For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. Matthew 24:21.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
My Son warned you of things to come and My Spirit within you does as well, even now, for what the disciples could not yet understand when Jesus was with them according to the flesh became clearer and clearer to them as He joined with them in the Spirit, that is, after they received the gift of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit after Jesus rose from the dead and they were born again. But it went to a higher level on Pentecost Sunday when they were clothed in power from on high. He is WITH you and IN you. To be filled with the Holy Spirit you not only have Him within but also upon you.
“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He anointed Me.” Luke 4:18; Isaiah 61:1.
It is a total immersion that nothing of the world, the flesh, or the devil can overcome. And when you are also filled with faith that is when you become more than a conqueror.
The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas off to Antioch. Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord; for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And considerable numbers were brought to the Lord. Acts 11:22-24.
Primarily, you must know and understand that the world as you know it now is passing away, so do not despair over the evil that is running rampant in these perilous times.
But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. John 16:4.
Justice will be done. Judgment and justice are the foundation of My throne. But actually judgment has already been made and justice will follow.
Look again at the conversation of Jesus and Nicodemus and let Me explain this to you. Jesus told him, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:14-18.
Think about these words, they are rich in revelation. At the time Adam sinned by rejecting My Word of truth in treachery and rebellion and submitted to the lies of the devil as his master, judgment was made: For the eternal life Adam lost, an eternal life had to be paid or you faced eternal death, and the sentence spoken, “Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you will eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your face you will eat bread till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:17-19.
There is only one way that judgment is paid for you and your sentence fully satisfied for your sins. It is what David, in confounded awe and thanksgiving, called My “singular justice.” I would send My Son as one like you according to the flesh in all things but sin as the seed of the woman who would crush the serpent’s head, that is, destroy the devil’s authority over you and undo his works. Jesus paid for the eternal life you lost in the flesh with His eternal life in the flesh and He took your sentence of going down to the dust of death by receiving all your sins and giving you His righteousness. By His blood He has redeemed you and cleansed you of all unrighteousness.
And when I raised Him from the dead, I raised you up with and in Him and seated you with Him far above in Heaven in your spirit even now. I have justified you legally in Him by His substitutionary sacrificial offering of Himself for you.
He pays your debt to Me, satisfies your sentence of death before Me, and raises you justified in Him with all sin gone. And that is why you are no longer under judgment but have passed from death to life.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My Word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.” John 5:24.
My Son paid the ransom of His eternal life for all men and redeemed every person from the beginning to the end of time by His blood. He took your sentence and died in your place and spent three days and nights in the bowels of the earth (hell) for your sins so you would NEVER have to go there or even taste death. He tasted the dust of death for you all. Absent from the body you are with Me.
Everyone at birth has his or her name written in the book of Life. Babies who perish in the womb by the murder of abortion or who die before the age of reason are all saved. But once you reach the age of reason you have a choice, you can choose life or death, blessing or cursing, forgiveness or unforgiveness, love or hate, you can choose Me by choosing to live by My Word or you can choose the devil by choosing to live by his word. And it is then your name either remains in the book or is erased out of the book.
“Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 10:32-33.
He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’” Revelation 3:5-6.
And how do you overcome? By the blood of the Lamb (My part) and the Word of your testimony (your part). You must testify with My Words which are spirit and life and are Words of eternal life. And My Word is summed up in One Word: Jesus (Salvation, Yeshuah). For My Word is near you, in your heart and in your mouth, for if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart I raised Him from the dead you will be saved. You believe and are made righteous, you speak it out and are saved. You must testify. I sent My Word to heal you and deliver you from your destruction.
And now let us return to the conversation of My Son with the disciples on the Mount of Olives gazing down upon the temple. But what they did not know was it was from that very place on the Mount of Olives that My Son would ascend back to Me as they gazed at Him being caught up in the clouds and disappearing from their sight. And what did the angels tell them? Just as you saw go up, so He shall return.
And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.” Acts 1:9-11.
And the prophet Zechariah had told you the same location for the end times.
In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him! Zechariah 14:4-5.
And Jesus spoke to His disciples that day while He was still with them of the fulfillment not only of the appointed time of Trumpets by the catching away of the Church at the Trumpet blast, but also of the appointed time of the atonement, Yom Kippur, fulfilled in the tribulation and the great tribulation.
“Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house. Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath. For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told you in advance. So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them. For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. Matthew 24:16-28.
This appointed time occurs after the feast of Trumpets, that is, after the believers, the sanctified born again from above believers in My Son, His body, the Church has been removed from the earth.
Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12.
Once the body of Christ, the church, is caught up with My Son to the glorious wedding feast all restraints of evil are removed. It is then evil becomes complete master over the peoples. The beast and the false prophet, directed and controlled by Satan, take over the world. And My just wrath falls upon the earth with no hindrance by the refuge of the Church. The Church they persecuted and scorned is no longer there to shield the earth from judgment falling.
But there are those who are saved during that period which includes the Jews who have continually rejected Jesus, during that time they come to embrace their Messiah at last and they are saved in the final hour. But you will find the two tribes that led the total apostacy from Me to idols and erected the altars to the idols to keep the people from returning to the temple in Jerusalem for fear of losing their rule over them are not included in the saved. And those are the tribe of Dan and the half tribe of Ephraim. Those who led the Northern Kingdom. You can go to far into evil and never return. Like Judas. When Satan has entered and taken over your heart it is too late to return. Never let him into you even one fraction of an inch. He will destroy you and your descendants.
And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand, from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, from the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand were sealed. Revelation 7:4-8.
My prophet Daniel also gives insight into this period of tribulation, as to its length and the involvement of the Jewish people with the false prophet and the beast.
And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one seven (referred to as week or years, this is a period of seven years), but in the middle of the seven (three and a half years) he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.” Daniel 9:27.
And Daniel again confirms the three and a half years period of the great tribulation in the very last sentence of his prophetic book:
“Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand. From the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days! But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age.” Daniel 12:10-13.
It will be the worst of times but for you who have been caught up in the clouds and only look upon the punishment of the wicked it will be the best of times for you have made Me your dwelling place by keeping My Word.
A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not approach you. You will only look on with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked. For you have made the Lord, my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place. No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent. Psalm 91:7-10.
I love you. Be ready for His coming.