There is one part of the BODY of CHRIST which plays a VITAL ROLE, but when active, is USUALLY the BEARER of BAD NEWS!
However, even though the bearer of "bad news," when this "component" is absent or MALFUNCTIONING, the health of the entire BODY (COMPUTER) is COMPROMISED!
In "good times," the role of this "component" is MINIMAL for the functioning of the entire BODY. However, the contrary is also true. In "difficult times", the importance of this "component" grows proportionally.
Here are some passages of SCRIPTURE that describe the "component" I am referring to and that envelopes my particular calling to "sound an alarm for the BODY of CHRIST."
However, even though the bearer of "bad news," when this "component" is absent or MALFUNCTIONING, the health of the entire BODY (COMPUTER) is COMPROMISED!
In "good times," the role of this "component" is MINIMAL for the functioning of the entire BODY. However, the contrary is also true. In "difficult times", the importance of this "component" grows proportionally.
Here are some passages of SCRIPTURE that describe the "component" I am referring to and that envelopes my particular calling to "sound an alarm for the BODY of CHRIST."
Ezekiel 22:30 (NKJV)
So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and
STAND IN THE GAP
before ME on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it;
but I found no one.
So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and
STAND IN THE GAP
before ME on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it;
but I found no one.
Isaiah 6:8 (NKJV)
Also I heard the VOICE of the LORD, saying:
“Whom shall I send,
And who will go for US?”
Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
Also I heard the VOICE of the LORD, saying:
“Whom shall I send,
And who will go for US?”
Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
ISAIAH 62:6-7 (NKJV)
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall never hold their peace day or night.
You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
And give HIM no rest till HE establishes
And till HE makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall never hold their peace day or night.
You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
And give HIM no rest till HE establishes
And till HE makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Ezekiel 33 (NKJV)
1-4 Again the WORD of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman, when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life.
6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’
7 “So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.
8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
9 Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life.
6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’
7 “So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.
8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
9 Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
For you who are NEW to this site, it was in the mid 1990's that I specifically asked the LORD to REVEAL to me the plans of the EVIL ONES as pertaining to the CHURCH in the LAST DAYS.
This request began as a cry of my heart while serving as a missionary in BRAZIL. The reason for the specificity of my request was due to the fact that in my 30 years living in BRAZIL, I had NEVER met a single person who believed that the CHURCH was still going to be present during the GREAT TRIBULATION!
I recognize that there are valid SCRIPTURAL ARGUMENTS that can be made to "proof text" each of the four major INTERPRETATIONS as to the the "TIMING of the RAPTURE," HOWEVER, I find that the PRE-WRATH of GOD RATPURE position is BY FAR the interpretation with the STRONGEST BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS.
To me, GOD is going to ALLOW a period of GREAT TRIBULATION which will be a time when the CHURCH will be PURIFIED by "fire" and prepared for her encounter with her BRIDEGROOM to be presented to HIM as a BRIDE without spot or wrinkle! (EPHESIANS 5:27)
If this interpretation proves to be correct, then I am EXTREMELY CONCERNED about the LACK of preparedness of CHRISTIANITY within countries like the USA and BRAZIL! I believe that a small percentage of the BODY of CHRIST within these countries are unprepared spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, and practically to face the "undiluted WRATH of HELL" against the CHURCH that is just about to take over the geopolitical world.
I believe that the KILL SHOT will be the beginning of HORRIBLE DAYS of OPEN PERSECUTION against the BODY of CHRIST throughout the world!
That is why I wrote a book about the subject that was published in Portuguese in BRAZIL in 1998. That is why I have spent THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of hours updating my website ministry since 2010. It has been an effort to serve as a type of "WATCHMAN", a person standing in the "GAP," that forewarns the CHURCH of impending "doom" if they don't heed the warnings!
For certain, my message could and SHOULD never be the ONLY message sounded within the BODY of CHRIST! With that said, in light of the day in which we live, it is an IMPORTANT MESSAGE too "put in the mix."
Those who have served as WATCHMEN or WATCHWOMEN are more often than not people focused on ONE SINGULAR MESSAGE! GUILTY as CHARGED! Concern about the apparent "UNPREPAREDNESS" of the the BRIDE of CHRIST to face the GREAT TRIBULATION is NEVER far from my conscious thinking!
There are many warnings within the SCRIPTURES concerning the fact that there is going to be a "FALLING AWAY" of believers in the LAST DAYS. I believe that the PRETRIBULATIONAL RAPTURE THEOLOGY will be principle "culprit" for keeping END-TIME WARNINGS out of view of a tremendous percentage of CHRISTIANS. Tragically, since so many have been taught that "GOD LOVES US TOO MUCH TO ALLOW FOR THE CHURCH TO GO THROUGH THE TIME OF GREAT TRIBULATION," resulting in "ZERO" preparation! My concern is that once the CHURCH is LITERALLY facing the GREAT TRIBULATION, many within the CHURCH will FEEL that they have been ABANDONED by GOD and MISLED by THEOLOGY!
The only thing WORSE than the GREAT TRIBULATION will be to face the greatest of ALL TRIBULATIONS believing that "GOD HAS FAILED HIS PROMISES!"
GOD FORBID!
This request began as a cry of my heart while serving as a missionary in BRAZIL. The reason for the specificity of my request was due to the fact that in my 30 years living in BRAZIL, I had NEVER met a single person who believed that the CHURCH was still going to be present during the GREAT TRIBULATION!
I recognize that there are valid SCRIPTURAL ARGUMENTS that can be made to "proof text" each of the four major INTERPRETATIONS as to the the "TIMING of the RAPTURE," HOWEVER, I find that the PRE-WRATH of GOD RATPURE position is BY FAR the interpretation with the STRONGEST BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS.
To me, GOD is going to ALLOW a period of GREAT TRIBULATION which will be a time when the CHURCH will be PURIFIED by "fire" and prepared for her encounter with her BRIDEGROOM to be presented to HIM as a BRIDE without spot or wrinkle! (EPHESIANS 5:27)
If this interpretation proves to be correct, then I am EXTREMELY CONCERNED about the LACK of preparedness of CHRISTIANITY within countries like the USA and BRAZIL! I believe that a small percentage of the BODY of CHRIST within these countries are unprepared spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, and practically to face the "undiluted WRATH of HELL" against the CHURCH that is just about to take over the geopolitical world.
I believe that the KILL SHOT will be the beginning of HORRIBLE DAYS of OPEN PERSECUTION against the BODY of CHRIST throughout the world!
That is why I wrote a book about the subject that was published in Portuguese in BRAZIL in 1998. That is why I have spent THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of hours updating my website ministry since 2010. It has been an effort to serve as a type of "WATCHMAN", a person standing in the "GAP," that forewarns the CHURCH of impending "doom" if they don't heed the warnings!
For certain, my message could and SHOULD never be the ONLY message sounded within the BODY of CHRIST! With that said, in light of the day in which we live, it is an IMPORTANT MESSAGE too "put in the mix."
Those who have served as WATCHMEN or WATCHWOMEN are more often than not people focused on ONE SINGULAR MESSAGE! GUILTY as CHARGED! Concern about the apparent "UNPREPAREDNESS" of the the BRIDE of CHRIST to face the GREAT TRIBULATION is NEVER far from my conscious thinking!
There are many warnings within the SCRIPTURES concerning the fact that there is going to be a "FALLING AWAY" of believers in the LAST DAYS. I believe that the PRETRIBULATIONAL RAPTURE THEOLOGY will be principle "culprit" for keeping END-TIME WARNINGS out of view of a tremendous percentage of CHRISTIANS. Tragically, since so many have been taught that "GOD LOVES US TOO MUCH TO ALLOW FOR THE CHURCH TO GO THROUGH THE TIME OF GREAT TRIBULATION," resulting in "ZERO" preparation! My concern is that once the CHURCH is LITERALLY facing the GREAT TRIBULATION, many within the CHURCH will FEEL that they have been ABANDONED by GOD and MISLED by THEOLOGY!
The only thing WORSE than the GREAT TRIBULATION will be to face the greatest of ALL TRIBULATIONS believing that "GOD HAS FAILED HIS PROMISES!"
GOD FORBID!
I know of ONLY ONE WAY that the BRIDE of CHRIST will be void of any "SPOT or WRINKLE" at the moment of the RAPTURE! The CHURCH will have had to have passed THROUGH the CLEANSING FIRE of TRIBULATION, with emphasis on the word "THROUGH"!
Once purified, all believers who survive the WRATH of the ANTICHRIST will be willing if necessary to lay down their lives for their FAITH! It is after the CHURCH has been PURIFIED that GOD will say something like this, obviously my wording: "SON, YOUR BRIDE is BEAUTIFUL and READY for YOU to RAPTURE her! In fact, the ANTICHRIST people are killing so many members of YOUR bride that IF YOU don't interrupt the GREAT TRIBULATION, there will be nobody left that will need to be "RAPTURED!" I will give the "SIGN" of YOUR RETURN by EXPLODING the SUN. That will give you an 8 minute, 20 second "head start!" (It takes the light of the Sun 8m 20s at the speed of LIGHT 186,000m/p/SECOND to reach Earth.)
As soon as we who remain alive at this point observe the Sun ceasing to give its light, or the moment that the moon ceases to reflect that which no longer exists, or feel the earth tremble beneath our feet with the GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE that will release the DNA of all the children of GOD since the GARDEN of EDEN from their graves, we will know that the moment of our RAPTURE has arrived!
Back to the aspect of the PURIFICATION that will take place during the forthcoming GREAT TRIBULATION, one could point out the obvious differences in the level of "CHRISTIAN PURITY" that exists in countries like NORTH KOREA, IRAN, CHINA, or any radical Muslim country, when compared to countries that are mostly void of intense persecution.
Since to name the NAME of CHRIST in many countries means that a person may be KILLED for their FAITH, the CHURCH is already PURIFIED and ready for the RAPTURE.
On the other hand, in other countries where there is not SEVERE PERSECUTION of believers, there is so MUCH being done in the "NAME of JESUS" that has absolutely NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with HIM that only the "GREAT TRIBUILATION" will sift out the "TARES from the WHEAT!"
PRAYING that you are FULLY YIELDED to the LORDSHIP of JESUS CHRIST in your life even if a time comes when you are facing death due to your decision.
PRAYING also that you following some of my simple suggestions to prepare for life "AFTER THE KILL SHOT!"
Once purified, all believers who survive the WRATH of the ANTICHRIST will be willing if necessary to lay down their lives for their FAITH! It is after the CHURCH has been PURIFIED that GOD will say something like this, obviously my wording: "SON, YOUR BRIDE is BEAUTIFUL and READY for YOU to RAPTURE her! In fact, the ANTICHRIST people are killing so many members of YOUR bride that IF YOU don't interrupt the GREAT TRIBULATION, there will be nobody left that will need to be "RAPTURED!" I will give the "SIGN" of YOUR RETURN by EXPLODING the SUN. That will give you an 8 minute, 20 second "head start!" (It takes the light of the Sun 8m 20s at the speed of LIGHT 186,000m/p/SECOND to reach Earth.)
As soon as we who remain alive at this point observe the Sun ceasing to give its light, or the moment that the moon ceases to reflect that which no longer exists, or feel the earth tremble beneath our feet with the GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE that will release the DNA of all the children of GOD since the GARDEN of EDEN from their graves, we will know that the moment of our RAPTURE has arrived!
Back to the aspect of the PURIFICATION that will take place during the forthcoming GREAT TRIBULATION, one could point out the obvious differences in the level of "CHRISTIAN PURITY" that exists in countries like NORTH KOREA, IRAN, CHINA, or any radical Muslim country, when compared to countries that are mostly void of intense persecution.
Since to name the NAME of CHRIST in many countries means that a person may be KILLED for their FAITH, the CHURCH is already PURIFIED and ready for the RAPTURE.
On the other hand, in other countries where there is not SEVERE PERSECUTION of believers, there is so MUCH being done in the "NAME of JESUS" that has absolutely NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with HIM that only the "GREAT TRIBUILATION" will sift out the "TARES from the WHEAT!"
PRAYING that you are FULLY YIELDED to the LORDSHIP of JESUS CHRIST in your life even if a time comes when you are facing death due to your decision.
PRAYING also that you following some of my simple suggestions to prepare for life "AFTER THE KILL SHOT!"