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I teach Sunday School at my church and am constantly awe struck at the lack of knowledge for the average adult Christian. I'm 64, so I still remember when we prayed in school, used the Bible for History, and left our doors unlocked BTW.If you just had access to Genesis, you should be able to see Jesus as Savior and King. Passover in Exodus was a visual picture of Armageddon and our salvation through the blood of a sacrificial lamb on Passover. Leviticus sets up the "Lord's appointed Feast days" that would be the dress rehearsals for things to come, Moses was shown as a "type" of Jesus throughout the wilderness, and Joshua is a picture of Revelation in the Last Days showing Joshua taking the occupied land from the usurpers. Even to the 2 witnesses showing up at key times throughout Scripture. All of the prophets wrote of the Last days Joel, Amos, Zep, Zech, Hosea, Ezekiel, and of course Daniel, is more of the same.

When people say they don't understand Daniel or Revelation, the Bible is self explanatory, you just have to read ALL of it. You have to understand a "woman" is a church, or religion, Bread, meat, milk, and honey, is the Word of God, Birds, wild beasts, serpents, are all demons. Branches are people, the root or vine is Jesus, a horn is a king, stars are angels, and on and on. All symbols are explained somewhere in the Bible. In Mark 8:22-25, Jesus healed a blind man, but when he first touched him, the man said he saw "men, like trees, walking. Jesus had healed his Spiritual sight first. Then healed his worldly sight. It was more important for him to see things Spiritually than have worldly sight. Men walking like trees is all through the Scripture. Olive trees are Spirit filled men.

Jesus spoke in parables and explained them to His disciples. He did Not explain everything to everyone. I had it explained to me this way,...Jesus wants true believers, believers with the Holy Spirit burning inside them, to hunt for the answers. It's like a child on an Easter Egg hunt. Some eggs are right out in plain view, but others are hidden behind, underneath, and even inside other objects, depending on how bad you want the answer. People tend to stop looking when they are satisfied they know it all, or at least enough, or maybe when it takes a little work.

Much of it is in plain sight, yet we miss it. If we look at Noah and the Flood as a type for Judgement Day, it shows that Noah was warned of the impending destruction and followed through with preparation. But what many miss is Noah was told 7 days before the rain started to get into the Ark.(Gen 7:4) If getting into the Ark is comparable to the Rapture, we will know when it is coming, which many say you CAN'T know. If you know the Feast of Trumpets and know that it has a "last Trump" and you see all through Scripture hints of trumpets blowing before that day, then you find out that the Jews will tell you "the day no one knows" is Rosh Hashanah, just as we know "Turkey day" is Thanksgiving, They know "Trumpets" is 2 days, or One long day, according to them. What else do we know about Noah's Food? We know a Covenant was made to Noah to never flood the world again and gave us the Rainbow. Satan is a counterfeiter and a liar. Look at Luke 17:26-36. Could the projection of the rainbow on the White House be a sign of coming judgement? Why was Lot used in verse 28? Satan has repurposed God's sign to mankind for his purpose. Leviticus 18:22 tells us God will judge the country that accepts sodomy. Do we not know the time of the season?

The OT is not another book, but another covenant. The NT takes off directly on the promises of the OT. The OT prophesies the coming Messiah, and the NT shows the prophesies can be trusted to happen just as described and even more noteworthy, on exactly the same days predicted. As Jesus gave up His Spirit on the cross, the Lamb was having his throat cut in the Temple, even down to the minute. All is to show the Bible as trustworthy, yet we treat it as a book of fables and moral stories. Just look at the level of knowledge a young person has today about Spiritual things. Even adults spout off the wall theories with no scripture or misused scripture to back their theory. Pride has taken over the church thinking they know enough, or can't be known, or don't need to know. It is pride that tells us we can't be taught anymore. Scripture tell us we are destroyed for lack of knowledge. There are people that will be left behind thinking they know enough, but will face the Antichrist and the choice to die for Christ, or chose hell. If we read the letters to the churches in Revelation, we find The church at Philadelphia is promised to be kept from the hour of trial coming to test the whole earth. (Rev 3:10) Probably most of the church will be left behind because they fit one of the other 6 churches spoken about.

When Jesus was asked the most important commandment, He replied to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your brother as yourself. All the other "stuff" is nice to know, but not required for a Philadelphia heart. The term "thief in the night" speaks of Christians that aren't watching, aren't found "so doing" When the Thief comes. If you knew when he was coming, you would have watched. Virgins are not lost people, but some Christians can be foolish virgins. Servants do what they are told, but lack the love Jesus is looking for in His bride. We should examine ourselves and see if we have died to the world completely and only live in Christ. The left behind church is spoken of in Rev 4:5, crying out from under the altar. Notice robes were given to them then, but others had their garments when they came. Read Matt 22:1-13.

We do what we do because of love. Either we love Christ, or we love the world. We cannot have 2 masters. Just as Noah and Lot were rescued, He will rescue His bride before destroying the earth. Is earth your home or Heaven? Don't be an "earth dweller". ( look for that phrase and pay attention when you find it)

Those with ears to hear, let them hear.