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No man knows the hour or time when the world shall end.

1Th. 5:1 Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you,
1Th. 5:2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
1Th. 5:3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety”, destruction will come on them suddenly, as labour pains on a pregnant
woman, and they will not escape.
1Th. 5:4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.
1Th. 5:5 You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

The rapture will not surprise the sons of God like a thief. Start getting ready for rapture now and stop this your "No man knows the hour or time" quote.

Sounding of First Trumpet

Re. 8:7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

The rapture takes place when the first trumpet is sounded. That should be in November, 2017. The Antichrist rises up as leader of the world.

Opening of the Seventh Seal

Re. 8:1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Seal 7 will very likely be opened in the seventh month of God's calendar. 1st of Tishrei, 5777 is on September 21st, 2017. The sign of Revelation 12 occurs on September 23rd, 2017. It is in this month of Tishrei that the adoption of the sons of God takes place. It is known that just as Jesus rose from the dead forty days before his ascension, the sons of God will transform from mortal to immortality forty days before the rapture. The adoption of the sons of God makes them to transform from mortal to immortality.

Mt. 25:6 “At midnight the cry rang out: `Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

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Opening of the Sixth Seal

Re. 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
Re. 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig-tree when shaken by a strong wind.
Re. 6:14 The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Re. 6:15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
Re. 6:16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
Re. 6:17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

Seal 6 will very likely be opened in the sixth month of God's calendar. 1st of Elul, 5777 is on August 23rd, 2017. At this time, there will be a great earthquake in the world. This could be when some great earthquakes prophesied for USA will take place. Stars in the sky falling to earth refers to asteroid impacts. Privileged people will hide in caves among the rocks of mountains in order to escape small asteroids.

Opening of the Fifth Seal

Re. 6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
Re. 6:10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”
Re. 6:11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.

Mt. 24:9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
Mt. 24:10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
Mt. 24:11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Mt. 24:12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
Mt. 24:13 but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.

Re. 12:3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads.
Re. 12:4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born.

Seal 5 will very likely be opened in the fifth month of God's calendar. 1st of Av, 5777 is on July 24th, 2017. At this time, the dragon begins to manifest in the world. The kingdom of darkness could see many sons of God rapidly growing in the Spirit, and so begins to mount great opposition. Persecution of Spirit-filled Christians will sharply increase. Many Spirit-filled Christians will be martyred. This will cause a great falling away of many born-again Christians. But born-again Christians who have grown very mightily in divine power will not be affected by the persecution.

Opening of the Fourth Seal

Re. 6:7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”
Re. 6:8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Seal 4 will very likely be opened in the fourth month of God's calendar. 1st of Tamuz, 5777 is on June 25th, 2017. This may be when World War 3 takes place. A fourth of the earth will be involved; may be in land mass.

Opening of the Third Seal

Re. 6:5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.
Re. 6:6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart [Greek: a choinix (probably about a litre)] of wheat for a day’s wages, [Greek: a denarius] and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, [Greek: a denarius] and do not damage the oil and the wine!”

Seal 3 will very likely be opened in the third month of God's calendar. 1st of Sivan, 5777 is on May 26th, 2017. Great famine will begin in various parts of the world.

Mt. 24:7b There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Opening of the Second Seal

Re. 6:3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
Re. 6:4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.

Seal 2 will very likely be opened in the second month of God's calendar. 1st of Iyyar, 5777 is on April 27th, 2017. Any time from this date, major wars begins to rage around the world.

Mt. 24:7a Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

Opening of the First Seal

Re. 6:1 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!”
Re. 6:2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

Seal 1 will be opened on 1st of Nisan, 5777, that is on March 28th, 2017. The 144,000 Israelite evangelists arise. The establishment of the kingdom of God (Da. 2:44) begins as the 144,000 begin to preach the gospel of the kingdom (Mt. 24:14). Once the establishment of the kingdom of God begins, the kingdom of darkness will become agitated. The kingdom of darkness will definitely respond by causing so much trouble in the world.

In August 2016, I posted this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/3273748/first-seal-opened-week. Unfortunately, I was wrong. That post was predicated on the fact that the Jupiter transit in Virgo in which the sign of Revelation 12 will occur began in August 2016. I later realized that God's events follow the calendar that He gave in the Torah. Jesus earthly ministry began on the first day of the first month of God's calendar. In Jn. 2:1, Jesus earthly ministry was in its third day. In Jn. 2:13, it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Jn. 2:23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name.

My predictions in this thread are predicated on the fact that the sign of Revelation 12 will occur on September 23rd, 2017 and on my knowledge that rapture will take place by mid-November, 2017. https://www.nairaland.com/3500416/next-one-year

1st of Nisan, 5777 is on March 28th, 2017. That is when the biblical end time begins.

Ac. 10:1 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment.
Ac. 10:2 He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.
Ac. 10:3 One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
Ac. 10:4 Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.
Ac. 10:5 Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter.
Ac. 10:6 He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
Ac. 10:7 When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants.

The whole of Acts chapter 10 is about Cornelius, the first gentile to be baptized into Jesus Christ. God Himself sent His angel to get Cornelius to be baptized into Jesus Christ. Why? Cornelius and his family were devout and God-fearing; Cornelius gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.

God will also send His angels to get today's Christians who live like Cornelius of old ready for the rapture. Cornelius was rich and so had some goods to give out in generosity. But even the poor of today who do not have much of goods to give can give services generously and still earn God's approval.

Begin now to get ready for the rapture. Rapture is less than one year away.

Spiritual Food is Necessary for Rapture

Matthew 24 is about the end time; from the beginning of birth pains to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Matthew 25 is specifically about the rapture. Mt. 25:1-13 covers the Parable of the Ten Virgins. Five of the virgins are wise, while five are foolish. What distinguishes the wise from the foolish is buying and storing oil for their lamps. The wise virgins buy oil well in time, before the arrival of the bridegroom. It wasn’t until the bridegroom was already at the door that the foolish virgins realized that they needed oil for their lamps. The foolish virgins had to go and buy oil rather late and by the time they got the oil, the rapture had taken place. The oil is the same thing with spiritual food for the spirit man. The spirit man cannot manifest if it is not adequately fed with spiritual food. One key thing to note about the Parable of the Ten Virgins is that the virgins have to pay price for the oil. They do not get oil just by believing or having faith in Jesus.

Mt. 25:14-30 covers the Parable of the Talents. A man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man that was given five talents of money invested his money and gained five talents more. The man that was given two talents of money also invested his money and gained two talents more. The man that was given one talent of money dug a hole and hid his money and thereby never invested it. When the master of the servants returned and accounts were rendered to him, he commended and promoted the servants that invested their money. The master condemned the one talent man who refused to invest his money and got him thrown to outer darkness. The meaning of this parable is simply that people who utilize their God-given abilities in the work of God and who through that receive measures of spiritual food for their inner beings will be welcomed by Jesus into his kingdom during the rapture. Followers of Jesus who do not utilize their God-given abilities or endowments in the work of God will not earn spiritual food for their inner beings and so will miss the rapture and be exposed to the dark reign of the Antichrist.

Mt. 25:31-46 covers the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats. The sheep are people who give to followers of Christ who are hungry something to eat; who give to followers of Christ who are thirsty something to drink; who invited followers of Christ who were strangers into their houses; who clothed followers of Christ that needed clothes; who looked after followers of Christ who were sick; and who visited followers of Christ who were in prison. These are some of the work a person can do to earn food that endures to eternal life. As you do such work, when you pray, ask God to feed your inner being with the bread of life. He will feed you.

He. 3:12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
He. 3:13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

He. 10:24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds.
He. 10:25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Jn. 9:4 As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no-one can work.

The Late Neal Frisby of Capstone Cathedral, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, wrote in one of his scrolls that “Love will rapture the bride.” Neal Frisby’s statement is in agreement with Matthew 25. Working for food that endures to eternal life is simply practicing love. Note that our practice of love in this end time must aim at encouraging people to earn spiritual food for the spirit man by doing acts of love towards the people of God. We need to make our brethren to become righteous; always urging them to practice love in order to make the rapture and being good examples.

Background

Ge. 2:7 The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Ge. 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Ge. 2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Ge. 2:10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

In the creation of man, God first of all created the physical or outer man. Then He birthed a spiritual or inner being within the outer man. God thereafter placed the man that He created in His garden. This garden had physical trees that provided food for the outer man. The two trees at the center of the garden were spirit beings that could feed the inner being. A river that watered the Garden of God flowed from Eden and this river separated into four headwaters. This river apparently had both natural and spiritual (rivers of living water) components.

Ge. 2:15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Even though God provided all the natural and spiritual food that man needed in the Garden of Eden, man nevertheless needed to work and take care of the garden in order to get all the food that he required from the garden. Man does not need to work or take care of the rivers; water is free.

Jn. 4:10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

We can see that living water was available during the time of Jesus’ earthly ministry; but spiritual food was not. We can therefore conclude that whereas it is easy to get water (natural or spiritual), it is not as easy to get food (natural or spiritual).

Every human being begins existence as a natural man. The natural man can only eat natural food and drink natural drink. In order to be able to eat spiritual food and drink spiritual drink, a person must be born again. The person must be baptized into Jesus Christ in water and in the Spirit. After a person has received the spiritual man from God, the spiritual man is very small in stature and in strength. In order for the spiritual man to grow in stature and strength, it must be fed with spiritual food and spiritual drink. Spiritual drink (living water) can easily be obtained through prayer; but spiritual food (divine power) must be earned by doing the work of God. In order for the spirit man to be fed with spiritual food, one must work for it and then pray for God to feed him/her. It is not free. We should feed on spiritual food and drink spiritual drink everyday.

Jn. 6:27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

In Jn. 6:27, Jesus spoke of the food that endures to eternal life as a future thing (by then). He said, “which the Son of Man will give you.” We can therefore see that this food that endures to eternal life was not available during Jesus’ earthly ministry. This food could only be given by the glorified Jesus. This clarification is necessary because it is common for Christians to say that spiritual food and spiritual drink (living water) are the word of God. The word of God was abundantly present during the time of Jesus’ earthly ministry, but spiritual food was to come in the future; after Jesus is glorified.

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The Growth of the Inner Being

The inner being grows as it feeds on the bread of life and drinks living water. But from the stories of Adam and of Jesus Christ, we can see that the bread of life and living water are not cheap. God gives the bread of life of life and living water as reward or wage for doing His work or His word. Adam did the work of Satan, instead of the work of God, so God kicked him far away from the tree of life and made sure he would never be able to get to the tree of life. Jesus Christ stoutly rejected the work of Satan and did the work of God to the full; God raised him to the highest possible spiritual level.

Ph. 3:10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.

1Jn. 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

Ga. 6:14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

In order to obtain the power of resurrection, we must fellowship with Jesus in the carrying of the cross and by dying to the world.

1Jn. 2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn. 2:16 For everything in the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does — comes not from the Father but from the world.
1Jn. 2:17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

What is your reason for residing in the town or city where you reside? Is it so that you could acquire the best of worldly possessions or so that you can grow optimally in the spirit? Does your job enable you to acquire the best of the world or to grow maximally in the spirit? What of the people you associate with, do they impede or enhance your spiritual growth? Does the church you belong to and your lifestyle generally help you to endear yourself to the word of God?

Mt. 7:13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Mt. 7:14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Mt. 13:45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.
Mt. 13:46 When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

Jn. 6:27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

The Power of Resurrection

Resurrection takes place when the inner being of a man grows so much that it dominates the outer man and finally swallows up the outer man by transforming it to spiritual body. It is mortal being swallowed up by immortality.

The starting point in the acquisition of the power of resurrection is to be born of the Spirit. You must be baptized into Jesus Christ in water and in the Spirit. God births in you a spirit or inner being that is like God in true righteousness and holiness. There are two ways in which a person can be baptized in the Holy Spirit. One way is for the person involved to continue to pray for the gift of the Spirit (Lk. 11:13). The other way is for a person who has grown in the spirit to lay hand on the person that wants to receive and prayerfully transfer the Holy Spirit. This second way is based on Jesus’ promise that if anyone believes in him, out of the person’s belly shall flow streams of living water (Jn. 7:38).

After a person has received the Holy Spirit from God, the spirit man is very small in stature and in strength. In order for the spirit man to grow in stature and strength, it must be fed with spiritual food and spiritual drink.

1Co. 10:2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
1Co. 10:3 They all ate the same spiritual food
1Co. 10:4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
1Co. 10:11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

Just as we receive the Holy Spirit by praying to God, we should also ask God to feed us with spiritual food (the bread of life) and to give us Spiritual drink (living water). I believe that the prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread” refers to spiritual food and spiritual drink. We should feed on spiritual food and spiritual drink every day.

About Jesus

Mt. 13:31 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
Mt. 13:32 Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.”
Mt. 13:33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough.”

In order to get a good understanding of Jesus Christ, we need to get a good understanding of the first man, Adam. Ro. 5:14 says that Adam was a pattern of Jesus. Adam was like a mustard seed that God planted on the earth. He has now developed into billions of branches or descendants. Unfortunately, birds of the air (evil spirits) lodge in those branches. A woman (Eve) brought sin or evil spirit into the human race.

Jn. 12:24 I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

Jn. 15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
Jn. 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

In the fullness of time, God planted a new human seed on the earth; a grain of wheat. Jesus is a new Adam. God's purpose in planting the new human seed on the earth is to save as many branches of the original Adam as possible. God did not make the new human seed to be fruitful and multiply physically or biologically. Rather, God made the new human seed to be fruitful and multiply spiritually.

Ge. 2:7 The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Ge. 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Ge. 2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

God first of all created the physical or outer man. Then He birthed a spiritual or inner being within the outer man. God thereafter placed the Adam that He created in His garden. This garden had physical trees that provided food for the outer man. The two trees at the center of the garden were spirit beings that could feed the inner being. God warned Adam to keep away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in order not to impair his inner being. God purposed that if man kept to His word, He would allow man to feed on the fruit of the tree of life, which would make the inner being of man to grow into a full-sized replica of God. Unfortunately, man could not obey God's word and thereby ate the wrong spiritual food. That was how the inner being of man became evil spirit.

Mt. 3:16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him.
Mt. 3:17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
Mt. 4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

The new human seed that God planted on earth also started as a physical being. In the River Jordan, God birthed a spirit being in him and then moved him into the desert. (Recall that God moved the original Adam into His cozy garden.) The new Adam was tempted by Satan in the desert. The temptation was simply aimed at making the new Adam to turn against the word of God. The new Adam successfully repelled all the temptations.

Mt. 4:11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

Lk. 4:14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.

Because Jesus held on to the word of God and successfully repelled Satan’s temptations, God sent angels to feed him with the fruit of life. His inner being grew mightily towards the likeness of God. He began to do great things.

Satan continued to try Jesus throughout his earthly ministry. The ultimate trial was targeted at discouraging the grain of wheat from falling to the ground and dying. But Jesus overcame all that. By dying on the cross, he fulfilled every word of God concerning him. God lifted Jesus to the highest level of divinity that He could lift any being to.

Ph. 2:9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
Ph. 2:10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Ph. 2:11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Ph. 3:10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
Ph. 3:11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Ph. 3:12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

The starting point in the quest for the power of resurrection is to have a proper understanding about Jesus Christ. Jesus said (Jn.14:12) that anyone who believes in him will do all the work that he did. We do not see that happening today because people who say that that they believe in Jesus do not have adequate knowledge of Jesus. The starting point of power is knowledge.

For those with some knowledge of eschatology, following are indications that the Antichrist will arise in November 2017.

Abbas: 2017 will be the year of Palestinian statehood http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-november-30-2016/

Will a two-state solution be announced in November?

Over the past century, the month of November has seen a slew of ground-breaking events in the annals of the Jewish state. There was the Balfour Declaration, the British Empire’s declaration of support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel (November 1917); the UN resolution on the establishment of a Jewish state (November 1947); the visit by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem (November 1977); and the Annapolis Conference, which launched the important negotiations between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on a permanent status arrangement (November 2007). http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/04/israel-palestine-conflict-resolution-obama-three-initiatives.html

Growing in the Spirit

How do the wise people of God grow in the Spirit? Jesus is our example (1Pe. 2:21). He transformed from being an ordinary young man living in Nazareth to functioning publicly as the Son of God by going to be baptized by john the Baptist in the River Jordan. God subsequently baptized him with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit then moved him into the desert where he grew tremendously in the Spirit. The starting point therefore is to be baptized into Christ in water and in the Spirit.

There are two ways in which a person can be baptized in the Holy Spirit. One way is for the person involved to continue to pray for the gift of the Spirit (Lk. 11:13). The other way is for a person who has grown in the spirit to lay hand on the person that wants to receive and prayerfully transfer the Holy Spirit. This second way is based on Jesus’ promise that if anyone believes in him, out of the person’s belly shall flow streams of living water (Jn. 7:38).

After a person has received the Holy Spirit from God, the spirit man is very small in stature and in strength. In order for the spirit man to grow in stature and strength, it must be fed with spiritual food and spiritual drink.

1Co. 10:2 They were all baptised into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
1Co. 10:3 They all ate the same spiritual food
1Co. 10:4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
1Co. 10:11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfilment of the ages has come.

Just as we receive the Holy Spirit by praying to God, we should also ask God to feed us with spiritual food (the bread of life) and to give us Spiritual drink (living water). I believe that the prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread” refers to spiritual food and spiritual drink. We should feed on spiritual food and spiritual drink everyday.

Lk. 21:34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.
Lk. 21:35 For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth.
Lk. 21:36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

https://www.nairaland.com/3450293/earthly-man-spiritual-man

We are entering a time of Trouble

Mt. 24:7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Mt. 24:8 All these are the beginning of birth-pains.

The world is about to change in a terrible way. The next one year will be a time of great trouble on earth. There will be wars and economic collapse of nations. Things are going to be extremely hard. It is in this time of darkness that the people of God must grow in the Spirit and reach the level necessary for rapture. Wise people of God will make it; foolish ones will not make it.

Is. 60:1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
Is. 60:2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.

Prediction of the Arrival of the Antichrist

The Antichrist will begin to reign in the world in November, 2017. Jesus described an astronomical sign that will mark the time of the rapture and the arrival of the Antichrist. The sign is described in Revelation 12. For a good understanding of the sign of Revelation 12, google “the sign of revelation 12 in 2017”.

The rapture will take place shortly before the Antichrist begins to reign. I believe that the rapture will take place in November, 2017. I came about this date through computer simulation study of the sign of Revelation 12. The sign of Revelation 12 will occur in the sky on 23rd September, 2017. Re. 12:2 says that on that day, the woman is pregnant and is about to give birth. The birthing of the male child does not take place on that day.

As the people of God grow in the Spirit in preparation for the rapture, the enormous red dragon begins to manifest. Great opposition will come against the people of God. Great persecution will ensue. Satan will fight to prevent as many people of God as possible from making the rapture.

Mt. 24:9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
Mt. 24:10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
Mt. 24:11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Mt. 24:12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
Mt. 24:13 but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Mt. 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Re. 6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

In October 2001, I was in a dream and I knew in that dream that I was an exceptional man of God. I was living in a room with an appearance that suggested that things were really hard. While I was in this room, I suddenly received the knowledge that the Antichrist had just entered the town in which I lived and that he was coming to catch me, because I was a big problem to him. I decided that I had to run away from him. I picked up only two small things that I could conveniently hold in my hands; I opened the door and walked into the street. As soon as I hit the street, I saw two Christian sisters who wore long gowns made of Nigerian textile fabric. When they saw me, they were filled with terror because they understood that I was going away from them and I had been their last hope. The knowledge then came to me that I had predicted the time for the arrival of the Antichrist; that day came and the Antichrist actually arrived. Then I woke up from the dream.

When I woke up from this dream, I knew that it meant that I was going to be around after the rapture has taken place and I wasn’t happy about it. I also had a dream in 1999 showing me still in the world after the rapture must have taken place. I didn’t like the idea at all. But over the years, I got to know that I belong in the woman of Revelation 12. In Revelation 12, the woman gives birth to a male child that is snatched up to heaven—the rapture. God will raise up some Jewish evangelists whose ministries will raise the people of God to the level necessary for the rapture. Some Igbos will feature prominently in this end-time ministry because there are Jews in Igboland. If you want to understand my 2001 dream, read Revelation 12.

joker92:
Suspected Fulani herdsmen on thursday attacked Ozu Item in Bende council in Abia State.

An earlier report said they attacked a rice farm but when confronted by youths of the community, they attacked the youths.

Below is a graphic photo of one of the victims

http://nghubs.com/graphic-photo-man-killed-by-fulani-herdsmen-in-abia/

Do Fulani herdsmen use this kind of machete? People of Abia State are also good at machete attack.

You need to ask anyone from Ojoto the reputation of Annie Okonkwo. Annie Okonkwo that constructed an overhead water tank in his native village and said that he had constructed water borehole as part of his constituency project. On the commissioning day the tap was opened and water flowed and there was great rejoicing. But after the commissioning, water never flowed again. It turned out that Annie Okonkwo simply got the tank filled with water just for commissioning; there is actually no borehole. In his own village!

That is the kind of person Obiano is partnering with. Obiano is a fraud.

Fidel Castro died today. Following is a 1981 prophecy that has to do with the death of Fidel Castro. Can you imagine how Nigeria's economy will be if the economy of USA collapses?


Around 1981 God gave me a prophetic word of knowledge that has been partially fulfilled. These events are time markers and very soon we will see the fulfillment of the rest of this word. The Lord told me the following:

“When you see that the Berlin wall comes down and when you see the Soviet Union take a severe blow then it makes a recovery, and then you see the death of Fidel Castro; then shall come the collapse of the economic system of the United States.”

The Berlin wall separated East Germany from West Germany for more than 25 years. The construction began on August 13, 1961. The wall was opened and many sections of it literally knocked down on November 9th, 1989.

The Soviet Union is considered to have officially dissolved on December 31, 1991. This is when all official Soviet institutions had stopped to function in the different “republics” of the Soviet Union. The individual governments of these republics started functioning separately. The Soviet flag flew for the last time over the Kremlin.

When you see Castro’s death then you will see the complete collapse of the economic system of America!

https://unitedstatesprophecy.com/visions-dreams-and-prophecies-for-america/

sarrki:
Obiano & Rochas are the only working Governors

Working passionately for the progress of their states


From that axis

You don't know what you are saying. Obiano has created massive problems in Anambra State. In the name internally generated revenue, he empowered thugs to go about harassing, frustrating and extorting money from residents of Anambra State. For one small excuse, the thugs will tow somebody's car to their office and begin to demand N25,000. They will cite Lagos State as what they are copying. We cannot wait for his current term to expire so that he will be thrown out of the government house.

Many people in Anambra are now very skeptical about a future Republic of Biafra because of the wicked acts of people who are given authority over their fellow Igbos, especially in Anambra State. Obiano has given a lot of people reason why they will never want Biafra.

stainlink:
OK o.
Let me put my contribution
1. The spelling are different i. e SC & ENG
2. Science deals more with theories while engineering deals more with practical on an ideal situation.
3. And finally use Google to do a better research.

"Practical on an ideal situation" is not engineering. You may be referring to how engineering is taught in most universities in Nigeria, but that is not the real engineering. Engineering is the highest form of practical problem solving. Practical problem solving is like war. A war commander doesn't go to the front expecting to see ideal situation. In the same way, best engineering training prepares for worst case conditions. That is why in Electronics, an amplifier device manufacturer guarantees that the gain of the amplifier device lies anywhere between A1 and A2, say 150 to 600. The electronic designer wants to use this very amplifier device to produce an amplifier gadget that has constant gain. He must come up with a scheme to stabilize the gain irrespective of the effect of temperature, age and manufacturing variations. Doesn't that sound like war to you?

Is the perfect boyfriend inside your phone?

When Ayumi Saito was 22 she broke up with her boyfriend. But the Tokyo resident found an easy way to fill the void left by her ex lover's departure. She downloaded a romance gaming app onto her phone, and became one of the millions of women in Japan to swap real life intimacy for a fantasy.

"I felt lonely," says Ito, now 31. "Japanese men are shy and not good at flattering women. But girls want to hear 'I love you'." The virtual boyfriends she found in games like "Metro PD: Close To You" -- which sees a female detective discover a life-changing romance while fighting crime -- did all the things her former partner hadn't.

"When I was tired at the end of the day, before going to sleep, I was so relieved to hear his sweet and gentle words," she tells CNN. Saito is by no means unusual. In 2014, the romance gaming industry in Japan was worth $130 million.

In a society where 44.2% of women -- almost half of Japan's millennial singles aged between 18 and 34 -- are virgins, this industry has seemingly tapped into a deep desire for simulated intimacy in Japan.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/21/asia/romance-gaming-japan/index.html