Israel: Pray for Peace!

 

With a heavy heart, I add my 2 cents on the incredibly sad and dark and devastating evil taking place in Israel. We pray for all those who are caught in the crossfire.

I open up with the necessity of Christ in these times, the ONLY hope for humanity. I believe that the Jewish people, as a nation have found their way back to the land because of Godly appointment - whether they know it or not. Whether they're secular or religious. Despite that there are more Jews scattered still outside of Israel, God wants them to be maintained as a separate people, and being in their own land has established this by God's miraculous hand. When we cry out for the peace of Jerusalem, we're also crying out, "Maranatha", "Come Lord Jesus!". Jesus said that on that day, Israel will finally recognize Him as Messiah, and their hearts will be deeply pierced in repentance. #Israel #Hamas #Peace #middleeast #war #Zion #Zionism #endtimes #Eschatology #JesusChrist #lastdays #endoftheage #prophesy #stereoapp #Christianpodcast #Christian #Christianity #repentance #evil #genocide #terrorism

The Great Tribulation is NOW!

 

Are we in the "Great Tribulation"?

Many believe in an allotted time which is described as "the great tribulation" towards the time right before Christ returns.   Again, the distinction between tribulation and "the great tribulation". 

 

I try not to debate eschatology too dogmatically because I believe that the theology and the prophetic writings found in end times prophesy needs to be approached differently than the rest of theology.

There indeed is certain theology which will be affected by ones eschatology and vise/versa but among brothers, this needs to be a respected in-house debate, and the only way to do that is through respect and spiritual maturity.  

However, many Christians believe that unless you can say that "Christ can come at any time", you would be drawing a bit too close to arguing against immanency...

To say that The Lord's return is not immanent is to step too close to a worst position of "time setting"...   Most Christians don't want to be accused of time setting the coming of Christ.   No way!

And so, we've now stepped into MY position on the matter of whether there is a distinction between tribulation and "the great tribulation".  

 

If The Lord can come at any time... then God's church is either in tribulation NOW or there's no immanency of Christ's return, and we can say,....."Christ can't come yet"...

Get it?

So Christian, where are you on this matter?

What do you think?

Are we in the great tribulation or not?

My Pre-Trib brothers will say we're not because the bowl and seal judgments in the book of Revelation haven't started.  

  

Unfortunately, by believing this, inevitably, they make themselves "time setters" and can't believe in Christ's imminent return.   (That's how I see it)

As an Amillennialist, I believe that those bowl and seal judgments are as SYMBOLIC as much of what's written in Bible end times prophesy, and therefore, those judgements are happening now!

*Consider that the persecution of Christ's Church has NOT stopped since Christ ascended. 

*Consider that the spirit of antichrist as been at work since the days of Christ.

These are the two distinctions The Apostle Paul revealed to the Church of Thessalonians on the question of, "has Christ already returned" which they were dealing with at that time.

Paul was admonishing them to continue in their faith and hold down their patience as they were experiencing persecution. 

Persecution of the Church and the work of antichrist has ebbed and flowed throughout the last 2000 years and as it is written in 2 Thessalonians 2:6 --- 

"And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed" 

 

It would take a lot to unfold how those seal and trumpet signs as well as the bowl judgements are understood symbolically but that's for a later and longer blog.

But the moral of the story is that we should NOT consider that these prophetic happenings are just things for the future ... I believe they're happening NOW.

I believe the hearts of men (the world system); the globalization and the climactic signs in earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires, tornados, hurricanes, etc.  are ....

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

God's chosen people were expecting the coming of their Messiah 

but they completely missed the signs of the times.... 

Let's not make that same error in our time and receive the same rebuke from The Lord!

On the issue of "natural disasters" we've seen in 2023 so far...

Hurricane Idalia rips through Georgia reportedly killing 1 person..

The Maui wildfires killing approximately 100 people...

Illinois tornados causing much damage and reportedly killing 4 in Texas...and many tornados killing approx. 32 people across 8 US states...

Papua New Guinea hit by a 7.0 Magnitude earthquake...

7.8 Earthquake in Turkey and Syria which left thousands dead..

Deluge in California US which reportedly swept away a 5 year old boy in January... 

 "And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. 2But He replied to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 3And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times? 4An evil and adulterous generation eagerly seeks for a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” And He left them and went away."

Matthew 16:1-4

JESUS REIGNS NOW!!

 

Check out the poll where I ask:  "Is Christ reigning now?"

There are spiritual realities that we often take for granted or sometimes don't focus on...gifts and realities that are God's promises to us that if we TRULY believed, we'd have incredible amount of spiritual strength in our walk.

If we consider that we're now IN the tribulation - ever since the 1rst century of the Church, we'd perhaps pay more attention to our brothers and sisters around the world who are and have never stopped being persecuted, and put to death for Christ' name.  This has never stopped since Christ ascended.   

Yet the Gospel of the Kingdom has continued going to all 4 corners of the earth and The Church has indeed "done greater works than these you'll do because I go to my Father". As He said in John 14:12.  This is what He was talking about.  The Gospel.  The bounding of Satan is for the sake of the Gospel "which is the power of God unto salvation".  

The Gospel is the great commission, it is the very last command The Lord handed down to His Church... and so, as soon as Satan is said to be loosed, what does he do in Rev. 20, he goes back to preventing the gospel from going around the world in deception and this against the proclamation of The Gospel.  

There's an allotted time to spread The Gospel, and every single day, while we occupy this earthly existence, we should be loving our neighbors, and doing the work of God.  

Jesus told His disciples, "I have food you know nothing about... my food is to do the will of My Father".    That was right after He was evangelizing His neighbor, the Samaritan woman.  

Let us be convicted to do likewise!

Thanks for listening and join me on the next one, God bless!

The outcry of Sodom & Gomorrah

 

Genesis Chapt. 18 - The promise given to Abraham of the salvation offered to all nations and THEN came the judgement through 🔥 FIRE of Sodom and Gomorrah.

This no doubt is yet another parallel to eschatological prophesy and yet in the midst of this, God expresses His mercy! Can you see it?

Let's take a look at this in my latest podcast.

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The historical evidence of God's judgement

Eschatology Trippin'!

 

What is Eschatology Trippin'?  I'll give you a clue: Eschatology Trippin' will get us 'time setting' and will discourage our work in The Lord in these last days.  We don't want to be Eschatology Trippin'!  We do however, want to push forward with joy in our hearts and remain faithful in our holy endeavors.

Check out the podcast (below).

Persecution watch: Monday 2-21-22

 

Christian - Don't be too comfy but continue praying that when it comes ... and it WILL come, that you would "be found worthy to escape these things" either by pysically not being around or going through it under the power of the Holy Spirit.  After all, it's happening to our brothers and sisters overseas.  We're seeing it grow here in the West, and the Globalist revolutions are currently happening whether or not we can read between the lines.

Look at Australia .... Look at Canada ...   We must pay attention to what's going on.

It's happening.  The frog is in the pot, the fire is lit, the water is getting hotter, and we're the frog!   Can't you see it?

Pray that The Spirit of God give us eyes to see what's going on around us.  Life gets in the way, and it's natural for us to miss seeing the smoke of the fire that's already lit, and growing more and more.

Here, see how Nigeria's brothers and sisters have continued to be butchered for years now, and the Western media isn't covering it as the genocide that it truly is.   WHY?  Because we're involved in our own American genocide of the unborn, and many of these principalities and powers, and rulers of the earth don't want the conscience of God upon them - they're fed up with it, and they want an end to it!   Whether it be in foreign lands or in our land, the believer represents the nagging conviction of the Holy Spirit reminding them of God's coming judgment upon them.

The rulers of our earth are working feverishly to set up a collectivist, globalist society with which they can best control the population, and they won't stop -- until The Lord judges them by the breath of His mouth.   God Himself is leading them against the snares they themselves are setting, and their time of destruction and shame will come by the Word of The Lord.  Praise God!

Click on these links to read about the persecution of the brethren in Nigeria and here in the US and pray-pray-pray! :  

 

More Christians killed in Nigeria 

US nurse forced to perform abortions!

TRUnews365.com

Persecution from the Goats!

 

Persecution from the Goats!

You can clearly see the wolves but the goats 

hang out especially close to the sheep, and they're the ones who'll persecute us first.

In the last days, as apostacy continues to grow, the goats will pretend to be sheep, and they'll hate on you secretly, hating the very Word of God, and aligning with the world against you.

But as The Lord said, "No bad tree will bare good fruit".  It doesn't take long because abiding in the True Vine is what they don't do.

Watch and listen to this special persecution VLOG message on this subject.

https://youtu.be/BbfIOips0cQ