The End Times - Prepare!

Some say their tribulation beliefs do not matter because they will occupy until the Lord comes. That is not true. Works not based upon expectation will not be whole-hearted. If a person has faith in a pre-tribulation rapture (belief of being caught-up with the Lord prior to the “great tribulation” foretold in scripture) then that person will have works based upon that belief (or lack there of).

Who is going to build for the future when they believe there is no present? If a person believes the Lord is about to return this year, will they invest themselves as they should in the future church leaders, the children? Buildings are not built for a year or two, they normally are built to last for dozens of years. That takes sacrifice and vision. Leaders running around like dogs with their tails between their legs will not execute the needed sacrifice and vision.

In the example of Jesus the Messiah, we are to humbly serve each other. If we have not, lets get out of your comfort zone, at minimum for the sake of serving the new generation, and find out the truth concerning the "rapture". It is not good to "eat your young". If you don't know the truth, learn the truth (See Romans 14:23). Its been time to get dirty.

Ecclesiastes 4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

John 13:14-15 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

Leaders, start praying that the Lord gives you proper understanding about the end times so the next generation(s) may prosper as the Lord intends. (Don’t evade this issue). If you were called, abide in your calling. Separate the fact from the fiction. (Yes, you must to be full of the Holy Spirit so you can properly hear His voice and properly discern. [You will speak in other tongues as the Lord gives articulation]).

2nd Peter 3:15-17 (Weymouth New Testament) And always regard the patient forbearance of our Lord as salvation, as our dear brother Paul also has written to you in virtue of the wisdom granted to him. That is what he says in all his letters, when speaking in them of these things. In those letters there are some statements hard to understand, which ill-taught and unprincipled people pervert, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own ruin. You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand, must continually be on your guard so as not to be led astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from your own stedfastness.

1st Thessalonians 4:16-17 (Weymouth New Testament) For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven with a loud word of command, and with an archangel's voice and the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Afterwards we who are alive and are still on earth will be caught up in their company amid clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

1st Thessalonians 5:2 (Weymouth New Testament) For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

2nd Peter 3:10-12 (Weymouth New Testament) The day of the Lord will come like a thief--it will be a day on which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth and all the works of man be utterly burnt up. Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution, what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all holy living and godly conduct, eagerly looking forward to the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, all ablaze, will be destroyed, and the elements will melt in the fierce heat?

Daniel 7:25(a) And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Exodus 4:21-23 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

Years ago, a year ago, and the present time, prophets, false prophets and prophet want-a-be’s have all but said the Lord is going to return in the clouds to call the elect home within a matter of a few months. Since they are “prophetically” speaking, they need to be held accountable for their false words.

It is time to stop purchasing materials year, after year, from the modern day “Millerites” advocating “rapture” within months. It is time to remind them that their words spoken just a few years ago of how the Lord was sure to return by that year’s end has not come to pass. It is time to pay heed to the true prophecy of the Lord, as spoken by His servants, as well as in His written Word He has given us (when it is properly discerned).