by
pastor Mike Taylor
"For
this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive
and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which
are asleep.
16 For the
Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first:
17 Then
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord." 1st Thessalonians 4:15-17)
I
will start with the witness of our Lord and Savior's apostle to the
Gentiles and taught personally by revelation of Jesus
Christ glorified.
I had been reading in 1st and
2nd Thessalonians
this last weekend, and was in total awe with Paul's testimony towards
this Church that he founded in the name of Jesus. There is much
controversy about what Paul was speaking of and it's timing. I will
in this sermon address those controversies of factions of the
religious community that read, what I feel, is not what Jesus, or
Paul, John or Daniel was speaking of when it comes to these last days
and the appearing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I get every
now and then nay sayers to the concept of the church being removed
out of the way and relying on works of the Torah, or relying on
sacred names, which are works that cannot save us. Or they miss the
plain word that this world will be receiving God's Divine Wrath upon
a sinful world that is in full rebellion to His Holy Ways . The
only substitution for redemption of the breaking of God's
Commandments, is in the blood sacrifice
of His Only Son, Jesus Christ, which they reject.
Let
us first go to 1st Thessalonians
and read what Paul instructed this early church on what was coming,
and was not only for their ears, but was written down for our
admonition in these last days.
As
is typical for Paul in his letters, he greets them in love in his
opening lines to each of the brethren written to. But in reading on
down we come to the first hint that Paul was speaking of a coming
event that is yet to transpire. In verse 9, he begins his first
nugget of a truth that I have always embraced:
9 "
For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto
you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true
God;
10 And
to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even
Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
(1st Thessalonians
1:9-10)
Paul
is writing to the church members and Revelation had not even been
written yet by John as they are about 30 years apart. Paul speaks of
wrath? What wrath from Who? Wrath from Almighty God is his reference
point.
You can find many examples of God's wrath to come, even
starting in the Old Testament concerning what is coming:
4
"The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for
ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The
Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his
wrath.
6 He
shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead
bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries." (Psalms
110:4-6)
Paul
speaks of it in Hebrews (I believe Paul is the unmentioned author)
concerning the wrath of God,
26
"Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised,
saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also
heaven.
27 And
this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things
that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which
cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore
we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace,
whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear:
29 For
our God is a consuming fire." (Hebrews 12:26-29)
Of
course, we can get a feel of God's wrath when we go to Revelation,
but this book is not the only place that speaks of God's wrath, but
we get the intensity and fierceness of what is coming:
13
"And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree
casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty
wind.
14 And
the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every
mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And
the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the
chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free
man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the
mountains;
16 And
said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the
face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb:" (Revelation 6:13-16)
Understand
one thing my reader, the coming time of tribulation is divine
judgment on a world devoid of love for one another, and committing
untold sinful acts in complete rebellion to God's Law and authority,
and who have whole-hardheartedly rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
as the only payment for their sinful condition. Do we not understand
that God will destroy up to 4/5 of all mankind in horrific
environmental catastrophes and what only be assigned extraordinary
Divine occurrences not known to man in modern times and can only
be attributed to Almighty God? Let us guesstimate the carnage that
will be inflicted on this world, if all of us were still on this
planet and none of us were removed. Right now we are approaching or
have eclipsed the 7 billion mark of humanity on this planet. If we
somehow envision the destruction of 4/5 of all mankind, that would be
5.6 billion people dying a horrible death leaving a little more than
1 billion people left. God warned that He will punish the inhabitants
of the earth.
19
"Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the
dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come,
my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about
thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the
indignation be overpast.
21 For,
behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of
the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her
blood, and shall no more cover her slain.” (Isaiah 26:19-21)
(A
clear passage in v. 19-20 of divine intervention and removal of His
people before He slays mankind on earth. This is but one of numerous
verses that speak of God removing His people out of the way before
His judgment and wrath falls)
Oh, I hear the naysayers
who say that the last trump in the opening verses are the same trump
that the 7th angel blows in Revelation, but fail to understand
that Paul was speaking of a last trump associated with the Feast of
Trumpets. For a detailed summary of my position on this gross error
by some churches today, go to my blog and read “Confusion over
End-time Events”. In it the conflict over these trumpets will be
explained as they are not the same, but are two separate events with
30 years between passages.
Paul steps it up a bit in the
next chapter of 1st Thessalonians :
1
"But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need
that I write unto you.
2 For
yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as
a thief in the night.
3 For
when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh
upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
escape.
4 But
ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you
as a thief.
5 Ye
are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are
not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore
let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be
sober.
7 For
they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are
drunken in the night.
8 But
let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of
faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For
God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our
Lord Jesus Christ," (1st Thessalonians
5:1-9)
How
much more clear can Paul say it? Do you think that the coming of the
Lord when He comes to rule on this planet for 1000 years will be
proceeded in secret? Do you think He will come when they expect it
not? Paul talks of sudden destruction, as woman in child labor will
not escape the pain or the delivery of the baby. What fits this
scenario, a sudden, without warning snatching away of children of
light, to the horror of the children of darkness...OR would it be
more plausible for them to be going about business as usual in the
very run-up to the Glorious Appearing of Jesus Christ in the clouds
of glory with great power (probably proceeded by a great appearance
of fire and light, I hypothesize). With almost 6 billion people being
consumed, dead bodies all around, animals eating the corpses of those
slain, and the carnage of divine retribution in 7 short years, with
the majority in the last half of this time period. Would it be
business as usual? Let us examine the signs of His final appearing,
shall we? Will it be business as usual? I think you know the
answer!
6 "
And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves
to sound.
7 The
first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with
blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees
was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
8 And
the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning
with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became
blood;
9 And
the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life,
died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed."
(Revelation 8:6-9, 12)
Moving
on down,
12
"And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was
smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the
stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone
not for a third part of it, and the night likewise."
Reading
on down the horror that is unleashed by this fourth angel till we get
to the fifth angel:
1"And
the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the
earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And
he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit,
as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were
darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And
there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was
given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And
it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the
earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men
which have not the seal of God in their foreheads." (Revelation
9:1-4)
More
pain and suffering/death when the sixth angel sounds his
trumpet:
13
"And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four
horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying
to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which
are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And
the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a
day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of
men."
(Revelation
9:13-15)
Then to the end of the chapter 9, descriptions of
a most detailed description of what will befall rebellious mankind.
Until, the seventh angel sounds his trumpet to unleash the final
assault upon earth to turn them to repentance, but God knows that
they will not.
Does this sound like Jesus coming back to this
earth as a thief? Will not men know that they are under divine
retribution? Will the world that is present be nearly extinguished of
all life from what it was prior to the beginning of the opening of
the 1st Seal, as found in Revelation 6:1? Will men be going
about business as usual? Men's hearts will be failing them from fear,
over what is coming upon the earth as recorded in Luke :
25 'And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” (Luke 21:25-26)
Sheer
terror will reign supreme. Does this sound like business as usual?
Naysayers, ask yourselves, does this sound like as in the time of day
of Noah (Matthew 24:37), or does it sound like there is another
time period prior to these events that addresses this more
realistically and prophetically? Think on that a bit, as I return to
Paul addressing the Thessalonians in 2nd Thessalonians.
THE
DAY OF THE LORD
Here
the church at Thessalonica was troubled, as false prophets had
entered into their midst and were preaching that the “Day of the
Lord” had already happened. I call them “Ancient Preterist” who
believed that all things had been fulfilled, and we were just waiting
for Jesus to come back, except this church at Thessalonica understood
the Day of the Lord, as judgment and wrath, not a sign of joy.
Paul
admonished them:
4
"So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for
your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations
that ye endure:
5 Which
is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be
counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also
suffer:
6 Seeing
it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them
that trouble you;
7 And
to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who
shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of
the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When
he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all
them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in
that day." (2nd Thessalonians 1:4-10)
Paul
re-teaches them what he had already told them concerning the coming
“Day of the Lord”.
Why were they fearful? They believed
that they had missed the coming of the Lord for His Church and were
found wanting and not fit to be removed from the earth and were
waiting for the judgment from God, which would mean they missed the
greatest event in all of man-kind, next the crucifixion and
resurrection of their Lord and ours, Jesus the Messiah. The removal,
the snatching of the Church was being taught even in 1st century,
but squashed by a “theocracy” that called themselves the “church
of God” on earth, but were for power on earth, so the doctrine was
hidden until modern times, as it was written for us, not them. Paul
explains:
1
"Now
we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
by our gathering together unto him,
2 That
ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor
by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at
hand.
3 Let
no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first (translated as rapture, my
explanation), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"
(2nd Thessalonians
2:1-3)
Paul
explains that this MUST happen first before the Great Day of the
Lord, and His judgment upon earth. John reveals in Revelation that
this man is revealed by a number:
16 And
he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And
that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name
of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here
is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six. "(Revelation 13:16-18)
This
is what Paul spoke of, and what John through the Revelation of Jesus
Christ shared with us. He spoke again of this man. Going back to
Paul, as he continues in chapter 2 of 2nd Thessalonians,
4
"Who
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that
is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember
ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these
things?
6 And
now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his
time.
7 For
the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth
will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And
then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with
the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his
coming:
9 Even
him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders,
10 And
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.
11 And
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie:
12 That
they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure
in unrighteousness." (2nd Thessalonians
2:4-12)
THE
RUNNER UP TO THE ANTI-CHRIST
No
where in history after this time period has a man stood in the temple
and claimed to be a god. Only once in the history of the nation of
Israel had a man stood in the temple and claimed to be a god, and it
was many centuries before this verse was penned by Paul. What he is
telling us, is that prophecy has duality, or will repeat itself in
our time, and remember, these verses were written for us in modern
end times, not just of the church Paul and John wrote them to. Who
was that man who stood in the temple and a fore runner of the modern
Abomination who causeth Desolation, as Jesus spoke of in Matthew
24:15? His name was Antiochus Epiphanies as explained in my last
message, and he made a statue of Zeus, with his face and put it in
the Holy of Holys in the Temple of Jerusalem and proclaimed all must
worship it on pain of death. He also sacrificed pigs on the altars of
God, which were considered unclean. So this man defiled the temple
that led to the Maccabean War and the observance of Hanukkah, or
cleansing of the temple. As Jesus prophesied, and as John and Paul
revealed, it will happen again.
Let's look at verse 7 of
this last passage. We, as watchmen on the wall, have hammered this
home many, many times. Students, who is “only
HE who now letteth will let, until HE be taken out of the way.”? If
you said the Holy Spirit, you receive an A+, as by interpretation in
context, it is the only thing that is holding back Satan the devil,
having full sway on this earth and attempting full destruction of
mankind, along with receiving worship for himself. God will allow
Satan complete ability to destroy mankind and allow men to follow
their unrighteous ways. I like the NIV's
interpretation of this same passage...let's look at
it:
(2nd Thessalonians
2:6-7 NIV), 6 "And now you know what is holding him back, so
that he may be revealed at the proper time
7:
for the secret power of lawlessness is already at work: but
the ONE who
now holds it back will continue to do so till HE is taken out of the
way.” (emphasis
mine).
For me, this is a strong argument that the church has
been removed out of the way, BEFORE the man of perdition, whose name
equals 666, is revealed and stands in the temple of God, claiming to
be God. God the Holy Spirit dwells each individual that belongs to
Him and if the Holy Spirit is being withdrawn, then those He indwells
will be leaving as well. Note that Jesus said that He would never
leave us or forsake us, Hebrews 13:5, Matthew 28:20,hence He
sent His Holy Spirit, as counselor, comforter, and guider of our walk
with our Lord and Savior. If God's Holy Spirit is removed, based on
the clear Word of our Lord, who cannot lie, we will be removed as
well.
Daniel
chapter 9, and the Abomination that Causeth Desolation
26
"And
after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for
himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy
the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a
flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are
determined.
27 And
he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to
cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it
desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be
poured upon the desolate." (Daniel 9:26-27)
I
read where a national organized religion that split apart in the 80s,
called the World Wide Church of God, interpreted that passage not to
be the Anti-Christ, but the Messiah. Still in existence are splinter
organizations who still adhere to this argument, in their attempt to
discredit the concept that there will actually be an Anti-Christ, or
argue against a 7 year tribulation. They are proponents of
post-tribulation second coming and are anticipating, (no relishing)
the idea of being slain in the Tribulation. When I read that
explanation, I was aghast. I went to a website of theirs and pulled
this text:
“The
most abused verse on the subject of the end times is Daniel 9:27, and
it is a linchpin in the Pre-tribulation Rapture theory: 'Then he
shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of
the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.'Unlike the
Protestants, we believe that "he" in this verse refers to
Messiah, not Antichrist, for the main subject of this section is
Messiah. “Richard Ritenbaugh, Prophecy Watch."
True,
the beginning of the passage deals with Jesus Christ, but He did not
cease the sacrifices in the temple. It continue unabated until 70 AD
when the Temple was leveled to the ground by Roman soldiers of
Tiberius. Then they go onto to say that:
"In
Isaiah 28:15, we protestants and "a covenant with death,"
say that the Antichrist makes a peace treaty for one week—seven
years—with the Jews. But this makes no sense! Why would the Beast
"destroy the city [Jerusalem] and the sanctuary" (Daniel
9:26),
and "then . . . confirm a covenant . . . for one week"
In
this analogy, they deny the clear implication of Daniel's 70 week
prophecy that was interrupted when Messiah was cut off in year 483 of
the prophecy. That leaves the last 7 years that must be completed for
Israel to be saved and receive their Messiah. Obviously, they don't
understand the time-line of history, or duality of prophecy. I think
anyone, including this afore mentioned minister, is blinded by their
ideology of a failed organization that proposed that the second
return of Jesus Christ would be in 1972, hence many members of this
“denomination” sold all they had, took no social security, or
started living in caves. I recall the cry of “flee in 73” as
their mantra. Did it happen? No, much like Harold Camping's failed
prophecy, false prophets are all within the camp of the religious and
doomed to their predictions of when or how Jesus will return. Now is
Mr. Ritenbaugh a false prophet? I am not singling him out, but it is
a mindset of many post tribbers that this promise of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ is suspect and that we all are all full of
hogwash is rampant in this denomination and others just to be
fair.
Others in this camp, propose that when Jesus
comes in the clouds of heaven to receive His church, that we will be
changed. Yes, but then they propose that we turn right around or make
a sharp U-turn and come right back down to do battle with the enemies
of God. They site Zechariah chapter 14, when Jesus' feet touch the
Mount of Olives. I asked one minister I know, “are we going up to
just saddle up?” coming with Jesus on horses, dressed in linen,
white and clean as Revelation chapter 19 shows? He had no answer. And
what about the Marriage Supper of the Lamb? He proposed it was poetic
or an allegory....say what? This same minister pooh-poohs the Jewish
wedding feast. Needless to say, we are not in agreement.
Let's
examine scripturally what Daniel was referring to and that a vast
majority of theologians that are scripturally sound embrace. I take
this from an online website to organize the thought process of
examining this passage, which I totally agree with:
Here are
the Sixty nine (7 + 62) "WEEKS" that have already
Happened....
"Know therefore and understand, that from the
going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto
the Messiah the Prince shall be SEVEN WEEKS ,
and THREESCORE and TWO WEEKS: the street shall be built
again, and the wall, even in troublous times."( Daniel
9:25)
"And after threescore and two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the
prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;
and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the
war desolations are determined." ( Daniel 9:26)
(note
the caps of Prince, and prince, my emphasis. Two different “princes”.
Prince of Glory, and prince of this world)
Here is the ONE
"WEEK" that Remains
“ And he shall confirm the
covenant with many for ONE WEEK : and in the MIDST of
the WEEK he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations he shall make
it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined
shall be poured upon the desolate.” (Daniel 9:27)
Since God
said he would deal with the Jews as a NATION for SEVENTY "WEEKS" and
He promised to regather them nationally in the future in preparation
for His Coming, then, God plans to deal with the NATION Israel in the
future for ONE "WEEK" before He returns. To say
that ONE WEEK of Daniel 9:27 has already happened (since God says He
will regather Israel as a NATION) is to say there will be 71 WEEKS.
To say that the week WILL NOT happen in the future is to say
there are less than SEVENTY "WEEKS."
Since we
already know (from the 69 weeks that HAVE happened) that a "WEEK"
is SEVEN YEARS, then, God must have a future dealing with the NATION
Israel for SEVEN years.”
As I have said many times, Israel
is the door to end time prophecy and Jerusalem is the key to that
door. The Seventieth Week of Daniel's prophecy is future and deals
with ISRAEL solely for their unbelief and to finish transgressions.
Israel will embrace, finally, their Messiah and proclaim, “Blessed
is He who comes in the name of the Lord”(Matthew 23:39.)
Our
Father and our Lord and Savior will purify Israel as silver is
refined in the fire.
2 “But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.” (Malachi 3:2-4)
When
Jesus spoke in Matthew 24, concerning the Abomination that Causeth
Desolation, His message was pointed straight at Israel. I envision
that they are only ones who will remain..(.if any Gentiles, they will
be minor in comparison) when Jesus returns for divine judgment and
take possession of His creation by the sword of His mouth, by
speaking only the Words. He will destroy all rebellion, which by my
belief will be mainly unrepentant Gentiles, because the only ones who
will listen to the 144,000 Evangelist from the 12 tribes of Israel,
will be of the nation of Israel proper, or those scattered over the
earth. Yes, some Gentiles will, but the focus is on restoring Israel.
. How many will be blinded to the truth and take the mark of the
Beast is conjecture on my part, but it is prophesied that God will
send them a strong delusion...a lie........
8
"And
then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with
the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his
coming:
9 Even
him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders,
10 And
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.
11 And
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie:
12 That
they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure
in unrighteousness."(2nd Thessalonians
2:8-12)
Look around you, folks. Have you seen a time like this in your whole life. Socialism being pushed on the last stronghold of Christian beliefs. Invasion of illegal immigrants, the economy near totally caving in with inflation running rampant. Note the problems in the Middle East between Israel and Iran. Will we be seeing the Gog-Magog war, or will be even still be here? Lawlessness has grown exponentially in this country with defund the police and riots and mayhem in many democrat run cities....Are we in the run-up to the coming of our Lord Jesus in the rapture? I believe the Anti-Christ will be revealed when the Gog-Magog war destroys 5/6 of this invading army and the AC confirms a covenant for 7 years afterwards....But when he is revealed, the church won't be here as Paul told us in 2nd Thessalonians 2:7-11. We may have an idea of who the man is, and there are many possibilities, but we won't see him in the flesh. The return of our LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ is imminent and could happen before you finish reading this. That is how close, I believe, His appearing will be in the rapture.
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 21:25-28)
Note that if you are still here, then God will send you a strong delusion, A LIE, that you will believe because you want to. Your mind will have no protection, as the Holy Spirit is GONE, VANISHED, right along with His Church. Satan will have full sway, full unimpeded powers to deceive the human mind. Each of those left will embrace the false god of this world, known as the Anti-Christ, no matter what another religion might feed you. So as a watchman on the wall, I have given you witness of four of the major figures in your bible, John, Paul, Daniel, and the Master, Jesus our Messiah. I report, you decide.
ARE YOU READY TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR?
Understand, that I am not preaching to scare you, but to warn you.
There is coming a day when salvation will be mostly for the Jewish
people, as the Church Age has suddenly ended for you, and you have
been caught flat footed. You were not ready, and Jesus has come, as
He said He would. You may or may not believe what just happened, but if you do, it will cost you your head when you won't bow to the AC, as it was in the time of King Nebuchadnezzer and his golden idol spoken of in Daniel chp. 3. Won't you make yourself ready. Wanna know how?
16 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:16-18)
Then while we have little time left, witness to all you know...
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” (Romans 10:8-11)
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me after reading John 3:16 then all of the Gospel of John, just who
this man Jesus was, and IS....the great I AM, that I AM...Jehovah
God. Repent for today is the day of salvation.
This is Pastor
Mike Taylor, praying God's salvation in your life and heart. If you
have need for counseling, prayer of needs, or just a friendly
listening ear, send me an email to pastormiketaylor@yahoo.com,
or visit me online at www.pastormiketaylor.blogspot.com,
God bless you all,
Till
we meet at Jesus feet.
