Hi Nicole,I trust you are doing well. In my every remembrance of you I pray for you. How is your health and pregnancy coming along?From your last post: http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/sep2012/nicole94-2.htm you said: "Either this is it, or this is a major test to teach us. My son has had two visions in which it was 2012 and it happened, and then another one where people had been mocking us saying that the watchers were liars and the rapture was a hoax and then it happened at the blood moons. We shall see!"Obviously, as you said, concerning the Rapture, we will know afterward if the Rapture comes on Rosh Hashanah or not, or even in Oct.; and then you said something VERY profound: "or this is a major test to teach us."
I mentioned in my most recent post, "I only want to go through persecution IF it is His will for me (us; those in Christ) to do so. Personally, the Lord is convicting me that this is His will; that the Rapture comes simultaneously as He brings His wrath upon a disobedient and unbelieving world, therefore, if this is the position of the Rapture, then we (the faithful Bride in Christ) will have need to go through persecution. I believe Dan. 12: 1 supports this view.Revelation chapter 6 tells us that once Jesus begins opening the seals (this is the tribulation portion of Daniel's last seven years), that he will go forth conquering and to conquer, then seal two is opened (is this what is coming in Oct. to keep BHO in power ?), then John sees at the fifth seal those slain for the word of God, and for the tesimony which they held (tribulation saints).Rev. 6: 10-11 is very interesting, as it tells us there are others to be slain. I believe what John saw next was an overview of His wrath when the sixth seal was opened (?), and then John saw the 144,000 being sealed with the mark of God on their forehead chpt. 7). Because the Two Witnesses go forth to preach the gospel, and to testify against the world (Jn. 7: 7), and that the 144,000 are redeemed by men (Two Witnesses (?); Rev. 14: 1; 4), and that the seventh seal hasn't been opened yet (showing us that we are still in the tribulation part), leads me to believe that the Two Witnesses receive power (Rev. 11: 3) at some point in the tribulation; maybe when BHO begins his 42 months, or on Rosh Hashanah?When the seventh seal is opened, the reader is transitioned from tribulation to great tribulation, as we read of those other Christians that were slained as those earlier during tribulation (Rev. 6: 9).My only question is when will the mark of the beast actually be implemented? I know the ObamaCare documents says March 23, 2013, and I'm beginning to think that because the U.S. will begin this chipping process, that Christians in the U.S. will be the first to be martyred, or die by hunger, etc., if we are not taken by the Rapture, and then this chipping process moves throughout the world, using the U.S. as an example for those who refuse to be chipped?Jesus says, "take heed how you hear" (Lk. 8: 18). This is very important because how we hear to peceive the word of God will influence how we will believe, whether it be correct or not. If we presume on the Lord, this presumption could lead to live a presumptuous lifestyle; not cleaving to Him like we should; and if one becomes too passive in their walk with Him, then we are walking on very dangerous ground.I believe that out of God's love to His children does He allow this time to come, to draw us closer to Him and to cleave to Him (I know in my spirit this is now true, because as I just wrote this I became emotional). I believe He is using this time to separate the sheep from the goats; from those that truly love Him and those just being religious.I pray the power of His Holy Spirit to come upon you as you read this!!!In the love of Christ,Greg