Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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Revelation 16:4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
This sounds horrible. But let's play it in reverse. Suppose all the people who are left on the earth at this point were murderers in one form or another. You can have hit men, and cartels, and gangs. But also armies, and dictators, and also corporations involved in the killing of many and of lawyers who protected them from litigation, and judges who took bribes, and those in the media who helped cover up the crimes and slander the whistleblowers. The vaccine is one example, but also the bioweapons that created the pandemic, we could go on an on. My point is suppose you have a person who was responsible just as this says, they "shed the blood of saints and prophets". During the tribulation you will have people beheaded because they refuse to get the mark of the beast and everyone will cooperate with them. They will turn people in, refuse to buy or sell with them, and report them to the authorities. So these are all the people who are on earth, do they have any right to complain about being given blood to drink? Instead of seeing this as horrible think of it as one last chance for them to repent and confess their sins, realizing what they have done.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
This sounds horrible. But let's play it in reverse. Suppose all the people who are left on the earth at this point were murderers in one form or another. You can have hit men, and cartels, and gangs. But also armies, and dictators, and also corporations involved in the killing of many and of lawyers who protected them from litigation, and judges who took bribes, and those in the media who helped cover up the crimes and slander the whistleblowers. The vaccine is one example, but also the bioweapons that created the pandemic, we could go on an on. My point is suppose you have a person who was responsible just as this says, they "shed the blood of saints and prophets". During the tribulation you will have people beheaded because they refuse to get the mark of the beast and everyone will cooperate with them. They will turn people in, refuse to buy or sell with them, and report them to the authorities. So these are all the people who are on earth, do they have any right to complain about being given blood to drink? Instead of seeing this as horrible think of it as one last chance for them to repent and confess their sins, realizing what they have done.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Another Official Proclamation From The Angel Gabriel 9/27/22 @ 6:46am
(At 6:30 am on October 7 Hamas launched a surprise attack on 20 communities in Israel. Shemini Atzeret - The day after Sukkot is Shemini Atzeret, which is combined in Israel with Simchat Torah, This announcement was given to us by Vicki Goforth Parnell)
As I am praying, I now hear these words, “Hear these words oh beloved daughter of the kingdom of Jehovah God, hear them now.”
“It is I daughter of Faith, of Grace, of Mercy, of Understanding, of Wisdom, of Love and Knowledge. I will be your guiding hand. Now hear what the Angel Gabriel has to say. He brings a message from Heaven’s court and your Father above.”
“Gabriel, I’m listening.”
I hear him say, “All power, glory, majesty, wisdom, knowledge and understanding belongs to Jehovah God, Elohim, God of all creation, Ruler of Heaven and Earth, who sits on the throne of Heaven, ruling fairly, justly and in love. All praise I give to You now, Creator of all.”
The two angels behind him, still on alert, lift their voices in unity saying, “Holy is our God in Heaven, His mercy endures, and love reaches from everlasting to everlasting.”
Gabriel’s speaking now. “Daughter of Heaven’s courts, hear my words this day, this moment of time. I bring to you official tidings for you have been found faithful in much.”
“Hear ye, hear ye oh heavens and the earth, a time of trials of both testing and trying has arrived. It has begun, it starts right now for your world. No longer are the orders of judgement sitting in Heaven’s court to be administered. These weighed judgements of a guilty verdict have now been passed to the earth’s inhabitants below for failure to repent after multiple times over periods of years were granted out of mercy, out of grace, out of Jehovah God of all’s throne of love. The fruition of this judgement, a judgment full of heavenly judgement administered in righteous justice are now coming to complete fruition.”
“The time of tribulation has now come upon your world. Let it be known this time of horrors upon horrors for your world shall last for 70 weeks, or 7 years in the calendar of your world today.”
“Hear oh, inhabitants of Heaven’s courts. Seven years of woes. Seven years of trying upon the earth, as satan’s man of sin takes his place as the lawless one as rightful ruler of this world. A reward for your ill begotten seeds of sin you have sown so freely.”
“Seven years of anguish, three and a half years of anguish more or less, three and a half years of desperation and woes as my anger falls upon your world, says Christ Jesus the Risen Lamb, whose sacrifice for the sins of mankind gave all a way to escape.”
“Heaven’s court, by the order of the Great God Jehovah, now declares in a few short days your world shall enter the tribulation period upon your world. Three and a half years of anger, those left on the earth will feel from the risen Lamb’s hands. Then Three and a half years of His wrath.”
“Woes have come! Woes have come to the inhabitants of the earth, as the Lamb takes the full role upon mankind of not just Saviour for those who will still repent and come to Him, but as righteous judge of all, administering his righteous arm of holy justice on the ungodly of this world. Both his created and those of a mutated unnatural state. These shall feel his furious anger and then his holy raging wrath for all and for sins created against heaven’s most beloved creation – man.”
“The appointing of the two witnesses to come that will withstand the man of sin called the antichrist in man form have each been given their appointed anointings, one of the spirit of Elijah, the other of Enoch after each were notified and they accepted their position of honor with great humility in the Lamb’s name.”
“The five great seals have already been opened in Heaven’s courts, that precede this time of tribulation as ordained by Heaven’s courts on command of Jehovah God the great I Am.”
I hear the two angels behind Gabriel proclaim, “All glory to the righteous Holy God of Heaven,” yet my eyes never moved off the angel Gabriel and his scroll announcing the tribulation on our world.
“The sixth is held in the holy Lamb’s hand, ready to be opened. The prior seals that have been opened and released, shall no longer be restrained to move slowly across your world the earth, but is now released to move forward freely at high speed.”
“The rock of destruction and its counterparts will soon begin striking your earth below. It comes fast upon your world, even streaking through the heavens from the hands of the Risen Lamb Himself, as role of heavenly Judge delivering Heaven style justice, which shall result in many realizing and knowing that He exists. Jehovah God, Holy Ruler of all sits on the throne of Heaven, and many shall turn to Him as others return as well.”
“The appointed rock of destruction shall strike, for no longer will mercy be extended, this time granted has officially ended. Destruction comes swift. She comes fast and she’s not alone. Others shall soon follow, breaking through your once protective atmosphere, your stratosphere, so earth has named it, that has been weakened greatly by the portal particle accelerator machines of your world and those directed at your world from the heavenly bodies of your moon and the planet Mars where hidden inside its core are the infidel children, the offspring of the demon fallen ones the demons who once belonged to Heaven’s courts also.”
“Hear ye, hear ye, oh inhabitants of the earth. In a few short days, your time of tribulation officially begins upon your world. The king is soon to return, the Risen Lamb of Glory. This is the official proclamation declaring your tribulation days are to begin on your world.”
“Three and a half years of the Lamb’s anger. Three and a half years of His wrath.”
“The man of sin shall reaffirm the pre-signed covenant made as if a peace, and rise to his final position of power. Woe unto you inhabitants of the earth! Prepare yourself in the Risen Lamb, for who can stand such times as this?”
(At 6:30 am on October 7 Hamas launched a surprise attack on 20 communities in Israel. Shemini Atzeret - The day after Sukkot is Shemini Atzeret, which is combined in Israel with Simchat Torah, This announcement was given to us by Vicki Goforth Parnell)
As I am praying, I now hear these words, “Hear these words oh beloved daughter of the kingdom of Jehovah God, hear them now.”
“It is I daughter of Faith, of Grace, of Mercy, of Understanding, of Wisdom, of Love and Knowledge. I will be your guiding hand. Now hear what the Angel Gabriel has to say. He brings a message from Heaven’s court and your Father above.”
“Gabriel, I’m listening.”
I hear him say, “All power, glory, majesty, wisdom, knowledge and understanding belongs to Jehovah God, Elohim, God of all creation, Ruler of Heaven and Earth, who sits on the throne of Heaven, ruling fairly, justly and in love. All praise I give to You now, Creator of all.”
The two angels behind him, still on alert, lift their voices in unity saying, “Holy is our God in Heaven, His mercy endures, and love reaches from everlasting to everlasting.”
Gabriel’s speaking now. “Daughter of Heaven’s courts, hear my words this day, this moment of time. I bring to you official tidings for you have been found faithful in much.”
“Hear ye, hear ye oh heavens and the earth, a time of trials of both testing and trying has arrived. It has begun, it starts right now for your world. No longer are the orders of judgement sitting in Heaven’s court to be administered. These weighed judgements of a guilty verdict have now been passed to the earth’s inhabitants below for failure to repent after multiple times over periods of years were granted out of mercy, out of grace, out of Jehovah God of all’s throne of love. The fruition of this judgement, a judgment full of heavenly judgement administered in righteous justice are now coming to complete fruition.”
“The time of tribulation has now come upon your world. Let it be known this time of horrors upon horrors for your world shall last for 70 weeks, or 7 years in the calendar of your world today.”
“Hear oh, inhabitants of Heaven’s courts. Seven years of woes. Seven years of trying upon the earth, as satan’s man of sin takes his place as the lawless one as rightful ruler of this world. A reward for your ill begotten seeds of sin you have sown so freely.”
“Seven years of anguish, three and a half years of anguish more or less, three and a half years of desperation and woes as my anger falls upon your world, says Christ Jesus the Risen Lamb, whose sacrifice for the sins of mankind gave all a way to escape.”
“Heaven’s court, by the order of the Great God Jehovah, now declares in a few short days your world shall enter the tribulation period upon your world. Three and a half years of anger, those left on the earth will feel from the risen Lamb’s hands. Then Three and a half years of His wrath.”
“Woes have come! Woes have come to the inhabitants of the earth, as the Lamb takes the full role upon mankind of not just Saviour for those who will still repent and come to Him, but as righteous judge of all, administering his righteous arm of holy justice on the ungodly of this world. Both his created and those of a mutated unnatural state. These shall feel his furious anger and then his holy raging wrath for all and for sins created against heaven’s most beloved creation – man.”
“The appointing of the two witnesses to come that will withstand the man of sin called the antichrist in man form have each been given their appointed anointings, one of the spirit of Elijah, the other of Enoch after each were notified and they accepted their position of honor with great humility in the Lamb’s name.”
“The five great seals have already been opened in Heaven’s courts, that precede this time of tribulation as ordained by Heaven’s courts on command of Jehovah God the great I Am.”
I hear the two angels behind Gabriel proclaim, “All glory to the righteous Holy God of Heaven,” yet my eyes never moved off the angel Gabriel and his scroll announcing the tribulation on our world.
“The sixth is held in the holy Lamb’s hand, ready to be opened. The prior seals that have been opened and released, shall no longer be restrained to move slowly across your world the earth, but is now released to move forward freely at high speed.”
“The rock of destruction and its counterparts will soon begin striking your earth below. It comes fast upon your world, even streaking through the heavens from the hands of the Risen Lamb Himself, as role of heavenly Judge delivering Heaven style justice, which shall result in many realizing and knowing that He exists. Jehovah God, Holy Ruler of all sits on the throne of Heaven, and many shall turn to Him as others return as well.”
“The appointed rock of destruction shall strike, for no longer will mercy be extended, this time granted has officially ended. Destruction comes swift. She comes fast and she’s not alone. Others shall soon follow, breaking through your once protective atmosphere, your stratosphere, so earth has named it, that has been weakened greatly by the portal particle accelerator machines of your world and those directed at your world from the heavenly bodies of your moon and the planet Mars where hidden inside its core are the infidel children, the offspring of the demon fallen ones the demons who once belonged to Heaven’s courts also.”
“Hear ye, hear ye, oh inhabitants of the earth. In a few short days, your time of tribulation officially begins upon your world. The king is soon to return, the Risen Lamb of Glory. This is the official proclamation declaring your tribulation days are to begin on your world.”
“Three and a half years of the Lamb’s anger. Three and a half years of His wrath.”
“The man of sin shall reaffirm the pre-signed covenant made as if a peace, and rise to his final position of power. Woe unto you inhabitants of the earth! Prepare yourself in the Risen Lamb, for who can stand such times as this?”
The Day of Reckoning has come 12-23-23 @ 8:13am (Uploaded 12-24-23)
I'm sitting at God's feet
praying and all of a sudden he speaks Trump Rises the king returns all hail the king. The return of a king who was before and is to be again the rightful King wrongfully deposed he is chosen by Me thus sayeth the Lord for the matters at hand which are War upon an ungodly Nation war war war has come War has come and still you stiff excuse me still your stiff necked Hearts still refuse to bend their knees Putin will fire, Putin will fire Putin will fire I have declared it thus sayeth the Lord god Jehovah ruler of all I set Kings up I cast them down none can contend with me the age of grace shall pass as one cycle of time closes and a new emerges but it will not be the sound of a jubilant celebration excuse me it will not be the sound of jubilant celebrations and dropping balls from New York City you shall see because my judgments fall this night this time of alloted allotment upon you oh Godless nation of Babylon have I got your attention oh world and Godless Nation yet I will before your new year begins Seasons come and Seasons go but now I send to you oh Babylon a season of snow and a season of cold the weatherman says look how warm it will be I in turn shall send a deep freeze foolish people it's time to repent and bend your knees before your God and Creator and I will spare some for my wrath to come if not then know it is your choice your decision to partake in what is to come look up my little children for soon I send my son for those whose robes are spotless white in him the time of judgment has arrived to the Godless nation of Babylon once called America but no longer to me I send these things to thee a shaking and quaking like never before war war war no food no drink and pestilence and plagues to come and there's three days of darkness yet to come but all the world to be a party to where will I find the faithful in all that is to come before my son arrives on their knees before me and in my holy word judgment time has now appeared upon your Earth shudder and fear how and well for the time for this time my hand shall not be stayed by Mercy's call upon my heart to my son's 144,000 Warriors of light I say it's your time of now your season has begun I shall excuse me I have sealed you now your time has come to pick up your swords and stand in fight with my son in our Angelic host prepare your hearts for further instructions in me but do not move until you know I have sent your orders directly from my Throne orders I shall give to you to my son Jesus and he will speak to each of his own in the special way he knows each one of his little children in the special way he knows each one of his little children I say to the rest of our little children who have made themselves ready in me and my son I say it's time to come home it's time to lay aside your armor and weapons and enter into Everlasting joy and peace that we have prepared for you my children it's time to rest so hold on and stand strong in the power and might of my son Jesus Christ's name he will not fail you nor will I it's time to come home it's the time in my timeline of the time excuse me it's the time in my timeline of the End Time season for my son when I speak to bring you home to stay with us forever more and now judgment is fully birthed and the last few birth pains are transpiring prepare yourselves I say prepare yourselves and then prepare yourselves tells us we still have a little go through but it's time
I'm sitting at God's feet
praying and all of a sudden he speaks Trump Rises the king returns all hail the king. The return of a king who was before and is to be again the rightful King wrongfully deposed he is chosen by Me thus sayeth the Lord for the matters at hand which are War upon an ungodly Nation war war war has come War has come and still you stiff excuse me still your stiff necked Hearts still refuse to bend their knees Putin will fire, Putin will fire Putin will fire I have declared it thus sayeth the Lord god Jehovah ruler of all I set Kings up I cast them down none can contend with me the age of grace shall pass as one cycle of time closes and a new emerges but it will not be the sound of a jubilant celebration excuse me it will not be the sound of jubilant celebrations and dropping balls from New York City you shall see because my judgments fall this night this time of alloted allotment upon you oh Godless nation of Babylon have I got your attention oh world and Godless Nation yet I will before your new year begins Seasons come and Seasons go but now I send to you oh Babylon a season of snow and a season of cold the weatherman says look how warm it will be I in turn shall send a deep freeze foolish people it's time to repent and bend your knees before your God and Creator and I will spare some for my wrath to come if not then know it is your choice your decision to partake in what is to come look up my little children for soon I send my son for those whose robes are spotless white in him the time of judgment has arrived to the Godless nation of Babylon once called America but no longer to me I send these things to thee a shaking and quaking like never before war war war no food no drink and pestilence and plagues to come and there's three days of darkness yet to come but all the world to be a party to where will I find the faithful in all that is to come before my son arrives on their knees before me and in my holy word judgment time has now appeared upon your Earth shudder and fear how and well for the time for this time my hand shall not be stayed by Mercy's call upon my heart to my son's 144,000 Warriors of light I say it's your time of now your season has begun I shall excuse me I have sealed you now your time has come to pick up your swords and stand in fight with my son in our Angelic host prepare your hearts for further instructions in me but do not move until you know I have sent your orders directly from my Throne orders I shall give to you to my son Jesus and he will speak to each of his own in the special way he knows each one of his little children in the special way he knows each one of his little children I say to the rest of our little children who have made themselves ready in me and my son I say it's time to come home it's time to lay aside your armor and weapons and enter into Everlasting joy and peace that we have prepared for you my children it's time to rest so hold on and stand strong in the power and might of my son Jesus Christ's name he will not fail you nor will I it's time to come home it's the time in my timeline of the time excuse me it's the time in my timeline of the End Time season for my son when I speak to bring you home to stay with us forever more and now judgment is fully birthed and the last few birth pains are transpiring prepare yourselves I say prepare yourselves and then prepare yourselves tells us we still have a little go through but it's time
🛑 RIVERS TURNING TO BLOOD WORLD WIDE | PHENOMENON OR PLAGUE??
Nile River turns red
In Japan water turns red
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vZkJoj3r-t0
Rivers in Russia
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/14dVHDHGn4U
Dead Sea
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fXHHUqfyTHI
Nile River turns red
In Japan water turns red
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vZkJoj3r-t0
Rivers in Russia
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/14dVHDHGn4U
Dead Sea
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fXHHUqfyTHI
Zechariah 7 Either you are salt and light or else you too will be cast out.
1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. 2 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the Lord 3 by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” 4 Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves? 7 Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?’” 8 And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: 9 “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’ 11 “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry. 13 “‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty. 14 ‘I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.’”
This chapter is amazing, very hard to believe that it is real and yet it is so real. So the fast and feast they are talking about are for the burning of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar and the murder of Gedaliah. Neither of these was established by God in the Old Covenant, rather they were the customs of man. For example there is no “Easter” or “Christmas” in the New Testament, but rather they were instituted by man later on. No doubt there is the incarnation of Jesus and the death and resurrection of Jesus so surely there were some believers who kept their hearts on the Lord. But as we know most “Christians” who “celebrate” Christmas and Easter do so for themselves, and not unto the Lord. The Lord does not appear to be upset about that, this is not a chapter on “putting Christ back into Christmas”. No the point is very different and stunning really.
The Lord says you have no problem assigning these feasts and fasts for yourselves under the pretense that you are doing it unto the Lord. However, what the Prophets say, you simply ignore. “Administer true judgement”. Oh no, we can’t do that, we let the unbelievers handle that. The New Testament tells us that all things are under the feet of Jesus, that we have been commissioned by Him to preach the gospel which is that Jesus is Lord and He is bringing in His Kingdom and we are to bring all things into submission to this glorious gospel. We are told to be light and that you don’t put anything over that light. Yet Christians are saying that we leave that up to the government? What? That is the same attitude that led to the Jews going through the holocaust. You allow the government to cover the light, you allow multinational corporations to cover that light.
Show mercy and compassion to one another. We live in a country (the US, but this would also apply to every other nation) that bullies other nations and does not show mercy and compassion. But the US has given more foreign aid than any other country? We use our foreign aid to gain power, control and to manipulate other countries. We use foreign aid to prop up puppet governments and keep the country in poverty.
Do not oppress the widow or fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. What do these four all have in common? The widow lacks a husband, the fatherless needs a father, the foreigner doesn’t understand our customs and the poor lacks the resources. We use their need to take advantage of them. Our school system is not focused on raising up highly educated people, no that is only for those with the resources to pay for tutors or send their kids to private schools. Instead the politicians use the schools budget to pay off political debts. You could easily have a much more effective and helpful school system for less money than we spend if we put an end to the politicians manipulating that budget for their own benefit. The mortgage meltdown in 2008 was a perfect example of our taking advantage of widows, fatherless, foreigners and the poor. Those selling the mortgages took advantage of these people not understanding what a balloon mortgage is. They put them into houses where they would do all they could to pay the mortgage every month for sixty months, let’s say $2,000 a month for a total of $120,000 then the mortgage balloons to $4,000 a month, they can’t pay, the bank forecloses, takes the house back but gets to keep the $120,000.
Now these very same people who set up fasts and feasts for when the temple was burned and Gedaliah was murdered, the same ones who say we can’t do anything about the houses being robbed from widows, or the poor being sent to fight bogus wars to make the elite powerful, they want to know what to do about this? Are these not the dumbest people, I mean dumb as a rock.
Wake up! We are the light and the salt. If the salt has lost its saltiness it is good for nothing but to be cast out into the dung heap. That is why the temple was burned and Gedaliah was murdered. That is why God scattered the people and they wandered in a desolate land. The corruption and crime is in your face, either you respond as light and salt or else you too will be cast out.
1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. 2 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the Lord 3 by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” 4 Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves? 7 Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?’” 8 And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: 9 “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’ 11 “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry. 13 “‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty. 14 ‘I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.’”
This chapter is amazing, very hard to believe that it is real and yet it is so real. So the fast and feast they are talking about are for the burning of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar and the murder of Gedaliah. Neither of these was established by God in the Old Covenant, rather they were the customs of man. For example there is no “Easter” or “Christmas” in the New Testament, but rather they were instituted by man later on. No doubt there is the incarnation of Jesus and the death and resurrection of Jesus so surely there were some believers who kept their hearts on the Lord. But as we know most “Christians” who “celebrate” Christmas and Easter do so for themselves, and not unto the Lord. The Lord does not appear to be upset about that, this is not a chapter on “putting Christ back into Christmas”. No the point is very different and stunning really.
The Lord says you have no problem assigning these feasts and fasts for yourselves under the pretense that you are doing it unto the Lord. However, what the Prophets say, you simply ignore. “Administer true judgement”. Oh no, we can’t do that, we let the unbelievers handle that. The New Testament tells us that all things are under the feet of Jesus, that we have been commissioned by Him to preach the gospel which is that Jesus is Lord and He is bringing in His Kingdom and we are to bring all things into submission to this glorious gospel. We are told to be light and that you don’t put anything over that light. Yet Christians are saying that we leave that up to the government? What? That is the same attitude that led to the Jews going through the holocaust. You allow the government to cover the light, you allow multinational corporations to cover that light.
Show mercy and compassion to one another. We live in a country (the US, but this would also apply to every other nation) that bullies other nations and does not show mercy and compassion. But the US has given more foreign aid than any other country? We use our foreign aid to gain power, control and to manipulate other countries. We use foreign aid to prop up puppet governments and keep the country in poverty.
Do not oppress the widow or fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. What do these four all have in common? The widow lacks a husband, the fatherless needs a father, the foreigner doesn’t understand our customs and the poor lacks the resources. We use their need to take advantage of them. Our school system is not focused on raising up highly educated people, no that is only for those with the resources to pay for tutors or send their kids to private schools. Instead the politicians use the schools budget to pay off political debts. You could easily have a much more effective and helpful school system for less money than we spend if we put an end to the politicians manipulating that budget for their own benefit. The mortgage meltdown in 2008 was a perfect example of our taking advantage of widows, fatherless, foreigners and the poor. Those selling the mortgages took advantage of these people not understanding what a balloon mortgage is. They put them into houses where they would do all they could to pay the mortgage every month for sixty months, let’s say $2,000 a month for a total of $120,000 then the mortgage balloons to $4,000 a month, they can’t pay, the bank forecloses, takes the house back but gets to keep the $120,000.
Now these very same people who set up fasts and feasts for when the temple was burned and Gedaliah was murdered, the same ones who say we can’t do anything about the houses being robbed from widows, or the poor being sent to fight bogus wars to make the elite powerful, they want to know what to do about this? Are these not the dumbest people, I mean dumb as a rock.
Wake up! We are the light and the salt. If the salt has lost its saltiness it is good for nothing but to be cast out into the dung heap. That is why the temple was burned and Gedaliah was murdered. That is why God scattered the people and they wandered in a desolate land. The corruption and crime is in your face, either you respond as light and salt or else you too will be cast out.
New Year's day -- The day the Antichrist is circumcised
Every religion and every culture has its own "new year day" and it is only recently that everyone agrees on January 1st as the "new year" day. Actually it was 2016 when Saudi Arabia adopted this day, so it is quite recently. It is especially important for big international events like the Olympics that everyone is on the same calendar. You can argue that one world government and "united nations" needs to have one calendar.
This is quite interesting because when you have days that the entire globe celebrates there is no day as universal as New Years day.
Even today there are a variety of celebrations for Christmas, Hanukkah, and other holidays at this time. Likewise with "Easter", Passover, and the various holidays like Lent and Mardi Gras at this time.
But when it comes to "New Year's day" that is the one universal day that has a global celebration. This is the celebration when everything before becomes old and everything after becomes new. It is celebrated by a "ball dropping". It is also celebrated by looking at the major cities across the globe as the earth spins.
The calendar is Roman, but every believer should understand that after Jesus ascension everything is under His sovereignty. You can argue that the calendar is Roman, Pagan, and based on the sun, but it has become the universal New Year's day because Jesus allows it.
According to the Bible when a male child is born he is to be circumcised on the 8th day. December 25th is a Babylonian holiday signifying the birth of a prefigure for the Antichrist. 8 days later he would be "circumcised" and that is on January 1st. Circumcision involves removing a small piece of the flesh. This would be the day when God removes a small piece of the one world government.
Circumcision is a sign that you have a covenant with God. The antichrist has a legal agreement with God to reign for a certain number of months. It is important that we not have a simplistic view of Satan, the enemy. Satan, the kingdom of darkness and all his minions do an important job of separating out those who love God and the truth from those who love a lie. Think of everyone in the world as being in a dark gloomy cave. When you speak the gospel you shine a light that lights the way out of that cave. If you love the darkness you will avoid the light, if you want to get out of that cave you will follow the light and seek the light. This is how God will prove the hearts and reveal what is in the heart of man.
Every religion and every culture has its own "new year day" and it is only recently that everyone agrees on January 1st as the "new year" day. Actually it was 2016 when Saudi Arabia adopted this day, so it is quite recently. It is especially important for big international events like the Olympics that everyone is on the same calendar. You can argue that one world government and "united nations" needs to have one calendar.
This is quite interesting because when you have days that the entire globe celebrates there is no day as universal as New Years day.
Even today there are a variety of celebrations for Christmas, Hanukkah, and other holidays at this time. Likewise with "Easter", Passover, and the various holidays like Lent and Mardi Gras at this time.
But when it comes to "New Year's day" that is the one universal day that has a global celebration. This is the celebration when everything before becomes old and everything after becomes new. It is celebrated by a "ball dropping". It is also celebrated by looking at the major cities across the globe as the earth spins.
The calendar is Roman, but every believer should understand that after Jesus ascension everything is under His sovereignty. You can argue that the calendar is Roman, Pagan, and based on the sun, but it has become the universal New Year's day because Jesus allows it.
According to the Bible when a male child is born he is to be circumcised on the 8th day. December 25th is a Babylonian holiday signifying the birth of a prefigure for the Antichrist. 8 days later he would be "circumcised" and that is on January 1st. Circumcision involves removing a small piece of the flesh. This would be the day when God removes a small piece of the one world government.
Circumcision is a sign that you have a covenant with God. The antichrist has a legal agreement with God to reign for a certain number of months. It is important that we not have a simplistic view of Satan, the enemy. Satan, the kingdom of darkness and all his minions do an important job of separating out those who love God and the truth from those who love a lie. Think of everyone in the world as being in a dark gloomy cave. When you speak the gospel you shine a light that lights the way out of that cave. If you love the darkness you will avoid the light, if you want to get out of that cave you will follow the light and seek the light. This is how God will prove the hearts and reveal what is in the heart of man.