Stage-setting in Overdrive By Terry James + Hoofbeats of the Fourhorsemen by Jan Markell
Apr 19, 2020 15:49:56 #
ziggy88
Loc: quincy illinois 62301
Stage-setting in Overdrive By Terry James + Hoofbeats of the Fourhorsemen by Jan Markell
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
From my perspective of Bible prophecy in the stage-setting process for the wind-up of the age, three factors leap from current news.
These are in addition to the tremendous developments taking place in the socioeconomic dynamics brought on by the sudden appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic. That virus, coming out of the demonic world, it seems to me, was in itself enough to point to the nearness of the end of this dispensation.
The dire prospects for recovery from the effects of the coronavirus are, if one hasn’t faith in God’s complete control, at the very least emotionally debilitating.
Now, three additional developments bring into sharper focus exactly how near we are to the time when Christ calls for His Bride, the Church. This fact—that Jesus Christ is, for all born-again believers, soon to break through all the depressing news to take His own into Heaven—should excite us.
The first of the factors I see as profoundly setting the stage for the Tribulation era, thus for the Rapture of the Church, involves China’s sudden emergence to prominence on the geopolitical scene.
For centuries, China was a building giant that seemingly chose to stay sequestered behind the Great Wall. It had little major influence. Then the communist takeover gave the vast nation a presence that represented a threat, but one that could be controlled by the greater powers of the West—and even, to some extent, by a Soviet regime that didn’t want Mao Tse-tung to get too far out of line.
China has emerged, as we all know, to become an economic force that, in conjunction with its military presence, some say can nearly rival that of the US. It has become the great, hegemonic power of all of Asia. It is even building entire islands in the South China Sea just to establish a military presence to challenge anyone who dares to enter those waters.
America, it is sad to say, has provided much of the funding for that military burgeoning through insane trade deals of the past. And now, the communist leadership of China is beginning to assert its ever-increasing power. We see some of this through the following:
U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr warned of a range of threats from China including propaganda efforts surrounding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and efforts to interfere in U.S. elections. In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Barr described Chinese efforts as a ‘full-court blitzkrieg’ across multiple fronts, which he said includes meddling in US elections, exercising control over key supply chains and promoting disinformation about the coronavirus. (“AG Barr Says China in ‘full-court blitzkrieg’ to Undermine US Elections and Institutions,” Fox News, Rapture Ready News, April 10, 2020)
Many students of Bible prophecy have long viewed China as a leading part of the “kings of the east” army foretold to invade the Occidental world across a dried-up Euphrates River. This is prophetically scheduled to take place during the Tribulation era (see Revelation chapters 9 and 16).
I have termed China “the king of the kings of the east.” Certainly they are swiftly moving into position to fulfill this role.
The second element in the news today that I believe is setting the stage for the coming Tribulation involves Iran.
That nation, which occupies much of the territory of the ancient Persian Empire, is scheduled prophetically to attack Israel in “the latter days,” meaning, I take it, in the post-Rapture era.
Ezekiel the prophet, in chapters 38 and 39, calls it the “Gog-Magog” force, consisting, we believe, of Russia, Iran, and Turkey, along with lesser nations. The following brings to light Iran’s preparation for that assault:
The national security and foreign policy committee for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s parliament declared that Tehran will move forward with its uranium enrichment process, triggering sharp criticism from the US State Department on Thursday. (“Iran Defies EU, Declaring Continued Nuclear Uranium Enrichment,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, Rapture Ready News, April 10, 2020)
Iran’s defiance of demands by the US president, the European Union, and especially by Israel for that nation to dismantle its nuclear weapons facilities puts the region on track for a prophetic fulfillment. The very mountains that reportedly house these facilities are foretold to suffer catastrophic destruction. Many of us believe it will be Israel that destroys the nuclear capability of its chief nemesis.
The third current new items that I believe shows the nearness of the Tribulation is seen in the following:
In light of the growing demand by the Israeli public, several major Israeli rabbis ruled on the subject and for the first time ruled that it was now permissible to begin the Passover Temple service. As a result of that ruling, the rabbis sent a letter to the Prime Minister requesting that he allow the korban Pesach to take place.
The Sanhedrin emphasized that the plan to bring the altar to the Temple Mount was entirely consistent with President Trump’s recently released Deal of the Century which recognized Israel’s full sovereignty over the site. (“Historic First: Israel’s Top Rabbis Call on Netanyahu to Allow Temple Service to Begin on Temple Mount,” Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News, Rapture Ready News, April 10, 2020)
The request was rejected because of feared ramifications of probable conflict with Muslim forces and complications presented by the coronavirus.
However, the demands by the Jews in the area that Temple worship be allowed are growing. The almost completed plans for rebuilding the Temple and the already-prepared instruments of worship assure that the prophecies concerning the Tribulation Temple are nearing fulfillment.
With prophetic stage-setting for the Tribulation in overdrive, the nearness of the Rapture of the Church can’t be overemphasized. - 2nd article follows:
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Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen? By Jan Markell
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
Conclusion by Pastor Boyd
According to Lifeway Research, many pastors are apparently having an “aha” moment due to the tide of our times. It’s about time. I am now hope-filled. They are seeing current events today as things the Bible forecast for the end-of-days. But I maintain their pulpits could still be silent.
Let’s be optimistic. When real church resumes, the pulpits will boldly announce that we are in the last days and Jesus is coming soon. Get your houses in order!
Darrell Bock, New Testament professor at Dallas Seminary, noted that the Bible has several lists of potential signs of Jesus’ return, such as the Olivet Discourse passages, and some include concepts of global sickness. These are Tribulation references.
“Numerous biblical texts speak of disturbances in the creation that disorient and trouble people,” said Bock. “These disturbances have quite a range with earthquakes and wars being the most common. Jesus mentions plagues or pestilence explicitly in Luke 21.”
Three out of four pastors in the survey have noted that world and church events have meaning today. They include the rise in apostasy, the love of believers growing cold, the decline in traditional morals, national conflicts, natural disasters, famines, and even the rise in anti-Semitism. Even if they are Tribulation events, they are casting a shadow on the Church Age.
So is a new day in the church approaching thanks to some kind of a wake-up call? Almost 25 years ago, the church-growth movement said teaching any kind of eschatology would not grow the church.
Pastors were encouraged to keep quiet about the soon return of the Lord. Pastor Rick Warren even said in his Purpose Driven Life book that teaching Bible prophecy would distract you from your purpose and make you unfit for the Kingdom of God. Pastors listened to him!
In the information produced by Lifeway Research Joel Rosenberg states, “For too long, many pastors have shied away from teaching on birth pangs and events leading up to the Second Coming of the Lord, but the current pandemic demonstrates the need for solid, non-sensational preaching done in a biblical manner.”
The Lifeway report reveals that more than half the pastors expect Jesus to return in their lifetime. So why on earth are their pulpits not proclaiming this?
But there is more to the survey! Almost 70% of those surveyed believe the modern re-birth of Israel and the regathering of millions of Jewish people were fulfillments of prophecies in the Bible.
That’s great news but that was 72 years ago. Why haven’t you been preaching that, pastors? More than that, 40% of the pastors surveyed believe that the establishment of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem two years ago was a sign of the last days!
This is great sermon material! It could get a church fired up! But most pulpits I hear about are silent on the topic.
The most frequent email Olive Tree Ministries receives has to do with this topic: Where can I find a prophecy-preaching, relevant issues-focused church? Where can I find a church that is warning of things to come instead of emphasizing your best life now?
Brent Miller, Jr. of Ingenuity Films made the new Rapture-themed film production, Before the Wrath because his research, which also tapped into Lifeway, revealed that 98% of the church will not teach on anything end-time related. Both eschatology and Israel are marginalized. You read that right: 98%.
Let’s add one more equation into our discussion and that is what should be obvious to every observer. The book of Revelation tells us there is coming a one-world system run by the Antichrist. That new world order requires a crisis—a global crisis, not a local crisis. We have it—a global pandemic. Isn’t this more fuel for a discussion?
The world is in meltdown mode right now and people are asking a lot of questions. We don’t even know if life as we once knew it will ever happen again. It may not!
Pastors, are you talking about this?
The True Church is to be removed before the revealing of the lawless one, the Antichrist. I maintain he is just over the horizon, raring to go. And the four horsemen of the apocalypse may be training on some race track somewhere! You can almost hear their hoofbeats.
Pastors, don’t be silent! Maybe this is truly a new day for you. Seize the opportunity. Please see that all things are falling into place. Be excited. Be truthful. Don’t marginalize such important news. Connect the dots for your people.
Jesus is returning any moment. Please stop the silence of the pulpits.
Conclusion by Pastor Boyd
We are in the beginnings of sorrows. What is happening now is but a preview of what one day will go worldwide. Nothing is holding back this evil but the True Church that is filled with the Holy Spirit.
Once the Holy Spirit is gone in the rapture this will allow the demonic powers that be to envelop the whole world for there will be nothing to restrain them. Personally I look to the fall for our savior to come. I have my reasons. I do know that the rapture is very close. Maranatha…………..
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
From my perspective of Bible prophecy in the stage-setting process for the wind-up of the age, three factors leap from current news.
These are in addition to the tremendous developments taking place in the socioeconomic dynamics brought on by the sudden appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic. That virus, coming out of the demonic world, it seems to me, was in itself enough to point to the nearness of the end of this dispensation.
The dire prospects for recovery from the effects of the coronavirus are, if one hasn’t faith in God’s complete control, at the very least emotionally debilitating.
Now, three additional developments bring into sharper focus exactly how near we are to the time when Christ calls for His Bride, the Church. This fact—that Jesus Christ is, for all born-again believers, soon to break through all the depressing news to take His own into Heaven—should excite us.
The first of the factors I see as profoundly setting the stage for the Tribulation era, thus for the Rapture of the Church, involves China’s sudden emergence to prominence on the geopolitical scene.
For centuries, China was a building giant that seemingly chose to stay sequestered behind the Great Wall. It had little major influence. Then the communist takeover gave the vast nation a presence that represented a threat, but one that could be controlled by the greater powers of the West—and even, to some extent, by a Soviet regime that didn’t want Mao Tse-tung to get too far out of line.
China has emerged, as we all know, to become an economic force that, in conjunction with its military presence, some say can nearly rival that of the US. It has become the great, hegemonic power of all of Asia. It is even building entire islands in the South China Sea just to establish a military presence to challenge anyone who dares to enter those waters.
America, it is sad to say, has provided much of the funding for that military burgeoning through insane trade deals of the past. And now, the communist leadership of China is beginning to assert its ever-increasing power. We see some of this through the following:
U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr warned of a range of threats from China including propaganda efforts surrounding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and efforts to interfere in U.S. elections. In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Barr described Chinese efforts as a ‘full-court blitzkrieg’ across multiple fronts, which he said includes meddling in US elections, exercising control over key supply chains and promoting disinformation about the coronavirus. (“AG Barr Says China in ‘full-court blitzkrieg’ to Undermine US Elections and Institutions,” Fox News, Rapture Ready News, April 10, 2020)
Many students of Bible prophecy have long viewed China as a leading part of the “kings of the east” army foretold to invade the Occidental world across a dried-up Euphrates River. This is prophetically scheduled to take place during the Tribulation era (see Revelation chapters 9 and 16).
I have termed China “the king of the kings of the east.” Certainly they are swiftly moving into position to fulfill this role.
The second element in the news today that I believe is setting the stage for the coming Tribulation involves Iran.
That nation, which occupies much of the territory of the ancient Persian Empire, is scheduled prophetically to attack Israel in “the latter days,” meaning, I take it, in the post-Rapture era.
Ezekiel the prophet, in chapters 38 and 39, calls it the “Gog-Magog” force, consisting, we believe, of Russia, Iran, and Turkey, along with lesser nations. The following brings to light Iran’s preparation for that assault:
The national security and foreign policy committee for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s parliament declared that Tehran will move forward with its uranium enrichment process, triggering sharp criticism from the US State Department on Thursday. (“Iran Defies EU, Declaring Continued Nuclear Uranium Enrichment,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, Rapture Ready News, April 10, 2020)
Iran’s defiance of demands by the US president, the European Union, and especially by Israel for that nation to dismantle its nuclear weapons facilities puts the region on track for a prophetic fulfillment. The very mountains that reportedly house these facilities are foretold to suffer catastrophic destruction. Many of us believe it will be Israel that destroys the nuclear capability of its chief nemesis.
The third current new items that I believe shows the nearness of the Tribulation is seen in the following:
In light of the growing demand by the Israeli public, several major Israeli rabbis ruled on the subject and for the first time ruled that it was now permissible to begin the Passover Temple service. As a result of that ruling, the rabbis sent a letter to the Prime Minister requesting that he allow the korban Pesach to take place.
The Sanhedrin emphasized that the plan to bring the altar to the Temple Mount was entirely consistent with President Trump’s recently released Deal of the Century which recognized Israel’s full sovereignty over the site. (“Historic First: Israel’s Top Rabbis Call on Netanyahu to Allow Temple Service to Begin on Temple Mount,” Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News, Rapture Ready News, April 10, 2020)
The request was rejected because of feared ramifications of probable conflict with Muslim forces and complications presented by the coronavirus.
However, the demands by the Jews in the area that Temple worship be allowed are growing. The almost completed plans for rebuilding the Temple and the already-prepared instruments of worship assure that the prophecies concerning the Tribulation Temple are nearing fulfillment.
With prophetic stage-setting for the Tribulation in overdrive, the nearness of the Rapture of the Church can’t be overemphasized. - 2nd article follows:
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Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen? By Jan Markell
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
Conclusion by Pastor Boyd
According to Lifeway Research, many pastors are apparently having an “aha” moment due to the tide of our times. It’s about time. I am now hope-filled. They are seeing current events today as things the Bible forecast for the end-of-days. But I maintain their pulpits could still be silent.
Let’s be optimistic. When real church resumes, the pulpits will boldly announce that we are in the last days and Jesus is coming soon. Get your houses in order!
Darrell Bock, New Testament professor at Dallas Seminary, noted that the Bible has several lists of potential signs of Jesus’ return, such as the Olivet Discourse passages, and some include concepts of global sickness. These are Tribulation references.
“Numerous biblical texts speak of disturbances in the creation that disorient and trouble people,” said Bock. “These disturbances have quite a range with earthquakes and wars being the most common. Jesus mentions plagues or pestilence explicitly in Luke 21.”
Three out of four pastors in the survey have noted that world and church events have meaning today. They include the rise in apostasy, the love of believers growing cold, the decline in traditional morals, national conflicts, natural disasters, famines, and even the rise in anti-Semitism. Even if they are Tribulation events, they are casting a shadow on the Church Age.
So is a new day in the church approaching thanks to some kind of a wake-up call? Almost 25 years ago, the church-growth movement said teaching any kind of eschatology would not grow the church.
Pastors were encouraged to keep quiet about the soon return of the Lord. Pastor Rick Warren even said in his Purpose Driven Life book that teaching Bible prophecy would distract you from your purpose and make you unfit for the Kingdom of God. Pastors listened to him!
In the information produced by Lifeway Research Joel Rosenberg states, “For too long, many pastors have shied away from teaching on birth pangs and events leading up to the Second Coming of the Lord, but the current pandemic demonstrates the need for solid, non-sensational preaching done in a biblical manner.”
The Lifeway report reveals that more than half the pastors expect Jesus to return in their lifetime. So why on earth are their pulpits not proclaiming this?
But there is more to the survey! Almost 70% of those surveyed believe the modern re-birth of Israel and the regathering of millions of Jewish people were fulfillments of prophecies in the Bible.
That’s great news but that was 72 years ago. Why haven’t you been preaching that, pastors? More than that, 40% of the pastors surveyed believe that the establishment of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem two years ago was a sign of the last days!
This is great sermon material! It could get a church fired up! But most pulpits I hear about are silent on the topic.
The most frequent email Olive Tree Ministries receives has to do with this topic: Where can I find a prophecy-preaching, relevant issues-focused church? Where can I find a church that is warning of things to come instead of emphasizing your best life now?
Brent Miller, Jr. of Ingenuity Films made the new Rapture-themed film production, Before the Wrath because his research, which also tapped into Lifeway, revealed that 98% of the church will not teach on anything end-time related. Both eschatology and Israel are marginalized. You read that right: 98%.
Let’s add one more equation into our discussion and that is what should be obvious to every observer. The book of Revelation tells us there is coming a one-world system run by the Antichrist. That new world order requires a crisis—a global crisis, not a local crisis. We have it—a global pandemic. Isn’t this more fuel for a discussion?
The world is in meltdown mode right now and people are asking a lot of questions. We don’t even know if life as we once knew it will ever happen again. It may not!
Pastors, are you talking about this?
The True Church is to be removed before the revealing of the lawless one, the Antichrist. I maintain he is just over the horizon, raring to go. And the four horsemen of the apocalypse may be training on some race track somewhere! You can almost hear their hoofbeats.
Pastors, don’t be silent! Maybe this is truly a new day for you. Seize the opportunity. Please see that all things are falling into place. Be excited. Be truthful. Don’t marginalize such important news. Connect the dots for your people.
Jesus is returning any moment. Please stop the silence of the pulpits.
Conclusion by Pastor Boyd
We are in the beginnings of sorrows. What is happening now is but a preview of what one day will go worldwide. Nothing is holding back this evil but the True Church that is filled with the Holy Spirit.
Once the Holy Spirit is gone in the rapture this will allow the demonic powers that be to envelop the whole world for there will be nothing to restrain them. Personally I look to the fall for our savior to come. I have my reasons. I do know that the rapture is very close. Maranatha…………..
Apr 19, 2020 16:31:07 #
ziggy88 wrote:
Stage-setting in Overdrive By Terry James + Hoofbe... (show quote)
Would you share some scriptures that show we will be removed first? There is so much discussion now on pre or post. I have always leaned more in the post trib . Reason is i see so many places now Christian's are already being tortured and put to death for their faith. They havnt been removed
Oh and thanks for posting this.
Apr 19, 2020 20:59:44 #
Redangel62 wrote:
Would you share some scriptures that show we will be removed first? There is so much discussion now on pre or post. I have always leaned more in the post trib . Reason is i see so many places now Christian's are already being tortured and put to death for their faith. They havnt been removed
Oh and thanks for posting this.
Oh and thanks for posting this.
Jesus suffered tribulation. Why wouldn't we? But be comforted by Jesus' words:
"These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." John 16:33
By the way, for a very long time I was pre-trib but after much more study I'm pre-wrath with the understanding that with everything that's going on in the world it MAY be pre-trib. But regardless, Jesus said in Luke 21:28 that "when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
Apr 19, 2020 21:21:54 #
Parky60 wrote:
Jesus suffered tribulation. Why wouldn't we? But b... (show quote)
Thank you. Sometimes lately I have been afraid and since I know God doesnt give us a spirit of fear I've been praying about it. And I know I have had some fear because I can see we are at the end of time and I dont want to go through the tribulations. Since I know God's word I know it won't be fun . I will if necessary because of all Jesus went through for me
Apr 20, 2020 16:44:40 #
ziggy88
Loc: quincy illinois 62301
As always an erroneous doctrinal belief knocks on to other doctrines as well. We are now at a point in time where these things are of major importance.
Departygne is the old English version of rapture.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no man deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.
The original early Bibles were consistent in their translation of this verse as follows:
2 Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no man deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come, unless the departynge comes first...”
Note how dramatically “departynge” changes the entire meaning. Read the top verse and then the bottom rendition of it again.
Here are the early, original old English Bibles and their use of that verse. Note the consistency:
Wycliffe Bible (1330), "departynge first"
2. Tyndale Bible (1525/26), "departynge first"
3. Coverdale Bible 1535), "departynge first"
4. Crammer Bible (1539), "departynge first"
5. Beeches Bible (1583), "departing first"
6. Beza Bible (1583), "departing first"
7. Geneva Bible (1608), "departing first" 8. King James Bible (1611) “falling away.”
The 1611 King James Bible, which many claim is the only inspired, totally accurate Bible, which is absolute hogwash, changed “departynge first, to “falling away” from the faith.
The departynge (departure) is of course the rapture of the church – how logical!
Note that the word “Day” is capitalized. This is a reference to the entire tribulation period, or if you like, the Second Coming.
“Departynge first” places the rapture before the tribulation period (Day of the Lord)
Bear in mind that you can’t have both opinions. The “falling away from the faith” is not the “departynge first.” It’s one or the other.
Number 8 (above) marked the introduction of error, which has permeated and predominated since then, fueled by the knock-on effect of the error.
I know all the arguments in favor of “falling away from the faith”, but if any are true, I ask you then, how do you explain the consistency of “departure” in all the early Bibles?
If you are looking for the great falling away from the faith, as a sign, instead of the soon-coming rapture, you will obviously be looking in the wrong place, to say nothing of the contradiction to the verses speaking of a great end-time revival. (See the next edition!)
►I see quite a few reputable Bible teachers are now also teaching on this “departure” instead of “falling away from the faith.” That is just great!
In the types revealed in the feasts, we have now moved from Passover (the cross) to the resurrection. But bear in mind that Passover is also about Israel leaving Egypt (the world), which has enormous prophetic implications.
But first:
The group speak of herd mentality
Many generations of church leaders and Bible teachers have been playing “blind man’s buff.” They have been following the blind man who says he can see, right into a tree.
Herd mentality, especially amongst blind, parrot pastors has joined Catholicism in replacing Passover with Easter. This destroys Bible prophecy albeit symbolically. The seven feasts, in their fulfilment, succinctly plot the major prophetic peaks of the ages.
The feats conceal and reveal the skeleton of all prophecy. Passover, the first of the feasts is the head of the skeleton.
All the Passover rejecting, Easter loving Christians have beheaded prophecy. No wonder they are running around like headless chickens.
This love of and receiving of paganism (Easter) is the very cause of most of those churches being ignorant of prophecy, with some exceptions.
There are so many churches that won’t touch or teach Bible prophecy, but they will venerate paganism and forever argue useless arguments in favor of their mixture of Babylon into the truth.
Okay, so now we see that the “falling away” is the rapture of the church. That leads to the obvious question, when will this occur?
Imminence is for the wicked:
So, if the departure of the church comes first, it is appropriate to address the error of imminence, which knocks on to other doctrines too.
The presumption behind imminence is that the Lord’s coming for the church at the rapture will occur without any preceding signs and could happen at any time, because “no one knows the time.”
There are numerous preceding signs and forerunners of the coming of the tribulation period. Obviously those signs would also be relevant to a pre-tribulation rapture.
The argument in favor of imminence is based largely on a verse misunderstood:
Matthew 24:36 “Of that day and hour no man knows...but as the days of Noah were so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.”
What people have done is presumed that this verse says “no one knows the time.”
1 Thessalonians 5:2 “You yourselves know that the day of the Lord, so comes as a thief in the night. When they (the world) say ‘peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as labour pains...”
The thief in the night full of darkness will not know – it is a reference to the wicked.
1 Thessalonians 5:4 “But you brethren are not in darkness that this Day should overtake you as a thief...Let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober.”
Matthew 24:36-37 “As in the days of Noah, so also will it be at the coming of the Son of Man...They (the wicked) will be eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage...and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away.”
Matthew 24:48”But if the evil (wicked) servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming...the master will come on a day when he is not looking.”
If no one knows the time, the following verse is a real problem. How can you look for something that’s unknowable?
Titus 2:13 “Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior.”
The thief in the night is wicked and does not know. The believer is not in darkness and does know. It is the wicked servant who says no one knows!
The awakened believer is commanded to “know” “watch” “pray” and “look” for the appearing.
Matthew 24:33 “You also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, at the very doors.”
The word “know” above is in the imperative tense, meaning it is a command, similar to a military command.
The problem with the doctrine of imminence is that it is always extended to mean, “no one knows the time.” (So don’t bother trying.)
Yes, Acts 1:7 says, “It is not given to you (the disciples) to know times or seasons...” But this is talking to those particular disciples at that time in Jesus day and not to end-time believers generally.
1 John 2:18 “Little children it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even, many Antichrists have come, by which we know it is the last hour.”
So, when will the departing take place? Regular readers know my view all too well. It will occur on a Feast of Trumpets, when all the other required signs are in place. But more exciting material on that, not shared before, in coming editions.
Today God’s shofar is sounding an alarm, and ringing bells of urgency. God’s menorah is shining its light on the cross of salvation and its resurrection power. Can you hear the sound, can you see the light? Can you feel and sense the power?
Births X 3:
Pregnancy always leads to birth-pangs. That’s where we are now.
■The church is pregnant with a glorious resurrection body. ■The world is pregnant with the coming antichrist. ■Israel is pregnant with the Millennium.
The resurrection body is coming before the tribulation, the Antichrist is coming in the tribulation, the true Christ is coming at the end of the tribulation and the Millennium is coming after the tribulation.
Be thankful and full of praise that you have not been left out in the spiritual cold.
Covid-19 is a birth!
Covid-19 has birthed worldwide mass fear and confusion. Is it of God or of the devil? Confusion is not of God, but is of the devil. But God uses these events caused by the devil for His purposes.
This shaking is leading to repentance for many people. God uses the tests to see who are really His, and who His disciples are.
Bear in mind that this virus is a “birth” of worse things to come in the tribulation period.
►The shaking has started now, before the tribulation. The shaking is for the shakeable. The kingdom of God is unshakable.
The tragedy of the biblical Jews was that they “did not know the time of their visitation.” (Luke 19:44)Today, much of the church and the world do not know what’s going on. They do not know their time of visitation and required repentance.
Did President Trump “divide the land” and cause the virus? (Joel 3:2)
I believe some teachers, the left-over deceived, Revelation 12-sign teachers, and others are teaching and claiming repeatedly that the coronavirus in the US is a result of President Trump dividing the land of Israel, through the “Deal of the Century.”
That is absolutely NOT the case at all! Do not believe it. Dismiss it as short-sighted rubbish.
Daniel 11:39 “He (Antichrist) shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god (Satan) which he shall acknowledge and advance its glory; and shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain.”
Joel 3:2 “I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of My people, My heritage Israel...They have also divided up My land.”
The condemned dividing of the land comes in the tribulation period. Both of these verses above clearly occur in the tribulation period.
If President Trump is responsible for dividing the land and the coronavirus is the result, then why did God not do the same when the land was divided many times before?
If the coronavirus is a result of President Trump dividing the land of Israel, why would God bring this virus on the whole world?
There is another side to dividing the land which most are not aware of because of their blinkers. It’s all about numbers. An undivided Israel would bring all the Palestinian territories refugees and exiles into one united land.
There are an estimated 14 million Palestinians who would instantly become part of Israel. That would make Israel an Islamic state overnight. Do you think God will allow that? You have to be mad in the head! Besides, that is not what the prophetic word reveals at all!
The best way to deal with this is to have separate, divided political entities with their own internal independence, as there is today. There is no other workable solution.
It was the children of Israel themselves who caused the land of Israel to be divided. In disobedience to God, they failed to drive out all the occupying people (Arabs). So now the best solution to prevent Israel from becoming fully Islamic is to create Palestinian territories of autonomy.
Here it is, and note the last sentence:
Numbers 33:50-55 Instructions for the conquest of Canaan: “Moses, speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images and demolish all their high places...but if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those who you let remain, shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.”
So, the situation is a bit more complex than people think.
God is legally bound to operate within His own legal framework. You cannot be accused of, or held responsible for something you didn’t do. President Trump’s “Deal of the Century” is null and void, not being implemented. Except for a few issues that are very pro-Israel in the first place.
If anything, President Trump holds a “key of David” in his hands, and not the cause of the coronavirus! (See edition 509 “Beware the key of David.”)
What comes next?
In the midst of plagues, Passover (not Easter) led to the Exodus of the children of Israel, as Pharaoh “let them go.” That led to war as the Egyptian army then changed their mind and pursued them. That led to the supernatural defeat of the Egyptians in the Red Sea. That led Israel to the Promised Land.
Moses commanded Pharaoh to “Let my people go.” He finally did, which is a type of Israel becoming a nation in 1948, even sanctioned by the League of Nations which became the UN. This fulfilled Isaiah 66:8.
Yes, Pharaoh changed his mind and pursued the Jews, right into God’s trap – the Red Sea. This is a type of the UN changing its mind after Israel’s independence in 1948 and becoming a staunch enemy of Israel, pursuing her on every front.
If the UN could only see that their feet are already wet in the modern Red Sea of blood that will befall them in the tribulation period!
So what is next? It is war as Israel enters the God-parted Red Sea, prepared for her as she approaches the God ordained Promised Land of salvation.
At the same time, modern unsaved man is already teetering like the tower, about to fail and fall.
There is a reason why God said the city of Babylon (the world-system), and the tower, will never rise again! The reason is because it was man’s sin-filled attempt to create peace and reach God. That is a type of today’s world trying to reach God with sin intact.
Jeremiah 50:39 “...It (Babylon) shall be inhabited no more forever...”
Jeremiah 51:26 “They shall not take from you (Babylon) one stone for a foundation, but you shall be desolate forever, says the Lord.”
End-time Babylon is the world-system and not the original, cursed and doomed city in Iraq, which will never rise again according to these prophetic verses above.
But end-time Babylon the Great, which is the world, will rise to meet its destruction even as it is trying to do so now.
Isaiah 13:11,20 “I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity...It (Babylon) will never be inhabited, nor will it be settle in from generation to generation, nor will the Arab pitch tents there, nor the shepherds bring their sheep there.”
The tower is about to fall again, it is doomed; it, like a thief in the night, does not know the hour of its visitation. Get out of the way! Pastor Gary Boyd - https://garyboyd2244.blogspot.com
Departygne is the old English version of rapture.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no man deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.
The original early Bibles were consistent in their translation of this verse as follows:
2 Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no man deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come, unless the departynge comes first...”
Note how dramatically “departynge” changes the entire meaning. Read the top verse and then the bottom rendition of it again.
Here are the early, original old English Bibles and their use of that verse. Note the consistency:
Wycliffe Bible (1330), "departynge first"
2. Tyndale Bible (1525/26), "departynge first"
3. Coverdale Bible 1535), "departynge first"
4. Crammer Bible (1539), "departynge first"
5. Beeches Bible (1583), "departing first"
6. Beza Bible (1583), "departing first"
7. Geneva Bible (1608), "departing first" 8. King James Bible (1611) “falling away.”
The 1611 King James Bible, which many claim is the only inspired, totally accurate Bible, which is absolute hogwash, changed “departynge first, to “falling away” from the faith.
The departynge (departure) is of course the rapture of the church – how logical!
Note that the word “Day” is capitalized. This is a reference to the entire tribulation period, or if you like, the Second Coming.
“Departynge first” places the rapture before the tribulation period (Day of the Lord)
Bear in mind that you can’t have both opinions. The “falling away from the faith” is not the “departynge first.” It’s one or the other.
Number 8 (above) marked the introduction of error, which has permeated and predominated since then, fueled by the knock-on effect of the error.
I know all the arguments in favor of “falling away from the faith”, but if any are true, I ask you then, how do you explain the consistency of “departure” in all the early Bibles?
If you are looking for the great falling away from the faith, as a sign, instead of the soon-coming rapture, you will obviously be looking in the wrong place, to say nothing of the contradiction to the verses speaking of a great end-time revival. (See the next edition!)
►I see quite a few reputable Bible teachers are now also teaching on this “departure” instead of “falling away from the faith.” That is just great!
In the types revealed in the feasts, we have now moved from Passover (the cross) to the resurrection. But bear in mind that Passover is also about Israel leaving Egypt (the world), which has enormous prophetic implications.
But first:
The group speak of herd mentality
Many generations of church leaders and Bible teachers have been playing “blind man’s buff.” They have been following the blind man who says he can see, right into a tree.
Herd mentality, especially amongst blind, parrot pastors has joined Catholicism in replacing Passover with Easter. This destroys Bible prophecy albeit symbolically. The seven feasts, in their fulfilment, succinctly plot the major prophetic peaks of the ages.
The feats conceal and reveal the skeleton of all prophecy. Passover, the first of the feasts is the head of the skeleton.
All the Passover rejecting, Easter loving Christians have beheaded prophecy. No wonder they are running around like headless chickens.
This love of and receiving of paganism (Easter) is the very cause of most of those churches being ignorant of prophecy, with some exceptions.
There are so many churches that won’t touch or teach Bible prophecy, but they will venerate paganism and forever argue useless arguments in favor of their mixture of Babylon into the truth.
Okay, so now we see that the “falling away” is the rapture of the church. That leads to the obvious question, when will this occur?
Imminence is for the wicked:
So, if the departure of the church comes first, it is appropriate to address the error of imminence, which knocks on to other doctrines too.
The presumption behind imminence is that the Lord’s coming for the church at the rapture will occur without any preceding signs and could happen at any time, because “no one knows the time.”
There are numerous preceding signs and forerunners of the coming of the tribulation period. Obviously those signs would also be relevant to a pre-tribulation rapture.
The argument in favor of imminence is based largely on a verse misunderstood:
Matthew 24:36 “Of that day and hour no man knows...but as the days of Noah were so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.”
What people have done is presumed that this verse says “no one knows the time.”
1 Thessalonians 5:2 “You yourselves know that the day of the Lord, so comes as a thief in the night. When they (the world) say ‘peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as labour pains...”
The thief in the night full of darkness will not know – it is a reference to the wicked.
1 Thessalonians 5:4 “But you brethren are not in darkness that this Day should overtake you as a thief...Let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober.”
Matthew 24:36-37 “As in the days of Noah, so also will it be at the coming of the Son of Man...They (the wicked) will be eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage...and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away.”
Matthew 24:48”But if the evil (wicked) servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming...the master will come on a day when he is not looking.”
If no one knows the time, the following verse is a real problem. How can you look for something that’s unknowable?
Titus 2:13 “Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior.”
The thief in the night is wicked and does not know. The believer is not in darkness and does know. It is the wicked servant who says no one knows!
The awakened believer is commanded to “know” “watch” “pray” and “look” for the appearing.
Matthew 24:33 “You also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, at the very doors.”
The word “know” above is in the imperative tense, meaning it is a command, similar to a military command.
The problem with the doctrine of imminence is that it is always extended to mean, “no one knows the time.” (So don’t bother trying.)
Yes, Acts 1:7 says, “It is not given to you (the disciples) to know times or seasons...” But this is talking to those particular disciples at that time in Jesus day and not to end-time believers generally.
1 John 2:18 “Little children it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even, many Antichrists have come, by which we know it is the last hour.”
So, when will the departing take place? Regular readers know my view all too well. It will occur on a Feast of Trumpets, when all the other required signs are in place. But more exciting material on that, not shared before, in coming editions.
Today God’s shofar is sounding an alarm, and ringing bells of urgency. God’s menorah is shining its light on the cross of salvation and its resurrection power. Can you hear the sound, can you see the light? Can you feel and sense the power?
Births X 3:
Pregnancy always leads to birth-pangs. That’s where we are now.
■The church is pregnant with a glorious resurrection body. ■The world is pregnant with the coming antichrist. ■Israel is pregnant with the Millennium.
The resurrection body is coming before the tribulation, the Antichrist is coming in the tribulation, the true Christ is coming at the end of the tribulation and the Millennium is coming after the tribulation.
Be thankful and full of praise that you have not been left out in the spiritual cold.
Covid-19 is a birth!
Covid-19 has birthed worldwide mass fear and confusion. Is it of God or of the devil? Confusion is not of God, but is of the devil. But God uses these events caused by the devil for His purposes.
This shaking is leading to repentance for many people. God uses the tests to see who are really His, and who His disciples are.
Bear in mind that this virus is a “birth” of worse things to come in the tribulation period.
►The shaking has started now, before the tribulation. The shaking is for the shakeable. The kingdom of God is unshakable.
The tragedy of the biblical Jews was that they “did not know the time of their visitation.” (Luke 19:44)Today, much of the church and the world do not know what’s going on. They do not know their time of visitation and required repentance.
Did President Trump “divide the land” and cause the virus? (Joel 3:2)
I believe some teachers, the left-over deceived, Revelation 12-sign teachers, and others are teaching and claiming repeatedly that the coronavirus in the US is a result of President Trump dividing the land of Israel, through the “Deal of the Century.”
That is absolutely NOT the case at all! Do not believe it. Dismiss it as short-sighted rubbish.
Daniel 11:39 “He (Antichrist) shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god (Satan) which he shall acknowledge and advance its glory; and shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain.”
Joel 3:2 “I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of My people, My heritage Israel...They have also divided up My land.”
The condemned dividing of the land comes in the tribulation period. Both of these verses above clearly occur in the tribulation period.
If President Trump is responsible for dividing the land and the coronavirus is the result, then why did God not do the same when the land was divided many times before?
If the coronavirus is a result of President Trump dividing the land of Israel, why would God bring this virus on the whole world?
There is another side to dividing the land which most are not aware of because of their blinkers. It’s all about numbers. An undivided Israel would bring all the Palestinian territories refugees and exiles into one united land.
There are an estimated 14 million Palestinians who would instantly become part of Israel. That would make Israel an Islamic state overnight. Do you think God will allow that? You have to be mad in the head! Besides, that is not what the prophetic word reveals at all!
The best way to deal with this is to have separate, divided political entities with their own internal independence, as there is today. There is no other workable solution.
It was the children of Israel themselves who caused the land of Israel to be divided. In disobedience to God, they failed to drive out all the occupying people (Arabs). So now the best solution to prevent Israel from becoming fully Islamic is to create Palestinian territories of autonomy.
Here it is, and note the last sentence:
Numbers 33:50-55 Instructions for the conquest of Canaan: “Moses, speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images and demolish all their high places...but if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those who you let remain, shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.”
So, the situation is a bit more complex than people think.
God is legally bound to operate within His own legal framework. You cannot be accused of, or held responsible for something you didn’t do. President Trump’s “Deal of the Century” is null and void, not being implemented. Except for a few issues that are very pro-Israel in the first place.
If anything, President Trump holds a “key of David” in his hands, and not the cause of the coronavirus! (See edition 509 “Beware the key of David.”)
What comes next?
In the midst of plagues, Passover (not Easter) led to the Exodus of the children of Israel, as Pharaoh “let them go.” That led to war as the Egyptian army then changed their mind and pursued them. That led to the supernatural defeat of the Egyptians in the Red Sea. That led Israel to the Promised Land.
Moses commanded Pharaoh to “Let my people go.” He finally did, which is a type of Israel becoming a nation in 1948, even sanctioned by the League of Nations which became the UN. This fulfilled Isaiah 66:8.
Yes, Pharaoh changed his mind and pursued the Jews, right into God’s trap – the Red Sea. This is a type of the UN changing its mind after Israel’s independence in 1948 and becoming a staunch enemy of Israel, pursuing her on every front.
If the UN could only see that their feet are already wet in the modern Red Sea of blood that will befall them in the tribulation period!
So what is next? It is war as Israel enters the God-parted Red Sea, prepared for her as she approaches the God ordained Promised Land of salvation.
At the same time, modern unsaved man is already teetering like the tower, about to fail and fall.
There is a reason why God said the city of Babylon (the world-system), and the tower, will never rise again! The reason is because it was man’s sin-filled attempt to create peace and reach God. That is a type of today’s world trying to reach God with sin intact.
Jeremiah 50:39 “...It (Babylon) shall be inhabited no more forever...”
Jeremiah 51:26 “They shall not take from you (Babylon) one stone for a foundation, but you shall be desolate forever, says the Lord.”
End-time Babylon is the world-system and not the original, cursed and doomed city in Iraq, which will never rise again according to these prophetic verses above.
But end-time Babylon the Great, which is the world, will rise to meet its destruction even as it is trying to do so now.
Isaiah 13:11,20 “I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity...It (Babylon) will never be inhabited, nor will it be settle in from generation to generation, nor will the Arab pitch tents there, nor the shepherds bring their sheep there.”
The tower is about to fall again, it is doomed; it, like a thief in the night, does not know the hour of its visitation. Get out of the way! Pastor Gary Boyd - https://garyboyd2244.blogspot.com
Apr 20, 2020 17:37:33 #
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