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"Today, too many people represent the work that Christ does in us as pitiful, powerless, weak, impotent, and significant.

They claim Christ, but not the work that Christ does in them.

They claim to be a new creation, that just happens to enjoy all the same old habits as before.

They claim that Jesus is Lord...but...

Jesus said in Luke 6:46 “And why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”

The Holy Spirit reminds the believer that Jesus is Lord and to be worshiped and adored.

The Holy Spirit brings to our attention that we are Ambassadors of Christ and as Ambassadors we have a responsibility to accurately represent Him to a lost and dying world.

 

The Holy Spirit convicts of us sin and reveals what should be put “on top” in the mind and convicts us of what needs to be pushed down and out.

The Holy Spirit steers us to conform to the image of God and to put off the old ways.

The Holy Spirit leads every child of God to take responsibility as a creation of God for His or her own actions. 

There are many counterfeit Christians and they are not interested in what God says.

 God declares He will have:

• A people in love with His Son.
• A people devoted to the things of God.
• A people informed in the truths of Scripture.
• A people who look for ways to build His Church.
• A people who desire holiness.
• A people hungry for the things of God.
• A people who adore the Lord.
• A people who seek the narrow path.
• A people who choose to be like Christ.
• A people who trust God.
• A people who love one another.
• A people tempered in righteousness.
• A people of faithfulness.
• A people who follow Christ.
• A people that desire to be with His people.
• A people who enjoy worship and praise.
• A people that give to the poor.
• A people that answer the call.

Why would anyone want to go to heaven that doesn’t enjoy the things of God on this side?

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"God is not moved by all the skeptics that think that the Bible is just a history book and a not very accurate one at that.

God is not worried that scientist will discover that we were once monkeys and that the earth did begin by two stars colliding 5 billion years ago, give or take a few billion years.

God is not unsettled that politicians would refer to God as, an “opiate to the masses.”

God is not moved by the poets referring to Him as the "one that isn’t."

God is not moved by the philosopher’s final analysis that, “God is dead.”  We have come to learn that Nostradamus is dead, not God.

God is not worried when satan and all his demons make up some new potion for people to try - or when satan repackages imitations of God’s Word and sells them as philosophy.

But, God is moved when those who call themselves Christians ignore His plan for their lives.

God is moved when those who claim to be saved treat His temple like a drug den.

God is moved when His people write more bad checks than the world.

God is moved when His children spend more of their money on entertainment than they do in helping the church reach the lost.

God is moved when His own people deny Him His rightful place in their lives.

God is moved when His people cheat and lie and steal."

 

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"Just because there are many ‘ways’ offered by various religious groups doesn’t mean that those ways are credible. 

God is not in competition with anyone.

God is not concerned that you or someone you know or some guru from Nepal is going to come up with a better plan or a better way than His plan.

There is no book that God needs to be concerned about - One that might reveal something that God forgot to tell us in the scriptures.

God is not at all moved with the thousands of varieties of religious beliefs and religions that add to or take away from God’s inspired Word.

God is not at all surprised when Islam or Hinduism or Taoism attempts to stake a claim as a viable authority into the heart of God.

God is not concerned that the whole world seeks after something or someone other than His Son to fulfill their inner desire to know their creator.

God is not a bit distraught that spiritist, crystal ball readers, palm readers and card readers make money off of the vulnerable and ignorant public at large."

  

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"The last major event of the last days is:

The creation of the Gentile world domination/power
also referred to as the European Union.  
Timeline: 5993 or 2021 or prior

(Daniel 7:19-26), also referred to as the culmination of Eastern and Western empires Daniel 2:41 and by theologians as the European Union and the “one world government” in Ezekiel 38:2.

I don’t know how close you are following world events, but this idea of the European Union has already happened.

 

There’s one more major event that God prophesied that would have to take place prior to the creation of the Gentile world domination/power or the rapture of the Church.

The reinstatement/restoration of Israel.
Timeline: 5920 or 1948 A.D.

The reinstatement/restoration of Israel was predicted in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel and especially in Ezekiel Chapter 37 and 38.

That was 55 years ago.

Here’s where we are in time.

Now going forward

The next major prophesied event to take place

The creation of the European Union prior 5993 or 2021 A.D. or prior.

Then The rapture 5993 0r 2021 A.D. or prior

Using the seven year spread the end of six thousand years of man could be as early as 2014 and as late as 2028. 

Note: I'm not saying that that is the time of the rapture.  What I am saying is that it is the end of the six thousandth year of mankind.  It is the towards end of the (end times) as prophesied in the scriptures.

Then comes the great tribulation

Then the battle of Armageddon
Then the second coming of Christ
Then the binding of satan for 1,000 years
Then the 1,000 year millennial reign of Christ
Then satan is released for a short time
Then satan is cast into hell
Then the great white throne judgement
Then the new heaven and the new earth.

Hallelujah.'

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"Prior to the rapture of the Church is:

The last days.
Timeline: Jesus mentioned that the last days had already begun during His ministry, A.D. 30 and continues to this day.

Whether you agree with the A.D. timeline that I have prepared, for the events that God says will take place, or not, the timeline of the scriptures says that we are in the year 5993.

The last days of the Church age is that portion of scripture that we live in today.

2 Timothy 3:1-7

1.  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3.  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4.  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5.  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.  (Need I say more)
6.  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7.  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

I can’t help but say, Amen.

2 Peter 3:3

3.  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Matthew 24:4-12, especially Verse 6,7,8,9,10

 6.  And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:
 7.  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
 8.  All these are the beginning of sorrows.
 9.  Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
 10.  And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

We are at the end of the last days.

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"Prior to the great tribulation is:

The rapture of the Church.

Timeline: 5993 or 2021 or prior

The rapture of the church and the beginning of the great tribulation are synonymous.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

13.  But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

 14.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

 15.  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.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52

51.  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52.  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Revelation 4:1

1.  After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

Hereafter what?  The completion of the Church on earth.

The first 3 chapters of Revelation are devoted to detailing the seven types of Churches during the Church age and the seven timelines of the Church during the Church age, the seventh Church being the Church of Laodicea.

The Church is not mentioned again in scripture with the exception of the last chapter of Revelation, when Jesus reiterates one last plea and says, “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

Revelation 22:16

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"Prior to the second coming of Christ is:

The beginning of the great tribulation which occurs in the first 3 ½ years after the rapture of the church.
Timeline: 5993 or 2021 or prior

Revelation 11:1-2
1.  And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2.  But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

Also Daniel 2, 7, 9

Psalm 2:1-5
Revelation 16:1-15

1.  And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

Matthew 24:15-21, especially V15 & 21

15.  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:)

21.  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

The great tribulation is not for the Church. 

During the time of the great tribulation, the world is governed by gentile world domination, the first 3 ½ years is devoted to organizing world powers to come into union against Israel and the second 3 ½ years is devoted to exacting war against Israel.

Christians have protected and will protect the nation of Israel until the rapture, at which time born-again believers will be taken out of the earth.  After the rapture of the Church the nation of Israel will stand alone to defend itself against the entire world.

And we see in V 22 of Matthew 24, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved:...”

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"Prior to the battle of Armageddon is:

The second coming of Christ.
Timeline: 5996.5 or 2024.5 or earlier.

Revelation 19:11-16

11.  And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12.  His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13.  And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14.  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15.  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16.  And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Sometimes people get the second coming of Christ and the rapture of the Church mixed up, but they are two distinct events at two distinct times. 

The rapture, or the ‘catching up’ of the Church takes place seven years prior to the second coming of Christ. 

The rapture is the catching up of the dead in Christ and those who are living at the time, literally, “the Church”, into heaven - and the second coming of Christ is the setting up a heavenly government on earth at Mount Zion to reign and rule with His saints for the next one thousand years."

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"Prior to the devil being cast into hell is:

• The release of satan from his 1,000 years in the bottomless pit, for a short season.   

Timeline: Before 7,000 or 3028 AD or earlier, prior to his being cast into hell.

Revelation 20:7-9

7.  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

8.  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 

9.  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Prior to the release of satan from his 1,000 years in the bottomless pit, for a short season.

•       1,000 millennial reign of Christ

Timeline: 6,000 or around 2028

Revelation 20:4-6

4.  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5.  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6.  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

In the millennial reign of Christ we come back with Christ to rule and reign from Jerusalem.  The millennial reign of Christ  takes place after the great tribulation and the saints of God come to rule with Christ.  Gentile world domination has been conquered at the battle of Armegeddon.

Prior to the 1,000 millennial reign of Christ is:

• The battle of Armageddon which ends at the end of the    second 3 ½ years of the great tribulation.

Timeline: 5996.5 or 2024.5

Revelation 16:13-16

13.  And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14.  For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15.  Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16.  And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
 

Zechariah 12:1-9

V9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Israel.”

Revelation 19

Zechariah 14:2
Isaiah 10:28-32
Matthew 24:15-28'

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"Instead of guessing, how about if we just deal with the facts.
 

The last event prophesied is:

The introduction of a new heaven and a new earth. 
Timeline: Year 7,000 or around 3028 AD.

Prior to the introduction of a new heaven and a new earth is:

The Great white throne judgement
Timeline: Just prior to the introduction of a new heaven and a new earth, around 7,000 or 3028 AD

Revelation 20:11-14

11.  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12.  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13.  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14.  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

No believers stand before God at the great white throne judgement.  They were judged by their works to determine their eternal destiny, and no one was worthy.  To stand before God without Christ, is to stand before our judge and

the sentence is guilty and the punishment is everlasting punishment.
 

Prior to the great white throne judgement is:

The devil cast into hell
Timeline: Just prior to the great white throne judgement, around 7,000 or 3028 AD

Revelation 20:10

10.  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

God loves you so much, He tells you in advance what He is going to do with satan and when.  It is definitely a major prophetic event in our timeline."

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"According to most prophecy buffs, many leading theologians, as well as the leading chronologists, and myself, believe that this event is in direct correlation to the “REST of God”, (7) Seven being the number of God, which is referred to in Genesis 2:1-4.

1.  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the

host of them.

 2.  And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

 3.  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

 4.  These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

The seventh day of creation is often referred to as the  seven thousand year of recorded time.  2 Peter 3:8 says.

 8.  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Whether you believe that the end of time as you know it and the beginning of the new heaven and the new earth take place on the seventh day, (seven-thousandth year of recorded time) makes no difference in recognition of where you are in time. 

It only makes a difference in those who have questions about where they are in time in relation to prophetic world events in your lifetime.

But before you disregard the importance of recognizing the times, hear what Jesus says to those who didn’t think it mattered when He was here either.

1.  The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

 2.  He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

 3.  And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?"

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"To discover what is next in prophecy, we are going to start from the end of prophesies and work our way back to where we are in time.  

There are many “ENDS” mentioned in the scriptures,

The rapture, (the catching up of the saints) or the  end of the  church age.

Then there is the battle of Armegeddon which ends the great tribulation.

Then there is the end of the millennial Kingdom of Christ.

Then there’s the end of satan.

There’s also the great white throne judgement, which is the end of the unbelieving world.

And the end of the earth and the elements as we know it.

But the last event prophesied is the beginning of a new

dispensation, one that goes beyond our comprehension and therefore very little is told to us about this glorious time of times.  The last event prophesied is:

The introduction of a new heaven and a new earth.

Revelation 21:1-2

1.  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

 2.  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."

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