Severing the Wicked From Among the Just!

In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will not only focus in on the numerous signs of the times, but we will also examine a peculiar condition which should not exist: except for the fact that it was foretold in the Word of God. We know that the true church of the Lord Jesus Christ is empowered by the Holy Ghost and has been endowed with spiritual gifts and great manifestations of power over all the realms of darkness. Satan knows this far better than people do. In James 2:19-20 we read, “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?”

We are living in that very peculiar time at the end of the world when the great falling away in Christianity is coming to the full. Only a small remnant of powerful, praying Christians remains as mainstream churches, televangelists, and large mega-ministries have become centers of compromise and entertainment. It is a time when people clamor for books written by men, including many flavors of bibles, rather than the true 1611 King James Bible which has stood the test of time and has brought forth the manifestation of many mighty miracles.

Since the mainstream “Christian” churches have become spiritually blind, deaf, dumb, and quadriplegic, the masterminds of the Illuminati’s age-old conspiracy are able to continue their nefarious scheme and work their blueprint to bring forth the new world order and its antichrist dictator. We also know that the fourth directive of the Illuminati blueprint is to destroy religion in America; and as we will see in the newsletter, they have accomplished it. Satan has succeeded temporarily in his greatest spiritual alchemy project of producing an admixture of witchcraft and Christianity. We have great hope and expectation, however, because the Almighty is now separating and severing the wicked from among the just. The ecumenical movement and the spiritual depravity of churches today are clear evidences that the wicked are being harvested into that one world church movement and will be recipients of the worst of God’s judgments. Anyone who is a member of one of these churches that is operating under the influence of Babylon’s cup of drunkenness should withdraw from it at once. True salvation never comes through a church but rather directly from the throne of God’s mercy and grace to your heart. Churches and large auditoriums are full of people who do not know the Lord, and they cannot find Him because churches are in the way. You can surrender your heart to the Saviour now while there is still a little time. The signs of His return are everywhere and are happening every day!

The Resonating Voice of Judgment!

Within the past thirteen months, we have seen numerous disasters strike our rebellious planet with everything from a massive tsunami to entire cities being wiped off the map. There have been many hundreds of significant earthquakes, volcanoes have been sending streams of molten lava, and shrouds of smoke have been thrust eight miles into our atmosphere. More threats of these awesome events are upon us, and disasters seem to be overlapping one another. Many people do not realize that on the same day that Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans there were also three earthquakes. (1)

Our Lord Jesus Christ did specifically mention numerous earthquakes as being a sure sign of His second coming, and at the time of this writing, there have been 302 significant quakes in the past thirty days according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Iris seismic monitor. On January 2nd, 2006, there was a magnitude 7.1 quake in the Fiji Islands, and on the same day there were numerous small quakes at the New Madrid fault line near the state of Arkansas. Two days later on January 4th, 2006, there was a magnitude 6.7 quake in the Gulf of California. (2) On January 14th, 2006, an earthquake struck rural Ohio, and on the next day a powerful undersea quake jolted Indonesia. (3) On January 27th, 2006, another strong quake shook Indonesia with a magnitude of 7.7. (4) The list of quakes goes on and on and includes places such as the Mariana Islands, the India-China border, Pakistan, the entire Pacific Rim area, and divers places throughout the world.

Volcanoes are also coming alive everywhere, and truly, the mountains are flowing down at the presence of the Lord. A clear description of volcanoes erupting at the time of the Lord’s coming is given in Isaiah 64:1-3 as follows: “Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.”

It is an amazing reality that we now have volcanoes erupting at both of the Earth’s poles. (5) Most notable is the Augustine Volcano near Homer, Alaska, which has been sending ash plumes a full eight miles into the air. (6) We also know that on December 2nd, 2005, forty-four acres of land collapsed and fell into the ocean at Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park. (7) Another concern is that Mount Fuji near Tokyo, Japan, has no snow on it, and there is grave concern that it may erupt and threaten that large Japanese city. (8)

Our planet is coming apart at the seams, and Norway, seeing that disaster is imminent, is building what they call a “doomsday vault” on Spitsbergen Island about 625 miles from the North Pole. The vault has walls over 3.25 feet thick and will hold over two million seeds, representing all known varieties of the world’s crops. (9)

There are many strange things happening in the world at this time. Freak weather has hit many areas, and on January 8th, 2006, northern Japan was hit with thirteen feet of snow, causing roofs to collapse and numerous deaths. (10) In Barrow, Alaska, massive ice shelves called ivus, which are like frozen tsunamis, have slammed ashore. (11) Reports have now shown that the Gulf Stream, which is the powerful current that sends warm waters to Britain and northern Europe, has weakened by over thirty percent in the past twelve years and continues to weaken. ((12) Strangely enough, NASA satellite pictures now reveal that global warming is melting Arctic ice so fast that a new sea route is opening between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. (13) I also have shocking and alarming photographs in front of me showing that the erstwhile mighty Amazon River is so low that in many places it is completely dried up. Scores of boats of all sizes lay stranded on the dry river bed. (14)

It is also interesting to note that oak trees worldwide are damaged and dying. In Germany, half of all the oak trees and one-third of all trees are dying as well. (15) We know that the oak tree is sacred to witches and that the Bible gives us a great sign of the end when the oaks fade and die. In Isaiah 1:29-31 we read as follows: “For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together; and none shall quench them.”

There are also many strange signs in the heavens. It was recently discovered that an ongoing massive explosion in space has caused a black hole to begin swallowing up other stars. Professor Brian McNamara of Ohio State University said, “I was stunned to find that a mass of about 300,000,000 suns was swallowed.” (16) NASA scientist Jennifer Wiseman has also reported that the Orion nebula is now a bursting cauldron of activity. (17) Dr. Wiseman also stated that there were massive caverns of light forming. These are brilliant corridors of majestic color and beauty.

Another thing that is happening without explanation is a massive lightning storm that is being observed on Saturn. Lighting bolts that are one thousand times stronger than anything seen on earth are being unleashed almost continuously. There have now been thirty-five episodes of this lightning storm and each one has lasted ten hours. (18) We continue to watch and pray as the entire universe is beginning to react to the approaching judgment of God.

National Immorality and Other Queer Problems!

With the churches being completely illuminized and ready to receive their Antichrist, we are also seeing every kind of social distemper and immorality rising to preeminence in society. In Britain, government registry offices have dumped the words marriage and wedding as dirty words. All marriages are now referred to as civil partnerships in the name of gay equality. (27) Homosexuality has become so influential in England that a new saying has developed in the business world. That saying is: “It helps to be gay if you want more pay.” The average British homosexual man earns 10,000 pounds more per year than the population at large, and the average lesbian earns more than 6,000 pounds more per year than normal women. (28)

In the United States, the movie Brokeback Mountain, which is about two homosexual cowboy shepherds, is winning all the awards. To add further insult to righteousness, country music singer Willie Nelson released a new song on Valentine’s Day, 2006, which glorifies homosexuality and contains the following words: “What did you think all them saddles and boots was about? Inside every cowboy there’s a lady who’d love to slip out.” (29)

Another slap against Christianity is to take place on a repulsive television program called Will & Grace, which will feature guest star Britney Spears. Spears, who is infamous for her half-naked dances with live snakes, is to do a cooking segment on the program called Cruci-fixin’s. (30)

Examples of moral bankruptcy are everywhere. In New York City, for every one hundred babies that are born there are seventy-four abortions. (31) In Florida a federal judge struck down Daytona Beach’s anti-nudity laws as unconstitutional. The judge stated, “Regulations prohibiting public nudity….violates the 1st and 14th amendments.” (32) In the same state of Florida, University of Florida employees qualify for benefits with their domestic partners regarding health care whether they are homosexual or not. However to receive the benefits, they must sign an affidavit stating that they are actively having sex with their partner. (33) Thus they are required to swear to fornication. It will not be long until the Almighty will pour great wrath upon all such things. It is a wonder that He has not yet done so.

The Looming Immanency of a Nuclear War!

On February 11th, 2006, the Daily Telegraph in London reported that strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran. (34) A case for war with Iran is continually being built up, and all that is lacking is a major incident such as the attack that hit the World Trade Center on 9-11-01. That horrible incident caused people to fall in to lock-step deception as Iraq was falsely implicated and blamed for the attack. How can people be so deceived? One world leader answered that question very well as follows: “Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.” These words of Julius Caesar with his policies of foreign wars ring true to this day. So do the words: “Beware the ides of March!”

Why is the United States determined to control Iran? In order to answer that question we must understand just a little about economics. In 1932, President Franklin Roosevelt decoupled the dollar from gold, but gold was still being paid to other countries as they redeemed U.S. dollars. During 1970-1971, the United States was no longer able to pay other governments with gold, and the nations of the world were stuck with continually inflating U.S. dollars. In order to maintain global demand for the U.S. dollar, the U.S. Government made a 1972-73 arrangement with Saudi Arabia to support the House of Saud if they, Saudi Arabia and all of the OPEC, the oil producing nations, would accept only U.S. dollars for payment of oil. Now all of the oil-hungry nations of the world were forced to clamor for the ever-inflating U.S. dollar since it was the only means by which they could purchase that commodity. This established the strength of the dollar as it was now backed in a defacto sense by oil.

In the year 2000, one man dared to reject the U.S. dollar for payment for oil and chose to accept the Euro instead. This threatened the dollar severely. That man was Saddam Hussein! He suddenly became the greatest villain in the world and became dreadfully evil. Here let it be noted that he was just as evil when we armed him, supported him, and embraced him years earlier. We overlooked his infamy then, but this rejection of the dollar vilified him above measure. When President Bush announced his policy of shock and awe and pounded Iraq, he quickly re-established the dollar as the only oil money. That is what the Iraqi war is all about.

Here let it be noted that Iran has announced that as of March 21st, 2006, which is the witches’ sabat of Ostera, that it will no longer accept U.S. dollars for oil, and that it has persuaded all of the OPEC nations to accept the Euro and other currencies as well. (35) None of the nations will have to buy and hold dollars to buy oil, and this will reduce the U.S. dollar to nearly junk status on the world market. That is why it has been determined that Iran must be punished! If oil cannot be retained as backing for the U.S. dollar, the collapse of the dollar is imminent.

If you have been wondering why President Bush is selling six major American seaports to the Arabs, the United Arab Emirates, for 6.8 billion dollars, you have your answer. (36) The erstwhile great nation of the United States of America is sinking fast in the quicksand of its own sin. Even the individual states are selling their toll roads to foreign companies. A Spanish and Australian company is buying the Indiana Toll Road for 3.85 billion dollars. Texas and New Jersey are planning to sell their toll roads to foreigners as well. (37) The handwriting is on the wall, because this once-beautiful nation has donned the attire of an harlot and refuses to repent. You, as an individual, however, can repent and yield your entire life to the gracious and merciful Saviour. Do it now, before it is too late! Eternity is just ahead, and for you it could be heaven or it could be hell. May God help us all!

In closing, I would like to thank all of you who pray for this end-time ministry and support it in so many ways. I pray that God will bless you exceedingly. We continue to welcome your prayer requests as our teams of intercessors take prayer seriously and will give you requests individual attention. Grace and peace be unto you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

David J. Meyer

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of
government. It can only exist until the voters discover
that they can vote themselves largess from the public
treasury. From that time on the majority always votes
for the candidates promising the most benefits from the
public treasury, with the results that a democracy
always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed
by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's great civilizations
has been 200 years. These nations have
progressed through this sequence:
from bondage to spiritual faith
from spiritual faith to great courage
from courage to liberty
from liberty to abundance
from abundance to selfishness
from selfishness to complacency
from complacency to apathy
from apathy to dependency
from dependency back to bondage.
-- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)

AMERICA UNDER THE IMPERIAL ROMAN EAGLE

AMERICA UNDER THE IMPERIAL ROMAN EAGLE

Dorothy A. Seese
October 2, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

There is no doubt that the rise and fall of the United States of America bears a close resemblance to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, from its days as a representative republic to the final collapse in its own debauchery, too weak to fight even if inclined so to do. The imperial eagle is the emblem used by both Rome and the United States, a bird of freedom and power, but also a bird of prey. How fitting.

A television series I recently watched on Rome's technological advances, engineering excellence, and moral perversion made a direct comparison between the USA and Rome, something that surprised me just a little since it was shown on a rather popular educational channel. Rome's arches made possible engineering feats centuries ahead of their time. Roman roads still exist, in part, centuries after the fall of the empire. America's transcontinental railroads, automobiles and airlines, use of laser technology and nuclear capability have made possible a republic wealthier than any since Roman times, stronger than its neighbors around the world, and now more to be feared. Sadly, the corruptive seeds inherent in the possession of power have made it a target for a fall equal to or greater than that of Rome.

While New York symbolizes the financial strength of the US, more fictional than real due to our enormous debt and interdependence on other nations, a precalculated condition brought about by the modern Visigoths who control international finance and demand cooperation from the US, Las Vegas symbolizes Pompeii, the riotous living capital of the Roman empire. Millions of people, American as well as foreign tourists, flock there to indulge themselves in every vice and leave behind billions of dollars for the luxury of such an experience. The exotic hotel complexes, more lavish than anything Pompeii could have offered, showcase restaurants where dinner for two costs the revelers over $300. And that's just dinner. It isn't difficult to drop ten to twelve thousand dollars for a single weekend in Las Vegas.

Romans also lost their identity in the growth of the empire. Roman citizenship became conveyed on any and all who would swear allegiance to, or contribute money to, the emperor's treasury. Being a "Roman" came to mean being a non-slave or a non-barbarian (generally those who spoke Slavic or Germanic languages). By so diluting the identity of Romans as being what we today regard as Italians, the empire grew weaker as it grew larger, and each language group became minimally bilingual ... Latin for business, the native language for all other purposes. This cultural dilution was encouraged by the Roman emperor and his court for the purpose of gaining finances to protect their extensive borders, but every time they succeeded in gaining money, they lost power and became bankrupt. When they could not pay their huge standing army, it deserted. In the US, we're cutting and have cut our military strength, yet our military is still efficient if allowed to be so. It's being used up, decimated in fact, by useless foreign wars in places where we are accomplishing nothing. Not even Rome began a campaign with nothing more in mind than to lose!

However, not all is lost in our wars-for-nothing, other than the lives of soldiers who are as expendable as Roman soldiers or worse, the gladiators who died in the arenas of public entertainment. The US has a multinational military/industrial complex that benefits financially, at the expense of the American taxpayer, from supplying the military and gaining large contracts for "rebuilding" devastated areas, at best a ridiculous notion from an imperial standpoint. But, this is a different age and has been since the Marshall Plan. The presence of US troops is a hollow shadow of the protection once offered, and our armies are expendable if they accomplish a presence that allows the construction contracts to proceed. That isn't capitalism, it is tyranny and tyranny at its worst, disguised as capitalism. Huge monopolies form an elite that has allied itself with the global governance elite of bankers and financiers at the expense of human lives and the destruction of the Republic.

Romans, in the period of the Republic, were quite religious folks, dedicated to several deities borrowed from Babylon by way of Greece. While this is no endorsement of their pagan deities, at least the people did have some higher authorities, capricious as they were, to please. In America, founded by devout Christians seeking religious freedom from the Anglican church (those Mayflower folks), churches were built, universities and theological seminaries built to teach the essentials of the Christian faith, doctrine and practice. Whatever criticisms we might have of their intolerance for other practitioners of the Christian faith, this nation was most certainly colonized by those who were devout believers in the Christ, the Bible, and the simple Christian life.

The founders who organized, fought and won the American Revolution had respect for if not total belief in the Holy Scriptures. The idea that the vast universe just "big banged" itself into existence would have been called heresy or worse. The intricacies of design obvious in all things, and the interdependence of climate, crops, pollenization, growth cycles and times of restoration were sufficient to satisfy most colonists that man is not an accident but a direct creation of a personal God who demands accountability from His creation. While cigars were tolerated, homosexuality was absolutely forbidden by law and punishable by that law.

However, just as Rome tired of its deities and began to ignore them, Americans of the late 19th and 20th centuries tired of God's absolute rules, considered them restrictive and regressive, and thus began to chip away at the foundational Christian principles of our founders' government. The Supreme Court was used/misused to end prayer in schools, approve of abortion as a woman's "constitutional right" and is now faced with whether it shall redefine marriage to include any union. Even Rome, with its rampant homosexuality and pedophilia, never attempted to redefine marriage! While marriages were often matters of money and convenience, they were always between man and woman. In that regard, the Romans were just one baby step ahead of the United States and its redefinition of marriage.

Christianity thrived in the Roman empire, so much so that Nero found it convenient to pin his little bonfire on this "new sect" of religionists and use Christian captives as human torches to light his patio parties.

In America, we are not far from having our Bibles banned as "hate literature." Why? Because it condemns fornication, adultery, pornography and homosexuality. To condemn such can be construed as "hating" or "propagating hatred" of those involved, which happens to be a growing segment of Americans or persons living in this country. The supposed 80% of Americans who declare they are "Christian" is either a totally skewed figure or the pollsters selected their samples from the American midwest and the South. If 80% of our people were Bible-believing, obedient Christians, this nation would have had a revolt at the first Supreme Court decision in 1962 removing prayer from the schools. Only weak, careless, pew-warming churchgoers who attend for the sake of appearances would have allowed such an attack on the practices of our nation since it was a British colony to prevail.

Instead, our church are figuring out how to "get with the program" and bring in more people for more money, more offerings in the plate. Rather than serving the poor, they build grandiose buildings to "honor" God, but they are honoring the god of mammon, not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, not the Great "I AM."

Thus, the United States, with the Imperial Eagle at the forefront, marches straight into the abyss with Rome and its predecessors that have been left in the dust by history. Babylon, or the "spirit of Babylon" jumps from one empire to another seamlessly, with its greedy commerce, false religion and corrupt politics.

Just as it was with Rome, is with the United States, so shall it be with the One World Government, the final age of human government that will incur the final judgment on man's inability to govern himself or live apart from the evil nature within him.

I have loved my country. My government lost my respect in 1965 and thereafter, a-whoring after other nations for the sake of a few unscrupulous millionaires claiming "free trade" in the stead of what should have been called treason. America's resources were great, they have been wrongfully exploited and much of our land is owned by those outside the United States, non-citizens, whose interests are to take and not give, to ruin what we built before non-citizens were permitted to own property in the United States.

Many patriots want to take back the United States, thinking that we need only fight the present government. That is limited thinking. Patriots would have mercenaries from all over the world, courtesy of the United Nations, ready to kill any American who rises up against this unjust and debauched system.

There is but One with whom these wealthy profligates have to deal, and He will deal both justly and swiftly. Those who fear Him have nothing else to fear, not even the demise of America as we knew it. After all, this life and the lifespans of nations are purely mortal, and the greatness of God's Kingdom is eternal.

Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. (KJV)

© 2005 Dorothy A. Seese - All Rights Reserved

GOD'S WORD: OBEDIENCE REQUIRED

GOD'S WORD: OBEDIENCE REQUIRED

Dorothy A. Seese
November 25, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

Matthew 10:33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

Test time is coming, fellow believers, and it is God's Spirit alone that shall uphold us in the trials ahead. We shall be called upon to declare our allegiance -- to the new world order or to Jesus Christ. Be forewarned. Be faithful unto death.

There's little use to try and "prepare" for the trials and tests ahead of us as the heathen New World Order (or Global Governance Elite) attack American Christians with the idea of stamping out this "religion" that teaches there is but one way to God and that is through faith in Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior! Our fellow Christians around the world are facing tests, and too many of the liberal churches in America are more than willing to "pray for the martyrs" as long as martyrdom is over there and not on this continent and not in the United States.

News flash: Persecution of Christians, in court, on the job, in the school system, in social settings, even in our homes by neighbors who set the law on us about trivial things such as harassment, is going on in the United States. Now. It has been going on for years, case by case, item by item, and either we do not read the articles or we consider a single article as a weird case or some fluke. These cases are more numerous now, and growing more flagrant. At last, the heathen have been able to shove through "hate" legislation under the guise of anti-discrimination, presumably to protect believers in other religious systems, only to reveal by their attacks that the real intent is to indict the Christians who adhere to the faith once delivered, to the literal truths of the Bible, and to the belief that Jesus Christ is THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.

God calls certain behaviors SIN. It has been the practice of Christians for two thousand years, and of the Jewish people from the time of Moses to the time of Messiah, to agree with the Torah (the Law of Moses) that there are thoughts and deeds that constitute SIN. It is the doctrine of the Christian faith that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and having paid OUR sin debt in full, was resurrected from the dead, thus guaranteeing not only our salvation from the power and penalty of sin but from eternal punishment for that sin.

Sin has been a part of the nature of unregenerate man since the fall of Adam. Many denominations call this our "sin nature" and still others have different titles for it. Whichever, it is well described in the sixth and seventh chapters of Romans. Sin dominates the unregenerate heart and tempts the regenerate soul through fleshly desires. Our ability to overcome this provocation by sin in the flesh resides with the power of the Holy Spirit resident within us, sanctifying us each day as we yield to the things of the Spirit and overcome the deeds of the flesh.

Among those acts described as sin are homosexuality in all its variant forms. Marriage between man and woman was instituted by God, when He made Adam and Eve husband and wife. Adam's fall into sin brought a sin nature into his being and into his offspring, all of us. From before the foundation of the world, God knew that Satan would cause man to sin, and thus provided for the redemption of His elect by the sacrifice of His own Son as the final payment for the sin of the whole world, although it is efficacious only for those who receive Christ.

To accept anything other than God's moral standards and His definition of sin is to disobey God and thus give sin free rein in one's heart. Sin leads to sin, a downward spiral, as described in Romans 1:20 ff.

Thus far, no one in the United States is openly challenging that pedophilia is sin, or that incest is sin. Rape is not only sin, but a crime with corresponding punishment. Why, then, is homosexuality so important to the agenda of the New World Order? Essentially, it contradicts the Christian doctrine and provides a way to get rid of this "nuisance God" once and for all (something Rome's emperors tried and failed to do). Another is that it attacks the nuclear family and allows for the State to be the supreme being in all matters including morality, law, accountability and activity. It is as antithetical to Christian doctrine as any activity can be, called an abomination by God, and punishable by death under the Law of Moses as well as under the beliefs of the Christian faith. These beliefs came from the same source -- Holy Writ.

It is not Christian doctrine to hate anything but sin. Our Great Commission is to go and preach the Gospel of Grace to all nations, making disciples. If a person rejects this gospel call, he is free to go his own way and accept the consequences.

The founding fathers of America were well aware of the antagonisms created by religious belief. To prevent one denomination from oppressing another, this clause begins the First Amendment to the Constitution:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Hate crime legislation designed to protect believers in other religious systems from harassment or persecution has now been turned, as was its purpose, to direct harassment, persecution and punishment at Christians for freely exercising their right to their belief and their right of free speech.

I consider this a declaration of war between the New World Order's minions and the Christian faith. As a Christian, my allegiance is first to my Lord and my God ... whatever the consequences. If He is God, then I am in the greatest ark of safety ever created. If He is not (a hypothetical position only) then no one on earth has any hope at all, because man has a track record of moral and political failure, of injustice and cruelty, of debauchery and hatred, of atrocities and inhumanity, dating back as far as there is any record of mankind. The world would do well to be without such a race permanently should the hypothesis "there is no God" be real.

But it isn't true, God is, always has been and always will be.

Thus there comes the day of Final Judgment, as it is written. The Lord Jesus Christ promised us tribulation, and we shall have our share at the hands of evil men and perverse court systems. The "tolerance" being promoted for the sake of the New World Order is onerous to many who will not speak out against it, but the Christian, called upon to state his or her position, must confess Christ or be denied by Him, and stand in obedience to His laws against sins and the sin nature.

Flawed as my feeble nature is, I am redeemed by His blood, and to His commands I shall stand true. Where I fail and repent, He will forgive and restore. But I must never deny Him or He will deny me before the Father. There is nothing on earth so filled with "gravitas" as the question, "do you believe Jesus Christ is your Savior and your Lord?"

Are you ready to answer that at the point of a gun or a bayonet? Think about it. Then lean on His grace for all things needful to pass from this earth into the Kingdom of God.

© 2005 Dorothy A. Seese - All Rights Reserved

FROM PEARL HARBOR TO PUNK

FROM PEARL HARBOR TO PUNK

Dorothy A. Seese
December 10, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

The memories of Pearl Harbor will come back this anniversary of the "day of infamy." But they aren't quite the same now as they were when we really believed the Japanese pulled off a brilliant, deadly and despicable sneak attack. Rumors were flying within a year or so that then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt knew about the attack in advance and let the blame fall on the admiral and general who were otherwise occupied when Pearl was attacked. The entire US Pacific fleet being in one "sitting duck" position at Pearl should have sounded a giant alarm, but it didn't. We were a patriotic people, as a nation of Americans we didn't want war that was none of our business, but higher powers prevailed. At least we went out to win, something the USA hasn't done since the end of WW II.

Those of us who recall the beginning of World War II are senior citizens. That's a nice way of saying we're old geezers, all of us. We lose more every year to the ravages of time and the mortality of life on earth. We were the most privileged group of Americans that ever lived, because we saw America at its best, and even those of us who were too young to recall details remember that we had a quiet pride in America, and in being Americans. To our younger generations, it's history, all history, and so what?

We won the war against the Nazis and Emperor Hirohito's Japanese imperial military. We lost the war from within by Americans Against America. That fact still stands today, while the US sits precariously as the last world superpower in name only, a shadow of the days when we stood for something.

Germany's revenge came as a socialist revolution. Japan's revenge came by starting the trend of getting more affluent Americans engaged in playing with toys rather than tending to the "eternal vigilance" required to remain a free people.

Now we aren't quite sure in any meaningful way what it means to be "an American."

Does it mean I can vote? Certainly. Illegal aliens vote, why not citizens who were born here?

Does it mean I can go to school (were I school age)? Of course, our government will send anyone to school who happens to land on our shores! Why not a citizen's children? You might not learn much, because the schools are teaching United Nations approved courses on revised facts, tolerance, diversity and sex, but anyone can go to school and pass the courses. No effort required, no one can be offended in America except Real Americans.

Does it mean I can work and earn a living? Yes and no. You can go to work. Earning a living is something else. A lot of jobs are reserved for "those who will do what Americans won't do." So they say. Amazing. The American work ethic, brought over from Europe by a people who wanted to build a nation of opportunity by hard work, is now a disgrace. Luxury, held over in the form of increasing federal debt, continues the myth that America is prospering. Punks who rock, or punk rockers, or rocking punks, receive millions for being maniacs on public display tours, and because they can have everything money can buy and don't care about the virtues money cannot buy, they are America's new gold standard.

Do I have freedom of religion? More or less. As long as Christianity isn't discussed publicly and the leaders of our nation are ashamed of the Bible on which they take their oaths of office, then it is assumed we have freedom of religion. Just don't confuse assumption with fact, or carry the idea too far if you're Christian. You are totally free to be occult, or any form of "experiential religion" that makes no reference to Christ, the Bible or the Christian traditions. In a way, that's freedom of religion, as judicially reconstructed.

Do I have opportunities to become whatever I want to be? Yes, provided you get around the school system and obtain a real education, and then keep your views to yourself unless you are politically correct at the workplace. There's some fine line between being sexually liberated and arrested for sexual harassment, but just play along with the games people play and you'll learn the rules. They bear absolutely no resemblance to the standards of morality that once defined America but that's why we're not really America, we're a gutted America with only the skin exposed (lots of it in some places).

Can I own and display a flag? Of course. You can fly the Union flag, but not a Confederate flag, as historic as it is, because that offends people who haven't any idea that secession isn't unconstitutional and Lincoln never thought of abolition as the cause of the "Civil War" until he needed to keep a Union army together for a good cause. Americans love good causes, which is why all subversion has occurred behind the curtains and banners of good causes. When we're merged into a regional area, the flag once known as Old Glory (sometimes Old Gory due to recent incursions into other peoples' lands and politics) might be replaced by a regional flag designed at the United Nations, but don't let that bother you. If you do, you'll be suspect by the government, your employer and lose your friends.

So much has changed in the geographic region known as the United States that disunity is the order of the day, but don't complain about it. That will offend someone.

The most fundamental thing you can learn as you are defining what it means to grow up "an American" is that such a statement no longer means what it used to mean. It means that you disavow everything that America once stood for and accept everything that the leadership tells you is correct. You even call this nation "a democracy" because that's what the leadership, the media and most people today call it. Do not use the term "federal republic" even if you find out that's what it was designed to be, and that the states were to exercise control over the size, scope and power of the federal government. That founders' notion began to die at Appomattox when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union, and since that time, the Union has been telling the states what to do and how much power they have. Unless, of course, the federal government wants a scapegoat for one of its endless goof ups. Don't worry about learning to spell "Appomattox" as it doesn't warrant mention these days, in school or elsewhere except in certain local areas of the Southern states, often called "rebels" or worse.

And one last thing. Listen to all the rock, punk or otherwise, that you can, know the stars who rise and fall, how many are unwed mothers and who recently was divorced again, so you can converse. Americans and all the people living in this nation who are posing as such, hate intelligent conversation and engage in it only in private, and with trusted friends. Don't be too patriotic either, it will really offend those who consider "patriotism" waving the flag and having an "in crowd" bumper sticker on their vehicle.

If you're from a European background, get a heavy tan and some hairdo and makeup that will disguise that fact. You want to look multi-racial, ethnic, and pitifully undernourished.

By the way, Pearl Harbor is in the island state of Hawaii, which wants to secede from the Union. Just thought you might want to know.

© 2005 Dorothy A. Seese - All Rights Reserved

THE UNITED STATES vs. JESUS CHRIST

THE UNITED STATES vs. JESUS CHRIST

Dorothy A. Seese
December 23, 2005
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A profligate nation parades its sins.

Never in this nation's history has its judiciary had the unmitigated gall to openly attack the worship by Christians of their Savior and call it a "constitutional" issue!

The once famous quotes by the nation's founders and early practicing Christians have disappeared from sight and from new books. It's a denial by the United States that Christians are entitled to openly practice their faith for fear of "offending" the illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and people of different faiths or atheists. These "potentially offended" aren't required to be tolerant of the Christian's right to free expression, but want tolerance for their own? And our judicial activists are supporting this open denial of Jesus Christ when they still take oaths on the Bible?

We aren't just a secular nation, we've become a nation of reprobates, denying the truly constitutional rights of Christians and attacking the name of Jesus Christ openly for all the world to see. Even military chaplains are being told not to use the Name of Jesus ... how can a Christian, whose faith embodies the Name, not use it?

This is an open attempt by those in high places to attack and defeat Christianity in a nation with a strong Christian heritage. One might ask, "why?"

Christian seminaries have been infiltrated with doubters and activists who intend to meld this faith in with all others for their "global religion" ... one of the three major pillars of Global Governance. They're giving to Caesar what belongs to God ... final authority. Well, it isn't theirs to give. It is not the work of the judiciary to tell Americans what they can and cannot do with respect to worship. That is clearly spelled out in the First Amendment, to be taken as written and not stretched to cover free expressions such as the display on private property of one's faith. But even apart from constitutional rights, the Christian puts God above all else, and remains true to Him and His word in the face of persecution and death.

If the judiciary attacked the open practice of Judaism in this manner, the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish organizations would be all over their hides like a pox. The judicary allows the teaching of Islam in schools and punishes teachers and pupils for mentioning the Bible or Jesus Christ. If the people cannot see that this activism is anti-Christ, what will it take?

What sort of land is this? It isn't America! This is a sad and hollow imitation of America, a land filled with lust and covetousness so that it is no wonder the activists and their supporters are "offended" when told such conduct violates the Ten Commandments (which are as Jewish as they are Christian).

This is globalism at work, just a sample of things to come when the globalists decide to press further in their mind-control and behavior-control programs. Those who feel smug at having the courts at odds with all forms of Christian expression will find one day that their own pet programs, unless approved by the global elite, are banned or restricted.

The world we face today is most assuredly not a "brave" new world, but a cowardly one in which the people have elected their own slavemasters and then bow to them in fear and trembling! That is beyond disgusting. It is quintessential idolatry, the worship of man and bowing to the fear of man-made rulings. It's a denial of Christ, and all that the faith stands for. To tremble at mere men, mere mortals, subject to the same aches, pains and ills as the man in the gutter drunk, is shameful beyond description.

By pulling the strings of mammon and threatening people's jobs; by making company policies that violate basic freedoms; by holding a black-hearted, black-robed judicial activist's ability to make rulings that are antagonistic to the word of God, and set them above the final authority and word of Almighty God, they create the sort of travesty of our faith that the globalists (or Commutarians, or NWO, any name for the same evil monster) want to produce. Where does it lead?

Christians who bother to study their Bibles know that a silent faith in the face of overt rulings to shame and deny our faith and hide it in the closet is to face denial by Christ at the judgment ... so there is no fear of God in their hearts and it speaks of a people who really have no commitment to their faith. Are such of the Kingdom of God? Let the word of God speak on that subject ... the answer is "no." Go look.

Those who are willing to kowtow to "Caesar" and render to the establishment that which belongs to God will reap the reward of the globalists, which is final destruction.

Those who defend the faith once delivered will in due time reap their reward, which is eternal life. Again, go check the Bible passages on the subject. If that's too much trouble, just as it's too much of a bother for the average American to find and read, understand and uphold the Constitution, then they deserve to lose the opportunity to avail themselves of both a free America for all, and a glorious reward hereafter.

But then, people who are willing to believe they somehow got here out of the icky slime of past eons and consider their distant relatives in the zoo as offspring of their progenitors, don't deserve much more than the cages in which the apes are kept and fed.

Can the Great Whore of Babylon be any worse than America today? Tomorrow will tell.

© 2005 Dorothy A. Seese - All Rights Reserved

THE UNTHINKABLE WORLD OF TODAY

THE UNTHINKABLE WORLD OF TODAY

Dorothy A. Seese
February 27, 2006
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The magnitude of panic engulfing most of today's world would have seemed far less credible than an invasion by space aliens forty-some years ago.

Who could have imagined a world in which the prospect of the Pale Horse riding, with death close behind, would encompass the entire globe? Or that hundreds of thousands of birds and animals would be slaughtered because of strange virii or bacilli that cause sickness and death? Bird flu and mad cow mania have taken hold of the worst of human fears, that of death (which is inevitable) and are running amok at the first sneeze from a pet parrot or canary, or a chicken with a hacking cough. Somehow, the AIDS epidemic keeps multiplying its victims, but no one wants to control or monitor their sex lives ... sin without consequences or life without pain and death are fantasies in which this peculiar world has come to believe. But it refuses to believe in the Creator God and chooses to elaborate on the theme of man having evolved (male and female) out of the primordial slime. (I'd like to know Who these folks believe created this slime?)

In the 1960's we were well aware of the possibility of mankind annihilating itself through use of the atomic, hydrogen or other esoteric bombs, a great conflagration but hopefully limited. Yet we knew about a no-win war and the fear of losing control over the scope of the devastation seems to have kept every nation in a state of hesitancy to let go with the worst of the worst. Thus, where man fears his own creations in atomic weaponry, he backs off in panic at the thought of a worldwide pestilence that will annihilate most of the humans on earth and leave the planet a giant body dump.

About 1981, AIDS entered the world scene and made its presence known by killing off celebrities whose demise could no longer be attributed to some other cause. AIDS itself became the "cause celebre" because mankind, of course, still wants sin without consequences. So great sums of taxpayer dollars, mostly American, have been spent on trying to eliminate this devastating disease that now preys on the children of heterosexual couples, one or both of which have contracted the disease through affaires d'amour with infected partners.

The erasure of national borders in a worldwide saga of globalist elite control is playing out, in America with its administration unwilling to close the borders, in Europe with the European Union and the Euro currency. How does one make an Italian or a Frenchman just a "European?" By media and governmental controls, reinforced by kangaroo courts that serve the elitists who place them in a position of such power. Yet external controls never changed a human heart ... nor will they ever. "Citizen of the world" is no identity at all save for the few who wish to take on such a nonidentity as part of their role-playing while they go about singing, writing, or doing whatever they do. In a sense, Ernest Hemingway was a "citizen of the world" because he traveled around it, seeking something and writing novels based on his observations, but he died in America, an American who took his own life. Such is the effect of pulling up one's own roots in search of something to replace the God who IS.

Selling out American control over American ports of entry, allowing foreigners to own huge blocs of stock in American (or formerly American) companies, permitting foreigners to control huge companies that bear familiar American names, and trafficking with our enemies on the diplomatic level while shooting at them on the ground is perfectly normal in 2006 and has been for a couple of decades now. All in good sportsmanship, you know. It's just freedom of expression.

And a frustrated group of American patriots speak out against the evils of this nation and others around the globe, but nothing changes. All governments of every species or label (monarchy, oligarchy, etc.) say one thing and do quite another, so that friends among the elite are detached from the people of the nations to which they legally belong (for passport purposes). Thus, chaos reigns on the planet while the global elite bicker a bit about how to divide the earth's population amongst themselves for purposes of rulership.

Quite a scheme, unthinkable in the 1960's by the public, but put in motion in 1776 by the "manifesto" drawn and published for global control and attributed to Adam Weishaupt. Yes, the shadow figures called by some "the Illuminati" really do exist; some are in high office, most are not. The world banking, drug, and commercial cartels are directed by "Illuminati" with global resources. They are the movers and shakers of nations and the masses of people, the ones who direct, up to a point, who lives and who dies.

So where is my God in all this mess? Watching carefully the scenarios that were written millennia ago play out on the world stage until the day that He reenters this space-time world and executes final judgment on the generations, living and deceased, who have allied themselves with the satanic globalist forces. No globalist can be a Christian, the worldviews and mindsets are mutually exclusive. One cannot give full allegiance to Creator God, the God of the Bible, and to the leaders of the New World Order by any name.

Thus those who feel progress and tolerance have been furthered by rejecting God, by espousing globalism, by allying themselves with the godless State that is itself sitting in the place of God, have wreaked havoc upon earth, creating needless wars that kill and maim, cloning laboratory freaks, creating new virii to kill and vaccines to protect the few, have earned themselves a justified place in eternal Hell. Such is justice in the sight of God, to whom all sin is repugnant and who sent His Son to pay for the redemption of His elect from before the foundation of the world.

Man is not inherently good. Some folks demonstrate more empathy than others for their fellow man, but in the sight of God not one is good. The exponential growth of "sin industries" such as the sex slave trade, child pornography, adult pornography, scientific horrors that create an abnormal world (from genetically modified foods the body cannot assimilate to cloned disasters that mock creation), and the total breakdown of all God-ordained institutions such as marriage and the home, children with two parents (one male, one female) have demonstrated just how "good" man is. God, through the prophet Jeremiah, had this to say, and the daily news broadcasts bear it out:

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

We humans scarcely know that of which we are capable until the occasion arises, and then we surprise ourselves, for better or worse, depending on whose we are: The Lord's or the devil's.

Any righteousness we have in the sight of God is not of ourselves nor of our fleshly birth, but of a spiritual rebirth that transforms us and imputes to us the righteousness of Christ the Lord. The gospel of grace is really quite easy to understand at the core level: Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead for our justification in God's sight. In receiving Christ, there is a spiritual transaction that is a genuine mystery: we are translated from the kingdom of darkness to God's kingdom of light, and evidence of this is given in the "fruit" we bear ... our obedience, our conduct, our worldview, our love and our service to our Lord. For this, we are children of light and have done only what it is our duty to do, we earn no "Brownie points" for doing what Christians are recreated in Christ to do. From the look of things, there are far more churchians who profess to be Christians than there are recreated, rebirthed Christians whose inner self longs for that kingdom and despises this evil world.

The fact is, we were approaching a better world in America than we have now. The forces of evil caught the church asleep at the pulpit and in the pews. The globalists have taken our freedoms and dared us to defy the authorities and preach Christ regardless of the consequences. Fear has caused many to stumble and go with the flow, dead fish floating downstream with the rest of the flotsam and jetsam of humanity. There was a desire to do that which is disallowed by the Christian faith, and the churchians agreed with the world that there should be room for everyone, that God, being pure Love, can send no soul to Hell, and that willful sin shall have no eternal punishment. That false "gospel" is trash and it's accepted in some of the largest church groups in America, along with fragments from New Age philosophy and Zen, fraternity with unbelievers, and refusal to live the Christian life as it is spelled out in the New Covenant.

No wonder, no wonder at all, that such a rebellious people have brought upon themselves that which was unthinkable as late as the early to mid-1960's. "Tolerance" included everything but a tolerance for the God of the Bible ... and shall in due time reap what it has sown.

The Bible pattern is that the faithful are always a remnant, a rather small remnant after the Flood of Noah's Day, and that remnant of the Elect shall inherit the Kingdom of God, while this world perishes by fire.

That isn't unthinkable at all. It is the highest form of justice, to cleanse the earth of sin and its evil offspring, symbolized by the Four Horsemen who have been riding since sin entered this space-time world. It seems the speed of their ride has accelerated, with vast tsunami disasters, the reign of fear, the spread of disease, and an earth that quakes while the patterns of climate and the harvests of dust increase the level of fear around the globe. What the elite globalists shall inherit, along with eternal spiritual death, is a half-dead earth filled with weak and unproductive people living in the precursor to Hell.

The wages of sin is death, a spiritual law that no liberal Supreme Court or vile international court can reverse or control. Spiritual law is beyond their reach. Where, then, is your Refuge? That should be obvious.

© 2006 Dorothy A. Seese - All Rights Reserved

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Dorothy Anne Seese has been working since she was three and a half years old, but not as a journalist.

Her career began as a child actress in the 1939-1942 "Five Little Peppers" film series produced by Columbia that mercifully ended with the nation's involvement in World War II, although she did do small parts in a few films until 1953. By that time, she was a student at U.C.L.A. where she received her liberal arts degree in Political Science.

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AMERICA - HARDER or EASIER for CHRISTIANS??

AMERICA - HARDER or EASIER for CHRISTIANS??-by Darren Smith.

About a month ago during a time of great trial in my walk Jesus
the Lord spoke to me about being a true follower of Him, not a
nominal believer but a true follower. The word I heard was that
America is the hardest place in the world to be a believer. This
came as a shock to me, for I had often thought and commented on
how easy we have it here. But what the Lord opened to me is how
hard it is to walk with Him in this land of comfort. It is so easy to be
distracted by the cares of this world in our nation, in fact so easy
that we have created our own American doctrine to make us feel
better about our lack of devotion to Jesus.

If you need Jesus for every meal its far easier to trust Him, and if
meeting with a body of believers puts your life at risk, commitment
would be easier. Lets face it - we have built a "what's in it for me"
doctrine to fill our buildings and programs. What's amazing is that
we even believe that God has blessed us with all these distractions.
We're even taught to pray for them. After all, surely God wants us
all to be rich and happy. This very notion causes us to max out
credit cards and other credit, so we can look the part. Even our
churches fall for the "bigger-newer-nicer" lie!

If we go back to the basic Gospel we can't teach the American
doctrine because the words of Christ dispel it completely. Even
when Jesus gave us a model of how to pray He taught us to be
dependant upon Him. "Give us this day our daily bread" is a simple
request, isn't it? Can you find a prayer for riches or possesions in it?
Think about this - how can the Lord provide our daily bread when
our cabinets, ice boxes and freezers are full? Do you get the point?

Being a follower of Christ is almost impossible in our nation. So
many of the things we say God blessed us with are distractions
given to us by our adversary the devil designed to turn us away
from Jesus. This is why we don't see the power of God in our life,
we simply don't need it, or, in fact, want it. It would mean an end to
our way of life and sure death to the American doctrine of feel-good
religion - a bloodless, powerless conviction-less, and (last but not
least) God-less faith.

The condition of the body today is sickening. We can't even call sin
"sin" anymore. I am ashamed of myself and other leaders who have
let our walk slide so far. Starting with me I repent for the half
hearted service to the Lord and struggling with sin that should be
put away. Help me Lord to walk worthy of your calling. In the last
few days I have seen men that once walked with Jesus struggle
with the world and struggle over issues that should not even be a
consideration for a true follower of Christ. God help us to return to
you with a pure heart, break us Lord, open our hearts to you.

In the next few days we will be conducting prayer and repentance
meetings through our network of churches and house churches as
well as out in the public arena... We must repent and cry out to
God for our nation. We have slept long enough.

Time is short - we must not wait. We must charge forward into the
nation preaching only Jesus by actions as well as words. We must
plant true New Testament Churches meeting on every block,
building the body of Christ, making diciples and tearing down
strongholds. People whose only agenda is Christ and only fear is the Lord.

-Darren Smith.

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God's Curse for Those That Burden Themselves With Jerusalem

Its too bad our "Christian" President does not read and heed these words.
President Bush is leading America to destruction with the Road Map. He is forcing Israel to give up land for "peace". The result has been more terrorism and emboldening evil. We have displaced God's chosen and replaced them with evil terrorist. If there is any history President Bush could be compared to Nevile Chamberlain who appeased Hitler. America is at the presepise of judgement and destruction thanks to our rejecting God and chosing evil.

Zechariah 8:7-8 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my
people from the east country, and from the west country;
And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst
of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be
their God, in truth and in righteousness.

Zechariah 12:2-5 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all
the people round about, when they shall be in the siege
both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem.
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone
for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall
be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be
gathered together against it.
In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with
astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open
mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every
horse of the people with blindness.
And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The
inhabitants of Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the
LORD of hosts their God.

Zechariah 14:12-13 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite
all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their
flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,
and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and
their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a great
tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall
lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his
hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF IRAN?

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Matthew Commentary from Great Joy (http://www.dccsa.com/greatjoy/)

MATTHEW

The right place to begin any study of end time or last days prophecy is to see how Our Lord answered His apostles when they asked Him about these things. Matthew was the only gospel writer besides John who heard the words directly from the Lord. John's record is not included in his gospel account; however, in Revelation, the Lord gave John much more detail on what He had told them in the Olivet Discourse. It is good to remember that John likely wrote the Revelation after Rome had destroyed Jerusalem. Mark likely received his account from Peter. Luke likely used the accounts of Matthew and Mark to prepare his account of the Olivet Discourse. Of the three accounts in the gospels, Matthew's account not only is most detailed but likely most literal. It is often said that Matthew was writing to the Jews. He was writing to the Church, which with very few exceptions such as Luke, was almost all Jews at the time when he wrote it. Matthew wanted to make it clear that faith in Jesus involved no departure from the Old Testament, but was the goal to which the Old Testament pointed.

It can not be over emphasized how important the Olivet Discourse is to a solid understanding of end times prophecy. Study it carefully. Seek an understanding of the order of events which the Lord gives. Refer often to what Jesus answers as his apostles ask:

Matthew 24:3 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?

Luke 21:7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign [will there be] when these things shall come to pass?

Mark 13:3-4 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,

Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?

We are asking just what the apostles asked. Lord, tell us when shall these things be? Lord, what shall be the sign of thy coming? Daniel and the other prophets who have spoken of the end of the world have left us confused. Lord, help us to understand as we look at what You had Matthew record for us.

Matthew 24:4 - 25:46

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these [are] the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, [even] at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe [were], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two [women shall be] grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed [is] that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite [his] fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for [him], and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

NOTE THAT THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS IS NOT INCLUDED HERE. NOT BECAUSE IT IS NOT IMPORTANT. WE MUST BE WORKING FOR THE LORD WITH ALL OF THE TALENTS HE GIVES US. May we AGREE THAT THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS WAS NOT PART OF THE ANSWER GIVEN To the specific question raised IN THE OLIVETE DISCOURSE?

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five [were] foolish. They that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, [Not so]; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth [his] sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his righthand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or thirsty, and gave [thee] drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

The above account of the Olivet Discourse recorded by Matthew is more detailed than that of Luke and Mark. It would be good to reread the full context of Matthew's account of the Olivet Discourse before we look at the details.

Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

THIS IS SO VERY IMPORTANT. JESUS BEGINS HIS ANSWER THIS SAME WAY IN ALL ACCOUNTS. TAKE HEED - PAY ATTENTION, THIS IS IMPORTANT. TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS YOUR TEACHER. DON'T TAKE ANY MAN'S WORD FOR THE ANSWER TO THE VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION OF WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE. TAKE HEED - PAY ATTENTION TO THE ONLY ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE TEACHER YOU HAVE. THE WORD OF GOD IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS YOUR ONLY ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE TEACHER. DON'T TRUST ANY MAN TO ANSWER THESE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. DON'T TRUST THE TELEVANGELISTS. DON'T TRUST YOUR FRIENDS. DON'T TRUST ME. DON'T EVEN TRUST YOUR PASTOR. DON'T EVEN TRUST YOUR FAMILY.

HOW YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION OF WHEN THE RAPTURE WILL OCCUR IS SO IMPORTANT THAT IT WILL AFFECT MOST OF THE DECISIONS THAT YOU MAKE INCLUDING HOW DILIGENTLY YOU SEEK GOD AND HOW RIGHTEOUSLY YOU LIVE. THE GREAT NEW TESTAMENT HEROES OF THE FAITH LIVED EXPECTING THE LORD TO RETURN IN GREAT POWER AND GLORY TO DELIVER THEM FROM THE GREAT TRIBULATION WHICH THEY EITHER WERE IN, OR WERE EXPECTING TO EXPERIENCE. MAY I SUGGEST THAT YOU TAKE A NEW LOOK AT HOW YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION LAYING ASIDE ALL PRECONCEPTIONS, AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT, LOOKING ONLY AT THE SCRIPTURES, AND TRUSTING THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH TO GIVE YOU THE TRUTH YOU SEEK. MAY I ALSO SUGGEST THAT ONE LOOSES NOTHING BY PREPARING TO LIVE SUPERNATURALLY IN GREAT TRIBULATION. MAY I ALSO SUGGEST THAT WHEN ANTICHRIST IS GIVEN FULL POWER TO WAGE WAR ON THE SAINTS, THAT SUPERNATURAL LIVING BY FAITH WILL NO LONGER BE OPTIONAL. IT WILL BE THE ONLY WAY FOR THE SAINTS TO LIVE.

Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

What are names of some false christs? Years ago people were pretty much limited to Satan, or Lucifer, and Antichrist. Today we have Sun Young Moon, Djwhal Khul, Lord Maitreya, thousands of "Ascended Masters", thousands of "Spirit Guides", Masters of Wisdom, the Master Mind, Krishna, Dalai Lama, Joseph Smith, Buddha, Gaia, Zen, Tao, The Force, Yin/Yang, Sanat, and thousands more. No previous generation has had as many false christs from which to choose. The New Age Movement is a return to dark age mystic occultism and its thousands of false christs and its philosophy that "that ye shall be

as god," in fact, makes everyone a false christ unto themselves and to each other. The New Age Movement and New World Order is the end time movement of Satan, the Antichrist, and his False Prophet.

Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

There are more wars going on today than can hardly be counted, more than ever in recorded history. They are small scale but some of them will surely escalate. Watch out when Vladimir Zhirinovsky takes control in Russia. His speeches are Russian translations of those used by Hitler. Russia still has over 20,000 strategic nuclear weapons. Peace, peace, they say yet the world has never been in more perilous threat of total destruction. How could Jesus tell us not to let it trouble us? The key is where your affections are set.

Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Colossians 3:14 And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

I John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

I John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

The true Christian sees the effect of a strategic nuclear blast as identical to the Rapture. Either means to be instantly with the Lord. Only Christians can look squarely at the true peril that exists in the world today without fear.

Matthew 24:7 - 8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.

Here are some interesting and sobering statistics on earthquakes. There was only 1 major earthquake recorded world-wide between 1900 - 1910 which was the San Francisco quake of 1906. In the next 2 decades there were 4 major quakes. There were 5 in the 1940's. There were 13 in the 1960's. There were 56 in the 1970's. Between 1980 and 1989 there were 74 major earthquakes. The earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, famines, and pestilences are the beginning.

Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

This is one of the verses which make it almost impossible for many Christians to consider the possibility of a post tribulation rapture. Most Christians in America have no idea how Christians have been and are being persecuted around the world. Everyone should be aware of the antichristian bias growing in America. Since Jesus returned to the right hand of the Father, starting with Stephen, Christians have suffered and been killed for Jesus name's sake. Is it settled in your mind and heart that you will be hated by the majority of people? Do you know you are called to suffer and possibly be killed for being a Christian? Many Christians who believe the rapture occurs before the tribulation will be taken by surprise by this truth. Jesus was faithful to give the warning us but most of us just plain don't want to hear it and want to heap to ourselves teachers who will tickle our ears by telling us what we want to hear. We need to hear the truth. Don't let hard truth discourage you. Maranatha! - the Lord Jesus Christ is coming.

Matthew 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Does it offend you when someone tries to tell you to get prepared for tribulation?

Corrie ten Boom said, "There are some among us teaching there will be no tribulation, that the Christians will be able to escape all this. These are the false teachers Jesus was warning us to expect in the latter days. Most of them have little knowledge of what is already going on across the world." There should be an overwhelming compulsion for teachers, preachers, and pastors to tell people to prepare for tribulation. You loose nothing by being prepared. Praise God if you are raptured first; but, don't fail to be prepared. How do you prepare for tribulation? The answer is faith, and faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. We need to make the study of the word of God high priority.

Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

There are indeed more false prophets today than at any other time in history. How do you tell a false prophet? The false prophet will contradict the word of God, or glorify himself rather than God. Many false prophets will display supernatural power; however, if Jesus is not clearly glorified by any apparent miracle have no part of it.

Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Do we see iniquity abounding? How could it get so bad so fast? Do we see the love of many growing cold? Is much of the love in the church feigned affection? Love and truth go together. Would you be acting in love to know that the church will go through the great tribulation and not say anything about it because you knew people did not want to think about such a possibility? Is your popularity more important than the truth?

Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

What does it mean to endure to the end? Does this mean to endure the rapture? Will you consider that the end, the Lord's return, and the rapture are simultaneous events which occur at the end of great tribulation? If you will consider this you will then see it the same way that the apostles understood it to be. The earliest date of pre-tribulation rapture teaching is the mid 19th century. Paul and all of the apostles believed the rapture would occur at the end of great tribulation simultaneous with the Lord's return in great power and glory. The Lord's return will not be a secret. Every eye shall see Him.

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Do you know that satellite communication technology has made this a reality in our generation?

Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

The abomination of desolation is something which we need to try to understand. Daniel speaks of it in chapters 9 and 12. The abomination of desolation will likely be when Antichrist goes to Jerusalem and proclaims himself to be god and demands worship as god from everyone in the world including Jews, Christians and Moslems.

Matthew 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

When we do see Antichrist proclaiming himself to be god and demanding worship, then if we are in the cities we should flee to the low population areas. The wilderness is the place to be when Antichrist demands that the world worship him as god.

Matthew 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Matthew 24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

Matthew 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Matthew 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Get out of the cities quickly and don't take time to pack anything. At this time you will have to live by faith totally trusting God to meet your every need. Why should this frighten us? Why could we not view this with excitement and joy knowing that God will provide for our needs supernaturally and that He will soon be returning in great power and glory? When is the last time that you heard anyone in any church prayer meeting praying that our flight not be in the winter? Why would Jesus say such a thing if we were to be raptured before the tribulation? One might say this all pertains to the Jews when Rome sent Titus to destroy the Jerusalem in 70AD. That is true, but like so much of prophecy, there are former and latter fulfillments. Jesus was speaking to the Church as it was then and as it is now. This will become more clear as we look at subsequent scriptures here and in Daniel.

Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

This is great tribulation. It applied in 70AD; however, it is more applicable to us when we see Antichrist proclaiming himself to be god and demanding to be worshipped as god.

Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

This verse strongly indicates strategic nuclear warfare.

Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not.

Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Matthew 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.

Matthew 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.

Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Antichrist will have power to wage war on the saints. Christians will be deceived and misled by people who claim to know that Christ has returned. THE LORD'S RETURN WILL NOT BE IN SECRET. THE LORD'S RETURN WILL BE IN GREAT POWER AND GLORY. Do not follow anyone doing miracles who does not do them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the glory of God.

Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Remember the questions which Jesus was answering. Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign [will there be] when these things shall come to pass? when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?

1) After the tribulation of those days the sun and moon will be darkened and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

2) Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven causing everyone but those who know Messiah Jesus Christ to mourn as everyone sees the Lord returning with power and great glory.

3) He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet to gather the Christians to join in His glorious parade to put an end to the armies of Antichrist who have been waging war on His saints. RAPTURE TIME! There are quite a number of events which are to happen before we get to this RAPTURE TIME.

Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh:

Matthew 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, [even] at the doors.

Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

We find fig tree parables in Judges 9:10-11 and Proverbs 27:18. There is general agreement that the fig tree symbolizes the nation of Israel. Israel once again became a nation in 1948. End time prophecy revolves around the nation of Israel. This does not mean that the Church or the Holy Spirit will not be present during the great tribulation. Paul and the other apostles were Jews but they were also part of the Church. When any Jew comes to know Messiah Yeshua as Lord and Savior that Jew becomes part of the Church. When Israel blossoms as a nation; however, has tremendous end time prophetic

significance. The generation to witness this event is the generation to witness the fulfillment of all end time prophecy. How many years are represented by a bible generation? The year of Jubilee was every 50 years and other scriptures would indicate a bible generation to be 40 years. If one were to assign 1948 as the blossoming of the fig tree, Israel, adding 40 gives significance to 1988 or adding 50 gives significance to 1998. Fixing dates is not what we are to do. However, the Lord has told us to take heed, to watch, to know that His return is near. Without fixing any specific dates, we still have every reason to believe that we are the generation to witness the fulfillment of all end time prophecy and witness the Lord's return in great power and glory. Heaven and earth shall pass away but the word of God shall not pass away. No generation in history has ever had as much incentive to search the scriptures and study His word as our generation.

Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Here is why we are not to fix specific dates. However, since almost 20% of the New testament is devoted to this subject we must know that it is extremely important. Jesus wanted His Church, the saints, to know various signs during the great tribulation which would encourage them to endure to the end while Antichrist was waging war on them. These various signs would let His Church know that they had less then 7 years in which to endure this war of Antichrist. If you hear anyone fixing a specific day or hour steer clear of such a person. The tribulation will begin so gradually that no one will know when it started. However, we have many signs which will let us know we are well into the great tribulation. It is quite possible that the great tribulation has already started.

Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe [were], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

Matthew 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

How were things in the days of Noah?

1) There were demonic unions of fallen angels and humans. (Gen. 6:2-4)

The core of the New Age Movement is demonic. Most of the people who are sucked into the connections with their "Ascended Master", "Spirit Guide" or whatever else they want to call it do not realize they are demons.

2) Great wickedness to the point that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Gen. 6:5) It would seem that we are rapidly approaching this way of evil again.

3) They were marrying and giving in marriage. The marriage rate equaled the divorce rate. Musical partners without commitment. Except for Noah and his family no one was aware of God's imminent judgment.

This is how it will be at the Lord's return. Noah was a preacher of righteousness and was ridiculed and persecuted by all as he prepared the ark. Noah endured 100 years of persecution and ridicule and tribulation while completing the ark. So will the Christians and Jews be ridiculed and persecuted as they prepare for the Lord's return during the great tribulation. Did Noah escape the flood or did God tell him how to prepare to be protected through it? The Christians and Jews will be the only people who will not go along with the demonic evil of the New World Order under Antichrist.

Matthew 24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Matthew 24:41 Two [women shall be] grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

The Lord is returning in great power and glory. Conditions in the world are as it was in the days of Noah. Unrestrained evil, with Antichrist waging total war on the saints. The saints should be watching and doing what the Lord tells them. Noah was a great example for us. Noah worked building the ark for 100 years suffering tremendous ridicule and persecution. Jesus is giving important instruction to His Church as it was then and is now. Tribulation has been great, however it had started so gradually no one knew for sure when it had actually started. Now it is time for His return. In speaking to His Church, He tells us that one will be taken and the other left. Why? There is a sad truth that there are people in the Church who have not been saved. How can this be? There are hypocrites and pretenders in the church. There are people in the church who are there because that is what good people do. There are those in the church who think if they do enough good works they will be acceptable to God. Why are you acceptable to God? Do you know absolutely that you are going to be one of those who goes up to be part of the Lord's parade returning in great power and glory? He is returning to destroy the armies of Antichrist and confine the Antichrist and the False Prophet to the Lake of Fire. Are you going to be one of those who are taken up to meet Him and be in His powerful glorious parade? What is it that makes you certain of your place in the parade? Have you been born again? Will you endure to the end? If you are not absolutely certain, what will you do? Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Matthew 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Matthew 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

Matthew 24:46 Blessed [is] that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Matthew 24:47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

Matthew 24:48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

Matthew 24:49 And shall begin to smite [his] fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

Matthew 24:50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for [him], and in an hour that he is not aware of,

Matthew 24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The great tribulation will test the faith of believers. The believers will have to live by faith and their love for one another will be tested as well as their faith. We are called to endure to the end. Will the saints hoard or share? Will brother betray brother? Those who are living in faith and love as they should be will be very happy when the Lord returns. Those who smite and hurt and betray their brothers during the war on the saints will not be happy when the Lord returns. God hates hypocrisy. If you are a hypocrite you would be better off getting out of the church.

Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

Matthew 25:2 And five of them were wise, and five [were] foolish.

Matthew 25:3 They that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

Matthew 25:4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Matthew 25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

Matthew 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

Matthew 25:7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

Matthew 25:8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

Matthew 25:9 But the wise answered, saying, [Not so]; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

Matthew 25:10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

Matthew 25:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

Matthew 25:12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

An oil lamp is useless without oil. A Christian without the Holy Spirit is useless. An oil lamp with or without the oil looks good until it is time to give light in the darkness. Churches are full of people who may appear to be holy. In the darkness of the great tribulation the people in the church who do not have the Holy Spirit will be useless. How do we get filled with the Holy Spirit? Get the filled with the word of God. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Holiness and the Spirit of Truth. We are called to holiness and truth. The bible is our best source of truth and the ways of holiness. God knows the true conditions of our heart. What motivates us to do whatever we do? Our motives are more important than our actions or appearance. If our motives are right our actions and appearance will be right. Are you motivated to do what you do for the Glory of God or for your own vain glory? We need to seek the fullness of the Holy Spirit and we all leak a lot. Holiness is a personal thing. We can not give or share holiness. Each must pursue holiness himself. We can encourage others to pursue holiness but it is a matter of the heart. Only God knows the heart of anyone. What is the condition of my heart? I don't like to look because Jeremiah 17:9 says "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Yet a true mark of holiness is recognizing this deceitful and desperately wicked condition of the heart. The pursuit of holiness is personal and internal. It is what keeps us hunting the beam in our own eyes rather than trying to help our brother to take the speck

out of his eye. However, the more we submit to the convicting work of the Holy Spirit and agree with God regarding the sinful state of our heart motives the more freedom the Holy Spirit has to work His mighty powerful works through us. This is the way of the overcomer when Antichrist wages total war on the saints during the great tribulation. One will put a thousand to flight and two will put ten thousand to flight. The victory is sure.

Matthew 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

Matthew 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth [his] sheep from the goats:

Matthew 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Maranatha! The Lord Jesus Christ is coming to judge the living and the dead. Our Blessed Hope is His return. The war that Antichrist wages on the saints is won by the saints because Our King Jesus wins it for us single handed. Blessed is he that endures to the end. The following verses instruct us in how to endure to the end. We must be careful to pay attention to what our King wants us to do.

Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Matthew 25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and yegave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

Matthew 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Matthew 25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or thirsty, and gave [thee] drink?

Matthew 25:38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]?

Matthew 25:39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

Matthew 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.

Many church people will have their love grow cold during the great tribulation. Many church people will have been so deluded expecting to be raptured without any suffering that they will have taken the mark of the beast and actually joined the world ecumenical religion of the Antichrist in the war on those narrow-minded fundamentalists who refuse to go along with all the good programs of the New World Order. The true church of Jesus in the great tribulation will have nothing but their faith in Jesus. They will have been stripped of all their possessions. Many will have been imprisoned. Since they will not be able to buy and sell they will have need of food, clothing, and shelter. The wise Christians who have been preparing for the tribulation must also be prepared to share. How companionate are you? We are to be known by the love we have for one another. If you are preparing for tribulation, the most important part of your preparation is the preparation of a tender compassionate heart for those in need. Anything that you do for someone less fortunate, you do for King Jesus.

Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye

cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

Matthew 25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Matthew 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Matthew 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me.

Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

If we are preparing to take care of ourself in the great tribulation we are making the wrong preparations. If our faith grows, our love will grow. Practice giving. Practice caring. We must be preparing to take care of others. Study the bible every day. We are to be the Church, the body of Christ. The body of Christ should have the eyes and heart of Christ to see those in need and minister to them. Who is hungry? Who is thirsty? Who is in need of a place to stay? There will be many such people in the great tribulation. Our hearts must be prepared to share with those in need. Many souls will be won for the Lord Jesus Christ when the Church shares with the many who will be in need of the basic necessities of life during the great tribulation. Anything we do for anyone less fortunate than ourself we do for King Jesus. Anything we fail to share with someone in need we refuse to share with King Jesus.