Whenever the Lord is unfolding a truth to His people, a lie springs up to keep us from the truth. We all have witnessed end time cults and "nut jobs" spouting scriptures from Revelation, and no one wants to be "that person", so we just want to "know Jesus" or claim to be too reasonable for such nonsense. I get it, and I've been there, so I am not throwing stones, but it's time to move on to cherish these holy words. What God-breathed scripture should be diminished?
All of the last days prophesies are exceedingly glorious. These are words from God's holy prophets. Regarding the book of Revelation, it is the only full book that came from the risen Christ Himself to his church. He was proclaiming His story. He was telling His people, not the world, what was soon to come to the earth. It's so big that words escape me here! It's the end from the beginning. It's His triumph over the fall. It's the real news. It's the truth in a world of lies. It's the light in a world covered in gross darkness. It is the word of God and the consummation of all things. Who works on a building or home without any idea what it will look like when it's done? When John fell to worship the angel giving the message, the angel said don't do it, all of these prophesies are concerning Jesus Christ, so worship Him alone. The second advent and last days prophesies are about His glory, and our hope of salvation.
Everyone, or at the least wise people, always run to the hero of the story-the one who wins. We want to be on the winner's side, and the prophesies tell us who wins as well as what happens to the losers. They also tell us that it will appear that the wicked will win for a brief time-and all will be dark. This matters enough that our precious Lord, through the Holy Spirit, took the time to whisper into the ears of his prophets.
But there is a wide empty space, a vacuum in the church, and Satan is pouring his narrative into it.
Allow the honey of these words to fill your spiritual belly. Consider how we would view current events if we had a revelation of this revelation! They are words of warning, admonishment, and promise. While untold thousands of believers are listening to words of portals swirling over various states, we could be hearing about the deception that is coming. Many people of the world will worship the beast and take his mark because they will believe this one thing, that he is doing wonderful, amazing things. They will say, "Who is like unto the beast?" Those are words of worship. Who can make war with him? There is no one like this man.
"And they worshipped the beast saying, " Who is like unto the beast? Who can make war with him?" Rev 13:4
Should we know these things are soon to come, and what will be their portion, and how it will end for those who refuse to go along with the program that looks so wonderful? Those who refuse to be seduced by him, the antichrist, will have eternal rest from their labors, and "their works will follow them" but those who follow along will be tormented forever. This is important stuff!
But in that admiration, as he makes his millions and honors his god with gold and silver, and makes many very rich ( yes, all of this has been prophesied for our understanding), and divides the land of Israel for money, and grows rich off of the wealth of other nations and eventually turns on Israel and musters the nations of the world against Israel....they absolutely will accept his mark on their forehead or hand, because he is bringing peace and security to the world. He is keeping peace on the earth, or at least making everyone believe it (he is a liar after all.) If you want references for all of this, I have them all for your study. Again, get a Dake Study Bible, you will be glad you did.
But back to those words:
"And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of the waters." Revelation 14:6
These words fill me with God's glory! Fear God and give glory to Him. WOAH. These events are soon to unfold! Yes, look around. Discern the hour and do not doubt. Jesus warned us that "men" will deceive you, so we cannot turn to any man to tell us, we must turn to the Lord for our answers. The church, by and large, will fall away, Jesus and Paul said. The Lord had to rebuke me last year because I was doubting everything that he was teaching me, but he said this: "In a war, you need soldiers who know the enemy, and know their assignment. Stop doubting!" I did, and things have become crystal clear now that I am no longer double minded. We can trust Him and stop assessing, considering, and going back and forth in our human reasoning. That's exactly what the Pharisees did, and Jesus would say, "Why are you reasoning in your minds?"
In times of trouble , we must have answers, and we must have solutions. In this crucial hour, the answers and solutions are in His word. Apart from this, we turn to binging on Netflix or any number of distractions that effectively insert the fingers into the proverbial ears and say, "lalalalala I am not listening." Or it may be to run to professed prophets, or to political pundits and representatives who claim some kind of divine answer coming from the heavens through the Republican party, or Qanon conspiracies with their false messiah, DJT who will "take down the deep state", but who will run to the Lord and His word to understand?
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation: and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosover receiveth the mark of his name."
These words, given to John, were followed by these powerful words:
"Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Rev 14:12
"And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." Rev 14:13
Those who are seduced by the antichrists promises of peace and security and promises of wealth will never rest! Those who say, who is like him? No one can beat him! will never, ever rest, but those who trusted in God are found holy and blameless, and they will stand before the Lamb, and reign with him forever. People will be (and are) desperate for solutions. The prophesies of Zechariah, Isaiah, Daniel, Psalms, Revelation and so many more are for us right now. The Lord is waiting to unveil them to encourage, strengthen, and ignite his people to do great exploits-and "endure until the end" holding fast to the faith of Jesus that will be under attack from every angle.
This week, I believe that he took me to Zechariah 10 where it says to ask the Lord for rain in the season of rain instead of turning to idols. There absolutely is a latter rain, the latter harvest rains will be poured out that will cause us to mount up on wings as eagles. The wicked will grow weak and weary, but the righteous who wait on God's promises will run with a divine strength and show forth His love, glory, power, and light. As he did for Mary, if we will believe his promises in Christ, he will bring that which is UTTERLY DIVINE from our spiritual wombs, something untouched by man (Luke 1). Salvation and help will be found nowhere else in this last day harvesting of the earth. This is our peace, hope, and victory, the Holy Spirit sheltering His people. Covering His beloved as per Isaiah 4. This is the tabernacle of His Spirit in and over His people and it is the ONLY SAFE place in this hour!
These are crucial truths to know in this hour! I won't apologize for preaching it is worthy of proclaiming from the house tops! Wake up church! Wake up! Come away from all of the deep state stories, the political hopes and aspiration of MAGA, and the constant distractions that dull the senses to the lateness of this hour and hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. I am not afraid to say this, the Lord is NOT saying to the church, "Make America Great Again." He is saying, "Look up, your redemption draws nigh." Hope in Me. Wait on Me.
The day of the vengeance of the Lord is fast approaching, and he wants us to stand holy and blameless before the Lamb at His appearing, when we will see God Himself take care of the wicked. His victory over them will be with the sword of His mouth. I am telling you, no conspiracy theory of political plan even comes close to the glory that is coming from the Lord. His story is the best story, the only story worth hearing right now. The wicked will be destroyed by the brightness of His appearing. In Matt 24, Jesus said that His coming will be unmistakable because the greatness of His glory, and the absolute destruction of the wicked who will be fed to the birds of prey. He said that he was warning us of a great deception coming, and not to be fooled by it.
That mighty angel said, "WRITE!" Oh, can you feel the power and glory and divinity in those words? Can you sense the heart of God to prepare His people, and show forth His great glory? Fear God, and worship Him! Will we pause to read what he commanded John to write? It may be silly and insignificant to us, but I believe that it is not insignificant to the One who inspired these prophesies, the One in whose heart the story bursts forth onto the pages of the Bible, waiting to be known and understood.
People will spend a great deal of time listening to prophetic words, but shouldn't the word of the Lord, spoken by the mouths of His holy prophets be given the same time of study and contemplation? Jesus studied and spoke of these prophetic scriptures. Paul did too. In fact, I think all of the writers studied and taught from these scriptures and prophesies. Will we too, or are we to modern and sophisticated for all of that "weird" stuff?
That's what's on my heart right now. What do you think?
Grace and peace to you all!
Comments