The Lord just showed me from the Bible He will be providing the equivalent of secure bomb shelters for His people during the coming tribulation. I know many Christians are hoping to be raptured out before the feathers hit the fan, but that is not what I see the Bible teaching. Rather He will be protecting and nourishing His people here on earth during the time when His wrath is being poured out on the evil of this world. It will be as in the days of Noah when he was protected from the flood. And Israel when she was sheltered in the land of Goshen while the plagues were devastating Egypt.
The Scripture the Lord used to show me this was Revelation 12. "Then she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne. Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that she would be 'nourished' (GK: trepho - pampered w. food) for one thousand two hundred and sixty days" (Rev. 12:5,6).
The woman is Israel. And the male child is Jesus, who was taken up into heaven 2000 years ago where He is seated at the right hand of the Father "until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet" (Acts 2:34,35). But since the "church" is also Israel, we see that all the chosen followers of Israel's Messiah alive at the time, both Jew and Gentile, are included in the "woman." And all these, I believe, will be protected in God's bomb shelters until the night is over and the day dawns. Like the Israelites in the wilderness, food and water and shelter from the elements will be supernaturally provided. It is during this time of supernatural protection that Psalm 91 will come into play. Isaiah also foretold of these shelters, saying, "Come My people, enter into your rooms and close your doors behind you; hide for a little while, until indignation runs its course" (Isa. 26:20 & 21).
So the only thing we have to do is make sure we get to the bomb shelters, which I believe are foreshadowed by the "cities of refuge" (Deut. 19). Whether there will be one or three or ten thousand of these "cities," the Lord will show us as we get nearer. And where they are. (It could even be Israel.) But when the time comes we must be ready to leave everything - country, family, home, jobs, church, everything - and go! Otherwise we will be counted among the five foolish virgins who were not ready and "the door was shut" (Matt. 25:10).
The consequences for us if we aren't ready are chilling. We will be left behind to be at the mercy of Satan's anti-christ. We will either have to bow to his "666" system to survive or we will be killed (Rev. 13). And martyrdom will be the only way we will be able to save our souls. But as Satan crushes the remaining believers, God will be crushing him and his kingdom and his fifteen seconds of infamy.
One last thing. The last verse in the twelfth chapter gives us a clue what will be the deciding factor whether you will escape or not. "So the dragon was enraged with the woman [who he couldn't get at because she was protected] and he went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus" (Rev 12:17). Who are these? I believe they could be Christians who were not walking in faith righteousness, but in self-righteousness. That is they gave testimony that they trusted in Jesus, but actually relied more on their religious works, either church attendance or the practices of the Mosaic Law. We need to get free of all such double-mindedness - NOW!
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Your interpretation of Revelation 12:17 is incorrect brother because those being persecuted are the nes who Keep the commandments and have the testimony of Yeshua or those who walk in Spirit and in Truth. Lawless Christians will be going to the furnace just as Messiah spoke in the parable of the Wheat and the Tares Matthew 13. The commandments will never be used to punish but to give life. The dietary laws will be used to save us in the end times as we will be healthier and stronger and away from the tentacles of the evil companies using food to poison and sterilize us. The two houses will become one on those same parameters Judah will return to a written Torah and Israel will return to the Torah that they have done away with. Both walking as Yeshua walked thus becoming one and a Bride without spot or blemish. Christians are coming out of the churches today to keep His commandments as Yeshua commanded in John 14:15. Judah wont see any Christian as their brother with the picture of a lawless Messiah. A Messiah that will rule with a rod of iron based on the Law of YHWH. Telling the Christians to come as you are is leading them in lawlessnes just as the church has led them away. True love is to have the Father because He is Love. There is no place to run for the lawless or workers of iniquity. Those workers of iniquity like Yeshua called them are the ones lawless that forsook the Father's instructions and feasts. Return to Me says YHWH. Repent (Teshuvah) says the one crying in the wilderness. Prepare the way says YHWH Tzevaot the Bridesgroom is coming. Mikvah yourselves before the Wedding of the Lamb.
ReplyDeleteYHWH Bless you and Keep you.
Every matter has to be establish by 2 or 3 witnesses. I forgot this verse. Rev. 14:12 Here is the endurance of the set apart ones, here are those guarding the commands of Elohim (God) and the belief of Yeshua.
ReplyDeleteThese are not "Christians" nor "The Church"; these are those who follow Messiah and keep the commandments of the Father. These are the ones in verse 14:1 "having His Father's Name written in their foreheads" These are the ones who remember the Shema Deut 5-6.
Shalom!
I appreciate the brother's viewpoint above, but I believe the Scriptures disagree. To go back to keeping the Mosaic Law, thinking that is what pleases God, is refuted over and over by the Jewish writers of the New Testament. As the writer of Hebrews tells us, "Without faith it is impossible to please Him" (Heb. 11:6). And since Paul tell us that the "law is not of faith" (Gal. 3:12), it is clear that "Torah" observance will gain us nothing.
ReplyDeleteIn his first letter to Timothy, Paul tells us the Law "is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless" ( 1 Tim 1:8,9)To go back to the Law AFTER we receive God's righteousnes through faith in Jesus is to apply the Law "lawlessly." Ironically, those believers who try to keep the Law after coming to Jesus are now identifying themmselves as the "lawless ones." Brian