March 12, 2016

  A STORM IS COMING

  
A storm is coming; a perfect storm that no man can fathom --perilous times. Be ready, for at such a time when you think not (or in other words, when you least expect it), it will happen. 

The Bride will see terrible things and will think for a while that the Lord has abandoned Her (think of how Israel saw many terrible things cause dby the ten plagues before their Exodus from Egypt). 

There are many false teachings and doctrines of men. Stick with what you read in the Scriptures and ask the Holy Spirit to teach you all things, then you can discern the false from truth.  

Lean not unto your own understanding of what you will see --nothing can and will occur outside the Father's Will. Jesus and the Father are One, but Jesus does the will of the Father ,and honors His Perfect Will.

Remember that the dragon will stand before the woman waiting to devour her child as soon as it is born, but then the child will be "caught up" before the dragon can harm it. Yes, this child is "caught up", which in Greek is "Harpazo"; this "child" cannot represent the Son of Man who died at the hands of evil ones. This is why Scripture says you must diligently study the Scriptures to present yourselves approved by God, rightly dividing the Word of God with precision; do not blindly follow your teachers who have feet of clay, and as all men, fall short.

But before this "child" is snatched up, the woman is seen by the Apostle John crying out in great pain before she is about to give birth to her child. Therefore, just as this woman cried out in great pain, so shall the world endure great birth pains before the Lord comes to snatch up His Bride.

Revelation 12:1-6 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be nourished for 1,260 days.

Too many people are obsessed with the Rapture, but never talk about the birth pains that must come first. Remember what Lot went through before his escape. The wicked people of Sodom had surrounded his house, and as they banged on his door, and demanded they be allowed to abuse the angels, they also threatened to break down Lot's door and torture him.

Genesis 19:4-9 All the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.” Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.” “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

Then the angels instructed Lot to go into the city to beseech his loved ones to escape Sodom, but instead, as mockers and scoffers do, they thought he was joking.

Genesis 19:10-15 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door. The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.” So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking. With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”

No woman gives birth to a child, and then experiences birth pains afterwards, but too many people only want to hear "smooth things" as they did with the prophet Isaiah.

Isaiah 30:8-14 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, forever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare; so that there shall not be found among the fragments of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to dip water out of the cistern.

This passage describes the storm that is coming --it shall come suddenly, in an instant, and it will devastate the land ruthlessly and without mercy, and not spare, so that among the shattered fragments, not one shard will be found to take coals from the fireplace or scoop up water from a cistern.

And just as Noah, Lot, and Enoch saw much corruption that vexed their souls, so also, the Bride will see much sorrow during the final birth pangs. But as Noah was commanded to enter into the Ark 7 days before the rains started, on the day he and his family and the animals entered into the ark, God shut him in --so also the Bride will be protected.

Genesis 7:13-16 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

So also, as Noah was in the Ark for 370 days, the Bride will be in the wilderness for 42 months. It is during this time when the son of perdition will be given full reign over the world in accordance to the Father's Will, and it will be allowed by divine appointment. He will serve the Father's Will by helping to bind up the tares before the burning, and he will deceive many. The 2 witnesses represent the remnant of true believers that will be left behind; they will be sealed with the Holy Spirit and will be witnesses for the true Gospel until they are killed by the beast.

Remember, the perfect storm is coming, and a cosmic event. When the cosmic event occurs, there will be 3 days of darkness during which the dead in Christ shall rise first, and they will appear to their loved ones as a witness for the Kingdom. Then the Bride will be transformed, and the "snatching away" will occur. These are the 144,000, the overcomers, the Firstfruits of God, the Bride of the Lamb; and they will be given wings of an eagle to flee into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where they will be nourished for 1,260 days.

Go in peace, have Faith, be of good courage, and preach the Gospel into all the world. You are greatly cherished by your loving  mighty king, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

 


[Message received by Patricia Jones]