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August 15, 2010

Are You Ready?

By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.

Just like the disciples, most of us would like to know the exactday and time of Christ's return. Jesus, however, said that no one, noteven He, knew this information. He did, however, tell us how we shouldlive up until that point of His return. We are to abide in Him andtrust Him for the future. We are not to worry or become fretful. God issovereign and even when it seems as though our world is coming apart,He is still in control.

We can look at the signs of our age and know His return is drawing near.

The political unrest in the Middle East continues to be front-pagenews. Each day we hear and read of growing strife in the region.

The economic future of the modern world is tied up in the Middle East.The unrest there will not end until Jesus returns and until God hasestablished His throne.

There is an alarming increase ofinterest in Satanism around the world. Many believers turn a deaf earto this subject and no longer pray against the enemy's power on earth.

The entertainment industry is including more and more occult languageand anti-God situations in movies and television programs. Our mindsare being bombarded with material that is in direct opposition to God'struth and principles.

Are you ready for Christ's return?Most of us would answer yes! But have you taken time to tell someoneelse about God's saving grace? Jesus told His disciples to take whatthey had learned from Him and teach it to the entire world. God ispreparing a place for us, but He also is continuing to draw men andwomen to Himself. Your life is a testimony to His eternal love andforgiveness. Let your prayer be to share His love with as many aspossible before His return.

Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb (Revelation 7:10).

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August 14, 2010

Quiet Devotion

By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.
In Mark, Jesus makes note of the actions of a simple widow.

[The Lord] sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.

Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on" (Mark 12:41-44).

While many people came to the temple, hoping to be seen and to make an offering that would bring awe and approval, this humble widow gave all she had to the Lord—seeking only to worship Him and to be found faithful in His eyes. She was not caught up in the trappings of her society. Nor did she wonder what others thought of her. Her only thought was to obey the Lord and to demonstrate her love for Him.

In fact, this woman probably knew that if the temple leaders saw her meager offering, they would scowl, but she knew God would bless her obedience and quiet devotion.

Is the attitude of your heart set on the Savior, or do you compare yourself to others and strive to do what appears right from the world's perspective? God has a different grading scale. It is one of grace and infinite love. When the motivation of your heart is right, you will sense His good pleasure and blessing. All that you do will glorify Him, and He will guard your heart and mind with His mercy and grace.

Prayer: Lord, all that I have I give to You. Make me a blessing to others.

[God] saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy (Titus 3:5).

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THE MIGHTY VISION OF THE GOLDEN CLOCK OF GOD ALMIGHTY IN THE SKYTime Is Running Out!By Dr. Owuor



The Sovereign Lord is such a mighty and powerful God who created all theuniverse and the galaxies. Within his might and majesty emergesunconditional love for man. He loves the church so much that he gaveJesus the darling of heaven to die for them on the Cross (Job 36:5).This marked the blueprint of mans salvation and redemption. To say thatGod is fond of man would be an understatement as by his own authorityhe vowed that never would he do anything on earth except that heforewarns man as a window for repentance. Speaking about an event tocome is one thing, but to articulate it three times is such a mightyfavour that no man can claim to deserve. Central to the properunderstanding of Gods love is the comprehension of his will and purposefor the church. And among all spiritual rationale for which Jehovah Godcreated the church, only one remains predominant, that the church mayenter into the Kingdom of God. To this end the Lord has perpetuallymade relentless efforts to redirect the path of the church and keep herin tune with the heavenly calendar. It is in this very context that onMay 3rd, 2007, at 5:38am that God Almighty showed me the visions of theLord. The mighty visions that I saw were about what is soon to befallthe planet earth. And while in the vision, I saw heaven standing openin the direction that faces east. And in the process when I looked up Iwas able to see the very pitch dark night sky. Continuing to observethe night sky, I immediately saw the glory of the Lord coming out fromthe inner depths of heaven into the sky. The heavenly glory was sobrilliant and spectacular as it gradually poured into the sky. Thisglory came out into the sky through the entrance of heaven that at thatmoment still stood open. The sheer magnificence with which the glory ofthe Lord adorned, beautified, and lit up the eastern side of the sky,was immensely dazzling in what until now marks one of the greatestadditions the skyline has seen yet. However, as I got caught up in theamazement of the majestic display of the glory of the Lord in the skythen all of a sudden I saw a splendid most precious and very valuableGolden Clock being lowered from a very distant inner depth of heaven.The Clock was being lowered towards the entrance of heaven in the skythat now stood conspicuously open and well lit. As the Golden Clockdrew closer to the sky it became bigger and larger for me to be able tosee the hour, minute and second hands, respectively. Upon reaching theglamourous threshold to the entrance that was open into the sky, theGolden Clock was immediately lowered into the open sky. Still watchingas things unfolded in this mighty vision of the Lord, my eyes at oncecaught the reading of the hour and minute hands of this Golden Clock inthe sky. That is the point at which I was instantaneously shocked torealize that this mighty Golden Clock in the sky, as a matter of fact,presented one minute to midnight. In other words this Clock had tickedto 11:59pm.



It seemed as though the Lord placed a heightened senseof panic in my heart as in, to hasten and quicken my understanding tothe fact that any minute then, it was going to be midnight. As thiswent on, I quickly noticed that the second hand was racing so fast in amanner that would bring the midnight hour any time then, in thisvision. Panic gripped my heart even as I watched helplessly at thisracing Clock. What is most incredible about this specific juncture inthe vision, is that I felt absolutely helpless, thereby having nocontrol whatsoever, in the way this noble Clock was running. However Iwas very much aware that at the stroke of midnight the earth would haveto be greatly impacted by this Clock. When it came to the part at whichthe Clock was set to strike the midnight hour, it suddenly convertedinto a humongous writing across the sky. The writing I saw across thesky appeared more like the sky had been rubber-stamped with theinscriptions running in two semi-circles that simulates the margins ofthe Clock I saw. This writing across the sky was golden in anexposition that appeared to not leave out the signature of the majesticroyalty of God in this greatest sign and wonder of this dispensation.The writings across the sky read:



Jesus of Nazareth Is Coming



Jesusof Nazareth was written right above is Coming. Just like the star thatthe Magi followed representing a distant company of angels in theirpursuit of the Lord, so is the Clock in the sky a spiritual embodimentof the heavenly host that if well trailed, would beautifully lead intothe kingdom of God. By lowering this mighty Golden Clock into the skyon that May 3rd, 2007, the Lord prolifically displayed his fulsomedisposition of love to the church. This is more so because the bibleclearly asserts that the day of the wedding of the Lamb will be asecretive day in which the Lord will come for the church like a thief.That means no notice would be given to warn her of his impendingdescent for the church (Revelation 16:15). God Almighty himself hasagain and again presented a clear position of heaven, regarding thismuch anticipated rapture of the church. In heaven, it is known that noteven the Son of Man nor the angels are aware of the calendar events asthey relate to the date, day and time of the wedding of the Lamb of God(Matthew 24:36). The Word of God stands firm, remaining fullyestablished in heaven and on earth across all generations to come. Thishence stresses the secrecy surrounding the day when Jesus will come forhis holy church. But how much love, that God Almighty in heaven, theOne and only One that knows the day of the wedding of the Lamb, can nowreveal a little glimpse of the hidden Clock he maintains inside theprecincts his heart. It makes May 3rd, 2007, one of those mostfavourable days, that this endtime church has bumped into. God Almightysurely is the most powerful respecter of his Word. May 3rd, 2007,essentially shifted the paradigm and gave a new and greater spiritualappraisal to the scripture in the book of Amos chapter three versesseven through eight.



Reading the Golden Clock of God in the sky



Basicbiblical knowledge has it that there is nothing the Lord Almighty willspeak about that is not targeted to the church of Christ. Moreover,part of the churchs maturity demands that she be aware that everytimethe Lord God Almighty speaks whether in visions or audibly or both,that conversation must fully tally with the written Word. Having saidthat the question then becomes, what could be the message embedded inthe Golden Clock that the Lord lowered into the sky on May 3rd, 2007?Is there any revelation to the church and if so how is the churchexpected to respond to such a message? The only way to discern thedepth of the message embedded in this 11:59pm Golden Clock, is when oneexcavates from scriptures what the Lord intended everytime he spokeabout the midnight hour.Once again the church can learn someimportant tenents from Israel in this regard. When Israel was inEgyptian slavery she had to be treated with much cruelty to the pointthat she became desperate. The desperation grew by the day and gotworse because her Egyptian slave masters became more ruthless in anattempt to subdue and exterminate the house of Jacob. Joseph had longdied and the new pharaoh had no compassion whatsoever with the Jews.However, when Israel began to cry out to Jehovah their cry reached theLord and he sent them Moses the prophet. When the hour for theirdeliverance by the Lord drew closer, the God of Israel spoke to themabout the midnight hour at which he would himself come down to deliverthem. On the other hand, God Almighty placed certain requirements onIsrael in order that she could be delivered at the midnight hour. Thisdeliverance the Lord said would come as a lift-off under the Eaglewings. The Lord commanded Moses to tell the children of Israel toprepare for their final hour of deliverance. It is this preparation forthe midnight hour that the church can borrow from even as she awaitsthis dreadful hour of truth and reality. The Lord asked Israel to lookfor a lamb without defect and sacrifice it before him. Israel was thensupposed to take the blood of the lamb without defect and smear it onthe frames of the doorposts to the houses in which they lived. Apartfrom this, they were required to roast the meat of the lamb on fire andnot cook it in water or eat it raw because the Lord Almighty demanded afragrance from the lamb without defect. The eating of the lamb had totake place at the brinks of the midnight hour, with their cloaks tuckedin while their sandals were on their feet and the staff on one hand.This was meant to be a hasty eating of panic as they awaited their mostanticipated and overdue deliverance from the Lord. Such a deliverancewas promised to come exactly at the midnight hour sharp when the Lordof Hosts would come for the sole purpose of bringing judgment unto theEgyptian gods. This judgment was expected to go on simultaneously asthe Lord passed-over the houses in which the Israelites lived. TheseHebrew houses were expected to bear the blood of the lamb withoutdefect on their doors. On that day when the midnight hour rang judgmentstroke Egypt as Israel roasted the lamb without defect, eating it in ahaste while chewing bitter herbs, in addition to eating matsa, thebread without yeast. All this was done while standing in haste andready to go. On that day, Israel was led out of slavery in theirdivisions by the Lord God himself (Exodus 12:1-51).



The church



ikeIsrael the church is today living in a spiritual Egypt that is a landof absolute slavery to sin. There is the worshipping of many Egyptianidol gods where the church currently resides. These gods have foundtheir way into the mainstream of the church and have started even beingworshipped in the church. The Egyptian slave masters of todays churchare very ruthless and cruel to her, permitting her no chance of freedomof worshipping the God of Israel. They are lording on her all theirrequirements that she must fulfil, such as payments of certain amountsof money to have her children prayed for, remitting certain establishedfigures of shillings and dollars for her to be delivered from demonpossession. Additionally, she must pay a certain amount of money forher to receive the Holy Spirit or her sick in hospital to be visited bythe lording masters and pastors. The burden of slavery to sin is soheavy on this church in her land of spiritual Egypt.



Grief to sin



Inspite of such suffering in Egypt, Israel was still aware of the eternalcovenant she had with the God of Jacob. And so, she grieved and wailedout to the God of Israel for help. It is this wailing and crying out tothe Lord that caught the attention of Jehovah thereby sending them theprophet Moses for deliverance. Today the Holy Spirit is using this tore-orientate and redirect the church in this hour of darkness. In otherwords, the Lord is using the 11:59pm Clock that he lowered into the skyto impress upon the church on the urgent need for her to be consumedwith grief to sin. She must manifest a sorrow of wailing for herdeliverance at this hour. It is this wailing that will catch theattention of God as a testimony of her dissatisfaction with sinfulstatus quo in Egypt. The sinful status quo is the worldliness thatprevails in todays church. God is asking the church to come out vividlyclear and wail because of the state of sin in the church at such anhour. The church is being asked to do this understanding the presenttime, for the hour has come to wake her up from slumber because thehour of her salvation has drawn nearer now than when she firstbelieved. And the night is nearly over while the day of her deliveranceis almost here. The church is being asked to put aside the deeds ofdarkness and wear the armour of light (Romans 13:11-12). This amour oflight will come from harnessing the basic tenents disclosed during theliberation of Israel from Egypt.



The blood



As the midnight hour drew closer Israels clock was showing 11:59pm. And ifthis is anything to go by in todays church, then she ought to emulateevery single command that God laid on Israel at such an hour. At thistime, Israel was required to smear the blood of the lamb without defecton the frames of the door posts to the houses where she lived. Jesus ofNazareth is the Perfect Passover Lamb of God that was presented to thechurch without defect. Hence the blood of the lamb that Israel wasinstructed to smear at the door, in essence symbolized the Blood ofJesus that the church would be required to smear at the door of herheart prior to rapture. For that matter the Lord now expects the churchat this 11:59pm to cover the house where she lives with the Blood ofJesus, our perfect Passover Lamb of God (1 Corinthians 5:7). He wasslain on the Cross at Calvary that todays church may have his Bloodavailable to her right now. The Lord is essentially asking the churchof Christ to make sure that where she lives (her heart) is fullycovered with the remarkable Blood of Jesus at this 11:59pm. And whenthe midnight hour rings out Jehovah will be able to see the christianswhose hearts are spiritually circumcised by the perfect Blood of Jesus,and he will then passover them into the deliverance of rapture. Inwhich case, as the Lord will strike the Egyptian gods of this worldwith the dreadful judgment of tribulation, the raptured church, will bein the safety of heaven. There she will promptly eat the wedding dinnerof the Lamb of God inside the temple of the Lord God Almighty. Thisdinner takes place in the temple that the Lord presented in the March26, 2008 vision. It is like God then was asking the church to focus upwards and not miss this dinner event that is about to take placeinside that temple.



Nevertheless, why would the living God ask thechurch of Christ to cover herself with the Blood of Jesus, the perfectPassover Lamb? Why would Jehovah ask the church to do this at 11:59pm?It is as though the Lord is saying to the church that I have watchedyou plus your conduct for a long time now and it has finally boileddown to one question in my heart. Are you really covered by the Bloodof Jesus? This is the portrayal of a very pathetic spiritual state thathas eaten right into the church. When the Lord surrendered ChristJesus, the very darling of heaven to die for the church on the Cross,He was absolutely sure that the Blood of Jesus is more than sufficientto totally redeem the church from sin. This would serve as the ultimatesacrifice. And for the Lord to be asking the church as to whether shereally is covered by the Blood of Jesus, means that he has looked atthe church and seen that when she received Christ Jesus her identityessentially did not change. She in other words retained her identity ofthe world. Well, that presents an unredeemed identity and there is noway the God of heaven who shows such disposition to loving the church,can keep quiet on this matter at this 11:59pm! The Perfect Blood ofJesus has such an enormous capacity to transform the identity ofsinners into the glorious citizenry of sons of God. Further, it is theanointing pervading the Blood of Jesus that bears the capacity tocharacter-change todays church. It then would appear as though the Lordhas observed no significant change of character between when the peoplewere in the dark world and now that they are so-called born-again. Godis absolutely justified to ask this question at 11:59pm because he didnot present the precious Blood of Jesus in vain. And yet it isabsolutely evident that the world has encroached into the church andthe lives of the christians. To the extent that the christians are nowcloser to the identity of the world than they are to Jesus, impliesthat they are virtually unredeemed. In such circumstances, the God ofheaven uses this very simple benchmark of holiness to detect whetherredeemed or not redeemed is happening in church. It does not take muchto be able to plug into the life of the church and measure the rhythmof her heart beat, whether it is beating in step with that of the HolySpirit or not. Just the mere way in which the present-day church livesher life is sufficient enough a gauge to tell whether she is born-againor not yet born-again. If she walks in holiness then she becomes thelight of the world, and the fruit of her repentance is brought to bare.In this way, the church can win souls for the Lord at the darkest11:59pm hour of the night. The 11:59pm Clock that Jehovah lowered intothe sky on May 3rd, 2007, therefore presented such a mighty message ofthe Blood. And to the priesthood the Lord is principally saying thatthis is the time to be preaching nothing else other than the perfectprecious Blood of Jesus. God is using this Clock right now to tell hispriesthood to shepherd the flock towards that little abandoned hill ofCalvary and pass the flock through the rugged Cross so that they maycrucify their flesh. Only in this way, will they transition intospiritual beings whose walk is in rhythm with the Holy Spirit of theLord and the spiritual calendar for the wedding of the Lamb of God. Godhas directed his attention to the pastors of today pleading with themnot to cover the sheep with the prosperity of this world but to coverthe hearts of the sheep with the Perfect Precious Blood of Jesus. Thatis the only identity marker that the Lord will see when the Clock hitsmidnight and the Lord descends down from heaven with a loud command andthe voice of the archangel. Because the mighty Blood of Jesus is awonder working Blood being entirely able to transform the physical intospiritual beings, then those christian that will be covered by thisBlood will also be able to hear the spiritual voice of the archangeland that of the Son of Man at rapture (I Thessalonians 4:16-17; John5:24-28). Covering their hearts with big cars, big homes, privateaeroplanes, large companies, fat cheques, degrees, green cards, visasto the west and the like, will not open their spiritual ears. Insteadit will deafen their spiritual ears hence denying them entry intoheaven (Matthew 19:16-26). When the Lord lowered the 11:59pm GoldenClock in the sky on that material day of May 3rd, 2007, he practicallyrang out the message of The Blood! The Blood! The Blood!



The PerfectBlood of the Lamb!

Worship



Part of theinstruction that Israel received about the coming of the midnight hour,was that she boil not, nor eat raw the meat of the lamb without defect,and that she was under strict instruction that this meat must beroasted over fire. The roasting of this meat over fire was for allpractical purposes intended to exude a pleasant aroma of fragrance intothe throneroom of God. It is this fragrance that would appease the HolyGod of Israel to the point of forgiving enslaved Israel from her actsof defilements and hence permit her to come right into his holypresence. Such a fragrance had earlier on been presented by Noah whenso much sin had brought judgment on earth, and God was so pleased tothe extent that he developed a covenant with Noah (Genesis 8:20-21).Noah like Israel, was required to take clean animals for sacrifice.Clean here implies without defect. That notwithstanding, these biblicalevents speak much on the requirements of the Lord to the church at this11:59pm. The fragrance that Jehovah expects from the church right nowis that of worship in the spirit and in truth. The Lord expects thechurch to now step-up the worshipping of Jesus through the act ofgenuine repentance and holy living. If worship were taught on the Crossat Calvary when Jesus was crucified, then it is absolutely imperativethat the Lord is telling the church to equally offer herself as asacrifice of worship unto him through Christ Jesus. God Almighty is atthis late hour not looking for those christians that will offer 50%,70% or 99% of their hearts to him, but only those true worshippers whowill move out of worship at the well of Jacob and crucify their entireflesh at Calvary with Jesus, thereby offering 100% of their hearts(Romans 12:1-2). This is because the moment of truth has arrived andthe truth says that the church was created for Christ. Well, Christ isthe Spirit-filled Man, the Golden Clock in the sky is a spiritualClock, and the wedding of the Lamb of God is an entirely spiritualwedding. The church must still not lose track of the fact that theKingdom of God into which she was purchased and given sonship is aspiritual kingdom. That demands of her to be completely spiritual ineverything she does.



Bread without yeast



DuringEgyptian slavery, Israel had been accustomed to eating the loafy breadwith yeast. Since this bread was tasty, she devoted herself totirelessly work for it. The bakers in Egypt were highly regarded andrespected people who fed the family. Every family would at times striveto bake her own basket of dinner bread and yeast was in short supply asevery single household strove to raise the dough. The baking skillsresident in a household became such a treasure because there had to bea perfect knit between the bakers skills, the dough and the yeast, inorder to bring out a particular taste that was palatable to the tongue.This was an important gauge on to whether the household was wellnourished or not. Each family had to be attached to a baker for theirdaily supply of bread. The Israelites became so much attached to thedaily bread, a condition that made Jesus talk to them in terms of breadhaving seen how their hearts were tied to it. Jesus later said to themthat he is the True Bread, the bread of life, and that whoever ate ofhim would never hunger again (John 6:25-59). This attachment to breadhad been earlier on developed tightly during Egyptian slavery, wherethey literally laboured for bread. But when Jehovah told Israel thatthe advent of the midnight hour would require that they eat the lambtogether with bread without yeast, they were startled and greatlypanicked because in all their lives they had only been used to breadwith yeast. What is particularly astounding is that they were alsoaware of the tastelessness to the tongue, that bread without yeast had.However, since this was a command from the Lord on their deliverancethat night, Israel had to eat bread without yeast (Exodus 12:.



TheLord requires of the church that she too, reverts back to bread withoutyeast at this 11:59pm. This is because bread without yeast is the TrueBread, the Bread of Life. This particular midnight bread without yeastis our Lord Jesus who is the uncompromised True Word of God, that thechurch must now eat to make it. Yeast has lately infected the Word intodays church thereby bringing in a swollen and tasty-to-the-fleshbread. Bread with yeast is entirely tasty to the tongue but totallyundurable. Yeast represents the sin and defilement that has enteredinto the church. Such sin has included sexual immorality, the swollengospel of prosperity and wealth transfer and all the seductive excessesof this world. Therefore, by lowering the 11:59pm Golden Clock in thesky on that mighty May 3rd, 2007, the Lord in essence instructed thechurch on a compulsory return to bread without yeast. By inference theLord is telling the church that in the past he has watched her preachfrom other books that have exalted the things of the world over andabove Christ. Such adulterated word has mainly majored in tricks forfinancial anointing, becoming wealthy as a christian, successfulliving, healthy living, etc. At this eleventh hour however, only theincorruptible and durable bread without yeast will see the churchthrough this wilderness of repentance. It is time out for the tastygospel that is itching to the flesh and edifying to the world in thechurch (2 Timothy 4:3). The bread without yeast brings about eternallife that comes from our Lord Jesus (1 Corinthians 5:6-8; Matthew16:5-12). He who had rained manna from heaven for Israel in her mosthungry state is surely able to equally recompense the hungryGod-seeking church of Christ within these days of hunger. The church ofChrist has for sometime now gone through a severe hunger, not forphysical food, but for the true Word which has become very rare(Deuteronomy 8:3). It is this severe spiritual hunger that theadversary has taken advantage of in order to vend his yeast-exaltedbread, in the lies of quick prosperity without holiness.



The bitter herbs



For Israel to separate from Egyptian lifestyle and start listening toinstruction from Jehovah God, she faced the stiffest resistance ofbitter rejection. It relays a message of a people stepping out andrejecting the status quo of slavery to sin. Anyhow, Israel hadpreviously suffered the extreme cruelty unleashed by their Egyptianslave masters. In fact, at one point all male children were killedduring the time when Moses the prophet of the Lord was born. Israel wassurely familiar with bitter rejection and suffering along her life.Slavery often means working for food in a hand to mouth kind oflifestyle. Egypt is known for the sweet breads and foods and this iswhat Israel had tailored her life to, causing her to toil day and nightin order to earn some sweet bread in that land. Having this food wasconsidered more like a luxury within the Goshem community of Israelitesin Egypt. And for the Lord to tell the house of Jacob that she wouldnow have to resort to eating bitter herbs at the 11:59pm moment justbefore the midnight hour stroke. Israel was very disturbed at this newdevelopment, given that they had gotten used to sweet foods for alltheir lives. However, by doing this Jehovah wanted Israel to live toremember the bitterness of slavery and rejection that had characterizedher life. Todate, the Jewish people world over mark the passover feastby eating the bitter herbs in the fear that lest the modernity andprosperity of today make them forget who redeemed them from the bitterslavery. This they were instructed to do as a lasting ordinance betweenthem and Jehovah Yahweh.



The church too is being instructed by theHoly Spirit at this 11:59pm moment to revert to bread without yeast andbitter herbs for a complete separation from the sweet defiled world.The question is, why has the church not eaten the bitter herbs in themidst of the modernity and prosperity of today? Why has the house ofthe Lord forgotten the bitterness that Jesus went through to the Crossto deliver her? This bitterness is the Blood of Jesus that bitterlyflowed on the Cross at Calvary. Has the modern church of Christremembered this bitter flow of the Blood of Jesus? The bitter herbsthat the church is supposed to be chewing right now is the bitterrejection from this dark world that comes against any christian whochooses the absolute holiness of the Lord. God Almighty is telling thechurch that only those christians who have faced the bitter rejectionthat Jesus experienced in this world and on the Cross, will have walkedin the footsteps of the Lord hence being Christ-like in their everyspiritual fibre. Only the Christ-like church will wed the Lamb of Godon the day of the rapture (Exodus 12:. The church at this 11:59pmhour, is being instructed by the Holy Spirit to embrace bitterrejection that comes with choosing the Jesus of Nazareth. Bitterrejection here is being used by the Lord to also separate the churchout into the most needed spiritual solitude. Jesus occasionallyobserved such a refreshing spiritual solitude when he went up the Mountof Olives alone to pray. The church too, must observe a separated timeat which the Holy Spirit can minister to her outside the hustle andbustle of this noisy dark world. Even at the garden of Gethsemane, whenJesus took Peter, John and James with himself, it was all about bitterrejection and separation from this sinful and dark world. The Lord isimpressing upon the present-day church on the importance ofexperiencing bitter rejection from this sinful world as an avenue toreach the total crucifixion of the flesh. Any christian that will beable to do this, will principally and mightily have re-lived Isaiahchapter fifty three. There is absolutely no way that the church cancontinue to eloquently present herself as the ambassador of Christ,while at the same time sustaining a very defiling acceptance from thissinful world. Walking in holiness in itself acts as silent rebuke tosin hence causing a lot of animosity from this dark world. Preachingholiness with her lamp of righteousness lit constitutes an act ofactive aggression against the kingdom of darkness that rules thissinful world. In this way, facing bitter rejection is a must to theholy church of Christ in our days. This bitterly rejected way to theCross actually leads directly into the wedding of the Lamb of God. Nowonder, the Lord Jesus himself said "whoever wants to follow me shouldpick up your cross and follow me" (Matthew 16:24; Luke 14:27).



Burning the midnight oil



The journey on the christian walk, though long can be a joyful one when thepurpose is clearly well defined. The remnant church of Christ thatdefines this resolve well, will often adhere together in the love ofChrist and the unity of faith. Such was the journey of the remnant tenvirgins that set out into the darkness of this world with their lampslit towards the midnight hour (Matthew 25:1-13). As the waiting processprolonged, this journey to wait on the bridegroom became tedious to thepoint that they all became drowsy and fell asleep. This tragedyoccurred right before the midnight hour when the pitch darknessthickened and their systems gave in. Like todays church, their mostimmediate perception was that the Lords coming would be delayed muchlonger. However, as the midnight hour drew closer the Lord sent them avoice that sounded a warning. At this warning, all the ten virgins wokeup and trimmed the wicks of their lamps. But in the process, the fivefoolish virgins realized that they hadnt any midnight oil to burn sincetheir lamps had gone dry. Yet the wise virgins had the privilege ofburning the midnight oil from the vile that they had earlier carriedwhen they stepped out. It is a caution to the church that as themidnight hour draws very close (11:59pm), there will be a tendency ofthe church to become drowsy, lethargic and fall asleep. The darknessthat befalls the world at the midnight hour is always the thickest andthe deepest darkness of the night because it occurs in the heart of thenight. Such is the darkness that was foretold to consume the four endsof the earth right before the wedding of the Lamb. This darkness if notwell managed, can easily cause the lamps that were otherwise previouslywell lit to emit dim light. Such thick pitch darkness of the midnighthour in other words purposefully attempts to undermine the light thatwas previously sufficiently coming from the lit lamps. And that is whythe trimming of the lamps becomes an absolute necessity close to themidnight hour. It is the gross thick darkness of the midnight hour thatobliges the trimming of the lamps in order to improve the strength ofthe light emitted at such a dark hour.



Right now across the fourends of the earth, it is completely obvious that the darkness of theworld has increased and thickened thereby even entering into thechurch. This gross darkness undermines the light with which the churchhas been operating hence calling for necessary lamp-trimming steps tobe put in place. Such darkness include the increased legalization ofabortions, homosexuality, legalization of homosexual marriages,lesbianism, rapes, defiling of young children, shooting rampage inschools and malls, addiction to pornography even by pastors, drugaddictions, alcoholism, abandoning of babies in garbage dumps, murders,false prophecies, money laundering, the gospel of wealth transfer andprosperity, removal of bible from EU constitution, removal of the Godof the bible from the constitution of many countries, feministmovements, among others. This by all means is a signal that calls forthe trimming of the lamp in the church especially now that the Clock ofGod reads 11:59pm and the pitch darkness has thickened. Jesus is thefirst born that raptured from the earth (Colossians 1:15-20). But nowthe time for the church to be birthed out into heaven has drawn nigh.By presenting the 11:59pm Clock, the Holy Spirit is warning the churchto be very careful with sleep, but instead be watchful. At the gardenof Gethsemane Jesus rebuked this sleep when the three disciples fellasleep instead of being watchful. The Lord at that time warned them ofsleep by saying that they needed to be watchful in prayer in order notto be tempted (Mark 14:32-42). It raises the question on the rampantand increased temptation which would come down on the church like anavalanche at this hour. The Lord clearly became infuriated by thesleepiness of the remnant church that he took to Gethsemane. The Lordis currently unleashing this very fury towards the sleeping church oftoday. It is the same magnitude of vehemence that the Lord displaystowards the remnant ten virgins that step out with their lamps into thedarkness to wait for the midnight hour only to fall asleep. The fivefoolish virgins had to go buy some oil for themselves in an act thatprefigured the fake anointing that would befall the latter church at11:59pm. What is even more surprising is the fact that all the tenvirgins had to be woken up, and the ten wicks be trimmed. That meansthat as the Lord God lowers the 11:59pm Golden Clock in the sky, it isa spiritual wake-up call. In lay mans terms, it would be as though oneset the alarm clock one minute before midnight that the midnight hourmay find them awake. The Lord is sounding this 11:59pm wake-up alarm tothe church that she may jump up from her deep sleep. The bible clearlyoutlines important elements worthy of notice when the church goes tosleep. She gets very unalert and begins to eat and drink with thedrunkards. These drunkards can today be seen walking with the churchbecause she has no deliverance power to lead them to Christ. Thedrunkards the Lord speaks about are symbolic of the homosexuals,alcoholism, love of money, false prophets, prostitution, interfaithfellowships with eastern idolatrous religions, witchcraft that haveraided todays church, etc. (Matthew 24:42-51). Most notably is themessage coming from the selective entry of only 50% of the ten virginsthat stepped out to wait. The five wise virgins that finally made itinto the wedding of the Lamb, each had a vile of olive oil for burning.It is this vile of olive oil that constitutes the morning dew thatIsaiah the prophet saw as having the capacity to wake up the asleep(Isaiah 26:19). Todays sleeping church can easily wake up if sheaccepts to receive this morning dew. It is such a dew of the Spirit ofthe Lord that makes the whole difference between eternal life anddeath. The vile of olive oil represents the precious Holy Spirit of theLord. Hence the most important message the Lord delivered to the churchon May 3rd, 2007, was that only the Holy Spirit could now help her thislate. It must be remembered however, that everytime it gets to 11:59pmthat means that the old day is gone and the new day has come. Thisrequires that the church now wear the character of the new day andwalks as children of light (Romans 13:11-12). Time has run out for thechurch and she ought to move with the kind of haste that involvestucking in her spiritual cloak in, with her sandals on, in theknowledge that any second now there will be a lift-off from thisslavery into eternal life with God himself (Exodus 12:1-29).

WARNING FOR AUSTRALIA - DR OWUOR



From an attendee at Kenyan Prophet Dr Owuors meeting in first week of Aug 2010:

"I attended the meetings in Labrador on the Gold coast Qld, last week, August 2010 They were profound and yes the word was given that Australia is facing an historic earthquake and HISTORIC EARTHQUAKE and TSUNAMI MANY STORIES HIGH. WE ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE. The prophet said that the East Coast would be hit, and that it would start at the North West horn."



No timeframe was given



Can this be trusted ?



Prophet Dr Owuor also prophecied:

- Haite earthquake Jan 2010, 2 months before it happened, called the nation to repent from sin, 300,000 died

- Chile earthquake & tsunami Feb 2010, call the nation to repent from sin, 1300 died

- 2 years before Kenyan murderous violence, called them to repent

- 1 month before global financial crisis

- He also prophecied Hurricane Katrina, asian 2004 tsunami, China 2010 earthquake in march

- Future prophecies are war in Korea, and war between Israel & Iran



Australians - REPENT , REPENT , REPENT from all know SIN, turn your hearts all the way to God.

Church lets come back to our first love, turn from all worldliness, turn to His love & hoiliness & prayer, its the last days, Jesus is at the door



Galations 5, 19 "The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit"



MORE INFO ON THIS PROPHECY WILL BE POSTED WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE



Dr Owuors website - http://www.repentandpreparetheway.org/

WORDS OF HURTING AND HEALING

12/8/2010


Read 2 SAMUEL 12:1-10

1 So the LORD sent Nathan the prophet to tell David this story:"There were two men in a certain town. One was rich, and one was poor. 2Therich man owned a great many sheep and cattle. 3 The poor man owned nothing but one little lamb he had bought. He raised that little lamb,and it grew up with his children. It ate from the man's own plate and drank from his cup. He cuddled it in his arms like a baby daughter.4One day a guest arrived at the home of the rich man. But instead of killing an animal from his own flock or herd, he took the poor man's lamb and killed it and prepared it for his guest."

5 David was furious. "As surely as the LORD lives," he vowed, "anymanwho would do such a thing deserves to die! 6 He must repay fourlambsto the poor man for the one he stole and for having no pity."

7 Then Nathan said to David, "You are that man! The LORD, the GodofIsrael, says: I anointed you king of Israel and saved you fromthepower of Saul. 8 I gave you your master's house and his wives andthekingdoms of Israel and Judah. And if that had not been enough, Iwouldhave given you much, much more. 9 Why, then, have you despised thewordof the LORD and done this horrible deed? For you have murderedUriahthe Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and stolen his wife.10From this time on, your family will live by the sword because youhavedespised me by taking Uriah's wife to be your own.

A man who had been elected president of a Bible College in the USAwasasked by his friends how they could best support him. His replywassimple, "keep on telling me the truth about myself even if I don'tlikeit." Too many people, once they reach high office, surroundthemselveswith 'yes' men and women who say what the exalted one wantsto hear.

King David probably had a few of those. But he also had Nathan who wasn't interested in flattery. David had an adulterous relationship with Bathsheba and was complicit in the death of her husband Uriah. He had abused his power for his own selfish ends. He would be forgiven,though would suffer some consequences.

It was Nathan who confronted him, who cut through the deceit,the illusion, the arrogance. He did it cleverly in the form of a story,but the important thing was that he did it. He didn't offer some political or diplomatic doublespeak. And sometimes we will need to be like Nathan and speak uncomfortable truth to someone we care about. We are to ensure we do so with God's heart, but we do it anyway.

And sometimes we will need to be like David. Ready to listen to a rebuke and learn from it. We "commoners" need to have people in ourlives who will tell us the truth in love. The wounds such words cause will be like the scalpel wounds of a surgeon: instruments of some pain,and yet much healing.

Blessings

David Reay

http://www.hope1032.com.auLifeWords

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Every Second - Three People Die, that’s 180 every minute, and after reading this web page…2000 souls will have been judged and passed into ETERNITY! A car crash….a heart attack….a stroke….One thing is for certain - you will DIE, whether that is today….tommorrow…a week…a month…a year…5 years….10 years….20 years…, 50 years …“It is appointed to men to DIE” (Hebrews 9:27)
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Video: Are YOU Going to Heaven?
What you're about to read is hard to believe. .

We're going to examine the place the Bible calls hell. We'll present documented evidence for a place called hell. Don't take what you're going to read lightly. If what you read is true — YOU COULD BE IN SERIOUS DANGER!

Several years ago a book was published, entitled Beyond Death's Door by Dr. Maurice Rawlings. Dr. Rawlings, a specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, resuscitated many people who had been clinically dead. Dr. Rawlings, a devout atheist, "considered all religion "hocus-pocus" and death nothing more than a painless extinction". But something happened in 1977 that brought a dramatic change in the life of Dr. Rawlings! He was resuscitating a man, terrified and screaming — descending down into the flames of hell:
"Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, "I am in hell!" He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death. . . Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face. He had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in death! This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing sheer horror! His pupils were dilated, and he was perspiring and trembling — he looked as if his hair was "on end."
Then still another strange thing happened. He said,"Don't you understand? I am in hell. . . Don't let me go back to hell!" . . .the man was serious, and it finally occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in a panic like I had never seen before."
(Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Death's Door,(Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3).
Dr. Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard his screams and saw the look of terror on his face could doubt for a single minute that he was actually in a place called hell!

The Bible continually warns of a place called hell. There are over 162 references in the New Testament alone which warns of hell. And over 70 of these references were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ!

In Luke 16, Jesus Christ gives a frightening picture of hell:
22 . . . the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. (Luke 16:22-28)
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HELL IS A PLACE OF FIRE!
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."

In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."

Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
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Hell is real!
THE BIBLE GIVES THE LOCATION OF HELL

When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He descended into hell. In Acts 2, Peter is speaking, verse 31, " . . . seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in HELL"

When Jesus Christ died His soul went into hell.

And in Matthew 12:40, Jesus Christ says:
"For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly: so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the HEART OF THE EARTH. "
The Bible is clear — Hell is inside the earth!

Ephesians 4:9, says of Jesus: "Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH."

On page 85 of Beyond Death’s Door, Dr. Rawlings writes patients who described hell said, ". . . this place seems to be UNDERGROUND or WITHIN THE EARTH in some way."
Scientist and Bible teacher, Henry Morris also agrees the Bible plainly teaches that hell is in this earth:
"So far as we can tell from Scripture, the present hell, is somewhere in the heart of the earth itself. It is also called 'the pit' (Isa. 14:9, 15: Ezek. 32:18-21) and 'the abyss' (Rev. 9:2). . .
The writers certainly themselves believed hell to be real and geographically 'beneath' the earth's surface. . .
To say this is not scientific is to assume science knows much more about the earth's interior than is actually the case. The great 'pit' [hell] would only need to be about 100 miles or less in diameter to contain, with much room to spare, all the forty billion or so people who have ever lived, assuming their 'spiritual' bodies are the same size as their physical bodies."
(Henry M. Morris, The Bible Has the Answer, p. 220)
The Birmingham News, April 10, 1987 had an article entitled "Earth's Center Hotter Than Sun's Surface, Scientists Say". The article stated that scientists have recently discovered, "THE EARTH'S INNER CORE HAS A TEMPERATURE OF OVER 12,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT!"

Have you seen pictures of a volcano erupting, spewing a lake of fire from inside the earth — consuming everything within miles just from the heat? When Mount St. Helens erupted in May 18, 1980, it was described by reporters, "when HELL surfaced upon the earth." The book, Volcanoes, Earth's Awakening (p.91) describes an erupting volcano as "descent into HELL".

Thousands of years ago, the Bible described a place called hell in the heart of the earth that matches exactly what science is discovering.
Website of Scientific proof of hell: www.psc.edu/science/Cohen_Stix/cohen_stix.html+">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9THLK9IuCHgJ:www.psc.edu/science/Cohen_Stix/cohen_stix.html+%22Earth%27s+Center+Hotter+Than+Sun%27s+Surface&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=my
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For more details about the above subject please check the web-link below God bless you as you read.


http://home.flash.net/~evt/hell.htm

LIFE TOGETHER BEGINS WHEN YOU TRULY CONNECT WITH GOD AND A PART OF HISFAMILY.IT'S ONE THING TO VISIT GOD ON SUNDAYS AND EXCHANGE SMALL TALKWITH OTHER CHURCHGOERS. IT'S ANOTHER THING TO CONNECT -- TO BUILDCONSISTENT RELATIONSHIPS IN WHICH YOU INVEST TIME AND DEVELOPTRUST.CONNECTING WITH GOD'S FAMILY WILL HELP ESTABLISH OR DEEPEN YOURCONNECTIONS.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO HAVE A GENIUNE CONNECTION WITHGOD AND WITH HIS FAMILY ? HOW DO YOU GET TO THE POINT WHERE YOU KNOWYOU ARE KNOWN, LOVE,AND ARE LOVED, RECEIVED HELP AND GIVE HELP ? HOW ISTHIS POSSIBLE WHEN YOU AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU ARE SO BUSY AND SCARREDBY SIN ?
AND IS CONNECTING WORTH THE TROUBLE ? WHY CAN'T YOU JUSTPOWER YOUR WAY THROUGH LIFE AS A SELF-CONTAINED INDIVIDUAL ? WHY BOTHERWITH THE NEW TESTAMENT CALL TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER,FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER, CARRY ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS AND A HOST OF OTHER "ONE ANOTHERS" [ JOHN 15:12; GALATIANS 6:2; EPHESIANS 4:32; 1THESSALONIANS 5:11]? WHY INVEST YOUR LIFE IN PEOPLE WHO ARE FLAWED ANDSOMWETIMES DOWNRIGHT ANNOYING ?
A GENIUNE CONNECTION WITH GOD AND HIS FAMILY IS WORTH THE INVESTMENT
.AND DURING THIS STUDY FOR THE NEXT 6 WEEKS OR MORE, WE WILL LEARN WHYAND SHOW YOU HOW. WHETHER YOU ARE JUST GETTING STARTED OR ARE LOOKINGTO DEEPEN YOUR CONNECTION WITH FAITHFUL FRIENDS, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS AREABOUT TO REACH ANOTHER LEVEL IN CHRIST,

MOST PEOPLE DESIRETO LIVE A PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE, BUT FEW PEOPLE ACTUALLY ACHIEVE THIS ONA CONSISTENT BASIS. AND THATS WHY WE ARE GOING TOEXPLORE AND LEARN THATWE CAN LIVE A HEALTHY, BALANCED SPIRITUAL LIFE OVER TIME. AND ONE OFTHE ELEMENTS NEEDED IS FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TO ESTABLISH A INTIMATECONNECTION WITH GOD AND HIS FAMILY OF TRUE AUTHENTIC BELIEVERS. WE WILLHAVE TO FOCUS ON THE TRUTH OF HIS GOD'S WORD AND SEE A DIFFERENCE BEGINTO TAKE PLACE IN YOUR LIFE.

TAKE THIS INFORMATION PROVIDED ANDTHEN TAKE A LONG HARD LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AND BE TOTALLYHONEST WITH YOURSELF ABOUT AREAS IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU AND ONLY YOU ASAN INDIVIDUAL WOULD KNOW. THEN TAKE THEM TO THE THRONE OF GOD ANDCONFESS THEM AND ASK THE LORD FOR HELP IN BEING DELIVERED FROM THOSEAREAS THAT YOU ARE LACKING.

AND REMEMBER EVERYDAY IS A DIFFERENT JOURNEY AS YOU CONTINUE TO GROW CLOSER TO THE LORD. FOR THE CLOSER YOU GET TO THE LORD, THE MORE THE ENEMY IS GOING TO ATTACK YOU AND TRY TO CAUSE YOU DOUBT. THE MIND IS THE FIRST AREA THAT HE WANTS TO ATTACK. I RECOMMEND THAT YOU COVER YOURSELF UNDER THE BLOOD OF JESUS AND LEARN ALL THAT YOU CAN ABOUT THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD. THEN LEARN HOW TO USE EACH COMPONENT TO BE MOST EFFECTIVE FIGHTING AGAINST THE ADVERSARY, FOR WE ARE IN A SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO RELY ON SUPERNATURAL THINGS TO OCCUR IN OUR LIVES FROM THE POWER OF GOD THAT DWELLS IN EACH OF US, JUST REMEMBER THIS *** ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD. ** ALWAYS ALLOW GOD TO BE THE HEAD OF YOUR LIFE AND CONSULT HIM CONSTANTLY, AMEN !!!! I TRULY PRAY THAT THIS WILL HELP EVERYBODY,

EVANGELIST VINCENT R. TILLERY
THE LOVE OF GOD MINISTRIES

PEOPLE WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND (Part 1) , END TIMES (LEFT BEHIND, MARK OF THE BEAST); Sermon Part 2
Saturday, April 17, 2010 5:08 AM
PEOPLE WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND

I want to talk a little bit about what is about to happen on earth. These are some of the things that are going to be happening moments after the Rapture. Don’t fool yourselves into thinking that you might still have time if the Rapture happens and you still get left behind. You will still get a chance to repent and finally really believe and give your heart total to Jesus and also live that life of total obedience to Him. Now I am going to give you some of the example of things that are about to happen on earth after the Rapture. I am not saying every pilot is a born again Christian but some are and I want you to understand if you are in a plane and your pilot is part of the Bride of Christ that means they will be Rapturing so they will vanish in a twinkle of an eye. Which means that plane is going to crash, whiles at the mean time you don’t even know that your pilot has vanished (Rapture) and you and probably the rest of the people on board will not even have seconds to even repent and accept Jesus or rededicate your lives to the Him. Planes are going to be dropping from the sky all over the over the world causing great chaos all over.

During the Rapture people are going to be vanishing in a twinkle of an eye all over the world. It will be such a great time for the people Rapturing but a disastrous time for those who will be left behind. Just imagine you are in a public transportation, in a train, a ship (cruise, etc.), boats etc. the operators from some of those transports might and will Rapture so who is going to be operating them when they operators vanish in a winkle of an eye because they are part of the Bride of Christ. It might even take some minutes before anyone realizes they are gone and all of us know all it takes is a second for an accident to happen. Sometimes they can be so deadly too.

When I am driving my car I love seeing those stickers people have on their cars that says “If you are behind me when the Rapture happens know that this vehicle will not be operated.” They are trying to tell you in case of the Rapture they will be Rapturing so their vehicle might hit your vehicle and you might die on the spot and etc. The truth is some people might not get that second chance to give their lives to Jesus after the Rapture and it could be anyone of us so we cannot take any chances because those people might end up in the gates of hell. That is why it is very important that we live the life God has called and created us to live now. My brothers and sisters don’t get confuse, we don’t have time, we really, really, really don’t have time now. I was sensing the power of God going through my body as I was reading the message. It is very, very important that you don’t take these things for granted. Even if you are in my car and I am the one driving, you don’t know the Rapture is happening or is about to happen neither do I. I might drive the car into another vehicle, a tree or even over a bridge, dam or river etc. and right then the other people in my car in case they don’t get Rapture they might get in a critical accident or even die on the spot etc. Those people will go to hell.

Don’t get confuse into thinking you have time, now is the time, so let all of us live the life God has called us to live. If the Rapture happens during winter time just imagine how bad it will be. Even our Lord told us we should pray that the Rapture does not happen in winter; Matthew 24:20. Why did Jesus say that? It is because those people who are living in cold places in different parts of the world it might be winter there and keep in mind all the accidents that will happen moments after the Rapture all over the world. There will be numerous power outages all over the world. Those people who will be living at those places where the season will be winter they will not be able to turn on the heat or do so many things due to the power outages. Some people might freeze to death and those who only have refrigerated food will starve (hunger will kill them) to death and etc. So it is very, very important that we live the life God has called us to live now not tomorrow so that we will not be left behind or find ourselves in the gates of hell. Because when we get left behind there is nothing that is promise to us that we might end up entering the gates of Heaven because only those who will be able to only accept Jesus into their heart and lives but also they will have to resist the devil in so many ways including refusing to accept the Mark of the Beast (666).

You will have to understand with all those power outages and all the other things that will be happening moments after the Rapture it is going scary for those left behind and most will not even be aware the Rapture has taken place and so many people are going to be so afraid. Remember that is going to be the same time that the AntiChrist will be active as the devil. (devil’s son, like God said to me one day the AntiChrist is like the son of satan just like Jesus is thee Son of the Almighty Living God) too. The AntiChrist is going to control everything. It will actually be better for those who will be living at tropical areas during that time. The people who will refuse to receive the Mark of the Beast (666) guess what? Those people will not be able to get power (electric) to their residence, so that means we will not be able to get heat into their houses and etc. We really don’t have time, so many don’t even realize the Mark of the Beast (666) is already ready and so is the AntiChrist.

It is very, very important that we know these things and we are taking all these things so lightly. How are you even going to put gas (fuel) in your car? The AntiChrist is going to control everything, the bible talks about this. The only people who can buy and sell are those who have receive the Mark of the Beast in either their right hand or forehead. If you get the Mark to you are doom for the eternity in hell. The bible talks about this and how crucial it is and will also be that people know all these things before hand. 15He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” Revelation 13:15-18(NKJV)

Revelation 13 verse 15. It tells us the AntiChrist will allow so many to be killed because they refused to worship his image. So he will be coming after those people who will give their lives to Jesus and refuse to take the Mark of the Beast because the moment anyone accepts the mark that means they are mark to spend eternal life in hell with the devil. Matthew 24:16-18, tells us those who will be left behind should not go to the cities and etc. that people need to run away from the cities especially those who have not repented of their sins yet or given their lives to the Lord (which will include all the Lukewarm Christians because if they had been a Bride without spot or wrinkle they would have been part of the Bride of Christ that were Raptured) and need to do as soon as possible before they are caught or beheaded by the AntiChrist and his followers. Run for your lives because it is very important that we understand that it will be easier for the AntiChrist and his followers to control the cities more suburbs but sooner or later they will get there too. Don’t deceive yourselves once again into thinking you can defeat or fight the AntiChrist. The only way you can defeat him, his followers and the kingdom of darkness or hell is by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and working out your salvation with fear and trembling.
END TIMES (LEFT BEHIND, MARK OF THE BEAST); Sermon Part 2 (THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND NEW JERUSALEM (NEW/HOLY CITY))
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:29 AM
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND NEW JERUSALEM (NEW/HOLY CITY))

The Great Tribulation will lead to the Second Coming of Christ. If you want to know more about that please read from Revelation 19:11-21. It talks about different things that will lead up to Christ’s Second Coming and also some of things that will happen during His Second Coming. It also states we are going to come down from Heaven those who will be in Heaven with Him with the New Jerusalem. Read Revelation 21:2. It also gives the description of the New City (New Jerusalem) and how the walls of the City have twelve foundations and on them are the names of the twelve Apostles. It also has great walls with 12 gates and the names that are written on the 12 gates are the twelve tribes of Israel. Read Revelations 21:9-27. We already know from our previous studies that Dan was eliminated and replace with Manasseh. And God is going to be at the New Jerusalem with the Lamb (Jesus our Lord) and there will be no need for light because of how bright God Almighty and the Lamb are, Hallelujah. Revelation 21:23 and 22:5. The bible has a lot to say about the Second Coming of Christ.

People keep asking are we going to be here for the Great Tribulation and etc. but the answer is No for the Bride of Christ and unless you are not part of the Bride of Christ and will be left behind. My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, it is written in the Word of God that,

“Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.” Revelation 3:10 (NKJV)

God is telling us because you are my Children in Christ because you have kept my command, you obeyed Me and My Words and lived a life of holiness and righteousness. I also will keep you from or allow you to escape this hour of trial that means the hour of tribulation that is coming unto the inhabitants of the earth for those who disobeyed God and His commands. So now you know what the Word says pertaining to the Bride of Christ during the Tribulation, when people try to tell you know the Word of God and also what it means so you will not believe anything anyone comes and tells you.
Now I want us to talk about those who will be left behind. It is very, very important that we understand we have to live a life of holiness, righteousness and a life of total obedience to the Word of God. I always tell people, everywhere I go or whenever I get the opportunity not only when I am preaching or teaching. I always tell them three very important things which will lead to living a life that pleases God.

1) You put God first in all you do, you love Him with all your heart, love Him more than anything or anyone else

2) You love your neighbors as yourself

3) You witness, share the Gospel with others (no matter where they come from or who they are not just our families)

Because the love of God that has been shown to us, we are to also share it with others not just our brothers and sisters in Christ but also to the unbelievers too. When we share the Gospel with unbelievers it gives them a chance for them to also one day come to know Christ as their Lord and Savior too. The heart desire of Jesus is for souls that none should perish. So if we truly love Him we will not be shy when it comes time for us to witness or be embarrassed. The Word of God says if anyone lacks boldness we should ask. Pray for boldness so you will be able to do the things of God. But I will tell you this, when Holy Spirit of God nudges you and tells you, you need to stand up for righteousness or justice etc. and because you want to be a people pleaser instead of a God pleaser with your brothers and sisters in Christ or even unbelievers then we are not able to say the things God has called you to say or do. How are you ever going to grow in boldness because God is already nudging you through His Spirit. Remember the Holy Spirit of God is our teacher and everything. So it is very important that we know these things and remember He is a Gentle Person and will never force Himself on us.

Now a days it is so hard to preach and teach the truth Word of God (not for me though because I am totally my God pleaser), why? It is because people don’t want to hear the truth and so many people have compromise the Word of God just so they can have larger congregations and have more friends on earth and etc. Like I always say you might dislike me now for preaching the truth Word of God and not teaching feel good messages but when you get to the Kingdom of God you will thank Him for sending me to preach or teach the whole truth so you can get Ready for the Rapture or incase we end up resting before the Rapture. Even for those who go to church, when our brethren in Christ rebuke us etc. we are so quick to say they are been judgmental whiles it is actually a deception from the devil so we will not receive rebuke so we can keep maturing spiritually. The people who rebuke us, it is because they love us and they want us to know what it takes to enter the Kingdom of Heaven so that at the sounding of the Trumpets we will not be left behind. So then why is it that when God rebukes us we don’t say He is judging us. The bible says those He loves He rebukes, corrects. It is very important that we learn all these and know why people rebuke us.
END TIMES (LEFT BEHIND, MARK OF THE BEAST); Sermon Part 2 (3 part--THE 144,000 SEALED ISAREL)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:13 AM
THE 144,000 SEALED ISRAEL (REV 7:1-

We are now are going to talk briefly about the Sealed Israel. Remember so many Israelites don’t believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. In Revelation 7:1-8, it talks about the sealed Israelites. The 144,000 Sealed Israelites and how did they come up with that number or how and why were they chosen? The 144, 000 sealed Israel is gathered from 12,000 men from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. If you want to know the original 12 tribes of Israel is from the 12 Sons of Jacob (Israel). Read Genesis 35:23-26.

Original Tribe of Israel from the 12 sons of Jacob (Genesis 35: 23-26)
o Leah = Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulum

o Racheal = Joseph and Benjamin

o Bilhah (Racheal’s maid) = Dan and Naphatali

o Zilpah (Leah’s maid) = Gad and Asher

But when you get to Revelation 7:5-8, the Sealed tribe of Israel is slightly different. It actually gives us the listings of all the 12 Sealed tribes of Israel and we see that when we compare our notes form Genesis 35:23-26, we see that Manasseh has now become part of the final Seal tribe. So which tribe has been eliminated from the original tribe? It is the tribe of Dan. Manasseh was not one of the sons of Jacob but rather he was a grandson son of Jacob. Manasseh was Joseph’s first born. Joseph had two sons. Read Genesis 41:50-52. Read and understand the blessings Jacob prayed over his Joseph, his grandsons and then Jacob’s other sons they can be found at Genesis 48:17-20, 49:1-28 and also the blessings he prayed over Dan, Genesis 49:16-18. The last time the tribe of Dan was ever heard of in the bible was in Amos 8:14. The tribe of Dan became idol worshipers instead of worshipping the Almighty Living God. And we all know or should know how much God hates that because we were created to worship Him not anyone or anything else.

These 144,000 Sealed Israelites, they are actually all males they have never defiled themselves with a woman. They are virgins and God considers them as His first fruits when it comes to mankind. Neither was any deceit was found in their mouths. The Sealed Israelites are alive now but they do not know who they are now but they will be sealed after the Rapture. Especially during the Great Tribulation they cannot and will not be killed by AntiChrist. Those are the only people on this earth that will be sealed by God so they will not see death. They will be the number one people on the hit list of the AntiChrist and his followers. The AntiChrist will be sending his followers after the Sealed Israelites and also those who have given their lives to the Lord after the Rapture but the Sealed Israelites will and cannot be killed by anyone not even the AntiChrist.

The Lamb and the 144,000

1 “Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having[b] His Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. 3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth. 4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed[c] from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no deceit,[d] for they are without fault before the throne of God.” Revelation 14:1-5 (NKJV)

Verse 3 says no one could sing the song except the 144,000 who were redeemed from the earth, Hallelujah. To God be all the glory. So we see in those scriptures we previous read that Sealed Israelites were not killed. If they were not killed so then how did they get to the throne of God. This is the other clue that there is going to be a second Rapture.

I remember, as I was doing all these End Times studies with our Lord, I had this thought, “How come the Sealed Israel are all males and none of them are females.” I did not ask the Lord but then He answered my thought anyway, we truly serve an Awesome Living God. He said, Sandra one of the reasons why they are all males is because during the Tribulation it is going to be so intense especially during the Great Tribulation, they are going to be running for their lives, preaching and teaching the Gospel, (please keep in mind they will not be the only ones doing that but rather also some of the people who were left behind will be too who have finally rededicated their lives etc. to the Lord). The Lord said they will go sometimes days to weeks without shower and etc. and sometimes it is going to be so hard for them to come up with food and etc. He also said sometime the work is going to be so intense that the way I created the woman’s physical being it is going to be hard for them to be able to do that work. I was so stunned by the answer our Lord gave me all I could say or do was say wow, He is so amazing, I just love Him so much. I don’t ask God everything but rather sometimes I just think about some of my questions, ideas and etc. and He answers them. Those of us who have been living, working and fellowshipping with our Lord know that sometimes He even answers our thoughts. . It is an awesome thing for God to even answer our thoughts or answer our heart desires before we ever make our request known unto Him. That is why we should not entertain sinful thoughts and ideas because He is holy and we need to have holy thoughts, thoughts with no sin in it so He can enjoy them too

PEOPLE WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND (Part 1) , END TIMES (LEFT BEHIND, MARK OF THE BEAST); Sermon Part 2
Saturday, April 17, 2010 5:08 AM
PEOPLE WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND

I want to talk a little bit about what is about to happen on earth. These are some of the things that are going to be happening moments after the Rapture. Don’t fool yourselves into thinking that you might still have time if the Rapture happens and you still get left behind. You will still get a chance to repent and finally really believe and give your heart total to Jesus and also live that life of total obedience to Him. Now I am going to give you some of the example of things that are about to happen on earth after the Rapture. I am not saying every pilot is a born again Christian but some are and I want you to understand if you are in a plane and your pilot is part of the Bride of Christ that means they will be Rapturing so they will vanish in a twinkle of an eye. Which means that plane is going to crash, whiles at the mean time you don’t even know that your pilot has vanished (Rapture) and you and probably the rest of the people on board will not even have seconds to even repent and accept Jesus or rededicate your lives to the Him. Planes are going to be dropping from the sky all over the over the world causing great chaos all over.

During the Rapture people are going to be vanishing in a twinkle of an eye all over the world. It will be such a great time for the people Rapturing but a disastrous time for those who will be left behind. Just imagine you are in a public transportation, in a train, a ship (cruise, etc.), boats etc. the operators from some of those transports might and will Rapture so who is going to be operating them when they operators vanish in a winkle of an eye because they are part of the Bride of Christ. It might even take some minutes before anyone realizes they are gone and all of us know all it takes is a second for an accident to happen. Sometimes they can be so deadly too.

When I am driving my car I love seeing those stickers people have on their cars that says “If you are behind me when the Rapture happens know that this vehicle will not be operated.” They are trying to tell you in case of the Rapture they will be Rapturing so their vehicle might hit your vehicle and you might die on the spot and etc. The truth is some people might not get that second chance to give their lives to Jesus after the Rapture and it could be anyone of us so we cannot take any chances because those people might end up in the gates of hell. That is why it is very important that we live the life God has called and created us to live now. My brothers and sisters don’t get confuse, we don’t have time, we really, really, really don’t have time now. I was sensing the power of God going through my body as I was reading the message. It is very, very important that you don’t take these things for granted. Even if you are in my car and I am the one driving, you don’t know the Rapture is happening or is about to happen neither do I. I might drive the car into another vehicle, a tree or even over a bridge, dam or river etc. and right then the other people in my car in case they don’t get Rapture they might get in a critical accident or even die on the spot etc. Those people will go to hell.

Don’t get confuse into thinking you have time, now is the time, so let all of us live the life God has called us to live. If the Rapture happens during winter time just imagine how bad it will be. Even our Lord told us we should pray that the Rapture does not happen in winter; Matthew 24:20. Why did Jesus say that? It is because those people who are living in cold places in different parts of the world it might be winter there and keep in mind all the accidents that will happen moments after the Rapture all over the world. There will be numerous power outages all over the world. Those people who will be living at those places where the season will be winter they will not be able to turn on the heat or do so many things due to the power outages. Some people might freeze to death and those who only have refrigerated food will starve (hunger will kill them) to death and etc. So it is very, very important that we live the life God has called us to live now not tomorrow so that we will not be left behind or find ourselves in the gates of hell. Because when we get left behind there is nothing that is promise to us that we might end up entering the gates of Heaven because only those who will be able to only accept Jesus into their heart and lives but also they will have to resist the devil in so many ways including refusing to accept the Mark of the Beast (666).

You will have to understand with all those power outages and all the other things that will be happening moments after the Rapture it is going scary for those left behind and most will not even be aware the Rapture has taken place and so many people are going to be so afraid. Remember that is going to be the same time that the AntiChrist will be active as the devil. (devil’s son, like God said to me one day the AntiChrist is like the son of satan just like Jesus is thee Son of the Almighty Living God) too. The AntiChrist is going to control everything. It will actually be better for those who will be living at tropical areas during that time. The people who will refuse to receive the Mark of the Beast (666) guess what? Those people will not be able to get power (electric) to their residence, so that means we will not be able to get heat into their houses and etc. We really don’t have time, so many don’t even realize the Mark of the Beast (666) is already ready and so is the AntiChrist.

It is very, very important that we know these things and we are taking all these things so lightly. How are you even going to put gas (fuel) in your car? The AntiChrist is going to control everything, the bible talks about this. The only people who can buy and sell are those who have receive the Mark of the Beast in either their right hand or forehead. If you get the Mark to you are doom for the eternity in hell. The bible talks about this and how crucial it is and will also be that people know all these things before hand. 15He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” Revelation 13:15-18(NKJV)

Revelation 13 verse 15. It tells us the AntiChrist will allow so many to be killed because they refused to worship his image. So he will be coming after those people who will give their lives to Jesus and refuse to take the Mark of the Beast because the moment anyone accepts the mark that means they are mark to spend eternal life in hell with the devil. Matthew 24:16-18, tells us those who will be left behind should not go to the cities and etc. that people need to run away from the cities especially those who have not repented of their sins yet or given their lives to the Lord (which will include all the Lukewarm Christians because if they had been a Bride without spot or wrinkle they would have been part of the Bride of Christ that were Raptured) and need to do as soon as possible before they are caught or beheaded by the AntiChrist and his followers. Run for your lives because it is very important that we understand that it will be easier for the AntiChrist and his followers to control the cities more suburbs but sooner or later they will get there too. Don’t deceive yourselves once again into thinking you can defeat or fight the AntiChrist. The only way you can defeat him, his followers and the kingdom of darkness or hell is by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and working out your salvation with fear and trembling.
END TIMES (LEFT BEHIND, MARK OF THE BEAST); Sermon Part 2 (THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND NEW JERUSALEM (NEW/HOLY CITY))
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:29 AM
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND NEW JERUSALEM (NEW/HOLY CITY))

The Great Tribulation will lead to the Second Coming of Christ. If you want to know more about that please read from Revelation 19:11-21. It talks about different things that will lead up to Christ’s Second Coming and also some of things that will happen during His Second Coming. It also states we are going to come down from Heaven those who will be in Heaven with Him with the New Jerusalem. Read Revelation 21:2. It also gives the description of the New City (New Jerusalem) and how the walls of the City have twelve foundations and on them are the names of the twelve Apostles. It also has great walls with 12 gates and the names that are written on the 12 gates are the twelve tribes of Israel. Read Revelations 21:9-27. We already know from our previous studies that Dan was eliminated and replace with Manasseh. And God is going to be at the New Jerusalem with the Lamb (Jesus our Lord) and there will be no need for light because of how bright God Almighty and the Lamb are, Hallelujah. Revelation 21:23 and 22:5. The bible has a lot to say about the Second Coming of Christ.

People keep asking are we going to be here for the Great Tribulation and etc. but the answer is No for the Bride of Christ and unless you are not part of the Bride of Christ and will be left behind. My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, it is written in the Word of God that,

“Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.” Revelation 3:10 (NKJV)

God is telling us because you are my Children in Christ because you have kept my command, you obeyed Me and My Words and lived a life of holiness and righteousness. I also will keep you from or allow you to escape this hour of trial that means the hour of tribulation that is coming unto the inhabitants of the earth for those who disobeyed God and His commands. So now you know what the Word says pertaining to the Bride of Christ during the Tribulation, when people try to tell you know the Word of God and also what it means so you will not believe anything anyone comes and tells you.
Now I want us to talk about those who will be left behind. It is very, very important that we understand we have to live a life of holiness, righteousness and a life of total obedience to the Word of God. I always tell people, everywhere I go or whenever I get the opportunity not only when I am preaching or teaching. I always tell them three very important things which will lead to living a life that pleases God.

1) You put God first in all you do, you love Him with all your heart, love Him more than anything or anyone else

2) You love your neighbors as yourself

3) You witness, share the Gospel with others (no matter where they come from or who they are not just our families)

Because the love of God that has been shown to us, we are to also share it with others not just our brothers and sisters in Christ but also to the unbelievers too. When we share the Gospel with unbelievers it gives them a chance for them to also one day come to know Christ as their Lord and Savior too. The heart desire of Jesus is for souls that none should perish. So if we truly love Him we will not be shy when it comes time for us to witness or be embarrassed. The Word of God says if anyone lacks boldness we should ask. Pray for boldness so you will be able to do the things of God. But I will tell you this, when Holy Spirit of God nudges you and tells you, you need to stand up for righteousness or justice etc. and because you want to be a people pleaser instead of a God pleaser with your brothers and sisters in Christ or even unbelievers then we are not able to say the things God has called you to say or do. How are you ever going to grow in boldness because God is already nudging you through His Spirit. Remember the Holy Spirit of God is our teacher and everything. So it is very important that we know these things and remember He is a Gentle Person and will never force Himself on us.

Now a days it is so hard to preach and teach the truth Word of God (not for me though because I am totally my God pleaser), why? It is because people don’t want to hear the truth and so many people have compromise the Word of God just so they can have larger congregations and have more friends on earth and etc. Like I always say you might dislike me now for preaching the truth Word of God and not teaching feel good messages but when you get to the Kingdom of God you will thank Him for sending me to preach or teach the whole truth so you can get Ready for the Rapture or incase we end up resting before the Rapture. Even for those who go to church, when our brethren in Christ rebuke us etc. we are so quick to say they are been judgmental whiles it is actually a deception from the devil so we will not receive rebuke so we can keep maturing spiritually. The people who rebuke us, it is because they love us and they want us to know what it takes to enter the Kingdom of Heaven so that at the sounding of the Trumpets we will not be left behind. So then why is it that when God rebukes us we don’t say He is judging us. The bible says those He loves He rebukes, corrects. It is very important that we learn all these and know why people rebuke us.
END TIMES (LEFT BEHIND, MARK OF THE BEAST); Sermon Part 2 (3 part--THE 144,000 SEALED ISAREL)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:13 AM
THE 144,000 SEALED ISRAEL (REV 7:1-

We are now are going to talk briefly about the Sealed Israel. Remember so many Israelites don’t believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. In Revelation 7:1-8, it talks about the sealed Israelites. The 144,000 Sealed Israelites and how did they come up with that number or how and why were they chosen? The 144, 000 sealed Israel is gathered from 12,000 men from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. If you want to know the original 12 tribes of Israel is from the 12 Sons of Jacob (Israel). Read Genesis 35:23-26.

Original Tribe of Israel from the 12 sons of Jacob (Genesis 35: 23-26)
o Leah = Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulum

o Racheal = Joseph and Benjamin

o Bilhah (Racheal’s maid) = Dan and Naphatali

o Zilpah (Leah’s maid) = Gad and Asher

But when you get to Revelation 7:5-8, the Sealed tribe of Israel is slightly different. It actually gives us the listings of all the 12 Sealed tribes of Israel and we see that when we compare our notes form Genesis 35:23-26, we see that Manasseh has now become part of the final Seal tribe. So which tribe has been eliminated from the original tribe? It is the tribe of Dan. Manasseh was not one of the sons of Jacob but rather he was a grandson son of Jacob. Manasseh was Joseph’s first born. Joseph had two sons. Read Genesis 41:50-52. Read and understand the blessings Jacob prayed over his Joseph, his grandsons and then Jacob’s other sons they can be found at Genesis 48:17-20, 49:1-28 and also the blessings he prayed over Dan, Genesis 49:16-18. The last time the tribe of Dan was ever heard of in the bible was in Amos 8:14. The tribe of Dan became idol worshipers instead of worshipping the Almighty Living God. And we all know or should know how much God hates that because we were created to worship Him not anyone or anything else.

These 144,000 Sealed Israelites, they are actually all males they have never defiled themselves with a woman. They are virgins and God considers them as His first fruits when it comes to mankind. Neither was any deceit was found in their mouths. The Sealed Israelites are alive now but they do not know who they are now but they will be sealed after the Rapture. Especially during the Great Tribulation they cannot and will not be killed by AntiChrist. Those are the only people on this earth that will be sealed by God so they will not see death. They will be the number one people on the hit list of the AntiChrist and his followers. The AntiChrist will be sending his followers after the Sealed Israelites and also those who have given their lives to the Lord after the Rapture but the Sealed Israelites will and cannot be killed by anyone not even the AntiChrist.

The Lamb and the 144,000

1 “Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having[b] His Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. 3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth. 4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed[c] from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no deceit,[d] for they are without fault before the throne of God.” Revelation 14:1-5 (NKJV)

Verse 3 says no one could sing the song except the 144,000 who were redeemed from the earth, Hallelujah. To God be all the glory. So we see in those scriptures we previous read that Sealed Israelites were not killed. If they were not killed so then how did they get to the throne of God. This is the other clue that there is going to be a second Rapture.

I remember, as I was doing all these End Times studies with our Lord, I had this thought, “How come the Sealed Israel are all males and none of them are females.” I did not ask the Lord but then He answered my thought anyway, we truly serve an Awesome Living God. He said, Sandra one of the reasons why they are all males is because during the Tribulation it is going to be so intense especially during the Great Tribulation, they are going to be running for their lives, preaching and teaching the Gospel, (please keep in mind they will not be the only ones doing that but rather also some of the people who were left behind will be too who have finally rededicated their lives etc. to the Lord). The Lord said they will go sometimes days to weeks without shower and etc. and sometimes it is going to be so hard for them to come up with food and etc. He also said sometime the work is going to be so intense that the way I created the woman’s physical being it is going to be hard for them to be able to do that work. I was so stunned by the answer our Lord gave me all I could say or do was say wow, He is so amazing, I just love Him so much. I don’t ask God everything but rather sometimes I just think about some of my questions, ideas and etc. and He answers them. Those of us who have been living, working and fellowshipping with our Lord know that sometimes He even answers our thoughts. . It is an awesome thing for God to even answer our thoughts or answer our heart desires before we ever make our request known unto Him. That is why we should not entertain sinful thoughts and ideas because He is holy and we need to have holy thoughts, thoughts with no sin in it so He can enjoy them too

I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. (Luke 17:34)

The Terror of the Lord
Maurice Sklar

Dear Friends,

It is written:

“Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Messiah (Christ); that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. KNOWING THEREFORE THE TERROR OF THE LORD, we persuade men…And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again.” (2 Corinthians 5: 9-11a, 15)

There is no escaping this judgment seat of the Lord as believers in Yeshua our Messiah. What will it be like when we stand before the Lord at His judgment seat?

We all know that God loves us unconditionally and in spite of all our sins. We know about God’s mercy and grace, His free love and pardon of us through the shed blood of our Messiah, Yeshua on the cross. We have been taught about the benefits of the New Covenant in that blood. Yes, indeed, our generation has perhaps received more revelation knowledge concerning what JESUS HAS DONE FOR US than any other. We are saved! We are healed! We are redeemed from the curse of the law! We are blessed with the blessing of Abraham! We have authority in Yeshua’s name over all the power of darkness! Praise the Lord! Yeshua came to give us life and that more abundantly. We receive the benefits of our redemption through faith in His Word of promise to us in the Bible. We have been saturated with great teachings in this area during the last 30 years or so in the Charismatic/Faith realm of the Body of Messiah.

Then, what is Paul talking about here? It seems so strange that he would write about something that terrified him when he sees the Lord. Well, like I always do when I don’t know something in the Word of God, I ask our Teacher, the precious Holy Spirit. As I waited upon the Lord the past several days, I received a revelation that I want to share with you, my precious brothers and sisters:

All of us will one day appear before God. Every detail of our lives will be panoramically presented before us. We will live every moment of our lives over again in the Light of God’s eyes upon us. We will see when we have done GOOD and we will see when we have done BAD. There is another passage where Paul speaks about this time in 1 Corinthians 3:9-18a, as it is written:

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But LET EVERY MAN TAKE HEED HOW HE BUILDETH THEREUPON. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man BUILD UPON THIS FOUNDATION GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES, WOOD, HAY, STUBBLE; EVERY MAN’S WORK SHALL BE MADE MANIFEST; FOR THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT, BECAUSE IT SHALL BE REVEALED BY FIRE; AND THE FIRE SHALL TRY EVERY MAN’S WORK OF WHAT SORT IT IS. If any man’s work shall be burnt, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let know man deceive himself…”

When we came to Jesus and were born again spiritually, we received a new nature on the inside. That part of us is the real “us”. We are a spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a body, as we have been correctly taught. But, God had to leave us in these bodies that have the law of sin and death operating in them. We got these bodies from Adam. When he fell into sin, we also inherited the same capacity to sin. All have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God, as it is written. Even though we are dead with Messiah, and risen to new life in Messiah in our spirits, God had to leave us in these bodies of flesh and blood until the fullness of our redemption is consummated and we receive brand new resurrection bodies. They will never lead us into sin again. We will never break God’s heart again by sinning against Him. Until that time, however, we are a hybrid creation, if you will. There is a constant inner warfare between our new creation spirit man on the inside, and our flesh which only wants to go its’ own selfish way. That is why God had to send Himself to live in our spirits in the Person of the Holy Spirit. It is only by His power that we are able to put to death the deeds of the flesh and to live, holy, overcoming lives of faith and obedience to God.

BUT THIS IS NOT AUTOMATIC! If you want to please God, you must deny yourself daily, take up your cross and follow Yeshua. You must spend much time in prayer and in God’s Word so that you have the inner strength to overcome temptation. You must learn to instantly obey every prompting of the Holy Spirit. You must put your flesh under and be led by the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, you will be in a spiritually bankrupt state when you appear before the Lord. The Lord has called me to help prepare the Bride of Messiah for His soon appearing. For only the overcomers will be ready for Him when he comes in the midnight hour. I pray that you and I will be ready. I pray that you and I will not have to be ashamed on That Day. If you do not forsake all and follow Jesus NOW, you will mourn and weep before the Lord for your wasted, selfish, life. Sadly, many millions of “believers” will have nothing to give to the Lord. The fire of the judgment seat will burn all of it away. I AM comforted by what Paul says here that they shall still be saved eternal damnation, but by fire. But, what a way to enter into eternity, with no reward!

Did you know that the Lord wants to make you rich? Now, before you take out your prophet rocks to stone me, let’s define what true riches are. This is what the Holy Spirit shared with me:

“True riches in eternity are different entirely from the temporary “riches” of this present life on earth that you are living. True riches are:

1.The honor of the Lamb of God before His throne.
2.The souls of those that have been won to the Lord by your life of sacrifice, love, obedience, and service in your earthly life – they shall be jewels in your crown(s).
3.Many crowns shall be given to the overcomers – for soulwinning, pastoring(and ministering) faithfully, righteousness for completing your course in the will of God in this life, and glory for suffering and martyrdom shall be given to those that shall be found worthy – among other crowns that we do not know about at this time.
4.Authority and dominion to rule and reign with Yeshua the Messiah in His Messianic Kingdom as well as in the ages to come of eternity.
5.There are thrones of GLORY waiting for those that shall be faithful and obedient to our Lord.
6.We shall be given the privilege to judge with the Lord concerning the works of angels, Israel, and the saints in the government of King Messiah to come.
7.Realms of ecstasy in worship and union that are only reserved for the Bride of Messiah.

Beloved, it is going to be worth it all one day soon! This is your future and destiny! If only you could see from heaven’s perspective! I am coming soon, says the Lord, AND MY REWARD FOR EACH OF YOU IS WITH ME!”

The reason that Paul was afraid to the point of terror of this judgment seat of Messiah was that he knew that nothing could be hidden from the Lord on that Day. Every thought, word, and deed will come under the microscope of the Holy eyes of the Master. Paul said this also, as it is written:

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: BUT I KEEP UNDER MY BODY, AND BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION: LEST THAT BY ANY MEANS, WHEN I HAVE PREACHED TO OTHERS, I MYSELF SHOULD BE A CASTAWAY.”

If the Apostle Paul feared of being disqualified and castaway from the prize awaiting Him, how much more should we be diligent in the Fear of the Lord to stay faithful to God?!

God wants us to overcome and rejoice with Him on that Day when we appear before His judgment seat. Beloved, there IS a way for YOU to be able to rejoice on that Day too!

I want to reveal this to you now, beloved Bride of Messiah – so, here it is:

You can choose to go before the Lord NOW in this life…as the Bible promises:

“For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.” (1 Corinthians 11:31)

The Lord allowed me, by His grace and mercy, to go before Him and submit to His holy fire. There is a refining fire that God has burning before His throne. It is indeed painful! It is indeed terrifying in the sense that you will clearly see how depraved and sinful you really are. It is a horrible thing to look upon the depths of our sin and depravity. But, GOD CAN BURN IT OUT OF YOU – even in this life. YOU CAN ENTER INTO THE SECRET PLACE WHERE SIN IS PUT AWAY BY HIS HOLY REFINING FIRE. This doesn’t mean that you won’t sin ever again in this life, but it means that you heart can be so cleansed that your motives, attitudes, emotions, and thoughts will become daily more and more like Yeshua’s.

CHOOSE YOUR PAIN. Now or later. You must die daily so that Yeshua can live fully through you. Only then will you and I live above sin. Remember this: every step out of love and into selfishness is sin. The most painful thing is to not be pleasing to our Lord who loves us so much.

If you choose to go into this refining fire daily NOW, you will have nothing to be ashamed of THEN. If you refuse and choose to keep away from the fire in this life as a believer, your selfishness and depravity will be shown THEN, and you shall surely SUFFER GREAT LOSS on that Day. God wants to burn out all the wood, hay, and stubble in your life. He wants you to bear much fruit as holy disciples of Yeshua and inherit the true riches: this is the GOLD, SILVER, AND PRECIOUS STONES at His ‘Bema’ – Messiah’s Judgment Seat.

Beloved, let God burn out of you everything He hates – and burn into you everything He loves! Cry out to Him now! Decide to enter into the fellowship of Yeshua’s sufferings by taking up your cross daily, denying yourself in the interior life, and following Him in holiness and instant obedience. Then, on that Day, what joy shall be yours and mine! As it is written:

“If we suffer (with Him in this life), we shall also reign with Him”. (1 Timothy 2:12a)

May the Lord pour out His holy fire upon you NOW as you are reading this message. Get on your knees and cry out to Him with all of your heart to have mercy on your soul and to prepare you to be a part of His Holy Bride. Humble yourself before Him in contrite repentance and He will surely lift you up!

This is the message of the Lord for you today.

Beloved, He is coming soon! Keep yourselves from idols.

Love in our Messiah,

Maurice Skla

Getting Ready to Pray the PsalmsShare. Today at 8:50pm
I have to apologize; perhaps this should have been the starting place; but, my bad!!

Prayer is not difficult; simply talking to God. Everyone does it. The excerpts from this book I am sharing is only meant to help you enhance your talking time with GOD. "LORD, I want to talk to You, "!!

The word Psalm in Hebrew is Tehillum, which means, "To make jubilant music" So; they should be prayed to music; whether it is music God places in your heart; or if you have some form of just soaking music. BUT if you have neither of these; Make Music In Your Heart and Just sing to Him; He Loves that also. The Hebrew Tehillum is taken from a root halal, "to rejoice", or to"yell a greeting" as if you are excited about seeing someone; be that way with the Father; very happily "Hello God, this is me, thank You for listening to me". There are ways we talk to people. We ask for things, we thank them, we informally chat, we negotiate, we express anger, we complain, and we compliment. Likewise, there are many ways to pray. As you embark upon this journey to pray the various Psalms, notice all the ways you talk to God. "Lord, teach me to pray every possible way, "!!!

First way to talk to God is by complimenting Him. Worship; "Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker" (Ps. 95:6) You worship by giving "Worth" to God that is due Him. You worship God by giving Him worship. He is due all worship, we should not worship self; false gods; worldly pleasure. " LORD, I worship your majesty, "!!

"True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth: for the Father is seeking people to worship Him this way" (Jn. 4:23) "Lord, I worship You with my whole heart, and I worship You the way the Bible (truth) tells me to do it."

Second way to pray is to ask for forgiveness. You can't pray when sin blocks your access to God. The Psalmist notes, " If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear." (Ps.66:18) So pray the Psalms to ask forgiveness, "According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions" (Ps. 51:1). Then you can rejoice with the Psalmist because God "forgives all your iniquities" (Ps. 103:3) There is forgiveness with You (God), that You may be feared " (Ps. 130:4). We should worship and thank God for forgiving our iniquities; our sins. "LORD, thank You for forgiving all my past, present, and future sins, " Hallelujah!!

Third way you pray is by yielding yourself to God, It's called surrendering to Him. The Lord's Prayer tell you to pray like this, "Thy will be done, ". You become a follower of the Lord by yielding to Him. Each day renew that decision " LORD, today I give myself to You, " Psalms 100 gives us a picture of people presenting themselves to God. "Lord, today I again present my body a living sacrifice. I yield to Your Will."

Fourth way to pray is to ask for protection. What scares you today? God can protect you from fear and dread. The Psalmist prayed, "This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of ALL his troubles." (Ps. 34:6) God delivered him from ALL his troubles; not just some; if God did it then; He will do it for you now also. "The Angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear HIM, and delivers them" (Ps.34:7) "Lord, deliver me from the dangers I face, and the dangers I don't know about."

Fifth way to pray is to ask for guidance. Need a answer to a decision or problem? Praying the Psalms can help you find it. You can find God's will for your life in prayer. God promises, " I will guide you" (Ps. 32: Based on that promise you can have assurance that He will lead you. "He leads me" (Ps. 23:2)
"LORD, take me by the hand and guide me through my difficult decisions, " Amen.

Sixth way to pray is to ask for His victory, All God's people want to over come sin (Ps.51) or conquer an enemy (Ps.7). The Psalmist promises victory today in the strength of the LORD. "Through God we will do valiantly, for it is HE who shall tread down our enemies" (Ps. 60:12). Psalmist also promises a future victory, " I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever" (Ps. 23:6)
" Lord, I want victory now, I'm tired of being defeated, I want victory today, "

Seventh way to pray is for provision. We ask other people for things; Why Not God? The Psalmist wanted the blessing of God that included good crops, flourishing flocks, healthy families, and good health. " The Lord has been mindful of us; He will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless those who fear the LORD both small and great. May the Lord give you increase more and more, you and your children. (Ps. 115:12-14) Asking is the kingdom principle taught by Jesus. "Up to now you have not asked for anything in prayer, now you will receive when you ask in My Name" (Jn. 16:24) " Lord, I have many needs; teach me to ask properly for my daily bread, "

Praying for blessing on your service to God is the eighth way to pray. Moses prayed for victory in battle, while Joshua led the army into battle. (Ex.17:5-16) When Moses was physically unable to hold up his arms in prayer, Aaron and Hur helped him. David prayed, "O LORD, when I cry, have mercy also upon me, and answer me" (Ps. 27:7) The Psalmist confesses, " I would have lost heart, unless I believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the Land of the Living " (Ps. 27:13)
" Lord, I want to see Your Hand in my service for You, "

Vincent R. Tellery.

August 8, 2010


No Problem Is Too Big or Small

By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.
In our pursuit of God’s kingdom, distractions attack us from every direction. Doubt, sickness, discouragement, disappointment—they are all tactics the enemy uses to throw us off the trail. However, our ability to press through these obstacles and hindrances will determine how successful we are in our pursuit of God.

God never promises that once we have a relationship with Him all our problems will go away. Instead, He gives us the wisdom and perspective to cope and deal with these issues when they arise in our lives. He also gives us eternal hope for every situation we face.

Yet as believers, keeping our perspective enables us to get through anything. No matter what trouble is facing us today, God will help us get through it. No problem we have is too big for God to handle. And nothing is too small for Him either. He is concerned about every aspect of our lives, even knowing how many hairs we have on our heads.

What gets lost in the fray many times is that we are not in this life alone. We are not ostracized from God. He hears our prayers. He desires to see us transformed into the people He has intended for us to be. When we remember that truth, suddenly life’s problems do not present such ominous road blocks.

Regardless of what trials and tribulations stare us in the face, God is bigger than all of them. As we seek Him with all our hearts, we discover how true His Word really is—and we realize how much He loves us and how He will never leave us.

Prayer: Lord, empower me to keep the right perspective as I face each trial in life.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 6:12).

www.leadingtheway.org

August 8, 2010


No Problem Is Too Big or Small

By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.
In our pursuit of God’s kingdom, distractions attack us from every direction. Doubt, sickness, discouragement, disappointment—they are all tactics the enemy uses to throw us off the trail. However, our ability to press through these obstacles and hindrances will determine how successful we are in our pursuit of God.

God never promises that once we have a relationship with Him all our problems will go away. Instead, He gives us the wisdom and perspective to cope and deal with these issues when they arise in our lives. He also gives us eternal hope for every situation we face.

Yet as believers, keeping our perspective enables us to get through anything. No matter what trouble is facing us today, God will help us get through it. No problem we have is too big for God to handle. And nothing is too small for Him either. He is concerned about every aspect of our lives, even knowing how many hairs we have on our heads.

What gets lost in the fray many times is that we are not in this life alone. We are not ostracized from God. He hears our prayers. He desires to see us transformed into the people He has intended for us to be. When we remember that truth, suddenly life’s problems do not present such ominous road blocks.

Regardless of what trials and tribulations stare us in the face, God is bigger than all of them. As we seek Him with all our hearts, we discover how true His Word really is—and we realize how much He loves us and how He will never leave us.

Prayer: Lord, empower me to keep the right perspective as I face each trial in life.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 6:12).

www.leadingtheway.org

The Closing of the Gates of Grace
Maurice Sklar

Mar 30, 2009

Tonight I watched as the Holy Spirit gave me a vision.

I saw two massive gate doors – both on the right and the left of the earth. They were made out of gold with precious gems embedded in them. They were positioned over the earth in the spirit realm. On the other side of the gates was heaven. On our side of the gates was the earth suspended in space. Then I saw a mighty angel on each side of the two gates. They were standing as sentries guarding the doorway or portal from the two realms. They each had a large sword in their hands that was on fire and it seemed to spin around perpetually in every direction and it shot these flames out all around them. I was amazed and awed at their glory and size. They seemed as large as the earth below them. The gates were even larger in size than they were! Both the angels and the gates were glowing as bright as the sun, it seemed. On the heavenly side – light was streaming like a river flowing toward the earth. As I looked into the glorious light, I saw the Lord sitting on His throne in great majesty with many crowns on His head. He had an iron/bronze-looking scepter in his right hand and an old-fashioned-looking harvesting sickle in the other.

Suddenly, I heard His voice. It sounded like a roaring ocean of water and wind as He spoke. I have never heard such a sound before. He said,

“The time has come to close the gates of grace upon the earth. The nations have rejected Me and My Father long enough. Lift the coverings of protection off of those nations that have chosen Babylon over my Kingdom. I will no longer protect them from reaping what they have sown.”

Then the two angels on each side of the golden gate leaves began to move slowly to shut the giant doorway/portal. I noticed that this was a slow process, because I saw the seasons change on earth and some years pass before it was fully closed. As it was closing, I was able to look closer at the river of light that was pouring upon the earth. In it was every blessing and healing grace, forgiveness, unconditional agape love, and the constant flow of angels carrying all these wonderful blessings to the earth.
Right before the gates shut, I heard the Voice of the Lord say,

“Come up here, my Bride, and escape the wrath that is about to be poured out upon the earth.”

I heard a nearly deafeningly loud blast of heavenly trumpets from both those angels at the same time, and suddenly, I saw multitudes of souls – millions and millions of them – ascending out of the earth very fast in a flash of light. The river of light coming through the gates met them in the upper atmosphere of the earth and then reversed itself and all the souls and the river of light went back up out of the earth and into the closing gates back into heaven.

Then I saw the gates finish shutting completely – at a much faster rate now after the souls from earth had finished going into heaven. Then, it became so dark that I could no longer see the stars even. There was no more river of light flowing down upon the earth. The earth was covered in what looked like white neon hexagon shapes in a web above the earth (please see my teaching “Visions from the Dallas Revival 1985” on my websight) It rapidly became opaque where I could no longer see the earth underneath. I just saw a brownish looking color –like a stagnant pond - where the oceans and land could be seen only a few moments before. Then, nearly just as fast, the whole earth seemed to be swallowed up in the thickest black darkness I had ever seen. It was like a black hole in the universe. It made the rest of the universe look light in comparison, if I could describe it that way.

I felt so sick and hopeless as I saw this. Then, just like I had heard back in the vision in 1985, I began hearing the screams of millions upon millions of souls that I knew were trapped in that darkness below in the earth. The Holy Spirit then spoke to me and said,

“This is now coming upon the whole earth as a snare and a trap. This is what the nations have chosen. As they have done, so shall it be done to them. As they have cursed, so shall they be cursed. As they have condemned, so shall they be condemned. The time of My wrath shall surely come. The nations shall drink of the wine of the wrath of My cup that I have mixed for them. Woe! Woe! Woe to the earth for the hour of her judgment has surely come! Babylon shall now fall and be consumed by the fire of my wrath.”

Then I realized that these were still events to come in the future. But I also somehow knew that it was imminent. Once again, I saw the doors of the gates of grace still remained partially open. I knew that this was our present time now. I was so relieved to see the river of light flowing into the earth again. But, the doors were closing fast! They weren’t fully opened as they were even a few years ago. I knew that we didn’t have much more time. The Lord spoke again so loudly and powerfully:

“Warn them! Time is very short! You must preach the gospel and work while it is still daylight. The night comes very soon, and no man can then harvest in the time of grace ever again. The doors of grace are beginning to close. REPENT! REPENT! REPENT O Earth before the river of light stops flowing! Then you will face Me, not as Merciful Savior, but as the Judge of all the earth. Who will hear and heed the final call of the silver trumpet’s clarion of Grace, Grace! My Spirit will not strive with sinful man forever. Come to Me now while there is still a little time left. I am coming soon for My overcoming Bride. Keep your lamps burning…Watch and Pray…I AM AT THE DOORS OF GRACE! They are closing quickly….Come into My ark of safety…come into the Bridal chamber and the doors will SHUT…I AM COMING FOR YOU, MY BELOVED!!!”

I pray that we all take heed to God’s prophetic warning and be ready when he appears for His glorious, waiting Bride.

Love in our Messiah,
Maurice Sklar

John said, Master, we saw a man driving out demons in Your name and we commanded him to stop it, for he does not follow along with us. But Jesus told him, Do not forbid [such people]; for whoever is not against you is for you.

…And when His disciples James and John observed this, (that a Samaritan village would not receive Jesus on His way to Jerusalem to become God’s Passover Lamb) they said, Lord, do You wish us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did ? [II Kings 1:9-16.] But He turned and rebuked and severely censored them. He said, You do not know of what sort of spirit you are, for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them… (Luke 9:49-56 AMP) (Insert mine.)


It’s no coincidence these two lessons are side-by-side each other in the Word of God. The first one not only depicts who is FOR Jesus, but also that it’s wrong to forbid someone from teaching just because they don’t “follow along with us”. And the second one reveals what we are NOT to do when someone IS found to be against Jesus—we are NOT to destroy them!

A true teacher leads to the True Christ, while a false teacher leads to a false Christ. God said that we’re ALL looking through a mirror dimly, that NOT ONE of us will know all Truth until we’re standing face-to-face with Jesus. (1 Cor 13:12) That means each and every one of us will make some mistakes along the way. Therefore, if we’re judging people as false teachers merely because they’ve erred before, WE are the ones actually in error. Furthermore, knowing God said that NOT ONE of us will be error-free until we’re with Jesus again, wouldn’t such a requirement for perfection of teachers actually disqualify EVERY single teacher then? Not ONE teacher would remain amongst us!

Brethren, I pray we all study 2 Peter 2 in its entirety before ever falsely accusing, judging, and destroying the integrity of any of God’s anointed teachers again. For ABBA strongly warns us not once but TWICE not to touch His anointed (1 Ch 16:22; Ps 105:15), indicating to me what a serious offense this is to Him.

“Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that you do not know. The name of God may be written upon that soul.” ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)


Do not speak evil of one another brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

There is one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another? (James 4:11-12 NKJV)



© 2010 by Tracie Justice

Reward of Grace

Workers in the Vineyard Math20:1-9

1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day?' 7 They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.' 8 So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.' 9 And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.

The Parable above was giving by our Lord and savior Jesus Christ and it is been likened to the Kingdom of God and the gospel of Salvation being preached today.
The man vine owner is Christ Jesus and he’s out (through saints and believers) looking for workers to work in the vineyard (kingdom of God ) which also means looking for people to accept Christ as their Lord and savior and the “One denarius” is the Eternal life (14:6, which says, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”) The first workers have been the apostle of Christ Jesus, old men of God who are long gone to be with God in Heaven and the people standing in the market place are the present saved Christians who are still preaching the Word of Salvation in Christ Jesus. The people called in the 11th hr are the unsaved people reading this message (or not reading) and the lukewarm at this moment.
The owner of the vine (Christ Jesus) called every one, those that started from the beginning and the one’s that started the job in the 11th hr (final hour) they all got the same pay. Though he never told the 11th hour crew hw much he will pay them he only promised the first set of people 1 Denarius each but, because of Grace all were paid 1 Denarius each irrespective of the time the spent working in the vine-yard. The vine owner paid them such amount because he realized all that came to work for Him were all moved by obedience and their reward was all the same.
The Bibles say’s in Eclst 9:11. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
“Time and Chance ” is the key-word in the above verse (Eclst 9:11) and also in the parable of the Vine-Yard workers. The end-time is here and we are just seconds, mins, hrs, days and even weeks away from the coming of Christ Jesus (Rapture) why don’t you take the “Chance” presented now to accept Christ Jesus the only “Time” you have could be now or today, this week or even this month. Why don’t you take the “Time and Chance” that the Workers of the 11th hr took in the vine and were all rewarded with 1 Denarius each .You have the only “Time” and “Chance ” to accept Christ now as the next hr maybe too late. Once you accept Christ now (11th hr) your reward will be heave…the same reward as Paul, John, Mathew and many apostles of old.
The 11th hr is now brother and sister!
Please and Please Christ is near accept Christ into your life now and be like the 11th hr workers. God bless you all.
Jnryefet@yahoo.com.au

Mohammed (Nigeria)

Mohammed grew up in a Fulani tribe and started rearing cattle when he was six years old. He did this for almost 10 years until he went to an Arabic school to study the Qur’an. Prior to this, Mohammed had learned about Islam from his father.

After several years of schooling, he returned home. One night he had a frightening dream. He saw people along the roadside who were suffering. He entered a gate and people took him and beat him. Then he was locked in a room that was very hot. It was so hot that his flesh began to peel off his body. As he began screaming and trying to kick the door open, he woke up. He couldn’t sleep for the rest of the night. The next night, he had another dream. This time he was on a different road and he saw decaying bodies. He came to the same gate, was beaten and taken to the same room. His flesh was melting off his body when a man dressed in white appeared. Suddenly, the room became cold and the people who were beating him disappeared. The man stretched his hand out and held Mohammed’s hand, saying, “My son, what are you doing here? Do you want me to take you home?” Mohammed says, “Within a second I was back home and he said to me, ‘I love you, my son.’”

Two weeks later, Mohammed had a third dream. He was in the bush and there was a deep hole in front of him and he didn’t know how to cross it. When he looked into the pit he became scared and thought he would probably fall in and die. He saw a man dressed in black walking quickly. This man told him that a lion was coming behind him (Mohammed) and that he should jump over the pit before the lion reached him. Mohammed could hear the lion’s roar. Just as he was about to jump, the man in white from his previous dream appeared in front of him and asked, “My son, where are you going?” The man in black disappeared and the lion’s roar stopped. Mohammed told the man in white that he was going home. He asked Mohammed if he wanted help. The man in white stretched his leg across the whole pit. As he did this, the hole closed and he told Mohammed to cross over and go home. When they were close to Mohammed’s house, the man said, “I love you, my son.”

For the next six nights, Mohammed had similar dreams. Each time, he saw himself in different places and, regardless of where he was, the same man in white came and helped him. In the last dream (dream #9), Mohammed was sitting under a tree reading books that he couldn’t understand. The man in white (Jesus) was sitting beside him. He asked Mohammed what he was reading and Mohammed told him that he was trying to acquire knowledge. Jesus asked Mohammed if he wanted help and told him that he could show him specific things to read. Jesus took a book and said, “This book comes from the Lord and it has the message of God inside of it. In this book, I will show you verses which will help you.” Jesus read scriptures to Mohammed, including John 14:6, which says, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” He explained this to Mohammed and told him that He was the way and the Savior of the world. Jesus also told him that he would face many trials after becoming a Christian. He told Mohammed He wanted to be his Savior and explained that He was the man in Mohammed’s dreams, the man who had rescued him. When Jesus told Mohammed he wanted to give him salvation, and asked, “Do you accept?” Mohammed said yes and Jesus disappeared.

The next day Mohammed went to meet a Christian acquaintance to tell him about this dream. This friend introduced him to some young men from another church and they led Mohammed to Christ. He told his parents that he was now a Christian. After several months, Mohammed’s father forced him to drink poison. He ordered men in the village to surround Mohammed so he couldn’t escape. Interestingly, two days earlier Jesus had appeared to Mohammed and told him that whatever difficulties he faced, He would make a way for him. Mohammed asked his father if he could pray before he swallowed the poison. He prayed, swallowed the poison, and went to bed. The next morning, to his father’s dismay, Mohammed was still alive. Later, his family tried to kill him by shooting him with a poisoned arrow. He spent a month in the hospital, but he survived this experience as well.

After these attempts to end his life, his family tried other tactics to persuade him to leave Christianity. His father gave him a hundred cows and told him he could have three wives if he were to abandon the Christian faith. Eventually, Mohammed made his choice – but it was to leave the family home. He thanked his father for the cows and the offer of three wives and said, “You still have not met the needs that Jesus promised to meet. If you promise and agree to meet those needs, fine. Do you have means of giving me life forever?” His father said no. Mohammed told his father since he couldn’t provide eternal life, there was no way that he could leave Jesus Christ.

A few years later, while on his deathbed, Mohammed’s father asked Mohammed for forgiveness and said he was ready to receive Jesus as his Savior. Mohammed led his father in the sinner’s prayer and three hours later, his father died. On one hand, the passing of his father was a sad event, but on the other hand, it was cause for rejoicing. Not only had father and son been reconciled with each other before Mohammed’s father left this world, but he left this world in peace, knowing that in the world to come, he would be with Jesus for all eternity, and—at some future date—be with his son again in heaven.

http://dreamsaboutjesus.com/home/peoples-dreams/mohammed

Khalil (Egypt)

Khalil started memorizing the Qur’an at a very early age and developed what he called a love for the word of God. As he grew older, he started reading books on Islam and the interpretation of the Qur’an. By sorting out Muslims from non-Muslims according to the Qur’an’s teaching, he ended up considering his own parents infidels. Little things such as a woman not wearing a veil would make her a non-Muslim according to the way he understood the Qur’an. If a man didn’t grow a beard he would be considered a non-Muslim. He considered the Christians his worst enemies and started getting involved in attacks against Christians and churches. The Islamic Group, dedicated to the overthrow of the secular government of Egypt and the installation of a strict Muslim government, recruited him into their ranks, appointing him as a local leader. His group became involved in kidnapping a famous moderate Muslim writer who had dared to criticize the Islamic Group.

Eventually, the authorities arrested Khalil and most of the group’s members. He spent two years in prison, undergoing torture, and upon his release left Egypt for Yemen in company with other radical Muslims. From this base of operations, they continued in their plans for an armed insurrection in Egypt.

Their plans, however, were discovered by local authorities, many of them were re-arrested, and the military option was all but abandoned. Back in Egypt they had to downplay all of their activities. Upon reading an article in the Cairo newspaper about Christians arrested in Egypt for proselytizing, Khalil and his group decided that it was “past time” to do something for the sake of Islam. Given their small numbers, however, they decided their battle would be an intellectual one, researching and writing a book proving that Mohammed is the True Prophet of God, and that the Bible of the Christians and Jews is a corrupted text. Khalil was chosen by his Emir, the leader of the Islamic Group, to do the research and write the book. He objected strenuously at first, but eventually took on the job, which he described as the “most distasteful thing” he had ever done.

When he had completed reading the Bible and cross-referencing what he had read with numerous Islamic books, Khalil was astonished to discover that the Bible was neither inaccurate nor corrupted. Instead, he was astonished at the Bible’s teachings on forgiveness and unconditional love, as reflected in the life and words of Jesus. He was particularly stunned to read how Jesus had warned his followers about persecution and how, two thousand years later, that persecution was taking place exactly as Jesus had said it would. His reading of the Bible helped him understand why Christians in Egypt never retaliated against the Muslims, and why it was always easy for them to forgive and forget. As much as he hated reading the Bible, he fell in love with its message and teachings.

Nonetheless, he had a job to do, and he continued with dogged determination, electing to prove that Jesus is not God and was never crucified. Studying the Qur’an for this purpose, he put together all of God’s qualities and attributes as the Qur’an talks about them, and then searched the Qur’an for Jesus’ attributes. According to the Qur’an, God is the creator, the healer, the provider, the only one who can raise the dead to life, the only one that performs miracles, the only one who judges perfectly, and the like. To his shock, Khalil discovered that these are the same attributes the Qur’an assigns to Jesus (Isa), proving to Khalil that Jesus and God were, indeed, one.

Growing doubts now made Khalil’s life miserable. He had always loved Islam and had always believed that the only way to God was through Mohammed. But if Jesus and God were one, then who is Mohammed and what is the way to heaven?

One day, the Emir came to visit Khalil in his house and discovered all the research that Khalil had documented (the deity of Jesus, the Qur’an not being the word of God, etc.). He couldn’t believe what he read. He told Khalil that he would kill him if he shared his heretical ideas with any Muslim and that he was now considered an infidel.

Khalil, however, could not turn from the conviction that Christianity was the right way. Wanting to learn more, he decided to join a church. Since he was notorious as a zealous Muslim, no one believed him. Everyone refused to meet with him, even pastors. He was disappointed and thought maybe he was wrong after all; maybe the Christian faith wasn’t the way to heaven. However, a voice inside him told him not to look to people.

One day as he was trying to make a phone call at a café, his attaché was stolen. The bag contained all of his research papers, his Bible and his identity card. He was terrified because everything he had written would be considered blasphemous, and the bag also contained his ID card. He rushed home, troubled and tormented. In his room he started repenting for all that he had done and thought that God was punishing him for daring to think that Mohammed was not sent from God and that the Qur’an was not the word of God. He repented, washed himself, and pulled his rug out to pray, but he couldn’t bend his knees nor open his mouth to say one word of the Qur’an. He sat down and said, “God you know that I love you, and I know that you want me on the right path. God, I can’t resist anymore. All that I did, I did trying to please you. Please pull me out of this darkness.”

That night, Khalil slept in a way he hadn’t slept for years. In a dream, he saw a man, who came to him and told him that he was the one for whom Khalil had been searching. Khalil didn’t know who the man was. The man told him to look in the Book (the Bible). Khalil said the Book and all his papers were lost, to which the man replied, “The book never gets lost. Get up and open your closet and you will find it. The rest of your papers will be returned to you by the end of the week.”

Khalil woke up from the dream and opened his closet. His very own copy of the Bible was inside the closet on a shelf. Knowing that he had seen Jesus, he hurried to his mother’s room, awoke her, and begged her forgiveness for his years of harshness and ill treatment of the family. His search for reconciliation didn’t end with his family either. As the sun rose that same morning, Khalil took to the streets, greeting friends and strangers alike. He sought out the Christian owners of businesses whom he had robbed, or mistreated, and begged their forgiveness too.

Over the ensuing months, Khalil grew in his new faith, gradually winning the confidence and trust of local Christians and finding fellowship at a church. He was baptized and continues to brave physical attacks and threats against his life, because he feels that no price is too great to pay for the One who gave everything for him.

http://dreamsaboutjesus.com/home/peoples-dreams/khalil

And in the last days I will pour out my spirit upon all men and your son’s and daughter’s will prophesy and your old men and women will dream dreams and your young men and women will see visions Joel 2:28


He that winneth souls is wise." -- Proverbs 11:30

5/8/2010

THE ATMOSPHERE OF GRACE
Read Ephesians 2:1-5

1-5 It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us!

Grasping the essential nature of our relationship with God can be a bit like walking a tightrope. On the one hand we don't want to fall off by making faith an exercise in self esteem. Because God loves me I am a wonderful human being whose failings are minor compared to my godliness. My life with God is a reward for my goodness, and any badness in me is a mere irritant and to be dismissed from my mind lest it upset me.

On the other hand, we don't want to teeter over the other side and find ourselves buried under a weight of self-condemnation. I am a miserable sinner who is bad through and through. If I get to heaven, it is by the skin of my teeth and because God's duty is to forgive me even if he metaphorically turns up his nose at me.

In this passage, paraphrased in The Message, Paul gets the balance right. We don't deserve mercy (who does?). We can't pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. We can't boast about ourselves. Then again, we are the objects of great mercy and lavish love. We are not valueless. We are worth dying for.

Remember that when we confess our failings to God we only do so because we trust in his merciful pardon. Being brought low in penitence doesn't earn us favour or forgiveness. We confess in order to enjoy grace, not to become worthy of it. Recognising we are in need of help is a wonderful thing to do once we realise help is at hand. Penitence, humility, and confession can only truly flourish in an atmosphere of grace.

Blessings
David Reay

http://www.hope1032.com.au/
LifeWords

4/8/2010

SAME BUT DIFFERENT
Read 2 Corinthians 5:17

17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

Let's face it, this verse doesn't always ring true for us. The old way of life is far from dead and buried. The new life appears in hints, spasmodically. Yet this same Paul who wrote these words was honest about his own struggles with his old nature. We don't become instantly perfect. Our progress may be slow and liable to interruption. In fact, it is better to see this verse as saying we have entered a new era, begun a new life direction. We now live in the age of the Spirit.

The other misunderstanding we face is to think that becoming this new person or entering this new era means we become fundamentally different people. It is better to think our becoming more and more the people God made us to be. Morally more conforming to the life and character of Jesus. Personally being the unique selves God originally fashioned.

To become a new person in Jesus doesn't mean introverts become extroverts, or that engineers become fashion designers, or that those with an eye to detail become visionaries. True, we always change and modify, but God wants to help us become our true best selves not someone else. I become a new person in that my essential self is renewed, rough edges trimmed, good features enhanced.

No need to strive to become someone different. Rather with God's help strive to be the same but different.

Blessings
David Reay.

http://www.hope1032.com.au/
LifeWords

August 2, 2010


The Bow and Arrow

By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.

Have you ever been described as an impatient person? It is easy to feel impatient. Maybe traffic isn’t moving fast enough and you are going to be late for your meeting. Or you can’t get through the checkout lane quickly enough to pick up your children from the babysitter. These daily irritations can zap your strength and cause you to lose sight of what really matters.

The source of true patience is the Spirit of God. His patience toward us allows us the opportunity to grow and to become more like Him. He does not give up on us. When we are stubborn and fail to learn what God wants to teach us, He continues to demonstrate His patience.

Many times, we grow impatient with a colleague, friend, child, or spouse and forget that God is patient with us and requires us to do the same with others. One of the causes of impatience is spiritual shortsightedness. Our view is limited. Therefore, many times we only see what has a direct impact on our lives. We become impatient because we can’t see life from God’s perspective!

God has a greater plan. While He does not always show us the details, we can know the big picture—we are in His loving hands.

Oswald Chambers writes:

Patience is more than endurance. A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of the archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says, ‘I cannot stand anymore.’ God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God’s hands.

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience (Colossians 3:12).

www.leadingtheway.org

September 28th, 2009

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Listed below is very important information about the Mark of the Beast. It is very important that you read the whole thing especially the very last line. Please forward this email to all the people you know saved and unsaved, so they can forward it to all others too. Print and hand them out to people on the streets and everywhere you go. When printing, please print from where it states the mark of the beast (666) and it will all fit one page both front and back. Everyone needs to be warn about the Mark of the Beast, both Christians and nonChristians. As you already know, we are in the end times. The Lord said, this message is very, very important to both believers and nonbelievers because we are in the days of Noah, Luke 17:26. Thank you.

God favor is on you

Choo Thomas

MARK OF THE BEAST (666)

RFID

“He required everyone – great and small, rich and poor, slave and free – to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name. Wisdom is needed to understanding this. Let the one who has understanding solve the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is 666” (Rev. 13:16-18 New Living Translation).

666 IS A SYSTEM OF THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT

At the present time, computer-assisted biometric identification systems are being developed rapidly and have been readily accepted into our society. Miniature computer chips, using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, have already been embedded within electronic appliances, retail goods, livestock, and human beings. This is not tomorrow’s science fiction – it is happening today.

In many parts of the world, Applied Digital Corporation’s human implanted RFID microchip (VeriChip) is used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, mental illness, Diabetes, heart problems and it also helps to prevent kidnappings. In the near future, this type of biochip will be widely accepted and implanted for personal identification, protection, monitoring, tracking, commerce, and other uses not yet imagined.

Unfortunately, such biochips store personal identification and the information generated from its use will be stored and maintained in a computer database. Your body becomes a tagged asset that is monitored and whose behavior will be tracked. Implanting the microchip in the body alters a person’s physically, mentally and ultimately – spiritually. The problem that arises from the use of biochip in humans is more than an aesthetic, medical, political, or legal issue.

Satan works in the world and he shapes people and society to achieve his goals. Knowingly or not, anti-christ will force people to follow and obey an agenda that appears to be in the best interest of its people but, in following the pattern of human history and man’s rebellion to God, will bring about pain and suffering until Christ comes again.

“…he [satan’s agent] deceived all the people who belong to this world. He ordered the people of the world to make a great statue of the first beast, who was fatally wounded and then came back to life. He was permitted to give life to this stature so that it could speak. Then the statue commanded that anyone refusing to worship it must die.” (Rev 13vs14-15 New Living Translation).

A time is coming when society and lives will be ruled by a self-imposed system where mankind is monitored, analyzed, measured, and evaluated by computers. In those times, anyone who refuses to accept this system will be tortured then killed.

FORMATION OF A UBIQUITOUS SOCIETY

We are moving towards a ubiquitous society where people from all walks of life can access anything, anywhere, and at anytime regardless of time and location. The implementations of RFID technology in retail stores is one example. It’s estimated that the majority of retail merchandise will use RFID technology very soon and will replace bar codes, which have been used for the past 30 years.

What drives such development is the belief that we will live safer, easier, richer and more enjoyable lives by using technology to manage everyday aspects of daily life. In a society that craves automated financial management, instant communication and security, it’s not a far stretch for RFID enabled biochips to be implanted into the body, and eventually replacing currency that is easily stolen, lost, or hidden. In the near future:

1) All people will be required to have a biochip. All economic operations will use this chip thereby replacing today’s unit of monetary exchange.

2) There will be privacy invasion and freedom will cease to exist.

3) A charismatic leader, who is the Anti-Christ, will rule the whole world through a system that is interconnected and interdependent.

MARK OF THE BEAST IN THE HUMAN BODY, WE MUST NOT RECEIVE IT.
(REV 14VS9, 14VS11, 16VS2)

1) Accepting this mark is the irreversible act of selling your soul to Satan. This sin is unforgivable and cannot be reversed by physically removing the mark (Rev. 14:9-11). Your soul belongs to God. Therefore if you receive this mark, you then will belong to Satan.

2) If you receive this mark, you willfully placing your faith in man and not in God. You are actively choosing to live without a loving God who desires to spend eternity with you in Heaven. God does not want you choosing Hell’s path. God knew these things beforehand, and because He loves us and wants us to acknowledge this, it was revealed to us through the writing of the apostle John in Revelation around 100 AD. If you are not taken up to heaven and are thereby left behind for the tribulation, you must not receive the mark of the beast even though you will be tortured then killed for not accepting the government’s sanctioned acts of satan. You must remember this at all times because the hope of heaven still remains until the end comes.

HAVE YOU RECEIVED JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR?

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Rom. 3:23)

Money is not everything. A person cannot come to God by believing in any other gods, ethics, discipline, or by good deeds. Only a personal relationship with Jesus Christ makes it possible to stand righteous before a holy God at end of human history. It was for this reason that Jesus Christ suffered on the cross, shed His blood, died, and came back to life. This was done to demonstrate God’s willingness, ability, and glory in saving us from sin and death.

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father excerpt through Me. (John 14:6)

That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified. And it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. (Rom 10:9-10)

You must believe in Jesus and that He died for your sins. Jesus loves you.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Realize that you are a sinner and you must pray in faith. You need to receive Jesus as your personal Savior. There is surely a Heaven and a Hell. Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven.

JESUS IS COMING SOON, PREPARE FOR THE RAPTURE

Jesus, who redeemed us through the cross will prepare a place and will come back to be with us. He has promised us. (John 14:3). The rapture will take place before the Great Tribulation (Rev. 3:10). Jesus said, “you know to interpret how to interpret the appearance of the sky but you cannot interpret the signs of the times, (Matt. 16:3 Luke 12:56).

ALL BELOVED SAINTS IN JESUS CHRIST

The rapture is reserved for those saints who will be lifted into the sky upon God’s trumpet call, saints that are to be raptured will be lifted into the sky to meet Jesus in the clouds (1 The 4:16-17). The rapture is reserved for those believers who wear spiritual white robes. Their physical body will be transformed into a glorious body and will be God’s delight, (Rev. 19:7-.

If you remain in lukewarm faith, Jesus will spew you out so you must not be like this type of believer (Rev. 3:16). Jesus’ first coming was to bring salvation, but He is coming again to meet those who are Ready and Waiting in the clouds at the sound of the trumpets and this is call Rapture. Lord Jesus, will take His children with Him to Heaven. After the tribulation on earth then He will return again on earth with those who were ratpured with Him into Heaven to the New Jerusalem this will be called His Second Coming. For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when He comes? Is it not you? (1 Thess. 2:19)

At Jesus’ return, only raptured saints will be presented at the seat of glory (1 Cor. 15:49-55). Even if we do not know the day and time of His coming, the sons of light are not in darkness therefore that day will not come upon you like a thief (1 Thess. 5:4-5). Do not be lukewarm believers nor do not sleep but be awake and pray, (1 Thess. 5:1-4). Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard: obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you, (Rev. 3:3). Those with lukewarm faith, those who are tied to the world, and those who do not know Jesus will be left behind for the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation will be the most devastating time in all of human history. Those who are left behind in the Great Tribulation must not receive the biochip (which bears satan’s name) into their body (forehead or right hand; Rev 13vs16, 20vs4) even to the point of death. Christians who commit suicide will spend eternal life in hell. By refusing this chip, you will be tortured then killed. For the unblelievers (nonChristians) you don’t only have to refuse the chip but also you will have to confess Jesus as your Lord and savior with your lips, ask of forgiveness of your sins and believe in your heart that is the Son of the God and He died for us, Amen.

Borrowed this to share, !!

Are you commanding your mornings? Today at 1:33pm

As a young boy growing up on the island, I would be awaken every morning by my grand mother’s early morning prayers. Having little to no knowledge as to why she was doing what she did, it somehow placed a fear in me, due to her crying and the intensity of her prayer. The question that stood out in my mind was why would she and so many like her place such a command on their morning through prayer?

Coupled with this real life experience, I’ve discovered through the study of the bible that the bible is saturated with men and women of God not only addressing God early in the morning, but God performing great works during the early morning periods. Again, what is so significant about the early mornings spiritually?

A few Biblical accounts of early morning activity would be when the angels hastened Lot and his family early in the morning to leave Sodom. Also In this same biblical account it states that Abraham stood before the lord early in the morning (Gen. 19:15, 27). The bible also states that Jesus went to the temple and taught the people early in the morning and that Martha and Mary visited his tomb early in the morning. At this point I was arrested by the thought that there must be some biblical proof that correlates between praying and the early mornings.

Now, the bible states that there is death and life in the power of our tongue, and that we ought to call those things that do not exist now as though they do exist now. In essence, God has given us power via our mouths to command things into existence through prayer and confessions. I now began to partially see why my grandmother was praying with such passion (almost as if she was in a battle) and why she prayed for folks, individually and corporately. However, God through his wisdom pointed out to me in his word the necessity of these prayers and confessions being addressed early in the morning. I must say it was indeed a profound revelation that I’m sure you’ll agree with.

In the book of Job (38:12-13,15), God in this text in speaking to his servant Job said, “Have you commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know “HIS” place; that “IT” might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? God is basically asking Job whether or not he had taken authority or command of his mornings. What is so interesting here is not only the fact that God asked about the commanding of the morning by Job, but he further asked Job if he had caused the dayspring to know his place.

His place! Of course I’m now compelled to wonder if the morning and dayspring are personified as forces working against my day, beginning early in the morning. If this is the case, then I am responsible for putting these forces in their place by commanding what I desire of my mornings via the power of my tongue (Prov. 18:21). However the question still lingers, who is this person that is working in opposition or as an opponent to me during the early morning periods?

Now, before we unveil who this person is, let us look at the consequences of not commanding our mornings and causing the dayspring not to be put in his place. Remember what God originally asked Job? He said, “Have you commanded the morning since thy days or since you were alive? The result of commanding his morning is found in verses 13&15. By commanding the morning and causing the dayspring to be put in its place, this will shake the wicked out of the earth or disrupt his plots, plans, ploys and schemes against you. Additional in verse 15 it states that the light of the wicked will be withheld. The word light in this verse got its origin from the Hebrew word “Or” which is literally defined as morning or day break.

So in essence, God is saying that when we command our mornings and cause the dayspring to be put in its place (which has been personified as the male gender) simultaneously we restrain or restrict his morning… wow! To not do this principle we open our lives to curses. A curse is to be spiritually bound, not able to succeed, prune for failure, disempowered, open to the powers of witchcraft, spell, incantations etc. but this can only happen if we disobey God by not commanding our morning. Deuteronomy 28: 45-46, makes this abundantly clear, and it reads, “Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and pursue thee, and overtake thee, until thou be destroyed; because thou did not listen unto the voice of the lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statues which he commanded thee. They shall be upon thee for a sign and a wonder and upon thy seed for ever. Not only will I be affected by not commanding my morning but my seed or children also…… wow!!

Now let’s see who our early morning opponent is and what gives him the right to oppose us for the morning. Again, you will recall that God asked Job if he commanded the morning and caused the dayspring to be put in his place. Isaiah 14: 12, makes the identity of our opponent abundantly clear; it reads, “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, SON OF THE MORNING!

Wow! What a revelation, Lucifer whom we know to be the present day Satan is in fact the son of the morning, so when God asked Job if he had put him in his place, he was referring to Satan.

As a result of this revelation it is not only clear but important why the bible places emphasis on us not fighting against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. Satan being the head over this evil kingdom, allot his evil ambitions through his evil spirits to wage war on us in the early morning because he is in fact the son of the morning.

The words of wisdom for today is begin commanding your morning very early in the morning, decreeing that you are above only and not beneath, the head and not the tail. Blessed going out and blessed coming in, highly favored of the lord, with a host of Angels that has been given charge over you to keep you in all your ways and that no weapon formed against you shall prosper. Conclude by binding all of Satan’s and his host plans that has been assigned against you and all that concerns you and that he and his host are under your feet in Jesus name.

Written by: Kevin L A Ewing
Kevinlaewing..com

Angelic Vuvuzela !!! You Ready?

I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. (Luke 17:34)

Woow! Great verse and reminder and reality!!!

Can you google the word "Rapture"? Am sure it will take you just few seconds to do that?


Jesus is coming soon are you ready? As there is beginning to everything so there is an end. As there is birth so there is death. As we were created by a creator so shall the creator come back for us.Are you ready for His Return?
Is your Life right with God today? it's not just believing in God alone, but you have to Accept Him into your life as your Lord and Savior and live according to His Word, which is the reason He created us.

Please accept Jesus into your life as your savior and life your Life for Him.

For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain Phl.1:21


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PART 1:

GOD SAID , " LET THE PREISTS , WHO MINISTER TO THE LORD, WEEP BETWEEN THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR" ( JOEL 2:17) ON A HOUSE, THE " PORCH" IS THE PART EVERYBODY CAN SEE; IT REPRESENTS THE MORE PUBLIC ASPECT OF MINISTRY. THE ALTAR REPRESENTS PRIVATE MINISTRY. IN THE LIFE OF A BELIEVER, THERE SHOULD ALWAYS BE MORE PRIVATE THAN PUBLIC MINISTRY. TO GOD VICTORIES ARE NOT WON IN PUBLIC BUT IN PRIVATE. THATS WHY FASTING WHETHER CORPORATELY , OR INDIVIDUALLY, IS A PRIVATE DISCIPLINE. WHERE THERE IS LITTLE PRIVATE DISCIPLINE, THERE IS LITTLE PUBLIC REWARD.

*** KEEP IT PERSONAL *** ( MATT6:1)
YOUR FATHER WHO SEES YOU IN SECRET WILL REWARD YOU OPENLY
(MATT. 6:2-4)

FASTING WILL BREAK POVERTY FROM YOUR LIFE,WHETHER DONE CORPORATELY , OR INDIVIDUALLLY, FASTING IS A PERSONAL , PRIVATE DISCIPLINE. IT IS A SACRIFICE BORN OUT OF EXPECTANCY. THA IS NOT TO IMPLY THAT FASTING IS A MANIPULATIVE TOOOL TO GET SOMETHING FROM GOD, BUT A ** REASONABLESERVICE** (ROMANS 12:1) THAT GOD REWARDS OPENLY.
JUST LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOB ( JOB 23:12) KJV
JOB SAID I HAVE ESTEEMED THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH MORE THAN MY NECCESSARY FOOD ( JOB 42:10,42) GOD'S OPEN REWARDS FLOODED JOBS LIFE. FASTING WILL BREAK POVERTY FROM YOUR LIFE. LOOK AT JOEL (2:15:16)KJV THE LORD BROUGHT GREAT FINANCIAL BLESSINGS TO PEOPLEWHO FASTED AND PRAYED. WHEN FASTING IS A LIFESTYLE, POVERTY, WILL NOT BE ! ( HEALTH, AND HEALINGS WILL FOLLOW FASTING.)
IT IS INTERESTING THAT THE THREE WISEST MEN ! JOSEPH, DANIEL, AND SOLOMON -- WERE ALSO THE WEALTHEST(3) ** JOSEPH ** WAS FORCED TO FAST IN PRISON . ACCORDING TO HISTORY, ONLY THE PRISONERS FAMILY COIULD VISIT THEMAND TO BRING THEM FOOD, AND JOSEPH FAMILY WAS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, (GEN.41:39-45) SOLOMON HUMBLED HIMSELF IN FASTING AND IN PRAYER, AND GOD GREATLY INCREASED HIS WEALTH AND WISDOM. (1 KINGS 3:10-13) LIKEWISE DANIEL , WHO DILIGENTLY SOUGHT GOD THROUGH FASTING AND PRAYER WHILE IN BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY , WAS GIVEN WISDOM OVER ALL THE OTHERS AND GREATLY PROSPER IN THE DAYS OF DARIUS THE KING (DAN6:1-4)


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PART2:

( ISAIAH 58:8 )
FASTING HUMBLES YOU AND BRINGS CLARITY , EVEN ALLOWING YOU TO GET UNFORGIVENESS AND BITTERNESS OUT OF YOUR HEART. IT ALSO HELPS YOU " SPRING CLEAN " IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU SENSITIVE TO THE DESIRES OF THE LORD. WHEN YOU FAST AND PRAY, YOU SHOULD EXPECT MIRACLES TO FOLLOW. FASTING WILL ALSO OVERCOME SEXUAL ADDICTIONS AND DEMONIC POWERS. IT WILL BREAK GREAT SIN OFF PEOPLE. ( MATT. 17:21)
** THERE'S A PHENOMINAL STORY IN THE BOOKOF JUDGES, CHAPTER 19-20 WHERE FASTING MADE THE DIFFERENCE IN A MAJOR BATTLE AGAINST A PEOPLE WITH SEXUAL PERVERSION . THE MEN OF THAT CITY HAD BECOME WICKED AND DELIGHTED IN LEWD HOMOSEXUAL ACTS. ( JUDGE 19:22)(20-21,25)
NOW WE DON'T WRESTLE WITH FLESH AND BLOOD. BUT THERE IS A SPIRIT BEHIND HOMOSEXUALITY, THERE IS A SPIRIT BEHIND PORNOGRAPHY, THERE IS A SPIRIT BEHIND ADULTERY, THERE IS A SPIRIT BEHIND FORNICATION. THESE DEMONIC SPIRIT OF PERVERSION MANIPULATE AND USE PEOPLE LIKE PUPPETS ON A STRING. BUT FASTING WILLBRAK THE STRONGHOLD OF DEMONIC SEXUAL LIKE PORNOGRAPHY,HOMOSEXUALITY, ADULTERY, FORNICATION AND LUST .
IN THE BOOK OF JOEL, GOD CALLED FOR A HOLY FAST. AND HE SAID " IT SHALL COME TO PASS AFTERWARDS THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH; YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY,"( JOEL 2:28)( 2 CHRONICLES 33:1-13) I'M TELLING YOU, FASTING AND PRAYING WILL ABSOLUTELY BREAK THOSE SPIRITS OFF THEIR LIVES. " YOUR FATHER WILL HIMSELF REWARD YOU OPENLY (MATT. 6:4) GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS HE WILL DO FOR YOU WHEN YOU SET YOUR HEART TO SEEK HIM THROUGH FASTING.

I PRAY THAT THIS WILL HELP SOMEONE GET TO WHERE THEY WANT TO BE OR NEED TO BE,

OH FATHER GOD I COME TO YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I PRAY THAT THIS WILL HELP SOMEONE WITHTHE BREAKTHROUGH THAT THEY SEEK IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST, AMEN






EVANGELIST VINCENT R. TILLERY

29/7/2010

INSEPARABLE LOVE
Read Romans 8:37-39

37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow-not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below-indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The tough times we go through have the capacity to drive us away from God or bring us closer to him. This passage reminds us that in principle there is no reason for them to drive a wedge between us and God. Our problems need not define or rule our relationship with God. His faithfulness rather than our fears is the bottom line.

And yet we can become embittered, we can become infantile. Life hasn't turned out the way we wanted. God seems to have let us down. We may be tempted to pick up our bat and ball and retreat into sulky disappointment. Our troubles have become a barrier between God and ourselves.

Better by far to allow those troubles to bind us to God. We can aid this process by taking the time to discern what God is telling us in the midst of the troubles. We can give the troubles to him and ask him for wisdom, for strength, for comfort. We can both plead for an end to them and pray that they be a growing and learning experience. Chances are, they will be an opportunity for us to rely more on him as our only help rather than vainly seek support from our usual crutches.

When troubles come we are caught up in a battlefield. The evil one wants them to cause us to give up on God, whereas God invites us to allow them to lean more on him. One way is defeat and despair. The other way is healing and hope. However great our pain or our trouble, it need not push us away from the only one who can give it meaning.

Blessings
David Reay


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28/7/2010

THE UNFAIRNESS OF GRACE
Read Luke 15:25-32

25-27 "All this time his older son was out in the field. When the day's work was done he came in. As he approached the house, he heard the music and dancing. Calling over one of the houseboys, he asked what was going on. He told him, 'Your brother came home. Your father has ordered a feast—barbecued beef!—because he has him home safe and sound.'

28-30 "The older brother stalked off in an angry sulk and refused to join in. His father came out and tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't listen. The son said, 'Look how many years I've stayed here serving you, never giving you one moment of grief, but have you ever thrown a party for me and my friends? Then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on whores shows up and you go all out with a feast!'

31-32 "His father said, 'Son, you don't understand. You're with me all the time, and everything that is mine is yours—but this is a wonderful time, and we had to celebrate. This brother of yours was dead, and he's alive! He was lost, and he's found!'"

There is nothing fair about becoming a Christian and being assured of eternal life. It is deliciously unfair. If God were all about fairness none of us would have a chance. Fairness means we get what is coming to us. Fairness would see the familiar parable of the prodigal son have a very different ending. The younger son would be on probation at the very least, and possibly under the watchful eye of the dutiful and upright older son. Fairness rewards the good and punishes the bad.

Grace takes a different view. Grace forgives the bad and warns the good that human 'goodness' apart from God can be a very mixed quality. Such goodness can curdle into pride and arrogance and self-sufficiency. The better we think we are the less likely it is that we will receive grace. Our goodness screams at us that we deserve reward not mercy.

And if we argue that grace somehow thus offends justice, remember the cross of Jesus. It was there that our 'badness' was dealt with. His goodness won the day. God’s justice and love were both satisfied. That is why grace readily lives alongside justice in the mind of God. Grace can be 'unfair' because our shortcomings were fairly dealt with by Jesus.

Blessings
David Reay.


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Persistent Child
27/07/10

For we are the Sons/Daughters of God, through our faith in Christ Jesus.

Luke 18:1-8
Parable of the Persistent Widow
1 One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. 2 “There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people. 3 A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy.’ 4 The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people, 5 but this woman is driving me crazy. I’m going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!’”

6 Then the Lord said, “Learn a lesson from this unjust judge. 7 Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man[a] returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?”

I am so surprised to find out that allot of Christians fail to go on their knee's daily to pray to God and let him know our needs and worries’. The passage above shows that even a wicked-judge was forced to be a (for a while) good man due to a persistent widow (demands) that had no body to help her get justice, We (Saved-Christians) are more worthy and better than the widow; for we have a savior who died for us on the cross of Calvary and also we have a Righteous and Just Judge who is the Father of our savior and Lord Jesus Christ, who is ever willing and faithful to listen to our request and supplication, when we go to Him in prayers.

I sit and I wonder why allot of believers post prayer request on different site, groups and to men/women of God for prayers and what hurts me most is that most of the request are curative request and not preventive; what do I mean by Curative-request? That means, when disaster has struck or illness, lost job/homes, failed relationship/marriage, financially bankruptcy etc. Then we start posting prayer request asking for prayers and emergency miracle and divine touch from God. Prayer is like a heavenly bank account we have and the more we deposit our request to God and supplication the more we Assured of future spiritual security over our life, finance’s, relationship/marriage, family etc. On the day of trouble the Prayer is divinely activated by God to work for us. We then need to always offer a Preventive prayer-request to God always, it helps fight against our present and also divinely secure our future…so that on the day of trouble, that prayer will be our Heavenly Bank reserve to stand for us. Our God is not a magician that when we fail to pray to Him; always Thanking Him for the present provision , future provision (out of Faith), then when we have problem’s we start jumping from one group to the next page and to men/women of God for a Digital-Supersonic Prayers. I am not against people that ask for prayer’s but am here to remind you that you had and still have the power to prevent calamities, shame, tears, humiliation, sadness and lack in your life, when you know how to always Thank God beforehand and always praying to Him for things you need even months/years ahead. Even Christ Jesus that was God in human form always prayed to His Father in Heaven…daily so He can accomplish His mission on earth. He prayed in advance and was persistent, so that His Father in Heaven will be with Him till His Testimony on the Cross of Calvary.

The Word of God say’s “What so ever you ask in my name (Jesus Christ) ye shall receive”. We should learn to always pray to God and never relent; thinking He doesn’t hear us, He does! But we must be persistent as the Widow and God will surely see that yes! We are indeed persistent and we need what we really ask-for. Sometimes when we don’t hear from God, we can just start singing/praising God believing we have received by so doing we have taking our faith to another level and it will help activate our prayer-request faster.
Always pray ahead of time, for things you need in future and always thank Him for what He has already giving you .Be persistent and Jehovah-Jireh (Our Greatest Provider) will surely grant you, what you ask-for and also protect, heal, favor, bless, add ,open, close what so ever you have asked for.
Make sure your heart is right with God and always go before Him with confidence and faith and you shall receive in Jesus name.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. Jn 15:7

JnrYefet

Angels appear as humans
-- then vanish -- after making startling announcement that Jesus is coming "very, very soon"!!! And other supernatural confirmations of Christ's soon return!

by Jim Bramlett

Introduction. Numerous reputable people have told me, most unsolicited, of experiences with angels they either had personally or knew about. In most cases, the angels appeared to provide help in some distressful situation. However, several of the incidents, including the ones below, are particularly interesting for two reasons: (1) they contain a message (literally, the word "angel" means "messenger" and, (2) the incidents were brought to my personal attention under unusual circumstances, making me think God sent them my way. In each case, the angel delivered basically the same startling announcement of the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why me? Why did these stories come to me? My only guess is because I have the inclination to pursue them, to write about them, and to tell you about them. In God's great love, it may all be just for you. Caution. It is important to stress that any mystical experience, even messages from angels, must be carefully judged against God's Holy Word, the Bible. New Agers and other non-Christians claim angelic revelations while rejecting the cross of Christ which paid the price for our spiritual blessings and access to heavenly things. They are deceived and usually involved with demonic spirits. A pertinent fact about the experiences below is that they came to me after I had already concluded their general message from the Scriptures. Therefore, they were confirming messages. Nevertheless, judge them for yourselves. (Note: I was not able to confirm # 1.) Encounter # 1 (Not confirmed) This is one of the incidents reported to me that I was never able to actually confirm after hours of frustrating attempts and many long-distance telephone calls, It reportedly happened in the Atlanta, Georgia area, on I-285 near "Spaghetti Junction." I traced the incident from a friend in California California to a United Airlines pilot in Chicago, then to at least 15 others in Atlanta, including a medical doctor. Each person with whom I have talked has seemed highly credible, although I could never trace it to the source. A lady passed a hitchhiker on the expressway, giving no thought to stopping. But she heard a voice say, "Pick him up." She did not stop, but continued on. But she again heard the voice: "I told you to pick him up." She now felt compelled to go back. She turned off the expressway, then got back on via an access road. She thought it would be unlikely that the person would still be there, but if he was, she would pick him up. To her surprise, the man was still there, so she stopped. He got into the car. They chatted for a few moments, then after a brief pause, the stranger said, "Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon?" On hearing that, the woman glanced toward the stranger -- but he was not there. He had suddenly and unexplainably vanished! She was so shaken that she had to pull off the expressway. After sitting there a few minutes trying to regain her composure, a policeman pulled up behind her, got out of his car, went up to her window and said, "Ma'am, is there a problem?" She replied, "Officer, if I told you what just happened to me, you wouldn't believe it." The policeman urged her to tell him anyhow. She described what had just happened. He responded, "Ma'am, normally I would think that you were one of the craziest people I have ever seen, but you are the seventh person today to give me this same report." Encounter # 2 (Confirmed) While in the process of investigating the above incident, I learned of this next amazing one from another person in California, although it took place in Tennessee. It happened just past midnight on March 26, 1993, to Vincent Tan, an analytical chemist who works in Chattanooga. I spent weeks personally tracing this incident and have confirmed it with two reputable Christian leaders, his pastor and, finally, even Vincent himself. The following is a precisely recorded account: Vincent was born Tan Ban Soon in Singapore of Chinese, Buddhist parents. A few years ago as a young boy in Singapore, he was in the library reading a book on nuclear physics and discovered an offer for a Bible course stuck between some pages. He ordered the course and later became a Christian. He came to the U.S. to attend a Christian college, then gave himself the western name of Vincent. After four years, he graduated with a major in science. He has been very active in his church and in sharing his faith. On the night of Thursday, March 25, 1993, Vincent was working late in his laboratory to complete tests due on Friday. During the evening he moved his car close to the front door of the building, since there had recently been criminal activity in the area. From time to time he looked out the window into the almost empty parking lot to check on his car. At 1:30 a.m. he finished working in his lab. As he was preparing to lock the door, he saw a person standing by the passenger side of his car. Vincent assumed the man was trying to steal his car. He noted that the stranger was of medium build with clean-cut, straight hair and had on a T-shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes. Unsure what to do, he went back into the lab and prayed, "Lord, help me to do what I have to do. Do I have to use chi-sao?" Chi-sao (pronounced "chee'-sow-o" is a form of martial art in which Vincent is proficient. To be extra safe, he looked around the lab and picked up an 18-inch metal rod, held it behind him and stuck his head out the door. He said, "Hi, can I help you?" The stranger answered, "Hi, Vincent." Startled, Vincent asked, "Do I know you?" The stranger replied, "Not really." "What is your name? Who are you?" Vincent probed. The stranger said, "I have the name of your primary and secondary school." He added, "I'm a friend. You don't have to use chi-sao or the rod on me." His voice had unusual authority, and it seemed he knew the question before it was asked. Now Vincent was really startled. No one, not even his best friend in this country, was familiar with chi-sao, nor did anyone even know that he knew it. Also, there was no way the stranger could have seen the rod behind his back. Vincent later reflected that the stranger had used terminology ("primary and secondary school" of Singapore and not the U.S., and that name of his school back in Singapore was St. Gabriel. The stranger was saying that his name was Gabriel! "How do you know that?" Vincent asked. "I know," the stranger replied. "By the way, Mum is fine." Vincent was startled again. Just the week before, his sister had called from Singapore saying that his mother had heart complications, and Vincent had been quite worried about her. Gabriel continued, "You love the Lord very much, don't you?" "That's right," Vincent replied. "He loves you very much, too," Gabriel said. Then he added, "He is coming very, very soon." He seemed to emphasize the "very soon." Vincent answered, "That's great!" Gabriel then asked, "Can I have a cup of water?" Vincent said, "Sure," and turned momentarily to get him the water. Then he decided to invite the stranger inside to drink from the water fountain. He turned back to invite him inside -- but Gabriel was not there. He had suddenly and unexplainably vanished! Vincent had not turned his head for more than three seconds. There was no place for the stranger to have gone. Puzzled, and not wanting to go back into the lab, Vincent laid the metal rod down by the front door and headed to his home outside of Chattanooga. When he came back to work later that morning, he wondered if he had dreamed the whole experience. As a scientist, he wanted to prove whether it had really happened. When he got to the building, he found the metal rod lying by the door just where he had left it. He knew he had not been dreaming. Upon entering the lab, the first thing he did was to lock himself in the rest room and kneel in prayer. "Show me what to do, Lord. I know what I remember. If I'm supposed to share it, I must believe it myself," Vincent pleaded. He then sat down at his computer and recorded every word said and everything that had happened. That night, March 26, 1993, in a dream Vincent relived the whole experience, seeing himself, and word for word hearing the whole conversation. He awoke at about 3:30 a.m. and wrote down every word in the dream and the description of the stranger. What he wrote from the dream confirmed every detail he had written earlier. Also, a week after the experience, he learned that his mother had received needed surgery and was recuperating nicely -- and that the medical decision about her improved condition came a week earlier at about the very same hour as he was talking with Gabriel! On July 29, 1993 I asked Vincent what effect this experience has had on him. He said he believes more strongly now that we should be ready every day for the Lord's coming, and not worry about which day He will come. He said the experience has intensified his dedication, causing him to spend more devotional time than before, wanting to know more about God and be closer to Him. For some time, even before that experience, Vincent said he had been asking God, "Am I ready, right now?" Now, more meaningfully than ever, this writer is asking that same question. Encounter # 3: Vincent's second (confirmed) I recently confirmed personally with Vincent that he has had another encounter, this time with an unnamed angel, on Thursday, December 23, 1993. Like the above, the following is an accurate record of exactly what happened and words exchanged. Two Significant Prior Events. There are two events that have a bearing on this one. First, in July, 1993, Vincent had a dream. He saw himself standing at the door of a big room. He saw many candles, but not all of them were lit. He asked himself in the dream why the unlit candles. Then he heard a sad voice behind him saying, "If only all of them were lit." He turned around but didn't see anyone. A week later he had the exact same dream. Vincent shared the dreams in his Bible study and said he hoped someday the Lord would show him the meaning of the dreams. Second, three months later in October, 1993 a stranded motorist waved Vincent down and asked him to jump start his car. Vincent stopped but did not have a cable. However, Vincent asked the man if he believed in God. The man asked what could God do. Vincent told him he believed that God could help in any situation such as this if we ask Him. So Vincent prayed out loud for God's help. After he prayed Vincent noticed a coat hanger on the road. Somehow, he figured out a way to break the coat hanger in two and use one part to connect the positive terminals and the other part to touch the two auto bodies together as ground. The man's car started. He looked at Vincent and said, "You sure have a powerful God!" Vincent said, "I sure do. All we have to do is believe in Him." The man said, "I'll have to think about that," and left. Two days later, Vincent got a jumper cable for his truck. The December 23, 1993 Experience. Shortly after 11 p.m., December 23, 1993, Vincent was in his truck returning home from visiting a friend near Chattanooga. About four miles away from the friend's home, he saw a truck alongside the road with its hood up and with an old man, estimated at about age 75, standing in front of it. Vincent was always wary of stopping for strangers, and believed one must really be led of the Lord in order to do so. He felt he should stop. He walked up to the man and asked if anything was wrong, to which the man replied that he a dead battery. Vincent asked if he could help in any way. The man asked that Vincent go get his jumper cable out of the truck. Vincent was surprised that he said this, as if knowing that Vincent had a jumper cable, especially since he had only recently obtained one. Vincent himself had forgotten that he had the cable, but when the old man told him about it he remembered. It was very dark and Vincent had to use his flashlight to see to connect his end of the cable. Then he turned around to discover that the man had already connected his end, even in the dark and with no flashlight. That seemed impossible, and startled Vincent. Vincent said, "I need to do something first." The man looked at him and said, "I did it already." Vincent said, "Did what?" The man said, "I placed the bricks by your tires. That's what you want, isn't it?" The man had no way of knowing that Vincent had two bricks in his truck or that he wanted to block his tires with them because he didn't trust his hand brake and because the gear would have to be in neutral to start the other truck. Vincent checked and discovered that the man had placed the bricks behind the exact same tires that Vincent wanted. At this point, Vincent was convinced that this was not a natural person. And after the experience in March, Vincent had decided that if the Lord ever gave him the privilege of another encounter with an angel, he had many questions he wanted to ask. But he had a sudden feeling come over him and some force caused his mouth to be kept shut. He was not able to say anything except to respond to whatever the old man wanted or said. Vincent was now ready to start the truck, and the old man said, "Can we wait in your truck and have my truck charged up?" Vincent agreed and they sat in his truck. The old man spoke first and said, "Can we pray? God can work miracles -- even start a car with a coat hanger." (The previous incident with the coat hanger job was a car and not a truck!) At this, Vincent said to himself that this stranger must be an angel! The old man prayed: "Oh most holy and powerful God in heaven, we know you are coming very, very soon. Help us now in your own time and way. In Jesus' Name. Amen." Vincent said the man's voice was so powerful and assuring that it sent chills through him. After the prayer the man asked Vincent, "Do you believe the Lord is coming soon?" Vincent said yes. Then the man said, "He is coming very, very soon, and we need to be ready now and always." Then he said, "Can I use your Bible?" Vincent agreed, then without any word from Vincent the man reached into the glove compartment for the Bible, already knowing where it was located. The man asked Vincent, "Do you read your Bible.?" Vincent replied that he tried to read it every day. The man said, "That's very good. It's unfortunate that many do not do that. Having Bible studies is like being in a big room with many candles that are lit." Vincent knew he had God's answer about his dreams six months earlier. The unlit candles meant many people were not spending time studying God's Word! Now Vincent had absolutely no doubt that this was an angel. It was very dark, but the man took Vincent's King James Bible and, without searching, flipped immediately to the exact page, to Matthew, chapter 24. Then Vincent shined the flashlight on the page as the man read verse 36: "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." He then jumped down to verse 42: "Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." Then again, as if knowing exactly where the page was, without searching he flipped to John, chapter 14, and read verses 1-3: "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." Then again, he amazingly flipped directly to Revelation 3, verse 11, and read: "Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." With that, the man put the Bible back in the glove compartment. Vincent reflected that all three passages, and everything the man said, was about the Lord's return. After reading, the man put the Bible back and said, "The truck is ready." He started the truck and Vincent said he would follow him for awhile to make sure everything was okay. The man said, "Thank you very much for your help. By the way, I left a small token for you. It will be enough to fill up your car tomorrow." That was strange, because there was no way for the man to know that Vincent had a car in addition to his truck. Vincent followed him about a mile with the man's tail lights clearly in view, then as they were going around a curve, he suddenly vanished from view. He and his truck just disappeared. Thinking his vision may have been obstructed by trees or something, Vincent even went back the next day during the daylight and retraced everything. There were no trees or anything obstructing his view. There was no human explanation. Also the next day, as he always does on Friday, Vincent took his car to the service station to fill up the tank with gasoline, so it would be full for the weekend. He had forgotten what the man had said about leaving a token "to fill up your car tomorrow." Vincent put $2.32 worth of gas in his car, then tried to round it off to $2.35 or $2.40. But he could only get it up to $2.34 and it stopped. It just would not take more than exactly $2.34. Vincent then left to visit a friend's house, but remembered that he had left the friend's Christmas gift in his truck, so he went back home. When home, Vincent decided to clean his truck a bit before leaving. While doing so, he found some money on the front seat, passenger's side, underneath his glove. The money consisted of two one-dollar bills, a quarter, a nickel, and four pennies -- exactly $2.34!" Encounter # 4: Vincent’s third (confirmed) Vincent had another amazing experience in the early morning hours of Sunday, September 13th 1998. He had been working late in his chemist job again to finish some urgent jobs. He left work at about 1 a.m. When he got outside, he suddenly realized that he had left his keys on his desk, but was not able to get back inside because of the automatic lock on the door. So now he could neither get back inside, nor drive his truck. He prayed that the Lord would unlock his truck, but nothing happened. He walked across the street to a pay phone but discovered it had been vandalized. He remembered his cellular phone in his backpack and took it out. Vincent then realized he had left the battery at home to be recharged (an old model), and it could not work, of course, without a battery. Nevertheless, he prayed and asked the Lord to allow him to make one call. As soon as he prayed, he noticed the phone miraculously lighting up, and he called a friend to pick him up. The friend agreed to do so. Vincent then sat down by a doorstep of the lab and waited. A little while later a police car drove up and stopped. The policeman asked, "What are you doing?" "I'm waiting for a friend," Vincent replied. He told the policeman his situation, about the prayer to open his truck, and the call to his friend. The policeman replied, "Your friend isn't coming." He noticed Vincent's Bible, and added, "That's a good book to read." Some conversation ensued in which Vincent disclosed his faith and his belief that the Lord is coming "very, very soon." The policeman replied, "I believe the Lord’s coming is very, very near too." At that very moment, a call came in over the policeman's radio and he said he had to leave. Before he left, the policeman remarked to Vincent, "Why don't you pray and ask the Lord to open the door to your lab?" Vincent said he watched him leave, while praying silently. Vincent said, "I had barely finished praying when the lab door miraculously opened. I immediately stood up and turned around towards the door and noticed that someone had pushed the lock bar and opened it from the inside. I held on to the door and turned to look at the police car and noticed he was not to be seen, even though I had taken my eye off him for only a few seconds." Vincent got his keys and drove away in his truck. He drove by his friend's home and noticed both their vehicles in their driveway. He assumed that they must have gone back to sleep, forgetting him. Vincent said that he decided to go on home, "believing I may have actually spoken with an angel," he said. The next day he checked with his friend whom he had called and who had promised to pick him up. The friend did not remember anything about the call! Here we have: (1) a cell phone that miraculously works without a battery, (2) a mysteriously appearing and disappearing policeman who said "I believe the Lord's coming is very, very near," (3) the policeman knew in advance that the friend would not pick Vincent up, (4) after the policeman told him to pray, a door that miraculously opened from the inside even though no one was inside, (5) a friend promised to pick him up but neither he nor his wife remember the telephone call. The whole episode is no doubt supernatural. Comments Incident # 2 above about "Gabriel" motivated me to review references in the Bible to the angel Gabriel. By name, Gabriel appeared to three people. The first was to the prophet Daniel in about 550 B.C. He gave Daniel a vision of the future, including the timing of Christ's first coming. And similar to the message to Vincent, he said to Daniel, "You are greatly beloved." Later, as recorded in Luke, he appeared to Zechariah, saying these awesome words, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God," as he announced the birth of John the Baptist; then shortly thereafter he appeared to the virgin Mary to announce the birth of Christ. Gabriel's main function in both Old and New Testaments seems to be in connection with announcing the coming of the Son of God to the world. Angels who appear as humans are not without biblical precedent. For example, two angels came to Sodom to warn Lot before they destroyed the city (Genesis 19). They visited Lot's home, ate with him, and even spent the night! They appeared as such "real people" that Sodom's homosexuals tried to accost them and have sex with them, but the angels struck them blind. The next day, because of its blatant wickedness, God destroyed the city by fire. Encounter # 5: Vincent's fourth (confirmed): God makes a telephone call -- literally! This may or may not have involved an angel. What is described below could have been either the sovereign hand of God Himself or an angel. However, we do know that God does uses angels to carry out His work so my guess is that an angel was involved. Also, the below incident does not involve prophecy but I am including it because the supernatural nature of it affirms the other prophetic experieces had by Vincent Tan described above. On Saturday, April 6, 1996, Vincent was awakened at 4:30 a.m. with a burden to pray. He slipped to his knees beside his bed for a few moments, after which he returned to bed and to sleep. He arose later, and at 7 a.m. began his morning prayer time. At 7:30, as he was still praying, the telephone rang. So as not to be disturbed, he decided to let the answering machine take the call. For some strange reason, the answering machine refused to take the call. The telephone kept ringing, as though demanding to be picked up! Vincent discovered that the answering machine was, indeed, on, but that it was not taking the call. He decided to go ahead and answer it. He also noted that, oddly, his Caller I.D. failed to show the number of the caller. "Hello," Vincent said. Surprisingly, the other party also said, "Hello." Again, Vincent said, "Hello." Again, the lady on the other end said, "Hello." Vincent asked, "Do you want to speak to me?" The lady said, "No." Vincent then asked, "Then why did you call me?" The lady said, "I didn't call you." Vincent explained that his phone rang and he had answered it. The lady said the same thing happened to her-that her phone rang and she had answered it. Vincent told her his name, and she said her name was Doris, and that she was in Iowa. They both concluded that somehow their lines must have become crossed, causing this freak mishap. (God had caused two distant telephones-one in Tennessee, and one in Iowa-to ring each other simultaneously, and for the loving and Divine purpose explained below.) But in another surprise, Doris asked, "Are you the same Vincent who had an experience with an angel?" Vincent said yes. She explained that she and her mother had read about Vincent's story about a year ago in an article I had written. Doris went on to say that six months ago, her mother was diagnosed with cancer and only given six months to live. She said that every day for the past six months her mother had prayed that she would be able to meet or speak with Vincent before she died. In her prayers about this, she had claimed the promises of Jeremiah 32:27, which says, "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?" and Jeremiah 33:3: "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." A few years ago, Vincent had also claimed these same promises. Doris explained that her mother was near death, and how that very morning, at 3:30 a.m., Iowa time (the exact same as Vincent's prayer at 4:30 a.m., Eastern Time) she was awake and felt led to seek the Lord and remind Him of her mother's request. She asked if Vincent would speak with her mother, to which Vincent agreed. (As an answer to this dying mother's fervent, daily prayers, God had miraculously allowed her to speak with Vincent!) Her mother was bed-ridden, so Doris decided to put Vincent on the speaker-phone, which took a few moments to set up. Finally, after waiting, Vincent heard the mother's weak but audible voice. The mother thanked Vincent for talking with her, and then asked if he would please personally repeat for her his angel experiences. Vincent patiently took about the next 45 minutes describing to her the incidents in detail. At the end of his description, Vincent heard the mother say weakly, "Praise the Lord. Amen." This was followed by silence. All was strangely quiet. Vincent waited, thinking that Doris was taking him off the speaker. After a few moments, Doris broke the silence and came back on the regular telephone. "Praise the Lord," she said. "My mother just died." Vincent now says, "I was so overwhelmed with mixed emotions. I did not know whether to be happy or sad." He says he decided to say goodbye so that Doris could be with her mother. In the shock and emotion of the moment, Vincent didn't think to get Doris' telephone number for follow up. But he says, "I know that the Lord has His reasons for us not getting each other's numbers. Why He would not let her number flash on my (Caller I.D.) screen is still a mystery. Yet I am amazed at His miraculous action in ringing both our phones at the same time. As I ponder over the event, I am grateful to the Lord for His loving kindness. It just encouraged my faith to trust Him even more, knowing that in the fullness of His time, He will answer our prayers." Vincent added the following, a message I believe not just for me, but for all who read this: "I hope that this will be an encouragement to you as it has been to me. I know that we will see Doris' mother in heaven when we all will be able to know the answers to our questions. The Lord is coming very, very soon. As we near the final hours, I know that His presence is even evermore with us now, May the Lord continue to bless you, Let us be ready now, for His coming is very, very near." Encounter # 6: Mother hears voice -- same message (confirmed) More recently, while perhaps not involving angel, on December 30, 1999, a mother in Maryland, Beth, told me an amazing and confirming testimony. She said, "I would like to share with you an occurrence that happened on December 10, 1999 in the a.m. My 8-year-old was at school and my husband was at work, I had my 6-month-old son in his swing in front of the television watching Sesame Street. What caught my attention was that the television made the 'shhhh' sound. I turned to look and the screen was snowy as expected with that noise. It's what happened next. The television completely cut off. My child was asleep. No sooner did I think, 'Oh, the cable must have cut off,' did I hear a voice. It said, ‘The lord is coming very, very soon.' I was dumfounded, and then the TV came back to normal and Sesame Street continued." She went on to describe her reactions and adds that it was three days later on December 13th that she came across my article about Vincent’s angel encounters with the exact same message. "Needless to say," she concludes, "the messages that your witnesses received were exactly as my message was. I was very shaken, I wonder why He chose me to relay this message." Encounter # 7: Angels discovered singing end-time song in rural Chinese worship service! (confirmed) This is a totally different kind of angel incident, but with a similar message and no less powerful. In May, 1995 I received this most electrifying report from a friend who has been a missionary to China for several years. To protect him and his contacts in China, I must not reveal his name. But for you to better understand his credibility, let me explain that I have known him for many years. He is a graduate of a prestigious theological seminary and is a former pastor. My friend is an intelligent and balanced servant of God. He is not given to sensationalism. The following is a summary of his recent report to me. The whole province of Shandong, in eastern China (population: 57 million), is in the midst of a sweeping revival. For fear of arrest, believers meet secretly in house churches, often by candlelight. At a 1995 meeting in Shandong, everyone was singing "in the Spirit" together (1 Corinthians 14:15), not in their own language, but "as the Spirit gave them utterance," all in harmony but all singing different words. Someone audiotaped the meeting. Later, when they played back the cassette, they were shocked! What they heard was not what had happened there at all -- but the sound of angels singing in Mandarin -- a song they had never heard before, and with a musical accompaniment that had not been there!!! When my friend first heard the tape, before anyone told him what it was, he exclaimed, "Those are angels!!" Actually, there was no other explanation. A Chinese Christian co-worker translated the tape. Below are the actual words sung by the angels! Note that the words express ideas with which these rural Chinese peasants were not familiar. (Original Chinese version follows). "The End is Near: Rescue Souls" The famine is becoming more and more critical. There are more and more earthquakes. The situation is becoming more and more sinister. People are fighting against each other, nation against nation. Disasters are more and more severe. The whole environment is deteriorating. Disasters are more and more severe. People's hearts are wicked, and they do not worship the true God. Disasters are more and more severe. Floods and droughts are more and more frequent. There is more and more homosexuality and incurable diseases. Disasters are more and more severe. The climates are becoming more and more abnormal. The earth is more and more restless. The skies have been broken. The atmosphere is distorted. Disasters are more and more severe. Chorus: The end is near. The revelation of love has been manifested. Rise up, rise up, rescue souls. The end is near. Rise up, rise up, rescue souls. The below was translated by two native Chinese Christians in Beijing who have personal knowledge of the church and the pastor where the incident happened: Conclusion