Posted on 07/16/2019 6:18:59 AM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
When the Rapture of the Church finally takes place - in which Almighty God the Son calls out His body (saints and ambassadors) - it (The Rapture) will be a wondrous sign unto the apostate western world more so than a sign unto the whole world. For all had better be prepared, for Almighty God's "Day of Wrath" is now at hand (2 Thess. 2:3-12)!
The official commencement of this horrific seven year period will be the breaking of the 1st seal (i.e., the "Confirming of the Covenant" - Dan. 9:27) by Almighty God’s Lamb (i.e., The Lord Jesus Christ) in Heaven (Rev. 6:1). It is at this precise moment that the man of lawlessness (i.e., the anti-Christ) will be revealed unto the entire world (Dan. 9:27, 2 Thess. 2: 3-12). This revealing of the Anti-Christ and the commencement of this seven year tribulation period will begin when this man (i.e., the Prince which is to come) adds his human position of great power and authority to a covenant against Israel with an abundance of peoples and nations (Ezek. 38:8,11-12, Dan. 9: 27). Israel at this time of the confirming of this covenant will receive the supernatural protection of Almighty God’s Two Witnesses (Moses and Elijah) who will also begin their ministry at this time for 1260 days and possess Almighty God's Divine authority. These Two Witnesses of Almighty God will be extremely more powerful than the anti - Christ and his global confederacy against Israel and will be used throughout the first half of this tribulation period by Almighty God to make His RIGHTEOUS ETERNAL Person known to a full-blown godless world and unbelieving Israel (Rev. 11:3-6). Israel at the Divine hands of these Two Witnesses will then have rest and dwell in their land in safety from their global enemies and global tribulation for a season because of the Two Witnesses ministry unto them (Ezek. 38:8,11-12, Rev. 11:3-7). This position of safety at the hand of Almighty God via His Two Witnesses does not mean that Israel's heart will be right with Almighty God, for it will not be (Ezek, 39:26, Rev. 11:8). Though they dwell in safety and unwalled villages they will be at war with these Two Witnesses and their Divine assignment and message that; Jesus is the Messiah and to repent for the Kingdom of Heaven now is at hand (Deut. 4:30, Jer. 30:4-7, Ezek. 39:26, Dan. 9:27, 12:1, Rom. 1:18-32, Rev. 11:2, 8)!
These Two Lamp Stands of Almighty God (Moses and Elijah) will preach salvation in Jesus Messiah, reinstitute the temple, its sacrifices and its priesthood. They will preach repentance and testify to ALL that the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand (Dan. 9:27, Matt. 24:15, 2 Thess. 2:4, Rev. 11:3-6). These two will then prepare the remnant of believing Jews and a chosen 144,000 Jewish men - from the 12 tribes of Israel - (Matt. 24:14, Rev. 7:4-8, 11:13) for their global ministry unto ALL of the nations of the earth and their Messiah’s glorious and imminent return and Kingdom (Matt. 24:14, Mark 13:10, Rev. 7). It will be at this time - the first 3 1/2 years of the tribulation period - that the WORLD will seek every and any opportunity to root out and destroy these two Divinely appointed vessels of Almighty God... all to no avail (Mal. 4:4-6, Rev. 7,14:1-4,11:3-8). While Israel dwells in safety under the Divine ministry of Moses and Elijah, the world will be experiencing the EXPONENTIAL Seal and Trumpet Judgments of Almighty God (Rev. 6-9).
While Israel dwells in safety under the Divine ministry of Moses and Elijah, the world will be experiencing the EXPONENTIAL Seal and Trumpet Judgments of Almighty God.
It will be also at this time - at the beginning of this seven-year period, while Israel dwells in their land in absolute safety (Ezek. 38:8,11,12,14) - that the WHOLE GENTILE WORLD will begin to be trodden down by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rev. 6:1-8). It will be after their catastrophic ride throughout the entire globe that the world will lose ¼ of its total population (1.75 billion) to war, famine and pestilence. This ride will cause global markets to be wiped out and the global economy to implode and will affect every individual throughout the world. Billions will feel the effects of death and war and mankind will become extremely hard-hearted and cold (Matt. 24:12). Confusion will EXPONENTIALLY abound as man's technological advances and communication is wiped out and as technological dependency detox sets in. Deception will now EXPONENTIALLY abound and be received as men seek to preserve their temporal lives at all costs and as the pressures to survive increase the works of the flesh will be revealed globally as never seen before (Matt. 15:16-20, Matt. 24:1-8, Gal. 5:19-21, 2 Tim. 3:1-5), for lawlessness, violence, rage, immorality etc.. will EXPONENTIALLY abound!
It will be after their catastrophic ride throughout the entire world that the world will lose ¼ of its total population (1.75 billion) to war, famine and pestilence and will cause global markets to be wiped out and implode.
It will be following the Four Horsemen’s HORRIFIC ride of doom and the opening of the fifth seal, that the sixth seal is now opened in which a GREAT GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE and signs in the heavens will gain the world’s full attention! As the heavens depart as a scroll and EVERY mountain and island are moved out of their places it will send absolute terror into the hearts of every human being alive (Jew and Gentile) on planet earth (Rev. 6:12-17). For it is now - at this time - that the inhabitants of the world will FULLY comprehend that indeed they are now in the “Day of the Lord” and the“Day of Almighty God's Wrath" which has been spoken of since the days of Enoch! (Jude 1:14, Rev. 6:15-17). This is just 1/3 of the "Rise of the Anti Christ" article.
This is interesting, but; there are many scholars who interpret the same referenced scriptures so differently as to make it impossible to know what is really meant.
I have never read that the two prophets that lie dead in the streets will be Elijah and Moses, that is an interesting idea. It would certainly be possible since there are many scholars who believe that those two prophets did not taste death but were received in to Heaven in mortality, that means they could easily return again as mortals. It isn’t like they haven’t both already done it at least once, as in the Garden of Gethsemane to strengthen Christ as he bore the weight of all our sins.
I personally am of the opinion that many, perhaps most will not understand the signs of the times, they will have no belief that The Savior is about to come back and take over the governments of the world.
I am not committed to a particular belief about the rapture. So many of the Rapture descriptions I have heard have been most interesting, like the movie “Taken”.
I do believe The Lord will come to gather His followers but whether we will be actually taken from the earth by suddenly vanishing and reappearing in the clouds I’m a little skeptical of.
When The Lord warned the Saints in Jerusalem to flee He told them not to go pick up any needed thing but to just leave immediately. I think that might be more how it will be. The Lord will get a message to us to meet and we must leave immediately, if we think we need to go back and get “stuff” then we aren’t what He wants.
My father once said that opinions are like rear ends, everybody has one and most of them stink, well this is simply an opinion and perhaps it stinks to many but it doesn’t always create a problem to be uncertain if you are still looking.
When the higher consciousness of the Holy Spirit moves into a person who is not ready for it, their body starts shaking. This is the basis for the denominations “Quakers “ and “Shakers.”
When the presence of God and His Holy Spirit increases on earth, the earth also starts quaking & shaking.”
Another attribute of the Holy Spirit is that when it encounters low frequency consciousness like fear, hatred, and anger, it transmutes it due to the high frequency of the Holy Spirit. This process of transmutation creates heat similar to what happens when a dense object is placed in the high frequency of a microwave. God’s Love cannot exist in the same space as fear or anger.
Thus we are having global warming due to the increased presence of the Holy Spirit on earth. This is how the weeds in Matthew 13 will be burned.
The antichrist is the ruler of the “weeds” that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 13 that are trying to hide here on earth. They are afraid of the Holy Spirit and fear that it will burn them.
Knowing that Heaven is arriving on earth in the near future, the weeds are creating chaos in order to try and hide amongst the “Good Seeds” God placed here to grow.
It won’t work. God is in control and even uses evil as a tool in His Divine Plan.
The first period of turmoil is caused by the antichrist and the weeds trying to take over.
The second period of turmoil is due to the transition of the increase presence of the Holy Spirit burning off the weeds and shaking the earth.
Moses did die and was buried by the Lord himself in a place no one knew of. See Deuteronomy 34.
Enoch never died and neither did Elijah. So to correct the common narrative concerning the two witnesses...it would have to be Enoch and Elijah. Enoch to me makes more sense in a strange lyrical way as he had existed before the flood, then “was not for the Lord took him!”
“(Moses and Elijah) will preach salvation in Jesus Messiah, reinstitute the temple, its sacrifices and its priesthood”
Why would they preach salvation and then reinstitute the old system that Christ fulfilled for all time?
Means in other words it the Holy Spirits burns sins away in other words.
The Holy Spirit causes shaking because of it being a mighty wind.
It will be to point the Jews and the world at this time. (Rev. 6-19) to what Jesus did for us on the Cross (John 1:29, 19:30, Rom. 10:2-4, Heb. 7-10, . There will be a jewish temple rebuilt coming up and sacrifices offered on the altar. Dan. 9:27, Dan. 12, 2 Thess. 2:3-12, Rev. 11, Matt. 24:15.
The greatest time of evangelization and people coming to the Lord Jesus for ETERNAL salvation will be at this time! Rev. 7, 14,
The Kingdom age will include sacrifices to teach the world about Messiah and our need for His righteousness *Ez. 40-48 etc
That is why the greatest sin is to reject the Holy Spirit.
“There will be a jewish temple rebuilt coming up and sacrifices offered on the altar.”
Oh there are certainly verses that point to a temple being rebuilt, but I don’t think you can cite a single one saying the two witnesses of Revelation are going to do that or tell people to do it. That’s pure speculation, isn’t it?
“The Kingdom age will include sacrifices to teach the world about Messiah and our need for His righteousness”
Yes, there is a temple described in that time, but it certainly isn’t going to be the temple that exists during the events of Revelation, since the dimensions alone make that impossible. Also, God dwells in that temple that Ezekiel described, while Christ does not return to earth until the end of the tribulation.
Many years ago I was severely burned. The skin on the entire length of my left arm was burnt away by hot oil that was on fire. I raised it to take a close look at the underside of my arm. My only words were “Oh Sheet, I’m going to need to go to the hospital.”
Suddenly an energy moved down into my finger tips and continued the entire length of my arm to my pit. It felt electrified and I got goosebumps that looked like huge pimples all over my arm.
After about 30 seconds, the goosebumps went away and my arm was totally healed. Not even any redness or tenderness when seconds earlier my skin was gone.
It totally freaked my out and changed this left brained logical guy into a believer. I didn’t pray prior to this event, but prayed with much gratitude ever since. That was about 30 years ago. (About the same time I was hospitalized with a severe illness. I died, went to Heaven and was told I had to come back into this body. I have missed Heaven ever since and no longer want to be here on earth.)
Allow me to say that Jesus and Heaven are real, and beyond words of description. Also, the Bible is very accurate.
“Christ does not return to earth until the end of the tribulation.”
Christ is here now. People just can’t see Him as they are holding on to the physical world. It’s just like changing channels on a TV and presto, He is here.
He will become visible when Heaven comes to earth. (soon)
This is interesting, but; there are many scholars who interpret the same referenced scriptures so differently as to make it impossible to know what is really meant.
That's a big reason why the end times are going to fall especially hard on the "many scholars who interpret the same referenced scriptures so differently"
The more "interpretations" jamming up the bookshelves, Amazon shopping carts, and youtube, the more sincere people will give up any hope of understanding. The rest fall in lockstep with whatever doctrinal consensus they prefer. People slough off the confusion and brazen contradictions by saying, "good scholars disagree". Riiight, who came up with that one? A: the "good" scholars. That's like saying that "good mathematicians disagree." Sure thing, only at the place of dysfunction junction.
The spirit of antichrist is the spirit of conformity to popular wisdom, whereas the Jesus of the Bible is the anti-establishment model, the rogue heretic who not only refused to get with the program, he showed people a better (simple!) way. And because it was simple and just made plain sense (how refreshing!), people were fleeing the clutches of the system, of all the important religious teachers who were/are expert at moving the goalposts and finding new sins.
He had to go.
It's so bad out there that very few people are willing to question much less ditch the king of all Christian consensus delusions for fear of eternal damnation: the trinity. Belief in the trinity god-man paradigm has long been *the* litmus test for who is a "real" Christian verses who is the subversive, troublemaking heretic out to destroy the faith. The Messiah's image has been so marred and beat to a pulp that he no longer resembles a man. It's the simple meaning brought to you by Isaiah the prophet.
History repeats. Meanwhile the Jesus of the Bible is a great guy. A real down-to-earth man who can actually relate to every man. Look at what he knows: all about fishing, boating, camping, hiking, mountain climbing, farming, gardening, well everything outdoorsy as he has the time... plus with his business acumen and ability to smoke out ingrates, slackers, and opportunists, he's a force to be reckoned with. Some people mistook or mistake his gentleness and mercy for gullibility, even thinking they could soften him up with flatteries. Fail. A man with no ego can't be manipulated by ego-inflating compliments designed to manipulate an ego he doesn't have.
He truly commands the utmost respect from those who are sincerely wanting to be free to live and love and give. He shows the way up and out. "Follow me" as in emulate me, because he does it all, meaning he can't wait to roll up his sleeves to help the sick, the needy, the broken-hearted, and the lonely. The man with the utmost joy of serving for the love of God and man. That's your guy. Like father like son, David's quintessential son.
The usual "Jesus did it all" doctrines have made him into a wheelchair-pushing Jesus, so no one has to get up.
Be of good cheer! Your sins are forgive, so you can get up now.
That kind of message goes over like a lead ballon to those feeling entitled to perpetual disability payments. Then they resort to faking all kinds of conditions, ailments etc like hopeless sinnerhood. The catchy mantra to keep the masses crippled and enslaved is, "Works don't save!" Whoever has been forgiven much, loves much. It's not any work at all if it is love. If they are whining about work, then they don't love God, his fellow man, or the mission.
In case anyone thought I was wandering way off topic:
The promise of the "Rapture"... brought to you by the same folks who are gunning for the exits. In the real world, people recognize the character type. They are those who expect everyone else to pick up the slack.
Not complicated at all.
Hope that helps.
By the way, Rapture is merely being “Raised Up” when the Holy Spirit moves into you. It is the Holy Spirit that raises us up to a level where we can perceive Jesus. Like the lightning in the east is also seen in the west, so will Jesus be seen when you are raised up by the Holy Spirit.
You have an amazing story to tell.
“The spirit of antichrist”
About 25 years ago I was invited to a Christian Businessmen’s Association meeting. There was a charismatic evangelist who spoke to about 80 people in a local restaurant. I arrive late and the rest of the group had finished their meal and moved into an adjoining room.
The only seat left was up front and off to the side, at a location similar to where an acolyte would set during a church service.
I was looking at the side of the evangelist and if I turned to the left, at the faces of all attending.
I had no problem with the evangelists words, but found it odd that he held the Bible in his hand and never opened it. Shortly thereafter he told a woman she was drunk with the spirit. She fell off her chair and couldn’t get up. Pretty soon he had a line of people, made a motion with his hand and they fell over backwards.
Usually, I can physically see the Holy Spirit when it is in or around a person. It looks like a liquid golden light. But no matter how hard I strained, I could not see it around or in the evangelist or the people.
Suddenly I realized, this evangelist was using stage hypnosis techniques. These people were in a hypnotic trance and had surrendered their will horizontally to the evangelist. It was all fake. These people would swear on a Bible they were “Born again.” It has nothing to do with religion.
Seeing this, I became physically sick, walked out of the restaurant and stood in the cold rain. I asked “God, why was I led here to see this atrocity?”
He replied immediately, “This is how the anti messiah will lead the people.”
Surrender to God must be within self, never externally to another person.
God if of course omnipresent, but the Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is currently sitting at the right hand of God in heaven, until the end of this age, when He will visibly descend from the heavens in His glory.
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