Scripture says, “The
Spirit and
the Bride
cry Jesus
come
quickly” and
if that is
not our
heart’s cry,
might we
ask, why?
Jesus told us to,
“Watch and
pray.” Why?
In the
Jewish
wedding
custom, the
bride did
not know
what hour
her
bridegroom
was coming.
She DID know
the season
and was
dressed and
prepared to
be “taken
away” by the
bridegroom.
Jesus told us in
John,
chapter 14
that He
would come
and receive
us unto
Himself,
“THAT WHERE
HE IS WE
MIGHT BE
ALSO.” That
is, the
“catching
away” of the
bride of
Christ.As
believer’s,
by the
Spirit of
God, there
should be a
work of
grace taking
place in our
hearts
causing us
to “long” to
be where
Jesus is.
And in that
longing, it
should stir
an urgency
to be about
our Father’s
business by
sharing that
great
news—that
Jesus did
come, born
of a virgin,
lived a
sinless
life, was
crucified
for our
sins, was
placed in a
borrowed
tomb for 3
days and
then ROSE
from the
grave.
Today He is Risen
indeed, and
He did go
away to
“prepare a
place” for
all those
who are His
and whose
eyes have
been opened
to call upon
His Name. He
admonished
us to be
found by Him
faithfully
serving Him,
while
“watching
and
praying,”
encouraging
us that when
we SEE “all
these
things” to
“LOOK UP,
for your
redemption
draws near”
and to be
faithfully
sharing the
Great News
while it is
yet day, for
there is
coming an
hour where
we will no
longer be
able to
work. (It
will be too
late.)
How can we really
know how
late it is?
Israel is the
prophetic
clock. The
Day of the
Lord begins
with an
agreement
for peace
that is
confirmed
between
Israel and
“the many”
(Daniel 9).
Right now at
this very
moment, the
US Secretary
of State is
once again
calling for
Israel to
give up land
for PEACE.
The world is
seeking to
divide
Israel with
a “two state
solution”
which
includes
dividing
Jerusalem.
Zechariah
tells us
that
Jerusalem
will become
a burden
upon the
entire
world.
I tell you by the
authority of
Scripture
that this is
a
tremendously
great time
in our
lives—to
examine our
“heart’s
cry.” Are we
apathetically
living
through this
time
believing
everything
will “pan
out?” Are we
more
concerned
with our
“best life
now?” OR are
we aligning
with His
Spirit,
crying out,
“Jesus, come
quickly”?Are
we striving
to build our
own kingdom
or are we
looking for
a city whose
Builder and
Maker is the
Lord?
You know we are
called
“believers”
and many
would say we
“believe”
the Word of
God. But the
Word of God
is about
one-third
Bible
Prophecy,
and it was
written, NOT
for us to be
in the dark
but in the
light. I’m
amazed at
how
apathetic
this “church
age” is,
considering
how
well-defined
this time is
scripturally.
It’s either
due to
unbelief,
lack
of knowledge
or depraved
indifference
that many
are not
filled with
GREAT JOY
that our
Lord’s
return is
“even at the
door.” Or
many are
seriously
broken,
weeping
between the
porch and
the altar on
behalf of
the
wickedness
of our time.
But some
are urgently sharing the gospel by faith believing time is shorter
than when we
first
believed.
We should NOT be in
the dark
about what
time it is!
1
Thessalonians
5:1-11:
“But
concerning
the times
and the
seasons,
brethren,
you have no
need that I
should write
to you.
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.
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.
Therefore
let us not
sleep, as
others
do, but
let us watch
and be
sober.
For
those who
sleep, sleep
at night,
and those
who get
drunk are
drunk at
night.
But let us
who are of
the day be
sober,
putting on
the
breastplate
of faith and
love, and
as a
helmet the
hope of
salvation.
For God did
not appoint
us to wrath,
but to
obtain
salvation
through our
Lord Jesus
Christ, who
died for us,
that whether
we wake or
sleep, we
should live
together
with Him.
Therefore
comfort each
other and
edify one
another,
just as you
also are
doing.”
OH, that is
some
seriously
GREAT news
right there.
You see many
would say
that the
bride will
have to
suffer
through the
Tribulation,
but they
misunderstand
what the
Tribulation
is all
about. It’s
a time of
God’s Wrath
being poured
out upon
those whom
refused His
sin
pardon.It
is NOT for
those who
have
believed in
the message
of the
Cross, for
they are not
appointed
unto wrath
because
Jesus took
our wrath
upon
Himself!
The
Day of the
Lord is a
time “set
apart” for a
people who
have
neglected
such a great
salvation.
Those who
have
trampled
underfoot
the gift of
GRACE found
in Jesus
Christ.There
are those
even now,
who are
shouting,
“Turn off
the light.”
They hate
the gospel;
they hate
the light
because
their deeds
are dark and
evil.
The time
that is
swiftly
approaching
is also
called,
“Jacob’s
Trouble” in
large part
because
Israel chose
Barabbas
instead of
Jesus.
Romans
Chapters
9-11 tells
us that it
was for our
sake that
they were
blinded to
the truth
for a time,
that we
might be
grafted in
through
Jesus Christ
and He who
is NOT yet
finished
with Israel
will open
their eyes
to their
desperate
plight,
seeing the
nations of
the world
surrounding
them and
seeking
their
demise. They
will cry
out, and
Jesus will
come
responding
to their
cry. And
they will
look upon
Him, whom
they have
pierced and
they will be
saved.”
When you
read of this
and hear of
“the last
days” is
your heart
stirred with
a passion
for Christ,
the
Bridegroom?
Do you
realize the
greatness of
the Cross?
Do you
realize
those who
have called
upon the
Name of
Jesus are
fully-covered
under the
blood of
Christ?
Yet, even as
I type this,
those who
are
considered
Christians
are being
slaughtered
in Syria,
Egypt, Iraq,
Iran, and
across the
globe and we
are becoming
the scourge
of planet
Earth. Jesus
promised
this would
happen:
“Remember
the word
that I said
to you, ‘A
servant is
not greater
than His
Master, ‘If
they
persecuted
me, they
will
persecute
you also’”
(John
15:20a).
We need to
be armed
with this
mindset:
To be absent
from the
body
is to be
present with
the
Lord (2
Corinthians
5:8). Only
God can work
that in us.
It’s a work
of grace by
Him, by He
who began a
good work in
us and will
complete it.
“To live is
Christ and
to die is
gain”
(Philippians
1:21). “I
tell you a
mystery, we
shall not
all sleep,
but we shall
all be
changed in a
moment, in
the
twinkling of
an eye” (1
Corinthians
15:51, 52a).
The clock
continues to
tick and the
plot
thickens. ..
According to
Scripture,
the reality
of the
rebirth of
Israel and
the push to
find peace
outside of
Christ, it
appears any
day now that
Israel might
be willing
to go along
with
confirming a
treaty. Just
recently,
Benjamin
Netanyahu
tweeted out
Israel’s
resolve and
willingness
to “find
peace” even
via a “two
state
solution.”
The United
States set a
timeline of
nine months,
back in July
and
continues to
exert
pressure for
this “deal”
to be
urgently
pushed
through. As
a back drop,
Iran’s mad
dash for
nuclear
weapons has
not let up
and the
famed “red
line” is not
years, but
just months
or even
weeks away.
I’m not
going to
type the
laundry list
of things
happening
all at once
that shout
to us all
that these
days are
indeed
“perilous
times.”
We need to
look no
further than
God’s Word
and take a
look at
ISRAEL. For
1878 years
Israel
ceased to be
a nation,
then in
miraculous
fashion in
1948 that
biblical
Promised
Land was
“REBORN.”
In the rear
view mirror
or NOT, that
is Bible
prophecy at
its finest.
And YET we
can see in
the Bible,
that there
is coming a
time that
Israel, that
tiny piece
of real
estate will
become an
even more
intense
global point
of focus.
Israel will
be
surrounded
and without
any allies.
They will
have NO
PLACE to
look but up.
That is a
set time
already laid
out that God
has warned
the whole
world of.
It’s a time
of God’s
wrath to be
poured out
upon earth,
and it will
be ferocious
and defy
human
understanding.
It will be
so intense
that God’s
Word tells
us that
unless God
shortens the
days “no
flesh would
survive.”
There will
be hail
storms and
the hail
stones will
fall upon
planet Earth
weighing
between
ninety
tone-hundred
pounds.
Things will
be happening
that are so
scary that
people will
be begging
for the
rocks to
fall upon
them as an
act of
mercy.
People will
seek death
and find it
not.
But of that
time, we
have NOT
been
appointed.
“As it was
in the days
of Lot, so
shall it
be.” Before
God poured
out His
wrath on a
specific
place, first
he sent a
warning;
then He
removed His
people and
THEN poured
out His
wrath.
During the
Tribulation,
the entire
planet will
experience
His
righteous
wrath.
I was wicked
and vile and
deserving of
that wrath.
I was living
very worthy
of the
ninety to
one-hundred-pound
hail stones,
crushing me.
I was chief
of all
sinners and
headed
toward self
-inflicted
disaster.
But while I
was lost in
sin, Jesus
Christ had
died for me.
It was MY
SIN and His
love for me
that caused
His
sacrifice on
the cross.
It was for
my sake and
yours, that
2,000 years
ago Jesus
picked up
that cross
and carried
it and took
what I had
coming,
while Roman
Soldiers
brutalized
His body and
CRUCIFIED
HIM. And He
told us,
“That
whosoever
calls upon
the name of
the Lord
shall be
saved.”
Having risen
from the
grave and
triumphing
over death,
I remind you
of His great
PROMISE:
“Let not
your heart
be troubled;
you believe
in God,
believe also
in Me. In My
Father’s
house are
many
mansions; if
it were
not so,
I would have
told you. I
go to
prepare a
place for
you. And if
I go and
prepare a
place for
you, I will
come again
and receive
you to
Myself; that
where I am,
there
you may be
also. And
where I go
you know,
and the way
you know”
(John
14:1-4).
Jesus said
He would not
leave us
comfortless,
but would
send His
Spirit and
He did, and
His Holy
Spirit is
now dwelling
in those
whom are His
and THEY
CRY....”JESUS
COME
QUICKLY.”
IF that is
not your
heart’s cry,
again,
please ask,
“Why not?”
In light of current events relating to Bible prophecy, I do feel it is
important to
mention the
announcement
of the Pope
as
Time (magazine): Person of the Year, and some of the Pope’s recent
public
declarations
I will let
his quotes
speak
directly:
“Right wing
Christians
who adhere
to strict
biblical
ideology
have a
mental
illness.”
According to Vatican Radio, the Pope said:
In
ideologies
there is not
Jesus: in
his
tenderness,
his love,
his
meekness.
And
ideologies
are
rigid,
always. Of
every sign:
rigid. And
when a
Christian
becomes a
disciple of
the
ideology,
he has
lost the
faith: he is
no longer a
disciple of
Jesus, he is
a disciple
of this
attitude of
thought…
For this
reason Jesus
said to
them: ‘You
have taken
away the key
of
knowledge.’
The
knowledge of
Jesus is
transformed
into an
ideological
and also
moralistic
knowledge,
because
these close
the door
with many
requirements.
The faith
becomes
ideology and
ideology
frightens,
ideology
chases away
the people,
distances,
distances
the people
and
distances
of the
Church of
the people.
But it is a
serious
illness,
this of
ideological
Christians.
It is
an illness,
but it is
not new, eh?
Pope Francis assures atheists, “You don’t have to believe in God to
go to
heaven” (The
Independent,
UK). Pope
Francis
supports Gay
Marriage
(Huffington
Post). “I am
nothing but
impressed
with the new
Pope.”(Rick
Warren, CNN
Interview
December 6,
2013.)
Please vet and research the history of the Jesuits and please “take
heed” and
realize that
there is a
huge
ecumenical
move in our
time. The
term:
COEXIST” is
ascending
into hearts
and minds
and it has
greatly
infiltrated
the
hierarchy of
mainstream
Protestant
and
evangelical
circles.
Rick Warren is either knowingly or unknowingly is being used to
facilitate
bridges of
ecumenical
deception
through what
is known as,
“The
Manhattan
Declaration”
(his
interfaith
outreach
with former
Prime
Minister
Tony Blair
and His work
with ISNA).
Please, at
least do
your due
diligence
and research
what you are
feeding on
and stand
with me to
reach others
for Christ
while there
is still a
small window
of time.
In Christ,
Tim Cameron
timcameron@centurytel.net