Gold Bought in Fire: Cities of Refuge
Revelation 3:16-19 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
Jesus is standing at the door wanting to come in and be with us where we live. This will make many locations "cities of refuge" in the storm Jesus is allowing to form called "tribulation."
Cities of refuge are an important end time reality. Right now, if you listen, you can hear a lot of people talking about cities of refuge. There is a TON of bad information regarding them, and lots of people talk about them without the right context for why God wants to establish them. The Bible is clear that cities of refuge will be established through the end time tribulation. It is important to understand what a city of refuge is and how it is establish it in agreement with God in order for it to actually WORK!
Psalms 127:1 Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.
Many people have been approaching me over the last couple of months and asking me "what are some practical things I can do to get ready for what is coming?". This is a great question, and it reveals that many people are starting to understand the simple truth that tribulation is either rapidly approaching or has already begun. It certainly has and at this point you actually have to try to not see it increasing in order to miss it. Many are running out of ways to explain away what is clearly rising up.
About a year ago I started teaching that I believed tribulation began in December 2013. Not only do I have much more clarity on what that means, I have much more confidence that it was an accurate word. It made many angry at the time I began speaking it out, but it is being proven in a progressive way in the simple changing of the atmosphere globally. What I mean is that since I began stating this odd thing many significant things have happened:
1. The east and the west have split again along the lines of the cold war. Russia and Shia Islam are once again facing off with the west and Sunni Islam (yes, we are aligned with Sunni's who want the establishment of a Caliphate, even though we are "fighting" against the ones successfully getting the Caliphate going. This is an illusion.). These are two promised end time coalitions that will form the end time world war that begins at the beginning of the great tribulation, which I personally believe is only a couple of years away:
Revelation 6:4 Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
2. ISIS emerged in Spring 2014, and has spread out dramatically from the place it emerged. This is clearly resulting in a huge increase in Christian martyrdom, but also in the persecution of anyone who doesn't subscribe to fundamental Islam. This rise of ISIS is clearly the re-emergence of Assyria, pwith it's capital in Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), promised to be a significant portion of the end time judgment:
Isaiah 14:25-26 That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, And his burden removed from their shoulders. This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
3. The checks and balances on the American branches of government are all but obliterated by an increasingly arrogant executive branch which simply claims it will do what "is best" for the people despite the law. For 200 years the law HAS been considered best for the people of the USA. We are in a dangerous new era of dictatorship and the people are mostly silent. This is a significant part of the promised emergence of "lawlessness" the Bible describes marking the beginning of the end times:
II Thessalonians 2:7-8 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.
4. The church is increasingly dividing along the lines of Israel and sexuality, but other issues like race and end time truth are emerging to further pull the church apart. Division is being instigated along the lines of "fundamentalism" vs. "Relevancy" in the church, and, in my observations, very few in the church understand it, or even care to. Political leaders, like the very powerful and globally popular American President, are aligning with very powerful and popular religious leaders, like the current Pope, who are not just saying the same things regarding poverty, sexuality, and climate change, but they have a common solution which is that these issues primarily need to be addressed by governments in making new laws, imposing restriction, and redistributing wealth. What should be even more alarming is that these two men are now collaboratively working on peace deals, like the reconciliation of Cuba and the USA.
When the Church comes alongside the government to repent, give glory to God, and admit that only God could fix the problems, very good things happen.
BUT
When the Church comes alongside the government to advance an agenda, get leaders elected, or infiltrate "unrighteous" spheres of influence together, very bad things happen. Very bad. World history is clear about this.
There is a very dangerous mixing of religion and church right now that asserts political change is the answer the earth needs. Let me be clear: the kind of political change the earth needs is a complete reset that will only be accomplished by the King of Kings. Any attempt to join world religion and government together in advance of Jesus returning is clearly described in the Bible as antichrist. You see this, right?!
If you want to be safe through the storm that is coming, there is only ONE solution: come out of trying to salvage your "best life now" and get into full time repentance. Repentance means simply "agree with God." He's the only solution and He is clearly orchestrating major world disruption, because he is changing the leadership of the earth. It is a "coup" from heaven. Coups are very disruptive. Its time to pick which side of this coup you are on, and to start working to bring it. The weapons of this coup are spiritual, not carnal.
Again, the people who should care...those who claim to love Jesus and want him to return, are mostly blind to what this means and passive about it occurring. That is VERY bad news. A perfect storm is brewing. It is just waiting for the trigger to be pulled before there is a very large global shift... that shift is coming very soon.
The trigger will be a third great economic shaking, which will sweep out the comfort and resources from the stable places in the earth:
Isaiah 24:1-13 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants. And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As with the creditor, so with the debtor. The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the Lord has spoken this word. The earth mourns and fades away, The world languishes and fades away; The haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left. The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh. The mirth of the tambourine ceases, The noise of the jubilant ends, The joy of the harp ceases. They shall not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. The city of confusion is broken down; Every house is shut up, so that none may go in. There is a cry for wine in the streets, All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone. In the city desolation is left, And the gate is stricken with destruction. When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, It shall be like the shaking of an olive tree, Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.
The loss of comfort Isaiah promised would be global will heat up the "soup" of world tension enough to set it off. There is a promised new global currency coming. The Bible calls this currency the "mark of the beast." It will be the signature solution antichrist will offer the world that will promote him and establish him as the global leader. "Never let a good crisis go to waste" is the mantra of this man.
The global currency will be a much beloved "answer" to the crisis of near-collapse of world currencies. Just like "TARP" was an overnight emergency answer to the collapse of the US banking system in 2008, the mark world currency will be the overnight emergency "answer" to near global banking collapse...many believe this is months away...like before the end of 2015. Are you ready for that? It will be very painful if you are not. What does it even mean TO get ready for that?
Listen, friends. Isaiah promised some WOULD be ready, and they would be singing through the worst trouble earth has ever seen!!
Isaiah 24:14-16 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; For the majesty of the Lord They shall cry aloud from the sea. Therefore glorify the Lord in the dawning light, The name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea. From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: “Glory to the righteous!” But I said, “I am ruined, ruined! Woe to me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.”
What are these "looney" people singing about!? We must know. I want to sing, not cry! Is it:
Savings? No
Guns? No
Food stored? No
None of these things will help you through Jesus' way of dealing with the spiritual problem of the earth. The earth has a spiritual problem, namely the earth wants all the benefits of life without the leadership of the Author of life. This is a basic spiritual problem Jesus promised to return to address, but most of God's people are searching for a physical solution to the problem Jesus is answering! There is no physical solution to the spiritual problem. Going after any physical solution actually makes you a PART of the spiritual problem! Ugh...what do we do Jesus?! The answer is easy: come out!
Revelation 18:4-8 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
The way Jesus has promised to change the leadership of the earth is by judging the evil human leadership structures by giving them what they want: leadership over the people and resources of the earth, absent God which will occur over a 7-year time period. The first 3.5 years will establish the humanistic global solution, and for the second 3.5 years it will have complete authority over anyone not intently going after Jesus with vision to resist the threats against their comfort, families, and futures:
Revelation 13:5-8 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. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
42 months of the earth getting what it wants, which is freedom from the restrictions of the one true owner of the earth and collaboration with Him, will be very bad for much of the earth. They have zeal to break the bonds...
"Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one"
This is what MUCH of the world wants, and Jesus will let the world taste it, for love:
Psalms 2:2-5 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure
This must happen. The bad leadership of the earth must be judged so that those who want truth will see the bad fruit of living apart from the author of life and love. Many will be saved by these events. Judgment is clearly coming, but God does it in a way that doesn't violate love or truth...He judges evil by letting evil have its way so the lie is exposed and many come into truth.
Whenever God judges evil, He makes a way for those who disagree with it to be made safe...to come out:
Ezekiel 9:3-6 Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side; and the Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.” To the others He said in my hearing, “Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
This marking and judgment always begins in the people of God...in our case, in the Church. There are literally, right now, angels observing and recording YOUR attitude towards what is happening all around you. Did you know that? Peter promised the end time judgment would start in the Church:
I Peter 4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
This is promised to happen in the end times, just like Ezekiel saw:
Revelation 7:1-3 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
Right now, all the pieces are in place for a major advance in the intensity of tribulation to occur. It will certainly increase dramatically... just look around, what is the trend you see?
I personally believe fall of 2015 will be a game changer in many ways, mostly because of how accurately Jonathan Cahn (author of the Harbinger) and others have outlined the spiritual dynamics behind the seven year judgment cycles touching America and spreading out over the globe... Sept. 11, 2001, the Economic Collapse of September 2008, and the soon coming shaking in 2015. Either way, whether my personal time line is right or wrong, time is running out to get ready for the promised tribulation in a meaningful way that will spare your family much of the pain. I am not talking about storing guns or food or buying a bunker... I am not talking about investing in gold or moving to Alaska. I am talking about finding out what the BIBLE says is practical, and how to practically do it.
For the next few messages, I will lay out some broad outlines of the concept of cities of refuge, why God is establishing them right now, and how you can come into them in a practical way. Cities of refuge will be built very quickly, because judgment comes like a flood. You need to Watch. Pray. Be Ready.
Luke 21:34-36 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Jesus is standing at the door wanting to come in and be with us where we live. This will make many locations "cities of refuge" in the storm Jesus is allowing to form called "tribulation."
Cities of refuge are an important end time reality. Right now, if you listen, you can hear a lot of people talking about cities of refuge. There is a TON of bad information regarding them, and lots of people talk about them without the right context for why God wants to establish them. The Bible is clear that cities of refuge will be established through the end time tribulation. It is important to understand what a city of refuge is and how it is establish it in agreement with God in order for it to actually WORK!
Psalms 127:1 Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.
Many people have been approaching me over the last couple of months and asking me "what are some practical things I can do to get ready for what is coming?". This is a great question, and it reveals that many people are starting to understand the simple truth that tribulation is either rapidly approaching or has already begun. It certainly has and at this point you actually have to try to not see it increasing in order to miss it. Many are running out of ways to explain away what is clearly rising up.
About a year ago I started teaching that I believed tribulation began in December 2013. Not only do I have much more clarity on what that means, I have much more confidence that it was an accurate word. It made many angry at the time I began speaking it out, but it is being proven in a progressive way in the simple changing of the atmosphere globally. What I mean is that since I began stating this odd thing many significant things have happened:
1. The east and the west have split again along the lines of the cold war. Russia and Shia Islam are once again facing off with the west and Sunni Islam (yes, we are aligned with Sunni's who want the establishment of a Caliphate, even though we are "fighting" against the ones successfully getting the Caliphate going. This is an illusion.). These are two promised end time coalitions that will form the end time world war that begins at the beginning of the great tribulation, which I personally believe is only a couple of years away:
Revelation 6:4 Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
2. ISIS emerged in Spring 2014, and has spread out dramatically from the place it emerged. This is clearly resulting in a huge increase in Christian martyrdom, but also in the persecution of anyone who doesn't subscribe to fundamental Islam. This rise of ISIS is clearly the re-emergence of Assyria, pwith it's capital in Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), promised to be a significant portion of the end time judgment:
Isaiah 14:25-26 That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, And his burden removed from their shoulders. This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
3. The checks and balances on the American branches of government are all but obliterated by an increasingly arrogant executive branch which simply claims it will do what "is best" for the people despite the law. For 200 years the law HAS been considered best for the people of the USA. We are in a dangerous new era of dictatorship and the people are mostly silent. This is a significant part of the promised emergence of "lawlessness" the Bible describes marking the beginning of the end times:
II Thessalonians 2:7-8 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.
4. The church is increasingly dividing along the lines of Israel and sexuality, but other issues like race and end time truth are emerging to further pull the church apart. Division is being instigated along the lines of "fundamentalism" vs. "Relevancy" in the church, and, in my observations, very few in the church understand it, or even care to. Political leaders, like the very powerful and globally popular American President, are aligning with very powerful and popular religious leaders, like the current Pope, who are not just saying the same things regarding poverty, sexuality, and climate change, but they have a common solution which is that these issues primarily need to be addressed by governments in making new laws, imposing restriction, and redistributing wealth. What should be even more alarming is that these two men are now collaboratively working on peace deals, like the reconciliation of Cuba and the USA.
When the Church comes alongside the government to repent, give glory to God, and admit that only God could fix the problems, very good things happen.
BUT
When the Church comes alongside the government to advance an agenda, get leaders elected, or infiltrate "unrighteous" spheres of influence together, very bad things happen. Very bad. World history is clear about this.
There is a very dangerous mixing of religion and church right now that asserts political change is the answer the earth needs. Let me be clear: the kind of political change the earth needs is a complete reset that will only be accomplished by the King of Kings. Any attempt to join world religion and government together in advance of Jesus returning is clearly described in the Bible as antichrist. You see this, right?!
If you want to be safe through the storm that is coming, there is only ONE solution: come out of trying to salvage your "best life now" and get into full time repentance. Repentance means simply "agree with God." He's the only solution and He is clearly orchestrating major world disruption, because he is changing the leadership of the earth. It is a "coup" from heaven. Coups are very disruptive. Its time to pick which side of this coup you are on, and to start working to bring it. The weapons of this coup are spiritual, not carnal.
Again, the people who should care...those who claim to love Jesus and want him to return, are mostly blind to what this means and passive about it occurring. That is VERY bad news. A perfect storm is brewing. It is just waiting for the trigger to be pulled before there is a very large global shift... that shift is coming very soon.
The trigger will be a third great economic shaking, which will sweep out the comfort and resources from the stable places in the earth:
Isaiah 24:1-13 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants. And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As with the creditor, so with the debtor. The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the Lord has spoken this word. The earth mourns and fades away, The world languishes and fades away; The haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left. The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh. The mirth of the tambourine ceases, The noise of the jubilant ends, The joy of the harp ceases. They shall not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. The city of confusion is broken down; Every house is shut up, so that none may go in. There is a cry for wine in the streets, All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone. In the city desolation is left, And the gate is stricken with destruction. When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, It shall be like the shaking of an olive tree, Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.
The loss of comfort Isaiah promised would be global will heat up the "soup" of world tension enough to set it off. There is a promised new global currency coming. The Bible calls this currency the "mark of the beast." It will be the signature solution antichrist will offer the world that will promote him and establish him as the global leader. "Never let a good crisis go to waste" is the mantra of this man.
The global currency will be a much beloved "answer" to the crisis of near-collapse of world currencies. Just like "TARP" was an overnight emergency answer to the collapse of the US banking system in 2008, the mark world currency will be the overnight emergency "answer" to near global banking collapse...many believe this is months away...like before the end of 2015. Are you ready for that? It will be very painful if you are not. What does it even mean TO get ready for that?
Listen, friends. Isaiah promised some WOULD be ready, and they would be singing through the worst trouble earth has ever seen!!
Isaiah 24:14-16 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; For the majesty of the Lord They shall cry aloud from the sea. Therefore glorify the Lord in the dawning light, The name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea. From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: “Glory to the righteous!” But I said, “I am ruined, ruined! Woe to me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.”
What are these "looney" people singing about!? We must know. I want to sing, not cry! Is it:
Savings? No
Guns? No
Food stored? No
None of these things will help you through Jesus' way of dealing with the spiritual problem of the earth. The earth has a spiritual problem, namely the earth wants all the benefits of life without the leadership of the Author of life. This is a basic spiritual problem Jesus promised to return to address, but most of God's people are searching for a physical solution to the problem Jesus is answering! There is no physical solution to the spiritual problem. Going after any physical solution actually makes you a PART of the spiritual problem! Ugh...what do we do Jesus?! The answer is easy: come out!
Revelation 18:4-8 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
The way Jesus has promised to change the leadership of the earth is by judging the evil human leadership structures by giving them what they want: leadership over the people and resources of the earth, absent God which will occur over a 7-year time period. The first 3.5 years will establish the humanistic global solution, and for the second 3.5 years it will have complete authority over anyone not intently going after Jesus with vision to resist the threats against their comfort, families, and futures:
Revelation 13:5-8 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. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
42 months of the earth getting what it wants, which is freedom from the restrictions of the one true owner of the earth and collaboration with Him, will be very bad for much of the earth. They have zeal to break the bonds...
"Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one"
This is what MUCH of the world wants, and Jesus will let the world taste it, for love:
Psalms 2:2-5 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure
This must happen. The bad leadership of the earth must be judged so that those who want truth will see the bad fruit of living apart from the author of life and love. Many will be saved by these events. Judgment is clearly coming, but God does it in a way that doesn't violate love or truth...He judges evil by letting evil have its way so the lie is exposed and many come into truth.
Whenever God judges evil, He makes a way for those who disagree with it to be made safe...to come out:
Ezekiel 9:3-6 Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side; and the Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.” To the others He said in my hearing, “Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
This marking and judgment always begins in the people of God...in our case, in the Church. There are literally, right now, angels observing and recording YOUR attitude towards what is happening all around you. Did you know that? Peter promised the end time judgment would start in the Church:
I Peter 4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
This is promised to happen in the end times, just like Ezekiel saw:
Revelation 7:1-3 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
Right now, all the pieces are in place for a major advance in the intensity of tribulation to occur. It will certainly increase dramatically... just look around, what is the trend you see?
I personally believe fall of 2015 will be a game changer in many ways, mostly because of how accurately Jonathan Cahn (author of the Harbinger) and others have outlined the spiritual dynamics behind the seven year judgment cycles touching America and spreading out over the globe... Sept. 11, 2001, the Economic Collapse of September 2008, and the soon coming shaking in 2015. Either way, whether my personal time line is right or wrong, time is running out to get ready for the promised tribulation in a meaningful way that will spare your family much of the pain. I am not talking about storing guns or food or buying a bunker... I am not talking about investing in gold or moving to Alaska. I am talking about finding out what the BIBLE says is practical, and how to practically do it.
For the next few messages, I will lay out some broad outlines of the concept of cities of refuge, why God is establishing them right now, and how you can come into them in a practical way. Cities of refuge will be built very quickly, because judgment comes like a flood. You need to Watch. Pray. Be Ready.
Luke 21:34-36 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
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