END TIMES: DARKNESS DESCENDING
A divine reckoning lies just ahead for all of humankind. Some will escape it, the majority won't. Where do you stand?
Previously, we explored chapter 6 in this on-going study of the book of John. We now continue with chapter 7. In this seventh chapter, the Apostle John draws upon the prophetic importance of the number seven.
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“He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark” (Job 36:32).
When the average person who holds no particular allegiance or faith to the idea of a God who exists in Heaven, they may comically imagine in their heads some sort of grandfatherly figure with a white bushy beard lurking in Heaven shooting out thunderbolts upon the earth. In part, traditional Hollywood movies, paintings and story telling may have something to do with this comical/traditional image of God. In reality, lightning is indeed associated with God. As the world nears the end of the Age and toward divine judgment as per what we read in the Bible’s prophetic end times text, we can expect to see God send forth some selective judgments and warnings to the world that Christ’s coming again for the born again body of Christ in the rapture event followed by the judgment of the Tribulation period is drawing near. Such was the case, I believe, in this unfortunate White House lightning strike.
In what may be a bad omen of things shortly to come, four people (two men and two women) were struck by a lightning bolt near the White House in Lafayette Park … on Barack Obama’s birthday. Initially, two were killed and two were seriously injured in this unfortunate event.
In the previous article in our ongoing trek through the book of John, we explored chapter 5 and its documentation of Jesus healing on the Sabbath, which was a prophecy of the coming millennial reign of Christ on Earth with His Church Saints for one-thousand years. It will be an extraordinary time in which humanity will enjoy a long Sabbath rest of Paradise restored to Earth. We now come to chapter 6 and the subject of Jesus’ declaration that He is the “bread of life.”
Continue reading “THE BREAD OF LIFE AND THE YEAR 2022: THE JUDAS/ANTICHRIST 6:6 CHAPTER/VERSE CODE”
In the previous installment in the book of John, we covered chapter 4 and the woman at the well. We discovered that the two days that Jesus spent in Samaria where he encountered this woman and revealed the Gospel message to the Gentile Samaritans is a picture of the passing of the two millennia of the Church Age since Jesus ascended back to Heaven after his crucifixion. During these two millennia, the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been shined forth to the Gentile nations of the earth. We are now at the end of those two millennia and we now await the rapture of the Church, followed by the judgment of the seven-year Tribulation period, after which the 1,000-year millennial reign of Christ will begin. Moving forward into chapter 5, we find that there are many facets to John’s fifth chapter that deserve our attention.
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In the previous article in this book of John study series, we explored the third chapter and Jesus’ meeting with Nicodemus. Here, we shall continue on to the next chapter in this series with chapter four and its documentation of Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well. Before beginning, let us again remind ourselves of a phenomenon that occurs within the pages of this sacred writ that we know as the Bible – a phenomenon that points us to the Providential and Divinely orchestrated structure of this book – as with all books of the Bible.
Continue reading “THE WOMAN AT THE WELL AND THE TWO-DAY RAPTURE CODE?”
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).
Many of us who are watching the signs of the times that are indicating the arrival of the end times and eventual rapture of the true church have likely heard the refrain and doubt of its reality from the rapture skeptics before. Many who do not believe in the rapture under-gird their opinion by proclaiming that John Nelson Darby, who was a founder of the Plymouth Brethren Church, an author and an influential proponent of a dispensational view of Scripture, first came up with the idea of a pre-tribulation rapture in 1820.
If you are concerned about rightly dividing the word of God, then you are involved with a subject biblical scholars call hermeneutics. According to Dr. A. Berkley Mickelsen, hermeneutics “designates both the science and art of interpretation. The Greek verb hermeneuo means ‘to interpret or explain.’ The Greek noun hermeneia means ‘interpretation.’ In both the Greek counterpart and the contemporary technical term, interpretation has to do with meaning” (A.B. Mickelsen, Interpreting the Bible, page 3).
We are finally here. The much anticipated year of 2022 has finally arrived. It is the year that, in careful biblical study and observation among Bible scholars, exhibits much prophetic promise in the way of anticipating Jesus’ return in the clouds to rapture home those who have personally received him before the first seal judgment of the Tribulation strikes the earth. Regardless of whether or not it happens this year, we will continue to watch and observe the signs that present to us the very strong possibility of not only this year (2022) being the year that kicks off the events that the biblical prophets warned us about long ago, but also for the coming next few years that shall, in due time, show as much promise as this year is currently showing should we still be here. But make no mistake, the signs that are emerging are plenty and getting more obvious by the day that there is not much time left. So, with that said, let’s now dig in and see what we find on our watching journey.
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“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3).
“When shall these things be?” is a question that deals not only with the subject of dating the return of Christ, but with how those prophesied events will lay out in sequence, as well. What happens first, second, third, etc.?
If we gain a basic understanding of the sequence of events, many difficult passages become clear and lay out in their proper order. Sometimes a scripture passage will not deal specifically with a prophetic event, but will simply add highlights of otherwise hidden meaning through what we may call “implication.” Such is the case with Psalm 122.
END TIMES: DARKNESS DESCENDING 