Shalom All:

Just want to add my 2 cents about NOT being ready.

For years already it has been very evident to me that "churches/ministries", leaders and followers in these fellowships, are woefully unprepared for Yeshua's return.  Just reading The Word has told me that.  And by reading The World I can recognize which "new move(s) of the spirit" are just the re-packaging and up-dating of demonic blasphemy.  You're in sad shape and not ready if you need someone else to tell you when something is demonic.

Some years ago my husband and I were visited by "minister" who was working to establish a new church in the area.  As the conversation progressed, the "minister" informed my husband, who is the head of our household, that my husband  would have to acknowledge the headship authority of this "minister".  Anyone who reads and understands The Word will see this is a false teaching.

Renouncing replacement theology doesn't do much for you if you stay in the pagan church systems and observe "Sunday", Christmas, Lent, Easter, etc. instead of Sabbath, Chanukah, Pesach.  And studying gentile writings of gentile writings of gentile writings of gentile descriptions of The Word won't give you more knowledge either of the Root into which you should be grafted!  Not long after the death of the last "first-hand" witnesses to the person of Yeshua, the Truth of Yeshua was amputated from it's Root and adulterated by gentile thinking and teaching.

And how really short-sighted and narrow-minded are those who teach the USofA is the Babylon of Revelation but it certainly is a good way for the enemy to keep the religious sleeping!  The Roman Catholic Church that evolved from the gentile take-over of The Truth not long after those "first-hand" witnesses to the person of Yeshua died drew on "religious" practices/beliefs existing even before the flood of Noah's time and after!  And the "daughters" of the RCC haven't done their "homework" either!!  Anyone who stops their "homework" short of the time of Yeshua's life/death/resurrection could be in for some HUGE surprises in the very near future!

The ensnarement of the world and it's systems are sooo subtle and complete.  The Truth is very difficult to find anymore ... much less to find those who live that Truth!  Honestly ... what organizations, groups, fellowships do you associate with that are NOT under the control of government?  If you are "up-to-your-eye-balls" in systems like this you are probably not ready because you have "modified" your behavior from The Truth to fit into these systems.

If you fellowship with those who support the murder of the unborn, the life style of homosexuality, you're not ready.  If you continue to fellowship with people who tell demeaning "jokes", vainly say The Father's name or that of His Son, you're not ready.  If your trust is in the government, retirement funds, IRAs, etc. for protection and provision, you're not ready.

If you haven't gone farther back in you study of your religion than Constantine's time, be careful!  You may not know Yeshua!!!!

If you don't know Yeshua, you're not ready.  And be careful that, if for you, "Jesus" is that Kinsman Redeemer,  you're "Jesus" might not be Yeshua!  I will testify that the "Jesus" I was told about in the church was NOT Yeshua.  The "Jesus" I was taught about was a person amputated from the Jewish Root and as a result that "Jesus" was a gentile!

And YHVH, The Father, Yeshua, and Ruach HaKodesh are much, much, much more than I was taught!  ALWAYS keep in mind that  EVEN  THE  DEMONS  acknowledged Yeshua as the Son of The Father!!!  And "litmus testing" centering on a certain doctrine does not guarentee purity either!  Many of you would get a real eye-opener if you would REALLY talked with those in your doctrinally sound fellowships!

There is a "catch 22" in enumerating a "behavior-list" for believers.  YHVH did make a list with His 10 Commandments ... but you can see what even believers do to the interpretation and implementation!

I do know this ... BEFORE spending time looking around the prophetic neighborhood, BE CERTAIN that you first see Yeshua in all aspects of your life and live that way!  If you haven't done that  YOU  ARE  NOT  READY!

Dianne
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A diagrammed timeline chart of the Revelation Seals:
http://home.centurytel.net/grafted-promise/endtimeline.html