30 Days To Live "Live In The Moment"

“Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered, and that my life is fleeing away. My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a moment to you; human existence is but a breath.” Psalms 39:4-5 NLT

As you think through how you are going to spend your last 30 days, one of the first steps is to begin living in the moment.

So what is the one thing you’d do? Can you narrow down what’s most important to you or what you are most passionate about to one phrase? Take some time to ponder that idea and you might surprise yourself. Now, it’s time to take action – don’t wait until your last 30 days to make an impact.

We began last Sunday to hear stories of brave people who are living with life-threatening illnesses. Listen to their stories online and see how your perspective is changed. Then, do something- take action today to live like as though you're facing your last 30 days.

Staci’s Story

Staci McAuley is thirty-nine years old, but more than likely she won’t see her forty-fifth birthday. Her battle with cancer has given her a limited time to live. Even though her days are numbered according to the doctors, she is still living life to the fullest every single moment. Her passion for Christ is contagious. She inspired us to embrace every God-given moment.

The second consideration to make as you think through your last 30 days is living for eternity.
Stop spending your time focusing on things that don’t matter and ignoring the things that do. It is most important for us to spend our time seeking things and investing our time in things that last forever. Don’t waste another moment on things that have no eternal impact… only you can make the change to start living for the right things today!

Here are some ideas to help you begin to live for eternity:

1. Simplify your life so that you spend your time on things that truly matter:
Spouse and family

Key relationships

Things that give you true pleasure

2. Ask yourself whether or not you’re spending your time accordingly:
Make a list

Have someone hold you accountable

Have a family/personal vision

3. Ask yourself whether your actions line up with your words:
Have friends tell you what they see as your priorities

4. Take a bold stand and reach out to those around you that don’t know Christ:

Your co-workers

Your family

Your classmates

Millennium And Beyond...

There will be a 75 day interval between the Second Coming of Christ and the Millennium. Each half of the tribulation is 1,260 days each. As you will see below, the 1,290 is an extra 30 days then the 1,335 is another 45 days equaling a total of 75 days.

Dan. 12:11-12 "From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. 12 Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.”

Dan 12:11 talks about the Temple sacrifices and the “abomination of desolation” so it’s safe to say that the first 30 days would relate to the Temple. This time would be used to cleanse the Temple from the pollution of the Antichrist entering in.

Dan 12:12 we read that we reach the point of 1,335 days. This would indicate an additional 45 days beyond the 30 in the previous verse. The angel said that the people who make it through that time would be “blessed”, a personal blessing.

This person is qualified to enter the 1,000 year Messianic Kingdom.

Matt 25:34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.”

75 day interval for the time of preparation of the millennial kingdom.

Who will populate the Millennium? Very few!!! Why? Check this out:
1. Possibly ½ a billion Christians or more will be raptured before the Tribulation, including children under the age of accountability.
2. After the rapture, over half of the world’s population will be killed during the seal and trumpet judgment (Rev. 6:8: 9:18), which will that place during the first half of the seven-year tribulation.
3. Many more will be killed during the other plagues or judgments, millions of martyred by the Antichrist for refusing to worship him or take the mark of the Beast.
4. The Gentiles who are cast into everlasting punishment (Matt. 25:46) for refusing to receive Christ during the Tribulation.

Only God know who will be left, but I would guess, not many.

Jesus told us who will enter in (Matt. 24:13) the person who endures until the end shall be “saved” which means to be delivered.

Judgment of the Nations

Matt 25:31-46 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

3 different groups will be at the Judgment of the Nations.
1. Unsaved followers of Antichrist are called “goats” (Matt. 25:32-33)
2. Believers who survive are called “sheep” (Matt. 25:32-33)
3. Lastly, are the “brethren” (v.40) whom the sheep befriend. Only Jews and Gentiles who are believed in Christ will enter the Millennium. Ez. 37:11, 15-28 predicts the reuniting of Israel and Judah into one nation during the Millennium.

What happens during the Millennium?
Zech. 14:9 the Lord will be the only “One”!

Other Old Testament Millennial passages: Ps. 2:6-9; Is. 2:2-4; 11:6-9; 65:18-23; Jer. 31:12-14, 31-37; Ez. 34:25-29; 37:1-6, 40-48; Dan. 2:35; 7:13-14; Joel 2:21-27; Amos 9:13-14; Micah 4:1-7; and Zeph. 3:9-20.

New Testament Millennial passages: Matt. 5:1-20; 19:27-30; 26:27-29; Mark 14:25; Luke 22:18; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; and Rev. 20.

The Major Features include:

1. Satan bound during the Millennium period
2. Final restoration of Israel
Regeneration (Jer. 31:31-34)
Re-gathering (Duet. 30:1-10; Is. 11:11-12:6; Matt. 24:31)
Possession of the land (Ez. 20:42-44; 36:28-38)
3. Re-establishment of the Davidic Throne (2 Sam. 7:11-16; 1 Chron. 17:10-14; Jer. 33:17-26)
4. Reign of Jesus Christ (Is. 2:3-4; 11:2-5)
5. Loosen and final rebellion of Satan at the end of the Millennium (Rev. 20:7-10)
6. Great White Throne Judgment and the second resurrection or judgment of the unbelieving dead (Rev. 20:11-15)

Other Things to notice:
1. The Adamic curse will be rolled back, except for death, people will live for 1,000 years.
2. Time of tremendous environmental transformation. (Is. 35:1-2) the desert will blossom and re-produce. Abundant rainfall in deserts, plenty of food for animals. (Is. 30:23-24: 35:7) Predatory instincts of animals will cease. No difference between tame and wild animals. All creatures will live in harmony. (Is. 11:6-7)
3. Physical conditions of people will change for the better. Live longer, no physical infirmities or bad health will be eradicated (Is. 29:18; 33:24) No sickness or deformity, increased life span, people will enjoy prosperity. (Jer. 31:12-14)
4. Spiritual Life daily will be personal and physical presence with Jesus Christ will happen unlike ever before. (Is. 11:9) says that the earth will have full knowledge of the Lord. Worship of Christ will be global and unimpeded. It will be an era of the greatest spiritual awareness, sensitivity, and activity for both Christians and the nation of Israel.

Rev. 20:7-10 “When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

Satan will be loosed for a short time (about a couple of months). This will bring the people born during the Millennium to make a decision to follow Christ or Satan just like everyone else in history.

The Great White Throne Judgment

Rev. 20:11-15 “Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”

This is the second death. Everyone who died physically and did not accept Christ’s free gift of salvation will die a second time which will be a spiritual death. This will be the final judgment of all time. (Acts 17:31, John 5:22)

No one will be able to hide; the dead bodies and souls of everyone who has died and is held in Hades will be united (like the rapture) and be cast alive in the Lake of Fire forever.

Most people don’t realize that unbelievers today are already spiritually dead even while they are alive. (Eph. 2:1) Unbelievers go to torment (Luke 16:18-31)

The Bible doesn’t say anything about God comparing “Good deeds” out weighing “bad deeds”

Titus 3:5 “he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,”

It comes down to whether we accept or reject what Jesus has already done.

Two Books Opened

Rev. 20:12 “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.”

God owns a complete set of books that record every persons deeds waiting to be recalled on judgment day. This book is called, “The Book of Man’s Works or Life”.

The second book is the “Lamb’s Book of Life” mentioned eight different times, Ps. 69:28 calls it the book of the living, Rev. 13:8 calls it the “Lamb’s Book of Life”

Ex. 32:33 God told Moses that anyone who sins will be “blotted” out of His book.

Rev. 3:5 Jesus promises not to “erase” that person who has trusted Him from the Book of Life.
Eternity

Rev. 21-22 this will be incredible

The Earth: there are 3 described destruction's of the earth:
1. By Flood (Gen 6-8)
2. By Fire (2 Peter 3:4-14; Is. 65:17-20)
3. By Rebuilding (Rev. 21:1)

New Heaven and Earth
God will clean up the atmospheric heaven, earth, and the galaxies because the evil ones have polluted everything. (2 Cor. 12:2; Rev. 4-5)

Ephesians 6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

God will remake the heavens and earth:
1. No more seas (2/3 cover the earth right now)
2. God dwells among people (Rev. 21:3)
3. New Jerusalem is on earth not in heaven
4. No more tears (Rev. 21:4)
5. Everything will be made new (Rev. 21:5)

The New Jerusalem

Revelation 21:9-27 “One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." 10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia]in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, by man's measurement, which the angel was using. 18The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.
22I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.”

1. Made from the most beautiful materials on earth
2. Walk on what we precious the most now
3. No more Temple, Jesus will be the Temple (Rev. 21:22)

How much Jesus loves you? He gives an invitation at the end of the Book of Revelation as a final plea to you…

Rev. 22:16-21 "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."
17The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
18I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
20He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon."
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
21The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen.

As a reminder, Jesus opens with an invitation before He show us what is about to happen…

Rev. 3:20-22 “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. 21To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

It is now your choice! What will you choose? He is waiting for your answer:

The Great Tribulation

The Great Tribulation Begins…

Daniel 9:27 “He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

Matthew 24:15-21 "So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation, 'spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. 18Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. 19How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.”

Some of the Jews in Israel will flee to Petra in Jordan where God will protect them. Many others will be under captivity by the Antichrist & False Prophet.

Daniel 7:25 “He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time.”

Revelation 13:5 “The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.”

(Daniel 12:1-7, Revelation 12:6, 13-17)

The Beast has killed the two witnesses and their bodies were laying in the streets for 3 ½ days for all the world to see. People of the world gave each other gifts to mark their dying. Then God raptured them to heaven in full view of the world. Now the mess begins. The Antichrist will sit on the throne and call himself god. Then it all happens…

The Mark of the beast is implemented, the New World Government is in full force; worship of the beast is mandatory or death by beheading. The Jews will be killed in Jerusalem and around the world, again.

Seven bowls of judgment will be poured upon the earth. Catastrophe after catastrophe will follow as described in Revelation 6-18.

1. (Rev. 16:2) Upon the Earth: Sores on the worshippers of the Antichrist.
2. (Rev. 16:3) Upon the Seas: Turned to Blood
3. (Rev. 16:4-7) Upon the Fresh Water: Turned to Blood
4. (Rev. 16:8-9) Upon the Sun: Intense, Scorching Heat
5. (Rev. 16:10-11) Upon the Antichrist’s Kingdom: Darkness and Pain
6. (Rev. 16:12-16) Upon the River Euphrates: Preparation for Armageddon
7. (Rev. 16:17-21) Upon the Air: Earthquakes and Hail

There will be wars for the land of Israel. The Antichrist will defeat many other countries. There will be a revolt from the South (Egypt area) and North (Russia's second invasion).

Daniel tells us that a great army from Africa, including Egypt and others numbering in the millions will attack from the south.

Russia has an earlier set back with the “War of Gog and Magog” several years earlier in Northern Israel (Ez. 38-39). But they will make a second attack from the north.

The Antichrist will be able to crush these two resistances for he will have great power and no other country will be able to defeat him until Christ's Second Coming.

China makes her move from the east (Dan. 11:44). China will come down with a horde of 200 million (Rev. 9:16) but will have to divert some of the army to defend herself.

Satan’s Battle plan comes to the forefront in bring everyone together not just to fight each other but to divert all their attention to the battle against God Himself.

Revelation 16:13-14 “Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.”

The armies of the world will be used as Satan’s pawns for this final hour of victory. The revolt against the world dictator will cause the nations to assemble in the valley of Jezreel (Armageddon)

Revelation 16:16-21 “Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
17The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "It is done!" 18Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. 19The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. 21From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.”

Matthew 24:29-30 "Immediately after the distress of those days" 'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'
30"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory.”

(Matt. 19:28, 23:39; Mark 13:24-37; Luke 12:35-48; 17:22-37; 18:8; 21:25-28)

Jesus shows up to save the “tents of Judah” first (Zech. 12:7) then moves to (Bozrah) Petra to save the Jews in hiding (Isaiah 34:6), then He shows up over the Valley of Armageddon with His armies made up of everyone reptured seven years earlier.

Guess who comes with Jesus to fight? The Church Returns...

Rev. 19:11-21 “I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. 12His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

17And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great."
19Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.”

Satan will be cast alive into the bottomless pit for 1,000 years

Revelation 20:1-3 “And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.”

Then the Old Testament and Tribulation saints will be resurrected and given new bodies like the reptured church.

Matthew 24:31 “And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.”

Revelation 20:4 "I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years."

What a day when everyone will be united. But, there are still humans that have lived through the tribulation period and will continue to live and repopulate the earth.

That starts next weeks message on the "Millennial Reign"...

The Temple Institute in Jerusalem, Israel

Here is the place to go for more information on the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
http://www.templeinstitute.org/main.htm

The Tribulation Begins (The Two Witnesses)

The beginning of the first half of the Tribulation.

The length of the tribulation is prophesied in both the book of Daniel and Revelation. Daniel prophesied of a 70 weeks or 490 years, Daniel said the Tribulation would be “one week” and uses the Hebrew word designating a week of years, or seven years. The first 69 weeks of years, which started with the decree of Artaxerxes to restore the walls of Jerusalem and ended with the rejection of Jesus, was exactly 483 years. And the Tribulation, or the last week of years, will be seven years long.

Daniel 9:24-27 "Seventy 'sevens' [a] are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish [b] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. [c]
25 "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree [d] to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, [e] the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. [f] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' [g] In the middle of the 'seven' [h] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. [i] " [j]

Footnotes:
a. Daniel 9:24 Or 'weeks' ; also in verses 25 and 26
b. Daniel 9:24 Or restrain
c. Daniel 9:24 Or Most Holy Place ; or most holy One
d. Daniel 9:25 Or word
e. Daniel 9:25 Or an anointed one ; also in verse 26
f. Daniel 9:26 Or off and will have no one ; or off, but not for himself
g. Daniel 9:27 Or 'week'
h. Daniel 9:27 Or 'week'
i. Daniel 9:27 Or it
j. Daniel 9:27 Or And one who causes desolation will come upon the pinnacle of the abominable temple , until the end that is decreed is poured out on the desolated city

In Revelation, we find the seven years divided into two periods of 1,260 days, or 42 months, or three-and-one-half years, or “time and times and half a time” (Revelation 11:2-3, 12:6,7,14; 13:5).

Each one of these times spans totals up to seven years. The first half, or first 42 months, is the Tribulation, while the last half is called by our Lord “the great tribulation.”

We see a seven year covenant (treaty) that the Antichrist will make with Israel only to break it in the middle by his action of sitting in the Temple, which is the “Abomination of Desolation," that moment begins the “Great Tribulation” and all hell breaks out on earth by wrath of God.

The Two Witnesses

Revelation 11:1-2 “I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, "Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there. 2But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.”

John is talking about the earthly Temple because he mentions about the outer temple given to the gentiles.

Revelation 11:3-4 “And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." 4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.”

2 olive trees is also found in Zechariah 4:3-14 (olive is Israel, wild olive is gentile)

Revelation 11:5-6 “If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.”

The two witnesses have power like the Old Testament prophets.

Zechariah 4:11-14 “Then I asked the angel, "What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?" 12 Again I asked him, "What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?" 13 He replied, "Do you not know what these are?" "No, my lord," I said. 14 So he said, "These are the two who are anointed to serve the Lord of all the earth."

The two anointed ones, who ever they are, are people from years ago and they are also seen in John’s vision in heaven as two olive trees. (The Bible is written in symbolism)

(Zechariah chapters 3 & 6, wasn’t fulfilled at the time)

2 people have never died.
1. Enoch, Jude 14, first prophet that predicted the second coming of the Lord.
2. Elijah, 2 Kings 2:11, caught up alive in a chariot of fire.

Why would God catch up two men in heaven and somehow preserve their bodies and return them in Revelation 11? Simple, yet complicated.

Malachi 4:5-6 "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."

God will return Elijah. Jews every Passover look for Elijah who will announce the messiah.

John the Baptist came with the anointing of Elijah, but he was not him. Jesus also said that he was not Elijah.

Matthew 24:15 "So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.”

We see that the temple will be rebuilt and this will take place in the first 42 months of the tribulation.

2 Thessalonians 2:4 “He (Antichrist) will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.”

We see the Antichrist will sit in the temple, so the temple still needs to be rebuilt.

Revelation 11:1 shows us in the same chapter the two witnesses, measuring of the temple. I believe that the two witnesses maybe linked to the rebuilding of the temple.

You may say that Muslims would never allow Jews and/or Christians to tear down the Dome of the Rock to rebuild the Temple. What about a prophet coming down from heaven with the same powers of Elijah calling fire down from heaven? Muslims respect prophets and the power of God.

When Elijah calls fire out of the sky I think that the Muslims would pay attention. They also believe that Elijah and Jesus were prophets.

Revelation 11:5-6 “If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.”

Matthew 17:11 “Jesus replied, "To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.”

Jews believe that when Elijah comes, he will be able to tell them from what tribe they are all from. Why is this important? 144, 000 witnesses

Revelation 7:4-8 “Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. 5From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000, 6from the tribe of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000, 7from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000, 8from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.”

How do the Jews know from what tribe they come from? There are no more records that have their genealogies. Where do they get the seal? Who marked them? Who identifies them?

These 144,000 witnesses and the two prophets will turn the city toward God and be the light since the Christians will be ruptured by this time.

The Bible identifies them (two witnesses) as two Olive Trees. Why? (Rev.11:4)

(Romans chapter 11) talks about the olive trees, broken branches “because of unbelief”, then grafted in branches (gentiles, also the “wild olive tree”)

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18Therefore encourage each other with these words.”

Revelation chapter 2 & 3 we read about the church. After chapter 3 we don’t hear or see anything about the church any longer until after chapter 19 with Christ’s second coming. I believe that the church would be mentioned from ch. 4-19 if the church was still here because the scripture are constantly talking about the church, church, church… and then it stops! We have been raptured!

Romans 11:17-23 “If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." 20Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

22Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.”

God takes those branches (Israel) and re-grafts them again. How? By the preaching of the two witnesses.

Why Enoch & Elijah (some believe it is not Enoch but Moses because the mount of transfiguration).

(Romans 11:17) Two Olive Trees
1. Olive Tree = Israel (Elijah)

2. Wild Olive = gentile (grafted into the Jewish root) Enoch. Enoch would be considered a gentile because God didn’t name the Jewish people until later with Abraham. (the 2 came together)

The Temple

Because you need to pray certain prayers on Sabbaths, New Moons and certain prayers on the Feasts, Jewish scholars say it would take 42 months to complete the building of the Temple. (this doesn’t mean they can’t have a temporary one until the permanent one is completed.)

(Revelation 11:3) The Two Witnesses preach for 42 months, 144,000 sealed with God, I believe that they will complete the Temple.

Daniel 9:27 “He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

The Antichrist will stop the daily sacrifice. If they were to start construction in the fall, possibly if the return were to be on one of the Rosh Hashanah holy days, it would last until 42 months later maybe around Passover. Why is this important? The Antichrist will receive a wound and rise from the dead just like Christ did and what would be the mark to fool people. Lining up with the Passover when Christ died and rose from the dead.

Revelation 11:7-12 “Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

11But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. 12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.”

The two witnesses are killed and taken up to heaven. This is the first time in history where the whole world can see their deaths at the same time by the use of satellite technology.

2 Thessalonians 2:11 “For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie”

The False Prophet with the Antichrist

Revelation 13:5 “The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.”

Zechariah 14:2 “I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.”

The Antichrist will take over Jeruselem by force.

(Rev. 13:1) The Beast rises out of the sea
(Rev. 13:11) Jesus is called the “Lamb of God” but here it is a lamb with 2 horns and this represents an apostate Christianity leader.

Acts 4:2 “They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.”

There were and are groups as we just saw in the book of Acts and people who deny the deity of Christ and are upset with His message.

1 John chapters 1,2 & 4 Spirit of the Antichrist

The False Prophet will do some strange miracles…

Revelation 13:13-14 “And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.”

He (the false prophet) will build an image on the Temple Mount where people will worship that image of the Beast.

You may think, how will the Muslims follow an image? Good question… Sunnies don’t worship images but Shiites do follow some strange beliefs like there honoring of there spiritual leaders like idol worship. They are very cultic as we see today.

Revelation 13:16-17 “He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.”

The false prophet gives the number (666) and this is the religious mark that will be instituted with the buying and selling.

Revelation 20:4 “I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”

Beheadings will take place and we can see an increase at this time in the Muslim world and resently on the Mexico/America border.

Psalm 60:8 “Moab is my washbasin, upon Edom I toss my sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph."

What does the sandal/shoe mean? When someone wanted to get their property back or permission to walk on the property, you would take off your shoe and hand it over to the elders of the city. God is saying that He will give His shoe to Moab as a sign that He is giving permission for Israel to return to Petra. You will notice that God warns the Philistia (Palestinians) not to boost about getting Jerusalem back for themselves.

When the Antichrist sits in the Temple claiming to be God then the “Great Tribulation” begins. Look out for some serious devastation poured out through God’s wrath because of this event!

Thee End... Are you rapture ready?

Matthew 24 Signs of the End of the Age

31And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

32"Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. 34I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

The Day and Hour Unknown

36"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,] but only the Father. 37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

42"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

45"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,' 49and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Enoch was the first prophet to talk about the Lord’s coming back.

Jude 14-15 “Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones 15to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

Bible talks about the second coming:

The Bible revealed to the prophets that the Lord would come a second time before He was ever born the first time. (Psalm 102:16)

During the feast of the Tabernacles the Lord would be King over the earth. (Zach. 14:9, chapters 12-14 – The Lord’s feet would stand on the Mt. of Olives, break into parts)

Daniel 7:22 “until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom.”

The End Times was to be hidden until the last generation:

Daniel 12:8-9 8 I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, "My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?" 9 He replied, "Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

Partial reveal with the Apostle Paul, Peter (Rev. with John): (Ephesians 1:4)
1 Peter 1:20 “He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.”

Apostle Paul: Road to Damascus, (Acts 9:3-9) Paul was going to capture and kill Christians. Ananias, laid hands on the blind Paul (Acts 22:12-24) The Jews, when they found out that Paul had converted, were looking to kill him. So, Paul fled to the wilderness (desert).

Ephesians, Galatians, and the book of Romans, Paul talks about how there were mysteries from the foundations of the world made known to him. (7 revelations, one is…)

The Coming of the Lord: 1 Thess. 1:10, 2:19, 3:13, 4:16, 5:2

1 Thess. 4:16-18 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18Therefore encourage each other with these words.

“Caught up” is the English word Rapture. There are other English words that are not found the in the English Bible: Trinity, Millennial Reign, and Demon.
Saint Jerome in 400 AD wrote the Latin Vulgate and he used the Latin word for rapture in 1 Thess. 4:17 (Rapiemur)

Eph 1:9-10 And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

Gathering together: 1) Dead in Christ, 2) Living Saints

Paul went to Arabia to receive the Word of God. Mount Sinai is found in Arabia where Moses received the Torah. Possible that Paul may have gone to Mount Sinai??? Won't that be interesting.

Gal 1:16-17 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man, 17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.

Galatians 4:23-26 His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.

24These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. 25Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. 26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

(Galatians 1:17) Paul just spoke about going to Arabia to receive the revelation of God, then mentions Mt Sinai there. I believe Paul is letting us know that he went to the same place where Moses reserved his revelation.

QUESTION??? Is the rapture is just a fabrication! “The rapture is just for people who don’t want to go through the tough times.” (Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, Post-Trib)

Everything in the N.T. that was a major prophetic event: Jesus dying, rising from the dead, when the Holy Spirit came, can be found in the fall feasts of Israel by pattern or by pattern in the first 5 books of the Bible.

Is there a picture of the “catching away” in the O.T.? Yes!

Exodus 19 the people were preparing for the third day by sanctifying themselves.

Hosea 6:2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.

1 Thess. 5:23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Back to Exodus 19, 16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.

17 Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, the whole mountain trembled violently, 19 and the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder. Then Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.

“The Trumpet Blast” Hebrew: Tekiah Hagadolan “Great Blast” (Shofar- ram’s horn)
Rosh Hashanah trumpet call, 4 blasts, the last holds out as long as possible. Trumpet could be the voice of God.

Exodus 19:20 The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up

God came down and Moses went up to meet God. A picture of the rapture?

Let’s look at three men: Enoch, Moses, ElijahPlease
Remember: God said in the scripture that set what will happen in the future through people, places, and situations that are recorded earlier in history (repeats).

Eccl. 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

1. Enoch, 7th from Adam was caught away

Gen. 5:24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

Enoch was 365 years old, walking with God, caught up. This is a picture of what will happen in the 7th Millennium.

Rapture: means “catch away” 1 Thess. 4:16, 1 Cor. 15:52

2. Moses:
Duet. 34:1-7 Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, 2 all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, 3 the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. 4 Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it."

Moses saw the Dead Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Promised Land, buried in the Valley of Pisgah near Mt. Nebo. “No man knows where his grave is”!

5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said. 6 He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. 7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.

Picture: Moses represents the saints that have been buried and in the grave.
Enoch represents the saints who are alive at Christ’s return.

As a side note: After Jesus’ resurrection dead people were raised and walked around.
Matt. 27:52-53 The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

3. Elijah Jericho (same area)
2 Kings 2:4-8 Then Elijah said to him, "Stay here, Elisha; the LORD has sent me to Jericho." And he replied, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Jericho.
5 The company of the prophets at Jericho went up to Elisha and asked him, "Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?" "Yes, I know," he replied, "but do not speak of it."
6 Then Elijah said to him, "Stay here; the LORD has sent me to the Jordan." And he replied, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So the two of them walked on.
7 Fifty men of the company of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing the place where Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan. 8 Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

The River of Jericho was divided and they crossed (Same as the Red Sea)

2 Kings 2:12 - 13 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. 12 Elisha saw this and cried out, "My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!" And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them apart.

13 He picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

This is a picture of the last days. Elijah is a picture of the rapture and Elisha is a picture of the 144,000 Jews that will be God’s witnesses when the church is gone.

Rev. 14:1-3 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

Many other Jews during the Great Tribulation will leave and find shelter at Petra, Jordan where God will protect and care for them.

Why do I think Pre-tribulation? God has always saved the elect from trouble. Noah and the ark, Moses and the deliverance of His people, Lot.

1 Thess 5:9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Luke 21:36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man."

Revelation 3:10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE SIGNS AND ARE THEY HERE NOW?

1. Israel will become a nation (re-gathered)
Daniel 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the city in 586 B.C.. Israel hasn't been a nation for 2,534 years
Ez. 20:33-38, 22:17-22, 36:22-24;

Isa. 11:11-12 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea.
12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.

Zeph. 2:1-2 Gather together, gather together, O shameful nation, 2 before the appointed time arrives and that day sweeps on like chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD's wrath comes upon you.

Also check out Ezekiel Chapters 38-39

May 14, 1948 Israel became a nation

Matt. 24:32-33 "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree (we will see that the fig tree is talking about Israel): As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. 34I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.Joel 1:7 It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.

Hosea 9:10 When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your fathers, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved.

2. Jerusalem as its capital 1967 war, no capital for 2,553 years
The dividing of Israel and Jerusalem is not the right thing to do. This will bring God's wrath even though that is what the antichrist will do in the near future.

Joel 3:2 2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.

3. European Union (One World Order or Government, Revived Roman Empire) Dan. 2:40-43; 7:7-8, 20, 23-24; Rev. 12:3, 13:1, 17:3, 7:12-13, 17-18; Matt. 24:15-22; II Thess. 2:8

News Headlines:

“There is going to be a new financial world order that will be born of this” (Bloomberg, Sept.16, 2008)

“Financial Crisis Reshapes World Order” (Washington Post, Oct. 12, 2008)

“G-7 Sets Sights On New World Order” (Agance France-Presse, Feb. 15, 2009)

Kissinger: Obama primed to create 'New World Order'Policy guru says global upheaval presents 'great opportunity' (Worldnetdaily.com Jan. 7, 2009)

Kissinger affirms call for 'new world order'Proposes globalism to solve current world economic crisis (Worldnetdaily.com Jan. 15, 2009)

Kissinger: The World Must Forge A New Order Or Retreat To Chaos (The Independent, Jan. 20, 2009)

The World Ruler (Anti-Christ) Profile:

1. An intellectual Genius (Dan. 8:23)
2. An Oratorical Genius (Dan. 7:8,11; 11:36; Rev. 13:5)
3. A Political Genius (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 17:11:12)
4. An Economic Genius (Dan. 11:43; Rev. 13:16-17)
5. A Military Genius (Rev. 6:2; 13:2)
6. A Religious Genius (2 Thess. 2:4; Rev. 13:8)

4. New Currency (the Mark of the Beast) 666

Rev. 13:16-18 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

Radio Frequency Identification Device - Microchip

5. Russia (ROSH) Ez. Chapters 38 & 39

Ez. 38:1-2 city names in Russia even today; Ez. 38:8, 16 war in the last day.

6. China Rev. 16:12; 9:14-18

7. Iran (Persia)

Psalm 83:4 "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

These are some of the signs when the leader of the New World Order comes to power.

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GOD BLESS AMERICA! Happy 233rd Birthday!

Happy 4th of July!!!! I thank God for the creation of the United States Of America! I would encourage each of my friends to re-read the Declaration Of Independence and truly realize the sacrifices of each signer. Many gave ALL their fortunes to create a country through the God given rights by the people, that “all men are created equal”.

Here is the last sentence of their pledge to creating this new country, “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” How many of us today would dare “pledge” everything we have for the right of being a FREE people. Do you feel free?? What will you do about it? We have become an uncommitted people while enjoying the benefits of others giving their all. Will we just give some?

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

May God continue to bless our country. May our country be taken back “by the people” and not by a represented government that is not representing the people!

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 1776

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. — John Hancock

New Hampshire:Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton