joel’s book where it says, "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come" (Joel 2:31). Why do I say that?  Once the agreement is signed, just as the Prophet Daniel warned would happen, then the 7-year tribulation begins.  If it is signed in 2008 add 7-years and you end up at the year 2015, at which time the blood moon is appearing again.  Please don’t flip out on me here yet unless you are not a believer in Christ. The blood moon will be meaningless if the 7-year covenant (peace agreement) isn’t signed by the end of 2008.  This one act, (the signing of the agreement), will put this issue to rest.  What then should you be looking for if you want to be ready to meet Jesus?  Watch the news concerning how the peace talks are going in Israel.  I believe in my heart that some how a peace deal will be approved soon.  If that deal is for 7 years I suggest you do what I am going to do, drop to your knees and begin praising the name of Christ.  Also of great importance this September 29, 2008 is the Feast of Trumpets, (Rosh Hashanah).  If Jesus decides to come this year at the time of the full moon then as the bridegroom He would take us, (His bride, the Church), to His home for a period of 7 years as with the customs of the Jewish wedding, as I discussed.  7 years from Sept. 29, 2008 is the length of the tribulation period. At the end of the tribulation period we are told by Joel that the blood moon would be out.  It just so happens that in 2015 the next blood moon will be appearing again.  So what am I telling you?  I would start praying right now because you will want to be ready in case Jesus makes His call for His Church during this year’s Feast of Trumpets.  Everything is lining up, all the signs of the end are in our face now, and they are making a push to sign a peace agreement by the end of 2008.  Paul in 1^st Thess. Said “when they shall say, Peace and safety: then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child.”  If you see that peace agreement signed and it is for a 7 year period than one could say there is a very good chance this will be the Feast of Trumpets that Jesus come out to gather His bride. Why? Because we are told in scripture that when this agreement, (covenant) is made the 7 year tribulation will start. The one who confirms this agreement will be the Antichrist. This is the one who will come and beat all those evil servants Jesus spoke about in Luke 12, who were not standing on the watch for Christ’s return. Will the bride of Christ be taken before this man of Sin is revealed?  Read what we are told in the Word.  “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming” (2^nd Thessalonians 2:7-8).  The only thing that is presently hindering the Antichrist to coming on the scene now is the fact that the Holy Spirit is in all the believers of Christ.  We are holding back the Antichrist because of the Lord’s spirit.  Once Jesus removes the Christians who are on the Watch for Christ’s return, then the Antichrist can and will be revealed.  If the Antichrist is getting ready to confirm the peace deal that just may come to pass by the end of 2008 that would mean the Christians will be taken out of the way before that covenant is confirmed.  Since the Feast of Trumpets takes place in September of 2008, if this is the time Jesus has chosen to call His bride, that would mean the church is gone before the Antichrist is revealed.  Hear me!  I am not telling you that Jesus is for sure coming to remove His Church on Sept. 29, 2008, what I am telling you is this, you had better be ready just in case this is the Feast of Trumpets that He has chosen to bring us home.  What should you do between now and Feb. 29, 2008?  Get right with God! Do what Jesus told us to do 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.”  If Jesus chooses to wait for another time to come for His church then I say this, “keep on the Watch for the Lord will come in an hour you don’t know.  Jesus may come as he said in Luke 12:38, “And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.” I will do whatever I can to prepare the bride of Christ  to meet the bridegroom, I will be here keeping on guard for you and giving you all the signs of the times, but you must stay awake with me to receive the blessing that is soon to come. He who has an ear let him hear what the Lord is saying to the Chruch.————————————————————————————————————————————

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