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The Sign To Look For
- Matthew;16-4, "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after
a sign,
and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the
prophet Jonah"
As you may know Jonah spent three days in darkness, in the belly of
a
great fish. This was his great tribulation, and after his
great tribulation he was spit out into the light of day.
John;3-16, "For God so loved the world that He gave his only
begotten
Son, and who so ever believes on Him, should not perish
but have everlasting life.
This verse is the most quoted verse of any book. It's also the
most misunderstood. Because there are religions today that teach we are all
saved because of this verse. They say that because God gave His Son as a
sacrifice, everyone is now saved.
But if you look at the verse as it is, this is what it says.
That God gave His Son, as a sacrifice, for the salvation of all mankind. But
it's only for those who accept,those who believe, those who put their trust
of salvation, in the Lord Jesus Christ. Then you shall be saved and have everlasting
life.
This also means that God gave His Son for all mankind, and
who ever does not believe in Him shall perish, and spend eternity in the lake
of fire.
John3-18, "He who believes in Him is not condemned;
but he who does not believe is condemned already, beause he has not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19, "And this is the condemnation, that
the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,
beause their deeds were evil.
20, "For every one practicing evil hates
the light and does not come to the light,lest his deeds should be exposed.
This should be clear to anyone who can read english.
Jesus is the light here in these verses,and those who are trying to get
rid of the light,{Jesus} today are those who are trying to get rid of the Bible,God,
and His commandments.
You are comdemned from birth, to the fires of hell,
and even knowing the truth you reject it,because you hate the fact that all
your deeds shall be made known, for all the world to see.
But
God still loves you. He still has a plan to bring as many of you who do not
believe, into His kingdom.
WHY?????
Because He does not want any of His creations to be lost for ever.
But what is it, that God has planned, to bring many nonbelievers into
His kingdom ???
And how will He get those of you who don't believe in Him, to believe
in Him ???
I'll show you what the old testament and the new testament has to say about
this, and the signs you need to look for, just before Jesus returns. So when
they start to happen, you can say,,,,I now believe, and I accept you Jesus
as my savior. And by calling on His name you shall be saved.
But what are these signs, you need to look for? If
you are a nonbeliever, here are the signs you need to look for. And when
these things start to take place, then you'll know that the Bible is true,
and then you'll know you need Jesus, then you can ask Him for salvation.
This salvation is a gift from God. You can't work for it, or buy it, it's yours
for the asking. Ask and you will receive it.
God loves those who hate Him, and He loves those who don't
believe in Him, He loves those who worsip other gods, such as rocks, gold and
silver. Those who hate God, God loves. And the only way to bring many, many
of you to salvation, is to bring you through the
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TRIBULATION -----------------------------------------
There are other ways to know that God loves you. It's called Bible prophecy.
IIPeter;1-19,We also have the prophetic word {prophecy} made more sure, which
you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns
and the morning star rises in your hearts.
20,Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private
interpretation.
21,For prophecy never came by the will of man, but the Holy men of God,as
they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
God has given us, that's you and I, His written
garantee that things written in the Bible,will come to pass. And we can know
when Christ is about to return so all of those who do not believe NOW !!! can
say, Ya know the Bible told us so. With this in mind, let me show you what
the Bible says about the return of ,our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
This is what is written,so we can know what to look for, and see what
is coming, and so we'll know that the end of this age, as we know it, is coming
to a close. This is what you'll see so that you will know, you need to call
on the name that surpasses all names, so that you might be saved.
In the book of Genesis just before the flood, God gave the
people of earh a sign to see. His name was Methuselah, which means ,when I
die it comes. The flood that is, and God gave these people 120 years of a sign
called the ark No one listened to Noah, as he preached the end was near,and
as he built the ark these people just laughed at him, utill it began to rain.
But by then God had closed the doors, and it was to late, for salvation.
In
the book of Exodus, God gave the Pharaoh of Egypt10 plauges. He did this beacuse
Pharaohs heart was stone cold toward the children of Israel, and refused to
let them go. And the only way to soften a mans hard heart is through tribulation.
The first plauge was Moses turning the water into blood, then calling forth
frogs, then lice, then flies, then the plague on all the animals of the Egyptians,
then all the men had boils.
Then came the great hail,and pounded the crops into the ground. Even with
these seven plagues , Pharaoh would not relent, and let the Israelites go.
God called forth locusts by the billions,that ate up what the hail didn't destroy.
Now the nineth plague is the one to watch for. This is where the
truth of the return of Jesus Christ will come into full view. It will take
the darkness to make many nonbelievers see the light.
Exodus;10-21, Then the Lord said to Moses, "Strech
out your hand toward heaven, that there maybe darkness over the land of ,Egypt
darkness which may even be felt.
22, So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven,
and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt
-----THREE DAYS-----.
23,They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his
place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
This three days of darkness will be seen again, in the
new testament. But but why did God give us a pattern to go by ? He did this
because He loves us, that's you and I.And if it takes what is written, to bring
the hard-hearted to their knees, then so be it.
The tenth plauge started the feast of Passover. The
Passover was another sign, that Christ was, who He said He was. On the day
of the Passover all of the children of Israel killed a lamb of the first year.
This lamb could not have any scars or broken bones. Then they would kill this
lamb and spread its blood over their door post. This was done so when the death
angle came calling, he would see the blood and passover that house and go to
the next one.
The only doors not covered were the ones of the Egyptians.
And this allowed the death angle to come in and kill the first born, of all
Egypt, even the cats, dogs,sheep,and all other animals.
When Pharaoh awoke later and found his son dead, his heart was
broken. His heart and the pride of the Egyptians had been beaten, then he let
the Israelites go.
The Israelites left Egypt on the 17'th day of the first month.
And now we fast forward 1483 years. To the time just before Jesus was crucified.
Matthew;24,Mark;13,& Luke;21 all say the same thing, but
I'm going to use Matthew;24,only.
Matthew;24-3, Now as He sat on the mount of olives,
the disciples came to Him privetly, saying,"Tell us, when will these things
be ? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age ?
4, and
Jesus said to them;"Take heed that no one deceieves you.
5,"For many
will come in My name, saying I Am the Christ, and will deceive many.
Just to name a few, Charles Manson,Jim Jones, David Caresh,and
now there's a man in Florida that claims to be Jesus. And his followers are
giving all they have to him. Even their souls. This is the point Jesus was
trying to make, all those who followed these men are now dead. They have been deceived.
6;"And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars, see
that you are not troubled; for all these things----MUST COME TO PASS--, but
the end is not yet.
We hear and see today on the news that we are at war and
that more war is just over the hill. Iraq and Iran, will just be the begining.
7,"For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom, and there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in variuos
places.
8,"All these are just the begining of sorrows.
In other words what has already taken place is just
the begining, then there will be more things, worse than the first, to come. Then
it'll get really bad, just before Christ returns.
It's kinda like a woman in labor with child. The pains start off
mild and 15 minutes apart, then 10 minutes apart, then 5 minutes apart, and
as the contractions get closer the pains get worse. then as the pains come
2 then 1 minute apart, the pains get really intense then the baby
is born.. The joy of having a baby comes after the tribulation of labor pains.
Once the baby is born, the pains stop !!!!
Matthew;24-12,And because lawlessness will abound the love of
many will grow cold.
13, But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
In verse 15, Jesus speaks about the abomination
of desolation, and when we see this we should get ready for the
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21, "For then there shall be Great Tribulation,
such has not been since the begining of the world until this time no nor ever
shall be.
22, and unless those days were shortened, no flesh
would be saved:But for the elects sake, those days will be shortened.
Revelation;2-10, "Do not fear any of those
things you are about to suffer, Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of
you into prison,that you may be tested,and you will have tribulation ten days.
Be faithfull until death and I'll give you a crown of life.
This is what some people believe, will be the time of the Great
Tribulation, for the elect.{Those who trust in Christ}
Then people will say, look Jesus is in Las Vegas,
or He's in the White house. Don't believe it because the return of Christ will
not take place untill Matthew;24-27-29, has been fulfilled.
Matthew;24-27,'For as the lightning comes from the east, and
flashes to the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man be.
How fast does lightning strike ???
1Corinthians;15-51,Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep [die].
But we shall all be changed, 52, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trumpet. "For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised
incorruptable, and we shall be changed.
Now this trumpet is the last trumpet. This trumpet can be found
in,
1Thessalonians;4-16 ,For the Lord himself will desend
fro heaven with a shout, with the voice of an arcangle, and with the trumpet
of God.And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Matthew;27-45, Now from the six'th hour until the ninth hour there was darkness
over all the land.
From the six'th hour to the ninth hour is three hours.
Mark;8-31, And He began to teach that the Son of
Man must suffer many things, and must be rejected by the elders and chief preist,
and scribes,and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Three days of darkness, this happened at the Exodus and then again at the
cross, and then after Jesus was crucified on the cross. Jesus was in the tomb
for three days, which means three days of darkness.
There is no light in a tomb or grave.
Is there other places in the old testamnet where this darkness can be found
just before Jesus returns ???
Isaiah;13-6, Wail!!,for the day of the Lord is at
hand!! It will come as destruction from the almighty.
7,Therefore all hands will be limp,every mans heart
will melt,
8, and they will be afraid, pangs and sorrows will
take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in child birth; their faces
will be like flames.
9, Behold the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with
both wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and He will destroy
its sinners from it.
10, for the stars of heaven and their constalations
will not give their light:The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and
the moon will not cause its light to shine.
Zephaniah;1-15, That day is a day of wrath.
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of devastation and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
16, A day of trumpet and alarm. Against the fortified
cities and against the high towers.
Now back to Matthew;24-29, "Immediately after
the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not
give its light, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens
will be shaken.
So just before Jesus Christ returns, He said the sun will be darkened for
three days. This darkness will be your way to find the light, when He appears after
the third day.
30, ''Then the sign of the Son of man will appear
in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see
the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
This sign of the Son of Man will be a blinding light. The Shekina
Glory a light that shown on the face of Moses, which made the children of Isarel
afraid to come near Moses. Exodus;34-29&30.
But what will happen when this great sign, appears after the great
tribulation? Then after three days of darkness???
Matthew;24-31,"And He will send forth His angels with a
great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather His elect from the four winds
, from one end of heaven to the other.
Revelation;1-7,Behold, He is coming with clouds and every eye
will see Him, and they also who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth
will mourn because of Him.
Even so Amen.
Once HE {CHRIST} is seen coming in His Glory, it'll be to late to say I believe.
Therefore they'll mourn because then they'll know the Bible was right. And
they'll mourn because they rejected the truth.
Revelation;9-20,But he rest of mankind, who were not killed
by these plauges, did not repent of the works of their hands. That they should
not worship demons, and idols of gold,silver,brass,stone and wood, which can
neither see nor hear nor walk.
21, And they did not repent of their murders, or
their sorceries, or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Here we see the Pharaohs of Egypt, They will not repent from
abortion and their gay and lesbian life styles.
The purpose for the Great Tribulation will be to show, all of
mankind, that their deeds will be paid if full. And to allow a Christ rejecting
world to repent and call on the name of Jesus.
Here are the verses that tell us about those who are saved
because of the Great Tribulation.
Revelation;7-13,Then one of the elders answered,
saying to me,"Who
are these arrayed in white robes,and where did they come from ???
14,And
I said to him"Sir you know" So he said to me,"these
are the ones who come out of the Great Tribulation, and washed their robes
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Those who turn to Christ in the
Great Tribulation,will be those who were spoken of in these verses.
This is
not for those who don't believe now. It's for those who will believe later.
This is for you to know that God loves you, and that Jesus loves you, and that
I love you.
God loves you enough to warn you He's coming back.
Jesus loves you enough to die for you.
And I love you enough to take the time to type this up for you.
Because you need to know,also about what the Abomination of Desolation is
and what it has to do with the Great Tribulation, I have included this part
also.
Jeremiah
44:22 (Whole
Chapter)
So the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and
because of the abominations which ye have committed. Therefore
your land is a desolation, and an astonishment and a curse,
without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Here Jeremiah says that it's an act that is an abomination, and this act of
abomination will cause your land to become a desolation.
- Matthew
24:15 (Whole
Chapter)
"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (who so readeth,
let him understand),
Here Jesus says that when we see the abomination of desolation
{spoken of by Daniel the prophet} standing in the Holy place.
And in Daniel;12-11, "And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken
away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand
two hundred and ninety days.
What is the abomination, spoken of by the prophet Daniel? All this says is
when the abomination is set up, but it doen't say what it is. So what is it
? I have ask ths question to many Bible thumpers and I have gotten many different
answers. So I ask God to explain this to me, and this is what I saw.
Daniel 5
1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of
his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring
the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out
of the temple which was in Jerusalem, that the king and his princes, his wives,
and his concubines might drink therein.
3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out
of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and
his princes, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver,
of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and
wrote opposite the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace;
and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
6 Then the king's countenance was changed and his thoughts
troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees smote
one against another.
7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans,
and the soothsayers. And the king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Whosoever
shall read this writing and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed
with scarlet and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third
ruler in the kingdom."
8 Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not
read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
9 Then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance
was changed in him, and his lords were dismayed.
10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king
and his lords, came into the banquet house. And the queen spoke and said, "O
king, live for ever! Let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance
be changed.
Here is one form of abomination, which left Belshazzar in great desolation,
and this is what happened to him, that did the Abominable.
18 O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy
father a kingdom, and majesty and glory and honor.
19 And for the majesty that He gave him, all people, nations,
and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he would he slew; and
whomever he would he kept alive; and whomever he would he set up; and whomever
he would he put down.
20 But when his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened
in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from
him.
21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was
made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses. They fed him
with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he
knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that He appointeth
over it whomsoever He will.
22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine
heart though thou knewest all this,
23 but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven.
And they have brought the vessels of His house before thee, and thou and thy
lords, thy wives, and thy concubines have drunk wine from them; and thou hast
praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which
see not nor hear nor know. And the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose
are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
24 "Then was the part of the hand sent from Him, and
this writing was written.
25 And this is the writing that was written: Mene, Mene, Tekel,
Upharsin.
26 This is the interpretation of the thing. Mene: God hath
numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
27 Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting.
28 Peres: Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and
Persians."
29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with
scarlet and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning
him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans
slain.
31 And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being about threescore
and two years old.
Johhny Cash sang an old song about this, some of this song went like this.
You've been wieghed in the balance and found wanting, your kingdom is divided
can not stand, You've been wieghed in the balance and found wanting, your houses
were built upon the sand.
MENE,MENE,TEKEL,UPHARSIN.
MENE,;God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.
MENE;;God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.
TEKEL;You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;
UPHERSIN;[Peres, means divided]; Your kingdom has been divided, and given to
the Meads and Persians.
Daniel;5-30,That very night Belshazzar,king of the Chaldians,
was slain.
31, And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two
years old.
Chapter 5 is the only chapter in which Belshazzar is mentioned. The book of
Daniel went from Nebuchadnezzar to Belshazzar to Darius, and only Belshazzar
did the thing that God hated most. Which was taking His vessels of gold and
toasting to other god's with them.
This is the abomination that Daniel spoke of, and it will happen again, and
when we see it, we should know that the end is near. But what will be, or who
shall do the abomination? I don't know. Just maybe it'll be when Iran and Israel
make the peace tready they are working on right now, with Condalezza Rice and
others. And they'll set down in Jerusalem and have their great feast.
Jesus said -For when they say peace and safety, then shall come sudden destruction.
This is what happened to Belshazzar, will it happen again? Only time will tell.
This is the way I see what will happen in the near future. It's
just what I believe because of what I have been given, and because of the times,
that God has put His hand on me, and shown me how to put prophecy with history,
and how all the years and Jubilee's and the generations all come together.
I base this on Gods word, and not on my way of thinking.
First they,the Gentiles and the Jews, will declare peace,
then they will have a great feast, and break out the vessels of gold and silver,
from Gods temple. They will give toast to Allah, and this will be the hand
writing on the wall. This will be the first sign, that will start the Great
Tribulation.
Then World War Three will start, and there will be Atomic warfare
for ten days. This will be followed by three days of darkness. This darkness
will be so dark, that light will not penetrate it. Those who are standing,
will remain standing, those who are sitting, will remain, sitting. Then, When
the third day of darkness ends, Jesus will appear, with the sound of a great
trumpet, then we'll see Him.
Everyone will see Him. The Saved and the lost, Muslems, Hindues,Atheist,and
all mankind will look up and see Jesus, coming with power and great glory.
Then He will send forth His angels to gather up those who have accepted Him.
And those who have not accepted Christ, will watch as we, are carried off to
be with the Lord. Then They, those who refused salvation, will cry out loud,
for mercy, but by then it will be to late.
They will look up, see the angles coming to gather us up, then look
back, for Christ, but He and the believers will be gone. When this happens,
the Holy Helper, or the Holy Spirit will be taken as well. This will leave
only gentiles,or those who did not believe in Jesus. This is what Jesus said
will be the {{Times}} of the Gentiles. Which is 42 years. The year 6200 will
be the year 2049. 2049 is the last year of 120 generations. Which will be the
end of this age, and bring about the 1000 years that Jesus Christ will rule
over the whole earth.
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