Hi John and Doves,
This is a short and encouraging video clip. I was delighted to find it as You Tube is filled with Christian brothers and sisters going through depression and feeling down-hearted. I watched an Australian girl who had completely flipped her position on the pre-trib rapture and declared her video as "the hardest video she had ever had to make". I most certainly know her depression is not warranted but understand why she has flipped her position. She gives the Book of Maccabees credit for the change in her position.
Depression is NOT warranted because the cold hard fact of the matter is that tribulation has been happening for 7 years now. In 2011 - 7 years before the up-coming 70th anniversary of Israel's re-birth, the Pale Green Horse of Revelation rode out in Egypt - right at the beginning of the "Arab Spring". These marauding hordes have had 7 long years now - leading up to their hope of destroying Israel They have relentlessly persecuted Christians in the Middle East and Africa. In the West - we Christians have slowly had our rights eroded for the past 7 years. The gay thing has exploded and school children are being targeted. What is truth has been declared a lie and vice versa. We've had 7 years of this bilge - 7 years prior to Israel's 70th birthday! Now is not the time to get discouraged, for goodness sake! We have witnessed the tribulation that has been happening. We are not appointed to wrath and our beloved Almighty God is about to explode with rage. Global weather has gone bananas and we are experiencing earthquakes in diverse places. Our blinkers have been removed re our politicians and their evil shenanigans. Our blinkers have been removed re the Roman Catholic church and it's hierarchy. Pedophilia appears in the newspaper headlines almost on a daily basis. It has been a VILE 7 years. Now, we are witnessing the birth pangs almost at their zenith. Israel is in danger. The Islamic spot-light has turned fully on Israel. They are threatening.... nay, SWEARING to destroy Israel and drive her into the sea - so that her name be remembered no more. The prophecies are all lined up as to who the end time beast is. Those of us outside the Middle East are spectators to Bible prophecy. We feel the intense ripple effect, certainly. The Western powers (USA, Russia, the U.N. the E.U., Nato etc) will merely aid and abet or stand by and mutter our protestations as to what is on the brink of happening.
The Pope and his Vatican will attempt to retain their global reach by sympathising and siding with Islam. Under the banner of religious unity etc. It's all becoming very clear now. It seriously wouldn't surprise me to see (from heaven, I hope) the RCC laying claim to Jerusalem - side by side with Islam.
When Israel is attacked, there will be a massive earthquake. In all the global mayhem, we will be snatched out of harms way. Then the wrath of Almighty God will hit hard.
Courage, brothers and sisters. Let no-one take your crown.
Maranatha, LORD Jesus.Extremely High Watch From Now Until Pentecost - Bear Good Fruit!