The Wedding
Look for references to the wedding and you will always find important end-time information. Psalm 19 is an end time Psalm where David shows us the purpose of the end time judgments, the nature of how they will develop, and how to get ready. Getting ready is very important. Every time Jesus spoke to believers about His return, He said "get ready." Being saved is not the same as being ready. The primary way to get ready is to get understanding of what is REALLY happening all around us. We feel the increased intensity of the day, but WHY is it happening?
Psalms 19:1-6 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoices like a strong man to run its race. Its rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
The Father has a brilliant plan to reveal Jesus as King of Kings to the earth. There is no life possible apart from Jesus, and God has promised a 7-year time period to make one final appeal to the earth to choose Jesus and live. This is called the tribulation. I believe we are in this final 7 years right now. I believe it started in December 2013. The news has gotten very troubling since December 2013…primarily in Israel, but also spreading out from there. This is all coinciding with great shaking of the earth itself. Creation’s groan is getting amplified in this hour. The trouble we see compounding in the earth is just the beginning. Day by day it is growing. This will continue like the dawning of a day. If the 7-year process of Jesus’ return were likened to the course of the sun across the sky, we would be in those predawn minutes where you can see the light increasing on the horizon, but you can’t yet see the sun. The judgments are just beginning.
The judgments are visible demonstrations of truth...they are applicable to every language. Just like the sun rises and shines its light on all the earth, so the judgments will shine all over the earth. This is great if you love the judgments...this is terrible if you do not. The return of Jesus, called the day of the Lord, is great AND terrible. Great if you love Jesus' appearing and terrible if you don't:
Joel 2:11 The Lord gives voice before His army, For His camp is very great; For strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; Who can endure it?
The judgments have been set, just like the course of the sun. These are the judgments: birthpangs which happen in the first 3.5 years of the 7-year period, then the 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 bowls, which occur in the final 3.5 years of the 7-year period, called the Great Tribulation. The judgments grow in intensity. Jesus said it is the maturing of the wheat and the tares. This harvest process actually started with the planting of the sons of the kingdom in Acts 1. For the last 2,000 years righteousness and evil have been maturing, but we are now, i believe, in the final act, called the harvest season. That means that the intensity of the judgments…the revealing of truth…increases as the evil…opposition to the truth…matures!
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." 37 He answered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 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, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
If you understand the judgments, what you quickly realize is that God has a brilliant plan to give everyone what they want by removing His restraining hand from the desire of mankind…letting the desire of mankind fully mature...both Godly desire (righteous shining) and evil desire (lawless people being consumed because the light of truth is touching the deepest darkness). This is intense. Getting what you want outside of God’s desire for you is very painful. This is what God "paused" from happening in Babel in Genesis 11:
Genesis 11:4-9 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
God gave dominion of the earth to mankind and He honors what people choose for the land they have been assigned. Because of love, God has committed to letting the people of the earth choose their own future. He isn’t interested in making love slaves…only those willing to live in the truth: that He made everything and is the only appropriate leader of the earth.
The community in Babel didn’t want to wait for God to come set things right. They didn’t like His leadership. Babel wanted to "make a name for themselves." The original Hebrew means "provide our own salvation." It wasn't a tall building they wanted...the people of Babel wanted to make the earth good again without God's leadership. This is evil...THIS is LAWLESS. We actually would call this communism now days. Babel wanted to fundamentally transform the basic nature of society, by assuming mankind could produce their own salvation with the right organization. The Bible is clear that this same Babel sentiment will rise up in the last days in a belief system called the "Harlot Babylon." God didn't pick the Babel reference on accident. The end time delusion that God must judge is the lie that mankind can make the earth good before God comes back to it. This is impossible:
Matthew 19:17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
God promised there was a day when He would let the spirit of Babel mature again so that mankind could get what they wanted, a good earth without loyalty to Jesus' leadership. God always promised that mankind would get whatever they set their hearts on, He just wasn't ready for earth to taste that kind of evil back in Genesis 11.
When evil men...that simply means God-less men, or lawless men...get their way for even just 7 years, the earth will see the worst destruction ever...it will make World War II and the Nazi holocaust look like picnic. In fact, if you do the math in Revelation 6 and 9, over 1/2 of the earth’s population will perish in 3.5 years. We are literally watching the storm system of the end time form all around us...it is just beginning to circulate like a hurricane. Jesus promised an end time storm that would test the foundation of every man, woman, and child. Claiming to be saved, even "doing church stuff" won't endure the storm...only those who "keep His commandments"...who love Him more than the world and what it claims is good...which is lawless "goodness"...will enter into life....just like He told the rich young ruler in Matthew 19:
Matthew 7:21-27 “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!’ “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
The storm happens when God removes His restraining hand from the latent evil desire first expressed in Babel:
II Thessalonians 2:6-12 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Daniel was told exactly what would result in this lifting of restraint: the internet and a "flat" earth resulting from globalization:
Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
God has allowed the internet and globalization to reconnect the communications that were broken at Babel. What is resulting is the unity of Babel releasing...day by day...night after night...the latent evil desire of Babel. It is no accident that communism rose in the nations right along with increasing communication.
The people of the earth have bought a terrible lie that divides. Satan intentionally lies to divide and conquer. This is the false argument that has boarded us onto an end time train of judgment: communism vs. capitalism.
One side says "we need a more fair distribution of resources, and we need to find the right man to do it!" This is communism.
The other side says "greed can make everything better because we will allow self interest to get everyone to compete for more and they will become better."
Both of these arguments are lies. No man can be trusted with the power to redistribute the resources of the earth, and greed doesn't have the capacity to solve the problem of lack in the earth. There is only one answer...only One leader is worthy to fairly wield power over all the earth: Jesus - the One who had all the power and laid it all down to show that God loves people more than power:
Philippians 2:5-11 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges ; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
This makes Jesus the only Man qualified to be the global leader...the only One qualified to take the deed of the earth...the scroll...from the Father's hand:
Revelation 5:4-5 Then I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll and read it. But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, “Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David’s throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Jesus is going to reveal the truth of this concept over the next 7 years. He has already laid out His transitional governmental plan: to reveal the truth…that God rewards those who seek Him wholeheartedly…make Him and His judgments their actual delight…wait on Him instead of falling for the Babel plan to get together in man-based unity and get some good done. Babel is a flawed desire…it will result in the worst trouble earth has ever seen. The seven seals are God letting an evil man get the evil government he has promised the people and what will result is the same thing that happens every time communism is tried:
1. Fear-based alignment of nations
2. World war
3. Famine
4. Pestilence and disease breaks out
5. Christians and Jews killed
Many will repent and come into the kingdom as these events unfold, but many will quit being Christians as they see the comfortable Jesus of the manger has some very hard lessons for the earth to learn. Many are completely unready for how bad the earth will get…they have believed fables that Jesus just wants them to be good and mind their own business as trouble and lawlessness increase in the earth. No! Jesus said “be ready.”
Those who repent and begin attempting to LOVE Jesus’ judgments will get MORE holy. They will literally shine in righteousness, just like Jesus said in the parable of the wheat and the tares. Their righteousness will open heaven as Jesus allows those in rebellion to see the next depth of the darkness they are actually living in.
If the people in the earth won’t repent when Jesus shows them the true heart of their humanistic savior that is promising Godless hope and change, then Jesus will turn up the heat with seven more judgments called “trumpets” and give the lawless people of the earth the father they are really serving. He will reveal satan’s desire for mankind as he allows satan to torment the people of the earth for several months, not to kill the people, but to save them. Many, when they see how evil satan and the lying angels that have rebelled against God are, will repent and turn to Jesus for leadership:
Revelation 9:1-6 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Many will repent, but many will also harden their hearts when they see these signs, just like Pharaoh did when He saw Moses’ signs. In one final attempt to save as many as will turn to him, Jesus will show the earth what life looks like completely removed from the Father’s restraining hand. These are called the 7 bowls. This last set of judgments are literally revealing the ways God has protected mankind from death all along. Day by day, over the course of 30 days, Jesus will remove His restraining hand from the bodies, the minds, and the resources of mankind.
This is the way to be protected from these judgments…agree with them. Love them. See them as love and not the hate of a love-less God. God hates the lie that mankind can live apart from Him because He LOVES mankind. He desires NO ONE PERISH:
2 Peter 3:9-12 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
We agree with the judgments…we love them…by agreeing with the truth behind them and day by day, night by night…seeing the truth of the hour we live in and, instead of ignoring it or hoping it will go away…we go the other direction! We say “this is it, what we have longed for…the return of God into the garden, not to destroy it, but to make it good again!” We cast off every other dream until what God called very good…man with God face to face on earth…is accomplished. This is what David said:
Psalms 19:7-14 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned, And in keeping them there is great reward. 12 Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults. 13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.
Psalms 19:1-6 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoices like a strong man to run its race. Its rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
The Father has a brilliant plan to reveal Jesus as King of Kings to the earth. There is no life possible apart from Jesus, and God has promised a 7-year time period to make one final appeal to the earth to choose Jesus and live. This is called the tribulation. I believe we are in this final 7 years right now. I believe it started in December 2013. The news has gotten very troubling since December 2013…primarily in Israel, but also spreading out from there. This is all coinciding with great shaking of the earth itself. Creation’s groan is getting amplified in this hour. The trouble we see compounding in the earth is just the beginning. Day by day it is growing. This will continue like the dawning of a day. If the 7-year process of Jesus’ return were likened to the course of the sun across the sky, we would be in those predawn minutes where you can see the light increasing on the horizon, but you can’t yet see the sun. The judgments are just beginning.
The judgments are visible demonstrations of truth...they are applicable to every language. Just like the sun rises and shines its light on all the earth, so the judgments will shine all over the earth. This is great if you love the judgments...this is terrible if you do not. The return of Jesus, called the day of the Lord, is great AND terrible. Great if you love Jesus' appearing and terrible if you don't:
Joel 2:11 The Lord gives voice before His army, For His camp is very great; For strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; Who can endure it?
The judgments have been set, just like the course of the sun. These are the judgments: birthpangs which happen in the first 3.5 years of the 7-year period, then the 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 bowls, which occur in the final 3.5 years of the 7-year period, called the Great Tribulation. The judgments grow in intensity. Jesus said it is the maturing of the wheat and the tares. This harvest process actually started with the planting of the sons of the kingdom in Acts 1. For the last 2,000 years righteousness and evil have been maturing, but we are now, i believe, in the final act, called the harvest season. That means that the intensity of the judgments…the revealing of truth…increases as the evil…opposition to the truth…matures!
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." 37 He answered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 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, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
If you understand the judgments, what you quickly realize is that God has a brilliant plan to give everyone what they want by removing His restraining hand from the desire of mankind…letting the desire of mankind fully mature...both Godly desire (righteous shining) and evil desire (lawless people being consumed because the light of truth is touching the deepest darkness). This is intense. Getting what you want outside of God’s desire for you is very painful. This is what God "paused" from happening in Babel in Genesis 11:
Genesis 11:4-9 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
God gave dominion of the earth to mankind and He honors what people choose for the land they have been assigned. Because of love, God has committed to letting the people of the earth choose their own future. He isn’t interested in making love slaves…only those willing to live in the truth: that He made everything and is the only appropriate leader of the earth.
The community in Babel didn’t want to wait for God to come set things right. They didn’t like His leadership. Babel wanted to "make a name for themselves." The original Hebrew means "provide our own salvation." It wasn't a tall building they wanted...the people of Babel wanted to make the earth good again without God's leadership. This is evil...THIS is LAWLESS. We actually would call this communism now days. Babel wanted to fundamentally transform the basic nature of society, by assuming mankind could produce their own salvation with the right organization. The Bible is clear that this same Babel sentiment will rise up in the last days in a belief system called the "Harlot Babylon." God didn't pick the Babel reference on accident. The end time delusion that God must judge is the lie that mankind can make the earth good before God comes back to it. This is impossible:
Matthew 19:17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
God promised there was a day when He would let the spirit of Babel mature again so that mankind could get what they wanted, a good earth without loyalty to Jesus' leadership. God always promised that mankind would get whatever they set their hearts on, He just wasn't ready for earth to taste that kind of evil back in Genesis 11.
When evil men...that simply means God-less men, or lawless men...get their way for even just 7 years, the earth will see the worst destruction ever...it will make World War II and the Nazi holocaust look like picnic. In fact, if you do the math in Revelation 6 and 9, over 1/2 of the earth’s population will perish in 3.5 years. We are literally watching the storm system of the end time form all around us...it is just beginning to circulate like a hurricane. Jesus promised an end time storm that would test the foundation of every man, woman, and child. Claiming to be saved, even "doing church stuff" won't endure the storm...only those who "keep His commandments"...who love Him more than the world and what it claims is good...which is lawless "goodness"...will enter into life....just like He told the rich young ruler in Matthew 19:
Matthew 7:21-27 “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!’ “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
The storm happens when God removes His restraining hand from the latent evil desire first expressed in Babel:
II Thessalonians 2:6-12 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Daniel was told exactly what would result in this lifting of restraint: the internet and a "flat" earth resulting from globalization:
Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
God has allowed the internet and globalization to reconnect the communications that were broken at Babel. What is resulting is the unity of Babel releasing...day by day...night after night...the latent evil desire of Babel. It is no accident that communism rose in the nations right along with increasing communication.
The people of the earth have bought a terrible lie that divides. Satan intentionally lies to divide and conquer. This is the false argument that has boarded us onto an end time train of judgment: communism vs. capitalism.
One side says "we need a more fair distribution of resources, and we need to find the right man to do it!" This is communism.
The other side says "greed can make everything better because we will allow self interest to get everyone to compete for more and they will become better."
Both of these arguments are lies. No man can be trusted with the power to redistribute the resources of the earth, and greed doesn't have the capacity to solve the problem of lack in the earth. There is only one answer...only One leader is worthy to fairly wield power over all the earth: Jesus - the One who had all the power and laid it all down to show that God loves people more than power:
Philippians 2:5-11 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges ; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
This makes Jesus the only Man qualified to be the global leader...the only One qualified to take the deed of the earth...the scroll...from the Father's hand:
Revelation 5:4-5 Then I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll and read it. But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, “Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David’s throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Jesus is going to reveal the truth of this concept over the next 7 years. He has already laid out His transitional governmental plan: to reveal the truth…that God rewards those who seek Him wholeheartedly…make Him and His judgments their actual delight…wait on Him instead of falling for the Babel plan to get together in man-based unity and get some good done. Babel is a flawed desire…it will result in the worst trouble earth has ever seen. The seven seals are God letting an evil man get the evil government he has promised the people and what will result is the same thing that happens every time communism is tried:
1. Fear-based alignment of nations
2. World war
3. Famine
4. Pestilence and disease breaks out
5. Christians and Jews killed
Many will repent and come into the kingdom as these events unfold, but many will quit being Christians as they see the comfortable Jesus of the manger has some very hard lessons for the earth to learn. Many are completely unready for how bad the earth will get…they have believed fables that Jesus just wants them to be good and mind their own business as trouble and lawlessness increase in the earth. No! Jesus said “be ready.”
Those who repent and begin attempting to LOVE Jesus’ judgments will get MORE holy. They will literally shine in righteousness, just like Jesus said in the parable of the wheat and the tares. Their righteousness will open heaven as Jesus allows those in rebellion to see the next depth of the darkness they are actually living in.
If the people in the earth won’t repent when Jesus shows them the true heart of their humanistic savior that is promising Godless hope and change, then Jesus will turn up the heat with seven more judgments called “trumpets” and give the lawless people of the earth the father they are really serving. He will reveal satan’s desire for mankind as he allows satan to torment the people of the earth for several months, not to kill the people, but to save them. Many, when they see how evil satan and the lying angels that have rebelled against God are, will repent and turn to Jesus for leadership:
Revelation 9:1-6 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Many will repent, but many will also harden their hearts when they see these signs, just like Pharaoh did when He saw Moses’ signs. In one final attempt to save as many as will turn to him, Jesus will show the earth what life looks like completely removed from the Father’s restraining hand. These are called the 7 bowls. This last set of judgments are literally revealing the ways God has protected mankind from death all along. Day by day, over the course of 30 days, Jesus will remove His restraining hand from the bodies, the minds, and the resources of mankind.
This is the way to be protected from these judgments…agree with them. Love them. See them as love and not the hate of a love-less God. God hates the lie that mankind can live apart from Him because He LOVES mankind. He desires NO ONE PERISH:
2 Peter 3:9-12 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
We agree with the judgments…we love them…by agreeing with the truth behind them and day by day, night by night…seeing the truth of the hour we live in and, instead of ignoring it or hoping it will go away…we go the other direction! We say “this is it, what we have longed for…the return of God into the garden, not to destroy it, but to make it good again!” We cast off every other dream until what God called very good…man with God face to face on earth…is accomplished. This is what David said:
Psalms 19:7-14 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned, And in keeping them there is great reward. 12 Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults. 13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.
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