Tribulation
In February of 2014, I began saying the oddest thing: that I believed the end time 7-year tribulation began on December 19, 2013. I wrote a paper about it and shared it on FB. I did this because after a lot of praying, and a couple of supernatural confirmations...strange visits and calls from acquaintances letting me know God would uphold me if I said it... I knew to not say it would be disobeying Jesus. There was real pressure to not say it from people I loved. In many ways, obeying Jesus in the simple saying of what I believed marked my life. My life has not been the same since.
The events I wrote of, and what I warned of...many of them have come to pass or become MUCH more clear in the two years since I first laid them out. Many of the things I was seeing were dim, but no less real. I began warning about the Great Tribulation, which I believed, and now believe even more, will begin to unfold in the summer of 2017. I may be right, or I may be wrong, but clearly, by the events that have transpired since December 2013, the world is going somewhere uncharted....never seen before...
Jesus warned His friends... Christians... over and over to be ready for the Great Tribulation. Christians that stay loyal to Jesus even as His judgments are unfolding, and the nations are raging against Him, will need readiness to stand, much like Jesus was trying to explain to Peter that HE needed to get ready to be counted a criminal with Jesus. Peter wouldn't listen and denied Jesus before men. Peter wouldn't respond by praying into the truth Jesus was warning of:
Mark 14:37 Then He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?
38“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
39 Again He went away and prayed, and spoke the same words.
40 And when He returned, He found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what to answer Him.
Right now, the signs of the times are trumpeting the hour... Great Trouble is coming. Tribulation IS spreading out from the middle East even as millions and millions of people pour out of the middle East in an unprecedented way.
When that trouble is here... when that wave lands in the least ready place... many will flee in panic because they wouldn't respond in advance.. Others will lawlessly try to fight with weapons, like Peter, because they wouldn't listen to the plan that works... Many will be deceived...in the church.... As fear gives way to confusion, and then the rationalization of rebellion... Your forever future is on the line:
Matthew 24:21“For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22“And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
23“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it.
24“For false Christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
25“See, I have told you beforehand.
Two years ago I began warning to not waste a 3.5 year time of preparation for what will come next, the worst 3.5 years the earth will ever see...but also the greatest time earth will ever see for those who take Jesus' advice and set their lives to watching and praying.
For many, the last two years of tribulation preparation have been lost...forfeited... as little foxes, distractions, the cares of this world came in and stole much of the fruit...some began and quit, others rejected the warning out of hand because no one else was saying it, and still some, knowing the warning was real, couldn't bear the heat of standing on this strange reality...what would everyone think if it turned out to be wrong?...
I didn't say these things to generate a following, or to make money, to sell books, or feel important. I said these things knowing they would be mostly rejected. I said them because the cost of not saying them is so high.
But this is the truth...If I am right... What is left is months to prepare...no longer years.
If I am wrong and you chose to live into the warning... Doing the Sermon on the Mount...learning generosity, learning forgiveness, learning to love the judgments....getting excited about His return....if I am wrong, and you listened, all you have lost is the boring dullness... The sickly sweet comfort of a bland American existence.
But, if I am right...and quite honestly the news of the hour confirms I am nearly daily... And you began your own conversation with Jesus to sift out the truth, then what you have gained is readiness to stand in that day.
If you haven't responded and I am right, then you have, in fact, lost precious time that you can never get back...not just time for you to get ready, but time for those around you to have seen your zeal and also have gotten ready.
The stakes are SO high.... This is why every writer of the New Testament chose the same course I did...i'd rather believe He is coming and be ready, than explain it away and be crushed by that day:
2 Peter 3:10 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?
13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;
1 Thessalonians 5:1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.
2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.
5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.
Daniel 12:1“At that time Michael shall stand up,
The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;
And there shall be a time of trouble,
Such as never was since there was a nation,
Even to that time.
And at that time your people shall be delivered,
Every one who is found written in the book.
2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
Some to everlasting life,
Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 Those who are wise shall shine
Like the brightness of the firmament,
And those who turn many to righteousness
Like the stars forever and ever.
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.”
He's coming... Do you know what that really means?
The events I wrote of, and what I warned of...many of them have come to pass or become MUCH more clear in the two years since I first laid them out. Many of the things I was seeing were dim, but no less real. I began warning about the Great Tribulation, which I believed, and now believe even more, will begin to unfold in the summer of 2017. I may be right, or I may be wrong, but clearly, by the events that have transpired since December 2013, the world is going somewhere uncharted....never seen before...
Jesus warned His friends... Christians... over and over to be ready for the Great Tribulation. Christians that stay loyal to Jesus even as His judgments are unfolding, and the nations are raging against Him, will need readiness to stand, much like Jesus was trying to explain to Peter that HE needed to get ready to be counted a criminal with Jesus. Peter wouldn't listen and denied Jesus before men. Peter wouldn't respond by praying into the truth Jesus was warning of:
Mark 14:37 Then He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?
38“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
39 Again He went away and prayed, and spoke the same words.
40 And when He returned, He found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what to answer Him.
Right now, the signs of the times are trumpeting the hour... Great Trouble is coming. Tribulation IS spreading out from the middle East even as millions and millions of people pour out of the middle East in an unprecedented way.
When that trouble is here... when that wave lands in the least ready place... many will flee in panic because they wouldn't respond in advance.. Others will lawlessly try to fight with weapons, like Peter, because they wouldn't listen to the plan that works... Many will be deceived...in the church.... As fear gives way to confusion, and then the rationalization of rebellion... Your forever future is on the line:
Matthew 24:21“For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22“And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
23“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it.
24“For false Christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
25“See, I have told you beforehand.
Two years ago I began warning to not waste a 3.5 year time of preparation for what will come next, the worst 3.5 years the earth will ever see...but also the greatest time earth will ever see for those who take Jesus' advice and set their lives to watching and praying.
For many, the last two years of tribulation preparation have been lost...forfeited... as little foxes, distractions, the cares of this world came in and stole much of the fruit...some began and quit, others rejected the warning out of hand because no one else was saying it, and still some, knowing the warning was real, couldn't bear the heat of standing on this strange reality...what would everyone think if it turned out to be wrong?...
I didn't say these things to generate a following, or to make money, to sell books, or feel important. I said these things knowing they would be mostly rejected. I said them because the cost of not saying them is so high.
But this is the truth...If I am right... What is left is months to prepare...no longer years.
If I am wrong and you chose to live into the warning... Doing the Sermon on the Mount...learning generosity, learning forgiveness, learning to love the judgments....getting excited about His return....if I am wrong, and you listened, all you have lost is the boring dullness... The sickly sweet comfort of a bland American existence.
But, if I am right...and quite honestly the news of the hour confirms I am nearly daily... And you began your own conversation with Jesus to sift out the truth, then what you have gained is readiness to stand in that day.
If you haven't responded and I am right, then you have, in fact, lost precious time that you can never get back...not just time for you to get ready, but time for those around you to have seen your zeal and also have gotten ready.
The stakes are SO high.... This is why every writer of the New Testament chose the same course I did...i'd rather believe He is coming and be ready, than explain it away and be crushed by that day:
2 Peter 3:10 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?
13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;
1 Thessalonians 5:1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.
2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.
5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.
Daniel 12:1“At that time Michael shall stand up,
The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;
And there shall be a time of trouble,
Such as never was since there was a nation,
Even to that time.
And at that time your people shall be delivered,
Every one who is found written in the book.
2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
Some to everlasting life,
Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 Those who are wise shall shine
Like the brightness of the firmament,
And those who turn many to righteousness
Like the stars forever and ever.
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.”
He's coming... Do you know what that really means?
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