His coming for His church and the Tribulation is near, but not yet, IMO - a few decades away IMO.
The great and final in-gathering for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Luke 14:23, has yet to be been fulfilled.
Posted on 01/13/2017 8:46:25 AM PST by pastorbillrandles
An event is occurring today which portends to be one of the last preliminaries to the shattering events outlined in the book of Revelation, and the end of the world as we now it. The event is the opening of a new Embassy, the Palestinian Embassy in Vatican City. This will be the opening of the first Palestinian Embassy in the European Union.
The main characters in this scenario are Pope Francis and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian State and the Vatican.
Mahmoud Abbas is the recognized President of the Palestinian State. The State has been designated by The U.N. and is to be located in the place which the God of the Bible gave land to Abraham,Isaac and Jacob, notably Judea and the Gaza strip.
Abbas , though celebrated as a World Leader and a champion of the Palestinian cause, is actually a terrorist who planned the 1972 slaughter of the Israeli Olympic Team.He was quoted last year as inciting the infamous “knife Jihad” , by saying, “We welcome every drop of blood shed in Jerusalem…”. Shortly afterward he was warmly received at the 70th general Assembly of the United Nations, where He and the Pope,Francis, raised the Palestinian flag together.
At that same meeting, and shortly after inciting the “knife Jihad”, Abbas was told by the Pope that he could be the key to peace in the middle east and possibly win the “Angel of Peace” award.
The Vatican city in which this Palestinian Embassy is to open, is on the site of one of the seven hills of Rome. It is called Vatican , due to the Latin word for fortune telling,”Vates”. Evidently the Vatican was the hill in Rome on which were located several streets of fortune tellers selling their gifts of prophecy, amulets and charms. (Ironic isn’t it?)
The Palace on the site of the Vatican in which Mahmoud Abbas and the Pope will meet to celebrate the Embassy, was built in the fourteenth century, and financed by the sale of indulgences, a concept so crass, venal and irreverent, it led directly to the Protestant Reformation and the split of Catholic Europe.
The very idea of the pre-sale of sins and iniquities to ignorant Peasants terrified in the first place of going to hell and willing to part with their meter income to receive “a certificate of indulgence” would be abominable to any decent person, yet there is a monument to it on display for all of the world to see, when they tour the stunningly wealthy St Peter’s on the Vatican.
The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, is one of the KINGS of the Earth. He presides over the World’s one billion Roman Catholics, from his residence on Vatican Hill, (Hill of the fortune teller). He claims to be “the vicar of Christ” , therefore he is by definition an Anti-Christ. He has decreed that Atheists and Homosexuals of good will can all go to heaven and recently compared Jesus, Joseph and Mary to Muslim refugees. Obviously this man doesn’t know God or Christ.
The Palestinian State is a “nation not desired” according to the Prophet Zephaniah. In 2015 I wrote that,
In view of Obama’s intent to press for a “Two State” solution at the U.N. , as petulant revenge on Benjamin Natanyahu for winning the recent Israeli elections, in spite of Obama’s fervent(U.S. Tax payer funded) election interference, I decided to re-run an earlier article about the Divine view of the “Two State Solution”. There will never be an established and lasting Palestinian State, it is the “nation not desired”, and is doomed to disappointment and failure.
In fact there are no Palestinian people. The name “Palestine” was imposed on the land of Israel, as a humiliation by the Romans. It refers to the Philistines, a Phoenecian people that were subdued centuries earlier by King David and Solomon.
Those who designate themselves as Palestinians are Arabs. They swarmed into the Holy Land as hired labor in the late 1880s, when Zionist settlers began buying tracts of land, draining swamps, and establishing agriculture.It wasn’t until the 1960s that these people adapted the designation as Palestinians, (remember the terror group, the PLO?), and began pressing for ‘liberation’ and ‘return to their land’.
The “West Bank” of the Jordan River has been designated with Gaza as the new “Palestinian” state, and the pressure will begin to mount to force this on the Jewish people. The real name for the “West bank” is Judea and Samaria, the heart of Biblical Israel.
In the definitive chapter of the Bible about the “End times” according to Jesus, the signs of the times are universal, floods, earthquakes, false prophets, wars and rumors of war, until you come to verses 15-16. “Then let them which be in Judea…”.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.(Matthew 24:15-21)
Something will happen over the conflict for Judea(The West Bank) that will lead the entire world into great tribulation such as the world has never seen before, nor will ever see again”.
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’s anger come upon you. Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger. For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.(Zephaniah 2:1-5)
It seems that everyone on earth wants there to be a “two State ” solution, Russia, The USA, The European Union, The Vatican, the United Nations, all of the so called Kings and Rulers of the earth demand some kind of division of the Holy Land, and erection of a “Palestinian” State.
But He that sits in the Heavens doesn’t desire one, and HE counts more than all of the rest of them. Read Joel Three…
Sheesh, after over 150 years of soothsaying we are finally at the moment.
Everyone? No...not true. Not me. Don't hang this around MY neck.
There is no viable “Palestinian State”. There is no cohesive culture that binds this bunch of tribes together, other than “drive all the Jews into the sea”, which seems to be their one non-negotiable demand. After some 70 years of trying to jump-start a Muslim country in this territory, it may be time to give up on the “two-state” meme, as it shall never happen. There can be only one.
The denizens of both the West Bank and Gaza would be much better served to be relocated elsewhere, just NOT to Western countries.
To the middle of the Sahara or or maybe to Antarctica, both of which I understand are relatively unpopulated.
Wait, doesn't this actually describe the whole modern day "Carbon Credit" scam?
His coming for His church and the Tribulation is near, but not yet, IMO - a few decades away IMO.
The great and final in-gathering for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Luke 14:23, has yet to be been fulfilled.
I think you don't have the foggiest idea of what an "indulgence" is or what it does. Ignorance is a poor habit for a teacher to cultivate.
Thanks for the correction...I learn something new every day!
When a coin in the coffer sings, a soul out of Purgatory springs !
I am grateful that Pastor Randles informed us of this latest action by the Pope. Very telling in the scheme of things. I haven’t seen it anywhere else in the news so far.
The next heartbeat could in fact be anyone’s last. Everyone needs to be ready, in the next second, year, 10 years. Jesus IS returning. . .http://www.thereishopeinJesus.com/
If you know Jesus - whose first words after the Father spoke “Hear Him” was “Rise up and do not fear” (Matt 17:5-7) - you are ready.
“Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32).
“Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God” proceeded to wash his disciples’ feet with water (John 13:3-5).
Likewise, we, being as Jesus is and knowing we, too, are born of God and are going to God, can give the water of the Word to others in these last days.
If you know Jesus . . . . . you are ready.
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Amen! And as followers of Christ we are to share the Good News so others will “be ready!”
Amen and God bless.
Hello Pastor Bill,
I conjecture that when this anti-Christ NWO globalist world system (USA/UN) or whoever divides or causes the undoing of that restoration from 1967 (of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria) that this will be when the end will come.
It will follow after that turning point, this will be a major prophetic event.
I don’t know how soon, it could be months or years but once it happens when Israel agrees for its ‘peace and security’ to sign or confirm a covenant with hell. We’re told in Isaiah Chapter 28 that they are ‘in agreement’ however once it occurs I believe the end of the age will follow that event,
I don’t believe it can be forced or Satan would’ve done it already or perhaps being withheld by the Holy Spirit until after 49 years and a Jubilee from Jerusalem is/was reached, though we need to watch prayerfully and consider if the almost tacit acknowledgement of Israels elected leaders, those like Peres and Rabin, Herzog and Livni have themselves accomplished as much over the years allowing a confluence of events to bring us prophetically to Psalm 2 right now, today.
Once it does happen (at some future point) it will become very bad for this world,
Satan is attempting to keep the Earth for himself, God is bringing the Transgressors (Israel) back to the land and restoring them per so many prophecies and Jubilee promises that it would be difficult to assemble them all, which as these are fulfilled also means that Satan’s time is short and that his kingdom will end over the Earth,
We are watching ‘principalities and powers’ at work, these assembly’s of world leaders and secret schemings and meetings and collusion’s are all the result of intensifying spiritual warfare,
This is how I believe it unfolds, (I’ve shared this all several times before here)
There will be an all out push for all nations to recognize Palestine and divide the land.
God restored Israel in 1948 and then restored Jerusalem (Judea and Samaria) in 1967 and we know that at some point this world and Israel will agree to undo that promised work of restoration for ‘peace and security’
At the time of the end, Jerusalem will become a burdensome stone bringing destruction “upon them all”
We are commanded to watch, to be awake and to be armed with the knowledge of the truth in the spirit. Jesus himself said to pray that we are accounted worthy to escape “all” these things coming upon the Earth to test those that dwell here.
God owns the land and is the owner of the vineyard. He gave authority over it to Adam who very soon after gave that authority to Satan. Jesus came as the second Adam to acknowledge the authority of his Fathers vineyard but the wicked tenets sought to keep it for themselves. They killed the owners son.
They meant it for evil but God meant it for good.
The end comes as the final arbitration and fulfillment of the timing element of the promises of the law, having gone from the Earth and Israel, into transgression, then judgement and diaspora as a flood, to the timing of that judgement reaching its conclusion just as the 70 years were finally up when Israel was sent to Babylon, then 2520 years later to their restoration in our time for both Israel as a ‘people’ and later and again for 2520 years for Jerusalem as ‘thy Holy city’
Satan has legal authority on this physical Earth until the time of the end and (I believe) until three conditions are met and broken:
1 - Israel and Jerusalem are both restored, together providing the two conditions required from Daniel Chapter 9 to count the time (determined upon Israel) 70 weeks or 490 years. 434 years were counted at the cross, (”after 62 weeks” Messiah is cutoff) where the 49 years were accepted by Jesus but rejected by Israel and instead brought the Gospel to the Gentiles, the Gospel is the Jubilee, leaving another 49 years (a future Jubilee) and then the final seven years (2520 days) remaining, for which today we all recognize as the tribulation or the time of ‘Jacobs Trouble’ (434 + 49 + 7 = 490 years) with the last half (3.5 years being what Jesus himself called the “great tribulation”)
2 - a Jubilee is acknowledged in Heaven following the legal conditions being met precisely per Leviticus Chapter 25: “when you come into the land that I shall give you..” then count seven times seven years (49 years) and only God can know when this time is acceptable to him, however this can only be enacted on a future Yom Kippur, on the 10th day of the seventh Month. It will follow in a certain time after, when its clear that it is not being kept, (I suspect it to be at a minimum of 1290 days as when Jesus declared the Jubilee and read from Isaiah 61 then counting the days to the Cross and Resurrection or to a maximum of a generation timeline that will not pass away and ‘see all these things fulfilled’)
3 - The Holy covenant is broken, hindered, encumbered in some manner between this world and a restored Israel via an agreement, that is, Israel is divided, Jerusalem is divided or both, the restoration under the law and the transgressors being brought back under it is being undone, Satan is seeking to change the set times and seasons, to extend his ownership outside the limiting mechanism of the Holy Laws and Ordinances enacted on the Earth, the very ones which provided for the coming of the Messiah and the punitive measures enacted against the transgressors of the Law (Israel of 32 AD) and then finally to prevent or encumber the completion of the second restoration occurring even now today in our time which Satan knows will bring his end if left unchallenged or unbroken,
I conjecture it is the attempted undoing of that authority on the physical Earth, the breaking of the ‘Everlasting Covenant’ (see Isaiah Chapter 24) that brings the time of the end and it comes I believe as whats being adjudicated beginning in Revelation Chapter 4, where the “court will sit” (see also Daniel Chapter 7) and where Jesus takes the scroll, the title deed to the Earth from the right hand of the Father. He assumes legal ownership over the physical Earth (Creation)
Jesus, as our second Adam returning bodily when the fullness of time is reached (a Jubilee) coming again as the only one able to redeem it (and us) from the rightful owner (God) the whole of creation, granted under the Law as a Kinsman of Adam, being a man (see the Book of Ruth) Jesus is our Boaz, the Church is his Bride (Ruth) and Noami is Israel,
Jesus is taking his authority using the very Laws and Ordinances which were implemented upon the physical Earth which allowed him to come in a Holy manner (in the flesh) and then to be be rejected by Israel (flesh), who then purchased the Gentiles into the Kingdom of Heaven (by the Spirit) and then ultimately provides that very mechanism to redeem the physical creation during the restoration of all things, (using a future Jubilee)
This is done to legally reclaim his inheritance which was stolen from him,
“Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.” Isaiah Chapter 5:1-7
Jesus came on a Wednesday, in the middle of a week, to do the will of his Father, to claim his fathers ownership but was rejected, he was the legal heir and the wicked tenets stole it from him,
“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.” Luke 20:13-15
Peter speaks of Jesus: “Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” Acts 3:21 (a Jubilee)
But unlike the first time, when Jesus declared the Jubilee reading from Isaiah 62 and stopped before reading ‘and the day of vengeance of our God’
“For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.” Isaiah 63:4 (a Jubilee is come)
Satan has access to Heaven (accusing the brethren) until he attempts to break the legal restoration, which is tied to the physical land as much as it is to the people (Israel) following the (second) restoration under the very same Law that took them away as with a flood in 70 AD,
Jesus told unbelieving Israel, your house is left desolate because you knew not ‘the time of your visitation’ the evening and morning oblations were him and they were stopped, the first and last, Alpha and Omega,
Israel at the time of the end will make a covenant with death, Satan is a liar and usurper, this is why I believe the tribulation begins after this event,
“And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; . .” Isaiah 28:18
At this time the war in Heaven begins and Satan is thrown out (forever) by Michael, he is accusing the bretheren but there are none any longer operating in that condition to accuse in his dominion (the Earth for the next 1,260 days)
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceive the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” Revelation 12:7-10
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” Psalm 2:1-3
“And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.” Daniel 11:27
“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel 3:1-2
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