8 Days to Rapture
---Darkness begins June 3rd at 5:00 p.m. EST.
---Rapture at Pentecost but we do not know the exact
date.
Jesus used the word midnight only three times as
recorded in the Bible. The first in the
parable of the ten virgins, the second in relation to watch for His coming, and
the third in the parable about a man seeking bread from his neighbor and then
related that to asking God for the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said:
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to them that ask Him?” Luke
11:13
My thinking has been that God would immediately withdraw
the Holy Spirit when the sun first goes dark for the three days and that people
would not then be able to receive the Holy Spirit. I am probably wrong in thinking that because
Jesus does say, “I say unto you, though he will not rise and give him,
because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give
him as many as he needeth.” (Verse 8)
This is saying to me that the Holy Spirit will be available to those who
ask even during the three days of darkness.
So, people who sincerely want to believe in Jesus will have
the opportunity to be saved during this period of darkness. Darkness came upon the whole earth for three
hours after Jesus was crucified, so darkness is something God will do in order
to give a stern message to the world.
Please note that I have underlined the word “ask”. People have been led to believe that they
have received the Holy Spirit automatically by publicly walking down an isle
indicating that they will believe in Jesus or that by studying everything they
can get their hands on, but Salvation is a free gift from God and it must be
asked for because it is the Holy Spirit that enables us to believe the Truth,
Jesus. The Holy Spirit leads us to the
Truth; we cannot get there by our own knowledge or efforts.
Ben
P.S. I will be away
from my computer this Friday and Saturday.