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THE RAPTURE – PART 6

January 6, 2009

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The 1st Resurrection, Catching Out of the Saved, or the Rapture – Part 6

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Revelation’s Seventh Trumpet Associated Events

I have been asked to give a brief, compact version of the seventh trumpet rapture position, so here it is – For a more thorough dissertation consult Parts 1 to 5 in our previous BLOGS.

The Rapture Mystery is Finished at the 7th Trumpet!

I Corinthians 15:51 – Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Revelation 10:7 – But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

The 7th Trump is the Last in a Series of Seven!

I Corinthians 15:52 – In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

It is the Last Day in the Flesh for the Saved of this Age!

John 6:39 – And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

It is Their First Day in Glorified Bodies in a Heaven Kingdom!

Revelation 11:15 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

The 7th Trump Sounds Before God’s Vials of Wrath Occur!

Revelation 16:1 – And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

The Saved Will Not Experience God’s Wrath!

I Thessalonians 5:9 – For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

The Saved in Heaven Are Judged for Rewards During the Vials!

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.

After the Vials They Return to Earth With Christ!

Jude 14 – And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

And Reign With Him in Proportion to Degree of Rewards!

Revelation 1:5-7 – And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, [6] And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. [7] Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Revelation 2:25-29 – But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. [26] And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: [27] And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. [28] And I will give him the morning star. [29] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Revelation 3:21,22 – To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. [22] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

ASSOCIATION OF THE WOES AND WRATH WITH THE RAPTURE

THREE WOES AND THE RAPTURE OCCURS AS THIRD BEGINS

I EXPECT TO BE HERE TO SUFFER WOE BUT NOT TO SUFFER WRATH

THE SAVED WILL SUFFER WOE BUT NOT GOD’S WRATH!

THREE TRIBULATION WOES THAT WILL BEGIN ON THE EARTH BEFORE THE SAVED LEAVE IT IN ADVANCE OF THE WRATH OF GOD ON THE LOST!

Revelation 9:1,2,12 – The First Woe – And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. [2] And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. [12] One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Revelation 9:13-15 – The Second Woe Begins – And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, [14] Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. [15] And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay THE THIRD PART OF MEN.

Revelation 6:8 – Where Most Deaths Will Occur – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto THEM over the FOURTH PART OF THE EARTH, to kill with SWORD, and with HUNGER, and with DEATH, and with the beasts of the earth. (“GES” IS TRANSLATED AS “EARTH,” AND IS NEVER ASSOCIATED WITH THE NUMBER OF THE POPULATION KILLED, BUT WITH THE SIZE OF THE PORTION OF THE EARTH WHERE THEY WERE KILLED)

I believe that most of the Tribulation Period deaths will occur in the Eastern Hemisphere to the north, south, west, and east of the Euphrates River zone.

Revelation 11:13,14 – The Second Woe Ends – And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. [14] The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

Revelation 11:15 – The Third Woe Begins – And the seventh angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

I Corinthians 15:51 – The Mystery is Described – Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Revelation 10:7 –The Mystery is Finished – But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

I Corinthians 15:52 + I Thessalonians 4:16 – [52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. [16] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

AND ALL OF THE SAVED, WHO LEFT THE EARTH ON THE 7TH TRUMPET, ARE BEING JUDGED IN HEAVEN WHILE THE WRATH OF GOD IS POURED OUT ON ALL UNBELIEVERS

Revelation 11:15 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Revelation 11:18 + 16:1,2 – [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. [1] And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. [2] And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

THE BELIEVER’S FAITH WILL BE HEAVILY TESTED BY THE WOES. IT WILL MAKE ALL BELIEVERS MORE ANXIOUS FOR CHRIST’S COMING FOR US, AND VERY THANKFUL WE WILL NOT SUFFER HIS WRATH IN HELL OR DURING THE VIALS OF WRATH.

I Thessalonians 5:9 – For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

U.S. Economy Past Permanent Repair,

Temporary Recovery and then Despair,

End of the Age of the Gentiles in the Air,

Government Officials Are Pulling Out Hair,

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January 5, 2009

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Please allow me to run by you Archive Prophecy Update Number 246A, which was issued more than three years ago predicting the economy of the U.S. would break in an instant in the future. I thought the economy would go down through 2007 and break suddenly near the end of 2007, but I was wrong on the breaking point. It broke about 9 months later than I expected. The massive bailout by worthless paper dollars will do a temporary patching job in 2009, but at some point in time between 2010 and 2012, it will nosedive again, and stay down until the end of the Age of the Gentiles.

Obama’s bailout programs will work temporarily, but they will only be able to prop it up until 2012. The economy won’t hold up past 2012 and Middle East war is likely at some point in time between 2010 and 2015.

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SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 246A

October 23, 2005

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The U.S. Dollar Outflow Is Making the Economy Very Brittle! Oil That Fires the U.S. Economy Is Burning It To A Crisp! It is Brittle and Will Break in an Instant in the Future! This is the Result of Breaking Away from God’s Word!

The Rejected Son Will Come as the Rod of Judgment and Only He Can Correct the Mess Man Has Made!

Isaiah 11:1,4 – And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: [4] But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

The coming collapse of the world’s economic structure, and the tectonic chaos which follows it, is a result of the judgment of God on a society that has reached the same low level that existed before the northern Kingdom of Israel was carried into Assyrian captivity in Isaiah’s day, and before the Kingdom of Judah was carried into Babylonian captivity in Jeremiah’s day.

Jeremiah 5:31 –The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Isaiah 30:8-13 – Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: [9] That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: [10] Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: [11] Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. [12] Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: [13] Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

Just as chaos came on Israel, it will instantly come on Gentiles for the same reasons. Isaiah wrote it for all to see “for the time to come forever and ever.” Our economic collapse will be followed by an unleashing of natural phenomena like the world has never seen.

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.

Whatever low level of weakening our economy has not reached when verse 21 begins, will drop below ground zero when the verse is fulfilled.

I wrote my first book, Tectonic Chaos, while I was still doing post-graduate work at Arkansas Tech University. At that time it was obvious that the Middle East nations of Islam were going to become a major player in the world economic theater. During the days of the great colonial empires, they played no part in the great stage play of economy produced by the industrial revolution. Their oil, and the profits from it, was controlled by whichever empire happened to occupy them. The Arab oil was controlled by the colonial empires, not by the Islamic faith. They had little or no say in accumulation of wealth to exercise any control over their colonial masters. But that all began to change with the breakup of the colonial empires following World War I, and the creation of Arab states. It tremendously accelerated after World War II when the European colonial hold over the Arab states ended. Suddenly there were four world powers, the United States, the Soviet Union, Red China, and Great Britain. I was a synoptic analyst in the Nation Security Agency at that time, and it did not take a rocket scientist to understand what was going to happen in the future – Oil, not the Dollar, would one day become the driving force that fueled the dreams of politicians, namely national interest, which causes them to be re-elected – if the nation does well economically, they get re-elected, if not, hello mediocrity. Knowing this, some 30 years ago, on page 78 of the first edition of Tectonic Chaos, I included the following paragraph. “The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will soon form the nucleus of the seventh kingdom, and the ten crowns are the kings that will rule them. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comic expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is slowly replacing the American dollar in international importance – soon ten Arab nations will have gained control of most of the world’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us and Red China. The world’s power block will block itself as the ten Arab nations prosper in their midst.”

I wrote that almost 30 years ago in the midst of writing Tectonic Chaos. Oil has slowly been replacing dollars in importance. We have watched the cartel, [known as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)], grow steadily since it was formed by Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Venezuela in 1960. I retired at the National Security in 1971. Two years later the first outbreak of high oil prices produced the world economic crisis referred to historically as the Great Oil Block of 1973. Again, in 2000, OPEC put the squeeze on oil production to raise prices.

I remember the first book I saw on a paperback stand in the seventies that headlined the economy was going to collapse the following year. Since that time every year some new writer has a book predicting it will collapse in a year or two. I have never doubted it would collapse one day, and I must admit I am surprised it has not by now. But if you will look back through our archives it will be quite apparent I have avoided this subject of when the economy would collapse. I think the time has come for me to quit avoiding the subject. The effect the disasters have had on part of the backbone of our economy, namely, the insurance companies, have certainly put a crack in it. And the same chain of disasters that have occurred along the coastline from Houston to the floods in the New England states is causing billions to flow out of Washington into massive relief efforts. Part of the disaster has been the damage to, and the interruption of oil flow from, offshore oil rigs. It has been the major justification used for rocketing petroleum prices in the United States. But the major culprit is OPEC. As I indicated almost 30 years ago, the Arab world would slowly gain control of much of the world’s wealth by controlling the world’s oil flow. The followers of Islam have made it clear they are aware they cannot defeat the United States militarily, but have pointedly stated they intend to do it by causing our economy to collapse.

The goals of the fanatical elements of Islam are very simple, they intend to defeat the United States and the western world by: (1) Disrupting the flow of oil to affect the economy of western powers, (2) Conducting guerilla warfare terror attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan to drain our economic resources by having to maintain sufficient military personnel to combat them, (3) Maintaining a threat of worldwide terror attacks to cause the western powers to expend burdensome economic payouts to a gigantic complex of government paid security personnel, and (4) causing the United States to simply lose heart because of its body bag count and domestic economic problems.

All of this is just part of the reason I do not expect the U.S. economy to stand up much longer. We are always the first to supply aid in natural disasters all across the earth. The Tsunami Disaster last December in Asia, the Earthquake Disaster in Pakistan, and the constant flow of dollars into famine and pestilence ridden areas of the world, are bleeding us dry economically. Please do not get the idea I am drastically opposed to humanitarian efforts we have, and are making. I am a realist, who tries to tell it like it is, without regard to the emotional waning of the human heart. Nor am I suggesting I have the answer as to what we need to do to solve our ever growing economic outpouring of dollars. If I have been able to correctly interpret the Bible, all this financial drain will continue, and the United States will simply go broke economically. Oh, make no mistake, we will still have our nuclear weapons, but they will become only a method of defense, because our world leadership, which is not based on the love the other nations have for us, but on how many dollars we shell out to them, is going down the international toilet tube. Simply put, Jesus is the only one who can straighten out this mess the world is in, and it will not be fixed until he comes.

And, in addition to the dollar outflow mentioned up to this point, there is the fantastic outpouring of countless billions in the battle against the virus driven pestilences such as HIV, TB, Flu, and numerous other life affecting pestilences. Our worldwide relief to those affected by these pestilences is staggering, not only in the battle against them, but for the dollars poured out to victims of them in medical expenditures. And what country is always “Johnny on the spot” each time a foreign famine comes to drain more finances from our economic stability? It has always seemed inevitable our economy would one day collapse. The only question in my mind has always been WHEN? The complicated infrastructure created by the world’s computer driven power has made a multilayered economy, and it is certainly not easy for the “man in the street” to be certain when it will collapse, and I am one of them. But I am going out on a limb and at least tell you what I think.

I believe from the end of 2006 through the year 2007 we will see a very dramatic plunge downward in a world economy based on paper and deceit. I also believe the year 2007 is the earliest year that Israel is likely to be attacked from the north by 10 Arab nations, and I am very confident such an attack will occur by 2012. I confess the timing of these events is what I think, not what I know.

II Thessalonians 1:7-10 – And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, [8] In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: [9] Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; [10] When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

Acts 20:21 – Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

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The 1st Resurrection, Catching Out of the Saved, or the Rapture – Part 5

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WHEN NO ONE CAN HELP THE ANTICHRIST!

He has returned from Egypt to Israel to set in his command post on the Jerusalem Temple Mount and direct a final attack upon the remnant of Israel in the Negev Wilderness.

Daniel 11:45 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

The inspired word for “tabernacles” is “ohel,” which always means “tents.” The “ohel” in the wilderness was a “tabernacle” that was a huge tent. These tents house the many millions that will have come to Israel for the final onslaught against the small Jewish remnant in the Negev, which the Scripture identifies as the battle of Armageddon. He will issue a call to all the nations of Europe, Eurasia, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to come and join him in this great battle, and the demonic frog spirits of the father, son, and unholy false prophet will influence them to come to this final battle of Armageddon.

Revelation 16:13-16 – And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. [15] Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Daniel 11:45 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

The inspired word for “palace” is appeden, and it appears only once in this particular form throughout the Bible. At the time this Scripture was written all the great kings carried portable command post buildings with them when they went forth to conquer. They included a royal throne, on which the king would set issuing the commands to his troops in the field. This is what an “appeden” is – a portable command post from which the king issues battle directives to his troops in the field.

The king of the north, the antichrist, will set his command post on the glorious holy mountain, which is Mount Moriah, the center hill of the three hills of eastern Jerusalem. This Mount lies between the Mediterranean and Dead Seas. His millions of troops will blanket all of Israel north of Beersheva, with the heaviest concentrations filling the two valleys that join at the Tel of Megiddo, the Plain of Esdraelon and the Jezreel Valley. Most of the incoming troops will disembark at the port of Haifa, then proceed southeastward down the Esdraelon-Jezreel Valley into the Jordan Valley, and hence southward to Jerusalem and the border of the northern Negev. Millions will stand in place and await the command of antichrist to start the attack on the small remnant of Israel in the Negev.

One would be inclined to think that the antichrist, with millions of troops behind him, would be absolutely unstoppable, and that God’s chosen people, the nation of Israel, would be killed to the last man by this massive onslaught. That is what makes the last part of this verse so strange, as Daniel states: “yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

I remember that several years ago, a dear departed friend of mine, Dr. I.K. Cross, who was presenting a message at the annual Pastors and Missionaries Conference in Texarkana, delivered a sermon titled “We’re Gonna Win.” And the crux of his message made clear that the reason we were going to win was because of what Christ had already done, was doing, and would do in the future. It is Jesus Christ, returning to the earth with all his power, that will use His earth, atmosphere, and universe to forever destroy the antichrist, his false prophet, and his vast army. I believe the following Scriptures attest to that fact:

Revelation 16:16-21 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. [21] And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Zechariah 14:12 – 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.

MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL AND THE 7TH TRUMPET

With what you have just read in mind, please consider the following verses.

Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at THAT time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

The antichrist will sit in his command post on the Holy Temple Mount in Jerusalem and issue the command for his millions of troops to attack the remnant of Israel in the Negev. It is “at that time” that Michael stands up for Israel, and the last trump, the 7th trump of Revelation, sounds to announce the arrival of the 7 vials of God’s wrath. This is when the first resurrection, the rapture of the saved, occurs. Those “written in the book” are from “a book of remembrance” found in Malachi 3:16 to 4:3, with 3:16-18 telling the saved they will return to earth, and 4:1-3 advising them what shape the physical earth would be in at the time of their return.

Malachi 3:16-18 – Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. [17] And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. [18] Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. [1] For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. [2] But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. [3] And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

When antichrist returns to Jerusalem, he will sit on the Temple Mount as Daniel’s abomination of desolation, and the sixth trumpet will blow to begin the second woe. The second woe will end with a great quake that drastically affects Jerusalem. It will cause a reverential fear to sweep across the Israeli remnant in the wilderness, and they will begin to turn to Christ and give glory to his name.

Revelation 11:13,14 – And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. [14] The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

The three woes are the blowing of the fifth, sixth, and seventh trumpets.

Revelation 11:14,15 – The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. [15] And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

After the rapture of the saved in Revelation 11:15 they are then judged for rewards in heaven in verse 18 while the seven vials of God’s wrath are being poured out on the earth.

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.

While all of the saved are being judged in heaven for rewards, Michael is standing up for the remnant in the Negev, and the vials are being poured out on the antichrist and his followers. I suspect this time of absolute terror will last more than one month, but less than two. Believers will not be on this earth when it occurs.

Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

When Michael stands up, the 7th trumpet sounds, and the saved are delivered up to heaven to be judged for rewards. While they are being judged in heaven, what is happening on the earth in Matthew 24:21,22 corresponds to what is described as the time of trouble that occurs after Michael stands up.

Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [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.

By God’s grace He has elected to bring a small Jewish nation through this brief period. It will consist of Israelis that shall come through this terrible time, still alive in the flesh, to begin to rule over the physical section of Christ’s kingdom during His reign of a thousand years.

Terror can be hindered by Force

Kindness will Only encourage It!

Saying THE Terror Causes Terror

Is bull – kindness to it creates It!

Palestinians Put Hamas IN Power

BY Election KNOWING Their Terror,

TILL They ADMIT Self-Inflicted Sore,

TO Vote the Hamas Out Once More,

ROCKETS Will Fly IN From The Shore!

January 4, 2009

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Analysis: Hamas could not be deterred

January 4, 2009

David Horovitz , THE JERUSALEM POST

For years, an untenable reality prevailed in Sderot and the “Gaza envelope” communities.

Israel’s civilians in the area endured a life of terror - families raising their children under constant threat of Kassam attack - on the front line of the battle against Gaza’s rocket crews. And the IDF’s ground forces, duty-bound to protect the citizenry from such terror and violence, were not called into action.

On Saturday night, that changed.

The current Israeli government, its prime minister doubtless bruised by the unhappy consequences of his last major resort to force, against Hizbullah in southern Lebanon in 2006, was not committed to using ground forces in Gaza when it began Operation Cast Lead on December 27. Rather, Defense Minister Ehud Barak explained at the time, the initial air offensive would be expanded and intensified as necessary.

The sense as the cabinet met this weekend, a week into the conflict, was that expansion and intensification were indeed necessary. Ministers Haim Ramon and Eli Yishai, who argue that Israel should be overtly seeking to bring an end to Hamas’s rule in Gaza, abstained from the fateful cabinet vote only because the declared aims of the ground offensive were not wide enough; those abstentions apart, support was unanimous.

There was a certain incoherence to the declared goals of this operation eight days ago: Was the desired “restored security for the South” to be achieved merely by deterring Hamas from firing into Israel, or was Hamas to be deprived of its practical capacity to pose a threat?

In the event, it appears, the cabinet concluded that Hamas - even after eight days of air attacks on its bases, tunnels, missile silos and terror chiefs - would not be deterred. It was hardly a surprising conclusion, given Hamas’s avowed goal of destroying Israel and its proven indifference to the loss of Palestinian lives. But it was one that Israel reached only reluctantly.

While Israel has made clear that its confrontation is with Hamas, and not with the people of Gaza, there is no denying the extent to which the people of Gaza contributed to the misery Hamas has wrought on both sides of the border.

Hamas seized power in Gaza in a coup in June 2007, but it had been legitimized by the Palestinian citizenry in a series of local election triumphs and, most significantly, in its overwhelming success in the 2006 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council. Hamas’s rise, indeed, is a rare case of a terrorist organization winning power through quasi-democratic elections.

The Palestinian public understandably saw the Fatah establishment as corrupt, and sought an alternative. But in choosing Hamas, it was plainly not deterred by the Islamists’ commitment to the destruction of neighboring Israel, and their determined use of unthinkable means, including horrific suicide bombings, in pursuit of its goals.

In the 2006 elections, Hamas won over 65 percent of the vote in the Gaza Strip, including five out of eight PLC seats in Gaza City, three out of five in Khan Yunis and all five seats in Jabalya.

Insistently committed to their bleak, death-cult ideology, and to an interpretation of Islam that brands Israel fundamentally illegitimate, the Hamas leadership may never be deterred from seeking to harm Israel. They may never “get the message.” Israel can only hope, for their sake and for ours, that the Palestinian public is less obdurate.

But most of all, Israel now hopes and prays for the well-being of its people’s army, reluctantly dispatched to Gaza on Saturday to safeguard the citizens of the South who have lived on the front line for so long.

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Another in critical condition after clash with Hamas gunmen

January 3, 2009

YAAKOV KATZ, JPOST.COM STAFF AND AP , THE JERUSALEM POST

One of the two IDF soldiers who were critically wounded in a mortar shell attack near Jabalya in the Gaza Strip late Saturday night died of his wounds on Sunday.

The IDF said that the death was the first fatality in the IDF ground operation in Gaza, which was launched Saturday

28 other IDF soldiers were wounded in the same attack, three moderately and the rest lightly. Troops had encountered fierce resistance from Hamas forces entrenched in fortifications just over the border.

On Sunday afternoon, three IDF soldiers were lightly wounded in clashes with Hamas gunmen, bringing the total number of IDF casualties to 33.

Most of the wounded were taken to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba for treatment.

By Sunday afternoon, the IDF had divided the Gaza Strip into two segments, in a move apparently aimed at cutting off the flow of arms, supplies and fighters to the northern Strip, as tanks were seen in the area of former Israeli settlement Netzarim and troops reportedly reached the outskirts of Gaza City.

Eye witnesses told Arab media that IDF tanks and bulldozers were seen in the area between Gaza City and Netzarim.

The British Sky News channel also reported that some 150 IDF tanks had arrived in the Netzarim area.

Also Sunday afternoon, Senior Hamas terrorist Hussam Hamdan, who was in charge of Grad-type rocket launches into Beersheba and Ofakim, was killed in an IAF strike on Khan Yunis.

Another senior Hamas terrorist, Muhammad Hilo, was also killed in the same airstrike. Hilo was in charge of the Hamas special forces in Khan Yunis.

Dozens of Hamas gunmen have been killed by IDF troops. Gaza health officials said around 20 civilians had also died in airstrikes and shelling, including a 12-year-old girl, five members of the same family, and another eight civilians killed by a tank shell in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya. The new deaths brought the death toll in the Gaza Strip since last Saturday to more than 500.

Residents of the small northern Gaza community of al-Attatra said soldiers moved from house to house by blowing holes through walls. Most of the houses were unoccupied, their residents already having fled.

The IAF bombed some 45 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, including seven tunnels, several mortar firing cells and Kassam rocket launching cells.

IDF sources said that the immediate goal was to conquer territory in northern Gaza, including rocket launch sites. Soldiers from the Armored Corps, Engineering Corps, and Paratroopers, Givati, Golani brigades were participating in the fighting, with at least four brigades’ worth of troops inside the Gaza Strip.

The sources said that a majority of the rockets fired into Beersheba and Ashdod were launched from the northern Gaza Strip.

One of the major aims of the operation was also to deliver a serious blow to the Hamas military wing, which the IDF estimated had not been severely weakened under the air campaign.

The IDF would not enter Gaza City or the refugee camps, defense officials said, and it was likely that on Monday - when French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives in the region and international pressure is expected to escalate - Israel would begin scaling back the operation.

“We know there will be dangers, difficulties and victims… It must be said that the ground operation entails dangers to the lives of soldiers,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv Saturday night. “We must end the hostile actions against Israel… We will not abandon our citizens.”

“This will be a lengthy operation and there will likely be casualties on our side,” a senior defense official said. “But our mission is to defend the home front. The purpose is to destroy Hamas’s infrastructure and impair its ability to fire rockets into Israel.”

Before the ground incursion began, IDF artillery, for the first time in several years, began pounding open areas in northern Gaza to “soften up” the area and destroy land mines and Hamas fortifications.

Terrorists using civilians as human shields would bear full responsibility for their fate, the army warned.

“Anyone who hides a terrorist or weapons in his house is considered a terrorist,” but “the residents of Gaza are not the target of the operation,” the IDF Spokesman’s Office said.

The army reiterated that the operation was in line with the “decisions of the security cabinet,” saying that this new stage was “part of the IDF’s overall operational plan, and would continue on the basis of ongoing situational assessments by the IDF General Staff.”

The cabinet also approved the call-up of tens of thousands of reservists, mostly from combat units, but also from the Home Front Command, with several thousand emergency orders issued already on Saturday night.

Earlier, the army dropped leaflets in downtown Gaza City ordering people off the streets. The warnings were followed by the air strikes.

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THE RAPTURE – PART 4

January 4, 2009

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UNVAILING THE MYSTERY OF THE PRE-MILLENNIAL RAPTURE

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SKELETON OUTLINE I BEGAN TO PREACH IN THE EIGHTIES ON THE 7TH TRUMPET RAPTURE AT DARDANELLE MBC AND IN OTHER CHURCHES IN THE NINETIES.

ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE?

HAVE YOU BEEN SHOWN THE MYSTERY? – Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. (I Corinthians 15:51)

ARE YOU READY FOR THE MYSTERY TO BE FINISHED? – But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. (Revelation 10:7)

ARE YOU READY FOR THE VOICE & TRUMP OF ANGEL 7? – For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (I Thessalonians 4:16)

ARE YOU READY FOR HIS KINGDOMS ON THE 7TH TRUMP? – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 11:15)

ARE YOU READY FOR THE LAST TRUMP IN A SERIES OF 7? – In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (I Corinthians 15:52)

ARE YOU READY TO BE JUDGED AFTER THE 7TH TRUMPET? – 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. (Revelation 11:18)

HIS 7 VIALS OF WRATH COME ON THEM AS WE ARE JUDGED? And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. (Revelation 16:1)