Sunday Go-to-Meeting – BUN!

Sunday Bun

by

L. A. Marzulli

1 Cor 15: 13  If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.  And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either.  And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

I lost two friends this week, Wayne Kendall – who was also my first mentor in the Christian faith –  and Andy Radford, Host of the Edge Am – see link below.  Death is never convenient and the sting of it reminds us that at some point in the future we will all pass that way.  Everything that has breath on this planet at some point succumbs to it.  No one lives forever and the wealth and possessions that we accumulate will be left to another.  We come into this world with nothing and we leave with nothing.

As the verses tell us above, if there is no resurrection from the dead then everything is useless, jejune, and we might as well adopt a Nihilistic attitude and world view.  However, He rose on the third day and this is our hope, that at some point we will also be like Him and conquer death.

I believe that The Shroud of Turin is forensic evidence, or as I prefer to call it God’s calling card that shows us that there is another reality, a super reality and there is a personal God who loves us and is not bound by the laws of physics as we know them.  There was a miracle in that tomb almost tow thousand years ago and the lifeless body was brought back to life.  The empty tomb of Yashua/Jesus is our hope that for those of us who believe on Him, will at the sound of the last trumpet, rise and meet Him in the air.  These are not empty words but are our blessed hope.  At some point I will see Wayne and Andy again.  Death will no longer have its sting.  We will live forever and be with the author and finisher of our faith, our king, our redeemer, Yashua/Jesus.

In closing the Bun!  As Christians we have a real template to look to and that is the resurrection of Yashua/Jesus.  Without this we have nothing.  This is what separates what we believe from any other religion on the planet, that, and the prophetic thread that runs through all of scripture.  We shall all be changed, in a moment in a twinkling of an eye,  the dead in Christ will rise first and them we who remain alive will also and greet the Lord in the air….

I’m off to OK city today to be a guest on Prophecy in the News….

Here is the link to Andy’s show:The ReadyNation Newsletter

Life is Fragile…

Today is Friday and it will be my last day on the East Coast spent with my aging parents. We had a woman from Angel Companions come in yesterday and she helped out with the daily routine of getting my Dad showered and dressed and fed. My brother and I have set this in place hoping that it will help ease the strain on my mothers 24 hour care of my father. For the record, my wife and I offered our home to my parents, to come and live with us, but my mother refused the offer… she’s the most stubborn person I have ever met!
We spent Wednesday night in the emergency room as my Mom was blocked up again and in much pain. While there I witnessed the death of a woman directly across the hallway – my Mom and Dad were oblivious to what was going on – and the scene could have come out of a movie as a doctor tried to get the woman’s heart to start beating again but was unable to do so. It reminded me of the opening scene in my novel Nephilim, except that it was real. The daughter rushed out of the room sobbing bitterly. It was a very, very, intense situation and when it was over, the doctors and nurses filed silently out of the room and closed the door behind them…
Life is fragile. We take it for granted. Our lungs “breathe” by themselves, and our hearts pump life through our veins and we never give it a second thought. We are truly fearfully and wonderfully made.
Life is a gift, not an evolutionary accident. It is precious and it begins at conception. We spend our lives on this blue planet, in the middle of who knows where. Our philosophers try to grapple with the questions of our origins and Darwinists tell us that life is an accident, an end result of millions of years of a series of random accidents which produced human beings. Balderdash!
When I was in the doctors office I studied the cross section of a human heart on the wall and I marveled at its intricacy. A nurse was attending my mother and I said, “we are fearfully and wonderfully made.” The nurse turned and smiled at me and said, “Amen.”
We are caught in a system that was put in place thousands of years ago when Adam and Eve lost their inheritance in the garden. When it was stolen from them and us, when the Fallen One, the Serpent, told Eve the lie, that she would be like God and her eyes would be opened, and Eve believed it. The Fallen One has ruled this planet ever since and he has sought to enslave, destroy, rob and kill. He delights in death and destruction and will stop at nothing to attain those goals. However, one man came in the name of the Most High God and destroyed the Fallen Ones works and He did this when he laid down His life as a ransom for many. Yashua/Jesus’ death and atonement on Cavalry was a game changer. It brought about the end of the Fallen Ones kingdom. He is coming back soon, to claim that kingdom, as the signs of His coming are all around us. He will set up His kingdom and the Fallen Ones system of greed, war, death, and destruction will no longer be in place. This is our blessed hope, what those of us who know, the one that was sent, cling to.
In closing today’s post: Life is a gift. Our souls reside in these shells of human flesh and we will one day pass from this life into the next, or as some of us hope, we will be taken, raptured from this place, and rise to meet the one who we love, even though we have not seen Him, in the air. Comfort one another with these words….

Rapture: Keep Our Eyes on the GAME!

Commentary & Analysis

by

L. A. Marzulli

There are many comments about the Rapture recently, so I have decided to address the issue again. Actually, all the debating about when it happens proves my point! It takes our eyes off the GAME and focuses on proving that what we believe is right.

I believe in the Rapture of the church. I believe that at some point we will be taken up, to meet the Lord in the air, literally. I have had a vision of this and what left me speechless was this. We were gathered together, but there was space between us. We weren’t packed like sardines! Everyone knew exactly what had happened. There was a holy silence, a still reverence, as we all knew where we were! Then, I realized that my sin nature was gone. It wasn’t there anymore. I had been changed in an instant. Then the vision ended. All of this took place in less than a minute. I sometimes tell people about that when I’m speaking. Now that that has been made clear here’s an analogy:

It is the 4th quarter of a football game. Our team is behind by 3 points! We are down at the 25 yard line, deep in enemy territory. A time out has been called and we have about 2 minutes left in the game. We are muddy, bloody, sore and bruised, but we are focused as we belive that we can win the game! We go back to our huddle, arms linked together in fellowship. We listen as the quarterback clears his throat, and we are expecting him to call the play. Instead, this is what he says. I have a big date tonight with the head cheerleader, and we’re going to get burgers and then see a movie. The team stands up and looks at the quarter-back in disbelief. What are you talking about? They shout at him. They are angry and rightfully so as the quarter-back has lost his focus and his mind is not on the game.

Now, while this might seem like a simple analogy and I admit it is, it does provide what I hope is clarification of the whole rapture debate. We should be concerned about destroying the works of the devil. We should be shouting a warning that a time is coming upon the earth that is unprecedented. We should be declaring the good news. We should be calling out and exposing the lies and deception of the enemy, who is seducing our children, killing the unborn and spreading a false gospel. We should be standing up against the crazy world system that celebrates Lady Ga-Ga and a lip-locked Brittany and Madonna. We should be declaring that Darwinism is a theory and not a fact. That Jesus was real and not a myth. That this is still a Christian nation in spite of what our clueless president would have us believe. In short we need to keep our eyes on the game, and not argue about when it’s over!

In closing today’s post. I know that at some point I will hear the trumpet and at that moment, in a twinkling of an eye, I will put on immortality. However, I’m in a cosmic “game” and it’s not over until that trumpet blows. It’s not for me to know when we get snatched away, as is so evident by all the infighting it produces. The fruit of that is division. If we are intellectually honest, no one really knows. So let’s keep our eyes, where they belong. Let’s stay in the fight. Let’s dig in and win!

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In Other News:

U.S. Alarmed by Harsh Tone of China’s Military

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/world/asia/12beijing.html?_r=3&hp

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China currency reserves may hit $2.5 trillion, stoke tensions

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/China-currency-reserves-may-hit-25-trillion-stoke-tensions/articleshow/6733029.cms

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International finance group seeks remedy to looming exchange wars

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=213953

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Al Qaeda threatens Ahmadinejad’s Lebanon visit, US citizens urged to be vigilant

http://www.debka.com/article/9075/__

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`Biggest Imbalance’ in World Economy Is From U.S. Stimulus, Meirelles Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-10/stimulus-in-u-s-is-biggest-imbalance-in-world-economy-meirelles-says.html

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Strange Signal Comes From Alien Planet, Scientist Says

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/11/scientist-claims-strange-signal-comes-alien-planet/?test=latestnews

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L. A. Marzulli returns to Nashville!

L. A. Marzulli will be speaking for three days in Nashville!

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What are we Instructed to do?

Commentary & Analysis

by

L. A. Marzulli

Every morning after the wifey and I have had our reading from the Guide Book to the Supernatural i,e, the Bible, I sit at my desk and scan the comments. Most of the time I leave then well enough alone, but this morning some of the comments have caught my attention and so I decided to post on that subject which instantly divides Christians, The Rapture.

We are told that we shall rise to meet the Lord in the air. I love that passage. I have had a vision of it, and I posted it here shortly after I received it. I believe in the Rapture of the church. I also belive that the Shroud of Turin may be evidence of the first rapture, Jesus resurrection! Now I’m really ticking some of you off! LOL!

Seriously, we know the Rapture will happen at some point and as demonstrated by some of the posts yesterday, this can be a hot button issue. Most often it divides us rather than bring us together. That being said, what are we instructed to do? We are instructed to destroy the works of the devil! We are living in a time that is unprecedented. The enemy grows bold and the supernatural is manifesting like never before. There are signs in the heavens! Earthquakes like the one today at 7.5. Volcanos that threaten to choke the skies. The gulf stream that may have stalled due to the oil spill. The AIDS epidemic that continues unabated. The slaughter of millions of unborn babies in abortion mills around the world. The New Age deception that tells us that we can be god. Satanic ritual magic that is pumped into our homes via, Lady Ga Ga. With all of this happening in our faces some of us want to argue when we get taken up! It’s exactly what the enemy wants. It is nothing more than a distraction that keeps us from carrying out our mandate of destroying the works of the devil!

I’ve said this before and I’ll post it here again. I have sat through lectures with charts and graphs, by very well-educated men that preached on the three different positions of when the rapture can occur. They all can’t be right! If we are intellectually honest, we can agree that in fact no one really knows when it will happen. I’d rather be fighting the works of the enemy until I get beamed up, than arguing when it’s going to happen. To me it’s pointless.

The endless debate about the rapture takes our eyes off the ball. It removes us from engaging the enemy and destroying his works and instead sets us against each other. We know the well-worn adage, divide and conquer and this issue is certainly divisive.

At some point it will be self-evident as to when the Rapture occurs. That said, it’s none of my business as to the when of it! He is in charge of it, not me. I would rather spend my time posting about the Great Deception that is all around us. Trying to awaken the sleeping church that is unaware of the coming great apostasy. Pointing to the signs that we are told are the birth pangs, in these last days. Speaking boldly about the promise of eternal life through the shedding of Yashua/Jesus’  blood. Most of all rescuing those who are caught in the deception!

In closing today’s post. When I had the vision of the Rapture, we were all gathered in the air, as far as I could see. We weren’t bunched together like sardines, but were spread out. There was a silence, a reverent silence because all of us who had been gathered knew exactly what had happened and where we were. There was also no sin nature. We were all translated in a twinkling of an eye and made like Him. I can comfort you with these words and they are comforting to know that at some point they will happen, but I will not badger you as to when …. Fight the enemy not each other!

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In Other News!

Russia battles to defend nuclear sites from fires

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100810/ts_afp/russiaheatwavefires_20100810101712

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Iran warns ‘we have dug mass graves for your soldiers’ in response to U.S. attack threat

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1301836/Iran-warns-dug-mass-graves-soldiers-response-U-S-attack-threat.html?ITO=1490

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Temperatures continue well below average in Southern California

Temperatures continue well below average in Southern California – Whittier Daily News http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_15723011#ixzz0wDrUbO1d

Extreme Weather Experienced Worldwide

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Extreme-Weather-Experienced-Worldwide-99993264.html

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Could a solar storm send us back to the Stone Age?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Cool-Astronomy/2010/0809/Could-a-solar-storm-send-us-back-to-the-Stone-Age?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fscience+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+Science%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Shroud Update: Writing found on the Shroud!

Researcher says she found text on Shroud of Turin

(AP) – 2 hours ago

ROME — A Vatican researcher claims she has found a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin and says the discovery proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus’ burial cloth.

The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew immediate skepticism from some scientists, who maintain the shroud is a medieval forgery.

Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, says the faint writing emerged through computer analysis of photos of the shroud, which is not normally accessible for study.

Frale says the jumble of Greek, Latin and Aramaic includes the words “Jesus Nazarene” and mentions he was sentenced to death. She believes the text was written on a document by a clerk to identify the body and the ink then seeped into the cloth.

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I want to call your attention to the italicized line that points out that scientists maintain that the Shroud is a medieval forgery! Science is supposed to examine evidence but it seems that when there is evidence presented that points to the supernatural, or in other words phenomena that is outside accepted scientific circles, than these so-called pillars of reason fall of their own weight! A cogent example is the recent work that was done examining the original sample that was taken for the Carbon dating when the Shroud was examined. It has now been proven that the sample was contaminated and that it contained re-woven threads of cotton  that were dyed to match the original linen. Why doesn’t the media run with this story instead of saying that the Shroud is a forgery? Why can’t these critics examine Frale’s evidence before sounding off? I believe the reason for this is that if the Shroud proves that it is indeed from the first century, it may open up an entire new physics that these scientist are not willing to examine. The media refuse to carry the story that challenges the carbon dating on the Shroud. In fact the media always points to the FACT that carbon dating proved the Shroud a fake. I guess if you repeat the same story over and over again it becomes the truth? I have not seen the evidence that Frale has discovered, but before we either dismiss or embrace it, it might behoove us all to take a look at it with an open mind. After all isn’t that what science is supposed to be about? Having an open mind, to go where the evidence takes us and not have a predetermined mindset? I think the real problem, as I mentioned before is that if the Shroud was conclusively proven to be real then this would open a door to a new way of looking at the universe.

For those of us who believe in the rapture, the Shroud may be an example of this. In other words the body of Jesus, that lay in the tomb was translated, changed, and underwent an event so profound that it speaks of a physics we know nothing about! When this event occurred it left the impression that we see today on the Shroud. This artifact not only may be the “proof” that Jesus rose fro the dead, it may very well put to rest the debate on whether the rapture of the church will occur. Behold I tell you a mystery…. we shall rise to meet the Lord in the air…

I am pleased to announce that we will be carry ing the DVD The Fabric of Time. This is an incredible documentary on the Shroud of Turin. It will be available a my web site around the first of December!

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L.A. Marzulli: On Dr. Bill Deagle Show Noon Today!

http://nutrimedical.com/

Go to the upper right hand corner of the page and click on listen live!

Update:

Today on the show Dr. Bill stated that there will be no rapture. Respectfully, I disagree and wanted to put this in writing so there would be no confusion as to my position. It’s his show and I’m respectful of that. On the other hand I believe that scripture is very clear when it tells us that we shall all be changed in a twinkling on an eye at the last trump, when we are gathered to meet the Lord in the air! Sounds like the Rapture to me. As Chuck Missler quips, we’ll explain it to him on the way up! LOL!

L.A.

The Rapture of the Church…. A Vision

I get asked all of the time about the rapture. People want to argue as to when it occurs. Some even have charts and graphs and a certainty that it will happen when they think it will. I want to get one thing straight from the get-go here. Please don’t try to convince me or anyone else as to your position. If we are intellectually honest, no one really knows. I consider myself Pantribber – it will all Pan out in the end. While some of you may think that I’m being capricious in my remark, I assure you the reason for it is that some Christians get rabid over their defense of when the Rapture will occur. I also was recently told by someone who said believing in the rapture was anti-biblical. My response was this. How can you say that when Paul specifically points out -

1Cr 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-

1Cr 15:52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1Th 4:15 According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.  For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

The word rapture is not mentioned in the text, but the phrase caught up – which I highlighted – when translated from the Latin, is Rapturo. This is where we get our use of the word Rapture. It seems very clear to me, from the texts above that this is a real event that will happen in the future. In short it is our blessed hope. I am a firm believer in this event for scripture tells me it will happen. We also have the Shroud of Turin which shows that this translating of the body happened during the resurrection. Jesus was the prototype of this as his body was changed in a twinkling of an eye. Now here’s what I want to say. A few months ago I had a vision. It was more of a mental picture but it was amazing. I wasn’t doing anything special. I wasn’t praying or fasting or thinking about scripture. I was going about my business when suddenly I got this very vivid picture in my minds eyes. This is what I saw. I was in the air and around me were thousands of other people. I was about 20 feet  away from the next person. As I looked around I realized that we were all on the same page. We all knew what had just happened. No one was wondering where they were. We were all in the air with the Lord and as the text says, we had been changed in a twinkling of an eye – we had been raptured. It was a somber, holy moment. No one said a word. There was a reverential silence as everyone knew that his or hers sin nature was gone for ever and we were in our immortal bodies. Then the vision ended.

The rapture of the saints – those who believe on Him who was sent, is our hope that one day we will be like him. We are to comfort one another with these words…. Beam me up!

From the Enemies Camp!

This is from Pierre Charles in the comment section on this BLOG. I’ve included it here because Pierre was involved with the Raelians and knows of what he speaks. It’s poignant when I hear the same deception coming from the “enemies camp.” Rael and his followers are deceived and are already embracing the coming Great Deception. Let’s read his comment and then I will weigh in.

You may think that I give too much credibility to Rael’s words but what he says fit perfectly Lynn’s “Falling away” scenario.

Rael said: “When the Elohim (aliens) will land in Jerusalem with Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, coming out of a UFO, the “majority” will rally to the truth. Only a small number of fundamentalists will say that the Elohim are the devil or the the Anti-Christ.”

So, Lynn is right. The only difference is that Rael says: ” If we start a world nuclear war, the Elohim will not come to stop it, but they will come to “take away” (rapture) the just and take them to the planet of the eternals Elohim ,what the “primitives” have called “heavens” until the time they will bring those humans back to earth after the nuclear radiations will have disappear.”

While the above scenario might sound bizarre, if we put it next to the warning we get in 2nd Thessalonians that, “Satan will come with all signs and lying wonders,” it begins to make sense. What we need to come to grips with is that when the trap is sprung the “Aliens” will tell us that they created us, were worshipped as gods, and started the worlds religions. The Ashtar command – another UFO site, see link below – claims that Jesus is really Sananda and is under Ashtar, in the Galactic Federation. http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/ It would be hard to make stuff like this up and as in the case with Rael, who now boasts over 70,000 devotees world-wide, more people are openly embracing the deception. When the UFO reveal themselves, people like me, will be looked at as Neanderthals! I”m sure I’ll hear something like this from well intentioned friends, when the revealing happens….

“But Lynn, look at their ships! Look how advanced they are! Come on, you have to believe as they have holographic film of the crucifixion and the resurrection! They have film of Moses parting the Red Sea! Lynn, you have to face the facts! They’ve come to help us into this next phase in our spiritual evolution!”

The churches are in denial. They refuse to tell their people about what is happening all around them. They have failed to warn the sheep, and so when the deception is sprung upon her, the great falling away will take place. People will believe the lie, as they will be overwhelmed with what they are seeing. When that happens it will be hard to make a case, that it is deception….

In closing, we live in turbulent times. Jesus has warned us that, even the elect would be deceived if that were possible, and that, men would faint from fear, from what is coming on the earth. We would be wise to heed those words and understand that when put along side of 2nd Thessalonians - Satan comes with all signs and lying wonders, we are in for supernatural events unlike anything we have seen before. We like to point to the Pharisees and comment how closed they were and how blind they were to the miracles of Jesus. Is the church any different today as it refuses to open its eyes and see the deception growing all around her? Wake up and wise up! The warning has been sounded here….

The Apostasy: The Great Falling Away!

3: Let no one deceive or beguile you in any way, for that day will not come except the [a]apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great [b]falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition),(A)

This is a controversial passage of scripture and I have chosen the Amplified version to emphasize my point. There are those who look at this in a completely different way from the translation above. They say that the word apostasy means departure and from that they shore up the pre-tribulation position. They may be right, but I differ as I think that it’s torturing the text. The word is apostasy and the Amplified tells us that t his apostasy will bring about the great falling away. We need to understand that the “rapture” of the church can occur between the time of the great falling away and the revealing of the man of lawlessness, the AntiChrist. So all of you who hold to the pre-trib position the above scenario would still work for you. In my opinion, if we are intellectually honest, no one really knows when the rapture will take place, but I digress. (Let’s not fall into that debate please!) I want to focus on the GREAT FALLING AWAY! What would make professed Christians, fall away? Could it be an event that is so off the hook, so over the top, perhaps something supernatural? Here’s what follows a few sentences down in the same chapter:

9: The coming [of the lawless one, the antichrist] is through the activity and working of Satan and will be attended by great power and with all sorts of [pretended] miracles and signs and delusive marvels–[all of them] lying wonders–

So we see that what is coming will be supernatural. This begs the question, if delusive marvels and lying wonders are going to manifest, then what might they be? I think you know where I’m going with this. What is manifesting right now all over the earth? What phenomena is burgeoning? What are people seeing and reporting in record numbers? The answer is the UFO phenomena. It is real, burgeoning and not going away! As I wrote yesterday, the buffer that holds the supernatural in check seems to be receding. So here’s what I think is going to happen and perhaps sooner than some of us think. There is going to be an event, most likely the detonation of a nuclear device in the Middle East. There is however, another possibility, in that the Taliban is trying to secure Pakistani nukes. Would they use them on, let’s say Mumbai? Remember last year the terrorist attack that killed scores of people in that city? So let’s strip it down and create a sequence of possible events.

1. Some event happens like a war in the Middle East or a terrorist attack that uses a nuclear – dirty or live – device that kills thousands of people.

2. We all watch the event unfold in real time as the world is now linked together by satellite.

3. The event creates the greatest level of collective fear that the humankind has ever experienced – to date.

4. UFOs manifest openly and declare that they were the ones who created us, and started the worlds religions and are now back to help us through this critical juncture of our evolutionary development.

5. Many so-called Christians are OVERWHELMED by what they see and believe the lie.

6. This causes the great falling away……

I think we’re on the edge of seeing this and perhaps sooner than we think. I hope I’m wrong.

Here’s a link to a good “sermon” on the apostasy:

http://blb-ra.blueletterbible.org/focht_joe/2Th/145864.mp3

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We’re still here – No Rapture?

         I am going to weigh in on this date setting of the Rapture of the church, because I believe it is a symptom of something bigger. Over the weekend many Christian sites were buzzing with a post that declared that the church was going to be raptured on the day of Pentecost – Sunday May 31st. Of course nothing happened as I believe, “no man knows the day or the hour, not even the son or the angels, but only the father.” Does that mean I don’t believe in the Rapture? Let’s set the record straight, because there have been rumors of what I believe, which have been greatly exaggerated. First of all the word rapture is never mentioned in scripture. It is the Latin word Rapturo (caught up) , which is what Paul alludes to in 1 Thessalonians 3:13-18 when he tells us,

Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. ¹⁴We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.¹⁵According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸Therefore encourage each other with these words.

     It is clear from the text that this event will happen. I look forward to it and my deepest wish is that it will happen before the Tribulation gets underway. But here is the danger of dwelling on this. It divides us. Are you aware that I’m censored on some Christian sites because I am accused of not believing in a pre-trib rapture? There is an element in Christendom that wants to argue as to when the Rapture of the church occurs. There are denominations that have made this one doctrine the centerpiece of what they believe, and if you don’t adhere to it you can’t belong to their church, or even sell your books in their bookstores. Here’s what I think. No one really knows. I have attended lectures by Biblical scholars with maps and charts and diagrams on both sides of the issue. Each of these scholars believing that they had figured it all out and had the scriptural evidence to prove their point. They both can’t be right can they? You can’t have a Pre and a Post tribulation viewpoint at the same time! In fact, if we’re intellectually honest, no man really knows. This seems to be evident, as I pointed out there are scholars who differ greatly in their position. What a great distraction! Meanwhile, the enemy is manifesting more than ever and the church is asleep. What an I talking about? Those of you who have been reading this BLOG for any length of time know that I believe we are poised for the greatest deception that the church has ever faced, and I make mention of it constantly. It is this, that Aliens created us, started the worlds greatest religions and now, at this critical juncturein our history, are here to help us through this next evolutionary stage. In short this is the alien gospel 101 and it is the basis of the coming deception.

        A few months ago there was a woman, Blossom Goodchild, who claimed that UFOs were going to manifest on October 14th. I BLOGGED about this saying that she was being misled. She is deceived by these entities, that lie to her. They are fallen angels who are masquerading as ‘alien’s.  

       Those of us in the church should know better than to set a date for the rapture. We have no excuse, as we are told that no man knows the day or the hour! All we do is stir up false hope and make ourselves look like a Christian version of Blossom Goodchild. In Mathew 24, Mark 13 & Luke 21, Jesus tells us what is going to happen well in advance, wars, pestilence, earthquakes, fearful signs in the heavens and men fainting from fear of what is coming on the earth. Most importantly is that the Jews will be gathered from the four corners of the earth and reestablished in their ancient homeland, Israel. We are told to watch for these signs and when we see them KNOW that His coming is soon. The signs are here and most people are choosing to ignore them. The enemy is manifesting all over the world, as the supernatural is becoming more overt. He grows bolder because he knows his time is short. Yet the church, seems to be blinded as to what is happening all around her. We are told to watch and be ready. To be able to give an answer in season and out of season. We are not instructed to argue when the Lord gathers us together. That is focusing on ourselves and not those who are lost and don’t have a clue as to what is going on. We know the Middle East is heating up again. North Korea is ready to launch another IBM. The Russians are moving troops on the border of Georgia and ships in the Persian Gulf. Iran presses forward with their ambition to develop a nuke. There is talk of a one world financial system a global currency. UFOs are seen all over the world… Wake up and get your head out of the sand!

              As long as I am here I will continue to sound a warning and will do so until the Lord takes me home, or in a twinkling of an eye, meets me in the air…