The Throne of David -Part 5
The Bible connects Jesus to David over and over, in the Old Testament and the New. David is mentioned 58 times in the New Testament alone, which was written about 1,000 years after David died. That is influence! David is clearly important to understand.
Where the Bible says much, we should say much, and where the Bible says a little, we should say little. Majoring on the majors and minoring on the minors is important. Sometimes though, we can fall for the deception that the minor issues are the ones people tend to argue about, and we can all just get along about the major issue of following Jesus. The trouble is, sometimes the most disputed issues are actually the most important issues...that is why the enemy stirs up arguments and confusion around them!
One of those issues that is surrounded by trouble is the Revelation of Jesus and His end time plans. Yes, this is what many would call a "disputable matter not essential to salvation"...but actually, this is the ONE issue Jesus spent most of His time warning about! Understanding the end time plan may not be essential for entering into salvation, but it IS essential for hanging onto salvation when the end time armies demand you pledge your allegiance to the antichrist or starve!
What is coming REQUIRES endurance according to Jesus and ALL the apostles. So, you can couch Jesus' end time plan as something not that important to you, but unfortunately for those who take this approach, understanding the plan is SUPER important to Jesus.
This is why Jesus’ return and the specific nature of it is SO important: Jesus didn't come to go away. He came to stay! Right now, Jesus is including US in the process of building His kingdom...establishing His throne...to receive Him. Ignoring the process and neglecting to INTENTIONALLY enter into it is actually ignoring what is CENTRAL in Jesus' mind.
Jesus KNEW this would be the state of His Bride as the Revelation events unfolded. He warned His disciples about missing the point of what He was telling them about His return. Over and over Jesus told His disciples to be ready to endure and overcome.
Matthew 24:9-14 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Many imagine Jesus just popping into the sky at any minute, and along with that comes the imaginary solution of just "hanging in there until He comes." This is exactly contrary to what Jesus said. There is SO much to do in this hour. The Matthew 24 passage lays out the broad strokes: know what is coming, prepare to endure so that you won't just hang in there, but that you will be out gathering in the harvest. Jesus laid this all out in His final prayer in the upper room on that last night with His friends. This is the end time plan:
John 17:15-26
To endure tribulation:
(Vs. 15- 16) I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
To be set apart, like Acts 5. In the world but clearly not of it:
(Vs 16-19) They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
To be united. Not scattered each doing their own thing, believing their own thing, but rather united in desiring the same experience those first disciples had...tarrying in the upper room, walking in the power of Pentecost, and seeing thousands saved at a time:
(Vs. 20-21)“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one,
Not just one with each other, but One with Jesus...sharing HIS suffering, but also reflecting His glory. The Bride growing into perfectly...growing into spotlessly...representing Jesus on earth. She will walk in this more and more with the pinnacle happening at the end of the Tribulation:
(Vs. 21-23) as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one,
All culminating in the gathering in of a harvest as the world, and especially the remnant in Israel (that is another story for another day) witness the love of Jesus manifest in and through His Bride!:
(Vs. 23) and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
This requires advanced preparation, because the Bride will do this through the worst time the earth has ever seen. God is going to turn mankind over to their own evil desires for 3.5 years...42 months. The world is clamoring for a perfect governmental system to make the earth peaceful, just, clean, and restored. There is a man on the scene that wants to be a humanistic messiah to the people. If they don't agree with him, he believes it is because they just aren't smart enough...he will overrule them to make his definition of justice happen. This is an evil man.
There is no peace, love, or justice apart from the one worthy to own it all and distribute it justly. There is no peace outside of the Prince of Peace! However, most of the world believes people are pretty good without God. For 42 months, the earth will "have it her way"...and a prostitute government and her leader the antichrist will offer her services to the world in order to give peace a chance...the harlot will offer the world the same things the Bride is supposed to be doing. The harlot will kill the Bride who cares "more about Jesus than people":
Revelation 13:4-7 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
Did you hear what the antichrist and harlot will war against by blasphemy, which means to call something good evil? 1. The name of Jesus. 2. His tabernacle...that IS the night and day praying church, and 3. Those saints in heaven who died loyal to Jesus. He will call the saints in heaven evil because they were killed for interrupting the plans of his socialist government that was actually doing some good in the world and wasn't just praying for Jesus and his judgments to come...
This is what those saints in heaven have to say about it:
Revelation 6:9-11 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.
This is all beginning to happen RIGHT NOW. Look around. Tribulation is hitting the middle east like cray cray, as my kids would say. The world is so confused right now...even the Church...many think helping people with man-based peace, or water, or freedom is more important that connecting the people of the earth to the One who is coming to save them forever! Jesus said that you cannot love people (the second greatest commandment) UNTIL you first love God with all your mind, heart, soul, and strength (the greatest commandment). The world will hate and blaspheme (call evil) those patiently trying to live out this truth. They will say “the world is trying to DO something and those fundamental Christians are so loyal to Jesus they won’t join us and help.” When the antichrist formally makes peace in Israel, this reality is going to go right through the roof…like a flood. If you call THAT man the antichrist, you will be marked for persecution, by law.
The people of the world do not care about loyalty to what Jesus said:
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
The world does not believe this principal, but God's people are supposed to MODEL it while the worlds system is breaking down…not because God hates the world, but because God so loves the world. The world says “God wants you to do something for Him.” But the Bible says God wants you to do something WITH Him.
John 15:4-6 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
This division between those who PRAY first…abiding UNTIL the power comes…and those who DO first, without any true concern for the relationship God wants, will be distinct in, and out of the Church. The Church is VERY susceptible to the same deception the world will fall for…that is why the Falling Away MUST happen:
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
Lawlessness is the problem of the day…The antichrist is the man of lawlessness. When things don’t go his way, he just changes the law himself.
2 Thessalonians 2:2-4 Don't be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who say that the day of the Lord has already begun. Don't believe them, even if they claim to have had a spiritual vision, a revelation, or a letter supposedly from us. Don't be fooled by what they say. For that day will not come until there is a great rebellion against God and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the one who brings destruction. He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.
Daniel 7:25 He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand For a time and times and half a time.
Taking matters into your own hands rather than living in the authority of the abiding conversation FIRST…and doing second…is the lawless way…the promised source of most of the trouble in the earth in the last 3.5 years.
David cared about authority. He saw God as the source of all his strength. David loved GOD first, and his neighbors as himself second. This is the true path to brotherly love and marked David’s kingdom with many years of peace. 24,000 people all worked in close proximity to keep the tabernacle going 24/7…you can only accomplish that with a lot of brotherly..Philadelphia…love going on.
David loved God first in a practical way by building 24/7 prayer...making God His strength. Jesus told His disciples the same thing..don't even try to do the great commission until you do night and day prayer first. Unity…brotherly love…was essential for the power to come in a way that agreed with Jesus’ plan for His Bride. If you go out without the unity and prayer first, you are going out in your own strength! That is lawless. To tarry for the power so you can go in God's strength...it seems weak to the world…but God chose the weak things to demonstrate true strength! This is how Jesus told the disciples to go build the kingdom: pray night and day TOGETHER first, wait for the power, then use what you get to bring in the harvest...rinse and repeat:
Luke 24:47-49 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”
Jesus sowed the seeds of the harvest that day, but they needed to be watered by the Spirit. What started in Jerusalem as seed was going to mature as it went to the ends of the earth...all nations. Jesus told the parable of the wheat and tares to demonstrate this:
Matthew 13:36-43 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field." He answered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
In this LAST generation, we are supposed to be walking in a more full maturity of the seeds the Son of Man sowed in His 3.5 year public ministry...the fullness of maturity will happen in the Brides 3.5 years of public ministry, called the Great Tribulation.
The Great Tribulaiton…the Bride's 3.5 year ministry…won't be spent in underground bunkers with enough guns and food...or hiding in caves...No!...The Bride's ministry will be "one" with Jesus... as a glorious representation of her groom!
Jesus sowed the good seed, and when the Spirit brought the first rain, the seeds sprouted with 3,000 people getting saved in Acts 2. There isn’t just one rain that brings forth the crop. Tarrying was an essential part of the great commission. Search for the phrase “night and day” in the Bible and you will see those disciples taught night and day prayer…this is how Jesus’ Kingdom…His throne…the place He will manifest His rule…will come. Just like David’s power was based on people offering God praise 24/7…Jesus will sit on the same place of authority. Jesus isn’t coming in one magic moment to impose His rule on earth…No, Jesus is going to establish His seat THROUGH…among…us:
Luke 17:20-21 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."
The people who will establish David’s end time throne for Jesus on night and day worship are among us right now. They are maturing in this hour…but so are the tares…those desiring the darkness in man’s heart apart from God. According to the Bible…darkness is in and out of the Church. Righteousness is going to a whole new level, but SO IS EVIL…darkness. It will manifest in the greatest time of martyrdom the earth has ever seen. As He was the first martyr, Jesus prophesied much worse was coming:
Luke 23:28-31 But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!' Then they will begin 'TO SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS, "FALL ON US!" AND TO THE HILLS, "COVER US!" ' For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?"
The end time Babylon…I believe this is the USA…will be “full of the blood of the saints.” That means a lot of Christians live and will be killed in the end time Babylon:
Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth."
This sounds scary, and IS scary if you don’t know the plan. There is a plan to keep you and your family safe…BUT there is only ONE plan. This calls for endurance...according to the Bible, there is only ONE way to endure this time. That ONE way is David's ONE THING. If waiting out the antichrist, or battling his forces is your plan…especially if it involves weapons or a plan to use physical force…you WILL fail. Prayer…patience and faith…is the only response that agrees with Jesus:
Revelation 13:9-10 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
David knew the answer to this time of trouble:
Psalms 27:1-6 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell. Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war may rise against me, In this I will be confident. One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
Satan is going to blaspheme the TABERNACLE of Jesus because the tabernacle is the strength of God manifest on earth. Satan won’t waste his time blaspheming governments, or local militia men with semi automatic weapons, because God is not going to redeem the earth by infiltrating the government or using a man-based plan.
Satan has limited resources, and he will use them to attack the things that actually work! That is why in the 42 months the antichrist is given authority to make war on the Bride, he will blaspheme and war against the things that really are strength: the name of Jesus, night and day prayer, and the precious deaths of the saints that went before, saying they died for an evil cause.
Jesus gave Revelation 2 and 3 in order to get the Church ready for the tribulation. Seven distinct and divided churches become one spotless Bride through the events of Revelation and those churches are introduced in Revelation 2 and 3. Jesus corrected 5 of the 7 churches and told them unless they repented, they would fall away! Two of the churches Jesus did not correct: 1. Smyrna, the persecuted church. And 2. Philadelphia, the faithful church.
Tribulation…persecution…is what is coming. Smyrna was already in it, and didn’t really need much instruction in how to overcome it…they had already stood faithful in persecution. Jesus simply encouraged them by telling them the length of time they would need to endure and gave them promises for continuing to “overcome.”
With the exception of Philadelphia, the rest of the Churches were severely warned. If you aren’t in persecution right now…unlike Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Sudan…the list is long right now…then you are likely in a church, or individual state of mind, like Ephesus, Thyatira, Pergamum, Sardis, or Laodicea. VERY few, in my observation, are like Philadelphia…faithful with the Key of David as their strength and a vision to open heaven. Jesus said unless the other churches repent and become like Philadelphia, they will fall. Only Philadelphia…the church of brotherly love…is one the track to success, because only Philadelphia agrees with David’s one way to endure the time of trouble! Jesus makes them the most astounding promise:
Revelation 3:10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Jesus promised them what He prayed for in John 17:
John 17:15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
To be kept is not to be removed from the earth to avoid the trouble, but to be made safe IN the trouble. Jesus says this is because they have chosen to agree with Him about the way to be safe…using David’s Key:
Revelation 3:7-8 "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, 'These things says He who is holy, He who is true, "HE WHO HAS THE KEY OF DAVID, HE WHO OPENS AND NO ONE SHUTS, AND SHUTS AND NO ONE OPENS": "I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
David’s key of night and day prayer opened heaven over Israel and made her safe. The Generation of Jacob that seeks God’s face in night and day prayer is the one that will open the ancient gate…a door no one can shut.
Psalms 24:6-7 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.
As heaven manifests in the locations that do Philadelphia’s plan by responding faithfully like Jacob to the time of trouble…wrestling through the night for the blessing… heaven will open and the antichrist will not overcome them. They will be kept safe in the tabernacle, which the antichrist will blaspheme, but not overcome. This has always been the plan.
Amos 9:9-11 "For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, 'The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.' "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
Right now, God has begun a great sifting of the nations. As the intensity of the earth heats up…as the darkness visibly matures…we must choose where our strength is. Is it in the government, in my 401k, in the “way things have always been”?…or is it in the 24/7 tabernacle which is being re-established on the earth in this hour? This choice will make all the difference in the world for how the next seven to 10 years go for you and your family. The end time plan Will work out, but how will it work out for you?
Satan will continue to blaspheme the tabernacle…he must. But what will YOU do about the tabernacle? Everyone must decide…the day of the Lord is near THIS decision: is worship and prayer my strength like it was for Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20, or will it be in the plans and schemes of men…in, or out of, the Church, that I trust? Your decision REALLY matters:
Joel 3:9-14 Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, 'I am strong.' " Assemble and come, all you nations, And gather together all around. Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O LORD. "Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats overflow— For their wickedness is great." Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Where the Bible says much, we should say much, and where the Bible says a little, we should say little. Majoring on the majors and minoring on the minors is important. Sometimes though, we can fall for the deception that the minor issues are the ones people tend to argue about, and we can all just get along about the major issue of following Jesus. The trouble is, sometimes the most disputed issues are actually the most important issues...that is why the enemy stirs up arguments and confusion around them!
One of those issues that is surrounded by trouble is the Revelation of Jesus and His end time plans. Yes, this is what many would call a "disputable matter not essential to salvation"...but actually, this is the ONE issue Jesus spent most of His time warning about! Understanding the end time plan may not be essential for entering into salvation, but it IS essential for hanging onto salvation when the end time armies demand you pledge your allegiance to the antichrist or starve!
What is coming REQUIRES endurance according to Jesus and ALL the apostles. So, you can couch Jesus' end time plan as something not that important to you, but unfortunately for those who take this approach, understanding the plan is SUPER important to Jesus.
This is why Jesus’ return and the specific nature of it is SO important: Jesus didn't come to go away. He came to stay! Right now, Jesus is including US in the process of building His kingdom...establishing His throne...to receive Him. Ignoring the process and neglecting to INTENTIONALLY enter into it is actually ignoring what is CENTRAL in Jesus' mind.
Jesus KNEW this would be the state of His Bride as the Revelation events unfolded. He warned His disciples about missing the point of what He was telling them about His return. Over and over Jesus told His disciples to be ready to endure and overcome.
Matthew 24:9-14 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Many imagine Jesus just popping into the sky at any minute, and along with that comes the imaginary solution of just "hanging in there until He comes." This is exactly contrary to what Jesus said. There is SO much to do in this hour. The Matthew 24 passage lays out the broad strokes: know what is coming, prepare to endure so that you won't just hang in there, but that you will be out gathering in the harvest. Jesus laid this all out in His final prayer in the upper room on that last night with His friends. This is the end time plan:
John 17:15-26
To endure tribulation:
(Vs. 15- 16) I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
To be set apart, like Acts 5. In the world but clearly not of it:
(Vs 16-19) They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
To be united. Not scattered each doing their own thing, believing their own thing, but rather united in desiring the same experience those first disciples had...tarrying in the upper room, walking in the power of Pentecost, and seeing thousands saved at a time:
(Vs. 20-21)“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one,
Not just one with each other, but One with Jesus...sharing HIS suffering, but also reflecting His glory. The Bride growing into perfectly...growing into spotlessly...representing Jesus on earth. She will walk in this more and more with the pinnacle happening at the end of the Tribulation:
(Vs. 21-23) as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one,
All culminating in the gathering in of a harvest as the world, and especially the remnant in Israel (that is another story for another day) witness the love of Jesus manifest in and through His Bride!:
(Vs. 23) and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
This requires advanced preparation, because the Bride will do this through the worst time the earth has ever seen. God is going to turn mankind over to their own evil desires for 3.5 years...42 months. The world is clamoring for a perfect governmental system to make the earth peaceful, just, clean, and restored. There is a man on the scene that wants to be a humanistic messiah to the people. If they don't agree with him, he believes it is because they just aren't smart enough...he will overrule them to make his definition of justice happen. This is an evil man.
There is no peace, love, or justice apart from the one worthy to own it all and distribute it justly. There is no peace outside of the Prince of Peace! However, most of the world believes people are pretty good without God. For 42 months, the earth will "have it her way"...and a prostitute government and her leader the antichrist will offer her services to the world in order to give peace a chance...the harlot will offer the world the same things the Bride is supposed to be doing. The harlot will kill the Bride who cares "more about Jesus than people":
Revelation 13:4-7 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
Did you hear what the antichrist and harlot will war against by blasphemy, which means to call something good evil? 1. The name of Jesus. 2. His tabernacle...that IS the night and day praying church, and 3. Those saints in heaven who died loyal to Jesus. He will call the saints in heaven evil because they were killed for interrupting the plans of his socialist government that was actually doing some good in the world and wasn't just praying for Jesus and his judgments to come...
This is what those saints in heaven have to say about it:
Revelation 6:9-11 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.
This is all beginning to happen RIGHT NOW. Look around. Tribulation is hitting the middle east like cray cray, as my kids would say. The world is so confused right now...even the Church...many think helping people with man-based peace, or water, or freedom is more important that connecting the people of the earth to the One who is coming to save them forever! Jesus said that you cannot love people (the second greatest commandment) UNTIL you first love God with all your mind, heart, soul, and strength (the greatest commandment). The world will hate and blaspheme (call evil) those patiently trying to live out this truth. They will say “the world is trying to DO something and those fundamental Christians are so loyal to Jesus they won’t join us and help.” When the antichrist formally makes peace in Israel, this reality is going to go right through the roof…like a flood. If you call THAT man the antichrist, you will be marked for persecution, by law.
The people of the world do not care about loyalty to what Jesus said:
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
The world does not believe this principal, but God's people are supposed to MODEL it while the worlds system is breaking down…not because God hates the world, but because God so loves the world. The world says “God wants you to do something for Him.” But the Bible says God wants you to do something WITH Him.
John 15:4-6 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
This division between those who PRAY first…abiding UNTIL the power comes…and those who DO first, without any true concern for the relationship God wants, will be distinct in, and out of the Church. The Church is VERY susceptible to the same deception the world will fall for…that is why the Falling Away MUST happen:
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
Lawlessness is the problem of the day…The antichrist is the man of lawlessness. When things don’t go his way, he just changes the law himself.
2 Thessalonians 2:2-4 Don't be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who say that the day of the Lord has already begun. Don't believe them, even if they claim to have had a spiritual vision, a revelation, or a letter supposedly from us. Don't be fooled by what they say. For that day will not come until there is a great rebellion against God and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the one who brings destruction. He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.
Daniel 7:25 He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand For a time and times and half a time.
Taking matters into your own hands rather than living in the authority of the abiding conversation FIRST…and doing second…is the lawless way…the promised source of most of the trouble in the earth in the last 3.5 years.
David cared about authority. He saw God as the source of all his strength. David loved GOD first, and his neighbors as himself second. This is the true path to brotherly love and marked David’s kingdom with many years of peace. 24,000 people all worked in close proximity to keep the tabernacle going 24/7…you can only accomplish that with a lot of brotherly..Philadelphia…love going on.
David loved God first in a practical way by building 24/7 prayer...making God His strength. Jesus told His disciples the same thing..don't even try to do the great commission until you do night and day prayer first. Unity…brotherly love…was essential for the power to come in a way that agreed with Jesus’ plan for His Bride. If you go out without the unity and prayer first, you are going out in your own strength! That is lawless. To tarry for the power so you can go in God's strength...it seems weak to the world…but God chose the weak things to demonstrate true strength! This is how Jesus told the disciples to go build the kingdom: pray night and day TOGETHER first, wait for the power, then use what you get to bring in the harvest...rinse and repeat:
Luke 24:47-49 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”
Jesus sowed the seeds of the harvest that day, but they needed to be watered by the Spirit. What started in Jerusalem as seed was going to mature as it went to the ends of the earth...all nations. Jesus told the parable of the wheat and tares to demonstrate this:
Matthew 13:36-43 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field." He answered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
In this LAST generation, we are supposed to be walking in a more full maturity of the seeds the Son of Man sowed in His 3.5 year public ministry...the fullness of maturity will happen in the Brides 3.5 years of public ministry, called the Great Tribulation.
The Great Tribulaiton…the Bride's 3.5 year ministry…won't be spent in underground bunkers with enough guns and food...or hiding in caves...No!...The Bride's ministry will be "one" with Jesus... as a glorious representation of her groom!
Jesus sowed the good seed, and when the Spirit brought the first rain, the seeds sprouted with 3,000 people getting saved in Acts 2. There isn’t just one rain that brings forth the crop. Tarrying was an essential part of the great commission. Search for the phrase “night and day” in the Bible and you will see those disciples taught night and day prayer…this is how Jesus’ Kingdom…His throne…the place He will manifest His rule…will come. Just like David’s power was based on people offering God praise 24/7…Jesus will sit on the same place of authority. Jesus isn’t coming in one magic moment to impose His rule on earth…No, Jesus is going to establish His seat THROUGH…among…us:
Luke 17:20-21 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."
The people who will establish David’s end time throne for Jesus on night and day worship are among us right now. They are maturing in this hour…but so are the tares…those desiring the darkness in man’s heart apart from God. According to the Bible…darkness is in and out of the Church. Righteousness is going to a whole new level, but SO IS EVIL…darkness. It will manifest in the greatest time of martyrdom the earth has ever seen. As He was the first martyr, Jesus prophesied much worse was coming:
Luke 23:28-31 But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!' Then they will begin 'TO SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS, "FALL ON US!" AND TO THE HILLS, "COVER US!" ' For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?"
The end time Babylon…I believe this is the USA…will be “full of the blood of the saints.” That means a lot of Christians live and will be killed in the end time Babylon:
Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth."
This sounds scary, and IS scary if you don’t know the plan. There is a plan to keep you and your family safe…BUT there is only ONE plan. This calls for endurance...according to the Bible, there is only ONE way to endure this time. That ONE way is David's ONE THING. If waiting out the antichrist, or battling his forces is your plan…especially if it involves weapons or a plan to use physical force…you WILL fail. Prayer…patience and faith…is the only response that agrees with Jesus:
Revelation 13:9-10 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
David knew the answer to this time of trouble:
Psalms 27:1-6 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell. Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war may rise against me, In this I will be confident. One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
Satan is going to blaspheme the TABERNACLE of Jesus because the tabernacle is the strength of God manifest on earth. Satan won’t waste his time blaspheming governments, or local militia men with semi automatic weapons, because God is not going to redeem the earth by infiltrating the government or using a man-based plan.
Satan has limited resources, and he will use them to attack the things that actually work! That is why in the 42 months the antichrist is given authority to make war on the Bride, he will blaspheme and war against the things that really are strength: the name of Jesus, night and day prayer, and the precious deaths of the saints that went before, saying they died for an evil cause.
Jesus gave Revelation 2 and 3 in order to get the Church ready for the tribulation. Seven distinct and divided churches become one spotless Bride through the events of Revelation and those churches are introduced in Revelation 2 and 3. Jesus corrected 5 of the 7 churches and told them unless they repented, they would fall away! Two of the churches Jesus did not correct: 1. Smyrna, the persecuted church. And 2. Philadelphia, the faithful church.
Tribulation…persecution…is what is coming. Smyrna was already in it, and didn’t really need much instruction in how to overcome it…they had already stood faithful in persecution. Jesus simply encouraged them by telling them the length of time they would need to endure and gave them promises for continuing to “overcome.”
With the exception of Philadelphia, the rest of the Churches were severely warned. If you aren’t in persecution right now…unlike Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Sudan…the list is long right now…then you are likely in a church, or individual state of mind, like Ephesus, Thyatira, Pergamum, Sardis, or Laodicea. VERY few, in my observation, are like Philadelphia…faithful with the Key of David as their strength and a vision to open heaven. Jesus said unless the other churches repent and become like Philadelphia, they will fall. Only Philadelphia…the church of brotherly love…is one the track to success, because only Philadelphia agrees with David’s one way to endure the time of trouble! Jesus makes them the most astounding promise:
Revelation 3:10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Jesus promised them what He prayed for in John 17:
John 17:15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
To be kept is not to be removed from the earth to avoid the trouble, but to be made safe IN the trouble. Jesus says this is because they have chosen to agree with Him about the way to be safe…using David’s Key:
Revelation 3:7-8 "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, 'These things says He who is holy, He who is true, "HE WHO HAS THE KEY OF DAVID, HE WHO OPENS AND NO ONE SHUTS, AND SHUTS AND NO ONE OPENS": "I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
David’s key of night and day prayer opened heaven over Israel and made her safe. The Generation of Jacob that seeks God’s face in night and day prayer is the one that will open the ancient gate…a door no one can shut.
Psalms 24:6-7 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.
As heaven manifests in the locations that do Philadelphia’s plan by responding faithfully like Jacob to the time of trouble…wrestling through the night for the blessing… heaven will open and the antichrist will not overcome them. They will be kept safe in the tabernacle, which the antichrist will blaspheme, but not overcome. This has always been the plan.
Amos 9:9-11 "For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, 'The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.' "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
Right now, God has begun a great sifting of the nations. As the intensity of the earth heats up…as the darkness visibly matures…we must choose where our strength is. Is it in the government, in my 401k, in the “way things have always been”?…or is it in the 24/7 tabernacle which is being re-established on the earth in this hour? This choice will make all the difference in the world for how the next seven to 10 years go for you and your family. The end time plan Will work out, but how will it work out for you?
Satan will continue to blaspheme the tabernacle…he must. But what will YOU do about the tabernacle? Everyone must decide…the day of the Lord is near THIS decision: is worship and prayer my strength like it was for Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20, or will it be in the plans and schemes of men…in, or out of, the Church, that I trust? Your decision REALLY matters:
Joel 3:9-14 Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, 'I am strong.' " Assemble and come, all you nations, And gather together all around. Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O LORD. "Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats overflow— For their wickedness is great." Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
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