LAST DAYS GLOBAL PRAYER NETWORK Ends.

 

The Last Days Global Prayer network is closing because for months I haven't heard but from one person concerning these prayer requests. As a result of the lack people wanting to pray I have chosen to spend more time in areas that would help spread God Word. 

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 Last days globlal prayer network team:

Frank DiMora

Catherine Barrier

Roseann Berko

Susan Carlson

Jimmy Carpenter  

Richard Crookshank

Dennis Daniels

Sharon Grotts

Jay Houston

Carol Jackson

kristi Jones

Gloria Kelley

Wayne Lonnen

Alan Manson

Sabine.OFLYNN

(Family) of Bill Oliver

Phyllis Mcilvoy

Kate Nate

Robert Pienta

(Family) Pohl's

Melisande Rademeyer

Duane and Kathi Rauch

Gerald Rector

John Saput

Traci spiege

Joshua Stephen

John van der Voort

Deidre Wilson

Julie Zaleski

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See full size imageStarting date for prayer request April 30, 2012:
Please GOD unite me back with my love and bless me with my marriage to him ,with our parents blessings and happiness before the end of 2012. Please help me GOD . Please GOD you are my last hope. Please don't let me down .Please GOD also bless all other people in this world who have faith in you .
GOD BLESS YOU

Anonymus 

See full size imageMarch 27, 2012,Dear Frank;      Haven't talked to you in awhile as I know you are exceedingly busy! Well as for me, can you pray for me? I am in a desperate situation. I am still unemployed/homeless/and have about $60 dollars to my name. God is Jehovah Jirah and I need provision now. Anyways if'n you find the time to pray God Bless Ya Brother. THANKS friend!  If the Lord leads you to help him in his need please email Palmer at palettenoir@gmail.co​m

See full size imageStarting date for prayer request March 25, 2012: Everyone,please pray for my mother,she is very sick and asked me to request prayer for her.And you all know like I do,that GOD answers prayer.Thank you all
Craig

See full size imagePrayer Request starting date March 21, 2012:   Sister Willie Jaye Lee just went into surgery…Please keep her in your prayers, as we know that God is in the HEALING business. We lift her name up HIGH in the MIGHTY name of Jesus Christ..She is having a very serious surgery affecting nerves and spine..will take up to 3-1/2hrs. We pray in the name of the Father, Son, & Holyspirit. Amen.   Also, I have another request please keep K'mori Little lifted up in prayer. She's six years old and the young girl was ran over and drug over 100 ft. She's in University hospital and has many surgeries. Let's lift her and family in our prayers.

See full size image Prayer request starting March 20, 2012 for Josh and his partner.  This couple needs your prayers for this new trucking business. Ask Jesus to bless them as they take a step out in faith in Christ. This is the new truck they just got for the business. They want to pay off the truck in a year. Let us pray that Jesus blesses them and they will pay it off way before that time!  Photo of the truck is below.

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See full size imagePrayer request from Rose starting date March 20, 2012

Hi Frank,I can't seem to get to prayer site.Please pray for my husband as he gets surgery Thursday.He is getting addicted to pain pills and wants to get off them as he does have pain.He said he wants off them so pray for victory as I wean him off with Doctors help. AND I want to thank our great God for victory who is able to do more than we can ever imagine. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but God gets them through them all.AMEN and let us not GIVE UP. HE REALLY IS WITH US IN THE FIRE. JUST BELIEVE.

Rose

 See full size imagePrayer Request! (March 12, 2012)
Douglas & Michelle Gable (trust) Family, Johnson Family, Laws Family, Laparis Philips, Smiley family, Ruiz Family, & Barbara Gable, Pastor Keys & Family, Cheryl Haywood & Gabriella, Jones Family, Knobles Family, & Helen Ward. Father we asking you Lord to deliver us from sickness, health and to build our family stronger in the Faith in Jesus name. Thankyou!

See full size imagePrayer request from Agnes Baraza starting date March 5, 2012

 Dear man of God,

Man of God I would just want you to pray for me to remainstrong and trust in Jesus alone. My biggest prayer need is that the lord may give me peace ofmind .I have a lot of questions that I ask myself everyday; why did my motherhave to die and leave me without knowing my father. Why was I not born in anable family, family that could take care of me and give me good education. Myonly hope is that Jesus is going to come in this few days and take me home.Take me to a place where there no more struggling with our physical needs sheda lot of tears when a day passes and HE IS NOT BACK. Because I have to face aset of new problems. Am afraid that my friend is taking me like a burden to hisfamily and the only way I can stay from him is going to school. The burden isthat I don’t have anyone to pay for my school fees and with my high schoolcertificate I cannot get a job anywhere. Pray for me that I may get a way outthat I can go to school even as we wait for his coming.

Thank you

Yours daughter in Christ

See full size imagePrayer request from Nick: Feb. 28, 2012

Pray for the all the believers in Kazakhstan deprived of a legal means of gathering for woship after hundreds of small churches and other religious groups were closed down earlier this month.
Pray for "George," the brother still being held for interrogation in a neighbouring country because of his faith and ministry. Pray for him, his family, and for the other believers in that city.
Ask God to give comfort and strength to the family of a colleague of Peter, whose father passed away.
Ask God to meet the deepest needs of "Barry", a brother in this city weighed down by feelings of guilt and loneliness.
Continue to pray for Assiya's healing. Ask God to help her through the difficult treatment she is receiving.
Pray that by God'sgrace liz will recover. Her salivary ducts are blocked by stones, making it difficult to eat or talk, and leading to throat infections.
Pray for Edward's father Nicolai, in hospital in serious condition.
Pray for all those in Kazakhstan who do not know Jesus, that God's light will shine on them.
Pray for the government of Kazakhstan, and particularly the President, that God's grace will protect and guide.

From from Clint!!!!!

I recently requested prayer from you for myself.  I was falsely accused of abusing my children 6 days AFTER I filed for custody of them.  I was arrested and spent nearly 8 months in jail in NC on a $250,000 bond before charges were dismissed but I was taken to MD to face allegations there.  I was released on a $750 cash bond there and I faced trial on 3/7/12.
 
Just a few moments ago I got an email from my attorney saying all charges in MD were being dismissed because the story has changed again and doesnt match up with the evidence that I had submitted through my attorney. I faced up to 46 years in prison and I refused all plea deal offers because I am innocent.
 
PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!
 
I have always said I was innocent and the Lord has delivered me from false accusations made in a custody battle.
 
In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and He answered by setting me free. (Psalm 118:5)
 
As an ex cop being an inmate in jail was tough but God delivered me and gave me the privelidge of being able to witness to gang members, a man who is now on death row and many other men who wanted to harm or kill me.  I praise God for delivering me and setting me free.  I am now going to focus on rebuilding my life, finding work and giving my testimony of just how mighty and powerful the Lord Jesus Christ is!!
 
God bless you and thank you!!

See full size imageRemember what Dave wrote on Feb. 9? Check below: Feb. 24, Dave emailed me and told me the Lord has taken care of him. He has a place to go and it appears the Lord is going to give him a job.  My how things change when you seek Christ!

New prayer request starting date Feb. 9, 2012 from Dave
Hey Frank,
Please pray for me. The situation of me going to Texas has fallen through. Originally an older Christian couple asked me to stay with them in Texas, however I just received an email that their family was not supportive of it. So now I only have three weeks to find a place to live and I have no money. Right now God is the only solution to keep me from being totally homeless. I am at a loss for what God wants me to do, so I also need his guidance.
GOD BLESS
Dave

 

See full size imageNew prayer requeststarting date Feb. 1, 2012 from Clint Reep.

Mr. Dimora,
 
I found your website about a month ago and I wanted to thank you for your service to the Lord.
 
I also wanted to submit a personal prayer request for an urgent situation I face.  I was falosely accused of a terrible thing and I face a very serious  charge from it.  6 days after I filed an emergency custody petition for my children I was accused of abusing them.  I am asking believers to agree with me for the truth to be known.  If I am guilty of what they say I should go to prison but if I am innocent I should be exhonerated and restored.  I am not asking God to let me get away with a crime but to reveal the truth about what I have been accused of. My ex wife is living an openly gay lifestyle in front of my children and when I tried to get custody I was arrested and spennt nearly 8 months in jail before charges were dropped in one state but I face trial in another state.   I did not do what I am accused of but I have been completely destoryed both financially and my reputation. 
 
The only way I will ever see my children again is by God intervening.
 
God bless and thank you,

See full size imageNew prayer request starting date Jan. 5, 2012 from Dave S. Hey Frank, Just wanted to see if you could keep me in prayer and ask the Lord to help me financially. I left Los Angeles two months ago to live with a friend in Chicago in hopes of finding no cost medical treatment for a spinal injury and have not been able to get help. With the injury I have been unable to work and yet cannot get any kind of state or federal assistance either. I am flat broke and will lose cell phone service this weekend so I really need God to work a miracle for me or at least give me the direction that I need to go in to resolve these financial issues.
Thanks
God Bless

See full size imageNew prayer request starting date Dec. 20, 2011: Need of Prayer!
Please continue to pray for one another. My mom (Angela Gable will be having eye surgery on Dec. 30th). Pastor Keys & family (slow process recovering) Laura& Dorothy to remain strong). Willow Park Christian Church family on the prayer list, many other churches to be all one accord. Pray for brother Smiley & family his brother-n-law (Bro. Delbert Tony) is recovering and is back at home. So many names but I believe God hear our prayers (with a repent heart). God bless! Douglas Gable

See full size imageNew prayer request starting date Dec. 7, 2011: Dear Friends & Family, I have an urgent prayer request regarding Pastor Jim Locke of Free Indeed Worship Center ~ Ft. Lauderdale. Please lift him up for healing concerning an on-going battle against the infirmity of cancer.

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Updates
1)  re:     Nov.  2011: my brother's Job interview Dec. ! Kate Nate
—  God's Will apparently Was done…no new job… Yet:)  sometimes the Lord has Better plans ahead !

2)  P's business deal was delayed until end of this month (Jan.)
Please pray the Lord allow deal to be reached…he Lord should provide funds for me to help African outreach and others….

( I pray continue to daily for your site's prayer list  )  ~ kate

New prayer request as of Nov.  2011: Please pray God's will be done with my brother's Job interview Dec. ! Kate Nate

 See full size imageNew prayer request Nov. 30, 2011: Hello Frank…just thought i'd stop by & say hello. It is a beautiful day outside today. So i must get outside b4 the sun quits shining. Wanted 2 let ya know that i am becoming involved with prison ministry & was wondering if i might ask 4 any prayers you may offer up on my be 1/2….
Deena

and  for P.'s  business deal next week ….thank you!! Nate Kate

Just wanted to see if you could keep me in prayer again. I still don't have a phone but now it's a bigger issue. I left L.A. and am now in Chicago staying with a friend. Due to a financial hardship that my friend and his family are now experiencing, I need to find a new place to live by the end of February. Right now I'm in a strange place with no money and no place to go. I've prayed that God provide and show me what to do but have yet to hear anything. 
Thanks again.
Dave

 

Just wanted to see if you could keep me in prayer again. I still don't have a phone but now it's a bigger issue. I left L.A. and am now in Chicago staying with a friend. Due to a financial hardship that my friend and his family are now experiencing, I need to find a new place to live by the end of February. Right now I'm in a strange place with no money and no place to go. I've prayed that God provide and show me what to do but have yet to hear anything. 
Thanks again.
Dave

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Prayer request from Cinday Nov. 29, 2011 (No name given) Dear Lord, I pray for my grandpa who is suffering from cancer at the moment. I just pray that he finds you before he passes away so he does not have to undergo the attrocities of Hell. My Grandpa is a great, brave man who fought for our freedoms during World War II and I believe he is a worthy man as long as he devotes his life to Christ before it is too late. My Grandpa has also practiced Freemason rituals in the Masonic Lodges during the world war while fighting for Britain, so if this false religion still has a hold on him, please Lord set him free. I'd also like to pray for the state of Egypt right now as they are holding those elections, anything could happen. Forever glorify the Lord AMEN

See full size imagePrayer request from Cinday Nov. 26, 2011, Bob is home and doing pretty well.  Only problem is that he goes in and out of atrial fibrillation and this is a big concern.  This also makes it difficult for him to sleep at night. Doctors say he has 7 weeks for this issue to resolve, before they do more serious treatment.  He needs to get into a normal heart rhythm.  That gives us 7 weeks to pray!  Lets all pray in unity and agreement for Bob's healing. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

Cindy

Prayer request for Oct. 16, 2011from Gretchen Tamarra.
Brother Frank, I would like to ask you to please include my family in your prayer. They are still bind in their tradition, still going to church that is worshiping idols. That's why sometimes I feel weak because I'm surrounded with unbelievers but by God's grace I stand and hold on to my faith. I was once a lost ship, once in the dark, thought my works could save me. But God is merciful and He called me and I accepted Him. God knows I desire that my family will be save as well. I've already share the gospel to them and encourage them to read the Bible. Brother Frank please include our family in your prayer, TAMARRA FAMILY and my bestfriend VICTORIA DE LEON and her family in Cebu Philippines. After two years of sharing the gospel to my bestfriend finally accepted Jesus Christ in her life and she's been visiting in your site as well.

 

 See full size imagePrayer request for Oct. 13, 2011
"Please keep continuing to pray for one and for another in these perilous times. We need to lift up sister Susan mother in our prayers. She is fighting pneumonia while she is in the hospital.  Her name is Hopie Hernandez. My Brother (Akram) in the faith getting prepared to preach the gospel. Also please pray for the families around the Globe who are suffering financially around the Globe and the U.S. (Israel to as they are going to divide Israel land).  Anyone else need of prayer? We all need prayers. In Christ Jesus amen. Thanks – brother Doug"

 

See full size image Oct. 7, 2011 request: Prayer request for Mrs. Mary Wright who is having surgery today, Friday. She is having surgery and needs prayer for finances. – Doug

6.9 quake/Increase in knowledge/Warning God has given us about Israel and Jerusalem/Kingdom against kingdom/Jan. 10, 2011

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On my post October 21, 2010 I issued you a warning that relates directly to God’s Word.  I told you the red flag was going to go up because more of these huge earthquakes were coming, and I wanted to make sure you knew what Jesus has pointed out to all of us.   Prophecy Sign: Luke 21:11 the Lord told you one of the last days signs would be seen from “great earthquakes”.  2011 has started off with the shakes.  Since the beginning of the year we have already seen two major quakes hitting a 7.0 and above, and as can see from this report there was another huge quake that almost hit the 7.0 mark again!

“A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck beneath the sea near the south Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, but no tsunami warning was issued, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said Sunday. There were no immediate reports of damage from the quake, which hit at 9:03pm (1003 GMT) at a depth of 31.1 kilometres (19.3 miles), 110 kilometres from the town of Isangel on Tanna island, the USGS said. The quake was the latest in a series of undersea tremors near the island, which is home to an active volcano. A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the area on December 26, triggering a small tsunami exactly six years after giant waves killed 220,000 people around the Indian Ocean, but there were no reports of damage or casualties.”  I again am asking you all to keep in mind what Jesus has pointed out to us and watch the news because if He warned they would come, you will see them on the news like these three huge quakes since the beginning of the new year.  Part of Matthew 24:7 we also see the warning of many earthquakes. Here is a list of the many earthquakes in the last 7 days.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.00f9d9be8db2cb7cbb98d794d2e6a6d9.131&show_article=1

MAP  5.1   2011/01/10 13:34:32    27.040    143.508  34.6   BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP  5.7   2011/01/10 10:24:20    23.128    143.233  73.8   VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP  5.0   2011/01/10 08:35:37    0.785    123.290  79.0   MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA
MAP  5.9   2011/01/10 06:02:52   -35.578    -73.117  25.5   OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP  5.0   2011/01/10 03:21:35    -5.328    68.615  9.8   CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO REGION
MAP  5.3   2011/01/10 02:11:04   -19.467   -176.025  175.9   FIJI REGION

MAP  5.1   2011/01/09 19:24:28   -19.712    168.126  10.1   VANUATU
MAP  5.1   2011/01/09 18:21:10   -19.318    168.010  24.1   VANUATU
MAP  6.4   2011/01/09 17:21:55   -19.281    168.132  32.8   VANUATU
MAP  5.2   2011/01/09 16:58:05   -19.150    168.219  17.3   VANUATU
MAP  5.3   2011/01/09 15:55:03   -19.145    168.181  10.0   VANUATU
MAP  5.4   2011/01/09 14:54:44   -19.299    168.360  10.0   VANUATU
MAP  5.1   2011/01/09 13:00:15   -19.297    168.442  10.0   VANUATU
MAP  5.0   2011/01/09 12:42:33    42.370    144.428  34.8   HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP  6.6   2011/01/09 10:03:44   -19.163    168.326  17.4   VANUATU

MAP  5.3   2011/01/08 19:01:23   -19.724    168.115  32.6   VANUATU
MAP  5.3   2011/01/08 18:23:19    26.672    143.902  9.6   BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP  5.0   2011/01/08 08:15:13    -1.126    120.109  10.0   SULAWESI, INDONESIA
MAP  5.5   2011/01/08 04:10:57    -0.067    124.927  56.3   MOLUCCA SEA
MAP  5.0   2011/01/08 00:24:27    30.064    51.641  16.6   SOUTHERN IRAN

MAP  5.0   2011/01/07 23:34:12    43.040    131.018  558.3   EASTERN RUSSIA-N.E. CHINA BORDER REGION
MAP  5.4   2011/01/07 23:13:06   -19.929   -173.719  9.8   TONGA
MAP  5.2   2011/01/07 19:28:34   -53.489    25.147  10.0   SOUTH OF AFRICA
MAP  5.2   2011/01/07 19:09:11   -19.816    168.207  62.7   VANUATU
MAP  5.2   2011/01/07 15:46:48   -25.098   -177.670  116.0   SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP  5.0   2011/01/07 09:42:21   -35.770    -72.938  20.8   OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP  5.2   2011/01/07 05:55:13   -19.948    168.185  79.8   VANUATU
MAP  5.1   2011/01/07 04:55:56   -21.779    -65.173  278.1   TARIJA, BOLIVIA
MAP  5.4   2011/01/07 03:09:59    4.157    90.370  16.9   OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
MAP  5.2   2011/01/07 01:19:17    20.084    -45.646  10.0   NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

MAP  5.2   2011/01/06 16:36:12    20.241    -45.770  10.0   NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP  5.0   2011/01/06 16:18:35   -12.246    166.996  264.9   SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
MAP  5.2   2011/01/06 16:18:01   -19.610    168.247  66.9   VANUATU
MAP  5.2   2011/01/06 06:07:38   -19.303    167.844  10.0   VANUATU REGION
MAP  5.0   2011/01/06 03:01:37    1.300    126.506  45.1   MOLUCCA SEA
MAP  5.5   2011/01/06 00:24:00    -4.175    142.155  111.0   NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

MAP  5.0   2011/01/05 18:31:46    11.376    -86.560  63.8   NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP  5.4   2011/01/05 10:15:34    -2.691    99.959  4.8   KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP  6.3   2011/01/05 06:46:17   -22.304    171.595  135.9   SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP  5.4   2011/01/05 05:55:47    30.125    51.759  10.0   SOUTHERN IRAN
MAP  5.7   2011/01/05 00:57:31    31.530    142.185  10.7   IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION

MAP  5.3   2011/01/04 22:59:10   -29.039    -69.486  111.1   SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA
MAP  5.1   2011/01/04 06:06:06   -51.961    139.612  10.0   WESTERN INDIAN-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
MAP  5.2   2011/01/04 05:54:04   -15.952   -173.128  34.9   TONGA
MAP  5.0   2011/01/04 02:36:31    -2.462    140.058  33.6   NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP  5.0   2011/01/04 00:49:42    13.060    -89.271  51.4   OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR

Prophecy Sign: Daniel 12:4 shows us the last generation would increase in knowledge. Here is a good example of this in a report entitled: “Move Over, Joysticks: Brainwave-Controlled Gadgets Are Here”  “Gamers set aside their joysticks recently to test out a new video game. All they needed instead? The power of thought. InteraXon, a Canadian digital innovations company, was the hit of CES when it unveiled the latest products incorporating Thought Controlled Computing — a technology that lets users control a digital interface using simply the power of their concentration. Their creations include thought-controlled 3D glasses as well as an iPad game that tests a person’s ability to focus their mind for an extended period of time. “We’ve developed a simple sensor that sits on your forehead and reads your brainwaves," InteraXon CEO Ariel Garten told FoxNews.com. "It’s just like a heart monitor that can read your heart rate. And the software translates your brainwave data and uses it to control your virtual world.” She called it a brain/computer interface, or BCI, and InteraXon builds it into a simple, lightweight headband. “You have patterns of thought that are readable,” Garten explained. Enter the company's 3D TV glasses, which can detect your mood and will adjust what you’re watching according to how you’re feeling.”

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/09/mind-controlled-gadgets-interaxon/?test=faces#

 

“Economists foretell of U.S. decline, China's ascension”

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7082BL20110109

“CORRECTED-WRAPUP 5-Record high food prices stoke fears for economy”

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL3E7C608020110107

“Sarkozy takes G20 case to Obama as food prices soar”

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70664T20110107

Prophecy Sign: Zechariah 12:3 and the coming  Psalm 83 war.

“Construction at the Shepherd Hotel compound, whose ownership is contested, was likely to deepen Israeli-Palestinian acrimony as Washington tries to revive peace talks. The negotiations are stalled by a dispute over Israel's settlement policy in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas captured in a 1967 war.

"What is happening today is part of the political program of the Israeli government to preempt any solution on Jerusalem," Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said in a statement.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Abu Dhabi on a tour of U.S. Gulf Arab allies, said: "This disturbing development undermines peace efforts to achieve the two-state solution. In particular, this move contradicts the logic of a reasonable and necessary agreement between the parties on the status of Jerusalem."

With direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at a standstill, Israel said an emissary of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a Palestinian envoy would travel to Washington in the next few days to seek ways to restart talks.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70834K20110109

“Israel is shocked by international criticism of the demolition of a Jewish-owned property in Jerusalem.  Calling Jerusalem a settlement is a misinterpretation, an insult to the history of the city," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told the French news agency AFP. "It is incomprehensible that they are mixing questions of private rights, international law and politics," he added. He was reacting to European Union and American condemnation of Israel for Sunday’s demolition of the old and unused Shepherd Hotel.”  “The EU, the United States and the United Nations does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over what it calls “East Jerusalem,” meaning large areas of southern, northern and eastern Jerusalem that were restored to Israel in the Six Day War in 1967. The term "settlement" also has been used by U.S. President Barack Obama when referring to United Jerusalem.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141642

Speaking about the prophecy of kingdom against kingdom, let me show you one example of civil unrest in a report out today entitled: “Violent Riots Outside Of Dhaka Stock Exchange After Market Plunges 9.25% In One Hour”  “The BBC reports that there were violent riots out of th Dhaka Stock Exchange, after shares fell over 9% in one hour, representing the biggest fall in the exchange's 55-year history.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/bangladesh-market-crash-2011-1#ixzz1AfZtEKwq

Romans 10:9 (King James Version) 9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Uncovering the Jehovah’s Witnesses lies! Jan. 7, 2011

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Rev. 18:12 warning about gold and silver/Many earthquakes/ Rev. 6:6/Roaring of the seas and waves/ The drug generation/Jan. 5, 2011

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I have been warning you about the price of gold and silver going up and the US dollar dying soon. There is a new video out I would like you to watch.  I do believe we are seeing the signs of Rev. 18: 12.



 

 

food_prices_rise_2007[1]Prophecy Sign: Revelation 6:6 shows us people will have to work all day long for a small meal. This meal will be enough for only one person.   This is exactly what Revelation 6:6 shows us. I quote, “Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

“World Food Prices Jump to Record on Sugar, Oilseeds”

“World food prices rose to a record in December on higher sugar, grain and oilseed costs, the United Nations said, exceeding levels reached in 2008 that sparked deadly riots from Haiti to Egypt. An index of 55 food commodities tracked by the Food and Agriculture Organization gained for a sixth month to 214.7 points, above the previous all-time high of 213.5 in June 2008, the Rome-based UN agency said in a monthly report. The gauges for sugar and meat prices advanced to records. Sugar climbed for a third year in a row in 2010, and corn jumped the most in four years in Chicago. Food prices may rise more unless the world grain crop increases “significantly” in 2011, the FAO said Nov. 17. At least 13 people died last year in Mozambique in protests against plans to lift bread prices.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/global-food-prices-climb-to-record-on-cereal-sugar-costs-un-agency-says.html

See full size imageProphecy Sign: In part of Matthew 24:7 the Lord warned their would be many earthquakes.  Today’s news showed that London is now shaking.  “London – A small earthquake shook parts of the north of England late Monday, the second in the region in two weeks, the British Geological Survey (BGS) said Tuesday. The tremor, in the area of north and west Yorkshire, north of the city of Leeds, registered a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter scale, the BGS said.”

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/uk/news/article_1609270.php/Small-quake-hits-northern-England

 

 Prophecy Sign: I Peter 5:8 says this, “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”  In Luke 21:12 Jesus warns us to look for the sign of Christian persecution in the last days.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided a memorial cross on federal land on Mt. Soledad, Calif., violates the U.S. Constitution.

In a 3-0 ruling in the Jewish War Veterans v. City of San Diego case, the panel decided that the 29-foot concrete cross, which has stood for 57 years, constitutes a government endorsement of religion and therefore violates the First Amendment's establishment clause.

"The question, then, is whether the entirety of the Mount Soledad Memorial, when understood against the background of its particular history and setting, projects a government endorsement of Christianity. We conclude it does," wrote Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown, a Clinton appointee.

"The decision represents a judicial slap in the face to the countless military veterans honored by this memorial," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, which filed an amicus brief in the case on behalf of 25 members of Congress. "This flawed decision not only strikes at the heart of honoring our military veterans, it reaches a faulty conclusion that this iconic memorial – part of the historic landscape of San Diego – is unconstitutional. We believe the appeals court got this decision wrong and we look forward to the case going to the Supreme Court where we're confident this decision will be overturned."

 http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=247701u

 

Here is more news concerning Christian persecution. “CAIRO (AP) – Many Egyptian Christians say they fear a repeat attack on their community on Coptic Christmas Eve Thursday and authorities are planning to deploy heavy security around churches to protect them. A suicide bombing of a church in the coastal city of Alexandria shortly after midnight on New Year's killed 21 people and injured about 100. It touched off days of enraged protests and riots by Christians who accuse the government of neglecting to protect the minority. Authorities suspect local Islamic extremists, perhaps inspired by al-Qaida, carried out the attack. A Facebook group that attracted 38,000 people is urging Christians to defy fears and go to church on Christmas Eve. However, many Christian families voiced deep fears of another attack.”

Oil/gas rig - AP - Sept. 17, 2010 Prophecy Sign: Deuteronomy 33 19. “They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer sacrifices of righteousness; they will feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand."  Possible path to war to fulfill Psalm 83.

“Lebanon has asked the United Nations to protect the country's natural gas reserves along the maritime border with Israel. Last week, Texas-based Noble Energy Inc. announced an estimated 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas found in a field off Israel's Mediterranean coast. Late Tuesday, Lebanese Foreign Minister Ali Shami sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging him to prevent Israel from exploiting Lebanon's oil and maritime wealth. The gas reserve is estimated to be worth more than 95 billion dollars. It is the largest amount of natural gas discovered in the world in the last decade and is located in approximately 5,400 feet (1,645 meters) of water, about 130 kilometers offshore of Haifa and 29 miles (47 kilometers) southwest of the Tamar discovery.”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9KI60T84&show_article=1

See full size imageProphecy Sign:  Revelation 9:21  One of the key scriptures that informs us our generation is the last generation Jesus was talking about can be found in Revelation 9:21. The words “magic arts” in Revelation 9:21 is the Greek word pharmakia from which comes our word “pharmacy”. It signifies the use of medicine, drugs, spells, such as those used in witchcraft and those used today by those who are seeking a greater “high”.

“A Mexican border town lost its police force last week with the kidnapping of its last standing officer, and an expert on the drug war says the violence in that country is unmanageable. Officer Erika Gandara in the City of Guadalupe was recently abducted by gunman who burned down her house and ultimately left the violence-stricken city without law enforcement. Prior to the incident, all of Gandara's other colleagues were either killed or they resigned due to the bloody war that has raged through the country and claimed the lives of more than 30,000 people. David Borden, executive director of StopTheDrugWar.org, says the violence in Mexico has gotten out of hand.” “Meanwhile, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has suggested that the action he has taken against drug cartels has escalated the violence.”

Severed head hung from bridge in Tijuana, Mexico
http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/03/severed-head-hung-from-bridge-in-tijuana-mexico/
 
 
Gunmen attack Mexico rehab center, at least 10 die

http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/24/gunbattle-in-northern-mexico-kills-3-bystanders/

 

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1266110

 

Prophecy Sign: Luke 21:25 the roaring of the seas and waves.  In Luke 21:25b we are also told "On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea" (Luke 21:25b).

“The BBC's Nick Bryant reports from a helicopter above Rockhampton”

“Floodwaters in the Australian city of Rockhampton appear to have peaked at a lower level than previously feared. The Fitzroy River which flows through the city seems to have levelled off at 9.2m (30ft) rather than 9.4m, but forecasters are warning of more rain. Queensland is in the grip of a flood crisis, with some 40 communities affected and 1,200 homes submerged. A task force has been created to lead recovery efforts. Officials say the flood bill could exceed A$5bn (£3bn). Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has appointed Maj Gen Mick Slater to head the task force.”

“Almost completely encircled by muddy floodwaters, Rockhampton risked being entirely cut off if those rose much further, but they peaked slightly lower than the authorities had feared, enough to keep the one highway that's open from being inundated. Many of the city's low-lying suburbs will remain flooded for more than a week, but a local official said the city as a whole had "dodged the bullet". Now attention is shifting to the economic impact of the flooding on Australia's two most vital sectors, mining and agriculture. Operations at some 40 mines have been interrupted and many of the railway lines that transport coal to the ports have been severed. Queensland is responsible for more than half of the country's coal exports. With farms flooded and crops ruined, the price of fresh fruit and vegetables is also forecast to rise, by as much as 50%. State Premier Anna Bligh predicted this disaster could have a global impact, partly because Queensland supplies half of the world's coking coal for steel manufacturing. At least one senior economist here thinks this could be Australia's most costly natural disaster, largely because of the impact on exports.  With natural disasters declared across an area of a million square kilometres, Ms Bligh said the scale of the crisis was unprecedented and would require an unparalleled rebuilding effort”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12116919

Added information this afternoon: Frank DiMora’s in-depth look at the Rapture of the Church Jan. 4, 2010

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Prophecy Sign: I Thessalonians 5:3 is the call for Peace and safety and the Psalm 83 war.

“If substantial talks don't begin soon between Israel and the Palestinians, all parties will face "profound trouble," the Middle East Quartet's special representative warned Tuesday. "We are talking about weeks, rather than months, for this process now to be rehabilitated and put back on track," Tony Blair told CNN. "If we don't go back and give credibility to this process in a meaningful way… we are going to be in genuine and profound trouble."  The former British prime minister is in the region meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, in his role as the Quartet representative. The United States, United Nations, Russia and the European Union make up the group.”

 


 

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/01/04/mideast.blair.talks/

 

 

 

Contactless payment could make mobile phones the new credit cards in 2011 Prophecy Sign: Revelation 13:15-18  is coming toward this generation like a run away train. “Contactless payment could mean mobiles phones can be used as a credit card next year. The near field communication (NFC) technology has already been installed in selected shops by Visa and the handheld gadgets could be the next step, the Herald Sun reports. A store's Aussie credit terminal can take payments by reading a high-frequency signal around 10 cm from the phone taken from a chip.”

http://www.which4u.com.au/credit-cards/news/11359-contactless-payment-could-make-mobile-phones-the-new-credit-cards-in-2011

The Rapture, when <br>the dead in Christ shall rise...<br>1 Thessalonians 4:13-18  I wanted to make sure as many people would come to know the truth about the (Rapture of the Church).  I wrote out an in-depth study on the rapture, but I understand that many do not like to read and so they may have just decided to pass over this information as it was to long for them.  Knowing that many would rather watch videos than read, I went ahead and did this teaching on the rapture on video.  There are 10 videos for you to watch.  I am sure that after you watch these videos you won't have to ask the question, is the rapture of the Church will come before the seven year tribulation, in the middle of it, or at he end? 


 



 

Many people have questions about the rapture. They wonder if the rapture is truly taught in the Bible. Many people have written me and said, “I don’t believe in the Rapture”. I ask them, are you saying you don’t believe in the resurrection of the body? Do you believe you are going to be a disembodied spirit, or ghost throughout eternity? Is that what you think the Bible teaches? People usually smile and say “no that’s not what I am saying”, what I mean is, I don’t believe in the rapture before the tribulation starts. What they are really saying when you get to the bottom line is there disbelief of the pre-tribulation rapture. So it is a matter of the timing of the rapture that is the controversy.

First of all we need to see the importance of the purpose of the rapture. You will see why it is that we must be raptured. Then we will also look at the indications of what the timing of the rapture is. Will it be before the Antichrist, during the reign of the Antichrist or, at the end of his reign at the Battle of Armageddon? The subject of the rapture is critical because it is the promise of Jesus Christ that our bodies will not remain in the grave, will not remain in the dust, but will be transformed into a body that is fit for eternity. That’s the promise of the Gospel. That is the unique promise of Jesus Christ. Do you know when we bury a individual in the ground that by saying dust to dust we are proclaiming our belief that death and burial in the ground is not the end. That’s why Christians call it a cemetery it was a sleeping place for the body. The spirit was with Jesus, but the body rested in the ground, but not forever but until the day of the glorious rapture the resurrection.

We find in I Thessalonians 2:19 a wonderful phrase which Paul writes “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?” Paul says the rapture, the resurrection is our joy he says it is our rejoicing our hope, it our crown of rejoicing. So, do you rejoice in the hope of the resurrection? You should because, while all other generations of Christians died in faith without having participated in the resurrection before their death they will ultimately participate in the rapture when you and I are raptured. But for those of us living we have the promise, that if we are alive when Christ comes we will not have to pass through the portals of death, but we will pass from life to life eternal.

In I Thessalonians 4:16-17 this is Paul has to say. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

In these will known scriptures there is a great deal of teaching about the rapture. For example, we see the Lord Himself is going to come to Earth according to the Book of Revelation. When does He come? The Bible says He comes down to the Earth to defeat the armies of the Antichrist, and the armies of the kings of the East to defend Israel which would otherwise see curtain destruction, and when He comes down according to Revelation 19:14 he comes with the millions of saints.

If we come down from heaven with Jesus Christ riding on white horses, and we are in our resurrected bodies, bodies just like Jesus, and we are wearing white robes which represent the righteousness of the saints, then common sense shows us at some point previously to Armageddon we have received our resurrection bodies. Why? Because all Christians those who are in heaven now in the spirit, and those who are alive at the time Christ comes in the air are going to have a resurrection body. One of the things misunderstood by a lot of people is the purpose of the rapture.

The purpose of the (rapture resurrection) is this. God has to transform your mortal body, which either for dead Christians lies in ashes in the ground, or for those who are alive when Jesus comes is a body that is not fit for eternity, it is mortal, and it is corruptible.

God tells us He is going to take our moral body and transform it into a body fit for eternity. Now the word rapture was actually introduced by a great Christian teacher in 385AD by the name Jorum, Jorum was one of the Fathers of the early Church. In his writings and translation of the New Testament into Latin he came to this passage in I Thessalonians 4:17 which says, “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord”. Jorum looked at that word caught up and he used the best Latin word possible which was (rapere). Repere means to snatch up by external force. What Jorum was saying was, that is the best word used in the Latin language in his version of the Bible, it was very popular from all the way from 385, all the way up till the King James Bible, repere was used! That became the origin of the word (RAPTURE) used as a noun. So, the snatching up of the bodies of both those who died and are sleeping in the grave, and those who are still alive will be taken away by the Lord’s force at some time in the near future. So again, the English word "rapture" is derived from the Latin word rapio (rapere, raptus) meaning: to carry away, to be caught up, to snatch, seize, pluck, drag away. The purpose of the rapture is to transform your body into a body fit for eternity!

In I Corinthians 15:53 you will find what God is saying is, for this corruptible, in other words your natural body in verse 53 must put on incorruption and, this mortal must put on immortality. Your body is corruptible, your body is mortal, and because it is mortal it must put on incorruption, it must put on immortally. Simply put, right now your body is not fit for heaven. For example right now your bodies are not fit to travel at the speed of thought from heaven to Earth and back so you might rule and reign with Jesus Christ as we are promised to do so in Revelation 5:10 “And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

The Bible tells us we are going to appear at the judgment seat of Christ there we will receive crowns and awards that we might enjoy for eternity. This is very important so please pay attention to what you are about to read!

 2 Corinthians 5:10 says the following: “for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” Now, if you are a disembodied spirit which is what our fellow Christians in heaven are, they don’t have a body, they are there in spirit. Remember Jesus said to the thief on the cross today you will be in paradise.

 Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:8 said, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” Paul is showing us to be absent of the body is to be present with the Lord so, the Bible does not teach soul sleep, no, those who die in the faith, believers in Jesus Christ are instantly transformed, their body goes into the ground, their spirit goes right to heaven the new Jerusalem called (paradise), and there is it joyfully and consciously in the presence of Jesus and the saints, but you yet do not have a body. You can’t eat or drink at the marriage supper of the Lamb unless you have a body. And for those who think well, that must just be a symbol, no, because we are told clearly that our body and the resurrection is going to be like Jesus’ body when He rose from the dead.

What was Jesus’ body like? In Luke 24:36 we are told Jesus was resurrected, He appeared in the middle of the upper room were the disciples were. I quote, “And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.” His disciples were wondering what in the world was going on? The disciples looked at Jesus, and Jesus looked at them. The disciples thought they had seen a spirit or a ghost, you see it is very difficult for people to get their minds around the idea that in the resurrection our body is going to be as real as it is today, but in the rapture now indestructible, immortal, incorruptible, no longer subject to disease or accidents or death, but real, a real glorified body.

In learning about the raptured body everyone, especially the Jehovah’s Witness better take a look at what Jesus said to His disciples when He appeared out of no where in that upper room. Luke 24:36-40 gives us this conversion. “Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. And He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet”

Keep in mind, the Jehovah’s witness are lost when it comes to these words spoken by Jesus. Read what the Watchtower Organization teaches about this upper room visitation by Christ. In the Watchtower book entitled, “Make Sure of All Things” p. 314, the 1953 edition, they say the following. “Jesus’ resurrection not of same body; he merely materialized flesh and blood to be seen and believed”.

He shows them He has flesh and bones and tells them a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones. This was the glorified resurrected body that you and I will receive at the rapture of the Church. Look at the Word of God, it says Jesus showed them His hands and feet. Jesus went out of His way to show them all that it was the same Jesus that hung on the cross but, only now in His glorified body, Jehovah’s witness will never receive a glorified body if they do not believe in the real resurrection of our Lord and savior.

The Watchtower Organization, which is lead by Satan makes Jesus an out and out liar, for if Jesus was really only a spirit, He purposely deceived His disciples in believing He had actually came back from the dead as Jesus Himself. If Jesus wasn’t the exact same Jesus who hung on the cross then, when Jesus showed the disciples His hands and feet with the holes marks still in them, He was knowing lying to them just to prove He came back. This is not the first time the Watchtower Organization has turned Jesus into a false prophet and a liar!

The Watchtower Organization, and all the Jehovah’s Witnesses are in fact spreading their lies and, have made Jesus into a false prophet, a false teacher, a false Messiah, and a false god. You will see this not only from the upper room visitation but, also from John 2:19. Jesus told the religious leaders that He would raise Himself from the dead in three days. Let’s look at the exact words Jesus used in John 2:19-21. “Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21But he spake of the temple of his body. The Greek word for body is (σῶμα), soma, which means physical body.

So, before Jesus ever appeared to His disciples in the upper room, He had already told the religious leaders He would raise His (soma, physical body) in three days. Now, if Jesus did not do exactly what He prophesied He would do, raise Himself, then He lied to these religious leaders and, was a again lying and deceiving His Disciples.

As the Jehovah’s Witnesses teach He only assumed a body to prove he came back to life. God forbid that anyone would believe this Watchtower teaching for it is straight from the pits of hell and Satan. Assuming a body is no real resurrection at all.

Notice what is said in John 2:22. “When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.” What scripture did they refer to? We know it couldn’t be any scripture from the New Testament, because it hadn’t even been written yet.

The scriptures are found in Genesis 22 verses 4 and 8.

Genesis 22:4 Abraham is on his was to kill Isaac his Son. “Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off”. Verse 8 says, “And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together”.

Now do you see why what Jesus said to the religious leaders was so important? Jesus was actually showing them how he would fulfill the scriptures in Genesis chapter 22. Like the Jehovah’s Witness the religious leaders in Christ’s day believed Jesus was a liar, for they had been blinded by Satan to the truth of what was going to happen soon.

Now I ask you, why did Jesus then come straight out and tell His disciples, who thought they were looking a spirit creature, that it was, (I Myself). Jesus tells them point blank that He wasn’t a spirit, and that is why He wanted His disciples to handle them. He wanted to make sure they really understood that He was the real Jesus Christ. Not some fake body that was just assumed to prove a lie!

I believe over the years the Lord God has shown the lies being spread by the Watchtower and, most of the Jehovah’s witnesses aren’t even aware Satan is teaching them. Here is an example.

In their watchtower book, “Let God Be True, page 274, of the 1952 edition, the leaders who claim to be directed by God said, and teach, “Satan and his demons tried to obscure the true meaning of the resurrection by teaching that the resurrection was only in a spiritual sense”. I see nothing wrong with this because Satan has always worked to discredit the true resurrection of Christ, but wait one minute, let’s see if the WatchTower leaders are in fact taking sides with Satan?

In the Watchtower book entitled, “Make Sure of All Things” p. 314, the 1953 edition, they say the wrote the following. “Jesus’ resurrection not of same body; he merely materialized flesh and blood to be seen and believed”, and this is still the current teaching of this Satanic Organization today.

If God was leading this organization do you think that He would have given them teachings that would counter each other out? No my friends, Jesus is not a false prophet nor is Jesus a lair! Nor is He the author of confusion, Satan is!

Jesus did exactly what He said He would do. When He came back to the disciples it was in the resurrected glorified body outfitted for heaven. You will see that this glorified resurrected body can do the things that Jesus did while on Earth, and when you get your resurrected gloried body at the rapture you will be able to do these same things. You will be able to just appear into any room you want just the way Jesus did in the upper room when He told His Disciples to touch Him.

How real is Jesus’ gloried body you ask? Take a look at Luke 24:41-42 to see. The passage says, “And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.” In His resurrection body Jesus sat down with His disciples and eat the food and drank with them.

Why did He do this? Christ obviously wouldn’t have starved had he not eaten but, I believe Jesus wanted to show them that in heaven, in eternity, we are going to enjoy the good things of God’s creation without sin, and we are going to be able to eat and drink if we want. We know that even the angels eat.

Read Psalms 78:24-25 it tells us, “And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.” In other words manna was one of the foods that angels eat, so if angels eat, and Jesus tells us we are going to eat at the marriage supper of the Lamb, and He tells us His our body is going to be like His, in the resurrection, then we have the confidence that we are going to eat and drink. We are going to be able to enjoy all the good things of the Lord’s creation both in heaven and in eternity.

As far as the Jehovah’s witnesses, or anyone who doesn’t believe Jesus rose from the dead in that resurrected gloried body, Paul in I Corinthians 15-19 tells us that your faith is in vain, and you are still in your sins. In other words, you are not saved. If your not saved you are on the road leading to hell, so the matter of what Jesus had shown His Disciples in that upper room because of great important to ones eternal life!

How do you know your body will be like Jesus when He rose from the dead? In 1 John 3:2 it says this, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

The book of Philippians 3:21 tells us the same thing. “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself?” The Bible is very clear, we will have a glorious (resurrection body) just like our Lord Jesus. That body will be fit so we can rule and reign with Jesus Christ. We are going to be like Jesus with no limitations.

The rapture is going to reveal a body that is so glorious Paul wrote about it and said we can hardly image the things that God has prepared for us. Paul said the following in I Corinthians 2:9. “But as it is written, 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.”

One of the most asked questions in my ministry is the question about the timing of the rapture? Is it going to take place before the Seven year tribulation period? People want to know will the rapture be a pre-tribulation rapture. Is it going to take place in the middle of the tribulation, which is referred to as Mid-tribulation, or is it going to take at the end the tribulation at the time of the Battle of Armageddon, which is the referred to as the post tribulation rapture?

Many who dislike the pre-tribulation theory have stated that it is a new theory invented in the 1830 by John Darby, and the Plymouth Brethren. However, read the book, a manuscript by Ephron the Syrian. He was a great Christian Saint, a deacon and Bishop, and he wrote extensively in the earthly Church. He wrote a book on the Antichrist and the end of the world where he clearly says in 373, he said the Lord will clearly ascend from heaven and will take us to be with Himself that we might escape the confusion that over takes the whole world. It is it a clear pre-tribulation rapture statement that is made 15 centuries before most people thought it was ever discussed.

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Naturally the Bible did not lay out precisely when the rapture would take place. God wanted us to be on guard at all times. Christ wanted us to be in the sense of urgently expecting Him to come back at any time. If you read the Bible you will see over and over again where Jesus instructs us to always be on the watch.

For example, in Matthew 24:42 Jesus says, “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come”. But the same time Jesus condemned the spiritual leaders of His day for being aware of the physical signs of the weather and not being aware of the signs of the coming of the Son of man.

The prophecies are being fulfilled just the way they were the first time Jesus came to Earth, and people are just as blind as the religious leaders in Christ time. For example, Israel is born again which that prophecy alone shows us we are living in the last days.

If you read the Book of Revelation as serious as you should, the seven year tribulation will be the worse period of time in God’s entire history of mankind. It will be a time of such unparalleled horror and judgment upon Earth that it is very doubtful that many Christians could live if that was God’s purpose, but I do not believe it is.

It is a time when God is going to turn back to Israel. With the Church taken out at the rapture before the tribulation, God is going to send people out to preach His Word. There will be the return of two prophets, Jewish witnesses, Elijah and probably Moses. Revelation 11:3 says, “And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."

Jesus is also sending 144,000 Jewish witnesses who will not be harmed by the Antichrist. We see this 144,000 in Revelation chapter 7, and Revelation 14:1-5.

There is going to be a rebuilt temple and animal sacrifices just like the Jews did when Jesus came the first time. With all this going on it would be confusion if the Church was still on Earth at that time. No, the Church is gone at this time, their witnessing time for Christ has ended with the rapture, and this is now the job of the 144,00 Jewish male virgins that Jesus has sealed, and the two prophets of old.

Is there one special verse that points to the rapture taking place before the seven year tribulation?

I would point to this verse in I Thessalonians 1:10 where Paul writes the following: “And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” I want you to think about the timing, and sequence of this. He says Christians are to wait expectedly for His Son from heaven. When the rapture takes place the Church leaves this Earth for heaven. So Jesus coming from heaven, the rapture, is going to deliver Christians from the wrath to come.

There are only two possibilities for the wrath to come. Either the wrath to come is the wrath of hell, or it is the wrath from the tribulation, because from Revelation chapter 6 to Revelation chapter 19 the entire judgment is poured out on Earth.

This is where the wrath of God is poured out on unrighteous sinners. So it can not be the wrath of hell because His second coming doesn’t deliver us from the wrath of hell, its His first coming, His death, His atonement on the cross that is what allowed us to escape the wrath to come.

What we know is, the rapture is going to allow Christians to escape the wrath that will come in the tribulation. Why? Not because we deserve it but, because its God’s purpose. From Genesis to Revelation you will not find a single example of God Judging indiscriminately between the righteous and the unrighteous. Paul said in I Thessalonians 5:9 “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ”. Here is the promise wrath will come but, not for those who put their faith and trust in Jesus.

God’s wrath is coming but not for the Lord’s true believers. Jesus shows us in Revelation 3:10 that we aren’t going to tested during the tribulation because, we were faithful and are spared from this time. Revelation 3:10 says, “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth”. The Church won’t spend an hour, or a day, or a year, or neither seven years of testing on Earth because, Jesus promised us He would keep us from this trial.

As we see all the prophecies coming to pass we know that we are in the last days and very close to the beginning of the seven year tribulation. If all these prophecies are taking place, and we know the rapture will take place before the Antichrist appears, then if the Antichrist is close then the rapture, the resurrection of the Church of Jesus Christ is even closer.

I believe that the scriptures reveal that the rapture will occur before the seven year tribulation period. Here is the sequence very clearly for you.

I Thessalonians 1:10 we are to wait for a future event, which Jesus is coming from heaven, the rapture and then that event is going to deliver us from the wrath to come. This I also believe is a clear message that what God is saying is, the deliverance of the Church, through the second coming of Jesus at the rapture when He comes with His saints the spirits of all those who have died in faith, then those who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the air, we then will escape the wrath to come. It is very clear as I stated, from Revelation chapter 6-19 that what is poured out from heaven on unrepeated sinners during that entire seven year period is the wrath of God.

Remember, the tribulation will begin with the four horsemen of the apocalypse which are clearly representative of the wrath of God as shown over 12 other times in the Old Testament. The fact is, I think the scriptures clearly shows that God has not appointed us unto wrath just as Paul said in I Thessalonians 1:9. and Revelation 3:10.

Here are two contrasting destinies. One is that of the unrepentant sinners, who will endure the wrath of God poured without mixture during the seven year period. Then there are those who put their faith in Jesus as Christians, and their destiny is salvation. There’s several other facts that point clearly to the fact that the Church is not on Earth at this time.

Again, in sequence in Revelation 4:1-4 we read the following. “After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.” Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads. Notice the words (come up here). In the Greek this is meta tauta or, literally, “after these things” In other words Jesus was about to show John everything that was going to happen on Earth once the rapture of the Church took place.

Jesus also shows us a picture of the rapture I believe in Revelation 11: 11-12 11And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them”. These are the same words God spoke to John when He brought him into heaven to see what would happen after the Church was gone. The two prophets are lifted up into a cloud the same way the Church is going to meet Jesus in a clouds when we get raptured.

Keep in mind, after Revelation 4:1 you do not see the Church again until you see it coming back with Jesus in Revelation chapter 19! Take careful notice of the message Jesus gives to John before the the Church is raptured as recorded in Revelation chapter 2 and 3. I want you to read what Jesus says in Revelation 2:7, verse 11, verse 17, verse 29 and from Revelation chapter 3 verses 6, 13, and 22. All of these verses say the same exact thing which is, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches.”

Now in Revelation 4:1 Jesus calls John up to heaven. It is at this point the Church is in heaven. Now I want you to see what Jesus says after the Church is already in heaven while the tribulation is going on Earth. I quote Christ, “If any man have an ear, let him hear.” Do you see something missing? Notice Christ leaves out the word (Spirit)! The reason being is the Holy Spirit was active in the Church while the Church was on the Earth, but now the Spirit has departed when the Church was raptured to heaven, and so Jesus changed the way He words Revelation 13:9 because he is now addressing those on Earth going through the tribulation period, who are the unrighteous people left behind.

Understanding II Thessalonians 2:1-8 is very important to upstanding when the rapture of the Church will take place.

1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3Let 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; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And 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” Who is He that is holding back the revealing of the Antichrist? It is the work of the Holy Spirit. At the present time where is the Holy Spirit living? He is living in all the people who have received Jesus Christ as their savior. When the Holy Spirit steps aside to allow the Antichrist to make his final moves, that is when the Church is called up to heaven.

In Paul’s second letter to Timothy we find this statement in II Timothy 4:8: “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”

If you love the rapture, and are waiting and enduring patiently as eluded to by what Jesus shows us in Revelation 3:10, you will receive a crown of righteousness according to Paul.

Now get this very important point coming to you! Notice John sees these twenty-four elders with crowns. These twenty-four elders represent the Church resurrected to heaven. If they have crowns then the rapture has already occurred and the judgment seat of Christ in which crowns are given out has already occurred.

Three chapters later in Revelation chapter 7 John receives a vision of a great multitude that no one can number of every tribe, nation, kindred, or tongue. John asks the questions logically, who are these people? He has already seen the raptured Church with their crowns, who are these people there in heaven to? We see the angels answer to John’s question in Revelation 7:14. “And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Notice that the Church was already sitting on their thrones with their white robes, so the who came out of the great tribulation had to be the people who refused the Antichrist’s mark and were killed by the Antichrist.

Now immediately the angel is ready to pour out the judgments of God, the wrath, and then we see yet another angel coming on the scene. Revelation 7:2-4 records this. “Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel” Immediately the angels begin to supernaturally seal the 144,000 righteous Jews.

We know the number of these 144,00 Jewish men is not symbolic for we are told exactly who the 144,000 are. First of all, in Revelation 7: 5-8 we see that these people come from the 12 tribes of Israel. Jesus took the time to list each tribe and show how many would come from each tribe, He shows us there are 12 thousand men from each tribe. Then in Revelation 14:3-4 we are told that these sealed people from the 12 tribes are man for they are not defiled with women, they are virgins. It is clear to us, God turns His attention back to the nation Israel and, the Jews when the Church is gone. This is not a symbolic numbers as the Watchtower Society would have you believe, but these Jewish men will soon begin to preach Jesus Christ as the true Messiah when the seven year tribulation begins.

Concerning these 144,000, please stay with me on this because only two chapters later in chapter 9 we see these sealed men again in scripture. Revelation chapter 9 God allows to be released from the bottomless pit satanic locusts that are part of the judgment of God, they sting people so that (EVERYONE) on Earth is stung except the 144,000 sealed men, the Jewish virgins. In Revelation 9:5 we are told that for five months people will wish they could die the pain is so great but they can not die.

Now logically follow this. There are 144,000 righteous Jews sealed for protection everyone else on Earth is stung by these demonic locusts. There are two groups that encompass the entire population of Earth, 144,000 righteous Jews and everyone else unrepentant sinners. Where is the Church? The Church is not there! The Church is already in heaven. They left starting at Revelation 4:1 where Jesus showed John the things that would take place after the Church was raptured. That also explains why the Antichrist curses those who are in heaven, those who have escaped him, the Christians.

If you still teach the Church most go through the tribulation you better support that finding by showing some where in the Bible where Jesus has angels sealing another group of people from the demon locust attack on the people. Fact is, there is no where in the entire Bible where you will read of anyone else God shows us is sealed from these demon locusts. Do you know what that means? It means that if you claim to be a Christian, and there is no rapture, which means everyone would have to go through the seven year tribulation, that ever one on Earth except these 144,000 Jewish male virgins will be stung by these demon locusts and suffer for five months to the point people where try to kill themselves, but won’t be able to die. Does this sound like God is keeping His Church from Wrath?

Another question I have been asked is why do so many Christians deny the pre-tribulation rapture so vehemently? I believe that some in their lack of teaching, lack of study, somehow image the rapture is an escape clause for the America or the worldwide Church today, that some how we will not go through persecution were as many others generations have. Well my friends, if the Lord tarries much longer we will see persecution even in America.

The Truth of the matter is God has never promised us freedom from persecution. The truth is many millions of Christians have been persecuted in the past, and are today still being persecuted in many countries around the world, but persecution is not essential to purify us as many imagine.

Think about it. All those Christians who come in the air with Jesus at the rapture, millions of those did not go through persecution, but died in their peaceful sleep. We also know that going through the tribulation is not something that will purify us and is necessary thereby. Again all those who come in the air with Jesus in the rapture include both wonderful righteous Christians like like Saint Paul, and will include Christians who had kind of indifferent Christian following.

What we know is, we are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ applied to our heart plus nothing else. It is the judgment seat of Christ where justice is handed out to us where we will receive rewards and crowns and mansions that reflect our faithful service.

Looking back in history, you will find every time God pasted judgment on the unrighteous, what did He do first? Each time He sent someone to the unrighteous to warn them to come to God before God passed His judgment on them. We see this trend in the Old Testament Exodus 12:8 “Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs”. This was a sign of the lambs blood that would be shed on the cross in the future that would save the world from God’s wrath and judgment.

In Exodus 12:12-13 we see how God made a way to spare the righteous who listened to His warning. I quote, 12“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn—both men and animals—and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt”.

This is the same promise Jesus has for anyone who is born again in Christ. Concerning the blood Paul wrote in Roman’s 5:9 “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved rom God’s wrath through him!”. 

I think the Apostle Paul best illustrates for us how God is going to spare the righteous from wrath. 2 Peter 2: 4-9 says, “4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished”.

In each case above, God sent in someone to lead the people to safety before He pass His judgment, and today millions are spreading God’s warnings that God’s wrath is coming again on the unrighteous.

To read more about the rapture of the Church you can read my post from June 9, 2010 This post and the June 9th post gives you more than enough proof the rapture takes place before the seven year tribulation begins.

Matthew 24:36 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Before you read this post I want to make one thing very clear. In no way am I saying the rapture of the Church is going to happen this coming September. Yes it is possible, but we just do not know for sure. Jesus could choose to come for His Church next year, the year after, ten years from now. The point is this. We know He will come for His Bride the Church at some point during the Feast of Trumpet. Since we do not know what year we must do what He asks and keep on the watch. Be ready at all times so that when He does come He will find you doing His will and ready to be taken at the rapture.

Why does Jesus want us to keep our eye on the biblical calendar? Jesus wants those who are watching for His return to be ready when he comes to take the church out of the world. The only way one can do that is to know what they are looking for. It is clear as day what Christians are to look for, but I would say most Christians don't have a clue as to what the sign is. Why don't they know? I can see two reasons, first they are in a church where their pastor never teaches about the signs of the times and, second Christians are not studying the word themselves and they therefore would not know the signs. Let me help you understand a very important message from Christ. If you understand what Jesus was talking about, it will become clear to you what you and your family should be watching for.

Many people have asked 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'm 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 the Jewish thoughts and Jewish traditions.

The phrase but of that day and hour no man knows is a common Hebrew idiom for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is one of the seven Jewish Holidays, and it is 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 feasts 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 and how Christ would bring redemption to all who received him. In short, God has given us his biblical calendar. Out of the seven biblical holidays the only ones left to be fulfilled are the fall feast which are Rosh Hashanah also known as the Feast of 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 Matthew 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 the 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.

This was the normal practice for the Jews. That statement was a traditional response. When it came time for this wedding to take place the man would go out at midnight sound the blast by blowing the sulfur 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 time 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.

In a Jewish wedding the Jewish woman indicates she will marry him by accepting his proposal by drinking a cup of wine he gives her. What did Jesus do with the last supper? Jesus passed a cup of wine at the Last Supper and those who drank the wine accepted being his bride.

Secondly, the Jewish man would have to pay a price to the bride's parents. What did Jesus do and what was the price he paid? Jesus paid the price for us as His bride with His own life by dying on the cross for us.

The next thing and Jewish men would do to prepare for the wedding was to give His bride a gift. 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 prepare for this wedding was go and prepare a place for both himself and his wife to live in when they were married. Do you remember the words of Jesus Christ in John chapter 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 you may be also”. This is where Jesus is right now, he is preparing the home for His church the bride of Christ.

The next thing the Jewish man would do to prepare for Jewish wedding is this, he would take a host of people with Him 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 First Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 15 through 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 ark angel, and with the trumpet of God. This is the point at which time Jesus will come for us, the church, just the same way the Jewish man would go out at midnight and call 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 seven 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 seven years. If you notice, this is the exact length of the seven-year tribulation. Listen to what it says in Isaiah chapter 26:20-21 “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 chamber's Jesus will keep his church in while the seven-year tribulation is taking place on earth. The church, bride of Christ, will be hidden from these terrible times that will befall the earth during the tribulation.

As you can now see, everything that Jesus has done was in accordance to the traditions of the Jewish wedding which is also based on the holidays of the biblical calendar. I want to get back to what the Apostle Paul had to say in 1 Thessalonians chapter 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 the signs of the times would be taking place during the times and seasons, or the Jewish holidays. In the above verse 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 season. When you read Genesis chapter 1 verse 14 we see the word seasons which is the Hebrew word for a pointed 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 and to you, being Jewish they understood exactly what Paul was talking about. The only people who will be in the dark when Jesus comes on his feast will be those who do not have the understanding of the word of God in them, and do not have any understanding of these biblical matters.

Please take notice in relation to Rev. 3:3. In part of this verse Jesus tells the church at Sardis, which was considered a dead church to repent from their ways and to watch. Notice what happens when you aren’t watching? I quote, that part of verse 3 here, “I will come on thee as a thief and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.”

Don’t forget, Jesus is speaking to the dead church. What is Jesus showing us in this verse? Christ is showing us He only comes to the dead church as a thief, not to an alert and alive church, they will not be caught off guard.

In Revelation chapter 3 verses 17 through 18 Jesus is now speaking to the Church of Laodicea. This is another church that is not ready and Jesus calls this church and lukewarm church. What happens to a lukewarm church? Jesus tells us this answer in Revelation 3:16 where he says, “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth”. Notice in those verses Jesus tells them to go and buy white raiment that “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. Stay with me and you'll understand exactly what it is. Rev. 3:18 is another key to understanding what Jesus is showing us. I quote “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see”.

Now I want you to tie in what is written in Revelation 16:15, by connecting this verse to Rev. 3:18, this will become clear to you why you have to make the connection. Revelation 16:15 says the following: “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame”.

Let's go back to the Jewish traditions for a second, and I will show you how all this is ties together. During the time that the Jewish Temple was standing when Jesus was here the first time, 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 where the priest had to be watching. One of the things they had to watch for was that the fire on the altar would not go out. This was a Godly fire that fell on the altar and it was commanded by God that this fire never go out. The priest had to watch this fire. If her priest was found to be sleeping when the captain of the guard checked on his rounds, the captain of the guard would take his torch, which was next to the altar fire, and set the priest’s garment on fire with the torch. The priest would be awaken by the fire, he would get up run through the Temple tearing off the garments that were on fire, and the shame of the priest’s nakedness would appear.

Now you see how Revelation chapter 16 verse 15 ties into what Jesus said about the Church that was dead. Now. when you go back and read 1 Thessalonians 5:1-4 Paul says the following: “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 this phrase, “as a thief in the night”. In other words, when Jesus comes back and finds you sleeping like the priest in the Temple, and obviously not on the watch, you'll end up like the priest, running in your nakedness and in shame because you were not ready for his visitation.

Now let us look at Matthew chapter 25:1-13. In these verses Jesus’ is talking to two groups of virgins. One group was ready and on the watch, they were prepared for the bridegroom to come. This is a picture of the church doing the will of the Father, This again ties in to the Jewish wedding in keeping on the watch and the Lord coming back for his bride. Jesus said five virgins were ready and had oil in their lamps when the bridegroom came. Notice that the bridegroom comes at midnight as the custom of the Jewish wedding, notice also, he comes with a shout as with the custom. The five virgins 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 the 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 five virgins who were not ready to go out to the bridegroom when he came at midnight? Jesus tells us they didn't prepare. These five 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 and to 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 in Christ Jesus. These five unprepared virgins is a picture of all the people who will find themselves tossed into the seven-year tribulation, because they like the priest at the Temple were fast a sleep. They like the priest were discovered by the Captain of the guard who was know as the thief in the night, or in this case Jesus Christ. As a result of you not being ready you as the priest will have been found and become naked and ashamed just like the priest did.

Now look at the message Jesus gave to us about the good servants and evil servants found in Luke 12:37-40. This is the message to the good servants.

“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 12:41-47 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. Look what Jesus said to these evil servants.

“The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looked not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and he will cut him sunder, and will point him his portion with the unbelievers”.

These are the people who knew better, they knew the Lord's will but they are not doing the Lord's will.

The next verse tells us in verse 37, ”and that servant, which knew the Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes”.

I ask you now, are you one of the so-called believers who are not abiding in Christ today, and you are not doing the will of the Father? We know for a fact that there are millions of people around the world who claim to be Christians but in fact are not doing the will of the Father fact is, they are even looking for Him to come back. This class of Christians is neither doing the will of the Father or are they watching for the Lord's return as Christ asked them to do. These type of people we are told, they knew his will yet didn't follow his will.

In Luke 12 :41 Peter asks Jesus,"are you speaking this parable to us, or even tell all?”. This question goes to the core of the question who is the evil servant? Jesus answered Peter by telling him of the evil servants who do not do the will of the Father. Once again we see a group of people being split in half. First there was the ten virgins, five which were wise and ready, and the other five who were not ready and were unprepared when the Lord came at midnight. Now we see good servants watching and doing the will of the Father who will be blessed, compared to the other half, the evil servants, who know God's will, but are not doing his will, and are not keeping watch, and will be beaten.

Another very important fact to remember about the Feast of Trumpets is this, no one knows the day or hour because the Feast of Trumpets started at the sighting of the full moon. Let me explain. On the 30th of each month, the members of the high court assembled in the court yard in Jerusalem, where they waited to receive the testimony of the two reliable witnesses. These two witnesses were the people who could verify that they had seen the full moon.

At the spotting of the full moon it would allow the members of the high court to then sanctify the new moon. This would mean that the Feast of Trumpets would begin. 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 moons crescent was not seen on the 30th day, the new moon was automatically celebrated on the 31st day. For this reason, the Feast of Trumpets is always celebrated for two days. These two days are celebrated as though it is just one day of 48 hours. The reason that it is celebrated for two days is because if they waited to start the celebration until after the new moon and then 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, as Paul stated, but not the day or the hour as we have seen in Matthew 24:32-36.

Yom Teruah, or the Feast of Trumpets, is the only Jewish Feast that we do not know the day in which to keep it, as we are not sure when the new moon will be spotted. Therefore, we have to be on the look and watch for it. When Jesus is saying you won't know the day or the hour as recorded in Matthew 24 verse 36, He is telling us it is the Feast of Trumpets because it is 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 two-day celebration. No one could today tell you when the rapture of the Church will happen because it could take place at any time within a 48 hour period.

At the Feast of Trumpets Jesus will return to remove his bride the Church, it will not overtake the church who is doing the will of the Father, this Church will standing on the watch for the master to return. Paul speaks of this rapture of the church in 1 Corinthians 15:51-53 where he says, behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of the night, at the last trump: for the Trump 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”.

At some point in the very near future Jesus will come out from heaven and call his bride to himself, just is in the Jewish wedding. We who are on the watch, His bride, will be ready, and we are going to be changed from these human bodies to the 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 five who are not ready and have no oil in your lamps? Are you one of the good servants who when Jesus comes will find you standing at the door on the 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? Wake up Church and choose what side you will be on, the light or the darkness. If you are not a Christian I say wake up to what Jesus has shown you and repent so you can be accounted worthy to escape all the things that shall coming to pass and stand before the Son of Man, Christ Jesus.

I received an email from a person  who was trying to show me that the last trumpet in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 is the same trumpet found in the Book of Revelation.
 
This person asked me, “WHY in the world are so many looking for the Lord to come at the "pre-trib rapture" of the living, if He doesn't come to resurrect the dead until the seventh trumpet which scripture clearly saying the living are caught up with them?”  Keep in mind this is the same trumpet we see in I Thessalonians 4:16.

Now let us look at what I believe to be one of the most important facts about when the rapture will occur. I will show you there is absolutely no way the last trumpet in I Corinthians is the exact same as one in the Revelation. 
Let’s read 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 first. “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” This trumpet is called the last trumpet, but notice when this trumpet is sounded, people will be changed before a person can even blink his eyes.

When this trumpet is sounded, it is super fast, and it does not take place in a matter of days as we see the seventh trumpet of Revelation 11:15.   Does the term last trumpet mean that this is the same trumpet as recorded in Revelation 11:15 where it says, “The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever’"?

No, it does not. If you read Revelation 10:7, it says, “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” Revelation shows us the seventh trumpet shall be sounded over a period of days, most likely for the duration of the judgments that fall under the trumpet judgments. Notice the exact words that the Apostle John writes! John says, “Begin to sound." This is a far cry from the trumpet we see in 1 Corinthians 15: 51 where that trumpet happens faster than a person can blink his or her eye.

First of all, the person blowing the trumpet in Revelation 11:15 is an angel, and the chronology of Revelation shows us that the trumpet in Revelation 11:15 sounds at the end of the time of wrath, which comes at the end of the tribulation. If you read 1 Corinthians 15: 51-52 you will see that this trumpet is sounded before God’s wrath begins. These are definitely not the same trumpets. In addition, the people blowing these trumpets are not the same. For one, the Lord sounds one trumpet while an angel sounds the other trumpet.

Once you read 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18, you see it even states that the Lord is the one who blows the trumpet that removes the Christians from the Earth. I quote 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18. “According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words.”

There is another major difference which proves the last trumpet of 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians is not the trumpet found in Revelation 11:15. Notice in 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians this trumpet is called a blessing! The trumpet we see sounded by the angel in Revelation is a trumpet of judgment issued on God’s enemies, it is the opposite of a blessing.

Isaiah 26: 19-21: “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. 20Come, 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. 21For, 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.”
 
Isaiah 57:1 “The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come”.

 

May 21, 2010 rapture (Rememer know one knows the day or hour!

Jesus in chapter 24 of Matthew tells us to beware of false prophets.  Many have given the exact date for the Lord’s return and all have been wrong.  This will be another one of those false dates. I quote, “RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she’ll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here. Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011.

https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox/12d4debb674afb2c

Signs in the sky/Another “great earthquake”/The coming war/Jan. 3, 2010

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 Prophecy Sign:  II Timothy 3:1-5, "But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god; holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 

There are many reasons why kids have become more violent.  The traits Timothy warned us about are showing up in the kids in this generation.  One of the main reasons I believe kids are beginning to get out of control is the break down of the family.  One doesn’t have to be very smart to see that millions of families are now without Fathers.   The family unite has been breaking down for years and it is still getting worse.  Add to this all the violent video games the kids are playing 3-4 hours a day, and you can see just a glimpse why kids are more prone to get into trouble.  Here is an example of what I am talking about.  “Mayfair Mall closed down early on Sunday afternoon as New Year's weekend shoppers were told to leave after witnesses reported seeing groups of unruly young people shouting and running in the Wauwatosa shopping center.” “ Shafi said a Boston Store clerk told her that the incident occurred after a girl was accused of retail theft and the fracas spilled over into Boston Store. "Her friends followed her and the security guard into the store, screaming, barking, yelling, and knocking over racks and displays. We were invited to stay and continue shopping," Shafi said in an e-mail. "But we decided to leave through the exit where police guards surrounded the building. The salespeople who stuck around were immensely professional and comforting as well." Laura Hughes was in the Barnes & Noble bookshop when she heard screaming and the sound of a large group of people running. She walked out the second floor of the bookseller and "saw large sums of teenagers running towards Boston Store and going down the escalators to the first level. Mall security had been chasing some of the kids, followed by police officers, who were literally herding the kids downstairs."

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/112782034.html

Carnage: Vehicles speed toward the bodies of blackbirds that fell from the sky in Arkansas Prophecy Sign: Luke 21:11 “There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.”  

One who doesn’t know Jesus Christ as their savior, and hasn’t read the Lord’s warnings will not understand the things that are going on are signs for us.  Like the huge earthquakes in the beginning of 2011, and now over 1,000 birds just falling from the sky for who knows why?  “Bemused U.S. officials are looking into why more than 1,000 blackbirds crashed from the sky in Arkansas on the final day of 2010. In scenes reminiscent of the FlashForward drama series, state wildlife employees were searching the town of Beebe after scores of birds fell to the ground late on New Year's Eve, continuing into the early hours of the morning. High winds and tornadoes swept through Arkansas on New Year's Eve, killing seven people, and state staff believe the bizarre incident could be down to the severe conditions. I checked the news today and they still don’t know why so many birds fall all at the same time.

There are some pretty weird things happening, and here is another example of one of those weird events. “Arkansas Game & Fish is trying to figure out why 100,000 fish in Northwest Arkansas turned up dead. They were found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County. The 20-mile stretch along the Arkansas River where an estimated 100,000 drum fish were found washed ashore and floating looks much different now. Keith Stephens with Game and Fish explains, "We got a call last week from a tug boat operator that found the fish out on the river along the bank, in the river channel and we immediately dispatched somebody to the area to take a look." Investigators from local and state agencies took samples from the affected area. Stephens says fish kills occur every year, but the magnitude of this one is unusual, and disease could be the cause.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343605/1-000-blackbirds-fall-Arkansas-sky-New-Years-Eve.html#ixzz19zxPNB2u

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136401&catid=2

Hundreds of dead starlings, red-winged blackbirds and brown-headed cowbirds lie along the side of La. 1 near New Roads. The birds were found dead and dying Monday along a half-mile stretch of the road. Only one day later there was yet another report on birds falling from the sky.  As of Jan. 4, 2011 officials don’t have the answer to the question why these birds are suddenly dropping out of the sky.  Will we find out it is some new type of disease downing the birds?  Only time will tell but it is a sign in the sky.   “LABARRE — Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists drove over and around them. State biologists are trying to determine what led to the deaths of the estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings on La. 1 just down the road from Pointe Coupee Central High School. The discovery of the dead birds — some of which were lying face down, clumped in groups, while others were face up with their wings outstretched and rigid legs pointing upward — comes just three days after more than 3,000 blackbirds rained down from the sky in Beebe, Ark. Necropsies performed Monday on the birds in Arkansas showed the birds suffered internal injuries that formed blood clots leading to their deaths, The Associated Press reported”.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/112843019.html

Prophecy Sign:  Luke 21:11 Jesus told us “great earthquakes” would one of the last day signs. Yesterday we saw one of these quakes and again today.  A report entitled “Earthquake shakes central Chile” gives you the facts. 

Map showing Chile earthquake

“A strong earthquake has shaken central Chile, disrupting power and communications but causing no casualties or serious damage. The quake had a magnitude of 7.1 and its epicentre was 70km (45 miles) northwest of Temuco with a depth of 25km, the US Geological Service said. Hundreds of people in coastal areas fled to higher ground for fear of a tsunami, but no alert was issued. An 8.8-magnitude quake in the same area last February caused huge destruction.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12106034

  Prophecy Sign: Psalm 83 war.

Israel's army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Sunday.

"I am preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite," Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi was quoted as saying in a cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv.

 

The document, dated November 15, 2009, was quoted Sunday in Norwegian by Oslo-based daily Aftenposten, which said it had obtained WikiLeaks' entire cache of 251,187 leaked US embassy cables.”  “And in his comments made nearly a year after Israel on December 27, 2008 launched the deadly Gaza war, Ashkenazi said "Israel is on a collision course also with Hamas, which rules Gaza."

“However, in the cable leaked Sunday Ashkenazi is quoted saying Israel next time will not accept "any restrictions on warfare in populated areas," and insisted the army had never intentionally attacked civilian targets.”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.68f5e94c91d2e5bac59427d81c150711.671&show_article=1

See full size imageProphecy Sign: 1 Thessalonians 5:3 for the Apostle Paul told us sudden destruction is going to come at the time they are calling for Peace and Safety. Here is the actual quote. “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.”  In Mark 13:8 Jesus told us the last day signs would be like pain pains.  When a woman is in labor she goes through birth pains until the child is delivered.  There are some who think these last days birth pains haven’t started yet and they are subject only to the seven year tribulation period. Yet we know this is not correct as the Lord showed us when Israel was calling for peace and safety these were the signs of these birth pain as you can see from verse three “as travail upon a woman with child”. Israel has been calling for Peace and safety ever since Jimmy Carter got Egypt and Israel to sign a peace deal in 1977.  Since that time the birth pains of the call for peace and safety have intensified and are still getting stronger.  What is the sudden destruction Paul warns us about that they will not be able to escape?  I believe it will result first of all in the Psalm 83 war, which will be those nations that border Israel against Israel.  These people include the Palestinians, Hamas, and the Hezbollah which some of the people listed to attack in the Psalm 83 war.  You already saw that Israel is getting ready for a major war from the first report, now let me turn to the news concerning the stalled peace talks. 

“JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel's prime minister said Sunday that he's ready to sit down with the Palestinian president for continuous one-on-one talks until they reach a peace deal. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued his statement on Sunday in an apparent bid to breathe life into stalled Mideast peace making. Talks broke down in late September, just three weeks after they were launched at the White House, following the expiration of a limited Israeli freeze on settlement construction. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Israel must halt all settlement construction on occupied lands claimed by the Palestinians before talks can resume. Netanyahu has refused, but says he is ready to discuss all "core" issues with Abbas. Those include setting the final borders between Israel and a future Palestine, determining the fate of millions of Palestinian refugees and resolving the competing claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. Over the weekend Abbas said he believed a peace deal could be reached within two months if Netanyahu showed "good will." He suggested that Netanyahu adopt the positions of his more dovish predecessor, Ehud Olmert. "We were close to an agreement," Abbas said. "The Palestinian position is clear to the Israelis and the Israeli position presented by Olmert is clear to us." Olmert has said he offered the Palestinians virtually all of the West Bank and parts of east Jerusalemcaptured areas claimed by the Palestinians for their state – before negotiations broke down in late 2008.”

Why is Israel even talking about sitting down with the PLO while the PLO charter is still in affect. Many of you may not know this, but the PLO is working to fulfill that charter.  I want you to take a look at article 15 of this charter which appears in the Palestinian National Covenant.

Below is the Palestinian National Covenant, the official charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The text is the English version published officially by the PLO, unabridged and unedited. Note, however, that the PLO's translation sometimes deviates from the original Arabic so as to be more palatable to Western readers. For example, in Article 15, the Arabic is translated as "the elimination of Zionism," whereas the correct translation is "the liquidation of the Zionist presence." "The Zionist presence" is a common Arabic euphemism for the State of Israel, so this clause in fact calls for the destruction of Israel, not just the end of Zionism.

“Article 15: The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab homeland, and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine. Absolute responsibility for this falls upon the Arab nation – peoples and governments – with the Arab people of Palestine in the vanguard. Accordingly, the Arab nation must mobilize all its military, human, moral, and spiritual capabilities to participate actively with the Palestinian people in the liberation of Palestine. It must, particularly in the phase of the armed Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the Palestinian people with all possible help, and material and human support, and make available to them the means and opportunities that will enable them to continue to carry out their leading role in the armed revolution, until they liberate their homeland.” 

The Bible has shown us the true intensions of the the PLO and we see, I believe the results being played out in the Psalm 83 war where the PLO (Palestinians) join in on the attack against Israel to try and wipe her off the map. Look again at the news report above and you will see nothing has changed.   Abbas has once again made it clear to Israel’s Prime Minister that he wants    virtually all of the West Bank and parts of east Jerusalem and if you notice it says captured areas”.  What  are the captured areas?  The most important is the Temple Mount area in East Jerusalem!  This is where the first and second Jewish Temples once stood, and it is the holiest site to the Jews.  As you can see this city has caused major problems for the world and it comes as no surprise to us because Zechariah 12:3 warned us that this was going to happen in the last days.  So, the birth pains for the call of Peace and safety continue in 2011, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Psalm 83 war taking place this year, but only God knows that date for sure.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110102/D9KGA27O1.html

http://www.iris.org.il/plochart.htm

 

Strong Earthquake on day one/ Roaring of the seas and waves/Psalms 83 war/Decline of America/Jan. 1, 2011

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See full size imageProphecy Sign: Luke 21:11 great earthquakes:   “BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck a rural area of northern Argentina Saturday morning, but its epicenter was so deep that it gave only a light shake to towns nearby. The U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday that the quake, initially registered at 6.9, hit at 6:56 a.m. about 150 kilometers (115 miles) northeast of Santiago del Estero at a depth of 563 kilometers (350 miles). It was not immediately clear if there were any injuries or damage, but the earthquake was hardly felt in Santiago del Estero, the provincial capital, where Emilio Abdala, a receptionist at the 14-story Hotel Casino Carlos V, told The Associated Press that nobody felt a thing”..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110101/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_earthquake

Main Image Prophecy Sign: Luke 21:25 the sign of the roaring of the seas and waves.  Just the title to this report points to Christ’s warning. I quote, 'Biblical' floods threaten Australian homes

Flood waters swept through vast areas of northeastern Australia Saturday, threatening to inundate thousands more homes in a disaster one official said was of "biblical proportions".  As Queen Elizabeth II sent her "sincere sympathies" to Queenslanders who rang in a damp new year, helicopters were being used to deliver food and other supplies to isolated towns.  Up to 200,000 people have been affected by the floods, which have hurt the nation's lucrative mining industry and cut off major highways as the water rushes through sodden inland regions to the sea. "In many ways, it is a disaster of biblical proportions," Queensland State Treasurer Andrew Fraser told reporters in flood-hit Bundaberg. “

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.90ed452c24b4c3a555ac6076fb1f566c.631&show_article=1

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BU09620110101

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Shaken residents spent New Year's Day sifting through the wreckage wrought by tornadoes that touched down in several states in the final hours of 2010, killing seven people in two states and injuring dozens of others. Six of the victims – three in Missouri and three in Arkansas – died Friday as tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest. A seventh victim who was injured Friday near the south-central Missouri town of Rolla died Saturday at a hospital in Columbia, said Bruce Southard, the chief of the Rolla Rural Fire Department.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110101/D9KFQ4S82.html

 

 

Prophecy Sign: Psalms 83 signs: Wikileaks: Egypt's Military Focus is on 'Enemy' Israel

“Documents revealed by Wikileaks show that Egypt continues to see Israel as its primary military threat despite a decades-old peace treaty. Egypt and Israel fought against each other in four wars before signing the treaty in 1979.  United States diplomats have been frustrated as Egyptian leaders focus on being prepared for war with Israel while ignoring threats such as terrorism and weapons smuggling”..

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141460

Prophecy Sign: Matthew 24:7 Civil unrest 2010 we saw a great deal of civil unrest

 

 

 

  Below is another look at what they believe is coming in 2011 concerning new conflicts. I cite a few of the conflicts they expect soon, but I suggest you read the entire report.

“Across the globe today, you'll find almost three dozen raging conflicts, from the valleys of Afghanistan to the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the streets of Kashmir. But what are the next crises that might erupt in 2011? Here are a few worrisome spots that make our list. Côte d'Ivoire is on the brink of what may be a very bad 2011. After a five-year delay, Côte d'Ivoire held presidential elections on Oct. 31.

“The fate of Sudan in 2011 will be set early, on January 9, when a referendum on southern self-determination is scheduled to take place, and which will likely result in independence for the south. Two decades of war came to an end in Sudan in 2005 with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). But as the agreement enters its last stages, however, that delicate peace will be tested. While securing the referendum has been an international priority, the long-term stability of the region relies on the ability of north and south Sudan to forge a positive post-CPA relationship.” 

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/12/28/next_years_wars?page=full

 

Prophecy Sign: America’s decline will help give way to the last world empire we see in Daniel chapter 2.

The budget crises that have nearly paralyzed states such as California and Illinois are likely to get worse — not better, in 2011 — despite the massive cuts that have already been made. Kept on life support for the past two years by $160 billion in emergency funding from the stimulus package, state governments now face the prospect of making ends meet without any help. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called the situation a “day of reckoning” in a recent interview with “60 Minutes” — and that’s after trimming a full quarter of his state’s budget in one year. “State and local government employees and other special interests have been allowed to gorge themselves over the years at the expense of taxpayers,” Tad DeHaven of the CATO Institute told The Daily Caller via e-mail. “Their privileged status has been exposed by the economic downturn … I think that in the back of the minds of many state and local policymakers, they think they’ll get federal bailout of some sort.”

http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/31/new-budget-crises-loom-for-states-and-municipalities-in-2011/#ixzz19hduXfvc

 

“Estonia joins euro club riven by crisis, others wary”  A new designed Estonian Two-Euro coin is seen in this handout photo obtained by Reuters December 31, 2010.

}TALLINN (Reuters) – Estonia could be the last new entrant for some years when it becomes the 17th euro zone member on January 1, with the club's deepening crisis of confidence likely to put off larger eastern European states for up to a decade.  Crowds queued at some banks in the snow blanketed capital, Tallinn, on Friday to exchange cash, mainly coins, in a move the small Baltic state of 1.3 million hopes will mark the end of its struggles since the 2008 financial crisis.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BU0S720101231

 

 

“In its annual list of predictions, the CEBR said a new eurozone crisis was its number one forecast for 2011, citing the hundreds of billions of euros of debt that members must replace this year.  "If the euro doesn't break up, this could be the year when it weakens substantially towards parity with the dollar," said Douglas Williams, chief executive of CEBR.  Spain and Italy alone must refinance more than €400bn (£343bn) of debt in the first half of the year, which could prove impossible given investor fears over the finances of southern European countries.  "The euro might break up at this point, though European politicians are normally able to respond to a crisis and I suspect that what will break up the euro will be the failure of most of the countries to take the tough medicine necessary to make their economies competitive over the longer term," said Mr Douglas. “

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/8234083/Euro-stands-just-20pc-chance-of-survival-in-next-decade.html

 

Prophecy Sign: Matthew 24: Christian persecution:

Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's Mass, 21 dead

“CAIRO (AP) — Officials in Egypt say the transfer of more bodies to hospitals has prompted a revised death toll of 21 after a car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church. The blast came as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass in Alexandria, Egypt, early Saturday. After the blast, enraged Christians clashed with police and stormed a nearby mosque. Police and witnesses say that sparked fights and volleys of stone throwing with Muslims. Police say they are still investigating and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. The attack comes at a time of rising sectarian tension in Egypt and the broader region. Christians are believed to make up about 10 percent of Egypt's mainly Muslim population of nearly 80 million people, and they have grown increasingly vocal about discrimination.”

http://www.fox11az.com/news/world/112741924.html

Islam teaches Jesus was a Prophet born of a virgin. They also teach that God has no Son. Yet Jesus said he was the Son of God. That should make him a false Prophet. If this Koran is suppose to be from God why don’t they people who follow Islam believe what their own God was suppose to teach them?More confusion and confusion does not come from the real Lord God.  People love their RELIGION more than the WORD OF GOD, who is JESUS.

Allah took Jesus to heaven where he awaits until the day of judgment when he will return to earth  (3,55). Muslim traditions teach that Muhammad died  not knowing  if he would be judged worthy to enter Paradise – where God has already placed Jesus.  Muhammad is Dead and buried in Saudi Arabia. Jesus is alive both with God in heaven (paradise) and in Spirit with his followers on Earth.  (Koran 3,55;4,158,159)    Allah appointed Mary to be the virgin mother of Jesus, the Messiah (3: 42-45; 19: 12-22; 21: 90*).

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January 05, 2011

Rev.
18:12 warning about gold and silver/Many earthquakes/ Rev. 6:6/Roaring of the
seas and waves/ The drug generation/Jan. 5, 2011

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I have
been warning you about the price of gold and silver going up and the US dollar
dying soon. There is a new video out I would like you to watch.  I do believe we
are seeing the signs of Rev. 18: 12.

 

 

food_prices_rise_2007[1]Prophecy Sign: Revelation 6:6 shows us people  will have to work all day long for a small meal. This meal will be enough for  only one person.   This is exactly what Revelation 6:6 shows us. I quote, “Then  I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A  quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages,  and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

“World
Food Prices Jump to Record on Sugar, Oilseeds”

“World
food prices rose to a record in December on higher sugar, grain and oilseed
costs, the United
Nations
said, exceeding
levels reached in 2008 that sparked deadly riots from Haiti to Egypt. An index of 55 food
commodities tracked by the Food and
Agriculture Organization
gained for a sixth
month to 214.7 points, above the previous all-time high of 213.5 in June 2008,
the Rome-based UN agency said in a monthly report. The gauges for sugar and meat
prices advanced to records. Sugar climbed for a
third year in a row in 2010, and corn jumped the most in four years in Chicago.
Food prices may rise more unless the world grain crop increases “significantly”
in 2011, the FAO said Nov. 17. At least 13 people
died last year in Mozambique in protests against plans to lift bread prices.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/global-food-prices-climb-to-record-on-cereal-sugar-costs-un-agency-says.html

See full size imageProphecy Sign: In part of Matthew 24:7 the Lord
warned their would be many earthquakes.  Today’s news showed that London is now
shaking.  “London – A small earthquake shook parts of the north of England late
Monday, the second in the region in two weeks, the British Geological Survey
(BGS) said Tuesday. The
tremor, in the area of north and west Yorkshire, north of the city of Leeds,
registered a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter scale, the BGS said.”

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/uk/news/article_1609270.php/Small-quake-hits-northern-England

 

Prophecy Sign: I Peter 5:8 says this,
“Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring
lion looking for someone to devour.”  In
Luke 21:12 Jesus warns us to look for the sign of Christian persecution in the
last days.

A
three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided
a
memorial cross on federal land on Mt. Soledad, Calif., violates the U.S.
Constitution.

In a 3-0
ruling in the Jewish War Veterans v. City of San Diego case, the panel decided
that the 29-foot concrete cross, which has stood for 57 years, constitutes a
government endorsement of religion and therefore violates the First Amendment's
establishment clause.

"The
question, then, is whether the entirety of the Mount Soledad Memorial, when
understood against the background of its particular history and setting,
projects a government endorsement of Christianity. We conclude it does," wrote
Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown, a Clinton appointee.

"The
decision represents a judicial slap in the face to the countless military
veterans honored by this memorial," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the
American Center for Law and Justice, which filed an amicus brief in the case on
behalf of 25 members of Congress. "This flawed decision not only strikes at the
heart of honoring our military veterans, it reaches a faulty conclusion that
this iconic memorial – part of the historic landscape of San Diego – is
unconstitutional. We believe the appeals court got this decision wrong and we
look forward to the case going to the Supreme Court where we're confident this
decision will be overturned."

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=247701u

Here is more news concerning Christian persecution. “CAIRO (AP) – Many Egyptian
Christians say they fear a repeat attack on their community on Coptic Christmas
Eve
Thursday and authorities are planning to deploy heavy security around churches to protect them. A suicide bombing of a church in the coastal city of Alexandria
shortly after midnight on New Year's killed 21 people and injured about 100. It
touched off days of enraged protests and riots by Christians who accuse the
government of neglecting to protect the minority. Authorities suspect local
Islamic extremists, perhaps inspired by al-Qaida,
carried out the attack. A Facebook group that attracted
38,000 people is urging Christians to defy fears and go to church on Christmas
Eve. However, many Christian families voiced deep fears of another
attack.”

Oil/gas rig - AP - Sept. 17, 2010 Prophecy
Sign: Deuteronomy 33 19. “They will summon peoples to the mountain and
there offer sacrifices of righteousness; they will feast on the abundance of the
seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand."  Possible path to war to fulfill
Psalm 83.

“Lebanon
has asked the United Nations to protect the country's natural gas reserves along
the maritime border with Israel. Last week, Texas-based Noble Energy Inc.
announced an estimated 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas found in a field
off Israel's Mediterranean coast. Late Tuesday, Lebanese Foreign Minister Ali
Shami sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging him to prevent
Israel from exploiting Lebanon's oil and maritime wealth. The gas reserve is
estimated to be worth more than 95 billion dollars. It is the largest amount of
natural gas discovered in the world in the last decade and is located in
approximately 5,400 feet (1,645 meters) of water, about 130 kilometers offshore
of Haifa and 29 miles (47 kilometers) southwest of the Tamar discovery.”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9KI60T84&show_article=1

See full size imageProphecy Sign: 
Revelation 9:21  One of the key scriptures that informs us our generation is the
last generation Jesus was talking about can be found in Revelation 9:21. The
words “magic arts” in Revelation 9:21 is the Greek word pharmakia from which
comes our word “pharmacy”. It signifies the use of medicine, drugs, spells, such
as those used in witchcraft and those used today by those who are seeking a
greater “high”.

“A Mexican
border town lost its police force last week with the kidnapping of its last
standing officer, and an expert on the drug war says the violence in that
country is unmanageable. Officer Erika Gandara in the City of Guadalupe was
recently abducted by gunman who burned down her house and ultimately left the
violence-stricken city without law enforcement. Prior to the incident, all of
Gandara's other colleagues were either killed or they resigned due to the bloody
war that has raged through the country and claimed the lives of more than 30,000
people. David Borden, executive director of StopTheDrugWar.org, says the violence in Mexico has gotten out of hand.”
“Meanwhile, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has suggested that the action he
has taken against drug cartels has escalated the violence.”

Severed head hung from bridge in Tijuana,
Mexico
http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/03/severed-head-hung-from-bridge-in-tijuana-mexico/

Gunmen
attack Mexico rehab center, at least 10 die

http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/24/gunbattle-in-northern-mexico-kills-3-bystanders/

 

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1266110

 

 

Prophecy
Sign: Luke 21:25 the roaring of the seas and waves.  In Luke 21:25b we are also
told "On the earth,
nations will be in anguish and perplexity at
the roaring and tossing of the sea" (Luke 21:25b).

“The BBC's
Nick Bryant reports from a helicopter above Rockhampton”

“Floodwaters in the
Australian city of Rockhampton appear to have peaked at a lower level than
previously feared. The Fitzroy River which flows through the city seems to have
levelled off at 9.2m (30ft) rather than 9.4m, but forecasters are warning of
more rain. Queensland is in the grip of a flood crisis, with some 40 communities
affected and 1,200 homes submerged. A task force has been created to lead
recovery efforts. Officials say the flood bill could exceed A$5bn (£3bn).
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has appointed Maj Gen Mick Slater to head the task
force.”

“Almost
completely encircled by muddy floodwaters, Rockhampton risked being entirely cut
off if those rose much further, but they peaked slightly lower than the
authorities had feared, enough to keep the one highway that's open from being
inundated. Many of the city's low-lying suburbs will remain flooded for more
than a week, but a local official said the city as a whole had "dodged the
bullet". Now attention is shifting to the economic impact of the flooding on
Australia's two most vital sectors, mining and agriculture. Operations at some
40 mines have been interrupted and many of the railway lines that transport coal
to the ports have been severed. Queensland is responsible for more than half of
the country's coal exports. With farms flooded and crops ruined, the price of
fresh fruit and vegetables is also forecast to rise, by as much as 50%. State
Premier Anna Bligh predicted this disaster could have a global impact, partly
because Queensland supplies half of the world's coking coal for steel
manufacturing. At least one senior economist here thinks this could be
Australia's most costly natural disaster, largely because of the impact on
exports.  With natural disasters declared across an area of a million square
kilometres, Ms Bligh said the scale of the crisis was unprecedented and would
require an unparalleled rebuilding effort”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12116919

 

January 04, 2011

Added
information this afternoon: Frank DiMora's in-depth look at the Rapture of the
Church Jan. 4, 2010

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Prophecy Sign: I
Thessalonians 5:3 is the call for Peace and safety and the Psalm 83
war.

“If substantial talks don't begin soon
between Israel and the
Palestinians, all parties will face "profound trouble," the Middle East
Quartet's special representative warned Tuesday. "We are talking
about weeks, rather than months, for this process now to be rehabilitated and
put back on track," Tony Blair told CNN. "If we don't go back and give
credibility to this process in a meaningful way… we are going to be in genuine
and profound trouble."  The former British
prime minister is in the region meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, in
his role as the Quartet representative. The United States, United Nations,
Russia and the European Union make up the group.”

 

 

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/01/04/mideast.blair.talks/

 

 

Contactless payment could make mobile phones the new credit cards in 2011 Prophecy Sign: Revelation 13:15-18  is coming
toward this generation like a run away train. “Contactless
payment could mean mobiles phones can be used as a credit card next year. The
near field communication (NFC) technology has already been installed in selected
shops by Visa and the handheld gadgets could be the next step, the Herald Sun
reports. A store's Aussie credit terminal can take payments by reading a
high-frequency signal around 10 cm from the phone taken from a chip.”

http://www.which4u.com.au/credit-cards/news/11359-contactless-payment-could-make-mobile-phones-the-new-credit-cards-in-2011

The Rapture, when <br>the dead in Christ shall rise...<br>1 Thessalonians 4:13-18  I wanted to make sure as
many people would come to know the truth about the (Rapture of the Church).  I
wrote out an in-depth study on the rapture, but I understand that many do not
like to read and so they may have just decided to pass over this information as
it was to long for them.  Knowing that many would rather watch videos than read,
I went ahead and did this teaching on the rapture on video.  There are 10 videos
for you to watch.  I am sure that after you watch these videos you won't have to
ask the question, is the rapture of the Church will come before the seven year
tribulation, in the middle of it, or at he end? 

 

 

Many people have questions
about the rapture. They wonder if the rapture is truly taught in the Bible. Many
people have written me and said, “I don’t believe in the Rapture”. I ask them,
are you saying you don’t believe in the resurrection of the body? Do you believe
you are going to be a disembodied spirit, or ghost throughout eternity? Is that
what you think the Bible teaches? People usually smile and say “no that’s not
what I am saying”, what I mean is, I don’t believe in the rapture before the
tribulation starts. What they are really saying when you get to the bottom line
is there disbelief of the pre-tribulation rapture. So it is a matter of the
timing of the rapture that is the controversy.

First of all we need to
see the importance of the purpose of the rapture. You will see why it is that we
must be raptured. Then we will also look at the indications of what the timing
of the rapture is. Will it be before the Antichrist, during the reign of the
Antichrist or, at the end of his reign at the Battle of Armageddon? The subject
of the rapture is critical because it is the promise of Jesus Christ that our
bodies will not remain in the grave, will not remain in the dust, but will be
transformed into a body that is fit for eternity. That’s the promise of the
Gospel. That is the unique promise of Jesus Christ. Do you know when we bury a
individual in the ground that by saying dust to dust we are proclaiming our
belief that death and burial in the ground is not the end. That’s why Christians
call it a cemetery it was a sleeping place for the body. The spirit was with
Jesus, but the body rested in the ground, but not forever but until the day of
the glorious rapture the resurrection.

We find in I Thessalonians
2:19 a wonderful phrase which Paul writes “For what is our hope, or joy, or
crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at
his coming?” Paul says the rapture, the resurrection is our joy he says it is
our rejoicing our hope, it our crown of rejoicing. So, do you rejoice in the
hope of the resurrection? You should because, while all other generations of
Christians died in faith without having participated in the resurrection before
their death they will ultimately participate in the rapture when you and I are
raptured. But for those of us living we have the promise, that if we are alive
when Christ comes we will not have to pass through the portals of death, but we
will pass from life to life eternal.

In I Thessalonians 4:16-17
this is Paul has to say. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead
in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught
up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall
we ever be with the Lord.

In these will known
scriptures there is a great deal of teaching about the rapture. For example, we
see the Lord Himself is going to come to Earth according to the Book of
Revelation. When does He come? The Bible says He comes down to the Earth to
defeat the armies of the Antichrist, and the armies of the kings of the East to
defend Israel which would otherwise see curtain destruction, and when He comes
down according to Revelation 19:14 he comes with the millions of saints.

If we come down from
heaven with Jesus Christ riding on white horses, and we are in our resurrected
bodies, bodies just like Jesus, and we are wearing white robes which represent
the righteousness of the saints, then common sense shows us at some point
previously to Armageddon we have received our resurrection bodies. Why? Because
all Christians those who are in heaven now in the spirit, and those who are
alive at the time Christ comes in the air are going to have a resurrection body.
One of the things misunderstood by a lot of people is the purpose of the
rapture.

The purpose of the
(rapture resurrection) is this. God has to transform your mortal body, which
either for dead Christians lies in ashes in the ground, or for those who are
alive when Jesus comes is a body that is not fit for eternity, it is mortal, and
it is corruptible.

God tells us He is going
to take our moral body and transform it into a body fit for eternity. Now the
word rapture was actually introduced by a great Christian teacher in 385AD by
the name Jorum, Jorum was one of the Fathers of the early Church. In his
writings and translation of the New Testament into Latin he came to this passage
in I Thessalonians 4:17 which says, “Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the lord in the air: and so
shall we ever be with the Lord”. Jorum looked at that word caught up and he used
the best Latin word possible which was (rapere). Repere means to snatch up by
external force. What Jorum was saying was, that is the best word used in the
Latin language in his version of the Bible, it was very popular from all the way
from 385, all the way up till the King James Bible, repere was used! That became
the origin of the word (RAPTURE) used as a noun. So, the snatching up of the
bodies of both those who died and are sleeping in the grave, and those who are
still alive will be taken away by the Lord’s force at some time in the near
future. So again, the English word "rapture" is derived from the Latin word
rapio (rapere, raptus) meaning: to carry away, to be caught up, to snatch,
seize, pluck, drag away. The purpose of the rapture is to transform your body
into a body fit for eternity!

In I Corinthians 15:53 you
will find what God is saying is, for this corruptible, in other words your
natural body in verse 53 must put on incorruption and, this mortal must put on
immortality. Your body is corruptible, your body is mortal, and because it is
mortal it must put on incorruption, it must put on immortally. Simply put, right
now your body is not fit for heaven. For example right now your bodies are not
fit to travel at the speed of thought from heaven to Earth and back so you might
rule and reign with Jesus Christ as we are promised to do so in Revelation 5:10
“And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the
earth.”

The Bible tells us we are
going to appear at the judgment seat of Christ there we will receive crowns and
awards that we might enjoy for eternity. This is very important so please pay
attention to what you are about to read!

2 Corinthians 5:10 says the
following: “for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that
every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath
done, whether it be good or bad.” Now, if you are a disembodied spirit which is
what our fellow Christians in heaven are, they don’t have a body, they are there
in spirit. Remember Jesus said to the thief on the cross today you will be in
paradise.

Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:8 said, “We
are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be
present with the Lord.” Paul is showing us to be absent of the body is to be
present with the Lord so, the Bible does not teach soul sleep, no, those who die
in the faith, believers in Jesus Christ are instantly transformed, their body
goes into the ground, their spirit goes right to heaven the new Jerusalem called
(paradise), and there is it joyfully and consciously in the presence of Jesus
and the saints, but you yet do not have a body. You can’t eat or drink at the
marriage supper of the Lamb unless you have a body. And for those who think
well, that must just be a symbol, no, because we are told clearly that our body
and the resurrection is going to be like Jesus’ body when He rose from the
dead.

What was Jesus’ body like?
In Luke 24:36 we are told Jesus was resurrected, He appeared in the middle of
the upper room were the disciples were. I quote, “And as they thus spake, Jesus
himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.” His
disciples were wondering what in the world was going on? The disciples looked at
Jesus, and Jesus looked at them. The disciples thought they had seen a spirit or
a ghost, you see it is very difficult for people to get their minds around the
idea that in the resurrection our body is going to be as real as it is today,
but in the rapture now indestructible, immortal, incorruptible, no longer
subject to disease or accidents or death, but real, a real glorified
body.

In learning about the
raptured body everyone, especially the Jehovah’s Witness better take a look at
what Jesus said to His disciples when He appeared out of no where in that upper
room. Luke 24:36-40 gives us this conversion. “Now as they said these things,
Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” But
they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. And He
said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts?
Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a
spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.” When He had said this,
He showed them His hands and His feet”

Keep in mind, the
Jehovah’s witness are lost when it comes to these words spoken by Jesus. Read
what the Watchtower Organization teaches about this upper room visitation by
Christ. In the Watchtower book entitled, “Make Sure of All Things” p. 314, the
1953 edition, they say the following. “Jesus’ resurrection not of same body; he
merely materialized flesh and blood to be seen and believed”.

He shows them He has flesh
and bones and tells them a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones. This was the
glorified resurrected body that you and I will receive at the rapture of the
Church. Look at the Word of God, it says Jesus showed them His hands and feet.
Jesus went out of His way to show them all that it was the same Jesus that hung
on the cross but, only now in His glorified body, Jehovah’s witness will never
receive a glorified body if they do not believe in the real resurrection of our
Lord and savior.

The Watchtower
Organization, which is lead by Satan makes Jesus an out and out liar, for if
Jesus was really only a spirit, He purposely deceived His disciples in believing
He had actually came back from the dead as Jesus Himself. If Jesus wasn’t the
exact same Jesus who hung on the cross then, when Jesus showed the disciples His
hands and feet with the holes marks still in them, He was knowing lying to them
just to prove He came back. This is not the first time the Watchtower
Organization has turned Jesus into a false prophet and a liar!

The Watchtower
Organization, and all the Jehovah’s Witnesses are in fact spreading their lies
and, have made Jesus into a false prophet, a false teacher, a false Messiah, and
a false god. You will see this not only from the upper room visitation but, also
from John 2:19. Jesus told the religious leaders that He would raise Himself
from the dead in three days. Let’s look at the exact words Jesus used in John
2:19-21. “Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three
days I will raise it up.20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this
temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21But he spake of
the temple of his body. The Greek word for body is (σῶμα), soma, which means
physical body.

So, before Jesus ever
appeared to His disciples in the upper room, He had already told the religious
leaders He would raise His (soma, physical body) in three days. Now, if Jesus
did not do exactly what He prophesied He would do, raise Himself, then He lied
to these religious leaders and, was a again lying and deceiving His
Disciples.

As the Jehovah’s Witnesses
teach He only assumed a body to prove he came back to life. God forbid that
anyone would believe this Watchtower teaching for it is straight from the pits
of hell and Satan. Assuming a body is no real resurrection at all.

Notice what is said in
John 2:22. “When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered
that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word
which Jesus had said.” What scripture did they refer to? We know it couldn’t be
any scripture from the New Testament, because it hadn’t even been written
yet.

The scriptures are found
in Genesis 22 verses 4 and 8.

Genesis 22:4 Abraham is on
his was to kill Isaac his Son. “Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his
eyes, and saw the place afar off”. Verse 8 says, “And Abraham said, My son, God
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them
together”.

Now do you see why what
Jesus said to the religious leaders was so important? Jesus was actually showing
them how he would fulfill the scriptures in Genesis chapter 22. Like the
Jehovah’s Witness the religious leaders in Christ’s day believed Jesus was a
liar, for they had been blinded by Satan to the truth of what was going to
happen soon.

Now I ask you, why did
Jesus then come straight out and tell His disciples, who thought they were
looking a spirit creature, that it was, (I
Myself). Jesus tells them point blank that He wasn’t a spirit, and that
is why He wanted His disciples to handle them. He wanted to make sure they
really understood that He was the real Jesus Christ. Not some fake body that was
just assumed to prove a lie!

I believe over the years
the Lord God has shown the lies being spread by the Watchtower and, most of the
Jehovah’s witnesses aren’t even aware Satan is teaching them. Here is an
example.

In their watchtower book,
“Let God Be True, page 274, of the 1952 edition, the leaders who claim to be
directed by God said, and teach, “Satan and his demons tried to obscure the true
meaning of the resurrection by teaching that the resurrection was only in a
spiritual sense”. I see nothing wrong with this because Satan has always worked
to discredit the true resurrection of Christ, but wait one minute, let’s see if
the WatchTower leaders are in fact taking sides with Satan?

In the Watchtower book
entitled, “Make Sure of All Things” p. 314, the 1953 edition, they say the wrote
the following. “Jesus’ resurrection not of same body; he merely materialized
flesh and blood to be seen and believed”, and this is still the current teaching
of this Satanic Organization today.

If God was leading this
organization do you think that He would have given them teachings that would
counter each other out? No my friends, Jesus is not a false prophet nor is Jesus
a lair! Nor is He the author of confusion, Satan is!

Jesus did exactly what He
said He would do. When He came back to the disciples it was in the resurrected
glorified body outfitted for heaven. You will see that this glorified
resurrected body can do the things that Jesus did while on Earth, and when you
get your resurrected gloried body at the rapture you will be able to do these
same things. You will be able to just appear into any room you want just the way
Jesus did in the upper room when He told His Disciples to touch Him.

How real is Jesus’ gloried
body you ask? Take a look at Luke 24:41-42 to see. The passage says, “And while
they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any
meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.” In His
resurrection body Jesus sat down with His disciples and eat the food and drank
with them.

Why did He do this? Christ
obviously wouldn’t have starved had he not eaten but, I believe Jesus wanted to
show them that in heaven, in eternity, we are going to enjoy the good things of
God’s creation without sin, and we are going to be able to eat and drink if we
want. We know that even the angels eat.

Read Psalms 78:24-25 it
tells us, “And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the
corn of heaven. Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.” In
other words manna was one of the foods that angels eat, so if angels eat, and
Jesus tells us we are going to eat at the marriage supper of the Lamb, and He
tells us His our body is going to be like His, in the resurrection, then we have
the confidence that we are going to eat and drink. We are going to be able to
enjoy all the good things of the Lord’s creation both in heaven and in eternity.

As far as the Jehovah’s
witnesses, or anyone who doesn’t believe Jesus rose from the dead in that
resurrected gloried body, Paul in I Corinthians 15-19 tells us that your faith
is in vain, and you are still in your sins. In other words, you are not saved.
If your not saved you are on the road leading to hell, so the matter of what
Jesus had shown His Disciples in that upper room because of great important to
ones eternal life!

How do you know your body will be like Jesus when
He rose from the dead? In 1 John 3:2 it says this, “Beloved, now are we the sons
of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

The book of Philippians
3:21 tells us the same thing. “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is
able even to subdue all things unto himself?” The Bible is very clear, we will
have a glorious (resurrection body) just like our Lord Jesus. That body will be
fit so we can rule and reign with Jesus Christ. We are going to be like Jesus
with no limitations.

The rapture is going to
reveal a body that is so glorious Paul wrote about it and said we can hardly
image the things that God has prepared for us. Paul said the following in I
Corinthians 2:9. “But as it is written, 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.”

One of the most asked
questions in my ministry is the question about the timing of the rapture? Is it
going to take place before the Seven year tribulation period? People want to
know will the rapture be a pre-tribulation rapture. Is it going to take place in
the middle of the tribulation, which is referred to as Mid-tribulation, or is it
going to take at the end the tribulation at the time of the Battle of
Armageddon, which is the referred to as the post tribulation rapture?

Many who dislike the
pre-tribulation theory have stated that it is a new theory invented in the 1830
by John Darby, and the Plymouth Brethren. However, read the book, a manuscript
by Ephron the Syrian. He was a great Christian Saint, a deacon and Bishop, and
he wrote extensively in the earthly Church. He wrote a book on the Antichrist
and the end of the world where he clearly says in 373, he said the Lord will
clearly ascend from heaven and will take us to be with Himself that we might
escape the confusion that over takes the whole world. It is it a clear
pre-tribulation rapture statement that is made 15 centuries before most people
thought it was ever discussed.

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Naturally the Bible did
not lay out precisely when the rapture would take place. God wanted us to be on
guard at all times. Christ wanted us to be in the sense of urgently expecting
Him to come back at any time. If you read the Bible you will see over and over
again where Jesus instructs us to always be on the watch.

For example, in Matthew
24:42 Jesus says, “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth
come”. But the same time Jesus condemned the spiritual leaders of His day for
being aware of the physical signs of the weather and not being aware of the
signs of the coming of the Son of man.

The prophecies are being
fulfilled just the way they were the first time Jesus came to Earth, and people
are just as blind as the religious leaders in Christ time. For example, Israel
is born again which that prophecy alone shows us we are living in the last days.

If you read the Book of
Revelation as serious as you should, the seven year tribulation will be the
worse period of time in God’s entire history of mankind. It will be a time of
such unparalleled horror and judgment upon Earth that it is very doubtful that
many Christians could live if that was God’s purpose, but I do not believe it
is.

It is a time when God is
going to turn back to Israel. With the Church taken out at the rapture before
the tribulation, God is going to send people out to preach His Word. There will
be the return of two prophets, Jewish witnesses, Elijah and probably Moses.
Revelation 11:3 says, “And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will
prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."

Jesus is also sending
144,000 Jewish witnesses who will not be harmed by the Antichrist. We see this
144,000 in Revelation chapter 7, and Revelation 14:1-5.

There is going to be a
rebuilt temple and animal sacrifices just like the Jews did when Jesus came the
first time. With all this going on it would be confusion if the Church was still
on Earth at that time. No, the Church is gone at this time, their witnessing
time for Christ has ended with the rapture, and this is now the job of the
144,00 Jewish male virgins that Jesus has sealed, and the two prophets of
old.

Is there one special verse
that points to the rapture taking place before the seven year tribulation?

I would point to this
verse in I Thessalonians 1:10 where Paul writes the following: “And to wait for
his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered
us from the wrath to come.” I want you to think about the timing, and sequence
of this. He says Christians are to wait expectedly for His Son from heaven. When
the rapture takes place the Church leaves this Earth for heaven. So Jesus coming
from heaven, the rapture, is going to deliver Christians from the wrath to come.

There are only two
possibilities for the wrath to come. Either the wrath to come is the wrath of
hell, or it is the wrath from the tribulation, because from Revelation chapter 6
to Revelation chapter 19 the entire judgment is poured out on Earth.

This is where the wrath of
God is poured out on unrighteous sinners. So it can not be the wrath of hell
because His second coming doesn’t deliver us from the wrath of hell, its His
first coming, His death, His atonement on the cross that is what allowed us to
escape the wrath to come.

What we know is, the
rapture is going to allow Christians to escape the wrath that will come in the
tribulation. Why? Not because we deserve it but, because its God’s purpose. From
Genesis to Revelation you will not find a single example of God Judging
indiscriminately between the righteous and the unrighteous. Paul said in I
Thessalonians 5:9 “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain
salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ”. Here is the promise wrath will come but,
not for those who put their faith and trust in Jesus.

God’s wrath is coming but
not for the Lord’s true believers. Jesus shows us in Revelation 3:10 that we
aren’t going to tested during the tribulation because, we were faithful and are
spared from this time. Revelation 3:10 says, “Since you have kept my command to
endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to
come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth”. The Church won’t
spend an hour, or a day, or a year, or neither seven years of testing on Earth
because, Jesus promised us He would keep us from this trial.

As we see all the
prophecies coming to pass we know that we are in the last days and very close to
the beginning of the seven year tribulation. If all these prophecies are taking
place, and we know the rapture will take place before the Antichrist appears,
then if the Antichrist is close then the rapture, the resurrection of the Church
of Jesus Christ is even closer.

I believe that the
scriptures reveal that the rapture will occur before the seven year tribulation
period. Here is the sequence very clearly for you.

I Thessalonians 1:10 we
are to wait for a future event, which Jesus is coming from heaven, the rapture
and then that event is going to deliver us from the wrath to come. This I also
believe is a clear message that what God is saying is, the deliverance of the
Church, through the second coming of Jesus at the rapture when He comes with His
saints the spirits of all those who have died in faith, then those who are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in the air, we then will escape
the wrath to come. It is very clear as I stated, from Revelation chapter 6-19
that what is poured out from heaven on unrepeated sinners during that entire
seven year period is the wrath of God.

Remember, the tribulation
will begin with the four horsemen of the apocalypse which are clearly
representative of the wrath of God as shown over 12 other times in the Old
Testament. The fact is, I think the scriptures clearly shows that God has not
appointed us unto wrath just as Paul said in I Thessalonians 1:9. and Revelation
3:10.

Here are two contrasting
destinies. One is that of the unrepentant sinners, who will endure the wrath of
God poured without mixture during the seven year period. Then there are those
who put their faith in Jesus as Christians, and their destiny is salvation.
There’s several other facts that point clearly to the fact that the Church is
not on Earth at this time.

Again, in sequence in
Revelation 4:1-4 we read the following. “After these things I looked, and
behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was
like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you
things which must take place after this.” Immediately I was in the Spirit; and
behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there
was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow
around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were
twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting,
clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads. Notice the
words (come up here). In the Greek this is meta tauta or, literally, “after
these things” In other words Jesus was about to show John everything that was
going to happen on Earth once the rapture of the Church took place.

Jesus also shows us a
picture of the rapture I believe in Revelation 11: 11-12 11And after three days
and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon
their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12And they heard a
great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up
to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them”. These are the same words
God spoke to John when He brought him into heaven to see what would happen after
the Church was gone. The two prophets are lifted up into a cloud the same way
the Church is going to meet Jesus in a clouds when we get raptured.

Keep in mind, after
Revelation 4:1 you do not see the Church again until you see it coming back with
Jesus in Revelation chapter 19! Take careful notice of the message Jesus gives
to John before the the Church is raptured as recorded in Revelation chapter 2
and 3. I want you to read what Jesus says in Revelation 2:7, verse 11, verse 17,
verse 29 and from Revelation chapter 3 verses 6, 13, and 22. All of these verses
say the same exact thing which is, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
spirit saith unto the churches.”

Now in Revelation 4:1
Jesus calls John up to heaven. It is at this point the Church is in heaven. Now
I want you to see what Jesus says after the Church is already in heaven while
the tribulation is going on Earth. I quote Christ, “If any man have an ear, let
him hear.” Do you see something missing? Notice Christ leaves out the word
(Spirit)! The reason being is the Holy Spirit was active in the Church while the
Church was on the Earth, but now the Spirit has departed when the Church was
raptured to heaven, and so Jesus changed the way He words Revelation 13:9
because he is now addressing those on Earth going through the tribulation
period, who are the unrighteous people left behind.

Understanding II
Thessalonians 2:1-8 is very important to upstanding when the rapture of the
Church will take place.

1Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together
unto him, 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by
spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at
hand. 3Let 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; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or
that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told
you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in
his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now
letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And 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” Who is He that is holding back the
revealing of the Antichrist? It is the work of the Holy Spirit. At the present
time where is the Holy Spirit living? He is living in all the people who have
received Jesus Christ as their savior. When the Holy Spirit steps aside to allow
the Antichrist to make his final moves, that is when the Church is called up to
heaven.

In Paul’s second letter to
Timothy we find this statement in II Timothy 4:8: “Henceforth there is laid up
for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give
me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his
appearing.”

If you love the rapture,
and are waiting and enduring patiently as eluded to by what Jesus shows us in
Revelation 3:10, you will receive a crown of righteousness according to Paul.

Now get this very
important point coming to you! Notice John sees these twenty-four elders with
crowns. These twenty-four elders represent the Church resurrected to heaven. If
they have crowns then the rapture has already occurred and the judgment seat of
Christ in which crowns are given out has already occurred.

Three chapters later in
Revelation chapter 7 John receives a vision of a great multitude that no one can
number of every tribe, nation, kindred, or tongue. John asks the questions
logically, who are these people? He has already seen the raptured Church with
their crowns, who are these people there in heaven to? We see the angels answer
to John’s question in Revelation 7:14. “And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest.
And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have
washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Notice that
the Church was already sitting on their thrones with their white robes, so the
who came out of the great tribulation had to be the people who refused the
Antichrist’s mark and were killed by the Antichrist.

Now immediately the angel
is ready to pour out the judgments of God, the wrath, and then we see yet
another angel coming on the scene. Revelation 7:2-4 records this. “Then I saw
another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He
called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm
the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put
a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Then I heard the number of
those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel” Immediately the
angels begin to supernaturally seal the 144,000 righteous Jews.

We know the number of
these 144,00 Jewish men is not symbolic for we are told exactly who the 144,000
are. First of all, in Revelation 7: 5-8 we see that these people come from the
12 tribes of Israel. Jesus took the time to list each tribe and show how many
would come from each tribe, He shows us there are 12 thousand men from each
tribe. Then in Revelation 14:3-4 we are told that these sealed people from the
12 tribes are man for they are not defiled with women, they are virgins. It is
clear to us, God turns His attention back to the nation Israel and, the Jews
when the Church is gone. This is not a symbolic numbers as the Watchtower
Society would have you believe, but these Jewish men will soon begin to preach
Jesus Christ as the true Messiah when the seven year tribulation
begins.

Concerning these 144,000,
please stay with me on this because only two chapters later in chapter 9 we see
these sealed men again in scripture. Revelation chapter 9 God allows to be
released from the bottomless pit satanic locusts that are part of the judgment
of God, they sting people so that (EVERYONE) on Earth is stung except the
144,000 sealed men, the Jewish virgins. In Revelation 9:5 we are told that for
five months people will wish they could die the pain is so great but they can
not die.

Now logically follow this.
There are 144,000 righteous Jews sealed for protection everyone else on Earth is
stung by these demonic locusts. There are two groups that encompass the entire
population of Earth, 144,000 righteous Jews and everyone else unrepentant
sinners. Where is the Church? The Church is not there! The Church is already in
heaven. They left starting at Revelation 4:1 where Jesus showed John the things
that would take place after the Church was raptured. That also explains why the
Antichrist curses those who are in heaven, those who have escaped him, the
Christians.

If you still teach the
Church most go through the tribulation you better support that finding by
showing some where in the Bible where Jesus has angels sealing another group of
people from the demon locust attack on the people. Fact is, there is no where in
the entire Bible where you will read of anyone else God shows us is sealed from
these demon locusts. Do you know what that means? It means that if you claim to
be a Christian, and there is no rapture, which means everyone would have to go
through the seven year tribulation, that ever one on Earth except these 144,000
Jewish male virgins will be stung by these demon locusts and suffer for five
months to the point people where try to kill themselves, but won’t be able to
die. Does this sound like God is keeping His Church from Wrath?

Another question I have
been asked is why do so many Christians deny the pre-tribulation rapture so
vehemently? I believe that some in their lack of teaching, lack of study,
somehow image the rapture is an escape clause for the America or the worldwide
Church today, that some how we will not go through persecution were as many
others generations have. Well my friends, if the Lord tarries much longer we
will see persecution even in America.

The Truth of the matter is
God has never promised us freedom from persecution. The truth is many millions
of Christians have been persecuted in the past, and are today still being
persecuted in many countries around the world, but persecution is not essential
to purify us as many imagine.

Think about it. All those
Christians who come in the air with Jesus at the rapture, millions of those did
not go through persecution, but died in their peaceful sleep. We also know that
going through the tribulation is not something that will purify us and is
necessary thereby. Again all those who come in the air with Jesus in the rapture
include both wonderful righteous Christians like like Saint Paul, and will
include Christians who had kind of indifferent Christian following.

What we know is, we are
saved by the blood of Jesus Christ applied to our heart plus nothing else. It is
the judgment seat of Christ where justice is handed out to us where we will
receive rewards and crowns and mansions that reflect our faithful
service.

Looking back in history,
you will find every time God pasted judgment on the unrighteous, what did He do
first? Each time He sent someone to the unrighteous to warn them to come to God
before God passed His judgment on them. We see this trend in the Old Testament
Exodus 12:8 “Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and
tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs”. This was a sign
of the lambs blood that would be shed on the cross in the future that would save
the world from God’s wrath and judgment.

In Exodus 12:12-13 we see
how God made a way to spare the righteous who listened to His warning. I quote,
12“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every
firstborn—both men and animals—and I will bring judgment on all the gods of
Egypt. I am the Lord. 13The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you
are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will
touch you when I strike Egypt”.

This is the same promise
Jesus has for anyone who is born again in Christ. Concerning the blood Paul
wrote in Roman’s 5:9 “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much
more shall we be saved rom God’s wrath through him!”.

I think the Apostle Paul
best illustrates for us how God is going to spare the righteous from wrath. 2
Peter 2: 4-9 says, “4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto
judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an
overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8(For
that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his
righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9The Lord knoweth how
to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day
of judgment to be punished”.

In each case above, God
sent in someone to lead the people to safety before He pass His judgment, and
today millions are spreading God’s warnings that God’s wrath is coming again on
the unrighteous.

To read more about the
rapture of the Church you can read my post from June 9, 2010 This post and the
June 9th post gives you more than enough proof the rapture takes place before
the seven year tribulation begins.

Matthew 24:36 "No one
knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but
only the Father.

Before you read this post
I want to make one thing very clear. In no way am I saying the rapture of the
Church is going to happen this coming September. Yes it is possible, but we just
do not know for sure. Jesus could choose to come for His Church next year, the
year after, ten years from now. The point is this. We know He will come for His
Bride the Church at some point during the Feast of Trumpet. Since we do not know
what year we must do what He asks and keep on the watch. Be ready at all times
so that when He does come He will find you doing His will and ready to be taken
at the rapture.

Why does Jesus want us to
keep our eye on the biblical calendar? Jesus wants those who are watching for
His return to be ready when he comes to take the church out of the world. The
only way one can do that is to know what they are looking for. It is clear as
day what Christians are to look for, but I would say most Christians don't have
a clue as to what the sign is. Why don't they know? I can see two reasons, first
they are in a church where their pastor never teaches about the signs of the
times and, second Christians are not studying the word themselves and they
therefore would not know the signs. Let me help you understand a very important
message from Christ. If you understand what Jesus was talking about, it will
become clear to you what you and your family should be watching for.

Many people have asked 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'm 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 the Jewish thoughts and Jewish traditions.

The phrase but of that day
and hour no man knows is a common Hebrew idiom for the Jewish holiday of Rosh
Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is one of the seven Jewish Holidays, and it is 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 feasts 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 and how Christ would bring
redemption to all who received him. In short, God has given us his biblical
calendar. Out of the seven biblical holidays the only ones left to be fulfilled
are the fall feast which are Rosh Hashanah also known as the Feast of 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
Matthew 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 the 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.

This was the normal
practice for the Jews. That statement was a traditional response. When it came
time for this wedding to take place the man would go out at midnight sound the
blast by blowing the sulfur 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 time 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.

In a Jewish wedding the
Jewish woman indicates she will marry him by accepting his proposal by drinking
a cup of wine he gives her. What did Jesus do with the last supper? Jesus passed
a cup of wine at the Last Supper and those who drank the wine accepted being his
bride.

Secondly, the Jewish man
would have to pay a price to the bride's parents. What did Jesus do and what was
the price he paid? Jesus paid the price for us as His bride with His own life by
dying on the cross for us.

The next thing and Jewish
men would do to prepare for the wedding was to give His bride a gift. 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 prepare for this wedding was go and prepare a place for
both himself and his wife to live in when they were married. Do you remember the
words of Jesus Christ in John chapter 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 you may be also”. This is where Jesus is right now, he is
preparing the home for His church the bride of Christ.

The next thing the Jewish
man would do to prepare for Jewish wedding is this, he would take a host of
people with Him 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 First Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 15 through 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 ark angel, and with the trumpet of God. This is the point at
which time Jesus will come for us, the church, just the same way the Jewish man
would go out at midnight and call 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 seven 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 seven years. If you notice, this is
the exact length of the seven-year tribulation. Listen to what it says in Isaiah
chapter 26:20-21 “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 chamber's Jesus
will keep his church in while the seven-year tribulation is taking place on
earth. The church, bride of Christ, will be hidden from these terrible times
that will befall the earth during the tribulation.

As you can now see,
everything that Jesus has done was in accordance to the traditions of the Jewish
wedding which is also based on the holidays of the biblical calendar. I want to
get back to what the Apostle Paul had to say in 1 Thessalonians chapter 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 the signs of the times would be taking place during the times and
seasons, or the Jewish holidays. In the above verse 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
season. When you read Genesis chapter 1 verse 14 we see the word seasons which
is the Hebrew word for a pointed 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 and to you, being Jewish they understood exactly what Paul
was talking about. The only people who will be in the dark when Jesus comes on
his feast will be those who do not have the understanding of the word of God in
them, and do not have any understanding of these biblical matters.

Please take notice in
relation to Rev. 3:3. In part of this verse Jesus tells the church at Sardis,
which was considered a dead church to repent from their ways and to watch.
Notice what happens when you aren’t watching? I quote, that part of verse 3
here, “I will come on thee as a thief and thou shalt not know what hour I will
come upon thee.”

Don’t forget, Jesus is
speaking to the dead church. What is Jesus showing us in this verse? Christ is
showing us He only comes to the dead church as a thief, not to an alert and
alive church, they will not be caught off guard.

In Revelation chapter 3
verses 17 through 18 Jesus is now speaking to the Church of Laodicea. This is
another church that is not ready and Jesus calls this church and lukewarm
church. What happens to a lukewarm church? Jesus tells us this answer in
Revelation 3:16 where he says, “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither
cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth”. Notice in those verses Jesus
tells them to go and buy white raiment that “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. Stay with me and you'll
understand exactly what it is. Rev. 3:18 is another key to understanding what
Jesus is showing us. I quote “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the
fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed,
and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest see”.

Now I want you to tie in
what is written in Revelation 16:15, by connecting this verse to Rev. 3:18, this
will become clear to you why you have to make the connection. Revelation 16:15
says the following: “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and
keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame”.

Let's go back to the
Jewish traditions for a second, and I will show you how all this is ties
together. During the time that the Jewish Temple was standing when Jesus was
here the first time, 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
where the priest had to be watching. One of the things they had to watch for was
that the fire on the altar would not go out. This was a Godly fire that fell on
the altar and it was commanded by God that this fire never go out. The priest
had to watch this fire. If her priest was found to be sleeping when the captain
of the guard checked on his rounds, the captain of the guard would take his
torch, which was next to the altar fire, and set the priest’s garment on fire
with the torch. The priest would be awaken by the fire, he would get up run
through the Temple tearing off the garments that were on fire, and the shame of
the priest’s nakedness would appear.

Now you see how Revelation
chapter 16 verse 15 ties into what Jesus said about the Church that was dead.
Now. when you go back and read 1 Thessalonians 5:1-4 Paul says the following:
“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 this phrase, “as a thief in the night”.
In other words, when Jesus comes back and finds you sleeping like the priest in
the Temple, and obviously not on the watch, you'll end up like the priest,
running in your nakedness and in shame because you were not ready for his
visitation.

Now let us look at Matthew
chapter 25:1-13. In these verses Jesus’ is talking to two groups of virgins. One
group was ready and on the watch, they were prepared for the bridegroom to come.
This is a picture of the church doing the will of the Father, This again ties in
to the Jewish wedding in keeping on the watch and the Lord coming back for his
bride. Jesus said five virgins were ready and had oil in their lamps when the
bridegroom came. Notice that the bridegroom comes at midnight as the custom of
the Jewish wedding, notice also, he comes with a shout as with the custom. The
five virgins 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 the 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 five
virgins who were not ready to go out to the bridegroom when he came at midnight?
Jesus tells us they didn't prepare. These five 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 and to 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 in Christ Jesus. These five unprepared virgins is a picture of
all the people who will find themselves tossed into the seven-year tribulation,
because they like the priest at the Temple were fast a sleep. They like the
priest were discovered by the Captain of the guard who was know as the thief in
the night, or in this case Jesus Christ. As a result of you not being ready you
as the priest will have been found and become naked and ashamed just like the
priest did.

Now look at the message
Jesus gave to us about the good servants and evil servants found in Luke
12:37-40. This is the message to the good servants.

“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 12:41-47 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. Look what Jesus said to these evil
servants.

“The lord of that servant
will come in a day when he looked not for him, and at an hour when he is not
aware, and he will cut him sunder, and will point him his portion with the unbelievers”.

These are the people who
knew better, they knew the Lord's will but they are not doing the Lord's will.

The next verse tells us in
verse 37, ”and that servant, which knew the Lord's will, and prepared not
himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes”.

I ask you now, are you one
of the so-called believers who are not abiding in Christ today, and you are not
doing the will of the Father? We know for a fact that there are millions of
people around the world who claim to be Christians but in fact are not doing the
will of the Father fact is, they are even looking for Him to come back. This
class of Christians is neither doing the will of the Father or are they watching
for the Lord's return as Christ asked them to do. These type of people we are
told, they knew his will yet didn't follow his will.

In Luke 12 :41 Peter asks
Jesus,"are you speaking this parable to us, or even tell all?”. This question
goes to the core of the question who is the evil servant? Jesus answered Peter
by telling him of the evil servants who do not do the will of the Father. Once
again we see a group of people being split in half. First there was the ten
virgins, five which were wise and ready, and the other five who were not ready
and were unprepared when the Lord came at midnight. Now we see good servants
watching and doing the will of the Father who will be blessed, compared to the
other half, the evil servants, who know God's will, but are not doing his will,
and are not keeping watch, and will be beaten.

Another very important
fact to remember about the Feast of Trumpets is this, no one knows the day or
hour because the Feast of Trumpets started at the sighting of the full moon. Let
me explain. On the 30th of each month, the members of the high court assembled
in the court yard in Jerusalem, where they waited to receive the testimony of
the two reliable witnesses. These two witnesses were the people who could verify
that they had seen the full moon.

At the spotting of the
full moon it would allow the members of the high court to then sanctify the new
moon. This would mean that the Feast of Trumpets would begin. 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 moons crescent was not seen on the 30th day, the new moon was
automatically celebrated on the 31st day. For this reason, the Feast of Trumpets
is always celebrated for two days. These two days are celebrated as though it is
just one day of 48 hours. The reason that it is celebrated for two days is
because if they waited to start the celebration until after the new moon and
then 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, as Paul stated, but not the day or the hour as we have seen
in Matthew 24:32-36.

Yom Teruah, or the Feast
of Trumpets, is the only Jewish Feast that we do not know the day in which to
keep it, as we are not sure when the new moon will be spotted. Therefore, we
have to be on the look and watch for it. When Jesus is saying you won't know the
day or the hour as recorded in Matthew 24 verse 36, He is telling us it is the
Feast of Trumpets because it is 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 two-day celebration. No one could today tell you when the rapture
of the Church will happen because it could take place at any time within a 48
hour period.

At the Feast of Trumpets
Jesus will return to remove his bride the Church, it will not overtake the
church who is doing the will of the Father, this Church will standing on the
watch for the master to return. Paul speaks of this rapture of the church in 1
Corinthians 15:51-53 where he says, behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of the
night, at the last trump: for the Trump 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”.

At some point in the very
near future Jesus will come out from heaven and call his bride to himself, just
is in the Jewish wedding. We who are on the watch, His bride, will be ready, and
we are going to be changed from these human bodies to the 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 five who are not
ready and have no oil in your lamps? Are you one of the good servants who when
Jesus comes will find you standing at the door on the 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? Wake up Church and
choose what side you will be on, the light or the darkness. If you are not a
Christian I say wake up to what Jesus has shown you and repent so you can be
accounted worthy to escape all the things that shall coming to pass and stand
before the Son of Man, Christ Jesus.

I received
an email from a person  who was trying to show me that the last trumpet in 1
Corinthians 15:51-52 is the same trumpet found in the Book of Revelation.

This person asked me, “WHY in the world are so many looking for the
Lord to come at the "pre-trib rapture" of the living, if He doesn't come to
resurrect the dead until the seventh trumpet which scripture clearly saying the
living are caught up with them?”  Keep in mind this is the same trumpet we see
in I Thessalonians 4:16.

Now let us
look at what I believe to be one of the most important facts about when the
rapture will occur. I will show you there is absolutely no way the last trumpet
in I Corinthians is the exact same as one in the Revelation. 
Let’s read 1
Corinthians 15:51-52 first. “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all
sleep, but we will all be changed-in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable,
and we will be changed.” This trumpet is called the last trumpet, but notice
when this trumpet is sounded, people will be changed before a person can even
blink his eyes.

When this
trumpet is sounded, it is super fast, and it does not take place in a matter of
days as we see the seventh trumpet of Revelation 11:15.   Does the term last
trumpet mean that this is the same trumpet as recorded in Revelation 11:15 where
it says, “The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in
heaven, which said: ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord
and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever’"?

No, it
does not. If you read Revelation 10:7, it says, “But in the days of the voice of
the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be
finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” Revelation shows us
the seventh trumpet shall be sounded over a period of days, most likely for the
duration of the judgments that fall under the trumpet judgments. Notice the
exact words that the Apostle John writes! John says, “Begin to sound." This is a
far cry from the trumpet we see in 1 Corinthians 15: 51 where that trumpet
happens faster than a person can blink his or her eye.

First
of all, the person blowing the trumpet in Revelation 11:15 is an angel, and the
chronology of Revelation shows us that the trumpet in Revelation 11:15 sounds at
the end of the time of wrath, which comes at the end of the tribulation. If you
read 1 Corinthians 15: 51-52 you will see that this trumpet is sounded before
God’s wrath begins. These are definitely not the same trumpets. In addition, the
people blowing these trumpets are not the same. For one, the Lord sounds one
trumpet while an angel sounds the other trumpet.

Once you
read 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18, you see it even states that the Lord is the one
who blows the trumpet that removes the Christians from the Earth. I quote 1
Thessalonians 4:15-18. “According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we
who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly
not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down
from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the
trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who
are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore
encourage each other with these words.”

There is
another major difference which proves the last trumpet of 1 Corinthians and 1
Thessalonians is not the trumpet found in Revelation 11:15. Notice in 1
Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians this trumpet is called a blessing! The trumpet
we see sounded by the angel in Revelation is a trumpet of judgment issued on
God’s enemies, it is the opposite of a blessing.

Isaiah 26:
19-21: “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and
the earth shall cast out the dead. 20Come, 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. 21For, 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.”

Isaiah 57:1 “The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and
merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away
from the evil to come”.

 

 

 

January 03, 2011

May
21, 2010 rapture (Rememer know one knows the day or hour!

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Jesus in chapter 24 of
Matthew tells us to beware of false prophets.  Many have given the exact date
for the Lord’s return and all have been wrong.  This will be another one of
those false dates. I quote, “RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — If there had been time, Marie
Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran
has less than six months left, which she’ll spend spreading a stark warning:
Judgment Day is almost here. Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely
organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and
convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on
May 21, 2011.

https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox/12d4debb674afb2c

Signs
in the sky/Another "great earthquake"/The coming war/Jan. 3, 2010

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Prophecy Sign:  II Timothy 3:1-5, "But realize
this, that in the last days difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers
of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, malicious gossips, without
self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers
of pleasure rather than lovers of god; holding to a form of godliness, although
they have denied its power; always learning and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth."

There are many
reasons why kids have become more violent.  The traits Timothy warned us about
are showing up in the kids in this generation.  One of the main reasons I
believe kids are beginning to get out of control is the break down of the
family.  One doesn’t have to be very smart to see that millions of families are
now without Fathers.   The family unite has been breaking down for years and it
is still getting worse.  Add to this all the violent video games the kids are
playing 3-4 hours a day, and you can see just a glimpse why kids are more prone
to get into trouble.  Here is an example of what I am talking about.  “Mayfair
Mall closed down early on Sunday afternoon as New Year's weekend shoppers were
told to leave after witnesses reported seeing groups of unruly young people
shouting and running in the Wauwatosa shopping center.” “ Shafi said a
Boston Store clerk told her that the incident occurred after a girl was accused
of retail theft and the fracas spilled over into Boston Store. "Her friends
followed her and the security guard into the store, screaming, barking, yelling,
and knocking over racks
and displays
. We were invited
to stay and continue shopping," Shafi said in an e-mail. "But we decided to
leave through the exit where police guards surrounded the building. The
salespeople who stuck around were immensely professional and comforting as
well." Laura Hughes was in the Barnes & Noble bookshop when she heard
screaming and the sound of a large group of people running. She walked out the
second floor of the bookseller and "saw large sums of teenagers running towards
Boston Store and going down the escalators to the first level. Mall security had
been chasing some of the kids, followed by police officers, who were literally
herding the kids downstairs."

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/112782034.html

Carnage: Vehicles speed toward the bodies of blackbirds that fell from the sky in Arkansas Prophecy Sign: Luke 21:11 “There will be great
earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and
great signs from heaven.”  

One who
doesn’t know Jesus Christ as their savior, and hasn’t read the Lord’s warnings
will not understand the things that are going on are signs for us.  Like the
huge earthquakes in the beginning of 2011, and now over 1,000 birds just falling
from the sky for who knows why?  “Bemused U.S. officials are looking into why
more than 1,000 blackbirds crashed from the sky in Arkansas on the final day of
2010. In scenes reminiscent of the FlashForward drama series, state wildlife
employees were searching the town of Beebe after scores of birds fell to the
ground late on New Year's Eve, continuing into the early hours of the morning.
High winds and tornadoes swept through Arkansas on New Year's Eve, killing seven
people, and state staff believe the bizarre incident could be down to the severe
conditions. I checked the news today and they still don’t know why so many birds
fall all at the same time.

There are some pretty weird things happening, and here is
another example of one of those weird events. “Arkansas Game & Fish is
trying to figure out why 100,000 fish in
Northwest Arkansas turned up dead. They were found along a 20-mile stretch
between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County. The 20-mile stretch along the Arkansas River where an
estimated 100,000 drum fish were found washed ashore and floating looks much
different now. Keith Stephens with
Game and Fish explains, "We got a call last week from a tug boat operator that
found the fish out on the river along the bank, in the river channel and we
immediately dispatched somebody to the area to take a look." Investigators from
local and state agencies took samples from the affected area. Stephens says fish
kills occur every year, but the magnitude of this one is unusual, and disease
could be the cause.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343605/1-000-blackbirds-fall-Arkansas-sky-New-Years-Eve.html#ixzz19zxPNB2u

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136401&catid=2

Hundreds of dead starlings, red-winged blackbirds and brown-headed cowbirds lie along the side of La. 1 near New Roads. The birds were found dead and dying Monday along a half-mile stretch of the road. Only one day later there was yet another report on birds
falling from the sky.  As of Jan. 4, 2011 officials don’t have the answer to the
question why these birds are suddenly dropping out of the sky.  Will we find out
it is some new type of disease downing the birds?  Only time will tell but it is
a sign in the sky.   “LABARRE — Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a
quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists
drove over and around them. State biologists are trying to determine what led to
the deaths of the estimated 500 red-winged
blackbirds and starlings on La. 1 just down the road from Pointe Coupee
Central High School. The discovery of the dead birds — some of which were lying
face down, clumped in groups, while others were face up with their wings
outstretched and rigid legs pointing upward — comes just three days after more
than 3,000 blackbirds rained down from the sky in Beebe, Ark. Necropsies
performed Monday on the birds in Arkansas showed the birds suffered internal
injuries that formed blood clots leading to their deaths, The Associated Press
reported”.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/112843019.html

Prophecy Sign:  Luke 21:11 Jesus told us “great
earthquakes” would one of the last day signs. Yesterday we saw one of these
quakes and again today.  A report entitled “Earthquake shakes central Chile”
gives you the facts.

Map showing Chile earthquake

“A strong earthquake has
shaken central Chile, disrupting power and communications but causing no
casualties or serious damage. The quake had a magnitude of 7.1
and its epicentre was 70km (45 miles) northwest of Temuco with a depth of 25km,
the US Geological Service said. Hundreds of people in coastal areas
fled to higher ground for fear of a tsunami, but no alert was issued.
An 8.8-magnitude quake
in the same area last February caused huge destruction.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12106034

  Prophecy Sign: Psalm 83 war.

Israel's army chief told a
US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the
Middle
East,
probably against
Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US
diplomatic cables showed on Sunday.

"I am
preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale
down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite," Lieutenant General Gabi
Ashkenazi was quoted as saying in a cable from the US
embassy
in Tel
Aviv.

The
document, dated November 15, 2009, was quoted Sunday in Norwegian by Oslo-based
daily Aftenposten, which said it had obtained WikiLeaks' entire cache of 251,187
leaked US
embassy
cables.”  “And in
his comments made nearly a year after Israel on December 27,
2008 launched the deadly Gaza war, Ashkenazi
said "Israel is on a collision
course also with Hamas, which rules Gaza."

“However,
in the cable leaked Sunday Ashkenazi is quoted saying Israel next time will not
accept "any restrictions on warfare in populated areas," and insisted the army
had never intentionally attacked civilian targets.”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.68f5e94c91d2e5bac59427d81c150711.671&show_article=1

See full size imageProphecy Sign: 1 Thessalonians 5:3 for the Apostle
Paul told us sudden destruction is going to come at the time they are calling
for Peace and Safety. Here is the actual quote. “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.”  In Mark 13:8 Jesus told us the last day
signs would be like pain pains.  When a woman is in labor she goes through birth
pains until the child is delivered.  There are some who think these last days
birth pains haven’t started yet and they are subject only to the seven year
tribulation period. Yet we know this is not correct as the Lord showed us when
Israel was calling for peace and safety these were the signs of these birth pain
as you can see from verse three “as travail upon a woman with child”. Israel has
been calling for Peace and safety ever since Jimmy Carter got Egypt and Israel
to sign a peace deal in 1977.  Since that time the birth pains of the call for
peace and safety have intensified and are still getting stronger.  What is the
sudden destruction Paul warns us about that they will not be able to escape?  I
believe it will result first of all in the Psalm 83 war, which will be those
nations that border Israel against Israel.  These people include the
Palestinians, Hamas, and the Hezbollah which
some of the people listed to attack in the Psalm 83 war.  You already saw that
Israel is getting ready for a major war from the first report, now let me turn
to the news concerning the stalled peace talks. 

“JERUSALEM
(AP) – Israel's prime minister said Sunday that he's ready to sit down with the
Palestinian president for continuous one-on-one talks until they reach a peace
deal. Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu issued his statement on Sunday in an apparent bid to breathe
life into stalled Mideast peace making. Talks broke down in
late September, just three weeks after they were launched at the White House,
following the expiration of a limited Israeli freeze on settlement construction.
Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas says Israel must halt all settlement construction on
occupied lands claimed by the Palestinians before talks can resume. Netanyahu has
refused, but says he is ready to discuss all "core" issues with Abbas. Those
include setting the final borders between Israel and a future Palestine,
determining the fate of millions of Palestinian refugees and resolving the
competing claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. Over the weekend
Abbas said he believed a peace deal could be reached within two months if
Netanyahu showed "good will." He suggested that
Netanyahu adopt the positions of his more dovish predecessor, Ehud Olmert.
"We
were close to an agreement," Abbas said. "The Palestinian position is clear to
the Israelis and the Israeli position presented by Olmert is clear to us."
Olmert
has said he offered the Palestinians virtually all
of the West Bank and parts of east Jerusalem – captured areas claimed by the Palestinians for
their state – before negotiations broke down in late 2008.”

Why is
Israel even talking about sitting down with the PLO while the PLO charter is
still in affect. Many of you may not know this, but the PLO is working to
fulfill that charter.  I want you to take a look at article 15 of this charter
which appears in the Palestinian National Covenant.

Below is
the Palestinian National Covenant, the official charter of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO). The text is the English version published
officially by the PLO, unabridged and unedited. Note, however, that
the PLO's translation sometimes deviates from the original Arabic so as to be
more palatable to Western readers. For example, in Article 15, the Arabic is
translated as "the elimination of Zionism," whereas the correct translation is
"the liquidation of the Zionist presence."
"The Zionist presence" is a common Arabic euphemism for the State of Israel, so
this clause in fact calls for the destruction of Israel, not just the end of
Zionism.

“Article 15: The liberation of
Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it
attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine. Absolute
responsibility for this falls upon the Arab nation – peoples and governments –
with the Arab people of Palestine in the vanguard. Accordingly, the Arab nation
must mobilize all its military, human, moral, and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian people in the liberation of Palestine.
It must, particularly in the phase of the armed Palestinian revolution, offer
and furnish the Palestinian people with all possible help, and material and
human support, and make available to them the means and opportunities that will
enable them to continue to carry out their leading role in the armed revolution,
until they liberate their homeland.” 

The Bible has shown us the true intensions of the the
PLO and we see, I believe the results being played out in the Psalm 83 war where
the PLO (Palestinians) join in on the attack against Israel to try and wipe her
off the map. Look again at the news report above and you will see nothing has
changed.   Abbas has once again made it clear to Israel’s Prime Minister that he
wants    virtually all of the West Bank and parts
of east Jerusalem and if you notice it says “captured areas”.  What  are the captured areas?  The most important is
the Temple Mount area in East Jerusalem!  This is where the first and second
Jewish Temples once stood, and it is the holiest site to the Jews.  As you can
see this city has caused major problems for the world and it comes as no
surprise to us because Zechariah 12:3 warned us that this was going to happen in
the last days.  So, the birth pains for the call of Peace and safety continue in
2011, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Psalm 83 war taking place this
year, but only God knows that date for sure.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110102/D9KGA27O1.html

http://www.iris.org.il/plochart.htm

 

 

Gas and oil prophecy in Israel/ Dec. 30, 2010

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Oil/gas rig - AP - Sept. 17, 2010

See full size image In my post dated December 28, 2009 I wrote this to you.

Prophecy Sign: Did you know God warned us that Israel would be blessed in the last days?  Guess where these blessings would come from? Can’t get it? Let me show you what the Lord said in Deuteronomy 33 19. “They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer sacrifices of righteousness; they will feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand."

Let me ask you a question? What is usually found in the seas and in the deserts in the Middle East? Gas and Oil! Did you know part of Deu. 33:19 was in part fulfilled in Feb. 2009? Read this. “Last month Delek-Noble an energy exploration partnership, announced a massive natural gas discovery off Israel’s northern coast. According to reports, they may have enough natural gas to supply Israel’s needs for fifteen years. In the energy exploration world it’s generally understood that where you find gas, 

Further down in my Dec. 2009 report I wrote you this. “Please watch the news and keep what I am saying to you in your mind because when you see on the news that Israel has discovered massive amounts of oil you will know that it wasn’t Frank DiMora who warned you ahead of time but, the Lord in Deuteronomy. 33:19.” (end of my quote from 2009).  All I was doing back in 2009 was trying to get you to keep on the watch so you can be lifted up when you saw the Lord’s hand blessing Israel, and today we saw the hand of the Lord again!

I quote the news today. “The largest reserve of natural gas, over 16 trillion cubic feet, has been discovered off the coast of Israel, and is estimated to be worth more than $95 billion, U.S. company Noble Energy Inc. announced on Wednesday. Noble Energy owns 39.66% of the prospective discovery, alongside Israeli partners Delek Group Ltd. units Avner Oil and Gas LP and Delek Drilling LP (22.67% each), and Ratio Oil Exploration (1992) LP with 15%. The reserve, Leviathon, is the largest amount of natural gas discovered in the world in the last decade and is located in approximately 5,400 feet (1,645 meters) of water, about 130 kilometers offshore of Haifa and 29 miles (47 kilometers) southwest of the Tamar discovery”. 

Once again I want to stop and ask you to watch the news with me. Why? Because in the near future you will read more news about Israel finding massive amounts of oil and gas.  I am sure when I pointed to God and give you His words concerning these blessings that many did not believe in what the Lord said in His Word.  Let it be known that every prophecy God has spoken is coming to pass and this gas find in the sea is one of these prophecies. 

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/largest-natural-gas-reserve-discovered-in-israel-worth-approximately-95-billion-1.334111

The rapture question, a complete look at when it will take place, before, the middle, or at the end of the tribulation, and what will happen if you are not read for it. By Frank DiMora/Dec. 30, 2010

The Rapture, when <br>the dead in Christ shall rise...<br>1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Many people have questions about the rapture. They wonder if the rapture is truly taught in the Bible?  Many people have written me and said, “I don’t believe in the Rapture”, and some have stated the Church must and will go through the seven year tribulation.  I ask them, are you saying you don’t believe in the resurrection of the body? Do you believe you are going to be a disembodied spirit, or ghost throughout eternity, or do you think Jesus means to pour His wrath of those who received Jesus as their Lord? Is that what you think the Bible teaches? 

People usually smile and say “no that’s not what I am saying”, what I mean is, I don’t believe in the rapture before the tribulation starts. What they are really saying when you get to the bottom line is there disbelief of the  pre-tribulation rapture.  So it is a matter of the timing of the rapture that is the controversy.

First of all we need to see the importance of the purpose of the rapture.  You will see why it is that we must be raptured. Then we will also look at the indications of what the timing of the rapture is. Will it be before the Antichrist, during the reign of the Antichrist or, at the end of his reign at the Battle of Armageddon?   The subject of the rapture is critical because it is the promise of Jesus Christ that our bodies will not remain  in the grave, will not remain in the dust, but will be transformed into a body that is fit for eternity. That’s the promise of the Gospel. That is the unique promise of Jesus Christ. Do you know when we bury a individual in the ground that by saying dust to dust we are proclaiming our belief that death and burial in the ground is not the end.  That’s why Christians call it a cemetery it was a sleeping place for the body. The spirit was with Jesus, but the body rested in the ground, but not forever but until the day of the glorious rapture the resurrection.

We find in I Thessalonians 2:19 a wonderful phrase which Paul writes “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?”   Paul says the rapture, the resurrection is our joy he says it is our rejoicing our hope, it our crown of rejoicing. So, do you rejoice in the hope of the resurrection? You should because, while all other generations of Christians died in faith without having participated in the resurrection before their death they will ultimately participate in the rapture when you and I are raptured. But for those of us living we have the promise, that if we are alive when Christ comes we will not have to pass through the portals of death, but we will pass from life to life eternal. 

In I Thessalonians 4:16-17 this is Paul has to say. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

I received an email from a person  who was trying to show me that the last trumpet in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 is the same trumpet found in the Book of Revelation. This person asked me, “WHY in the world are so many looking for the Lord to come at the "pre-trib rapture" of the living, if He doesn't come to resurrect the dead until the seventh trumpet which scripture clearly saying the living are caught up with them?”  Keep in mind this is the same trumpet we see in I Thessalonians 4:16.

Now let us look at what I believe to be one of the most important facts about when the rapture will occur. I will show you there is absolutely no way the last trumpet in I Corinthians is the exact same as one in the Revelation. 

Let’s read 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 first. “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” This trumpet is called the last trumpet, but notice when this trumpet is sounded, people will be changed before a person can even blink his eyes. When this trumpet is sounded, it is fast, and it does not take place in a matter of days as the seventh trumpet of Revelation 11:15. Does the term last trumpet mean that this is the same trumpet as recorded in Revelation 11:15 where it says, “The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever’"?

No, it does not. If you read Revelation 10:7, it says, “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” Revelation shows us the seventh trumpet shall be sounded over a period of days, most likely for the duration of the judgments that fall under the trumpet judgments. Notice the exact words that the Apostle John writes! John says, “Begin to sound." This is a far cry from the trumpet we see in 1 Corinthians where that trumpet happens in a flash!

First of all, the person blowing the trumpet in Revelation 11:15 is an angel, and the chronology of Revelation shows us that the trumpet in Revelation 11:15 sounds at the end of the time of wrath, which comes at the end of the tribulation. If you read 1 Corinthians, you will see that this trumpet is sounded before God’s wrath begins. These are definitely not the same trumpets. In addition, the people blowing these trumpets are not the same. For one, the Lord sounds one trumpet while an angel sounds the other trumpet.

Once you read 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18, you see it even states that the Lord is the one who blows the trumpet that removes the Christians from the Earth. I quote 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18. “According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words.”

There is another major difference which proves the last trumpet of 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians is not the trumpet found in Revelation 11:15. Notice in 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians this trumpet is called a blessing! The trumpet we see sounded by the angel in Revelation is a trumpet of judgment issued on God’s enemies.

In these will known scriptures there is a great deal of teaching about the rapture, but there is more proof to be seen.  For example, we see the Lord Himself is going to come to Earth according to the Book of Revelation. When does He come? The Bible says He comes down to the Earth to defeat the armies of the Antichrist, and the armies of the kings of the East  to defend Israel which would otherwise see curtain destruction, and when He comes down according to Revelation  19:14 he comes with the millions of saints.

If we come down from heaven with Jesus Christ riding on white horses, and we are in our resurrected bodies, bodies just like Jesus, and we are wearing white robes which represent the righteousness of the saints, then common sense  shows us at some point previously to Armageddon we have received our resurrection bodies. Why? Because all Christians those who are in heaven now in the spirit, and those who are alive at the time Christ comes in the air are going to have a resurrection body. One of the things misunderstood by a lot of people is the purpose of the rapture.

The purpose of the (rapture resurrection) is this. God has to transform your mortal body, which either for dead Christians lies in ashes in the ground, or for those who are alive when Jesus comes is a body that is not fit for eternity, it is mortal, and it is corruptible.

God tells us He is going to take our moral body and transform it into a body fit for eternity. Now the word rapture was actually introduced by a great Christian teacher in 385AD by the name Jorum, Jorum was one of the Fathers of the early Church. In his writings and translation of the New Testament into Latin he came to this passage in I Thessalonians 4:17 which says, “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord”.   Jorum looked at that word caught up and he used the best Latin word possible which was (rapere). Repere means to snatch up by external force. What Jorum was saying was, that is the best word used in the Latin language in his version of the Bible, it was very popular from all the way from 385, all the way up till the King James Bible, repere was used!  That became the origin of the word (RAPTURE) used as a noun.  So, the snatching up of the bodies of both those who died and are sleeping in the grave, and those who are still alive will be taken away by the Lord’s force at some time in the near future. So again, the English word "rapture" is derived from the Latin word rapio (rapere, raptus) meaning: to carry away, to be caught up, to snatch, seize, pluck, drag away. The purpose of the rapture is to transform your body into a body fit for eternity!

In I Corinthians 15:53 you will find what God is saying is, for this corruptible, in other words your natural body in verse 53 must put on incorruption and, this mortal must put on immortality. Your body is corruptible, your body is mortal, and because it is mortal it must put on incorruption, it must put on immortally. Simply put, right now your body is not fit for heaven.  For example right now your bodies are not fit to travel at the speed of thought from heaven to Earth and back so you might rule and reign with  Jesus Christ as we are promised to do so in Revelation 5:10 “And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

The Bible tells us we are going to appear at the judgment seat of Christ  there we will receive crowns and awards that we might enjoy for eternity.  This is very important so please pay attention to what you are about to read!

2 Corinthians 5:10 says the following: “for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”  Now, if you are a disembodied spirit which is what our fellow Christians in heaven are, they don’t have a body, they are there in spirit. Remember Jesus said to the thief on the cross today you will be in paradise. 

Paul in  2 Corinthians 5:8 said, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”  Paul is showing us to be absent of the body is to be present with the Lord so, the Bible does not teach soul sleep, no, those who die in the faith, believers in Jesus Christ are instantly transformed, their body goes into the ground, their spirit goes right to heaven the new Jerusalem called (paradise), and there is it joyfully and consciously in the presence of Jesus and the saints, but you yet do not have a body. You can’t eat or drink at the marriage supper of the Lamb unless you have a body.   And for those who think well, that must just be a symbol, no, because we are told clearly that our body and the resurrection is going to be like Jesus’ body when He rose from the dead. 

What was Jesus’ body like?  In Luke 24:36 we are told Jesus was resurrected, He appeared in the middle of the upper room were the disciples were. I quote, “And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.” His disciples were wondering what in the world was going on?  The disciples looked at Jesus, and Jesus looked at them. The disciples thought they had seen a spirit or a ghost, you see it is very difficult for people to get their minds around the idea that in the resurrection our body is going to be as real as it is today, but in the rapture now indestructible, immortal, incorruptible,  no longer subject to disease or accidents or death, but real, a real glorified body.

In learning about the raptured body everyone, especially the Jehovah’s Witness better take a look at what Jesus said to His disciples when He appeared out of no where in that upper room. Luke 24:36-40 gives us this conversion. “Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit.  And He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet”

Keep in mind, the Jehovah’s witness are lost when it comes to these words spoken by Jesus.  Read what the Watchtower Organization teaches about this upper room visitation by Christ.  In the Watchtower book entitled, “Make Sure of All Things” p. 314, the 1953 edition, they say the following. “Jesus’ resurrection not of same body; he merely materialized flesh and blood to be seen and believed”.

He shows them He has flesh and bones and tells them a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones.  This was the glorified resurrected body that you and I will receive at the rapture of the Church. Look at the Word of God, it says Jesus showed them His hands and feet.  Jesus went out of His way to show them all that it was the same Jesus that hung on the cross but, only now in His glorified body, Jehovah’s witness will never receive a glorified body if they do not believe in the real resurrection of our Lord and savior. 

The Watchtower Organization, which is lead by Satan makes Jesus an out and out liar, for if Jesus was really only a spirit, He purposely deceived His disciples in believing He had actually came back from the dead as Jesus Himself.  If Jesus wasn’t the exact same Jesus who hung on the cross then, when Jesus showed the disciples His hands and feet with the holes marks still in them, He was knowing lying to them just to prove He came back.  This is not the first time the Watchtower Organization has turned Jesus into a false prophet and a liar!

The Watchtower Organization, and all the Jehovah’s Witnesses are in fact spreading their lies and, have made Jesus into a false prophet, a false teacher, a false Messiah, and a false god. You will see this not only from the upper room visitation but, also  from John 2:19. Jesus told the religious leaders that He would raise Himself from the dead in three days.  Let’s look at the exact words Jesus used in John 2:19-21. “Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21But he spake of the temple of his body. The Greek word for body is (σῶμα), soma, which means physical body.

So, before Jesus ever appeared to His disciples in the upper room, He had already told the religious leaders He would raise His (soma, physical body) in three days.  Now, if Jesus did not do exactly what He prophesied He would do, raise Himself, then He lied to these religious leaders and, was a again lying and deceiving His Disciples.

As the Jehovah’s Witnesses teach He only assumed a body to prove he came back to life.  God forbid that anyone would believe this Watchtower teaching for it is straight from the pits of hell and Satan.  Assuming a body is no real  resurrection at all. 

Notice what is said in John 2:22. “When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.” What scripture did they refer to? We know it couldn’t be any scripture from the New Testament, because it hadn’t even been written yet. 

The scriptures are found in Genesis 22 verses 4 and 8.  

Genesis 22:4 Abraham is on his was to kill Isaac his Son. “Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off”.  Verse 8 says, “And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together”.  Now do you see why what Jesus said to the religious leaders was so important. Jesus was actually showing them how he would fulfill the scriptures in Genesis chapter 22.  Like the Jehovah’s Witness the religious leaders in Christ’s day believed Jesus to be a liar, for they had been blinded by Satan to the truth of what was going to happen soon.

Now I ask you, why did Jesus then come straight out and tell His disciples, who thought they were looking a  spirit creature, that it was, (I Myself). Jesus tells them point blank that He wasn’t a spirit, and that is why He wanted His disciples to handle them. He wanted to make sure they really understood that He was the real Jesus Christ.  Not some fake body that was just assumed to prove a lie!

I believe over the years the Lord God has shown the lies being spread by the Watchtower and, most of the Jehovah’s witnesses aren’t even aware Satan is teaching them.  Here is an example.

In their watchtower book, “Let God Be True, page 274, of the 1952 edition, the leaders who claim to be directed by God said, and teach, “Satan and his demons tried to obscure the true meaning of the resurrection by teaching that the resurrection was only in a spiritual sense”. I see nothing wrong with this because Satan has always worked to discredit the true resurrection of Christ, but wait one minute, let’s see if the WatchTower leaders are in fact taking sides with Satan? 

In the Watchtower book entitled, “Make Sure of All Things” p. 314, the 1953 edition, they say the wrote the following. “Jesus’ resurrection not of same body; he merely materialized flesh and blood to be seen and believed”, and this is still the current teaching of this Satanic Organization today. 

If God was leading this organization do you think that He would have given them teachings that would counter each other out?  No my friends, Jesus is not a false prophet nor is Jesus a lair! Nor is He the author of confusion, Satan is! 

Jesus did exactly what He said He would do. When He came back to the disciples it was in the resurrected glorified body outfitted for heaven.  You will see that this glorified resurrected body can do the things that Jesus did while on Earth, and when you get your resurrected gloried body at the rapture you will be able to do these same things. You will be able to just appear into any room you want just the way Jesus did in the upper room when He told His Disciples to touch Him.

How real is Jesus’ gloried body you ask? Take a look at Luke 24:41-42 to see. The passage says, “And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.” In His resurrection body Jesus sat down with His disciples and eat the food and drank with them.

Why did He do this? Christ obviously wouldn’t have starved had he not eaten but, I believe Jesus wanted to show them that in heaven, in eternity, we are going to enjoy the good things of God’s creation without sin, and we are going to be able to eat and drink if we want.  We know that even the angels eat.

Read Psalms 78:24-25 it tells us, “And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.”  In other words manna was one of the foods that angels eat, so if angels eat, and Jesus tells us we are going to eat at the marriage supper of the Lamb, and He tells us His our body is going to be like His, in the resurrection, then we have the confidence that we are going to eat and drink. We are going to be able to enjoy all the good things of the Lord’s creation both in heaven and in eternity.

As far as the Jehovah’s witnesses, or anyone who doesn’t believe Jesus rose from the dead in that resurrected gloried body, Paul in I Corinthians 15-19 tells us that your faith is in vain, and you are still in your sins. In other words, you are not saved. If your not saved you are on the road leading to hell, so the matter of what Jesus had shown His Disciples in that upper room because of great important to ones eternal life!

How do you know your body will be like Jesus when He rose from the dead? In 1 John 3:2 it says this, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

The book of Philippians 3:21 tells us the same thing. “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself?”  The Bible is very clear, we will have a glorious (resurrection body) just like our Lord Jesus. That body will be fit so we can rule and reign with Jesus Christ. We are going to be like Jesus with no limitations.

The rapture is going to reveal a body that is so glorious Paul wrote about it and said we can hardly image the things that God has prepared for us. Paul said the following in I Corinthians 2:9. “But as it is written, 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.”

One of the most asked questions in my ministry is the question about the timing of the rapture? Is it going to take place before the Seven year tribulation period?  People want to know will the rapture be a pre-tribulation rapture. Is it going to take place in the middle of the tribulation, which is referred to as Mid-tribulation, or is it going to take at the end the tribulation at the time of the Battle of Armageddon, which is the referred to as the post tribulation rapture?

Many who dislike the pre-tribulation theory have stated that it is a new theory invented in the 1830 by John Darby, and the Plymouth Brethren. However, read the book, a manuscript by Ephron the Syrian. He was a great Christian Saint, a deacon and Bishop, and he wrote extensively in the earthly Church.  He wrote a book on the Antichrist and the end of the world where he clearly says in 373, he said the Lord will clearly ascend from heaven and will take us to be with Himself that we might escape the confusion that over takes the whole world. It is it a clear pre-tribulation rapture statement that is made 15 centuries before most people thought it was ever discussed.

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Naturally the Bible did not lay out precisely  when the rapture would take place. God wanted us to be on guard at all times. Christ wanted us to be in the sense of urgently expecting Him to come back at any time.  If you read the Bible you will see over and over again where Jesus instructs us to always be on the watch.

For example, in Matthew 24:42 Jesus says, “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come”.   But the same time Jesus condemned the spiritual leaders of His day for being aware of the physical signs of the weather and not being aware of the signs of the coming of the Son of man.  

The prophecies are being fulfilled just the way they were the first time Jesus came to Earth, and people are just as blind as the religious leaders in Christ time.  For example, Israel is born again which that prophecy alone shows us we are living in the last days.

If you read the Book of Revelation as serious as you should, the seven year tribulation will be the worse period of time in God’s entire history of mankind. It will be a time of such unparalleled horror and judgment upon Earth that it is very doubtful that many Christians could live if that was God’s purpose, but I do not believe it is.

It is a time when God is going to turn back to Israel. With the Church taken out at the rapture before the tribulation, God is going to send people out to preach His Word.  There will be the return of two prophets, Jewish witnesses, Elijah and probably Moses. Revelation 11:3 says, “And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."

Jesus is also sending 144,000 Jewish witnesses who will not be harmed by the Antichrist. We see this 144,000 in Revelation chapter 7, and Revelation 14:1-5.

There is going to be a rebuilt temple and animal sacrifices just like the Jews did when Jesus came the first time.  With all this going on it would be confusion if the Church was still on Earth at that time. No, the Church is gone at this time, their witnessing time for Christ has ended with the rapture, and this is now the job of the 144,00 Jewish male virgins that Jesus has sealed, and the two prophets of old.

Is there one special verse that points to the rapture taking place before the seven year tribulation?

I would point to this verse in I Thessalonians 1:10 where Paul writes the following: “And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” I want you to think about the timing, and sequence of this. He says Christians are to wait expectedly for His Son from heaven. When the rapture takes place the Church leaves this Earth for heaven. So Jesus coming from heaven, the rapture, is going to deliver Christians from the wrath to come.

There are only two possibilities for the wrath to come. Either the wrath to come is the wrath of hell, or it is the wrath from the tribulation, because from Revelation chapter 6 to Revelation chapter 19 the entire judgment is poured out on Earth.

This is where the wrath of God is poured out on unrighteous sinners. So it can not be the wrath of hell because His second coming doesn’t deliver us from the wrath of hell, its His first coming, His death, His atonement on the cross that is what allowed us to escape the wrath to come.

What we know is, the rapture is going to allow Christians to escape the wrath that will come in the tribulation. Why? Not because we deserve it but, because its God’s purpose. From Genesis to Revelation you will not find a single example of God Judging  indiscriminately between the righteous and the unrighteous.  Paul said in I Thessalonians 5:9 “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ”.  Here is the promise wrath will come but, not for those who put their faith and trust in Jesus.

God’s wrath is coming but not for the Lord’s true believers. Jesus shows us in Revelation 3:10 that we aren’t going to tested during the tribulation because, we were faithful and are spared from this time.  Revelation 3:10 says, “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth”.  The Church won’t spend an hour, or a day, or a year, or neither seven years of testing on Earth because, Jesus promised us He would keep us from this trial.

As we see all the prophecies coming to pass we know that we are in the last days and very close to the beginning of the seven year tribulation. If all these prophecies are taking place, and we know the rapture will take place before the Antichrist appears, then if the Antichrist is close then the rapture, the resurrection of the Church of Jesus Christ is even closer. 

I get questions from youtube video and my prophecy site all the time asking me to explain why I believe that the scriptures reveal that the rapture will occur before the seven year tribulation period. Here is the sequence very clearly for you.

I Thessalonians 1:10 we are to wait for a future event, which Jesus is coming from heaven, the rapture and then that event is going to deliver us from the wrath to come. This I also believe is a clear message that what God is saying is, the deliverance of the Church, through the second coming of Jesus at the rapture when He comes with His saints the spirits of all those who have died in faith, then those who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the air, we then will escape the wrath to come. It is very clear as I stated, from Revelation chapter 6-19 that what is poured out from heaven on unrepeated sinners during that entire seven year period is the wrath of God. 

Remember, the tribulation will begin with the four horsemen of the apocalypse which are clearly representative of the wrath of God as shown over 12 other times in the Old Testament. The fact is, I think the scriptures clearly shows that God has not appointed us unto wrath just as Paul said in I Thessalonians 1:9. and Revelation 3:10.

Here are two contrasting destinies. One is that of the unrepentant sinners, who will endure the wrath of God poured without mixture during the seven year period.  Then there are those who put their faith in Jesus as Christians, and their destiny is salvation. There’s several other facts that point clearly to the fact  that the Church is not on Earth at this time. 

Again, in sequence in Revelation 4:1-4 we read the following. “After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.” Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.  And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.  Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads. Notice the words (come up here). In the Greek this is meta tauta or, literally, “after these things”  In other words Jesus was about to show John everything that was going to happen on Earth once the rapture of the Church took place.

Jesus also shows us a picture of the rapture I believe in Revelation 11: 11-12 11And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them”.  These are the same words God spoke to John when He brought him into heaven to see what would happen after the Church was gone. The two prophets are lifted up into a cloud the same way the Church is going to meet Jesus in a clouds when we get raptured.

Keep in mind, after Revelation 4:1 you do not see the Church again until you see it coming  back with Jesus in Revelation chapter 19! Take careful notice of the message Jesus gives to John before the the Church is raptured as recorded in Revelation chapter 2 and 3. I want you to read what Jesus says in Revelation 2:7, verse 11, verse 17, verse 29 and from Revelation chapter 3 verses 6, 13, and 22.  All of these verses say the same exact thing which is, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches.”

Now in Revelation 4:1 Jesus calls John up to heaven. It is at this point the Church is in heaven.  Now I want you to see what Jesus says after the Church is already in heaven while the tribulation is going on Earth. I quote Christ, “If any man have an ear, let him hear.”  Do you see something missing?  Notice Christ leaves out the word (Spirit)!  The reason being is the Holy Spirit was active in the Church while the Church was on the Earth, but now the Spirit has departed when the Church was raptured to heaven, and so Jesus changed the way He words Revelation 13:9 because he is now addressing those on Earth going through the tribulation period, who are the unrighteous people left behind.

Understanding II Thessalonians 2:1-8 is very important to upstanding when the rapture of the Church will take place.

1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3Let 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; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And 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” 

Who is He that is holding back the revealing of the Antichrist?  It is the work of the Holy Spirit.  At the present time where is the Holy Spirit living?  He is living in all the people who have received Jesus Christ as their savior.  When the Holy Spirit steps aside to allow the Antichrist to make his final moves, that is when the Church is called up to heaven. 

In Paul’s second letter to Timothy we find this statement in II Timothy 4:8: “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”   If you love the rapture, and are waiting and enduring patiently as eluded to by what Jesus shows us in Revelation 3:10, you will receive a crown of righteousness according to Paul.

Now get this very important point coming to you! Notice John sees these twenty-four elders with crowns. These twenty-four elders represent the Church resurrected to heaven.  If they have crowns then the rapture has already occurred and the judgment seat of Christ in which crowns are given out has already occurred.

Three chapters later in Revelation chapter 7 John receives a vision of a great multitude that no one can number of every tribe, nation, kindred, or tongue.   John asks the questions logically, who are these people? He has already seen the raptured Church with their crowns, who are these people there in heaven to?  We see the angels answer to John’s question in Revelation 7:14. “And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”  Notice that the Church was already sitting on their thrones with their white robes, so the who came out of the great tribulation had to be the people who refused the Antichrist’s mark and were killed by the Antichrist.

Now immediately the angel is ready to pour out the judgments of God, the wrath, and then we see yet another angel coming on the scene. Revelation 7:2-4 records this. “Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel” Immediately the angels begin to supernaturally seal the 144,000 righteous Jews.

We know the number of these 144,00 Jewish men is not symbolic for we are told exactly who the 144,000 are. First of all, in Revelation 7: 5-8 we see that these people come from the 12 tribes of Israel. Jesus took the time to list each tribe and show how many would come from each tribe, He shows us there are 12 thousand men from each tribe. Then in Revelation 14:3-4 we are told that these sealed people from the 12 tribes are man for they are not defiled with women, they are virgins.  It is clear to us, God turns His attention back to the nation Israel and, the Jews when the Church is  gone.  This is not a symbolic numbers as the Watchtower Society would have you believe, but these Jewish men will soon begin to preach Jesus Christ as the true Messiah when the seven year tribulation begins. 

Concerning these 144,000, please stay with me on this because only two chapters later in chapter 9 we see these sealed men again in scripture. Revelation chapter 9 God allows to be released from the bottomless pit satanic locusts that are part of the judgment of God, they sting people so that (EVERYONE) on Earth is stung except the 144,000 sealed men, the  Jewish virgins. In Revelation 9:5 we are told that for five months people will wish they could die the pain is so great but they can not die. 

Now logically follow this. There are 144,000 righteous Jews sealed for protection everyone else on Earth is stung by these demonic locusts. There are two groups that encompass the entire population of Earth, 144,000 righteous Jews and everyone else unrepentant sinners.    Where is the Church? The Church is not there! The Church is already in heaven. They left starting at Revelation 4:1 where Jesus showed John the things that would take place after the Church was raptured.  That also explains why the Antichrist curses those who are in heaven, those who have escaped him, the Christians.

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f you still teach the Church most go through the tribulation you better support that finding by showing some where in the Bible where Jesus has angels sealing another group of people from the demon locust attack on the people. Fact is, there is no where in the entire Bible where you will read of anyone else God shows us is sealed from these demon locusts.  Do you know what that means?  It means that if you claim to be a Christian, and there is no rapture, which means everyone would have to go through the seven year tribulation, that ever one on Earth except these 144,000 Jewish male virgins will be stung by these demon locusts and suffer for five months to the point people where try to kill themselves, but won’t be able to die.  Does this sound like God is keeping His Church from Wrath? 

Another question I have been asked is why do so many Christians deny the pre-tribulation rapture so vehemently? I believe that some in their lack of teaching, lack of study, somehow image the rapture is an escape clause for the America or the worldwide Church today, that some how we will not go through persecution were as many others generations have.  Well my friends, if the Lord tarries much longer we will see persecution even in America.

The Truth of the matter is God has never promised us freedom from persecution. The truth is many millions of Christians have been persecuted in the past, and are today still being persecuted in many countries around the world, but persecution is not essential to purify us as many imagine.

Think about it. All those Christians who come in the air with Jesus at the rapture, millions of those did not go through persecution, but died in their peaceful sleep. We also know that going through the tribulation is not something that will purify us and is necessary thereby. Again all those who come in the air with Jesus in the rapture include both wonderful righteous Christians like like Saint Paul, and will include Christians who had kind of indifferent Christian following.

What we know is, we are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ applied to our heart plus nothing else. It is the judgment seat of Christ where justice is handed out to us where we will receive rewards and crowns and mansions that reflect our faithful service.  

Looking back in history, you will find every time God pasted judgment on the unrighteous, what did He do first?  Each time He sent someone to the unrighteous to warn them to come to God before God passed His judgment on them. We see this trend in the Old Testament Exodus 12:8  “Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs”. This was a sign of the lambs blood that would be shed on the cross in the future that would save the world from God’s wrath and judgment.

In Exodus 12:12-13 we see how God made a way to spare the righteous who listened to His warning. I quote,  12“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn—both men and animals—and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt”.

This is the same promise Jesus has for anyone who is born again in Christ. Concerning the blood Paul wrote in Roman’s 5:9 “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved rom God’s wrath through him!”.

I think the Apostle Paul best illustrates for us how God is going to spare the righteous from wrath. 2 Peter 2: 4-9 says, “4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished”.

In each case above, God sent in someone to lead the people to safety before He pass His judgment, and today millions are spreading God’s warnings that God’s wrath is coming again on the unrighteous.

To read more about the rapture of the Church you can read my post from June 9, 2010 This post and the June 9th post gives you more than enough proof the rapture takes place before the seven year tribulation begins. 

Matthew 24:36 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

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Before you read this post I want to make one thing very clear. In no way am I saying the rapture of the Church is going to happen this coming September. Yes it is possible, but we just do not know for sure. Jesus could choose to come for His Church next year, the year after, ten years from now. The point is this. We know He will come for His Bride the Church at some point during the Feast of Trumpet. Since we do not know what year we must do what He asks and keep on the watch. Be ready at all times so that when He does come He will find you doing His will and ready to be taken at the rapture.

Why does Jesus want us to keep our eye on the biblical calendar? Jesus wants those who are watching for His return to be ready when he comes to take the church out of the world. The only way one can do that is to know what they are looking for. It is clear as day what Christians are to look for, but I would say most Christians don't have a clue as to what the sign is. Why don't they know? I can see two reasons, first they are in a church where their pastor never teaches about the signs of the times and, second Christians are not studying the word themselves and they therefore would not know the signs. Let me help you understand  a very important message from Christ. If you understand what Jesus was talking about, it will become clear to you what you and your family should be watching for.

Many people have asked 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'm 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 the Jewish thoughts and Jewish traditions.

The phrase but of that day and hour no  man knows is a common Hebrew idiom for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is one of the seven Jewish Holidays, and it is 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 feasts 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 and how Christ would bring redemption to all who received him. In short, God has given us his biblical calendar. Out of the seven biblical holidays the only ones left to be fulfilled are the fall feast which are Rosh Hashanah also known as the Feast of 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 Matthew 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 the 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. This was the normal practice for the Jews. That statement was a traditional response. When it came time for this wedding to take place the man would go out at midnight sound the blast by blowing the sulfur 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 time 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.

In a Jewish wedding the Jewish woman indicates she will marry him by accepting his proposal by drinking a cup of wine he gives her. What did Jesus do with the last supper? Jesus passed a cup of wine at the Last Supper and those who drank the wine accepted being his bride.

Secondly, the Jewish man would have to pay a price to the bride's parents. What did Jesus do and what was the price he paid? Jesus paid the price for us as His bride with His own life by dying on the cross for us.

The next thing and Jewish men would do to prepare for the wedding was to give His bride a gift. 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 prepare for this wedding was go and prepare a place for both himself and his wife to live in when they were married. Do you remember the words of Jesus Christ in John chapter 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 you may be also”. This is where Jesus is right now, he is preparing the home for His church the bride of Christ.

The next thing the Jewish man would do to prepare for Jewish wedding is this, he would take a host of people with Him 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 First Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 15 through 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 ark angel, and with the trumpet of God. This is the point at which time Jesus will come for us, the church, just the same way the Jewish man would go out at midnight and call  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 seven 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 seven years.

If you notice, this is the exact length of the seven-year tribulation. Listen to what it says in Isaiah chapter 26:20-21 “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 chamber's Jesus will keep his church in while the seven-year tribulation is taking place on earth. The Church, bride of Christ, will be hidden from these terrible times that will befall the earth during the tribulation.

As you can now see, everything that Jesus has done was in accordance to the traditions of the Jewish wedding which is also based on the holidays of the  biblical calendar. I want to get back to what the Apostle Paul had to say in 1 Thessalonians chapter 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 the signs of the times would be taking place during the times and seasons, or the Jewish holidays. In the above verse 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 season.

When you read Genesis chapter 1 verse 14 we see the word seasons which is the Hebrew word for a pointed 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 to you, being Jewish they understood exactly what Paul was talking about.

The only people who will be in the dark when Jesus comes on His feast will be those who did not receive Jesus as their Lord and savior.

Please take notice in relation to Rev. 3:3. In part of this verse Jesus tells the Church at Sardis, which was considered a dead church to repent from their ways and to watch. Notice what happens when you aren’t watching? I quote, that part of verse 3 here, “I will come on the as a thief and the owl shalt not know what hour I will come upon the.”

Don’t forget, Jesus is speaking to the dead church. What is Jesus showing us in this verse? Christ is showing us He only comes to the dead Church as a thief, not to an alert and alive Church, they will not be caught off guard.

In Revelation chapter 3 verses 17 through 18 Jesus is now speaking to the Church of Laodicea. This is another Church that is not ready and Jesus calls this church and lukewarm Church. What happens to a lukewarm Church? Jesus tells us this answer in Revelation 3:16 where he says, “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth”. 

Notice in those verses Jesus tells them to go and buy white raiment that “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. Stay with me and you'll understand exactly what it is.

Rev. 3:18 is another key to understanding what Jesus is showing us. I quote “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see”.

Now I want you to tie in what is written in Revelation 16:15, by connecting this verse to Rev. 3:18, this will become clear to you why you have to make the connection. Revelation 16:15 says the following: “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame”.

Let's go back to the Jewish traditions for a second, and I will show you how all this is ties together. During the time that the Jewish Temple was standing when Jesus was here the first time, 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 where the priest had to be watching. One of the things they had to watch for was that the fire on the altar would not go out. This was a Godly fire that fell on the altar, and it was commanded by God that this fire never go out. The priest had to watch this fire. If her priest was found to be sleeping when the captain of the guard checked on his rounds, the captain of the guard would take his torch, which was next to the altar fire, and set the priest’s garment on fire with the torch. The priest would be awaken by the fire, he would get up run through the Temple tearing off the garments that were on fire, and the shame of the priest’s nakedness would appear.

Now you see how Revelation chapter 16 verse 15 ties into what Jesus said about the Church that was dead. 

Now, when you go back and read 1 Thessalonians 5:1-4  Paul says the following: “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 this phrase, “as a thief in the night”. In other words, when Jesus comes back and finds you sleeping like the priest in the Temple, and obviously not on the watch, you'll end up like the priest, running in your nakedness and in shame because you were not ready for his visitation.

Now let us look at Matthew chapter 25:1-13. In these verses Jesus’ is talking to two groups of virgins. One group was ready and on the watch, they were prepared for the bridegroom to come. This is a picture of the church doing the will of the Father, This again ties in to the Jewish wedding in  keeping on the watch and the Lord coming back for his bride.

Jesus said five virgins were ready and had oil in their lamps when the bridegroom came. Notice that the bridegroom comes at midnight as the custom of the Jewish wedding, notice also, he comes with a shout as with the custom. The five virgins 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 the 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 five virgins who were not ready to go out to the bridegroom when he came at midnight? Jesus tells us they didn't prepare. These five 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 and to 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 in Christ Jesus. These five unprepared virgins is a picture of all the people who will find themselves tossed into the seven-year tribulation, because they like the priest at the Temple were fast a sleep. They like the priest were discovered by the Captain of the guard who was know as the thief in the night, or in this case Jesus Christ. As a result of you not being ready you as the priest will have been found and become naked and ashamed just like the priest did.

Now look at the message Jesus gave to us about the good servants and evil servants found in Luke 12:37-40. This is the message to the good servants. “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 12:41-47 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. Look what Jesus said to these evil servants. “The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looked not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and he will cut him sunder, and will point him his portion with the unbelievers”.

These are the people who knew better, they knew the Lord's will but, they are not doing the Lord's will.

The next verse tells us in verse 37, ”and that servant, which knew the Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes”. I ask you now, are you one of the so-called believers who are not abiding in Christ today, and you are not doing the will of the Father? We know for a fact that there are millions of people around the world who claim to be Christians, but in fact are not doing the will of the Father. This class of Christians is neither doing the will of the Father nor are they watching for the Lord's return as Christ asked them to do. Again these people we are told, they knew his will yet didn't follow his will.

In Luke 12:41 Peter asks Jesus,"are you speaking this parable to us, or even tell all?”. This question goes to the core of the question who is the evil servant? Jesus answered Peter by telling him of the evil servants who do not do the will of the Father. Once again we see a group of people being split in half.

First there was the ten virgins, five which were wise and ready, and the other five who were not ready and were unprepared when the Lord came at midnight. Now we see good servants watching and doing the will of the Father who will be blessed, compared to the other half, the evil servants, who know God's will, but are not doing his will, and are not keeping watch, and will be beaten.

Another very important fact to remember about the Feast of Trumpets is this, no one knows the day or hour because the Feast of Trumpets started at the sighting of the full moon. Let me explain. On the 30th of each month, the members of the high court assembled in the court yard in Jerusalem, where they waited to receive the testimony of the two reliable witnesses. These two witnesses were the people who could verify that they had seen the full moon.

At the spotting of the full moon it would allow  the members of the high court to then sanctify the new moon. This would mean that the Feast of Trumpets would begin.  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 moons crescent was not seen on the 30th day, the new moon was automatically celebrated on the 31st day. For this reason, the Feast of Trumpets is always celebrated for two days. These two days are celebrated as though it is just one day of 48 hours.

The reason that it is celebrated for two days is because if they waited to start the celebration until after the new moon and then 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, as Paul stated, but not the day or the hour as we have seen in Matthew  24:32-36.

Yom Teruah, or the Feast of Trumpets, is the only Jewish Feast that we do not know the day in which to keep it, as we are not sure when the new moon will be spotted. Therefore, we have to be on the look and watch for it.  When Jesus is saying you won't know the day or the hour as recorded in Matthew 24 verse 36, He is telling us it is the Feast of Trumpets because it is 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 two-day celebration.  No one could today tell you when the rapture of the Church will happen because it could take place at any time within a 48 hour period.

At the Feast of Trumpets Jesus will return to remove His bride the Church, it will not overtake the church who is doing the will of the Father, this Church will standing on the watch for the master to return. Paul speaks of this rapture of the church in 1 Corinthians 15:51-53 where he says the following “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality”.

At some point in the very near future Jesus will come out from heaven and call his bride to himself, just is in the Jewish wedding. We who are on the watch, His bride, will be ready, and we are going to be changed from these  human bodies to the heavenly bodies. The question to ask yourself at this point is, what class has Jesus seen 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 five who are not ready, and have no oil in your lamps?  Are you one of the good servants who when Jesus comes will find you standing at the door on the 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? 

Wake up Church and choose what side you will be on, the light or the darkness.   If you are not a Christian I say wake up to what Jesus has shown you and repent so you can be accounted worthy to escape all the things that shall coming to pass and stand before the Son of Man, Christ Jesus.  I leave you with these words from Jesus our Messiah. “He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches”.