Sunday, January 26, 2014

All that remains is a little more time...

The TIMES OF THE NATIONS IS FULFILLED.

All that remains is time for the individuals.

Please reread this bit from 'An Hour and An End'  Reread it and reread it again until you fully comprehend the importance of it.

'...the time of the events prophetically symbolized in Ezekiel 9 are pinpointed as taking place at the time mercy is no longer extended to the nations.

Jesus in Luke 21:24 gives that sign to be, Jerusalem no longer under Gentile control.

This brief period began in 1967 with the taking of Old Jerusalem by Israeli military forces, and ended with the transfer of the entire civil government from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 1980.

Thus we are living in the time when the events portrayed in these three testimonies are or have been fulfilled.   And these testimonies relate to the Church!'

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The spiritual church of Israel apostatized and they were given many opportunities, years of opportunities to repent.  When Israel in 1948 once more began to fight back and regain their country  the church should have understood.  When they took control of Jerusalem in 1967 they really should have begun to wonder what it all meant.  In 1980 when they moved their capital to Jerusalem it was finally over, over for the church.  There was a BRIEF but definable period of time given to the spiritual church and they squandered their opportunity to repent and reform just as God's chosen church had done many years before.

1980.

And now we are ALL in the end times, the times of the individuals.

Spiritual Israel, individually, are deciding all that needs to be decided for their eternal destination.

When the time God allots for this is up… then it is all over, or for those who are Christ's, it will finally begin.

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We read this…

'With unerring accuracy the Infinite One still keeps an account with all nations.
While His mercy is tendered with calls to repentance, this account will remain open; but when the figures reach a certain amount which God has fixed, the ministry of His wrath commences.
The account is closed.
Divine patience ceases.
There is no more pleading of mercy in their behalf.' {5T 208.2}

This will happen for ALL those living in the last days.  The account remains open, the door to forgiveness remains open, but it will CLOSE. People don't like to think of this part of it. People don't want to believe the door of forgiveness will ever close. People want to believe God's forgiveness is endless.  They believe as long as they live they have that chance, but that's not true for those living in the last days.

For Jesus to return there has to be an end of the opportunity to accept forgiveness.

When He returns we are told this--

1Th 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

The dead in Christ shall rise.
We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds.

And we read this--

Joh 5:28  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

And this--

2Th 1:7  And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
2Th 1:8  In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th 1:9  Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
2Th 1:10  When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

We which are alive are those that will feel the vengeance of our Savior if we do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When the Lord comes with vengeance it is already decided who is His, He could NOT possible come and take vengeance out on those who haven't been decided aren't His. He knows! It is known who is God's and who isn't!

God cannot allow the world as we know it to end without those decisions being made. Those who are God's are known, those who are not God's are known.

Forgiveness is available to EVERYONE right now.

Forgiveness is available right up until the moment you die.

Forgiveness is available right up until the moment probation closes, when the cup is filled, when the time Is up.

None of us KNOW when that time is up, but we are given plenty of warning signs.  We can know when it is near!

And IT IS NEAR!

More tomorrow by the grace of our SAVIOR!

All in HIS LOVE!
All in HIS GRACE!
All in HIS MERCY!
All by HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS!

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