Be forewarned: If you read and gain from this you will be held accountable for what you have been given, for there are numerous talents, even in this very sentence, and should you fail to use them wisely to gain more, what you have been given will be taken from you. You have been warned, but only out of love, for I seek not your destruction but your salvation through this torrid time of the end. The same will be true for future messages, so be diligent and unwavering, seeking God on all matters.
The Ever Living God speaks plainly now, so that to those who have ears to hear, let them hear.
For many years now I have put up with this "rapture" lie, and it is bitter in my stomach when I see how many foolish people have come to believe it. However, now is the time to declare the truth of the matter, for the time we have is already very short and the drought is almost upon us. Pray that many will turn away from the lie and gird themselves with the truth so that they are ready for the times ahead which are the most perilous we will ever know.
Many have come to believe, in spite of the Lord's own words, in an event frequently referred to as "the rapture". It would seem that many, if not most, Christians believe that this event will take place prior to or during the so-called great tribulation, and many also assume that this great tribulation will last seven years, with an important event occurring in the middle at the three and a half year mark. I will not speak on the tribulation but I will tell you that you will not get out of this place without either dying first or passing through the refining fire of tribulation.
Yeshua was very, very clear on the order of events that would take place at the end of days just prior to His return. In no less than two places did He make it clear to His disciples and thus to all who would follow Him. These scriptures are quotes of His own words:
Matthew 13 : 24 - 30 NIV Jesus told them another parable:
"The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared."
"The owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?'"
"'An enemy has done this,' he replied."
"The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'"
"'No,' he answered, 'because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.'"
Note the order of events; gathering the weeds is in the imperative: "FIRST collect the weeds," and only when that task is complete, "THEN gather the wheat."
The Lord then goes on to very clearly explain this parable to His disciples so that there is absolutely no room left, at all, for misinterpretation or any kind of misunderstanding.
Matthew 13 : 37 - 43 NIV "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels."
"As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear."
So, where exactly will this kingdom be at the time of the harvest?
Revelation 11 : 15 NIV The seventh angel sounded his trumpet and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever."
The Lord also makes clear what is to happen in His discourse on the time of the end where he tells of who is taken and who is left. Pray that you are counted amongst those that are left!
Matthew 24 : 36 - 41 NIV "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a handmill; one will be taken and the other left."
At the time of the flood, who was taken? The wicked were taken, since to be taken means to be put to death, taken from the world. God does NOT MINCE WORDS and ALL of His parables are absolutely perfect in every detail. There is NO room for human interpretation! The ones that are taken are the wicked, taken and bundled together to be burned, for they are the refuse of the world, the garbage to be thrown out and destroyed. The weeds are uprooted and gathered from the field, that is, the wicked are uprooted and gathered out of the world, for the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of the Lord and there shall not remain in it anything that causes sin nor any wicked person. Only after this is done will the righteous be gathered to the Lord.
Ask yourself, then, where is the barn into which the wheat is gathered? Is it not the place the saints are gathered for the wedding feast? In speaking about the time of the end, the Lord continued with the parable of the ten virgins.
Matthew 25 : 1 - 12 NIV "At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep."
"At midnight, the cry rang out: 'Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'"
"Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.'"
"'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'"
"But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut."
"Later the others also came. 'Sir, sir,' they said, 'Open the door for us!'"
"But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'"
"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour."
Who is outside, weeping and gnashing teeth? Is it not the wicked? Who else is left outside? The foolish virgins. The foolish virgins are those churches who foolishly believe that they shall have an early escape, because they have believed the lie of the rapture, for they fear what man can do to them above fearing God. They wish for an easy way out and will be utterly unprepared for the time of darkness, for they will not have sufficient oil to light and see their way as the darkest hour comes upon the world. Thus is the true meaning of the parable of the ten virgins. The foolish are those who believed, but sought the comforts of this world, the easy road, and neglected to use the little that had been given them to gain more understanding and draw closer to God, becoming ever more consciously and directly reliant on the Ever Living God, that is to truly walk in faith, and for this laziness they will suffer, for only by faith in the Lord are we saved. They buried the talent instead of putting it to work, and for this wickedness, they will be cast out into utter darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Although forewarned, they failed to acquire enough oil to see them through the darkest night in the history of everything. It is because of their pride, arrogance and laziness that they come to their end. There is no place in God's kingdom for the complacent and lazy or for those who teach lies, for such is wickedness.
When does the Lord return? We do, in fact, know when the Lord will return. He will return at about or just after the darkest hour, which is midnight by definition. What we do not know is what time we are currently in, so we cannot know when midnight is near or upon us. Only those who have accumulated sufficient oil to last through the darkness of the spiritual drought and the tribulation will be ready for the Lord when He returns. We must draw ever closer to the Lord so that come the darkest hour we will not be without light. Get that oil while you can for a time is coming when you will be unable to do so.
To what intent is the lie of the rapture? What purpose can such a diabolical lie serve? The purpose is clear. The purpose is the same as all of Satan's lies: to steal, to kill, to destroy. The one who foolishly believes in an easy way out will be unprepared for the darkness. He will rely on a quick and early escape, but will find himself "left behind" and will lose his faith, and this will crush his hopes, since he hoped in a life of ease and comfort, he hoped that he would not have to deal with the darkness that lay ahead, he believed a lie and now all that he believed is shattered, and all the godless will mock him. He will then fall away in despair, for as he seeks to bolster his faith, the drought of the Word of God will be in the land and the fool will not find the oil he seeks, for his light will go out too soon. He will fall and deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, fearing for the safety of his own flesh. He was not prepared to pass through darkness right up to and even beyond the midnight hour. This is the fate of the foolish virgins. Worse still, his proclamations of the rapture in times past will bring disrepute upon the name of the Lord in the sight of all the pagans, and this is a great blasphemy.
Of course, not all who mistakenly believe in a rapture prior to or during the tribulation will be lost, for not all have pinned their hopes on it, but those that do are fools, and they are those who seek to be at ease with the world. They are easy to pick: those who sprouted in shallow soil and withered when the sun came out, those who are choked by thorns, and so forth, all who wish that the words of the Lord, saying that all who should follow Him will suffer for His Name, were not true. It will cost them their souls. Do NOT pin your hopes on an early exit.
What kind of testimony would the saints be to those who have rejected the Lord if they have an early escape? Is the tribulation not the testing and refining of the saints? Are the saints not a living testimony to the truth, to be on display to all the world, so that the wicked are left with no excuse?
What of the following verse which many have misused to gain souls to destruction?
1 Thessalonians 4 : 16, 17 NIV 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.
Is this not just the harvest of the wheat? Yeshua made the order of events clear. It will be the angels who come first to remove the weeds ahead of the harvest, then we who remain, we who are left, will be gathered as wheat to the Lord and into His barn, wherein is held the wedding feast of the Lamb.
What of this verse which, as with the previous one, is so abused?
2 Thessalonians 2 : 7 NIV For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.
As has happened in times past, so will it happen again:
Amos 8 : 11, 12 NIV "The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine through the land -- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it."
When the time has come, and it is almost certainly upon us now, the Lord will remove out of the way the One who restrains, but out of the way of what? Out of the way of the lawless one. The Lord will no longer burden His Spirit with restraining the evil of this world, for since the beginning when our first father sinned and Satan usurped his authority over the earth, the Lord has placed a restraint on the power of the wicked one in order that the creation be not immediately destroyed. In this time that we live, the Lord will cease His restraint upon evil for He will not contend with man forever, He will not burden His Spirit with the wickedness of mankind forever, for his years shall be 120, and we are at the 120th Jubilee. The time to remove that restraint has come, the restraint then being taken out of the way of the wicked one and all his hordes of demons, and we shall soon see the son of perdition rise to great power and authority over all the world as the world plunges into utter chaos, giving the wicked one the opportune moment to establish his reign by bringing a false peace, a tyrannical, totalitarian governance which a desperate world will quickly accept.
The Lord said nothing about taking His Spirit away from the world, only that He would cease to restrain the secret power of lawlessness, a restraint which He has maintained for our sakes over the past six millennia. Then will ensue a drought of the word of God, a drought of His Spirit, so that what you have is all you have, and if you do not have sufficient oil, you will end up in complete darkness. This time of the drought will be the time of the two witnesses.
There is much more that I could say, such as explaining the place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, the judgement, the truth of hell, the two witnesses and so forth, but in order not to burden you with an overwhelming responsibility (recall the very first line of this message), for out of love for the Lord and for His children I must take care not to cause you to stumble, I will simply say, seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all else will be added unto you; and thus will I conclude with the following:
The last nail in the rapture coffin...
Matthew 24 : 22 NIV "If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened."
If the elect are no longer present, why is there a need to cut short the days of tribulation? Yeshua's own words make it unequivocally clear - the days are cut short for the sake of the elect. As noted before, there is more that can be said on this subject, but this here is more than sufficient, and I do not wish to burden you further. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, so that all you need will be added unto you. That is how you will survive the great tribulation. Is that plain enough for you? With all my heart, I do hope it is so.
Do not fall for the rapture lie, for it will destroy you. Instead, use the understanding you have gained here and in my previous messages to gain more, but likewise and with greater urgency use the scriptures and the words of the Lord Himself, for if the Lord gives it to you, it is not really yours, so work to gain more so that you may have an abundance in addition to that which was given you, rather than losing it all. Test what is written herein against the truth, see if what I have told you is not of the Lord. Search the scriptures diligently, not for life but for understanding, since life can only come from God, and true life, eternal life, by His Spirit.
Those who yet believe the lie are in danger, but only need turn now to the truth and repent so that their oil may be increased, for the Lord God takes no pleasure in the destruction of any soul.
Do not be like the foolish, who in their own estimation appear wise in their own eyes, who spout many things out of their imaginations and prance about declaring themselves to be prophets, speaking falsehood out of the corruption in their hearts, who twist reality to shoe-horn it into their wrong thinking so that they would change the world, even twisting and breaking it, to fit into their ideas instead of changing their beliefs to fit the truth, for this is what pride does; rooted in a lie, it is inflexible, hard, intolerant of anything that opposes it, it seeks to usurp God, to be God, and it destroys both God's creation and the man in whom it festers, but the stiff neck of the proud will be suddenly broken, and that without remedy, for there is only one true God and no idol shall stand before Him. To all who know the truth it is clear that pride is the original sin, and in it is the sting of eternal death.
The Ever Living God, the Lord of all creation and all eternity speaks plainly now, so that to those who have ears to hear, let them hear.
